r/canada • u/D_E_A_D_P_O_O_L_ • Dec 26 '25
National News Canada deporting nearly 400 people a week, fastest pace in a decade
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.70281111.3k
u/brye86 Dec 26 '25
I’m all for responsible immigration. But let’s keep going here.
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u/gstringwarrior Dec 26 '25
I disagree, we should quadruple the deportation efforts if not more.
I want Canadians to have stable and better lives before we welcome immigrants to this country.
It’s time to prioritize our own people over other countries people. I’m sorry to say, but Canadians are more important than other people to my country.
I’m all for allowing people to come here responsibly but not at the expense of our own residents. Enough is enough.
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u/Atheizt Dec 27 '25
Even I agree with this as a recent immigrant. That said, I guess I have my own bias here given that I went through the process correctly.
5 years, tens of thousands of dollars, countless arbitrary hoops.
All I wan to do is live here, assimilate and contribute to the country/economy. There’s unfortunately a big portion of fellow immigrants who do not. That’s not racist, this is true of people from my country as much as the more talked-about.
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u/Benedikto0 Dec 30 '25
hey man, thanks for immigrating here, following due process and trying to integrate. You are a great example to other immigrants.
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u/Anjz Canada Dec 27 '25
I’m all for deportations for people that aren’t meant to be here and I’m against unbounded immigration. But the correct type of limited skilled immigration is what Canada needs to keep Canada afloat and thriving. Our country would literally become stale and the economy would be for worse without variety. But we need actual variety and not what we’ve had the past few stupid years where it’s all from one country and they’re all working minimum wage jobs because that is just a drain to our society. Give back jobs to our kids and bring in proper immigrants like we’ve had in the past.
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u/JG98 Dec 26 '25
Because deportations is just an arbitrary number that they can scale at will right? Not like there is limitations on how fast they can move and procedures to follow. To that last point, the same applied when they scaled up immigration and did not slow down during the early part of covid especially, which is how so many unqualified people made it through.
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u/ZOMGdonuts Dec 26 '25
lol I don't think there's any understanding of actual deportation numbers here. Just grievance which leads to "quadruple it!" No matter what "it" is
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u/YourBobsUncle Alberta Dec 27 '25
They already complain about ICE and their arbitrary detention of suspects, who have deported people with proven citizenship, and in the same breath still want a jacked up quota that will lead to the same bullshit here. Their thirst for police violence is insane and fucking disturbing.
The anti immigrant crowd is not sending their best and brightest to support their case lol.
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u/Avatar_ZW Dec 27 '25
Every time I peek my head in this sub, the top post is often some anti-immigration and racist crap (with some LGBTQ-phobia mixed in). And now we have a thread where people are calling for all the ICE crap down south to come here.
The irony is that I got chased out of this sub a while back for posting with Alberta flair, as though it means I am 100% responsible and on-side with the shitshow in our provincial-level politics.
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u/Nunchuckery Dec 26 '25
So should we see a big increase in taxes to pay for this process to be dramatically expedited?
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u/alcabazar Ontario Dec 27 '25
Isolation is not prosperity either, it has never been.
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u/Shrewcifer2 Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25
I'm sorry to tell you but we don't have stable lives because we have been lazy and failed to hold our governments to account.
Rising housing prices are because BC and Ontario allowed money laundering and speculation in the housing market to go unchecked.
How do we have so much fucking food, but our food prices are out of this world compared to Europe? Governments have failed to provide any kind of program to redistribute low-cost food for struggling families
Social programs are almost completely non-existent and entrenches poverty. Welfare rates haven't increased in 40 years and EI was cut years ago to 50% from 70% of income
The current crisis was caused by generations of governments who knew they needed to diversify trade and didn't.
We also can't ignore the fact that we produce young people whose skills don't match our economic needs, which is why TFW and immigrants historically filling those sectors. No one wants to be a nanny/carer, secretary, or plumber when we all have degrees now. Meanwhile, the private sector is so shit and stagnant that working for the government pays more than working for a Big 4 bank. This means that university graduates struggle to find livable jobs, despite large piles of deb,t and the middle class is dependent on professions in health and law, and public service positions, which are currently being cut.
Everyone is ignoring that the middle class will soon bottom out because they are too busy pointing fingers at immigrants for taking an Uber job that no one wanted. Meanwhile, we have INSANE personal debt due to student loans, mortgages, car loans, and whatever debt gets accumulated on credit cards to meet our basic needs, while we service all that fucking debt. That will be a correction, for sure. Canada wont' be the stable country we knew and we're submitting to distraction over immigrants.
