Maxen, a Haitian man living in Hamilton, says his sister, her husband and their three children have been in a Texas ICE facility since July, when they were denied entry into Canada from the U.S. over

Maxen, a Haitian man living in Hamilton, says his sister, her husband and their three children have been in a Texas ICE facility since July, when they were denied entry into Canada from the U.S. over a paperwork discrepancy. Lawyers say they're part of a worrying trend of wrongly rejected asylum claimants who've become ensnared in America's increasingly opaque immigration detention system. (Carlos Osorio/CBC - image credit)

In July, Maxen, a Haitian man living in Hamilton drove to the Canada-U.S. border in Quebec where he'd arranged to pick up his two sisters coming from Miami, but the reunion didn't happen as he imagined.

The sisters, who fled Haiti last year due to violence, had hoped to settle in the U.S., but when President Donald Trump's administration ended a humanitarian program f