Citizenship and Immigration committee  The individuals are arrested under the Customs Act and, as such, they are detained while we do our preliminary risk assessment. Once that is complete and we have no concerns, they are turned over to CBSA.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If there's an indication that we need to do further inquiries, the person will be kept in RCMP custody until those inquiries take place in order to meet the due diligence of the preliminary risk assessment.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. We try to keep the families together, and they're dealt with differently from individuals coming across.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The children are with their parents, and they're kept in a different style of room so it's more of an interview during the interview process that takes place, then the transportation is facilitated over to CBSA. I wouldn't call it detention in the sense of the probable connotatio