Canada Border Services Agency

Canada Border Services Agency: They are among 585 individuals currently in immigration cells as of Nov. 8, rare up-to-date figures obtained from the Canada Border Services Agency, according to The Star. Typically, the majority will be released within days, according to border officials. But the lengthy detention of others raises questions about how long individuals should be held, particularly if they pose no threat to the public and have little prospect of a pending deportation and Sixty people held in detention by Canadian immigration enforcement officials have been waiting to be deported for more than a year, has learned. The numbers provide a snapshot of the hundreds of men and women locked up at any one time and awaiting removal failed refugees, migrants without legal status and former permanent residents who had their status revoked for criminal convictions. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.