Want a tougher Canadian Refugee Policy? Read this
Deported to torture – thestar.com
The memories aren’t all good. The country the Benhmudas love is also the country that rejected them as refugees. In 2008, the Canadian government deported the family back to Libya — even though the two youngest boys, Adam and Omar, are Canadian citizens by birth.
For the boys’ father, it meant being deported to torture.
Adel Benhmuda, now 43, says he was detained on arrival at Tripoli’s airport and taken to the notorious Ain Zara prison on the outskirts of the Libyan capital. For a total of six months, during two separate periods of detention, he says he was repeatedly beaten.
Note that the tougher it is for refugees to prove their case, the more likely it is that some will be sent back for further persecution.