Metro gangster ordered deported for a second time

A gang associate with a criminal history has been ordered deported to his native Vietnam — a country he left when he was a toddler.

Bi Dong (Adam) Lam appeared before the Immigration and Refugee Board in downtown Vancouver earlier this month, where adjudicator Laura Ko said the crimes he had committed in Canada meant she had no choice but to order him deported.

The Canada Border Services Agency sought the removal of Lam, 28, because he had been convicted in 2014 of possessing a firearm in violation of a court order and also had a 2007 break-and-enter conviction stemming from a Langley home invasion.

Ko noted the criminal code says a non-citizen is ineligible to stay in Canada if they have been sentenced to a minimum of six months for a crime that carries a maximum sentence of 10 years or more.

She said the CBSA “established all the essential elements of the allegation and, as I said, I am required by law to issue the deportation order against you and I make that order at this time.”

Lam’s lawyer Linda Mark said “we are planning on filing an appeal to the Immigration Appeal Division and just let them decide on jurisdiction.” Mark did not make submissions on her client’s behalf at the March 8 hearing.

It was not the first time the gang associate had been ordered deported. In November 2014, IRB member Trent Cook also found Lam was inadmissible to remain in Canada based on the evidence of his criminal history provided by the CBSA. Mark also said at the time her client intended to appeal.

Cook focused his ruling on the 2014 gun conviction that came after Lam and gangster Matin Bin Laden Pouyan went to a Port Coquitlam gun range despite both being under court-ordered bans not to possess firearms because of earlier convictions.