🇨🇦 Failed refugee claimant, MS-13 gang informant, identity thief and forger can stay in Canada

A man with two U.S. convictions for identity theft and forgery, who crossed illegally in 2020 and was found inadmissible due to serious criminality, just won a stay of deportation because a federal judge ruled he faces irreparable harm in Honduras. Justice Simon Fothergill decided that marrying a Canadian and hoping for eventual sponsorship outweighs the minor inconvenience of multiple criminal convictions and illegal entry. Immigration Minister Lena Diab didn't even oppose anonymizing his name to protect the fraudster-informant from consequences, as reported.

This is the system working exactly as designed: ignore borders, ignore criminality, invoke danger abroad, marry a citizen, wait. Every serious country has enforceable red lines. Canada has judicial sympathy and procedural infinity. FGH committed non-violent crimes while evading detection for a decade, but now he's abiding by Canadian law and filing for rehabilitation, so all is forgiven. Sovereignty is a joke when the border is a suggestion and removal orders are negotiable.

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