Canadian Press: Lawyer Jared and Immigration Detention

canadian press: By Colin Perkel The Canadian Press Wed., Sept. 7, 2016 A mentally ill man finally deported to Jamaica on Wednesday deserves compensation because his five years in immigration detention violated his rights and was inhumane and illegal, his lawyer told an Ontario court in Toronto, according to Toronto Star. In seeking compensation for Alvin Brown, lawyer Jared Will accused the Canada Border Services Agency of negligence in removing his client from Canada. He was deported to his native Jamaica on Wednesday. The upshot, Will said, was that the deportation took exponentially longer than should have been the case. Brown, Will told Superior Court Justice Alfred O'Marra. It should have taken no more than a year for the CBSA to have deported Mr. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.