Immigration And Refugee: Refugee Service

Vancouver Sun Dept: The fact that she is pregnant, has three children under 15 and that she sustained significant injuries in the Sri Lankan civil war all factored into the Immigration and Refugee board's decision to release her, according to her lawyer, Douglas Cannon, according to Vancouver Sun. Twenty-five female Tamil migrants with children remain at the Burnaby youth detention centre -- a centre chosen so that mothers could remain with their children and a pregnant woman is the first of 492 Tamil migrants who arrived earlier this summer aboard a Thai cargo ship to be released from immigration detention. The woman, who cannot be named under a publication ban, was released around 6 p.m. Monday with her children into a residence provided through the support of a local refugee service organization. As reported in the news.
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