Re: Inter-provincial transfers of people in immigration detention and renewed request to invest in alternatives to detention and stop the use of jails for immigration detention

June 26, 2023 To: Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau Minister of Public Safety, Marco Mendicino Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, Sean Fraser Re: Inter-provincial transfers of people in immigration detention and renewed request to invest in alternatives to detention and stop the use of jails for immigration detention We are leading Canadian and international organizat. [...] On the heels of World Refugee Day, we are writing to renew our call on the federal government to end the incarceration of people in immigration detention. [...] We urge the government to invest in support services that take a holistic view of a person’s requirements – including housing, healthcare, mental health services, education, employment, children’s needs, and legal representation – and to ultimately end the practice of immigration detention in Canada. [...] Many people in immigration detention experience the most restrictive forms of incarceration in the country – including maximum security provincial jails and solitary confinement – and they do so without end in sight because Canada does not have a legislative cap on the duration of immigration detention. [...] The inquest jury’s first recommendation to the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario was to end the use of provincial jails for immigration detention.