March held against new prison for migrants
A march was held Sunday in St-Henri to Lemay, the architectural firm that won a federal contract to design a new prison for migrants in Laval. CTV calls the building a holding facility but tells essentially the same story.
david100 04:42 on 2019-02-19 Permalink
I think using the word “immigrants” to describe illegal aliens who are being detained and/or deported for serious violations of Canadian law is an insult to all the immigrants who somehow find a way not to victimize the people and laws of Canada. That said, this element should be housed separately because once they’ve served their sentences, it’s better to keep them with their own than continue to house them with the criminal scum. Letting them disappear into the general population is obviously out of the question, but keeping them in prison when they’ve served their terms, or they’ve been caught after having sneaked back into the country after a prior deportation or whatever, it seems a little disproportionate.
Kate 08:00 on 2019-02-19 Permalink
david100, I wrote “migrants” to mostly intend people who arrive here irregularly, because as I understand it, that’s who the facility is for. It has been made to sound relatively benign: a place where families can be kept together while being processed, their refugee status checked out and so on. You’re talking about entirely different matters.
Anyway, a lot of my ancestors arrived here in the 1840s in a disorganized and chaotic manner so I’m not about to get on my high horse about bureaucratic immigration procedures.