Canada: Non-Status Parents and Children

canada: RICK EGLINTON / TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Thu., Feb. 23, 2017 Canada has placed more than 200 Canadian children in immigration detention with their non-status parents since 2011, alongside hundreds of formally detained non-Canadian children, says University of Toronto study, according to Toronto Star. Based on data obtained from the Canada Border Services Agency, the U of T International Human Rights Program found at least 241 Canadian-born children an average of 48 a year were held in the immigration holding centre in Toronto between 2011 and 2015. Their story was documented by the Star at the time. The data do not cover detention facilities in other parts of Canada. Two-thirds of the detained children were housed there for longer than a week and about 31 per cent were held for longer than a month. On average, they spent 36 days at the detention centre with their incarcerated parents, with one boy spending 803 days over two years in the detention facility. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.