You will never hear this on mainstream US media.

When they settle lawsuits with money, you know there are deeper things they don't want to be discovered

I'm so proud of all of you brothers sticking together in the law suit against your employer!!🤗

My brother has Canadian citizenship and was coming to visit me here in the US by car. We are Hispanic...he was treated like a criminal and threatened to be arrested they messed with the engine of his car and when to get got back in it it did not work anymore. He had to call AAA to come to help him.. He waited for hours at the border. He is the most gentle soul, a Christian pastor... it broke my heart he was treated like that. He ended up turning around and going back home to Canada...It was a definite racial profile...

"Complexion codes" Remember that family guy episode when a random cop pulled Peter over and took out a color chart. It was reality.

If this shocks you, you might need to open your eyes...

My mom and I were stopped at the border coming back to the US from Canada. CBP officers made us get out of the car and go inside the office. Searched our car while we were inside. Asked us about 20 questions as if we were taking an exam on the history of the United States. They had the nerve to ask us about past presidents and all kinds of stuff. My mom was sharp as a tack. In her sixties she named the last eight presidents! 🤣 I mean, I was even impressed. 😯 I didn't know any before Jimmy Carter! 🤣 They finally let us go. But, I was so pissed when I returned to my car and discovered that they had helped themselves to our goodies that we were bringing back over from Canada! I had a whole case of unopened water on the backseat floor and they poked a hole in it and took two bottles out. Don't they pay them enough to provide their own water? 🤨 Stole our fruits and veggies also! 😭 They are savage scoundrels! 😈 We didn't want to confront them on their theft because we didn't want to be arrested or held up any longer. We just hit the gas and headed over the border bridge. 🚗 We saw firsthand the racial profiling and entitlement. And that was in 2016! I'm not surprised that it's still going on today along with other corrupt practices. 😈 👀

I'm middle eastern and man I get anxious every time I cross the border. The amount of times I've been surrounded by these officers and walked to their office like a criminal is insane. I work a white collared job and never had the slightest issue with the law my entire life... but yet I'm routinely singled out and embarrassed. I now avoid going to the US as much as possible.

I still remember two agents approaching and asking me for 'my papers' at that very same bus depot in Spokane a few years back. They were smiling as I got my things, before quickly dropping those smiles when I showed them my US passport. Seeing them leave quickly after definitely felt good.

"Does the driver speak English?" "Not very good " Oh the irony.

They do it at this border, especially on both sides. I am putting myself on the record. They profile people, especially Black men. I live in Canada, Windsor, Ontario. I am a Canadian Citizen, but I have been treated differently on the Canadian side of the border by Canadian Immigration officers multiple times. The same with the US immigration officers. This is why I have stopped myself from crossing or travelling to the US and back to Canada to visit family members since 2011, due to the terrible experiences I have had with these people. Besides, some of them are very rude. The power cloud their judgement until they never see Black men as human beings. They asked premediated questions intended to provoke you and to invoke confrontation with them if you are not careful, especially when you are a Black man. In fact, I am not surprised of behaviors of this kind because it shows how some of these officers act in their private lives as racists and anti-immigration, especially toward Black people and Black men or people of color in particular. So, the best way for some of them to implement their agenda is for them to join law enforcement like immigration to target people of color and simply because they would get away. Besides, if you question their bosses about these kinds of attitudes, they would deny or lie. Therefore, I commend these two officers for coming out and for speaking out. And thanks to this reporter for this story.

About ten years ago my brother and I were returning from Caribana in Canada, when we were randomly stop and checked by US border patrol along with about 20 other African Americans. I am proud of you brothers for taking a stand against racism for your people.

I am a 60 year old man growing up in the 60s and 70s there was racism then and it's never going to end you have to stand up for your rights

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This SAME THING happened to me. I'm going through the same thing as this agent. I have a whistleblower complaint. This is literally normal.

I was on a Greyhound in Buffalo NY going to New York City and these Border Patrol Officers got on went passenger by passenger asking them if they were US Residents. When they got to me I refused to answer and told them this is not Nazi Germany and they need to leave me alone. They told me I have to get off the Bus and I refused after a standoff that lasted like 45 minutes 2 Buffalo Police Officers got on the Bus and asked me what was going on so I told them I do not wish to talk to them to please leave me alone I am not a Criminal nore do you have Probable Cause to detain me. They called their Sergeant he came and told them to let him go and The Bus pulled away and everyone started clapping and told me they were so proud I stood up for my rights. We stopped at a rest area so people could get some food and the Busv Driver told me they do this everyday on the Bus and intimidate people and he was happy i stood up for my rights and wished more people would do the same. I made a complaint to Homeland Security but never heard anything back.

