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RSS FeedsAudit of immigration detention review system reveals culture that favours incarceration
(The Star Television)

 
 

21 july 2018 05:48:50

 
Audit of immigration detention review system reveals culture that favours incarceration
(The Star Television)
 


The first-ever audit into the way Canada reviews immigration detention cases reveals a system that unfairly keeps people behind bars for months on end due to ill-informed adjudicators and a culture that favours incarceration.The damning findings, including decision-making based on inaccurate information, unchallenged faith in border enforcement officials and inadequate legal representation for detainees, have shocked even the most seasoned critics and rights advocates.“Non-citizens have a right to liberty and to be protected from cruel and unusual treatment, but as this report shows, this right is routinely flouted under immigration legislation,” said Janet Dench of the Canadian Council for Refugees.Last year, 3,557 people were held in immigration detention in Canada; in 80 cases people were held for more than a year behind bars. A Star investigation last year found an immigration detention system that indefinitely warehouses non-citizens, away from public scrutiny and in conditions intended for a criminal population, with hundreds of unwanted immigrants left to languish behind bars. Ebrahim Toure, 46, a failed refugee claimant who has been detained for five years pending deportation to Gambia, is currently the longest serving immigration detainee. The audit into the fairness of long-term detention reviews at the Immigration and Refugee Board found that last year, 13 per cent of all detainees were held because they were deemed a danger to the public, while 77 per cent were detained because officials feared they were a flight risk. The rest were detained because of an inability to confirm their identity.Read more:Caged by Canada | Part 1: Four years lostCaged by Canada | Part 2: Canada’s longest caseCaged by Canada | Part 3: The damning data“In many of the decisions reviewed, the assumption seemed to be that any risk was enough risk. As long as there was a chance that the person might not appear, that justified detention. As long as there ...


 
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