Almost 35,000 People Pegged for Removal from Canada Evade Border Agency

Almost 35,000 People Pegged for Removal from Canada Evade Border Agency
A family, claiming to be from Columbia, is arrested by RCMP officers as they cross the border into Canada from the United States as asylum seekers near Champlain, New York, on April 18, 2018. Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press
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OTTAWA—Canada’s border agency has failed to promptly remove most of the people under orders to leave the country, and in tens of thousands of cases it has simply lost track of them, the federal auditor general says.

In a report tabled Wednesday in Parliament, the auditor said the Canada Border Services Agency’s efforts were hampered by poor data quality and case-management flaws, resulting in avoidable delays in thousands of cases.