Emilio Rodriguez is a former CPJ's Refugee Rights Policy Analyst.
On Wednesday, May 1st, CPJ helped organize a press conference at Parliament Hill to address recent developments regarding immigration detention โ specifically, the proposal in the Federal Budget to use federal prisons to detain immigrants solely for administrative reasons.
Canada prides itself on setting historic immigration targets and agreeing to resettle more refugees than most other countries. But Canada also continues to restrict asylum eligibility and increase restrictive border control measures, including holding asylum seekers in detention centres. Can Canada truly claim to be a safe haven while simultaneously transgressing the rights of those…
Canadian communities are comprised of individuals with different immigration status, coexisting in the same spaces and sharing similar experiences and realities. For some, the attributes of โpermanence,โ that Citizens and Permanent Residents have, or โtransience,โ for those with expiry dates on their Canadian documents, bear little significance in the realms of community and daily livingโwe…
