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Illegal immigrant avoids deportation after targeted retail thefts

Despite a 2022 removal order, Singh remains in Canada after turning to retail crime amid drug addiction.

Alex Dhaliwal
Jul 02, 2026
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An Ontario judge expressed no confidence that CBSA will deport a repeat LCBO thief, despite a standing removal order.

“Put bluntly,” Justice Michael K. Wendl wrote, “a deportation order has been in place for nearly four years… yet no action has been taken,” adding he has “no confidence” CBSA will deport Manjeet Singh.

CBSA detains and removes inadmissible non-citizens, though deportations can face delays and other obstacles.

Singh, 30, is in Canada without status after arriving in 2016 to study culinary arts and later developing a pandemic-era drug addiction that led to a criminal record. He has been under a removal order since Oct. 2022.

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