Toronto Star 31/03/2014 - A leading member of Canada's Hispanic community faces deportation and the probable breakup of his family because he once acted as an informal liaison arranging contacts between armed rebels and foreign journalists covering the civil war that convulsed El Salvador during the 1980s. "I think this is extremely unfair," said Vilma Filici, former president of the Canadian Hispanic Congress, referring to the impending deportation of reporter and community activist Oscar Vigil, 48. "Oscar is an incredible human being. He has done an incredible amount of work on behalf of the Latin community. He is not a danger to the public. He's an asset to Canada." According to lawyer Steve Foster, who is handling the case pro-bono, Vigil has been snared by an extremely broad provision of Canada's Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that bars admission to anyone who has ever belonged to an organization that "engages, has engaged or will engage in" the subversion of a government by force (or, in the case of a democratic government, by any means at all, forceful or otherwise). "That's the hook they've caught him on," said Foster. "The act would catch Nelson Mandela in the same way." Foster hopes Immigration Minister Chris Alexander will veto the deportation order. "There is no legal solution," he said. "There is only a political solution."