After being sent back to the United States for the sixth time in two years, American citizen Junese Hagh returned to Canada to “finish what began.”
That is in accordance with a search warrant of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) obtained by CBC News from the Courts. The order alleges that Hagh also probably smuggled a weapon in British Columbia earlier this year.
The order alleges that Hagh was deported from Canada six times, but returned without being detected every time along the border of the state of BC-Washington.
Detailed accusations have not been tested.
A search warrant obtained by CBC News alleges that an American citizen has been expelled from Canada six times in recent years. As Yasmine Ghania reports, the case has raised concerns about how he continues to return to the country.
“The question obviously poses is, how did you return to Canada?” Asks the Toronto headquarters with headquarters, Evan Green, who can also practice in the United States
“That is the big problem because this is clearly not someone we want to be in Canada given their background.”
Hagh, 21, who also passes through Ethan, has not been accused of any crime of firearms, but is currently in custody that faces charges to return to Canada without authorization after an elimination order and does not seem to determine the right to enter Canada.
His lawyer, Roy Kim, told CBC News Hagh has not yet presented a plea and refused to comment more.
Hagh served jail twice, in August and December 2024, for the same crimes.
Hagh’s numerous deportation orders have baffled immigration experts amid the tensions of Us-Canadá and the greatest scrutiny of the border without a longest defense in the world. The documents reveal that Hagh is inflexible in returning to Canada due to the good memories he had in the North Nation.
“This is a very unusual case,” Green said.
Ax retired in the fight at Skytrain station
Hagh is not verbal, he has mental health problems and has been homeless since he was 15 years old, living in the streets of Los Angeles, New York and BC, according to the order.
First he came to Canada when he was a child under a study permit.
In December 2022, after his permission had expired, he took an ax during a fight at a Skytrain station in Burnaby, BC, according to the search warrant.
The fight was considered consensual, so Hagh was not accused, but was arrested by an immigration order.
Immigration officials issued Hagh an order of exclusion days later, prohibiting him from returning to Canada for a year.
But he raped the order and returned to Canada shortly after. He was issued a deportation order in February 2023, except for the country.
What followed was months of a cat and mouse game between Hagh and border officials, according to the search warrant. Hagh would enter Canada without authorization, would be sent back to the United States and then returned north.
In total, the search warrant says that Hagh has been expelled from Canada six times. Sometimes he would return to Canada a few days after being deported.
He was deported on July 2, 2024, then deported again 16 days later, according to the order.
The United States immigration lawyer, Christine Jurusik, says she is alarmed that an American citizen has been able to return to Canada on numerous occasions in violation of repeated deportation orders, but says that her case is an anomaly.
‘He continues to return’
There was no record of entering Canada because it did not go through an entrance port, according to its December 2024 ruling. The Provincial Court of Vancouver provided CBC News audience recordings of the hearing.
“He knows that he is not supposed to be in Canada without authorization, but continues to return. With luck, a longer form of imprisonment will deter it,” said the prosecutor of the crown.
Christine Jurusik, an immigration lawyer from the United States licensed to practice in Ontario and the state of New York, said it is not surprising that Hagh could have entered without detecting.
“Our border with the United States is largely undefined and not supervised. Therefore, there are many places that people can cross without being intercepted by CBSA,” he said.
“Someone like this who intends to be in Canada and really wants to be here, can find forms.”
RCMP officers at the Windsor, Ontario. The detachment patrol the border with Canada-states united in a way they had never done before Donald Trump pressed for an increase in security among neighboring countries.
In December 2024, Judge James Sutherland said Hagh had a “comprehensive history”, but still gave him the 120 -day sentence recommended by the crown.
“The number of violations of immigration orders, the rapid succession in which they were violated required that this court cause a sentence … so that the law switches can be insured that the court will deliver sentences that provide serious consequences for violations of this nature,” said Sutherland.