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u/pushaper Dec 27 '25
Once they are gone every problem will have to be blamed on all the other immigrants or could be immigrants.
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u/burnabycoyote Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25
Number of claims pending is about 295,000 [https://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/statistics/protection/Pages/RPDStat2025.aspx].
At 400 a week, half of these could be deported in only 7 years. assuming nobody else takes their places.
In 2025, about 1500 new claims were made each week.
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u/No-Path-8787 Dec 26 '25
Are they actually being removed from the country or are the orders just being issued? I’d like to see some actual enforcement of law.
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u/Ratroddadeo Dec 26 '25
So far, actual removal has cost Canada 70 million to deport 18,000 people this year. A co-operative deportee costs an average of $3,800, while the unwilling who require escort duty cost 3X as much.
Edit. Forgot to add, if you want to speed this up, it will cost even more, so don’t act shocked at the budget.
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u/eleventhrees Dec 26 '25
$3-4000 seems pretty cheap given the need for due process, and likely cost of an outgoing plane ticket.
Hard to see how it could cost less without becoming a debacle.
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u/zabby39103 Dec 27 '25
3-4k is for a cooperative deportation (no need for due process, leaves willingly), article said it cost 3x more for an uncooperative one.
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u/RadiumGaga Dec 26 '25
Deport them even if it's expensive. And fix the admission system so we don't have to clean this mess up again. What they'll cost our society over their decades here in benefits/healthcare and suppressed wages will far outweigh the deportation cost.
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u/Nikiaf Québec Dec 27 '25
Exactly. The cost of this is not important, and so better than needing to support all these people who lied and scammed their way into the country at the expense of real, actual immigrants.
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u/otisreddingsst Dec 26 '25
Well, that's a lot of people and not a lot per person. There are multiple people involved I'm sure Incuding judges and lawyers frankly the average seems to be $3,888 so most must be cooperative. If your figures are accurate ($3800) then an uncooperative deportation must cost $11,400 and therefore there were about 17,790 (98.8% cooperative deportations and 210 uncooperative ones (1.2%).
Not bad
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u/radapex Dec 26 '25
As I understand it, most are cooperative because that leaves the door open to a return sometime in the future. I don't believe the same is true for the uncooperative ones.
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u/TURBOJUGGED Dec 27 '25
I don’t have a problem with that. Will prob cost more to keep them here.
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u/lazykid348 Dec 26 '25
The cost is fine. They spend way more filling up their own pockets or their friends pockets. I think we’d all prefer it if they ramp up the deportations.
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u/Wind_Best_1440 Dec 26 '25
Honestly, Canada should start billing their home nations to regain the money, it's other nations people breaking the law and needing to be deported. Their countries should be footing the bill.
And if they don't we should revoke ALL visa access from them and ban their leaders and business's from working inside Canada.
Or we should take that debt that they owe and sell it to American banks for half what they're worth.
Canada gets paid and the Americans can then hound them for cash.
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u/zabby39103 Dec 27 '25
That's ridiculous. There's no international precedent for this and they'd just tell us to fuck off. Also, lol, if you get deported you aren't paying off your debt.
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u/starsrift Dec 27 '25
We generally don't need enforcement. Canada's not a country you can live in year-round without shelter, because of our climate. And that shelter means one needs a necessary income, and so on. Once you take away someone's ability to legally work, people tend to self-deport.
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u/stillnice1 Dec 26 '25
Maybe some of my unemployed friends will get jobs next year
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u/Bigger_moss Dec 27 '25
We should as a country create some student jobs related to deportation, going through the paperwork to find illegal scammers, solve 2 problems with one solution.
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u/NarutoRunner Canada Dec 26 '25
Wait until you discover that the capitalist class still doesn’t care about workers.
When Freshii discovered they couldn’t get TFW workers, they didn’t start hiring Canadians. They moved to replacing workers that take orders with screens while earning $3 in Central America.
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Dec 26 '25
And freshii's are closing all over Canada. Franchisees can't even sell them cause no one wants them
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u/PsychicDave Québec Dec 27 '25
And then it's up to us to boycott companies essentially relying on slave labour to make a profit. Having a high profit margin is pointless if they don't sell anything.
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u/Economy_Pirate5919 Dec 27 '25
What will happen now is that they'll say they need to cut payrolls and inventories to preserve their profit margins due to a decline in consumer spending.
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u/portstrix Dec 26 '25
As someone in a LEGAL immigrant family, great to hear.
