Border: Border Agency and Immigration Detention

border: According to a request for proposal obtained by the Star, the border agency is seeking a contractor who can provide and maintain the electronic system, including voice reporting with location based service and electronic monitory, according to Toronto Star. The border agency has been under tremendous pressure for its widespread use of lengthy immigration detention sometimes in maximum-security provincial prisons where convicted criminals are held for migrants whose identity is in doubt, who are deemed to be a danger to the public or who may not show up for deportation, even in some cases when they are not considered dangers to the public. Expanded electronic supervision tools such as the use of GPS electronic monitoring will be piloted in the Greater Toronto Area, said the Canada Border Services Agency, and could come as early as April. The CBSA's ability to monitor, track and locate individuals is critical to the success of the immigration enforcement program, the agency said in its tender issued Wednesday. In the latest incident in October, Teresa Michelle Gratton, a 50-year-old American citizen awaiting removal, died after she was found in medical distress inside a Milton jail. Article Continued Below Canada's immigration detention system has been under intense public scrutiny since 2016 after a series of deaths of detainees in immigration custody. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.