The Red Cross has signed a new contract with the federal government to monitor anyone detained by border security, three and a half years after a woman died in a holding cell as she awaited deportation.
Spokesperson Nathan Huculak said the two-year agreement means the Red Cross can make more visits to detention centres and make sure detainees’ rights aren’t being violated.
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“It’s more robust monitoring and reporting standards so that we’ll be able to provide a greater degree of reporting and recommendations back to the government,” he said.
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“So that’s also a real benefit to this new agreement.”
This deal comes three-and-a-half years after Lucia Jimenez was found in a holding cell at YVR after she took her life while waiting to be deported to Mexico.
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