Lethbridge

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The insistence by federal officials that two University of Regina students from Nigeria must be deported for violating their visa conditions by working off campus for a short time not only seems like bureaucratic overkill but runs counter to Canada’s objectives of courting the world’s best and brightest as immigrants. Even by the standards of the law-and-order federal government, the punishment being meted out to Victoria Ordu and Ihuoma Amadi seems excessive, treating them little differently from the “serious criminals” targeted by Ottawa’s Faster Removal of Foreign Criminals Act.

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