Canadian Council for Refugees proposal includes the establishment of reception centres in major cities to triage arrivals and streamlining the asylum process.
Posted: Jan 19, 2021 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 19
Jean and Anna watch as their two older children play in a park in Montreal. Jean was separated from his son and daughter after they crossed the Canada-U.S. border in 2018. (Michel Aspirot/Radio-Canada)
Weeks after Radio-Canada told the story of an asylum seeker who was separated from his two children after crossing the Canada-U.S. border, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) says it will monitor the practice.
In December, Radio-Canada reported that at least 182 children had been separated from a parent detained at an immigration holding facility in Laval, Que., in 2019 alone, despite a CBSA directive prohibiting family separation in most cases.
Posted: Dec 10, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 10, 2020
Jean and Anna watch as their two older children play in a park in Montreal, where the family is still awaiting a decision on their asylum claim.(Michel Aspirot/Radio-Canada)
Jean used to call Canada his dream country, but his family s journey and eventual arrival here two years ago was nothing short of a nightmare.
After Jean arrived here seeking asylum, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) detained him and took away his children. I didn t want to leave my children. I said no. I cried, I cried, he said.
After fleeing violence in their home country, Jean, his wife Anna, their four-year-old son and two-year old daughter embarked on the long trek from Brazil to seek asylum in this country. A particularly arduous portion of that 20,000-kilometre migrant trail between Colombia and Panama is known as Death Road.