Canada Border Services Agency: Canada

Canada Border Services Agency Dept: The numbers, provided to the by the Canada Border Services Agency, include children held with parents seeking asylum in Canada and also deportees waiting to leave. Detention is usually based on one of two grounds: either the CBSA is not satisfied with a person's proof of identity, or an officer believes the family is at risk of absconding. These statistics cover minors detained for the fiscal year 2011-12. Courtesy of Canada Border Services Agency, according to CBC. The rooms are clean, in good repair and brightly coloured. Still, the Toronto facility is surrounded by razor wire, ringing even the playground. There are bars on the windows, guards in the hallways and surveillance cameras throughout and news has learned that over the past year 289 migrant children have been held in detention centres in Canada, the majority of whom were under the age of 10. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says that the detention of children is a last resort and the facilities are appropriate. They are not jails, and in the case of the Toronto one, for example, the main one, it s a former three star hotel with a fence around it." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.