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Rights Program: Toronto and Immigration

rights program: Using internal documents from the Canada Border Services Agency, the study shows that an average of at least 48 Canadian children were housed in Toronto's immigration detention centre each year between 2011 and 2015 because their non-Canadian parents were being detained, according to CTV. It feels like a prison, Samer Muscati, director of the University of Toronto's International Human Rights Program, said of the Toronto Immigration Holding Centre. But a new study entitled Invisible Citizens Canadian Children in Immigration Detention from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law paints a grimmer picture. It has a concrete feel, with barbed wire all around you and bars on the windows. Like in prison, detained children are searched regularly and allowed outside for only one hour a day. Dozens more have been held at detention centres in Laval, Que. and Vancouver, B.C. Those records, however, are not public. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.