New figures reveal more than half of the foreigners ordered to leave the country are still in Canada..According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the Canada Border Services Agency had promised to raise the rate at which it carries out deportations..“Everyone ordered removed from Canada is entitled to due process before the law,” the Agency wrote in an Inquiry of Ministry tabled in the Commons. .“All removal orders are subject to various levels of appeal, including judicial review. Once all legal avenues have been exhausted, foreign nationals are processed for removal.”.Figures showed from 2016 to 2022, a total of 13,605 foreigners were ordered deported. Of those, 8,723 or 64% remained in Canada. Incomplete statistics showed about a tenth of deportees left voluntarily..Figures were disclosed at the request of Conservative MP Tom Kmiec (Calgary Shepard, AB), who asked “How many individuals were sent deportation letters by the government? And how many currently remain in Canada?”.In a memo President Transition 2022, the Border Services Agency pledged to increase its efforts to enforce deportation orders..“Removals are prioritized based on a risk management regime with cases involving national security, organized crime, human rights violations and criminality being the highest priority for the safety and security of Canada,” said the memo. .“This first priority also includes failed irregular migrant asylum seekers that entered between Canada’s ports of entry.”.In 2022, a total of 2,002 foreigners were told to depart Canada. Among them, 373 individuals left voluntarily, while Border Services agents deported 386. The remaining 1,057 individuals, or 53%, continued to stay in Canada..MPs have tracked the enforcement of deportation orders since a 2021 report by Auditor General Karen Hogan criticized the system as haphazard. Hogan estimated federal agents lost track of thousands of deportees, including 2,800 with criminal records..“Criminal cases are very important for public safety,” Auditor Hogan earlier testified at the Commons Public Accounts committee. .“Overall, we found the Agency’s approach to managing removal cases had not resulted in the timely removal of inadmissible foreign nationals.”.The review showed that more than 70% of criminal cases were not checked every year and neglected..“Periods of inactivity in the cases we examined averaged four years,” said the report Immigration Removals. The Agency has spent $34 million a year on its deportation program..In 2021, the public safety committee requested the Border Services Agency provide updates every 90 days about deportations..“The Agency did not remove the majority of foreign nationals who were subject to enforceable removal orders as soon as possible in order to protect the integrity of the immigration system and maintain public safety,” wrote MPs.
