globeandmail.com: News of imminent deportation shocks U.S. army deserter

globeandmail.com: News of imminent deportation shocks U.S. army deserter:

"If Mr. Long is deported, he will be the first of an estimated 200 deserters who have sought refuge in Canada to be returned to the United States, marking an official end to the country's policy of welcoming American draft dodgers and deserters that began during the Vietnam War."

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Interesting, but in typical journalistic fashion, not entirely factual.

1) This was never an actual policy; it was non-enforcement of immigration law.

2) If there was an active draft, then he would probably not be deported. The US military is a volunteer organization; Mr. Long volunteered of his own free will, one would think.

200 war-deserters in Canada?

Citizenship and Immigration and the Canadian Border Services Agency is not doing their job.