VANCOUVER — A civil liberties group says the British Columbia government’s decision to end immigration detention in provincial jails should not taken as an…
Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth announced last week that the province would be ending an agreement with the CBSA to hold immigration detainees in provincial correctional centres, saying the arrangement doesn’t align with its stance on human rights.
CBSA says in a statement that the use of provincial correctional facilities for immigration detention is a “measure of last resort” and that the number of people held in provincial facilities has been steadily decreasing, from 467 in 2017, to 15 as of this month. They launched a campaign calling on B.C. to end its contract last October, and later expanded their push to Quebec and Nova Scotia.
Samer Muscati, associate disability rights director at Human Rights Watch, called B.C.’s announcement a “clear victory for human rights.”Article content
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