A Somali refugee Deported for Assault

A Somalian who gained refugee status in Canada and went on to commit assaults in Ontario and British Columbia has been kicked out of the country.
Mohamed Hagi Mohamud were convicted of assaults in Ontario and British Columbia. Canada Border Services Agency announced Monday that they removed Mohamed Hagi Mohamud from Canada last week.

Mohamud came to Canada in 1992 at age 16 and was granted refugee status the following year. He was facing a deportation hearing in Ontario in 2004 when he vanished, only to be picked up a year later for a brutal sexual attack on a Surrey, B.C., woman.

He had already been convicted and served prison time for attacking two people in Ontario in assaults dating back to 1997.

After his release from prison on those charges, he failed to show up for a May 2004 deportation hearing and didn't surface again until police arrested him for the attack on the Surrey mother of three.

Mohamud had completed two-thirds of his four-and-a-half year sentence last December for the attack on the 33-year-old woman, and became eligible for release.

He was held in custody until he could be deported by the border agency.
"The removal of criminals from Canada is an ongoing priority for CBSA," the agency's Pacific region spokeswoman Paula Shore said in a news release. "The ability to remove foreign criminals is vital to protecting the safety and security of Canada."

Shore wouldn't release further details about Mohamud's deportation or say if there was an investigation into how he eluded deportation in 2004.

Shore said last year, the border agency's Pacific region removed 1,442 people, including 313 criminals, from the country.

While Mohamud was serving his prison sentence in 2006, an immigration panel ruled that he could be deported as soon his jail term was complete.

I'm wondering what is going through in this handsome young mind's head. Why he did this and what made him do this. Did he forgot he was in a a nice and beautiful country where he could have achieved his goal like everyone else.

I don't understand why some of us, as Somalis, want to harm our foreign hosts who gave us everything that we couldn't get otherwise. We come here for one purpose: to live here peacefully, not the other way around. I would better tell those bad guys to go back home and commit whatever crime they want. That is where they belong to and that is where they orginally came from.