Links:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/hundreds-of-canadian-children-held-in-immigration-detention-report-shows/article34117189/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-immigration-detention-children-1.3995461 https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/02/23/canada-immigration-detent_n_14974320.html Summary: Canada is known to be a safe and welcoming country for immigrants. But little do we all know that these immigrants children are being locked away while their parents are detained and aren’t getting the proper nutrition and care they need and deserve since they are said to be ‘invisible to the law’ since they are ‘just visitors’ at the centre. These parents are given the option of losing their children to childs services or bringing them to the detention centre with them so most of them choose to have their children with them so they’re actually with a loved one and not strangers. The statistics of how many children are being kept there and how long they’re there for keeps rapidly increasing without them disclosing this information to the government or anywhere else since they're not technically there since they're just going along with their parents. A report they did on children that had been in detention centers had said “Their children had difficulty sleeping, lost their appetite for food and interest in play, and developed symptoms of depression and separation anxiety, as well as a variety of physical symptoms. Many of these symptoms persisted after release from detention.” This shows us how much of an effect being in this detention centre had on them and their health. These children were just taken from the life they had known and were shunned into these centers hardly knowing anyone there. This situation also caused great harm to the parents mental help, most of them ending up having depression, which also affects the children since their primary caretaker is acting different and not being their normal self which would reflect onto the children. The government has said that they will make the conditions for these children better and not have as many confined to that space but since they were already holding back the information of how many children were there, we don't know if they actually will do anything about it. Discussion Questions:
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