Immigration.ca - Canada Immigration News - May 2008
The Canadian government has lost track of over 40,000 people who have been ordered deported from the country, according to a report issued this week by Canada’s auditor-general, Sheila Fraser.
“It’s obviously a problem, because it really goes into the integrity of our immigration laws,” said Fraser. “If people can come into the country and stay here illegally, why would they go through what is a very long and complicated process to become a resident in Canada?”
The Canadian Border Service Agency is responsible for tracking people who are in the country illegally. They are authorized to arrest permanent residents and foreign nationals who break the law and/or are deemed threats to public safety.
Fraser found that the CBSA does not have adequate resources to ensure the whereabouts of deportees. One major problem is that the system lacks a way of tracking who has already left the country.
“We don’t have what’s called exit controls in Canada,” said Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day, in response to Fraser’s report. “There needs to be a better system to track people who have been told they are inadmissible and many of those people leave of their own accord, but they don’t report it.”
Source: The Gazette
