Submission statement: this is relevant to discussions about immigration. While crime has generally dropped in Canada over the past decade, crimes committed by Indian foreign nationals are sharply up, in large part due to the targeting of international student programs that had very weak vetting and were massively expanded during the course of Justin Trudeau’s premiership. This article details the strategies and tactics used by one of the most notorious gangs to exploit the vulnerabilities of these programs to expand their criminal enterprise within Canada and the United States.
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To put some of these numbers into perspective,
>Amid a surge of international students that reached more than 800,000 in 2022
>Between 2019 and 2023, 4,000 Indian citizens who entered Canada on study permits were charged with 17,929 offences.
Perspective for American readers,
The number of international students Canada had at this time – 1 million – is also the number of international students the US usually takes in one year. 1 million is also roughly how many immigrants the US accepted in the last year before Trump 1. Worth remembering the US has roughly 10x Canada’s population.
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Submission statement: this is relevant to discussions about immigration. While crime has generally dropped in Canada over the past decade, crimes committed by Indian foreign nationals are sharply up, in large part due to the targeting of international student programs that had very weak vetting and were massively expanded during the course of Justin Trudeau’s premiership. This article details the strategies and tactics used by one of the most notorious gangs to exploit the vulnerabilities of these programs to expand their criminal enterprise within Canada and the United States.
To put some of these numbers into perspective,
>Amid a surge of international students that reached more than 800,000 in 2022
As international students generally stay for a few years. In 2022-2023, Canada had [roughly a million international students, meaning about 1 in 40 people in Canada was an international student](https://monitor.icef.com/2024/01/canada-hosted-more-than-1-million-international-students-in-2023/).
Roughly 51% of those international students [were Indian](https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/transparency/committees/cimm-oct-24-2023/international-student-population.html).
>Between 2019 and 2023, 4,000 Indian citizens who entered Canada on study permits were charged with 17,929 offences.
Perspective for American readers,
The number of international students Canada had at this time – 1 million – is also the number of international students the US usually takes in one year. 1 million is also roughly how many immigrants the US accepted in the last year before Trump 1. Worth remembering the US has roughly 10x Canada’s population.