Anandasangaree’s office repeatedly asked about immigration case of 2nd Tamil Tigers member
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The Liberal MP, now Canada's public safety minister, only asked questions that were 'general in nature,' his spokesperson said.
Before Gary Anandasangaree became Canada’s public safety minister, his riding office repeatedly asked government officials about the immigration application of a female Tamil Tigers member, according to court records.
The immigration file of Rajini Rajmanoharan shows Anandasangaree’s staff made three inquiries about her case to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) between 2019 and 2020.
At the time, Rajmanoharan had already been deported from Canada and was trying to return, but border security officers had alleged she was ineligible as a “member” of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers.
The matter surfaced publicly last week, when the Federal Court upheld the government’s decision to reject Rajmanoharan’s bid to immigrate on the grounds she had been a member of the Tigers.
It was the second such case to emerge since Anandasangaree became public safety minister: Global News reported in July that he wrote letters urging immigration officials to approve the immigration application of another Tamil Tigers “member.”
The minister’s spokesperson said the calls to immigration officials about Rajmanoharan “were general in nature, seeking status updates on applications, a routine task undertaken by any MP’s office.”
She was not a constituent.
Also known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE, the Tigers are separatist guerrillas who fundraised in Canada, sometimes through intimidation and extortion, as they fought a failed civil war in Sri Lanka, an island off the southern tip of India.
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