The Pros And Cons Of Immigration Detention

A controversy: a prolonged debate that involves conflicting opinions and different points of view.

Immigration Detention: holding individuals that are suspected of entering the country illegally, or that are subject to deportation.

Different perspectives regarding this controversy: Immigration detention has constantly been controversial in Canada and other countries like the U.S. With immigration rates in Canada increasing more and more with time, different opinions keep forming around this topic. From one perspective, immigration detention is a way to preserve the country's security, ensure citizens’ safety, and avoid putting the country at potentially high risk. They see the practice of immigration detention as a part of enforcing the rule

Immigrants are mostly forced to leave their countries due to conflicts and constant states of sanctions on them along with continuous fear of death, their options for escapism are very limited. For some people, considering the circumstances that immigrants go through, they find their actions of choosing illegal methods to save themselves and their families as justifiable. They also appreciate Canada’s diversity as it is one of the main fundamentals that Canada is known for, they believe the more people that come from around the world the more culturally rich the country will be. Unlike the other perspective, people who are against immigration detention see immigrants as people who contribute to the economy as equally as anyone else, and they always have the desire to provide their knowledge about different aspects that are directed towards further developing the

In 2017, Canada detained 6251 immigrants, a big number no doubt, but incomparable to the 323,591 detained in the U.S. Followed by the year 2018 with a daily average of 42,188 people detained including 2,113 children that were held by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), which protects the country from illegal cross-border immigration that threatens the national security. Human rights organizations such as Amnesty International have expressed their concerns with the abusive treatment that immigrants are getting in detention facilities, such as mental, physical, and physiological abuse. Similar to Canada, a large number of detainees have no criminal charges at all. In 2009, out of 32,000 immigrants, 18,690 had no reason to be captured and they were legal immigrants as well. On average, 63% of the detainees in the U.S. have no criminal records and impose no threats to their society. Unlike Canada, when first being held for any reason, the police in the U.S. do not have to inform the detainee of the reason behind their detention, as there are no constitutional requirements for such a matter. While in Canada, under section 10(a) in The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a person is not obligated to submit to an arrest unless they are told