Deportations in Canada Spike During Pandemic Under Left-Wing Trudeau
23 Jan 2021
Canada’s government deported thousands of people in 2020 during the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic, prompting Canadian immigration lawyers to accuse the government of left-wing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week of needlessly “endangering” people during the global health crisis.
“Canada counted 12,122 people as removed in 2020 – 875 more than the previous year and the highest number since at least 2015,” Reuters reported on Friday after reviewing data from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).
The number of deportations increased in 2020 because the figure included people who chose to leave Canada on their own, termed “administrative removals,” according to the CBSA. The agency tallied 8,215 administrative removals in 2020, compared with 1,657 in 2019.