CBSA’s Reality TV Show Puts Potential Refugee Claimants at Risk

On Wednesday, CBSA officers raided a construction site in Vancouver and arrested several men suspected of working illegally. The raid has garnered plenty of attention because a reality TV crew filming scenes for Border Security accompanied CBSA officers on their raid. Douglas Cannon, one of the founding partners of Elgin, Cannon & Associates, was interviewed by CBC news about the raid. According to Douglas, the filming of the raid puts potential refugee claimants at increased risk to return to their home country and it breaches the privacy rights afforded to them as potential refugee claimants.  To view the CBC article, please go to: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/03/15/bc-immigration-raid-cbsa-reality-tv.html