Valquiria de Faria Teixeira, who is from Brazil, has been detained for 11 months after making an asylum claim at a border post in Texas. ( Amnesty International )De Faria Teixeira was separated from her son, Abel, and thrown into detention, where she has languished for the past 11 months as she fights a legal battle to end her “unduly prolonged, unjustified and punitive” incarceration. Alex Neve, secretary general of Amnesty International Canada, is shown during a recent trip to the U.S.-Mexico border. ( Amnesty International )“I was even more outraged that Canada defiantly maintains that the U.S. is safe. ( SUPPLIED PHOTO )As for de Faria Teixeira, Beckett, who has been practising refugee law in Texas for a decade, said there is no legitimate reason for her indefinite detention.

Source: thestar February 24, 2019 17:01 UTC