The Somali refugee accused of stabbing an Edmonton police constable on the weekend and running down four pedestrians was ordered to be deported from the United States in 2011 by a U.S. immigration judge.Oh, it gets better... much better...
But Sharif was released on Nov. 23, 2011, on an ICE order of supervision, "due to a lack of likelihood of his removal in the reasonably foreseeable future." Sharif failed to report to the ICE enforcement and removal operations centre on his scheduled date, Jan. 24, 2012.
Sharif entered Canada in 2012. Initial information on the documents indicated he was sponsored by the federal government for one year. In 2012, immigration officials had no reason to red flag Sharif, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said.
When Abdulahi Hasan Sharif was flagged as a potential terrorist threat two years ago, police in Alberta complained they were overwhelmed with Islamic State-inspired suspects.Was there actually an investigation, and if so, why is it a big hairy ball secret?
A former colleague said Mr. Sharif was sympathetic to the Islamic State, prone to religious rants about "polytheists" and expressed "genocidal beliefs."
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and the RCMP have refused to give details of the 2015 investigation.
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RELATED: What happens in Alberta...
...stays in Alberta...
-- CALGARY -- Aset Magomadova will not go to jail for strangling her teenage daughter with a head scarf at their northeast Calgary home more than three years ago, a Queen Bench's justice ruled on Thursday.P.S. - maybe there is a gawd.
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LAST WORD: In other diversity news...
Relaxed rules for obtaining Canadian citizenship will take effect on Oct. 11, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Ahmed Hussen announced Wednesday. Hussen said at an event in Brampton, Ont., that the new requirements will make the path to join the "Canadian family" easier and more flexible.