Canada puts asylum toddlers behind razor wire

[Free Vulcan]

It has come to this: Canada puts small children in jail.

“They are not jails,” insists Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. “In the case of the Toronto one, for example, the main one, it’s a former three-star hotel with a fence around it.”

So Kenney told CBC News when it presented him with the fact that 289 children of asylum-seekers are being held in Canadian detention centres while their parents’ immigration status is being decided. He had no comment on what can been openly seen and photographed: children’s outdoor slides surrounded by actual razor-wire fences, guards, surveillance cameras and rooms with barred windows.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/12/14/canada_puts_asylum_toddlers_behind_razor_wire.html

[endicom]

That's from 2012, before Trudeau.

[darroll]

Do they now have Happy Meals?

[mountaineer]

Just like Nazi Germany? Canadian holding centers for migrant children ‘resemble medium-security prisons’
 Posted at 6:50 pm on June 20, 2018 by Brett T.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday criticized the United States for its separation of families at the border, assuring reporters that “this is not the way we do things in Canada.”

    Canadian PM Justin Trudeau on family separations happening on the US-Mexico border: "What's going on in the United States is wrong. I can't imagine what the families living through this are enduring. Obviously, this is not the way we do things in Canada" https://t.co/VYJYmXODMj pic.twitter.com/krXJOFVO4z
    — CNN (@CNN) June 20, 2018

However, the CBC reported Wednesday that Canada also has detained migrant children and sometimes restricted access to their asylum-seeking parents. ...

 The CBC reports:

    The Canadian holding centres, which are off limits to the public, resemble medium-security prisons. They are surrounded by razor-wire fences and kept under surveillance by guards.

    There are three such facilities across Canada, in Vancouver, Toronto, and Laval, Que. In some provinces, asylum seekers are detained in prisons.   ...

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