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| A Canadian internment camp, surrounded with razor-wire! |
"What's going on in the United States is wrong," said Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday. "I cannot imagine what the
families are going through. This is not how we do things in Canada."
Well, Trudeau is correct. Here, in Canada we indeed do things differently. For starters, we keep these children behind razor-wires in facilities that resemble internment camps, because that is what they precisely are!!
The Canadian holding centres, which are off limits to the public, resemble medium-security prisons. They are surrounded by razor-wire fences and kept under surveillance by guards.
There are three such facilities across Canada, in Vancouver, Toronto, and Laval, Que. In some provinces, asylum seekers are detained in prisons.
A recent McGill University study found that detention can be a "frightening experience" for children, leaving them with "psychiatric and academic difficulties long after detention."
The minors detained last year spent an average of 13 days in custody, but the time period can vary significantly.
The study recounts how, in one instance, a six-year-old girl detained for more than six months asked her parents, "Are they gonna keep us here permanently?"
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