Supporters Form: Immigration and Detention

supporters form: There's no words for it, Ali said of the moment on Friday he learned he would be released, according to CBC. I went through a lot, I thought there was no end to it. The West African man spent the last seven years in jail under Canada's system of indefinite immigration detention while the government tried to deport him. Canadian children 'locked up' in immigration detention centres, report says Ex-detainees, supporters form human chain demanding end to indefinite immigration detention Canada's immigration detention program to get 138M makeover Ali, who says he was born in Ghana but never received documentation, has found himself in legal limbo because neither Ghana nor Nigeria, where his mother was born, will recognize his nationality. No limit to detention length Ali's lawyer Jared Will said his client's prolonged detention was possible because Canada has no legislative maximum for the amount of time people can be detained. He told Metro Morning he's always been willing to be deported to either country, rather than continue to languish in prison or stay in Canada without a work permit. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.