Ian WillmsArmy deserter Kim Rivera -- waiting for news on her stay of deportation -- rests while her husband Mario tends to their baby, Katie, in their Toronto apartment. This week's cover story in the paper version of Unfair Park profiles Mesquite's Kim Rivera and her fellow Iraq war deserters fighting for refuge in Canada. Because many of them are facing deportation, the Toronto-based War Resisters Support Campaign dubbed late January "Let Them Stay Week."Our accompanying slide show by Toronto
Ian WillmsWar deserter and Dallas-area native Kim Rivera in her new home in Toronto.We just got word that Kim Rivera, the 27-year-old soldier and mother of three who deserted to Toronto and who you'll remember from "Gimme Shelter," cover story from the paper version of Unfair Park back in March, has gotten one last chance to stay in Canada. On Tuesday a Canadian federal judge sided with her lawyer, Alyssa Manning, and determined that Rivera deserved the opportunity to file a new pre-removal r