Moosomin elects 20-year-old to town council, years after the town helped his family fight deportation order [Video]

At 20 years old, Victor Santos Cardoza has made history as the youngest person to ever be elected to council in his new hometown.

Santos Cardoza said his love for the community is what inspired him to run as a councillor in Moosomin, Sask., which is about 20 kilometres inside the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border. 

“My family back home were very community driven and I believe I inherited those values,” Santos Cardoza said. “There was a desire to give back to [the] community of Moosomin that helped me and my family many years ago.”

Santos Cardoza said he owes everything to the small town and that without their support he would not be in Canada today.

His family was given a two-week deportation notice to return to Honduras in 2017. 

Although the family was new to Moosomin, Santos Cardoza said the community rallied behind them and advocated for the family to stay through various fundraising initiatives, a circling petition and organizing a letter-writing campaign.

“They vouched …