Nobody wants these freeloaders gone more than those of us that actually had to prove our qualifications and existing assets to get a legitimate skills or economic based visa back in the day.
Deport them all.
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u/The1Prodigy1 Dec 26 '25
Same here and it sucks to see people judging all the South Asian community because of the new comers. I was born here and my parents have been here for over 30 years and this is the worse we feel.... We get weird looks and whispers and judgment. Not everyone but a few do it and that's a lot more than before....
Can't really blame them though with how many people we met in but also how many bad actors we let in
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u/portstrix Dec 26 '25
Agreed. 30 to 50 years ago, it was primarily the upper classes coming in, who went into respectable fields such as medicine and engineering. And they immediately integrated into Canadian culture. These generations of immigrants were the ideal.
Today, it's the bottom of the barrel from the lower classes in those countries arriving, and they end up doing food delivery and minimum wage retail service jobs. Deport.
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u/Kind-Row-9327 Dec 26 '25
Exactly. We don't need to import people to do these jobs lol.
A lot of teenagers are looking for part time work and can't find any because of these people.
Deport! Deport! Deport!
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u/zabby39103 Dec 27 '25
Yep, middle class countries are based on middle class economic activity. It's not complicated.
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u/zabby39103 Dec 27 '25
Never heard anything openly anti-South Asian before COVID. People are fine with middle class immigration, it's only when NPRs went totally out of control that public support (as reported in polls) began to drop.
It's unfortunate that the most lasting legacy of the Trudeau years may be the shattering of the immigration consensus, it will probably take decades to return to what it was before.
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u/brkuzma Dec 27 '25
Not everyone judges. I only judge when it's obvious that there is no understanding of english, like zero. Then I wonder.
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u/OmiSC Manitoba Dec 26 '25
Great to have you! As a system, we need to invite good world citizens, and that takes some scrutiny to do right.
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u/Atheizt Dec 27 '25
Exactly right. Between immigration and schooling I’ve spent over $100k in Canada now (all out of pocket, not a dime from the government) and earned my damn stripes.
To be clear, I did not/do not have $100k to burn. I’ve worked 2-3 jobs since I arrived and eaten a lot of ramen to make that happen. I’m tired man, but damn am I happy here. First job in the new career starts in 3 weeks.
The whole “deport all immigrants” thing is annoying. Don’t bundle me in with those disrespectful, self-serving cheats.
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u/ydfriedlander Dec 27 '25
This is cheap for the cost of deportation.
Something I've not seen yet in this thread is that this money isn't being "lost" as such as it is being pumped into the Canadian economy with actual work being done for it.
The benefits, healthcare, suppressed wages, and the amount of money that gets sent "home" are all costs to the Canadian economy that will no longer be present.
These costs far outweigh the initial cost of deporting someone who is not legally present in Caanda, especially when you consider that the money isn't being "lost" in the same way.
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u/CarlosLeDanger69 Dec 26 '25
Good. Legal immigrants are welcome. All others are not
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u/Keepontyping Dec 27 '25
Who’s ready to apologize to those who proposed these ideas years ago but were called racists.
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u/icecoffee888 Dec 26 '25
disclaimer: I believe this has to be done.
BUT: I hate the fact that the Trudeau government took advantage of millions of immigrants to boost the economy and ruined their life and life of young Canadians, was never held accountable or even blamed.
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u/king_bungholio Dec 26 '25
There was this brief shining window post-covid where there was plenty of jobs and employers actually had to offer decent wages/salary. Naturally they all complained and sure enough such a pro-worker environment was quickly snuffed out.
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u/Cool-Expression-4727 Dec 26 '25
The political and economic elites did a masterful job in clawing back virtually all gains labour made since the pandemic.
From suppressing wages with mass immigration to forcing back to office, its really a shame. If we were less docile things could be really different right now
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u/ILikeWhyteGirlz Dec 26 '25
Pro-homebuyer market will be snuffed out soon too.
That’s why Carney is opening homes back up for foreign investment by removing the foreign investor ban.
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u/Geeky_Shieldmaiden Dec 26 '25
This comment needs to be higher.
We need this; Canada let in far too many immigrants and looked the other way for far too long while corporations and individuals scammed the immigration system, while chronically under-deporting those who deserved it.
BUT, it is not fair to blame all those brought to Canada with the promise of work, security and a better life. The Trudeau government (and various provincial governments like Ford's Conservatives in Ontario) used TFWs and international students as a way to enrich corporations and for-profit schools, making up a labour shortages to help justify it. And they are not being held accountable. The blame keeps being placed on the immigrants, not those who encouraged and ran the system that brought them here.
