Jorge Barrera

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Family of 4 jailed in U.S. for weeks after Canadian border guards turned them away

Family of 4 jailed in U.S. for weeks after Canadian border guards turned them away

Aracely saw Niagara Falls for the first time on a cold Monday in March as she crossed the Rainbow Bridge toward Canada with her common-law husband and two daughters aged four and 14, fleeing the immigration raids and sudden deportations sweeping across the U.S.

Rebel News owner Ezra Levant was 'mentor' to Poilievre, says author

Rebel News owner Ezra Levant was 'mentor' to Poilievre, says author

Pierre Poilievre campaigned for Ezra Levant in Calgary riding nomination. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has documented historic ties to Rebel News owner Ezra Levant, the media personality at the epicentre of a controversy that has engulfed Canada's Leaders' Debates Commission. After facing criticism for allowing right-wing media activists to dominate the post-French debate press conference, the commission cancelled Thursday's post-debate...

Human smuggling persists along Canada-U.S. border, despite crackdown

Human smuggling persists along Canada-U.S. border, despite crackdown

Human smuggling networks continue to operate along Quebec's border with Vermont and New York state despite winter conditions and increased law enforcement, according to U.S. Federal Court records about two incidents over the past weekend.

Sixteen caught crossing illegally into U.S. from Quebec in days before Trump tariff threat

Sixteen caught crossing illegally into U.S. from Quebec in days before Trump tariff threat

On a late Saturday afternoon, two days before U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened tariffs on Canadian goods over migrants and fentanyl, the RCMP alerted U.S. Border Patrol about a group of people crossing illegally from Quebec into an area near Chateaugay, N.Y. Border Patrol agents initially spotted the group, but then lost them in the forests along these borderlands. Then...

Human smuggler issued new Canadian passport after court ordered surrender of travel document

Human smuggler issued new Canadian passport after court ordered surrender of travel document

The federal government issued a new passport to an admitted human smuggler after he was ordered to surrender the travel document as part of court-imposed release conditions, CBC News has learned. The new passport was discovered in June 2023 by RCMP investigators executing a search warrant at the Montreal home of Thesingarasan Rasiah during a probe targeting an international human...

Trump's border czar says Canadian border is an 'extreme' vulnerability

Trump's border czar says Canadian border is an 'extreme' vulnerability

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's border czar says there is an "extreme national security vulnerability" along the Canada-U.S. border that he plans to deal with the moment the new Republican administration takes power.