800 foreign fugitives wanted for deportation are still living in Canada, border agency admits

800 foreign fugitives wanted for deportation remain inside Canada's borders, the Canada Border Service Agency said yesterday. According to Blacklock's Reporter, 2,000 criminals have been deported since auditors found sloppy record-keeping at the agency.

Auditor General Karen Hogan told the Commons public accounts committee that the border agency's approach was not leading to the timely removal of "inadmissible foreign nationals."

In a July 8 report titled Immigration Removals, Hogan said that the Border Service Agency had lost track of 34,700 fugitives, including 2,800 criminals.

The president of the Border Services Agency, John Ossowsky, confirmed to Conservative MP Raquel Dancho that the number of "wanted" peoples from foreign nations now sits at 800 people.

The Border Service Agency has so far spent $34 million a year on deportation programs.

In January of this year, it was found that 50,000 immigrants who were ordered to be deported had remained in the country, many of whom remained due to appeal processes.

“The Agency cannot enforce a removal order unless there are no more grounds justifying a stay of removal under the Immigration And Refugee Protection Act,” cabinet said.

Over the past three years, the RCMP has intercepted 56,515 immigrants illegally entering Canada—mainly deriving from Haiti and Nigeria. The vast majority of these immigrants remain in the country.