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Border Service: Star Investigation and Ebrahim Toure

border service: Government critics from the Conservatives and New Democrats say Ebrahim Toure, recently profiled as part of a Star investigation into Canada's immigration detention system, should at least be moved to the less-restrictive Immigration Holding Centre while Canada's border service continues to try to deport him, according to Toronto Star. I think we have to use common sense here, said Tony Clement, the Conservative Public Safety critic. Anne-Marie Jackson / Toronto Star file photo By Brendan Kennedy Staff Reporter Thu., March 23, 2017 Pressure is mounting on federal officials to find a solution to the indefinite detention of a failed refugee claimant who has spent more than four years in maximum-security jail without charge. Maximum security is also very costly and in the immediate sense, he's not a danger to the public. Toure, a failed refugee claimant from West Africa, has been incarcerated at Central East Correctional Centre a maximum-security jail in Lindsay, Ont. since February 2013. So I don't see why that decision was made. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.