{"id":444,"date":"2016-04-20T01:07:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T01:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=444"},"modified":"2016-04-20T01:07:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T01:07:29","slug":"government-covers-up-real-number-of-illegals-part-2-of-an-immigration-officers-report-on-canadas-department-of-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"Government Covers Up Real Number of Illegals\u2013Part 2 of an Immigration Officer\u2019s report on Canada\u2019s Department of Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Government Covers Up Real Number of Illegals\u2013Part 2 of an Immigration Officer\u2019s report on Canada\u2019s Department of Immigration<\/span><\/p>\n

By David Richardson, Retired Senior Immigration Officer<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

After working at\u00a0 the Fort Erie Port of Entry (POE) for several years, I took\u00a0 a secondment to the Removals Department at the Main Immigration Office in Niagara Falls. The Removals Officer\u2019s responsibility was to make sure that failed\u00a0 refugee claimants and deportees were returned to the country\u00a0 from which they entered Canada. Since all our refugee\u00a0 claimants came from the US, they were removed to Buffalo, New York.<\/p>\n

We would receive from the\u00a0 Immigration and Refugee Board the detailed files of failed\u00a0 claimants. These people had already been in Canada for 3 to\u00a0 5 years since they had to go through the appeals process as\u00a0 well !!<\/p>\n

Once the file was\u00a0 reviewed ,we would schedule a removal date and inform the\u00a0 claimant when they were to present themselves for removal.\u00a0 We would try to schedule enough removals to fill the bus we\u00a0 had for this purpose. We would notify USINS (United States\u00a0 Immigration and Naturalization Service) when we would arrive\u00a0 so that they would be able to process them back into the\u00a0 US.<\/p>\n

The \u201cbus\u201d we\u00a0 used for removals was a 12 passenger van.\u00a0 We scheduled\u00a0 removals for twice a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays.\u00a0 The number of people that showed up depended on whether there were families involved. Some families were as large as 7 or 8 people.\u00a0 Any children born in Canada did not count.\u00a0 On average I\u2019d say 40 to 50 percent of families did not show up, while 75 to 80 percent of singles did not show.\u00a0 These are conservative estimates because sometimes no one\u00a0 would show and we would have to cancel.\u00a0 Needless to say\u00a0 the majority of time spent by a removals officer was in preparing deportation orders.<\/p>\n

In the year and a half I worked in Removals, never once did all the scheduled removals show up for departure. Those that didn\u2019t show, were issued a\u00a0 Deportation Order, and they were to be detained and delivered to Immigration to be deported forthwith by any law\u00a0 enforcement agency they came in contact with. This almost\u00a0 never happened. They just disappeared.<\/p>\n

When I made an inquiry as to what the department was doing about this, I was told the official response was that the claimant must have made their own arrangements to leave. This was a cover-up and demonstrates the sloppiness in\u00a0 government policy and the willingness of government to\u00a0 tolerate fraud.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0 shocking fact is that the government keeps a running total\u00a0 of \u201cNO SHOWS\u201d\u00a0 for five years only. For example,\u00a0 when I checked the figures for 1998, I found there were over 100,000 \u201cNO SHOWS\u201d for the five years ending in 1998. NO SHOWS are people ordered deported who did not report to be deported. However, when a year passed and the\u00a0 government published the \u201cNO SHOW\u201d figures for 1999, they added the \u201cNO SHOWS\u201d to the 100,000, but then subtracted the number of \u201cNo Shows\u201d for 1993. In other words, the \u201cNO SHOW\u201d\u00a0 total remained constant and is an outright lie. It is definitely\u00a0 not a measure of the total illegals residing in Canada at\u00a0 any given time. This government practice had been going on\u00a0 long before I worked for the Department and probably long\u00a0 before even that Act.\u00a0 The practice probably\u00a0 continues today. Toronto is a very easy place to hide out\u00a0 in and we know of many unscrupulous employers that take\u00a0 advantage, but the government refuses to provide the\u00a0 resources to root them out.<\/p>\n

While \u201cNO SHOWS\u201d provide the bulk of illegals that I\u2019m aware of, there are also illegals who got here on foreign student visas and on\u00a0 work visas. As far as I know, these numbers are never counted in the \u201cNO SHOWS\u201d list.\u00a0 The\u00a0 department just assumes these people leave when their visa\u00a0 expires.\u00a0 But that does not happen. For example, we know\u00a0 that there was a problem with work visas, especially for strippers from Eastern Europe, of which there were many in a\u00a0 small place like\u00a0 Niagara Falls.\u00a0 I can only guess what the figures would be for very large cities like Toronto or Montreal.<\/p>\n

