Tag: illegal immigration

Reality show filmed immigration raids, B.C. advocates say – British Columbia – CBC News

In the news: Reality show filmed immigration raids, B.C. advocates say – British Columbia – CBC News.

Immigration activists in Vancouver are protesting the arrest of eight migrant workers who they say were picked up by border agents and filmed for a reality TV series during a raid on a construction site on Wednesday.

Construction worker Gord Beck says he was working on a condo complex at Victoria Drive and 20th Avenue when armed border agents arrived in black SUVs.

Beck says they stationed officers at corners to keep people from running, and swept the site, top to bottom looking for undocumented workers.

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Roma take complex route via Europe, Mexico to seek asylum in Canada

In the news: Roma take complex route via Europe, Mexico to seek asylum in Canada

http://www.windsorstar.com/Roma+take+complex+route+Europe+Mexico+seek+asylum+Canada/7670455/story.html

A Dodge Caravan with California licence plates and a dozen passengers zipped across the border between Vermont and Quebec in October, heading north in a southbound lane unblocked by traffic.

Border agents could only watch as the van disappeared into Quebec. But the vehicle and its occupants didn’t try to disappear.

About 30 kilometres later, they stopped in a Walmart parking lot in Magog, Que., and asked someone to call the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. When the Mounties arrived, the Roma occupants of the vehicle applied for political asylum.

“It’s as though they had it programmed into their GPS,” said Magog police spokesman Paul Tear.