Violent refugee from St. Vincent has been under a deportation order since 2019 — but CBSA can't send him home without Lena Diab's permission

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By the time repeat violent offender Oral Carver Lewis threatened to kill an Ontario Crown prosecutor, he had already been under a deportation order for two years.

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“You b–ch, I’m going to kill you,” he told her during court in January 2022. “You watch, I’m going to f–king kill you…. When I get out of jail, I’m going to kill you, Crown. I’m going to find you and kill you. I’m going to kill you the f–k.” A few months earlier, he made vulgar comments to her and pulled his pants down in court, exposing himself.

It wasn’t just a threat against a woman doing her job; it was an attack on our entire justice system. Enough of these people will cause it to collapse. Indeed, Lewis should have been ejected years before, after his forays into domestic violence, robbery, armed assault, and his stack of weapon bans that never seem to deter him from racking up more weapons charges.

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