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    Oops.   In Canada they detain children who are citizens when their parent was detained.  

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/hundreds-of-canadian-children-held-in-immigration-detention-report-shows/article34117189/

JOE FRIESENDEMOGRAPHICS REPORTER
PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 23, 2017UPDATED MAY 17, 2018

More than 200 Canadian children have been held in immigration detention in recent years, according to a new report from the University of Toronto's International Human Rights Program.

Between 2011 and 2015, 241 Canadian children were held at the Toronto Immigration Holding Centre alone, according to the report. Normally Canadian citizens cannot be subject to detention under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. These children became de facto detainees because they were in the care of a parent who was detained and is a foreign national or permanent resident. The children cannot, however, have their own detention review hearings. As a result they become "legally invisible," according to the report.

"It's a clear violation of international law for these kids not to have their best interests taken into account as a primary consideration," said Hanna Gros, the report's author and a senior fellow at the University of Toronto. "It's quite shocking that Canadian citizens are treated this way."

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25 minutes ago, Highmark said:

    Oops.   In Canada they detain children who are citizens when their parent was detained.  

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/hundreds-of-canadian-children-held-in-immigration-detention-report-shows/article34117189/

JOE FRIESENDEMOGRAPHICS REPORTER
PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 23, 2017UPDATED MAY 17, 2018

More than 200 Canadian children have been held in immigration detention in recent years, according to a new report from the University of Toronto's International Human Rights Program.

Between 2011 and 2015, 241 Canadian children were held at the Toronto Immigration Holding Centre alone, according to the report. Normally Canadian citizens cannot be subject to detention under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. These children became de facto detainees because they were in the care of a parent who was detained and is a foreign national or permanent resident. The children cannot, however, have their own detention review hearings. As a result they become "legally invisible," according to the report.

"It's a clear violation of international law for these kids not to have their best interests taken into account as a primary consideration," said Hanna Gros, the report's author and a senior fellow at the University of Toronto. "It's quite shocking that Canadian citizens are treated this way."

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13 minutes ago, ICEMAN! said:

Cool

At least we aren’t doing what you guys are doing.

Worse.   These kids are already Canadian citizens. 

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Just now, motonoggin said:

Canada has its own sordid history of separating the families of indigenous people. 

It was pretty horrific what they did.

 

Yea the history of the indigenous schools is pretty heinous.

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Just now, motonoggin said:

It is. Fascism comes in many forms, that is a shining example of one. 

IF THEY HAD JUST INTEGRATED INTO OUR CHRISTIAN SOCIETY WE WOULDNT HAVE HAD TO DO THAT TO THEM!!!1!1!21!!1

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34 minutes ago, ICEMAN! said:

But they get to stay with their parents

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 Canadian children were held at the Toronto Immigration Holding Centre alone

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12 minutes ago, Highmark said:

 Canadian children were held at the Toronto Immigration Holding Centre alone

Perhaps, but we clearly don’t have a zero tolerance policy towards separating families.  That’s you guys thanks to Trump.

Own it

 

Others are Canadian citizens who are forced to choose between separating from parents who have been detained by immigration authorities or living in detention with their parents as de facto detainees. Those who stay with their parents still face family separation, in that they are held with their mother and have limited visits during the day with their father.

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1 hour ago, motonoggin said:

Canada has its own sordid history of separating the families of indigenous people. 

It was pretty horrific what they did.

 

If you use the edited version of events it look bad yeah 

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Just now, ArcticCrusher said:

They're obviously much better off today. 

:lol: 

they don’t want to talk about why those kids were put in residential schools. They were feral, illiterate, diseased and covered in lice. 

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4 minutes ago, Rod Johnson said:

:lol: 

they don’t want to talk about why those kids were put in residential schools. They were feral, illiterate, diseased and covered in lice. 

Just like today then.

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