Canada Border Services Agency: CBSA

Canada Border Services Agency Dept: The Canada Border Services Agency came under fire this week after details emerged about a reality TV crew accompanying officers on an immigration raid at an East Vancouver construction site. A man puts his hand over a News camera lens at a construction site in East Vancouver. The CBSA is drawing criticism for allowing a TV crew for the series Border Security to film an immigration raid at the site Wednesday, according to CBC. Documents acquired by News indicate that permission for CBSA's co-operation with the television production company came straight from the top, with approval from Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and Canada's border control stings should be targeting companies evading the law, not the low-level migrant workers who are brought in as low-paid labour, some advocates for migrant workers say. Eight men were arrested and detained Wednesday by the Canada Border Services Agency for allegedly working without documentation, and many of them are now facing immigration and possibly deportation hearings . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.