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Adjudicators and Federal Government Appointees

federal government appointees: Government data used in the report shows adjudicators who are federal government appointees released an overall 15 per cent of the migrants on immigration hold in 2013, according to The Star. How long you stay in immigration jail depends on who is deciding your case and where in the country you re arrested. For some reason, adjudicators are releasing fewer migrants every year, said Syed Hussan, who co-authored the networks report with immigration consultant Macdonald Scott and A groundbreaking study accuses the Conservative government of political interference in detention reviews for people being held for immigration violations. As evidence, the report by the End Immigration Detention Network, an umbrella group advocating for migrants, points to steadily declining release rates within a named group of detention adjudicators who sat on the tribunal continuously from 2008 through 2013. In 2008, the average release rate by 13 adjudicators in Ontario was 21 per cent. The release rate among the same 13 adjudicators fell to 11.5 per cent in 2012, and 9.3 per cent in 2013, according to the 40-page report released Monday, titled Indefinite, Arbitrary and Unfair: The Truth about Immigration Detention in Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.