Tristin Hopper: Osman Azizov would have been in the first wave of an unprecedented flood of ‘irregular border-crossers,’ seemingly encouraged by then prime minister Justin Trudeau

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One of three men accused of a kidnapping plot was an illegal border crosser whose refugee claim was denied in 2018.

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Despite this, Azerbaijani national Osman Azizov was allowed to remain in Canada for a further six years, during which time he allegedly fell in with an ISIS sympathizer and hatched a plot to kidnap random women from the streets of Toronto, and also planned to violently target the Jewish community.

This is all according to records obtained in an exclusive investigation by Global News’ Stewart Bell.

In a Tuesday statement posted to X, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said, “This guy’s phoney refugee claim was rejected almost a decade ago and he’s still in Canada causing chaos.

“The Liberals will never fix immigration or the border — they broke both.”

This guy’s phoney refugee claim was rejected almost a decade ago and he's still in Canada causing chaos.

The Liberals will never fix immigration or the border—they broke both. https://t.co/HjV5zHJTdY

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