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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · Aug 27

'We're in a war zone;' On patrol with the 'last line of defence'
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"Is this you?" said Montour as he pulled out his cellphone to show the man a security camera image taken from inside a local daycare.

"Yes sir, that's me," said the man.

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On patrol with the 'last line of defence' in Kanehsatà:ke, a First Nation with no law enforcement | CBC News

CBC News accompanied Kanesatake Perimeter Security (KPS) during two patrols to get a closer look at a team some in Kanehsatà:ke refer to as the “last line of defence” in a First Nation territory west ...

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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · Aug 10

Afghan Canadian fears mother may be sent back into Taliban's hands after they nearly killed her, @jorgebarrera.bsky.social reports
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Afghan Canadian fears mother may be sent back into Taliban's hands after they nearly killed her | CBC News

An Afghan Canadian man is calling on the federal government to speed up the refugee sponsorship process for his mother, who fled Afghanistan after she was beaten by the Taliban and is now hiding in Ta...

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · Aug 9

Cannabis mega stores put Oka Crisis First Nation on edge

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Cannabis mega stores put Oka Crisis First Nation on edge

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · Aug 9

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · Aug 9

First Nation at centre of Oka Crisis gripped by environmental battles linked to cannabis megastores

Local political leaders say organized crime has infiltrated some cannabis operations on the territory.

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Kanehsatà:ke gripped by environmental, political battles as cannabis megastores expand | CBC News

Kanehsatà:ke is currently facing a cannabis-cash-fuelled construction boom reshaping the territory's land and the coastline, which runs along Lake of Two Mountains.

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · Jul 14

A woman from Guinea kept losing her shoes in the snow until finally, she left them and continued in her socks. Two women from Haiti struggled behind them, one carrying an 11-month-old boy.

Frostbite and fear: inside a human smuggling journey to Canada

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Frostbite and fear: Inside a journey into Canada with human smugglers | CBC News

Chidi Nwagbo says he made a “stupid” decision to pay human smugglers to get him into Canada from the U.S. to avoid sweeping immigration crackdowns. The freezing February journey left him permanently s...

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · Jun 16

U.S. authorities on Sunday arrested the brother of the boat pilot who drowned along with eight members of two families during a March 2023 human smuggling run across the St. Lawrence River.

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New arrest in human smuggling deaths on the St. Lawrence River | CBC News

U.S. authorities on Sunday arrested the brother of the boat pilot who drowned along with eight members of two families during a March 2023 human smuggling run across the St. Lawrence River.

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · Jun 11

Concersn in Six Nations over industrial-scale marijuana grow-op that's using foreign workers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUzH...

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · Jun 11

A federal government agency is funding an experimental housing project on the site of a controversial, large-scale marijuana grow-op in the Haudenosaunee community of Six Nations in southwest Ontario.

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High-tech housing project to share site with controversial First Nation grow-op | CBC News

A federal government agency is funding an experimental housing project at the site of a controversial, large-scale marijuana grow-op in Six Nations, a Haudenosaunee community that regulates the cannab...

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · Jun 9

But the whole operation depended on a small group of people who lived within these borderlands, in Akwesasne. And that group came to depend on the business Rasiah allegedly offered as their primary source of income.

Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · Jun 9

All this machinery was focused on smuggling humans through a roughly 17-kilometre stretch of water and marshland along the Canada-U.S. border.

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · Jun 9

Police connected Rasiah to more than 50 different phone numbers and individuals, some overseas, some in the U.S. others in the Greater Toronto Area, Montreal and Akwesasne. All were allegedly involved as brokers, organizers, drivers and boat pilots.

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · Jun 9

Inside the police investigation into the human smuggling network behind the deaths of nine people on the St. Lawrence River in 2023.

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · May 23

Mast was initially charged with unlawful "re-entry by a deported alien," but the charge was dropped by the assistant U.S. attorney because Mast is Cree, said Gabrielle DiBella, his appointed federal public defender.

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · May 23

Mast has so far spent six weeks in custody while U.S. immigration authorities determine whether to deport him to Canada.

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · May 23

James Mast, a Cree Sixties Scoop survivor, says he was making his way to Oklahoma so he could care for his ailing adoptive father when tribal police on the U.S. side of the Akwesasne reservation arrested him and turned him over to U.S. Border Patrol.

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · May 23

Sixties Scoop survivor held in U.S. jail after attempted return to adoptive family

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Sixties Scoop survivor held in U.S. jail after attempted return to adoptive family | CBC News

A Cree Sixties Scoop Survivor is in U.S. immigration custody waiting on the Alberta government to provide adoption records to prove he is First Nations and it's something that could take months. James...

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · May 8

The trio walked past the stone walls of the U.S. port of entry, beneath the bulbous eyes of the surveillance cameras and through the metal turnstiles below the sign that read, "Entry to Canada."

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Turned away, then jailed, family makes third attempt to enter Canada | CBC News

A mother and her two daughters from El Salvador make a final attempt to enter Canada after spending two weeks locked in holding cells at the U.S. port of entry in Niagara Falls, N.Y.

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · Apr 24

This is Aracely’s drawing of the cell they were placed in for 2 weeks at the US port of entry in Niagara Falls, NY

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · Apr 24

They would be fed frozen chicken sandwiches thawed by CBP officers in a microwave. Sometimes, she said, the meat would still be frozen at its centre, so they would eat around the edges. Water would come in a pitcher and sometimes they drank from the sink.

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · Apr 24

They had no access to shower facilities, but Aracely said they were provided use of a camping-style shower bag and each person got to use one bag of water.

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · Apr 24

They were then moved to a windowless cell with four cots and a half wall that hid the toilet and sink at one end of the room. Aracely said she and her husband would wait until their daughters fell asleep before allowing themselves to cry.

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · Apr 24

After Canada turned them away, this family of four (with 4 year-old daughter) was jailed by the U.S.

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

As the family of four from El Salvador walked over the Rainbow Bridge in March, hoping to cross into Canada to flee immigration uncertainty in the U.S., they had no idea they would instead find themse...

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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · Apr 19

Image from Ezra Levant campaign TV ad featuring Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and his campaign manager Jenni Byrne mentioned in this story: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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mlarsenault @mlarsenault.bsky.social · Apr 19

Les liens entre le chef conservateur Pierre Poilièvre et Ezra Levant, de Rebel News, remontent à loin. À lire, le texte de notre collègue @jorgebarrera.bsky.social 👇

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

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has historic ties to Rebel News owner Ezra Levant, the right-wing media personality at the epicentre of a controversy that has engulfed Canada's Leaders' Debates C...

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