I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
This fails to inspire confidence
December 14, 2007
A Sudanese immigrant convicted of raping an Edmonton woman has gone missing after being freed into the community to await deportation.
Freed into the community? Was anybody using their brain that day? You don’t free someone into the community whom you intend to deport, especially not a convicted rapist. Or is that how we do things in this country?
Even when the guy is obviously a dangerous thug?
In the five years he has been in the country, Luin has accumulated 16 convictions, ranging from causing a disturbance to assault causing bodily harm and sexual assault. Luin’s violent tendencies continued in jail, where he was involved in seven attacks on other inmates and corrections staff.
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At an Immigration and Refugee Board admissibility hearing last July, Luin was ordered deported to Sudan.
But under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, as a Convention refugee he can only be deported under a document called “a danger opinion,” signed by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada, a process that can take anywhere from six to 18 months.
A danger opinion is issued if the minister, after reviewing the person’s history, believes the individual poses a danger to the Canadian public or Canada’s security that outweighs the risk of deporting him or her back to the country of origin. The person is allowed to make submissions arguing to stay.
An application for a danger opinion in the Luin case was submitted Nov. 13.
Under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, federal authorities could not detain Luin until they received the danger opinion, since he has already served his sentence. At an IRB detention review hearing Dec. 3, Luin was ordered released despite arguments that he posed a danger to the public and was unlikely to show up for deportation.
According to the transcript from the hearing, Luin’s criminal record shows he twice failed to attend court after convictions, once failed to appear in court and once failed to comply with a recognizance order.
“It seems to me that the minister is about 16 months behind in doing that which the minister ought to have started … a year and four months ago,” IRB adjudicator Paul Kyba wrote in his decision. “This submission to the minister for an opinion that you pose a danger to the public, in my opinion, should have been made very soon after your last conviction in July of last year, and I see no excuse; I see no valid reason why the minister chose to delay this procedure.”
Well…he’s out there now. In the city where I live. Thanks, everyone.
But remember, in Canada it’s racist to suggest that there needs to be any sort of reform or re-evaluation of priorities in the immigration and refugee claims process.
Let’s hope that they don’t make this mistake with Mohamed Parvez.
Update: Luin is back in custody after reporting to a job site near 97th Street and 63rd Avenue as a temporary worker. Hey! That’s just down the block from my office!
