First U.S. female soldier to flee Iraq war for Canada ordered deported

[Newsjock]

Source: Canadian Press

TORONTO — The first woman soldier to flee the U.S. military to avoid the Iraq war has been ordered deported along with her husband and their young children.

Kimberly Rivera said her risk assessment application and request to stay in Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds were rejected Wednesday.

... Ms. Rivera served in Iraq in 2006 and came to Canada the following year after she refused redeployment.

She lives in Toronto with her husband and three children — the youngest is six weeks old and was born in Canada.

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[JuniperLea]

1. I would have done the same thing...

I always had a very strong maternal instinct, and nothing could have kept me from being with my children when they were young.

This is so sad.

[asjr]

2. I know what you mean. If the Vietnam war

had gone on another year I was prepared to drive my son to Canada.

[JuniperLea]

3. I was prepared to start hiding people in my attic...

Ala Anne Frank.

[OwnedByFerrets]

4. The question is, Will They?

[sasquatch]

5. Nice job hosers

:eyes:

[IsItJustMe]

6. Doesn't their gov't have a right wing bent to it right now? Could be the reason why,

[Gwendolyn]

7. They're also deploying soldiers off to Afghanistan.

Doesn't look too good to harbor the soldiers of other countries while your own are being sent off to war.

[AnneD]

8. I enlisted in the Army Reserve when I was single....

I went into the inactive reserve for a few years.

Once I had my baby-that was it. My first commitment was to my baby. She was born the month Saddam rolled into Kuwait. At that time they had not yet started grabbing the IR and those that had left the IR. I was suppose to go in for my annual and I just never did and never told them my new address or mention that I just graduated from Nursing School. I mustered myself out-I had served more time than Bush and Cheney both.

Would have gone to Canada too if I had gotten nailed. I am as feminist as they come but I get downright chauvinistic about mothers being sent into combat zones. It is not just her you are sending to battle-but her children as well. I just can't agree to that.

I think her infant IS a Canadian citizen but I am no expert. Been checking out Canadian citizenship myself.

[Joe Chi Minh]

9. Shocking and shameful. It's hard to take in.