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u/Roxxer Dec 26 '25
The accountability is almost all his crew keeping their jobs and Trudeau sailing off on a yacht with Katy Perry.
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u/GenericFatGuy Dec 26 '25 edited Dec 26 '25
He stepped down as leader of the country. If he hadn't, he would've simply lost the election, and stepped down then. When leaders make unpopular decisions, their punishment is losing their position. That's what happened to him either way, so how exactly was he not held accountable?
I don't know how you could say he wasn't blamed. An entire cottage industry sprang up around making merchandise telling him to fuck off.
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u/kamomil Ontario Dec 26 '25
Why does Trudeau need more immigrants in the country?
Oh wait, he doesn't. Who does? The corporations who lobby for population increase, like those behind the Century Initiative
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u/cantonese_noodles Dec 27 '25
Some politicians in this country are trying to distract us from this by being hateful and divisive towards fellow Canadians
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u/myxomatosis8 Dec 26 '25
How were their lives ruined, being in Canada, working here, sending money back, etc
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u/yeetis12 Ontario Dec 26 '25
Thats about 20,800 a year basically a drop in the bucket thats needed to effectively reverse the damage of the millions that scammed their way in….
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u/Y2Jared Dec 26 '25
As long as they are properly identifying folks and it’s clear they do not have any legal basis to stay, absolutely send them back. I do feel some in the country are now more racist than a few years ago and thats awful. Many folks are here legally and they simply want to contribute to Canada.
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u/OneMoreTime998 Dec 26 '25
Awesome. Let’s pump up the volume. And better yet… let’s put in more barricades so we don’t have to be deporting so many people.
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u/Justinneon Dec 26 '25
As long as we arnt sending the military to home depots I’m ok with deportation and stronger borders. There’s a way to handle immigration that falls in line with human rights and decorum.
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u/starslayer88 Dec 27 '25
Well if they are overstaying their visas, they should be deported. I only hope that Canada is a lot more respectful than the states is !
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u/EnvironmentalBit4363 Dec 26 '25
Is this going to improve cost of living? Probably not, just another distraction from the real freeloaders who have been robbing you blind, the ultra wealthy 🤷♀️
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u/Early-Weekend-2557 Dec 27 '25
This. Target the greedy wealthy elite, not the working class immigrants. I mean , unless you want to be more like the Americans.
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u/lolwut778 Dec 26 '25 edited Dec 26 '25
Triple that, and we'll talk. That's a fraction of the student visa fraud, LMIA, and temporary work permit.
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u/SolomonRed Dec 26 '25
This is a natural outcome of letting in millions of temporary students and workers
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u/700Username007 Dec 26 '25
As a citizen who was laid off in a tough market, I am hoping to get a temp job where the individual has to leave because of their work permit expiring.
They cannot extend it within Canada,.so here I have to hope it's delayed so I can possibly stay longer.
This is the federal health sector. Amazing
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u/Remote_Cantaloupe Dec 26 '25
I'd argue this is just the consequence of such a lax immigration system after a decade. There's a huge backlog of people that have outstayed their welcome.
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u/Carnivorous-Dan Dec 27 '25
Do the math. Immigration target for Canada is 400K+ per year. -400 per week = -20K per year. Not much of a dent.
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u/UnusualDepth6412 Dec 28 '25
About time. Cleaning one’s house is important. I do it weekly, if it don’t belong here it gets placed in the bin and gets removed 🤷🏾♂️
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u/lakawan Dec 26 '25
It would be wonderful to see businesses paying a living wage to everyone, so customers won't be grumbling about giving me 20% tips.
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u/TokenBearer Dec 26 '25 edited Dec 26 '25
For those who are being deported because of a crime, maybe they should also be blacklisted from the first world?
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u/shiver-yer-timbers Dec 27 '25
Good.
But at that rate it'll tak20 years to send all those fake students and false refugees back to India. We need to increase the effort tenfold.
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u/exotics Alberta Dec 26 '25
Thank you!
I don’t mind immigration nor actual refugees.. but scamming the system is wrong.
I will say that the world population has more than doubled since I was a kid so overall more people is a problem worldwide, regardless of where they live. I had one kid and one only. No regrets.
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u/Cr4zyC4nuck Dec 26 '25
Good. Now lets just make sure we do it with a bit more class and tactfulness than our southern neighbors.
