Immigration Detention and CBSA

immigration detainees: The End Immigration Detention Network said across Canada 15 people have died in immigration detention while in CBSA custody since 2000, according to CBC. Stop transfer of immigration detainees with health problems to jails, lawyer urges CBSA​Deaths in CBSA custody renew calls for immigration detention reform Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, who has said previously that he concerned about the deaths, revealed in a statement released Sunday that the Liberal government is reviewing the detention program. "The government is examining CBSA National immigration detention program and how best to provide the agency with appropriate review mechanisms," Goodale office said. Two men held by the Canada Border Services Agency died in two separate incidents in Ontario this spring, while a 24-year-old man detainee died at the Edmonton Remand Centre on Saturday. The statement noted the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees considers Canada refugee system as among the best in the world, but "we can and must do better." Anthony Navaneelan, staff lawyer at the Refugee Law Office at Legal Aid Ontario in Toronto, says prisons are not appropriate places to treat detainees. Michaela Beder, a psychiatrist at St. Anthony Navaneelan, staff lawyer at the Refugee Law Office at Legal Aid Ontario, and Dr. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.