Advocates, politicos urge feds to lead on ending ‘appalling practice’ of immigrant detention in provincial jails

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RCMP officers direct asylum seekers from an irregular border crossing at Roxham Road in Quebec in August 2017. In 2019-20, the Canada Border Services Agency detained 8,825 people, including 1,932 in provincial jails, according to a report by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, who launched a campaign urging provinces and the federal government to end the practice.Wikimedia Commons photograph courtesy of Daniel Case

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BY STUART BENSON

August 23, 2022

Human rights advocates are hopeful last month's announcement that British Columbia is ending its contract with the Canada Border Services Agency to detain immigrants and asylum seekers in provincial jails will spur other provinces to follow suit. However, they are stil...

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