I went to Canada about 10 years ago. The occupants of the car behind were of color and I told my passenger "they're going to stop and search our car so they can do the same to the case behind us so it's not profiling." Everyone else was passing right through but I was right. We were stopped and so was the car behind us.

I am a US citizen and I have been profiled several times in the US-Mexico border. You are treated as a second class citizen, all the time, the CBP does not allow you to feel like a citizen with full rights.

This is a great interview, as a black man who travels often thru the US and coming back to Canada, it is a situation that I'm facing 99% of the time. Since there resources to file a complaint, I will definately use this as a template. This needs to end.

In 2000 I was on a charter bus from Vancouver B.C. heading to Seattle to see a football game. At the Blaine border crossing a lone border guard got on and randomly asked people for I.D., I handed him my expired drivers licence. He asked why I hadn't renewed it. I told him I owed the government too much money. He smirked, handed it back and we were on our way. That's how much things have changed!

I lived in Michigan for most of my life and never knew boarder patrol has so much power. This is ridiculous. Something needs to be done.

I love her. She’s excellent on reporting issues.

I was harassed by Border Patrol once here in Laredo Tx. I look outside and I actually see people going about their lives in Mexico. Living next to the border is a trip within itself.

He used border patrol to go after citizens who disagreed with him?! We need to talk about this.

The Complexion codes particularly stood out to me. Sounded like Jim Crow or Apartheid-like colour profiling. How do you justify that? 6:44

“Speaking Spanish which is very unheard of up here”. Is that guy serious? 🤣

I was detained at the Canadian border for driving a exotic rental sports car. I wasn’t speeding or doing anything suspicious, they assumed I was a drug dealer or something. I explained was working for a automotive publication, and the car was a featured item in a future issue. After 30 mins I was free to go.

Some things never change in life,, but when one can exposed wrong doing, that good.

If I was from the USA I'd be very annoyed as to me this is a huge waste of tax payers money, and profiling not only cause the obvious issues we are all aware of, but also poses a threat to public safety. The agents are so preoccupied with profiling they can easily miss or overlook an actual problem/threat. How do they know if I was in the USA I'm there legally, or I'm not smuggling something across the boarder or am planning on commiting a crime simply due to how I look. The fact is they're not doing their job correctly and can actually be putting the public at greater risk by allowing someones complexion determine if more attention is needed instead of the actual things and signs they should be looking for.

I can see why fanatical Evangelicals might hate on Muslims and Atheists in America, but I never understood why wont they help their Mexican Christian Brothers and Sisters. Isn´t Religion supposed to be about Love.

Thank you very much for showing there is injustice everywhere regardless of whether we live in a democracy or not.

My dad and I were stopped at that same border crossing while traveling to Niagara Falls Canada. We showed our American passport to the border agent and he got a nerve to ask me what country is my citizenship and then he told me to park my car for secondary inspection. They searched my car found nothing and I always thought they were being biased then because my dad and I are brown.

As a former truck driver I had the same experience with Canadian border patrol, I had a load of toilet paper that was requested to deliver to Canada. I had all the paperwork necessary, but I still had to go to immigration office to clarify where I was going. I told them the destination on the bill of lading, somehow that wasn't a good enough answer. It's as if they were trying to find something that wasn't there, I said look do you want your toilet paper or not? The Canadian immigration officer said we normally don't have people like you deliver here, at the time I didn't think anything of it, I thought it was just Canadians being anti-American but come to find out they were talkin about my skin tone and this was confirmed by the American border patrol officer, asked me why I was denied entry, I gave him the answer Canadian immigration officer told me, he said, "that is clearly racist" and that came from a pink dude and he was angry. He proceeded to tell me that I could get a waiver, that truck drivers are supposed to be exempt, but I declined not going to waste any more money. I'll never go to Canada or any other country, but my country is no saint anyways, damned-if-you-do damned-if-you-don't. I can never just be human. I will always be considered by the hyponyms that have no basis in reasoning, but only basis in racism. I don't believe in multiple races, science has proven that, clearly the society in which I assimilated wants to be racist and they stole the land from us.

