Jorge Barrera

Political dissident Manuel de Jesús Sobalvarro Bravo recalled the early morning that Nicaraguan National Police took him to the courtyard of the Managua jailhouse known as El Chipote, put a hood over his head and pressed the barrel of a pistol to his temple. He and others like him, exiled to the U.S. by what they say is a government hostile to dissent, want Canada to open its doors to grant Nicaraguans permanent resident status.

The path of a gun

An Indian national from Brampton, Ont., pleaded guilty in Albany, NY, federal court Friday to human smuggling as part of a network that potentially moved hundreds of people from India across the Canada-U.S. border.

The Federal Court has ordered the Canadian Human Rights Commission to re-examine a discrimination complaint against the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, which was filed by a former informant and child soldier who says the spy agency cost him a security job on Parliament Hill.

A growing number of Indian nationals are seeking refugee protection in Canada. Refugee claims from India began a steady rise after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took power in 2014, according to federal data reviewed by CBC News.

A high-speed car chase, a missing man presumed dead and a family legacy of human smuggling. Find out why some locals in a Haudenosaunee community that straddles the Canada-U.S. border have been caught up in what seems to be a never-ending cycle.

A lucrative and growing cross-border human smuggling market is attracting domestic and criminal organizations looking to cash in on moving “vulnerable” people from Canada into the U.S., according to the senior RCMP officer who oversees border policing.

One of the key players allegedly behind a fatal cross-border human smuggling run that ended in the St. Lawrence River drowning deaths last March of nine people — including a toddler and an infant — is currently facing an extradition request from the U.S. on a nine-count indictment, according to court records. 

A New York farmer whose lands run along the Canada-U.S. border says people are using his land to enter the U.S. illegally. He installed trail cameras that have captured dozens of people travelling on foot.

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's border czar says there is an "extreme national security vulnerability" along the Canada-U.S. border that he plans to deal with the moment the new Republican administration takes power.