Villanueva to fight deportation order

The lawyer for Dany Villanueva says his client will continue to fight to stay in Canada, after an immigration tribunal on Wednesday ordered him deported to his native Honduras.

Villanueva, 24, is the older brother of Fredy Villanueva, the teenager who was shot and killed by Montreal police in 2008.

His lawyer, Stephane Handfield, filed an appeal of a deportation order handed down by the Immigration and Refugee Board in April, 2010.

On Wednesday, an immigration tribunal upheld that deportation order.

Villanueva has a criminal record and has admitted being a street-gang member in the past.

Handfield argued that his record was not a good enough reason to deport him.

He said he will ask the federal court for a judicial review of the decision.

In the meantime, Villanueva will be allowed to stay in Canada.

He moved to Canada from Honduras in 1998, when he was 12.

His younger brother, 18-year-old Fredy, was shot and killed by a Montreal police officer in August 2008.

The brothers were in a Montreal North park with friends when an encounter with patrolling officers escalated and ended with the shooting.

Fredy's death sparked a riot in Montreal North, where long-standing tensions between police and residents in the multicultural, working-class borough had bred suspicion and mistrust of authorities.