by Travis Lupick on Mar 14, 2013 at 6:38 pm. Georgia Straight

National Geographic Channel is filming a reality television about Canada Border Services Agency operations at YVR and around Vancouver. News that a reality television show’s camera crews were “embedded” with law enforcement teams that arrested immigrants working on Vancouver construction sites Wednesday (March 14) has sparked some public backlash. About 80 people gathered outside a Citizenship and Immigration office on Georgia Street today (March 14) to protest what happened, event organizers with No One Is Illegal (NOII) told the Georgia Straight.

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Rebekah Funk, Canadian Press | 13/03/15 | Last Updated: 13/03/15 9:50 AM ET

VANCOUVER — Tearful families and immigration activists have demanded an end to what they call “American-style tactics” by officers who patrol Canada’s borders and police immigration. Protesters gathered outside the glass doors of Vancouver’s federal immigration offices on Thursday, deploring a series of raids at construction job sites where border services agents rounded up immigrant workers who allegedly lacked proper work permits. They allege the Canada Border Services Agency brought in film crews to document surprise blitzes against the workers for a reality TV show, called Border Security.

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