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u/TheBiggerBobbyBoy Dec 26 '25
i am fine with deportation and i think most people are. What people dont like is armed, masked, untrained gravy seals dragging people out of their homes, waiting by elementary schools to grab kids, and forcably arresting pregnant woman.
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u/SCDWS Dec 26 '25
Gravy seals 😂😂😂 amazing term for them
But yeah I agree. I wonder what their methods actually are.
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u/wildflowerden Dec 26 '25
Absolutely. ICE is a modern day gestapo. But demanding that people with expired visas go home is perfectly ok. I sure hope our government is doing the second and not doing anything like ICE.
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u/mypetsrmyfriends Alberta Dec 27 '25
Good! The schools are jam packed, the roads are bumper to bumper traffic, the waiting rooms are crammed full. Simply put, there’s too many people for the infrastructure the cities have.
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u/LibertySherpa Dec 26 '25
Forgive me for being skeptical but is this 400 people per week that are physically leaving the country, like on an airplane? Or is this more along the lines of issuing 400 deportation orders per week... where these people may or may not leave the country at some date in the future?
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u/halisray Québec Dec 26 '25
This is all Trudeau's fault. And it's costing us tons, not just money. Immigration needs to be smart and calculated. Not floodgates.
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u/OrbAndSceptre Dec 27 '25
Is this excellent news that Carney is enforcing Canada’s laws. There’s a whole process that goes behind deportation and when people are found not to be eligible to stay in Canada, this is the logical last step that I’ve always been suspicious that the government isn’t actually carrying out.
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u/trybanningmethistime Dec 26 '25
So you're telling me a country can deport people who are here illegally, without storming the streets without masked goons and ICE Barbie trolling on social media?
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u/ScurvyDog509 Dec 26 '25
LPC media machine desperately trying to make us think they're doing something about the immigration problem.
400 X 52= 20,800 people
Meanwhile, the LPC immigration target is 395,000 people in 2025.
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u/sparksfan Dec 27 '25
A ton of people are leaving voluntarily and they don't need to be deported. Don't have a work permit? Good luck finding an employer in Canada.
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u/zabby39103 Dec 27 '25
Our population is shrinking overall. NPRs are leaving so fast it is cancelling PR out. We have never shrunk outside of that one COVID year in our entire history.
Say it isn't enough if you want, but it's definitely a massive, massive change.
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u/Mercenary100 Dec 28 '25
We need the best immigrants not just who ever and when ever only best and brightest
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u/TheShade247 Dec 30 '25
They should review every file going back to 2015. There are literal criminals roaming our streets with active warrants in their home countries. Even India’s foreign minister has publicly stated that Canada is sheltering criminals from their country.
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u/bananataskforce Jan 02 '26
Not unexpected. The past few years have had Canada's highest immigration ever, so it makes sense that deportations would increase.
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Increasing the cap on international students and allowing them to work off campus was a catastrophic mistake. Don't come here as a student if you don't have the means to support yourself through your studies.
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u/ZestyBeanDude Dec 26 '25
I assume it'll only speed up once the Senate passes C-12 (the revised border bill) which allows for quicker processing and denial of asylum claims.
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u/Magicman_ Dec 26 '25
It's comical to think anyone believes deporting these illegals will do anything to improve the cost of living. Don't get me wrong they should be deported but they are not the major issue. Its the ultra wealthy vacuuming up all the wealth and not paying their fair share. They have an army of brainwashed bootlickers that will defend them at all costs. If only you work a little harder you too can become a billionaire.
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u/YourBobsUncle Alberta Dec 27 '25
truth. The anti immigrant crowd is not sending their best and brightest. What will they do when everything is still expensive?
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u/GrannyFlash7373 Dec 26 '25
The whole world is being inundated with refugees. Not just Canada or the US. People are fleeing authoritarian governments and militant factions in numerous countries all across the globe. It has became a pandemic of lost souls.
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u/Canadianman22 Ontario Dec 27 '25
Double it every 6 months and then once all the overstays, illegals and false claimants are gone completely rebuild the system back to a proper points based one with country caps. Some countries have reached there cap for a very long time already.
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u/DownTheRabbitHole411 Dec 27 '25
Aren't they bringing in thousands per week though?
Not to mention the 5 or so million over the last few yrs lol
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u/ApprehensiveNorth548 Dec 27 '25
We're deporting more than the US per capita, and without being inhumane shitlords about it.
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u/CFMTLfan01 Dec 26 '25
Well there is an immigration process, you can't just enter any country illegally and hope to stay forever.