Breaking: Thread. We finally started getting some data on the federal costs related to the illegal border crossing crisis. These figures don’t include all provincial costs, nor do they give us any info on projected numbers. Here’s figure #1 just for the IRCC department 
2) Nearly 700 more people have illegally crossed the border from safe places like upstate New York, and are headed into our asylum system just in the first two weeks of July alone. Trying to get a better breakdown of these RCMP figures
3) CBSA refuses to divulge their projections - we will be challenging this, as it affects budgetary plans. Also, people who have crossed illegally and claims asylum are now being used as “anchor relatives”, so the STCA doesn’t apply to them. No projections on this.
4) The CBSA figures presented do not include projected or real deportation costs.
5) The data we received today shows a cost of $270M for the illegal border crossing crisis, at the federal level, without total provincial costs, projections for future migration, deportations, etc.
I’m going to continue to review all this data tonight. Back to you in the morning.
All of these numbers were provided to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, who would now undertake an analysis of the data presented as well.
