Posted on 01/08/2016 10:28:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian tribunal has rejected a claim for refugee status from an African-American man who said he feared persecution and police abuse in the United States based on his race, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada said on Friday.
While saying he did find Kyle Lydell Canty to have a genuine fear of returning to his home country, adjudicator Ron Yamauchi said that was not enough to grant asylum.
A string of shootings of black men by U.S. police over the past 18 months have led to widespread protests and the issue has fueled a civil rights movement under the name Black Lives Matter.
"The Act does not protect claimants from every form of ill-treatment, suffering, and hardship," he wrote in the decision, dated Dec. 3. "It is addressed at situations of persecution, which is serious harm, an interference with a basic human right."
He added: "There are no substantial grounds to believe that his removal to the United States of America would subject him personally to a danger of torture."[continued]
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I should bring up the story of the American Army guy....sitting in Bavaria (Germany) today....requesting asylum because he didn’t want to deploy with his unit to Iraq.
The episode unfolded six years ago, and he’s been in a refugee center there for the entire time. Back in the 1970s, German law would have allowed him the privilege to claim asylum. They changed it in the 1990s...so if a soldier tried to make the request...he had to be in a drafted position (not a volunteer position).
He’s used various methods to keep extending his claim to asylum in Germany, but they turn down each episode. Supposed to be another review board here in the spring for him (in Bavaria), and I think they will finally put him on the plane (forced back to the US).
Said string theory doesn't include the "holiday shopping" perpetrated by non survivors or interested onlookers across the country.
Sounds more like he is escaping arrest
I wish they would have allowed him to stay. We have enough goofballs in the USA already.
Him and a couple million more.
What is his name, if you’re free to say it?
He must be earning money doing something by now, legally or otherwise. May even have started a family.
This detail of the law has protected Germany from receiving too many draft dodger types. That is, until Merkel happened.
Andrea Sheppard.
From what I remember of the story. He came into the Army around 2004, did one enlistment (tour in Iraq or Afghanistan), and wanted to re-enlist but didn’t ever want to go to a war-zone again. I know....the Army does do that occasionally.
Sheppard claims that he got some Army recruiter or enlistment NCO to guarantee him the right never to deploy to a war zone. He’s never been able to cite the guy’s name, or produce paperwork to show that was guaranteed.
I’m kinda assuming the guy is not that bright, but he was a helicopter mechanic.
Around six to twelve months after re-enlistment, his unit in Bavaria was told to prep for deployment, and he went to claim asylum.
Reporters note that he is married now to a German. His initial case started in 2007....so he’s been in limbo ever since.
The Bavarians sent his case to a EU court....asking if he had the ‘right’ to claim asylum...hoping that the court would just say yes, and then extend the approval. The EU court say yes, but never took a second step. Based on the renovated law (out of the 1990s)...unless he can prove his unit committed war-crimes while deployed....he can’t get asylum. From what member of his unit have said....they went off to the deployment, and no one in the unit was ever charged with anything. So he can’t claim that excuse.
You can imagine the whole thing....sitting around since 2007...in some waiting pattern. He has a job....makes an income....pay taxes in Germany....but can’t leave the country.
Unless the Bavaria approval authority goes out on the limb....it’s hard to predict this episode. If he is forced back to the US, the Army could just drag him into court and do a conviction of some type with sixty days in some stockade. The thing is....if he then wanted to return and get German citizenship...there’s this conviction thing that then hinders the process.
Him and a couple million more.
I’d like to send them 65,918,507. That’s how many voted for barack Hussein Obama last time around.
“I wish they would have allowed him to stay.”
Absolutely. Encourage MORE to emigrate to Canda. Make them Canuckistan’s problem, with the proviso that we won’t take them back.
If only the canadiens would give them more free stuff then we have they may want to leave
With the liberal dufus that just took over, they might just do that.
Have you been to Dearborn, Michigan? How about Islamberg, near Tompkins, Delaware County, New York, United States. I don't think you would want to go to Islamberg, they don't like kaffirs.
In some FR quarters the pejorative you used is seen as a shorthand insult, giving the user instant intelligence and credibility. In fact the exact opposite is true.
Actually, I feel sorry for you. I witness the descent of your nation into fascism with a mixture of sadness and fear. You should concentrate more on that fact and less on slandering what will soon be the last free nation on the continent.
Later
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