The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is targeting a 219 percent increase in the deportation of illegal foreigners from Canadian soil this year, a memo from the agency says.
“The performance objective for total removals in fiscal year 2022 to 2023 is set at 16,312, which represents a 219 percent increase of the prior year’s performance, said the memo, titled “President Transition 2022,” published on Jan. 9, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
The memo said in terms of “overall removals,” the CBSA experienced year-over-year increases from fiscal years 2016 to 2021.
“However, the number of removals in fiscal year 2021 to 2022 decreased to 7,451 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and other aforementioned challenges,” said the memo, citing issues of prolonged staff shortage, and “competing priorities such as supporting the refugee influx,” among several reasons….