I am Brazilian/Canadian. Whenever I needed to cross border from Victoria, BC to Oak Harbor, WA I had an awful time. I noticed every time I crossed that my SKIN COLOR spoke lauder than everything. Every time when crossing I had to be in a SURVIVAL MODE. Seeing a short documentary like this one gives me a hope that in the future things may be changed.

I’m Mexican and they treated me like a criminal!!! I have no criminal record but they interrogated me and took my car apart.

Thank you for bring this issue to light. Wow.

His story sound like a regular day in Detroit.

Wow I didn't realize this went on at the Canadian border too. I also did not realize that the CBP can operate 100 miles away from the border and participate in other law enforcement activities? That is disturbing. Thanks for the story Dena.

While living in Michigan, my sister was stopped at the border. My brother in law had to drive to their home and find her birth certificate!!! They told her she didn't look American. I was stopped going to Canada, and had to clear out my trunk while they searched my car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I sure did give them the business. It wasn't fair.

The best defense in these situations is, keep your cool till they let you go and expect such incidents in any time of your entire life time.

Wow, so sad this kind of things are still happening in 21st century😔💔

I was a U.K. immigrant with USA visa/green card… my husband at the time wanted to go for a drive, as we were stationed living in Plattsburgh NY, and he drove through the Canadian border and on our way back I was held and questioned for hours as a military wife and new mother they threatened to hold me and send my husband and child home. I was treated as criminal and told I must carry my “papers” and accused of being a spy aged 18. The gung-ho gun swinging attitude is abhorrent. I was continually made an example of at every interaction, meetings, and visa/green card updates. Jumping through hoops and had to follow many instructions verbatim and paid massive amounts to become a Permanent resident. Eventually, I was deported as non-essential and separated from my three young sons who had been kidnapped by my now estranged spouse. Also, my marriage was dissolved in divorce since my husband hadn’t filed it in the country we married 2006. All this despite my father being naturalised citizen and my grandfather was born in the USA.

Malcolm said: "Everything south of Canada and north of Mexico." Now, I have to say: "Everything south of the north pole and north of Mexico, is a sundown town." 😡

Thank you for this and to EVERYONE commenting anywhere against this type of injustice. Ignorance, stupidity and fear (aka racism) will never be a 'thing of the past' but should ALWAYS be put in check because to do nothing allows it to grow and get worse. Covid's not the only virus running wild now, unfortunately.

I tried to cross the border as we were only colored person in front and back of my they did side to stop us and search our car interrogate us and couldn't find anything. I'm glad these gentleman are bringing awareness.

These two guys have all my respect!

The irony of a Qatari owned TV channel calling USA & Canada racist is mind boggling. These people have no shame nor self-awareness.

Canada has always been horrible with this. As a child my family and I traveled to Winnepeg to visit friends there. What made things worse for us is that my stepdad is white and they did not like that fact. This was many years ago, As a teenager in the 80'S I made frequent trips to Thunder Bay Ontario to visit friends there. I went by bus. I lived in Minnesota close to the Canadian border. On one occasion when they boarded the bus, of all of the people on the bus, they chose me to look through my suitcase. I was livid. The bus driver was beyond angry himself because he knew what they were up to.

I’ve been experiencing this problem ever since I can remember, I’m a African American decent, and a trucker by profession I’m constantly being sent to secondary inspections, I don’t have any criminal records, The only thing that I can honestly think of is either the color of my skin, or my name. I’ve tried numerous times contacting the ACLU without any luck, I’m still waiting for the ACLU to contact me

Smart move on Greyhound Bus Company.

It's sad to say that it is awful to be a US citizen when marines are being fired after 17 years of service with no retirement for holding their superiors accountable with what happened in Afghanistan & border control workers are speaking up against the higher system.

