This chapter interrogates Canada’s shift toward Alternatives to Detention (ATD) and reveals how it perpetuates gendered violence under the guise of reform. Introduced through the 2016 National Immigration Detention Framework, ATD has been promoted as a dignified and “humane” alternative. Yet, it continues to rely on mechanisms of surveillance, restriction, control, and manufactured precarity. Drawing on Rob Nixon’s concept of slow violence and abolitionist feminist critiques, this chapter argues that ATD does not dismantle but rather reconfigures and extends the residues of violence inherent in the detention regime in insidious ways. This violence remains obscured yet legitimized through the liberal rhetoric of “better.” Through the narratives of five formerly detained women, it explores how ATD embeds violence into daily life and how it reinforces precarity, invisibility, and trauma. By tracing the historical continuum of carceral practices in immigration policy, the chapter contends that ATD extends the reach of detention beyond institutional walls. It concludes by calling for the abolition, not reform, of immigration detention as essential to achieving genuine immigration justice.