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Canada Border Services Agency and the Office of Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale

civil rights groups: The statement came as civil rights groups and refugee lawyers decried the second death of someone in the border agency custody in less than a week, according to Toronto Star. The agency holds people who are considered a flight risk or a danger to the public and those whose identities cannot be confirmed. The office of Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said Tuesday the government is examining how best to provide the Canada Border Services Agency with appropriate review mechanisms. In 2013-14, it detained 10,088 immigrants — almost one-fifth of them refugee claimants — in a variety of facilities, including federal holding centres and provincial and municipal jails. On Sunday, the border agency was advised by the Ontario ministry that a person detained at the Maplehurst Correctional Complex had died.A border agency spokeswoman declined Tuesday to identify the two individuals, citing privacy law. On March 7, the border services agency was notified by the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services that an individual in immigration detention at the Toronto East Detention Centre had died. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.