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Reality television is all about winning over viewers with risk-taking, but one Australian show went a little too far.

The show, called "Go Back to Where You Came From," nearly killed several of its participants when it reportedly dragged them through an active Syrian war zone.

In a trailer for the upcoming season, Kurdish militants escort three of the show’s personalities across the Iraqi-Syrian border. Roughly half a mile from Islamic State (IS) positions, guns start firing at them. A voice calls out, “They’re coming for us!”

The Kurdish fighters and camera crew then rush the group out of a damaged village and have them crouch behind a wall, wearing little more protection than flak jackets. One participant later remarked that it was “a lot more than we bargained for.”

That’s putting it mildly.

The show is a three-part reality series aimed at sparking a conversation on immigration by sending six Australians to see refugee conditions in person.

At the center of the program is a hope to further the very real national debate about Australia’s asylum policy. Following a 2010 disaster where the bodies of asylum seekers set for Australia washed up on the shore of Christmas Island, many have pushed the country to change one of the harshest border policies in the world. The now-adopted “stop the boats” policy turns away would-be refugees altogether, and then forces them into detention centers.

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