https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/343477169839706\/<\/a><\/p>\nA new migrant prison is being built in Laval, right beside the current one. The state has responded to popular mobilizations against the imprisonment of migrants and refugees (including inspiring hunger-strikes by migrant detainees in Ontario) by pouring millions into creating a new, \u201cprettier\u201d place to imprison them. This expansion includes new ways of controlling migrants and refugees outside prison, using biometrics and voice recognition\/gps cell phone systems, already being piloted in Montreal.<\/p>\n
Documents detailing the new migrant prison specify that \u201cfencing should be aesthetically covered by foliage or other materials to limit harshness of look and detract from overt identification of fence.\u201d Iron bars over windows must \u201cbe as inconspicuous as possible to the outside public\u201d – while nevertheless maintaining their function of locking people up. The children\u2019s play-yard will resemble \u201ca daycare setting,\u201d though a six-foot high \u201cvisual barrier\u201d will ensure that no one can see the imprisoned kids and the kids cannot see out.<\/p>\n
The hip LeMay Architect firm, headquartered in the gentrifying neighbourhood of Saint Henri, holds two multi-million dollar contracts to design this prison. LeMay boasts of its \u201cenvironmentally sustainable\u201d buildings and its projects creating \u201ctangible and measurable value for our clients, users and communities\u201d but, under the sugar-coating, LeMay is helping to construct nothing other than a prison: a cage for humans, in this case to facilitate the deportation of refugees and migrants Canada wants to discard. Ultimately, the function of this particular kind of prison, echoing the debtors’ prisons and poor houses of the past, is to control the movement of the global poor – fix them in situations where their labour can be extracted most cheaply and prevent them from claiming any share of global resources – and maintain the flow of wealth from south to north.<\/p>\n
Join the first public action in the struggle to stop the construction of this new migrant prison!<\/p>\n
No Borders, No Prisons!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Stop the Construction of the New Prison for Migrants in Laval! Sunday, 17 February at 2pm Gather at Place-Saint-Henri metro https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/343477169839706\/ A new migrant prison is being built in Laval, right beside the current one. The state has responded to…<\/p>\n
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