Controversy over the practice led seven provinces — including Saskatchewan — over the last year to cancel agreements allowing the CBSA to use their prisons to house migrants. skpoli cdnpoli
McCrorie said the agency still hasn’t figured out what its plans are. He didn’t exclude the possibility it would have to build more immigrant holding centres. It currently has three across the country.
In recent years, Canada’s immigration detention system has come under intense scrutiny from human rights groups who accuse CBSA of locking some immigrants, including children, up for months on end in “abusive” prison conditions with no set date for release. He noted that detention is reserved for only the most “high-risk” cases, most of whom have either been convicted of crimes or are suspected of serious criminality in Canada or abroad. CBSA will also incarcerate individuals set to be deported if they are considered to be a flight risk.
The two organizations simultaneously launched a campaign calling on provinces to end their deals with CBSA to take in immigrant detainees in provincial prisons.
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