He thought he followed all the rules. Then border guards arrested him on the street (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 19 hours ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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Just weeks ago, Dillon Nolan was envisioning a new chapter of his life in Canada.

He married his partner, Dylan Fox, on Valentine’s Day and was, by all accounts, excelling at his job as a social worker specializing in youth mental health at B.C. Children’s Hospital.

A couple of weeks later, he was arrested and handcuffed outside a music venue in Vancouver's Gastown where he was about to perform, detained in an immigration holding centre and ordered to leave the country.

It all comes down to two key pieces of correspondence from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) that Nolan says he never received.

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[-] m0darn@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 hours ago

Really disappointing our government fucked this up so badly

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 11 points 19 hours ago

I hate that my first though was "at least he survived the encounter".

I hope things improve.

[-] non_burglar@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

He's being deported by IRCC, not ICE.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

CBSA has had 17 in-custody deaths since 2000 (reported in 2023).

We aren't any better than the USA when it comes to killing immigrants.

https://amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/canada-deaths-immigration-detention/

[-] charles@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 hours ago

That's a bit disingenuous. I'm not absolving our agencies of the responsibility to work on increasing the safety of those held in detention but 17 deaths over 26 years is not equivalent to what's happening in the US where 23 people have died in ICE detention since October 2025 (source).