I'm a Canadian citizen who was taken in for secondary questioning when I was going for a visit in Colorado through Toronto Pearson Airport. I didn't know it was going to be one of the worst experiences of my life. I was humiliated and lied to, and they asked what my ethnicity was or whether I had a different passport. I did have my Libyan passport but I do my due diligence and so I knew I was requesting entry legally. I was asked questions like "What gives you the right to enter the United States of America" "How can I believe you are not going to stay in the US?" and was told that "You need a visa to enter, every alien needs a visa to enter for any reason" "How do I know you, who is an alien, pose no threat to the United States" all unprovoked and overwhelming. They could not figure out what to pin me with after 3 hours of this, and I do not even have a speeding ticket to my name so I was beyond cooperative so that this can blow over I was thinking to myself. I was wrong. Since I visited the states in 2016, the CBP officer claimed the following "If I was that officer I would have not let you through at all, I don't even know why they did". Without giving me a reason behind the stop or the check or anything else, they claimed on record that I attempted to immigrate to the US on the citation, I did not know this until I got home and researched why by reading my OWN withdrawal of entry. I called the consulate, contacted Homeland security and the CBP and they didn't have an answer for me either. I personally would have not had much issue other than an inconvenience if they mistakenly did this, but the mistreatment, the blatant lies, asking about my background and my family, and the intimidation and belittling of any comment for further clarification based with what I suspected as mistreatment based off my skin color, religion, ethnicity and background. I could not think about this moment without feeling like I was defiled purposefully and that I will never see justice for this, and neither will hundreds like me.

Thank you so much for highlighting this issue at the US/CAN. As a US citizen returning from Canada numerous times I have been profiled and have witnessed other Black and Brown people be humiliated under the false pretense of 'border security'. You feel helpless because you are easily dismissed and ignored, meanwhile these people get away with so much. Every encounter I've had with CBSA I have always been treated like a human being. Never like the experiences with my own country's border agency. Embedded racism from the top down with no real accountability.

Why are people just realizing this now?

More Federal Agents need to act with this level of integrity. They have a choice to fight against tyranny or become the domestic terrorists and enemies of American democracy and justice.

The first time i went to the US in 1987, landing at JFK, you could see the difference in the way a flight from Jamaica was treated, compared with flights from Europe.

Thanks for the details.

Boarder Patrol recruitment slogan, “we looking for good racist patriots”…

I used to be a long haul truck driver. I would cross over from Canada thru windsor to Detroit every week. Im a man of color . The same black officer at the customs booth sent me inside 3 weeks in a row for no reason. My load always cleared. When i went inside with my passport like i was told the officers inside asked why I was sent inside if my load cleared? I replied the officer at the booth sent me in . Each time had nothing to do with my load. They would take a quick look at my id and tell me to leave. 3 weeks in a row the same guy sent me in. I even asked after the 3rd time what is his issue with me?

Watching this makes me feel a range of emotions. Anger, frustration, grief, sadness, anxiety. I’m currently going through an issue with the border for allegedly trying to work remotely with U.S. clients while i’m actually going to see my boyfriend. I’m a self employed wealth coach and digital marketer. They’ve treated me like a criminal and i’ve been denied twice and might not get to see my partner for another 6-12 months. They literally have the power to ruin innocent people’s lives. The first officer that denied me smiled in my face and told me to get a lawyer smh

all thanks to America colonialism and imperialism.

Harassment by law enforcement is not unique to the USA and Canada. It is a universal problem. Some hard truths I have learnt as an adult: 1) Innocent people are more afraid of LE than criminals. 2) They have enough power with them to end your life. 3) Their ego is supported by the badge and the gun they carry. Everyone has an ego but at the end of the day LE have the power, law and equipment to exercise their ego on you. 4) Avoid them as much as possible. 5) If they ask you for an ID, just oblige and be on your way. Your family and yourself is more important than a passing LE officer who just asked for an ID.

Thank you so much for sharing. I had no idea thats this was going on.

Thank God I don't have to deal with this anymore. I am a U.S. Citizen.

I stopped going to Canada I was randomly checked evertime I crossed the border. They would dump everything in my car on the ground. Place me in a room and ask me if was a felon for about an hour. This was eveytime crossed.

This is just so sickening to me. Honestly I'm enraged by the configured impurities that occur to black and brown people. We are the majority, not minority. STAND UP 💪🏾💪🏿💪🏽

finally someone brings awareness to this it's long over due......

If you have power and authority and can't be held accountable you should not operate plain and simple

Thank you for presenting this series.

I'm so happy he's suing and taking a stand! Thank you for being a righteous person, and using your power for the good❣ I hope you all win big.

In the 90's I was profiled and harassed while trying to cross into Canada. They made all kinds of snide comments and more just because I was on a Motorcycle... with my wife! They searched every bag, reached in and felt around in my dirty clothes! I had to open my jacket up, let them see everything. Coming into the US, a guy just said "where ya headed?" and sent us through.

Can't imagine what that black father felt when a gun was pulled on him, with his kids watching. I'm a dad myself. That's crushing man. Props to the whistle blowers and journalist.

