Immigration Detainee: Immigration and Detainee

immigration detainee: Immigration detainee held in Ontario jail treated like an animal Ralph Goodale concerned about 2 immigration detainee deaths in Ontario We can and must do better, public safety minister says of immigration detainee health Among them was immigration lawyer Karin Baqi who noted that indefinite detention and the reality of deaths inside immigration facilities continue to be issues that many Canadians are simply not aware of, according to CBC. When it comes to immigration detention, Canada has failed to live up to even the most minimal of basic human rights and has faced enormous criticism for it, Baqi said in a statement. More than 150 people including former detainees and family members of some of those currently inside gathered outside the medium-security facility in Rexdale on International Human Rights Day calling for a no more than 90-day limit to detentions as a first step to ending them completely and to show their solidarity with some 138 detainees inside its walls, according to End Immigration Detention Network numbers. We wish there was cause for celebration this Human Rights Day, but instead Canada is in gross violation. Earlier this year Melkioro Gahungu, 64 and Francisco Astorga, 39, died in CBSA care in the span of just one week. Three detainee deaths this year alone A total of 15 detainees have died in the custody of the Canada Border Services Agency since 2000. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.