A YouTuber is claiming to have exposed an “Indian gang” allegedly engaged in Canada-U.S. cross-border human trafficking schemes.
Gavin Barry, who has previously documented anti-deportation protests in Brampton and Toronto’s homelessness crisis, released a preview of his new documentary on X Tuesday morning.
The four-minute video shows Barry speaking with an unidentified man wearing a turban who offers to drive Barry from Montreal to upstate New York so he can allegedly facilitate Barry’s illegal entry into the United States.
Barry tells the unidentified man he and his family are from Belarus, and seeking entry into the U.S. to secure their “economic future.”
The unidentified man explains to Barry that upon being driven to the border, he will need to walk a “maximum one hour” before being picked up by another driver on the other side of the border.
“Is it dangerous?” Barry appears to ask.
“No,” the man responds.
As True North has previously reported, however, the trek has indeed proved dangerous for many undocumented travellers.
In December 2023, for example, a pregnant woman died while attempting to wade in the darkness through the frigid Great Chazy River between Quebec and New York in darkness.
The body of Ana Vasquez-Flores was found in the river near Champlain, N.Y., two days after her husband alerted a border patrol agent that she had not emerged from the woods on the American side of the border as they had originally planned.
The individual allegedly responsible for arranging Vasquez-Flores’s journey was extradited to the U.S., where the issue of cross-border human and fentanyl smuggling has become a top-line issue.
While speaking to Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo, U.S. FBI director Kash Patel recently bashed the Canadian government for allowing the flow of fentanyl and suspected terrorists to continue across the U.S.-Canada border unimpeded.
Patel cited a figure of 85 per cent when referring to the proportion of suspected terrorists entering the U.S. via the northern versus southern borders.
The Canadians are “our partner in the north, and say what you want about Mexico, but they helped us seal the southern border. The facts speak for themselves. The border that’s open” is Canada, Patel said.