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Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. Those are the only two.

February 25th, 2008Committee meeting

Robert MacDougall

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, as far as the categories of removals as we document them.

February 25th, 2008Committee meeting

Robert MacDougall

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They'd fall into the “other” category, I guess. I know that certainly on the statistics I have, the percentages come up to, say, 90%, but obviously the 10% are the others that fall into the undocumented foreign workers who overstay their visas and that sort of thing.

February 25th, 2008Committee meeting

Robert MacDougall

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can get that for you, although I would say right off the top that the categories will probably be split between criminals and failed refugee claimants, because the system doesn't capture them as specific to categories like undocumented workers, for example. They themselves migh

February 25th, 2008Committee meeting

Robert MacDougall

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, we don't have that.

February 25th, 2008Committee meeting

Robert MacDougall

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Unless they mentioned they wanted to apply for refugee status or other measures kicked in.

February 25th, 2008Committee meeting

Robert MacDougall

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My expert in the area who's been out there doing that job has advised me they're entitled to due process, so we'd have to respect that due process.

February 25th, 2008Committee meeting

Robert MacDougall

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's very hard without knowing all the details and what the actual person said when they arrived, but they would be turned around.

February 25th, 2008Committee meeting

Robert MacDougall

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right, so whatever they present to us we have to follow.

February 25th, 2008Committee meeting

Robert MacDougall

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Apparently refugee claimants coming into the country quite often arrive on fraudulent documents, and we have to follow the process that applies for refugee claimants. They're quite often using fraudulent documents in order to get here.

February 25th, 2008Committee meeting

Robert MacDougall

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly whenever a person is identified for removal they are called in for an interview. During the interview that would all be discussed. The timing and arrangements would be made with the officer at that time.

February 25th, 2008Committee meeting

Robert MacDougall

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I actually have that number for you. The last fiscal year we spent $23,433,000 on the removals program. Just to be clear, we have four lines of business in our internal inland enforcement area--

February 25th, 2008Committee meeting

Robert MacDougall

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's on the removals program specifically.

February 25th, 2008Committee meeting

Robert MacDougall

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not sure exactly. I'd have to get the exact figure for you.

February 25th, 2008Committee meeting

Robert MacDougall

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To your first question on the process, I think it was mentioned a bit earlier that all of the applicants have due process rights, of course. What we tend to see is the removals end of the process. It may take three or four years to actually come into place, because by the time a

February 25th, 2008Committee meeting

Robert MacDougall