It upset Immigration Officers\u00a0 to no end to know\u00a0 that the public was being kept in the dark as to how many \u201cNO SHOWS\u201d, \u201cILLEGAL\u00a0 WORKERS\u201d and \u201cILLEGAL VISITORS\u201d were in Canada. Job-seeking Canadians were obviously having to\u00a0 compete with these \u201cNO SHOWS\u201d and\u00a0 \u201cILLEGALS\u201d for work, but the government did very little to\u00a0 ease the frustrations and suffering of Canadians. In fact,\u00a0 idiotic politicians in Toronto, Hamilton and Vancouver\u00a0 declared their cities to be \u201cSANCTUARY CITIES\u201d so\u00a0 that these illegals could continue to abuse honest\u00a0 Canadians.\u00a0 And these politicians actually were proud of\u00a0 what they had done !!!<\/p>\n

Enforcement Officer<\/p>\n

My next position was as an Enforcement Officer at the main office in Niagara Falls. The nature of this job\u00a0 was investigating Immigration violations IN-Land. An Immigration Officer at the Port of Entry (POE) has far more\u00a0 legal authority than an In-land Officer. Under the\u00a0 Immigration Act, and Criminal Code as it was at that time,\u00a0 the RCMP was the agency responsible for laying charges under\u00a0 the Act.
\nImmigration would investigate. If we had a case, we would inform the RCMP and\u00a0 they would lay the charges and make the arrest.<\/p>\n

The RCMP was also responsible\u00a0 for criminal charges at the Port of Entry.\u00a0 At this time, a new Area Manager had arrived in Ontario South. He was disturbed at\u00a0 the lack of co-operation between the RCMP and Immigration.\u00a0 He contacted the RCMP Office in St. Catharines and made\u00a0 arrangements with the Sargent in charge to form a Unit\u00a0 exclusively to deal with Immigration Issues. I was seconded\u00a0 to this Unit that consisted of a lieutenant, two Officers\u00a0 and myself.<\/p>\n

Cases<\/p>\n

One day, we got a call from\u00a0 the Queenston (Ontario)-Lewiston (New York) Port Of Entry\u00a0 that they had detained an American woman from West Virginia. When we arrived at the POE we discovered that the day before, she had been refused entry at Toronto\u2019s Pearson\u00a0 Airport. The Senior Immigration Examining Officer\u00a0 there had discovered that the woman had made a refugee claim in Canada the previous year. She said she\u00a0 was coming back to Canada to attend a hearing. Immigration officers assumed that if a person makes a\u00a0 refugee claim here that they will stay here until their\u00a0 claim is evaluated. However, in questioning the woman, we discovered she was working as a Toll Collector on the thru-way in West\u00a0Virginia and was going through a messy divorce. She told us\u00a0 her Pastor had recommended she make a refugee claim in Canada to procure another source of income (welfare) !!\u00a0 In\u00a0 other words, she had no intention of becoming a refugee in\u00a0 Canada. She was looking for extra cash and she had heard through the grapevine that she could easily defraud Canada\u2019s refugee system and provincial Welfare Department in order to get that cash. We warned her about\u00a0 the fraud she was committing and deported her on the\u00a0 spot.<\/p>\n

As a follow up, I\u00a0 contacted the Welfare office in Toronto to inform them of\u00a0 the fraud and requested that all welfare payments cease to\u00a0 that woman. I was told by the Welfare Office that they couldn\u2019t do that without interviewing the recipient. I\u00a0 told them that that would not be possible as she was not\u00a0 allowed to enter Canada. I was told,\u00a0 \u201cToo bad.\u00a0 That\u2019s the procedure.\u201d I then contacted the Ministry of Social Services to complain. They told me they would look into it. I never heard back.\u00a0 I concluded that\u00a0 the Welfare Office never did anything, that refugee cheats are very aware of this negligence, that refugee cheats had taken advantage of this and that they continue to take\u00a0 advantage. As far as trying to estimate the cost to the\u00a0 province, I would need to know what the rate of welfare is, and I don\u2019t.\u00a0 But I suspect it is large and I\u2019m\u00a0 pretty sure if the public were aware, there\u2019d be a huge backlash.<\/p>\n

One of the main\u00a0 reasons I eventually left government service was that in all good conscience, I could not tolerate another day of 35% of my\u00a0 pay going to support these fraudulent government practices.\u00a0 Political correctness has destroyed my Country. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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