Tran reported to border service officials to face deportation Tuesday.

 Canada based on being involved in organized crime -- a member of one of two groups, FOB and FK -- which "have shocked the city of Calgary with their violent rivalry."

"Mr. Tran admits to socializing and maintaining friends with known gang members, has been identified by police as a member ... convicted of trafficking in a dial-a-dope context ... been targeted and shot at in an event ... arising out of long-running rivalry between FK and FOB ... and been identified by the rival gang as a member," Tessler wrote in his ruling.

Raj Sharma, his latest immigration lawyer and one of several to argue for Tran over the years, said Tuesday Tran has been fighting against more than a criminal record.

"He was fighting the Jackie Tran myth created by a media myth," Sharma said.

"There is a limited criminal record and a dated criminal record."

Sharma has said he intends to keep a date in April at Federal Court to argue there are grounds to revisit the second order.

There is "remote possibility" his client might one day return to Canada .

Tran, who arrived here in 1993, was raised by a single mother, and has a younger sister in Canada and a longtime girlfriend.

Tran was first ordered deported in 2004 after convictions for an assault and drug trafficking.

He failed on an appeal of that order and lost a recent bid to see the Federal Court find errors in the appeal and allow it to be heard again.

He has said at hearings over the years that he has learned from his brushes with the law and hoped for a chance to prove he is a law-abiding citizen wanting to work to support his mother, who is disabled and cannot work, and younger sister.

Sharma has said it is unfair his client is deemed a public risk given he might be targeted -- therefore a victim -- in violent gang rivalry

Pushing his belongings on a baggage cart as police officers looked on nearby, Tran seemed resigned to his fate when asked by reporters if he would comment on the latest -- perhaps final development -- in the drawn-out saga.

"What's done is done," he said softly while pushing past reporters to a Canada Immigration office at the airport.

The 27-year-old gang member is being deported to Vietnam, the end of the road for now in Tran's bid to stay in Canada.

After winning numerous legal battles to fight deportation, a ruling earlier this year opened the door for Canada Border Services officials to at last kick him out of the country.