The Undefended Border
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The Undefended Border

2002
1 season
3 episodes
Documentary

Explores the furious post-9/11 pace of immigration police work in Canada, revealing individual investigators staggering in the blur of competing urgencies. The series pulls back the layers of bureaucracy to reveal the priorities and the police work behind individual cases involving illegals, following their progress through investigation, detention, and deportation.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Toughening Up

    25-09-200258m

    Immigration officers face new pressures as they inspect several cases, including a Turkish military officer and his family seeking refugee status, and a Guyanese mother of two in f...

  • Ep 2

    2.Immigration Task Force

    02-10-200258m

    Investigators get a tip that a man charged with murder in his native Jamaica has been living in Canada for several years under a false identity. They track him down in a knife-shar...

  • Ep 3

    3.The End of the Line

    09-10-200258m

    Examines the immigration system's bureaucratic machinery, and the level of frustration of the officers who must enforce policies and tackle conflicting priorities. Also looks at th...

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