- WEDNESDAY
July. 26, 1995

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. Weather
Thursday: cloudy with sunny-
periods, High 22°C, low 14°C,

NEWS photo Brad Ledwidge

JAPAN IBM player H. Moriura (centre) gives the ball a boot during the touring

‘side's exhibition rugby match against Capilano Rugby ,Club’s first-diviston team

last Saturday at Kiahannie Park. The locals put up a good fight, but when the dust
had settled, IBM had beaten the Capilanos 26-15

Heroin trafficking
conviction lands

refugee in jail

A VIETNAMESE refugee, ordered deport-

ed from Canada in 1992, has been sentenced
in North Vanceuver provincial court to six
--months in’ jail in connection with heroin
"trafficking, me

‘By Anna Marie D ‘Angelo
“News Reporter

Vu Van’ Le; 31, was’ convicted of a Calgary home
invasion in:1990 and ordered deported six months after
, being released from jail. He was sentenced to 3% years

in jail for unlawful confinement and assault witha.
oe weapon. a ,
The sentence was reduced to two years In jail lessa day after ‘an appeal.
The deportation order was stayed on Feb. JS, 1994, by the Immigration,

‘and Refugee Board (IRB) Appeal Division.:

A three- member appeal panel stated they. were satisf ed that Le’s risk of.

re-offending was “very minimal.”

_Six months later, North Vancouver RCMP drug squd members arrested

NORTH VANCOUVER MP Ted
White ..... immigration panel
lacked common sense jin the
case of a home invader.

i i Vancouver with 8.5 grams of: heroin. ;

Police in North. Vancouver were acting on'a tip in
connection with. the arrest. . according :to North
Vancouver RCMP Cpl. Mike Littlejohn.

. fMeanwhile, North Vancouver MP Ted White said he
phins to write to Sergio Marchi, the federal immigra-":
tion minister, asking for the deportation stay to be
revoked and order Le’s deportation. :

White said that the incident proves that IRB ‘pane ;
should look at these things with a “common-sense per-

ctive.”

“It looks like the mandate of the (IRB appeal) hear-
ing was to find a way to stay the deportation rather than
to-look “at it objectively as’ to what this person. has
done.” said White. :

“Anyone with any common sense, looking at Mr. Vu

Van Le’s past would come to the conclusion that there
was a very high possibility that he would re-offend.”

Immigration. Centre enforcement . manager’ Rob
Johnston said that a new law, which took effect on July
10, allows for deportation ifa person is deemed a “dan-

ger to the public” by the i inimigration minister.

Johnston said a person convicted of a crime carrying

a sentence of 10 years or. more would fall under “danger to the public.”
Heroin trafficking carries a maximum tife sentence, although first offenders
usually get between six to 12 months in jail. Johnsion said that if someone -
has’ a new. criminal conviction after a stay’ order on a deportation, the

Canadian immigration department will immediately. ask’ its immigration

appeal division to overturn the Slay order and make deportation, eftective