A Somali man with a list of criminal convictions amassed while living in the United States and who was among the waves of irregular migrants coming to Canada fearing U.S. President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, has had his refugee claim rejected.Abdirizak Abdullahi Mohamed was among the hundreds of migrants who illegally entered Canada in 2017 by simply walking from the United States across the largely uncontrolled border into Canada near Emerson, Man.
He is a member of the Madhiban tribe, a “low caste” tribe traditionally discriminated against in his homeland. During the Somali civil war, his family was attacked — his father was killed and a family member sexually assaulted. He was shot in the leg when he was seven and he and his family fled to a refugee camp in Kenya, he said. A sign near the border near Emerson, Manitoba, in 2017.
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