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Jorge Barrera - Reporter | CBC

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CBC Investigates

Human smuggling attempts aimed at U.S. entry spiking along Quebec-N.Y. border

CBC News embedded with the RCMPs border patrol unit amid the rise of human smuggling operations along the Quebec-New York State border. More than 5,000 people have been apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol at the Canadian border since the start of 2024, the majority of them in this region.
CBC Investigates

Ontario man guilty of allergy testing fraud in U.S. was key employee of DNA lab in paternity controversy

Kyle Tsui, who is currently in a U.S. jail awaiting sentencing for running a fraudulent allergy testing company, also worked in a Canadian DNA laboratory that a CBC News investigation found has a history of producing wrong paternity results.
CBC Investigates

Canadian DNA lab knew its paternity tests identified the wrong dads, but it kept selling them

A DNA laboratory in Toronto knowingly delivered prenatal paternity test results that routinely identified the wrong biological fathers ruling out the real dads and left a trail of shattered lives around the globe, a CBC News investigation has found.
CBC Investigates

Belleville, Ont., police officers acquitted of assault causing bodily harm in arrest of Mohawk man

Belleville police officers Paul Fyke and Jeffrey Smith were each charged in May 2021 with assault causing bodily harm in relation to the arrest of Mario Baptiste Jr., a gas station owner from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. Both were acquitted of assault causing bodily harm, but Smith was found guilty of the lesser charge of assault.
CBC Investigates

Human smuggling from Canada to U.S. a 'lucrative market' attracting organized crime: RCMP

A lucrative and growing cross-border human smuggling market is attracting domestic and criminal organizations looking to cash in on moving vulnerable people from Canada into the U.S., according to the senior RCMP officer who oversees border policing.

U.S. agency found 'no wrongdoing' after probing claim agents ferried migrants to Canadian border

U.S. border authorities say they found no wrongdoing following a months-longinternal probe into allegations U.S. border agents moonlighted by driving migrants seeking to enter Canada to the now-shuttered Roxham Road crossing in Quebec.

A glimpse inside the ongoing cross-border smuggling operations near Akwesasne

A high-speed car chase, a missing man presumed dead and a family legacy of human smuggling. Find out why some locals in a Haudenosaunee community that straddles the Canada-U.S. border have been caught up in what seems to be a never-ending cycle.
CBC Investigates

Video of alleged police assault of Mohawk man raises questions about delay in watchdog's probe

Ontario's Special Investigations Unit initially balked at investigating an alleged police assault of a Mohawk man that was captured on camera and eventually led to charges against officers from Belleville, Ont., according to recent court testimony.
CBC Investigates

Sask. asks court to penalize Anishinabe man over published jail videos experts say show torture

The Saskatchewan government is asking the provincial court to penalize Matthew Michel, an Anishinabe man they claim breached court rules following the publication of information and video from inside a youth jail showing staff immobilizing him with a restraint device while he wept, hyperventilated and asked for death.

Indian refugee claims in Canada began rising after Prime Minister Modi took power, data shows

A growing number of Indian nationals are seeking refugee protection in Canada. Refugee claims from India began a steady rise after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took power in 2014, according to federal data reviewed by CBC News.