Monday, April 04, 2005
Visiting the Local Jail
Tomorrow I am going to our regional detention centre to observe an Immigration Detention Hearing. It is a bit scary going into a jail... it must be horrible to be thrown in there by accident. Our client is a university student who didn't have his papers when the Immigration authorities came along and he was put into detention. In these types of cases, the people are put into the general jail population. It is very disturbing to see this happening in Canada.
Can you imagine if your son or daughter was attending university in another country, and through a misunderstanding, they ended up in jail for weeks? I have kids this age. In fact, my daughter Sarah is planning on going to China to teach English in the fall. This exact situation could happen to her, and we would be powerless to help her.
