ICCR coordinated submissions. On the matter of Immigration Detention, ICCR held a workshop with European and US church counterparts in July 1997 and members were able to visit one US and one Canadian immigration detention facility. Canada is presently deporting people in the face of formal requests not to do so from competent international treaty bodies. Canadian administrative and legal remedies have not intervened. Back to Contents B. Justification for Using An International Human Rights Approach 1.
Deportation is an international affair.
There is always at least one sending and one receiving country. Any one country's perspective is inadequate. International human rights treaties and the standards developed by the Committees and Commissions established within the treaties to interpret them form the most just basis for deportation. The International perspective is increasingly thoughtful and helpful to individual State legislators because it is based on the study of a range of real life case complaints. The quality of the case law now compares well with that of national courts in Western countries.