Vancouver vote on holding immigration detainees
Vancouver vote on holding immigration detainees
By Fabian Dawson
Vancouver City Council will vote on a historic motion later this month calling on the British Columbia government to stop incarcerating immigration detainees in provincial jails.
“No other city in Canada has taken this step,” said a coalition of Human Rights organizations and advocates, which launched a 14-day campaign today, urging the Federal government to do the same.
The #WelcomeToCanada campaign organizers said that between April 2019 and March 2020, almost 9,000 people were in Canadian immigration detention, including 138 infants and children.
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