‘Should be mass deported as…’: Indian students blamed for Canada housing crisis and ‘immigration scam’

Indian students are causing a housing crisis in Canada and are ‘scamming the immigration system’, a Reddit user said and further opined that the majority of them should be mass deported, as 99 per cent don’t qualify for the skills Canada needs.

Indian protesters should be thanked for putting the ‘immigration system scam’ on the radar, the Reddit user said, adding that ‘before this, no one was aware of the impacts of immigration on housing or about the Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) scams’. These issues can be fixed now, the user noted.

“Let’s stop calling these people students. They aren’t students. They’re people who gamed the system. When you come to Canada, as someone noted, you must declare you will leave when your studies are completed.”

“Your study permit becomes invalid 90 days after you complete your studies (even before your study permit expiry date) or on the expiry date of your study permit. If you plan to stay in Canada after your studies, be sure to maintain valid status in Canada,” the Reddit user stated.

“We do not owe any of these people PR (permanent residency), if they don’t qualify, we do not owe them healthcare or subsidies and we definitely don’t owe them citizenship.”

The user further pointed out that if such individuals do not leave after completing academic courses and instead demand PR, then they are not students but people cheating the system.

“They need to be rounded and deported. That should be the only response to foreigners conducting themselves like that in our country. They are guests, they are not permanent residents or citizens,” the person opined.

The user also mentions ‘scamlords’ - the ones that rent eight people to a bedroom, “as we see in Brampton and other Indian majority communities”.

“I’m sure it’s happening with other communities but it’s becoming increasingly predominant in Indian communities. We need to end that today. The household they found with 20 international students in the basement should’ve been fined 400k-$1M. We need to take away the carrot and bring out the stick for those domestically causing issues," the user added. 

It may be noted that Indian students in Canada's Prince Edward Island recently protested against immigration policy changes that could lead to their deportation. The protesting students had previously been on a hunger strike from May 24 but paused it on June 1.