Reality show filmed immigration raids, B.C. advocates say

You are currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and that there are some features you can't use or read.

We are an active community of worldwide senior members participating in chat, politics, travel, health, blogging, graphics, computer issues & help, book club, literature & poetry, finance discussions, recipe exchange and much more. Also, as a member you will be able to access member only sections, many features, send personal messages, make new friends, etc.

Registration is simple, fast and completely free. Why not register today and become a part of the group. Registration button at the very top left of the page.

Thank you for stopping by.

Join our community!

In case of difficulty, email worldwideseniors.org@gmail.com.
If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Reality show filmed immigration raids, B.C. advocates say
Topic Started: Mar 15 2013, 08:48 AM (146 Views)
Darcie	Mar 15 2013, 08:48 AM Post #1
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Immigration activists in Vancouver plan to protest what they say was a series of raids on construction sites by Canadian border agents in the region yesterday, which they claim were filmed for a reality TV series. Construction worker Gord Beck says he was working on a condo complex at Victoria Drive and 20th Avenue on Thursday 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. "I've worked with a lot of guys with ankle bracelets and stuff, but I've never seen Immigration swamp a site like that," Beck told CBC News. Mindy Shepard, who was working across the street at the time, said she was shocked to see TV cameras recording up to a dozen arrests "It doesn't seem very Canadian. It's very sensationalized. I don't like it. It's just very creepy," said Shepard. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/03/14/bc-immigration-raids-reality-tv.html How sad that we have not only become creepy, but tacky and cheap as well as wrong to do this to humans. I am disgusted.



Kahu	Mar 15 2013, 11:13 AM Post #2
Posts: 31,109 Group: Administration Member #150 Joined: December 14, 2005	Sounds very like the 'Dawn Raids' of the 1970's here under PM Rob Muldoon and the National Party. This documentary chronicles a shameful passage in NZ race relations: the controversial mid-70s raids on the homes of alleged Pacific Island overstayers. Director Damon Fepulea�i examines its origins in Pacific Island immigration during full employment in the 1960s when officialdom turned a blind eye to visa restrictions. As times got tougher, that policy changed and also led to random street stopping by police � before resistance by activists and media questioning helped to end a policy which has had a long term effect on the Pacific Island community. Source Link



Darcie	Mar 15 2013, 11:16 AM Post #3
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	I do object to the TV reality filming, I think it is falling to a new low for Immigration. I wonder how this all came about and who planned and organized this.



Dana	Mar 16 2013, 05:36 AM Post #4
WWS Hummingbird Guru & Wildlife photographer extrordinaire Posts: 13,054 Group: Member Member #830 Joined: March 23, 2011	I sometimes wonder at how everything can be globalized, a free for all for corporations, yet people are illegal.



1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)


« Previous Topic · Rants, Bouquets, Consumer Issues · Next Topic »