Opinion: British Columbia recently agreed to review its agreement with CBSA that authorizes locking up immigration detainees in B.C. jails
Now, B.C. has the chance to stop the incarceration of immigration detainees in the province’s jails — a move that will put a dent in the racist and punitive foundation of the immigration detention system.
The horrific practice of jailing immigration detainees in provincial facilities seems to be getting worse. From April 2017 until the onset of the pandemic, CBSA jailed about 5,400 immigration detainees across the country. In the year after the onset of the pandemic, despite releasing immigration detainees at unprecedented rates for public health reasons, CBSA has relied more heavily on provincial jails for those who remained behind bars.
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