Safe Third Country Agreement that generally requires asylum seekers to make a refugee claim in whichever country they get to first. The backlog of asylum seekers numbered about 75,000 at the time and will likely continue to grow. However, Canada has still deported only a small minority of the tens of thousands of irregular asylum seekers who’ve entered the country in the last two years. According to figures the CBSA provided to the Post, the agency removed just 723 irregular migrants with failed refugee claims between April 1, 2017 and June 21, 2019. This is largely because asylum seekers must exhaust all legal avenues of appeal before they can be removed, which takes time.

Source: National Post July 07, 2019 21:08 UTC