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RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Portraits of Razak Iyal, a refugee claimant who froze 8 fingers and one thumb at this time last year after crossing into Canada on foot. The Ghanaian asylum seeker fled the US after being released from an Arizona immigration detention centre where he was held for nearly 2 years. Razak, who was granted refugee protection in Canada in June, says refugee claimants are treated badly at the American for-profit immigration detention centres – a finding the U.S. inspector general confirmed last week in a report that casts doubt on whether the US is a safe third country for refugees. Carol Sanders story running Thursday Dec 20, 2017