«The government must immediately clarify its policy position in relation to the detention of
immigration detainees who are seriously ill and refuse food and fluids.»
Not exact matches
Over 50
immigration detainees — people
who have committed no crime and had no trial — are held in the prison rather than in
immigration detention centres.
She cited a 2012 analysis by the Executive Office for
Immigration Review that found
detainees who received legal orientations completed their court proceedings 12 days faster and spent six fewer days in detention than
detainees who did not participate.
And that's a situation that needs to be rectified, say
immigration lawyers
who represent long - term
detainees.
«I've been practising in this area for a long time,» says Jackman, but it wasn't until she assisted in Ogiamien v. Ontario, 2016 ONSC 3080 — a case involving two inmates, one of them an
immigration detainee since 2013,
who successfully argued that their Charter rights were violated by lockdowns at a Milton jail last year — that she realized «there's no structure to the detention system.
He presently is an Air Security Officer
who assists
Immigration and Customs Enforcement with custody and control of
detainees.