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    Exclusive: Canada deporting thousands even as pandemic rages

    Exclusive: Canada deporting thousands even as pandemic rages



    By Anna Mehler Paperny 13 mins ago










    Exclusive: Canada deporting thousands even as pandemic rages



    By Anna Mehler Paperny

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    FILE PHOTO: Canadian flag flies in front of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa

    TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada deported thousands of people even as COVID-19 raged last year, data seen by Reuters shows, and lawyers say deportations are ramping up, putting people needlessly at risk in the midst of a global health emergency.

    Like many other countries, Canada is struggling to stop a second wave from spiraling out of control, and its political leaders are begging residents to stay home to prevent the spread.

    Lawyers and human rights advocates are decrying Canada's November decision to resume deportations. Until now, the extent of the country's pandemic deportations was not known, but recent interviews with immigration lawyers and scrutiny of government numbers has shed light on the situation.

    Canada counted 12,122 people as removed in 2020 - 875 more than the previous year and the highest number since at least 2015, according to Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) data seen by Reuters. The government says this was necessary and done safely.

    The CBSA says the high number last year is because it includes people who decided to leave on their own, termed "administrative removals." In 2019 there were 1,657 administrative removals, compared with 8,215 last year.

    Even subtracting those numbers, that leaves thousands of people deported as the pandemic raged and governments cautioned against travel of any kind for safety reasons.

    Even as Canada continues to deport non-citizens during a health crisis, U.S. President Joe Biden paused deportations for 100 days within hours of being sworn in on Wednesday.

    Canada officially imposed a moratorium on deportations in March that it lifted at the end of November.

    "As much as a human rights concern it's a common sense concern," said Bill Frelick, director of Human Rights Watch's Refugee Rights Program.

    Countries' deportation practices have varied over the course of the pandemic. Several, including the United Kingdom, suspended deportations before resuming them. Others, like Ireland, have kept suspensions in place.

    The CBSA said it has been prioritizing deportations for reasons of "serious admissibility," including criminality.

    The vast majority of people deported in 2020 were for reasons of "noncompliance." Even taking into account administrative removals, more than 1,000 people were deported during the suspension, the data shows.

    'IT'S UNBELIEVABLE'

    Public health experts have warned that travel of any kind can spread COVID-19 from one place to another, a risk that grows with the advent of more highly transmissible COVID variants.

    Many of the deportation trips involve transfers at multiple airports and flights during which people are placed in enclosed space in close quarters with other people for hours at a time, a situation ripe for transmission.

    Since August Canada has been conducting deportations with CBSA escorts, so Canadians are also making thousands of these round-trip flights for deportation purposes.

    Organizations including the Canadian Bar Association and the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers spoke out against Canada's decision to resume deportations.

    "As everybody is putting in place more restrictions in an effort to flatten the curve ... CBSA made a shocking decision to simply go back to business as usual," said Maureen Silcoff, president of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers.

    "Canada has taken the position that nonessential travel is barred yet people are now being removed and there's no indication that those removals are essential."

    The CBSA said in a statement it lifted the moratorium on deportations because foreign government offices and borders had reopened, airlines restarted their routes and public-health protocols "have contributed to a high degree of safety for persons being removed by air."

    "Canada continues to uphold both its human rights and public safety obligations in relation to the removal of inadmissible foreign nationals," the statement said. "The removal process includes many checks and balances to ensure that the removal is conducted in a fair and just manner."

    But these deportations are endangering not only the people being deported but the government officers tasked with accompanying them to their destination, lawyers say.

    Immigration lawyer Lorne Waldman's Toronto office went from getting no removal cases to getting three or four in the space of a week, he said. He is now fighting for a failed refugee claimant with two young Canadian children who faces deportation to Egypt Monday.

    "They're ramping it up as if there was no pandemic," he said. "It's unbelievable."
    (Reporting by Anna Mehler Paperny in Toronto; Editing by Denny Thomas and Matthew Lewis)



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    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    Canada does NOT want these illegal aliens either!

    What is "unbelievable" is that our countries have become the dumping ground for the world's refuse with NO push back on the presidents who are dumping their responsibilities over our borders.

    It is outrages, deport every damn one on them!

    Get rid of their corrupt presidents! God gave these countries land, resources, beaches, oceans full of food, oil, minerals, gas, and the labor to put to work to make their own country great.

    These "migrants" are destroying our countries, dividing us, and bankrupting us bringing more crime, murder, rape, gangs, drugs, overbreeding in poverty, trash, overcrowding, and hate.


    INCOMPETENT, Unelected Joe Biden and Harris, need to be impeached and removed for office now! Their policies are going to destroy this Nation and bring in millions of these criminal trespassing illegal aliens that we are going to be forced to pay for.
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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