Hundreds Deported by CBSA While Millions Still Enter Canada
CBSA Deportations of Criminals Rise as Canada Still Brings in Millions With No Exit Enforcement.
Canada’s border agency just keeps shipping out foreign criminals by the hundreds, and somehow this is treated like business as usual. In 2025 alone, the CBSA removed over 23,000 inadmissible people. Roughly a thousand of those fell under serious criminality grounds, covering organized crime, actual criminal convictions, national security risks, and the like. More recently, they booted over a hundred tied to extortion networks, many linked to gangs preying on communities in B.C. and the GTA. There are still thousands more convicted criminals sitting in the removal queue, and nearly 600 with criminal records have simply vanished while waiting to be kicked out. Some of those have been on the run for years after convictions for sex offences, assaults, and worse.
The real question is not how efficiently CBSA can process the deportations. It is how these people ended up here in the first place. Plenty arrived on study permits, temporary resident visas, or as refugee claimants. Screening looks paper-thin. Self-declared information, basic checks that miss overseas histories, and a system that prioritizes volume over scrutiny. Organized crime groups have figured this out. They recruit foot soldiers who fly in, blend in, and start operating. Extortion, guns, drugs. Then, only after the damage is done, does the deportation machine slowly grind into gear. Some serve time first. Others abscond. Taxpayers foot the bill for the policing, the courts, the jails, and the eventual removals.
This is not compassion. It is negligence dressed up as openness. Canada has ramped immigration to historic levels while enforcement lagged far behind. The result is a backlog that once hit hundreds of thousands of removal cases, including thousands of convicted criminals. Politicians talk about “managing” the system and meeting removal targets of 20,000 a year. Fine. But the smarter move is stopping the inflow of high-risk people before they become problems. Stricter upfront vetting. Real consequences for countries that refuse to take their citizens back. Fewer temporary pathways that turn into long-term stays with zero integration or accountability.
Why keep importing risk just to feed the demand for cheap labor when housing, healthcare, and public safety are already strained? Employers get low-wage workers, politicians get growth numbers, and regular Canadians get the crime, the overcrowding, and the bill. Every foreign national who commits serious crime here represents a failure at the front door. Deporting them after the fact is damage control, not success. The government should slam the brakes on policies that keep the pipeline open for both the criminals and the cheap labor supply. Prioritize people who will contribute without preying on the communities that let them in. Canadians did not ask for imported gang violence or sex offenders who slip through the cracks, nor did they ask for a system that undercuts wages to prop up certain industries. They asked for a system that protects the people already here. How long will deportation numbers and costs keep climbing before Ottawa stops treating public safety as an afterthought and makes it the baseline?
