https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ice-canada-offices-9.7073273
Alberta MP calls on Canada to shut down U.S. immigration and customs operations north of border
As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to draw widespread criticism for its deportation crackdown in the States, there’s concern brewing about the agency’s presence north of the border.
The U.S. government’s website lists ICE offices in five Canadian cities: Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Ottawa.
In an emailed statement to CBC News, an ICE spokesperson confirmed its criminal investigative law enforcement component — Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) — conducts work at the U.S. embassy in the country’s capital, and at consulates in the other four cities.
HSI personnel are separate from the ICE arm at the forefront of the immigration crackdowns making headlines in cities like Minneapolis, known as Enforcement and Removal Operations.
According to the government website, HSI has over 93 offices in more than 50 countries, with a mandate to identify and stop crime “before it reaches the United States.”
Why were they ever allowed here?
To spread out after manufacturing consent for the Alberta independent movement. ICE agents videos may be coming to the oil province.
Alberta is where the resistance is coming from. There are more offices in Ontario than Alberta.
It’s an interesting take, to be sure, obviously it remains to be seen. I just would expect the deployment strategy to somehow favour AB if that was the goal.
I mean sure but there’s only an extra office in Ontario because the national capital is in Ontario. If Ottawa wasn’t the capital, I bet there wouldn’t be an office there.