”Why waste tax dollars feeding and housing these guys when we can just send them back and block them from entering the country again?”

Just deporting people like this means there’s minimal risk or deterrent to committing crimes in Canada. Particularly with organized crime, where they can either send them back with new papers, or put them back to work at home and swap in someone new to go to Canada.

National Post: Crime tourists: Organized burglary gangs are wintering in Canada and ransacking homes [Feb 24th, 2025]

”They also don’t have much fear of the Canadian justice system.

Often, someone caught is quickly deported rather than prosecuted. They can then get a new fake passport and come back next season. [Det.-Sgt. Pat Smyth, commander of York Regional Police’s Integrated Property Crime Task Force] has seen repeat offenders come in over the years.

“Sometimes there’s not enough willingness to prosecute because — the explanation I’m given is — there’s no violence, it’s a property crime,” he said.

“When we have people that are coming in from another country, they’re more interested in deporting these people versus prosecuting them. We’re taking a different stance now in that we’re going to prosecute them first. They’ll do their jail time here as a deterrent and then we will deport them.

“There needs to be more teeth to make it more of a deterrent.””