This story has been updated with comments from John Cozzi Jr. and the Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce.

The Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce’s 2015 Ambassador of the Year was dismissed Friday after writing on social media that certain illegal immigrants should be “shot on sight.”

John Cozzi Jr., president and CEO of Tailored Logistics Inc., wrote on Facebook that “if you are an illegal immigrant and committed a crime and you were deported by to (sic) your country and you are caught back in America illegally again, you should be shot on sight.”

“That will slow down illegal immigrants from coming back illegally,” he wrote.

The comment was one of three he made on a thread on the Facebook group Clark County Citizens for Good Governance after another person posted about a law enforcement agency not providing coats to children standing outside during an investigation.