Mexican Woman Lived Like A "Ghost" In Vancouver, Was Despondent After CBSA Arrest

Lucia Vega Jimenez lived like a "ghost" in Vancouver. She had no family, no close friends and worked illegally as a hotel cleaner, sending all her earnings to support her ailing mother in Mexico.

In the week before her suicide last month in a Canadian Border Services holding cell, the 42-year-old Vancouver woman was despondent.