Immigration Department Told to Provide Updated Costs of Failed Asylum Claims

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

The federal parliamentary budget officer wants the Immigration Department to provide updated costs of failed asylum claims, which stood at up to $33,700 per person in 2018.

Budget Officer Yves Giroux wrote a letter to Immigration Minister Marc Miller on April 19, calling for his department to provide all documentation relating to the costs of the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB).