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Less than two weeks after a last-minute ministerial intervention spared a suicidal boy and his family from deportation to Ukraine, Canada Border Services Agency is again moving quickly to remove them.

On Tuesday, CBSA officer Michael Gurr ordered Maryna Zadorozhna, 34, to report with her sons Vladyslav, 15, and Andriy, 7, to Toronto’s airport this Sunday at 6:30 p.m., to travel on LOT Polish Airlines to Kyiv via Warsaw. Her husband, Andriy Ryabnin, 45, is already being held in custody as a flight risk.

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That surprise order follows a dramatic sequence of events earlier this month, on the day before their scheduled deportation as failed refugee claimants.

On Sept. 9, CBSA denied a request to defer deportation in the interest of Vladyslav’s fragile mental health, only to announce a few hours later that the deportation was cancelled, mere minutes before the family’s counsel was to make a last-ditch appeal for mercy on behalf of Vladyslav in Federal Court.