How Canada Deals With Criminal Immigrants

We keep illegals in this country and don't deport legal residents who commit certain crimes. This is how strict Canada can be. The comments after the article show how angry about this Canadians in Toronto are.

Crook who got transplant fights deportation
Expensive lifesaving drugs hard to get in Vietnam, court told

By TOM GODFREY, Toronto Sun

Last Updated: October 14, 2010 9:36pm

A career criminal, who somehow got a rare kidney transplant, is fighting deportation to Vietnam arguing he may not be able to get the expensive drugs needed to keep him alive.

Van Thanh Nguyen, 43, of Cambridge, was one of the lucky kidney patients to get a transplant, but after the 1998 operation he now requires costly anti-rejection drugs that in his case are paid for by the Ontario government.

Nguyen was ordered deported for a list of crimes including the 1991 armed robbery of a Guelph milk store in which he locked its elderly owners in a cooler after stripping them of their jewelry.

Nguyen, who came to Canada in January 1988 as a permanent resident, was jailed for four years for robbery with a weapon. He lost his status in

Canada in 1993 due to criminality and has since been fighting deportation.

An immigration and refugee board ruled in 1995 that Nguyen should be deported even though he then required dialysis treatment for kidney failure.

Dialysis can cost about $65,000 a year and Nguyen’s was funded by the province, documents show.

Court heard the stay-at-home dad has racked up four criminal convictions while fighting deportation and has recently married and is the father of a Canadian-born child and two stepdaughters.

In late August, a federal court decision quashed a move to deport him and ordered a new hearing due to concerns he may not be able to afford medication for his ailment.

“He alleges that he is currently unable to work and is on a provincial disability allowance,â€