“It’s in our interest to know what citizens are doing, but it’s also in our interest in terms of national security and public security.”
Neither the Canadian government nor the United States Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agency keeps track of how many Canadians might be employed as ICE agents, according to government statements.
An international human rights lawyer says that’s a problem, and is calling on the Canadian government to require citizens serving in any foreign military or law enforcement agency to first obtain permission to do so, and then be interrogated when they return to Canada.
Mark Kersten, an expert in international law and a professor at the University of Fraser Valley, told The Maple: “It’s in our interest to know what citizens are doing, but it’s also in our interest in terms of national security and public security.”
“If there are people engaged in a paramilitary branch of the United States, of the Trump administration, and potentially committing crimes or engaging in criminal conduct, it’s critically important that the Canadian government know about that.”
ICE, which serves as the vanguard of President Donald Trump’s brutal roundup of immigrants, has come under increasing scrutiny after federal agents recently shot and killed two American citizens in Minneapolis. (more...)
Canadians In ICE? Neither Canada Nor U.S. Keeps Track
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