Frostbite and fear: Inside a journey into Canada with human smugglers

Two young women and a young boy stand to the right of a man in a black tie and a suit jacket. An older man stands to the man's right.

Chidi Nwagbo says he made a “stupid” decision to pay human smugglers to get him into Canada from the U.S. to avoid sweeping immigration crackdowns. The freezing February journey left him permanently scarred, in the custody of the very U.S. immigration authorities he was trying to flee and he now faces deportation to Nigeria.

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