Human smuggler issued new Canadian passport after court ordered surrender of travel document
‘Weak link’ passport screening process operates separate from court, police databases, criminology prof says
Thesingarasan Rasiah was issued this passport in April 2023 shortly after two families and a boatman drowned in the St. Lawrence River in a failed human smuggling run allegedly linked to Rasiah’s organization.
The federal government issued a new passport to an admitted human smuggler after he was ordered to surrender the travel document as part of court-imposed release conditions*, CBC News has learned.*
The new passport was discovered in June 2023 by RCMP investigators executing a search warrant at the Montreal home of Thesingarasan Rasiah during a probe targeting an international human smuggling network that Rasiah allegedly headed, according to court records obtained by CBC News.
At the time, Rasiah was living at home with an electronic ankle bracelet on strict conditions while awaiting sentencing on a February 2023 guilty plea to one count of breaching the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act for his role in the smuggling of a Sri Lankan national from the U.S. into Canada in 2021.
Rasiah had been forced to surrender his passport to the RCMP in 2021 as part of his release conditions related to the human smuggling attempt that was intercepted by police in Cornwall, Ont., located about 120 kilometres west of Montreal along the Canada-U.S. border.
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Rasiah was charged on April 1, 2021, after he was caught in a Cornwall motel parking lot receiving a Sri Lankan national who had just been smuggled into Canada. He was sentenced to 15 months in jail in September 2023.
He was re-arrested this past May by the RCMP on charges he led an international human smuggling organization that moved hundreds of people north and south across the Canada-U.S. border. He remains in custody.
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“He was still operating [when re-arrested in 2023] even though he was on release for the same charges,” said Eamer, who retired in May and investigated Rasiah’s activities over three years.
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The current Canadian passport system is the “weak link in the security chain,” said Kelly Sundberg, associate professor of criminology at Mount Royal University in Calgary.
Sundberg says the screening process for passports operates in a silo separate from any databases the courts and police may share. Currently, it’s up to individual law enforcement agencies like the RCMP to contact Passport Canada to flag an individual.
“It’s very superficial security and very much based on an honour system,” he said.
Photo of Thesingarasan Rasiah after his April 2021 arrest for organizing the smuggling run of a Sri Lankan national into Canada from the U.S.
Sundberg says the screening process for passports operates in a silo separate from any databases the courts and police may share. Currently, it’s up to individual law enforcement agencies like the RCMP to contact Passport Canada to flag an individual.
Looks like Canada is suffering from systemic corruption that’s so moronic, one would imagine such blunder can only take place in shitholes…. So, Canada must a SHITHOLE?
What say you, Justin Trudeau?
And as such,
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