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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Calls U.S. Child Migrant Policy 'Wrong'

Darpan News Desk, 20 Jun, 2018 11:50 AM
    OTTAWA — The U.S. policy of separating child migrants from their parents and detaining them at the U.S.-Mexico border is "unacceptable," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday.
     
     
    "What's going on in the United States is wrong, " Trudeau said prior to the weekly Liberal caucus meeting.
     
     
    "I can't imagine what the families who are living through this are enduring," he added, saying this "is not the way we do things in Canada."
     
     
    Trudeau has been called upon to condemn the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance policy," under which asylum seekers who cross illegally into the U.S. are charged with federal crimes and separated from their children, who are detained in guarded, fenced enclosures.
     
     
    On Wednesday, the Canadian Council for Refugees joined others, including NDP immigration critic Jenny Kwan, in urging the federal government to suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement. The council says the U.S. cannot be considered a safe country for refugees in light of the "disturbing" events at the U.S. border.
     
     
     
     
     
    The government says it is monitoring the changes in U.S. immigration policy and what effects they will have on asylum seekers in the United States.
     
     
    The Canada Border Services Agency does detain some immigrants to Canada who are considered a flight risk or a danger to the public, and those whose identities cannot be confirmed. Canadian policy on child migrants allows detained parents to keep their children with them in holding centres if other alternatives cannot be found.
     
     
    Concerns have been raised in the past over the number of migrant children detained every year by Canadian border officials. Last year, 162 minors were detained or housed with their parents in holding centres.
     
     
    That number has been going down, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said earlier this week. Last November, he issued a directive to the Canada Border Services Agency to keep children out of detention and keep families together "as much as humanly possible."

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