The Immigration Department spent the equivalent of over $130 per day on hotels in Niagara Falls for illegal immigrants seeking asylum in Canada, according to an Inquiry of Ministry recently tabled in the House of Commons.
The department wrote in the Inquiry that some of the illegal immigrants spent up to three or four months in the Niagara Falls hotels paid for by the federal government, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
It said a total of over 2,400 illegal immigrants and asylum seekers were bused from Quebec to Niagara Falls beginning in July 2022.
The Immigration Department neither disclosed total costs of the hotels nor specified which hotels the immigrants were housed in, but the Department of Public Works said in an Inquiry tabled in January that Niagara hotel costs for asylum seekers previously reached a total of over $5.3 million at taxpayers’ expense….