HUNTER: CBSA officials blame Trudeau, Refugee Council for situation.
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"The last few years have been very frustrating. 'The Liberals are in retreat, but the damage is done.'"
Canada Border Services Agency officer Constance Karpeil examines a package.
Criminals, fraudsters, potential terrorists, extremists and other unsavory characters have flooded Canadian shores in a tsunami of madness over the past decade.
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Earlier this week, I criticized the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) for a situation that has become nothing short of a full-blown crisis. But CBSA frontline workers were quick to respond. "Don't blame us," a number of them wrote to me.
Blame Justin Trudeau's Liberal government and the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) full of "radical left-wing ideologues." Officials say they are essentially handcuffed and unable to make decisions that keep Canadians safe.
"Do you want to know why and how all this trash is getting into the country?" Don't blame us officers. "Blame this open borders government for tying our hands by giving us the choice of who to stop and why," wrote one CBSA employee.
"The fault lies in the fact that all these criminals are in the country with false asylum claims." After they say the magic word "refugees," they are released.
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"Blame the IRB and ultimately blame the spineless management of the CBSA who are more concerned with what the Star (Toronto) and the Refugee Office will say if they arrest these "poor fringes."
Another border guard said the officers are doing their job. They deny entry to criminals and other suspects whose stories don't match up.
"But they say 'refugees' and that's a get-out-of-jail-free card," said the unidentified guard. "We detain these individuals and the liberal members of the CISR release them all within 48 hours and then do the first detention review."
Higher up the food chain, the agency is pressuring officers to "release everyone." The outlook looks bleaker when the CBSA will no longer be able to detain foreign criminals in provincial jails after September 2025.
The official said frontline workers are "forced to consider all alternatives to detention. If (Osama) bin Laden were arrested and had family in Canada, he would be released on parole for his family."
"To see the CBSA as the friend you don't want is unfair to all of us frontline officers who work hard every day to stop and arrest people, but once they leave the port of entry, they're released into the street," he said, adding that "an asylum seeker charged with a criminal offense will be released two to three years earlier."
"From automatic visa approval to the release of everyone, it's all thanks to the Liberals." Frontline officers work hard, but unlike criminals, our hands are tied, while criminals are not and are free to roam."
Another officer said the trio of Chileans recently arrested for a string of robberies in Ontario entered the country using someone else's passport. The machines used by the CBSA today let them in.
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"That's why we have a million Indian students - 90% of them would never have been approved if they were screened by a visa officer."
Even when officers suspected that a visitor visa holder had no intention of leaving, rejection was not an option.
"If they didn't admit to criminal acts, they weren't affected, everyone was included." "We were accepting 100 asylum seekers a day and 90% of them came on student visas with no intention of studying and many didn't speak a word of English," the officer said. "The last few years have been very frustrating. The Liberals are on the back foot, but the damage has been done. It will take years for Canada to catch and deport these people."
In a statement to the Toronto Sun, the CBSA said: "Border security and integrity is a shared mandate between the CBSA and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Canada. The CBSA is responsible for law enforcement at designated ports of entry into Canada and the RCMP is responsible for enforcing Canadian law between ports of entry."
"When individuals transiting Canada between ports of entry are intercepted by the RCMP or local police, they are sent to a designated port of entry for screening. Once at the port of entry, if the person requests asylum, the CBSA will determine whether or not the request is admissible under the ETPS, the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. »
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