The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) says it has opened a temporary immigration facility for “high-risk detainees” that will hold up to 25 men with criminal convictions.
CBSA said the detainees will be housed at the Correctional Service of Canada’s (CSC) regional reception centre in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines in Quebec.
It said the centre will be for those who “require a high degree of supervision and control.”
“Detainees placed at the designated immigrant station may have prior convictions or outstanding charges for violent crimes, such as assault with a weapon, attempted murder, assaulting an officer with a weapon, and aggravated sexual assault and/or who have demonstrated violent, non-compliant or unpredictable behaviour that places themselves, staff, medical personnel, and other detainees at risk, thus requiring a higher degree of supervision and control,” the CBSA said….