Hagh was last deported on January 8, 2025, but was seen illegally crossing Canada the next day, after buying Bellingham firearms, Washington, according to the search warrant.
CPL. Aash Seyed with the Unit of the Federal Region of the Federal Pacific of the RCMP told CBC News that the US border patrol agents. UU. They arrested Hagh on January 9 on the US side, after Mounties told him that he was trying to enter Canada.
Seyed said he doesn’t know if Hagh “legally or illegally” arrived in Canada after that.
An RCMP officer saw him in a mall in Burnaby on January 16, arrested him by a pending immigration order and led him to the Immigration Tenure Center in Surrey, the order said.
‘There is no weapon here’
A knife, five firearms cartridges and a receipt of a Bellingham effort that showed that he bought around $ 90 in ammunition on January 9, were among Hagh’s things, depending on the order. The authorities did not find a weapon, said CBSA.
Hagh said he didn’t bring a gun to Canada.
“There is no weapon here. I can tell you that,” he wrote in a piece of paper to the researchers, according to the order.
“There are no comments, apart from that, I can sincerely tell you that there is no weapon.”
When Hagh was deported on January 8, he told a CBSA officer that he wanted to return to Canada for two months “to finish what began,” according to the order.
“He did not specify what this was, but declared that he felt he had to do a ‘restart’ of himself and discovered that Canada was a better part of his life that wanted to visit again and then return to the United States,” said the CBSA officer in the order.
The officer alleges that Hagh said he would buy a weapon when he returned to the United States for protection, but that he would leave him before returning to Canada.
“I think that the firearms cartridges have only one purpose: to be used with a firearm,” wrote the officer in the order. “I think Mr. Hagh smuggled a firearm with him when he entered Canada, despite his statements otherwise.”
Hagh’s lawyer told the Court during Hagh judgment in 2024 that he stood out academically while attending high school in BC before things get worse.
He wanted to return to BC “to come to reconciliation,” said his lawyer.
The CBSA was authorized to search Hagh’s phone for evidence to buy a firearm, but has not been accused of any crime of firearms.
The case is not part of a broader trend: expert
Jurusik said that Hagh’s case raises concerns, but it is an anomaly.
“We have not had a great risk that Americans flee or try to come to Canada illegally. Therefore, although this is alarming, I do not think it is a trend, and it does not cause concern about the way in which security on the southern border causes concerns to US citizens where they have much higher numbers and incidents of things like this,” said Jurusik.
“I think CBSA is doing a good job and that it is probably just a unique situation.”
CBSA rejected an interview application and said he could not provide details about individual cases.
“All people entering Canada must inform CBSA for examination,” the agency said in a statement. “Not informing for the exam is illegal and not sure.”
CBSA and other law enforcement agencies have received greater support in response to the tariff threats of Donald Trump and his demand for Canada to do more on the border to stop drug flow and illegal migration.
In December 2024, the Federal Government announced a plan of $ 1.3 billion to strengthen border security.
The figures for 2025 have not yet been published, but in 2024, the CBSA eliminated more than 16,000 inadmissible foreigners in the country, according to agency data. Around 600 were American citizens.
While it is not clear how Hagh entered the country so many times, judicial records show that the moment worked in his favor.
After receiving a deportation order in August 2024, the plan was for the CBSA to leave it on the border and that a family friend picks him up on Blaine’s side, a crown prosecutor told the judge during Hagh’s sentence in December 2024.
But Hagh was released days earlier than scheduled, so no one was there to pick it up, according to the audience.
Hagh contacted his family in California after his release and told them that he did not want to return to the state, the crown said.
Then, in September 2024, the crown says that a CBSA officer out of service saw Hagh carrying his phone in a grocery store Save on Foods in Burnaby.
The officer recorded a Hagh video on this phone and contacted the officers in service.
“But by the time they arrived in Save On, Mr. Hagh was no longer there,” said the crown.
Hagh is in custody at the North Fraser Purpose Center in Port Coquitlam, BC, and is due in court in July.
