{"id":5083,"date":"2026-05-06T18:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=5083"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:29:24","slug":"ethiopian-gunman-wont-be-deported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=5083","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Gunman Won’t Be Deported"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Immigrant who pulled loaded gun won\u2019t face deportation <\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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[Question: How is this gunman who came here on a “student visa” in 2015 still here. Who is responsible? Why can’t he be deported? So, Ethiopia is not heaven on earth. Why does this punk Berhe become our responsibility?]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Kahsay Berhe pointed a loaded Glock 19 9 mm pistol at another driver following a \u201cminor traffic infraction\u201d before fleeing the scene.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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An Ethiopian immigrant who pulled a loaded handgun and pointed it at another driver during a road rage incident in Calgary will serve three years in prison, but will not face deportation because his home country has been deemed too dangerous for him to return to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On June 9, 2023, Thomas Kahsay Berhe pointed a loaded Glock 19 9-mm pistol at another driver following a \u201cminor traffic infraction\u201d that sparked the altercation. He threatened to shoot the other man before fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Police tracked Berhe down 11 days later while he was a passenger in a vehicle where another person was in possession of a loaded .38 calibre revolver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berhe never had his firearms licence or any registration for the gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alberta Court of Justice A.J. Brown sentenced Berhe to three years in prison last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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However, Brown noted that while sentences longer than six months would normally have subjected him to an \u201cautomatic removal order,\u201d Berhe is not at risk because, \u201cImmigration Canada does stay removal orders to enumerated countries that are in a state of war or otherwise subject to violence, danger, terrorism, etc.; currently, Ethiopia is one such country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berhe came to Canada on a student visa in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown also said that in both incidents involving the firearms, they were \u201cfully loaded with five live rounds\u201d and that Berhe\u2019s attack on the other driver \u201cwas persistent and ended only when bystanders, at risk to their personal safety, intervened.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPolice then conducted a high-risk vehicle stop of the Hyundai in which Mr. Berhe was the front passenger and seized from the floor under his seat a .38 calibre revolver.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mitigating factors in the case included Berhe\u2019s youth, his lack of a previous record and his guilty pleas. Brown also noted \u201chis remorse, insight and post-offence rehabilitation; and his family and community support.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Immigrant who pulled loaded gun won\u2019t face deportation [Question: How is this gunman who came here on a “student visa” in 2015 still here. Who is responsible? Why can’t he be deported? So, Ethiopia is not heaven on earth. Why does this punk Berhe become our responsibility?] Thomas Kahsay Berhe pointed a loaded Glock 19 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3565],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5087,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083\/revisions\/5087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}