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PART 3: Enforcement
§142

Definition of immigrant station

Definition of immigrant station

🍁 In Simple Terms

Peace officers and anyone in charge of an immigration holding facility must carry out warrants and written orders for the arrest, detention, or removal of a person when directed to do so by an immigration officer. An 'immigrant station' includes facilities operated by the Canada Border Services Agency or used by peace officers for immigration purposes.

Affects: Persons subject to removal or detention
Legal Text — IRPA Section 142

(1)Every peace officer and every person in immediate charge or control of an immigrant station shall, when so directed by an officer, execute any warrant or written order issued under this Act for the arrest, detention or removal from Canada of any permanent resident or foreign national.

Area of a penitentiary

(3)An area of a penitentiary, as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, may be an immigrant station only if it is designated under subsection 94.4(1) of that Act.

(ii)any conviction outside Canada for an offence that, if committed in Canada, would constitute a sexual offence or an offence involving violence or weapons under an Act of Parliament,

(iii)any pending charges in Canada under an Act of Parliament for a sexual offence or an offence involving violence or weapons,

(iv)any pending charges outside Canada, for an offence that, if committed in Canada, would constitute a sexual offence or an offence involving violence or weapons under an Act of Parliament,

(v)association with a criminal organization, within the meaning of subsection 121.1(1), or

(vi)association with an organization that engages, or has engaged, in terrorism; or

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