When the cops or border patrol pull a car over, how often when the driver reaches for something in the car is it a gun? 5%? 10%? Does it happen often enough for _every_ cop to react to someone _who is already at their mercy_ reaching for their glove box by drawing a weapon on them? Or are cops the ones escalating situations by pulling a gun every time they feel even a little scared?

Canadian border control pull me over. I and filippno friends were felt profiled. They ask questions of course. It took about 45 minutes.Yes, my buddy Ramon made sure how he felt about the situation. It was because of racial discrimination. I have no interest going back to Victoria. My prayers were answered for justices. I of course continue have many blessing.

This rule and LAW has got to go, ASAP!! They are a treat to society!! Bullies with a badges at lose again!!!

Great doc, thank you.

I’m Hispanic. I’m going on a hidden camera investigation.

The racial profiling has been going on for as long as I remember

Yep remember getting asked a bunch of question that a lot of passengers werent getting asked

This is an awesome thing that you are doing. CBP and border patrol need to be held accountable for their actions. Immigration is what made the USA what it is. Entering the USA “legally” is not easy to obtain for most people fleeing their home countries other wise they would do it.

I'm a brown British Muslim that used to live in Canada and often visited the US. Almost every time I visited I would be stopped and asked a million questions while seeing white travellers pass freely. I was never stopped when re-entering Canada. Also, once I entered Norway from Sweden by bus when the UK was still part of the EU (so visa-free travel) with my mum who wears the hijab. When border patrol enter the bus they first ask for all EU passports which they quickly check before checking non-EU passports more thoroughly, however we were still asked questions and checked further while all the white people were not, including a white Australian couple. The only other people that were checked were the only other non-white passengers on the bus.

I don’t understand why comments about the reporters beauty are relevant to the nature of her reporting. It’s creepy, regardless of whether it’s coming from a male or female.

Try living in Alamogordo, NM. It's a hive of city police, county sheriff, state police, CBP, ICE, and forest service LEOs. You can't fart without someone getting called on you.

This is very sad things will only get worse this is the world we live in today thank you so much

Title this as The Real Concentration Camps western media silent about

This happened to me on the Amtrak Train on my way to Montreal Canada. I an American Citizen was visiting on a pleasure trip and underwent extra scrutiny than my white traveling companions. It was so bad that we all had a conversation about it after it was over. They were outraged and embarrassed how bad I was treated by the boarder patrol and customs agents. I was like so embarrassed because everybody in that train car attention was focused dead on me and I just felt like crawling under the seat and hiding. I really felt crushed and humiliated.

Thanks for shedding light on injustice and racism.

I had the same situation. Last year cops pulled me over and check my driver's license twice in week. Since then I can't sleep properly, I m getting blueballs and almost every week diarrhea.

Thank you for your reporting, Al Jazeera

Great interview with the courageous"whistle Blowers." Why is it mostly Blacks putting their lives on the line for freedom in the U.S.? I reflect on the Nina Simone song, " I wish I knew how it would feel to be free. I think of The Jericho Movement, and the Interviewer(Dena) was once again brave and also courageous.

A lot of folks fail to realize that the entire state of Michigan falls within border patrol jurisdiction. Stay safe out there, kids...

It is ashamed that such harassment is still happening in this nation. This nation is built up of many people of different colors but it seems if you are brown or black you have no rights and you can be harassed at any time .

Until these tyrants are held responsible, nothing will change. They have the power to do almost anything they want without repercussion. Just like the agent that got the info back that the man on the bus was legal and clear, but he kept lying to the man and probably doing his best to intimidate him as well. If any single sort of discipline had been implemented on that agent, we would already know about it. And it that exact reason these tyrants continue to do what they do.

Few years ago when my family and I cross border from Canada to USA , USA border always tell us to come in and get our passports for an hour and I see that the passports are on the desk and nothing is being done, after an hour I asked we are ok to go and the officer gave our passport back and said yes, just delaying us for no reason at all.

If that's the worse thing you've been through, be careful what you wish for. We've all been through this

I've been pulled over by a sheriff that simply told me I looked like i was trafficking because I had clothes in the back seat on my way to my mother's house about 3hrs away

It's time for the office of Customs and Border Protection to be disbanded and it's mission re-imagined.

No new news here.. the US has always limited non white immigrants, and especially now with declining white birth rates. M

Funny how when Alex Jones said that we are moving to a police state people called him crazy.

Dena, I commend your humanitarian courage. May G-d protect you in your work.