The Naufrage of Belgium Is a Wake-Up Call for Europe

There are moments when a nation seems to drift, slowly and imperceptibly, into breakdown. Like Mike Campbell in Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises, Belgium has done it “gradually, then suddenly.” The country, once the heart of Europe’s industrial miracle and the quiet administrative seat of the EU, is in big trouble. If Brussels once wished to become the Eurocrats’ Rome, an imperial capital of the new, boring, technocratic imperium that is the Union, the country has, instead, faced a storm of genuinely Gibbonian decay. In Belgium, one senses a fatigue that is deeper than political scandal or economic stagnation. It is the fatigue of a state that no longer quite believes it can govern itself.

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Federal agents arrest 130 people in Charlotte immigration crackdown

Federal agents have arrested 130 people in two days in Charlotte, North Carolina, the latest city to face President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration, according to a US official.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), told the BBC that a number of the people arrested are criminals and gang members. But local leaders say the operation is doing more harm than good.

DHS said a US citizen allegedly injured an officer by ramming a law enforcement vehicle with their car.

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Fortifications go up in town where thousands protested against plans to house 600 lone male asylum seekers in army camp

Workers have begun converting an army barracks into accommodation for 600 male asylum seekers – despite furious opposition from locals in the small town next door.

Residents are in revolt over the plans for Crowborough Army Training Camp in East Sussex, with 2,000 people flooding the streets for a noisy protest yesterday.

But work has started to prepare the site, with a secondary security fence and residential huts erected, communal bins installed and high-speed fibre cabling laid out.

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Federal refugee employment program faces ‘extremely long, ballooning wait times’

Instead of waiting months, a federal program is now taking years to process the applications of refugees who are living overseas and have a job waiting for them in Canada.

As a result, some Canadian businesses are unable to fill positions, while skilled refugees are also in limbo and risk exploitation, arrest or detention.

In 2018, the federal government launched the Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot (EMPP) for employers facing skill shortages to recruit internationally from within refugee populations. If approved, the individual is given permanent residency and can immigrate to Canada with their spouse and children.


No Canadian citizens to train? BS.  This is just another cheap foreign labour scam.

“Canadian Business’ should not be involved in setting immigration policy.

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Underwhelming truth about the Danes’ ‘successful’ asylum policies

THE Home Secretary and others, including former Conservative leader Lord Hague, have suggested copying Danish asylum policies. But which of these policies, if any, have actually worked for Denmark?

From confiscating asylum seekers’ jewellery to negotiating offshore processing in Africa, Denmark has enacted some of Europe’s strictest measures in pursuit of a ‘zero asylum seekers’ goal. Supporters credit these tactics for driving asylum claims down to a 40-year low. Yet a closer look at key initiatives shows their impact is far less dramatic than promised.

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Border czar Tom Homan blasts Catholic bishops over deportations

White House border czar Tom Homan criticized the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on Friday after they issued a statement earlier this week opposing “the indiscriminate mass deportation of people.”

“The Catholic Church is wrong,” Homan told reporters at the White House. “I’m a lifelong Catholic, but I’m saying it not only as a border czar, but I’m also saying this as a Catholic,” he added.

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On the beach where Britons cross the Channel to shout at migrants

Migrant Horde in France are fed while awaiting transport to England

The voices are quiet at first and then loud all at once. On the vast empty beach of Gravelines in northern France, as an orange morning sun rips through grey clouds, two men prowl the dunes. In a few minutes they cross the beach, filming everything on a GoPro, iPhones in hand, stopping occasionally to pick at coats, trainers, sweatshirts, and empty teargas canisters that litter the sand.

Danny Thomas from Portsmouth and Ryan Bridge from Birmingham are filming content for their Instagram pages, one of which is “Raise the Colours”, the account behind this summer’s surge in Union Jacks, of which Bridge is a co-founder.

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Trump to Britain: ‘If you don’t get them out, you’re not going to have a country left’

‘If you don’t get them out you’re not going to have a country left’: Donald Trump says Britain should deport illegal immigrants as soon as they arrive – and that Europe ‘is not the same place’ anymore

US President Donald Trump has said the UK must follow America’s hard line on immigration or ‘you’re not going to have a country left’.

He praised his own immigration policies, claiming he had reduced people entering the US illegally to ‘zero’, adding the UK must ‘take [migrants] back immediately’.

Speaking to GB News, he called for Keir Starmer’s government to deploy the military to tackle the small boats problem in a wide-ranging interview that also saw him threaten again to sue the BBC for up to $5 billion.

Full interview, he slams BBC

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Members of MS-13, now a Foreign Terrorist Org, prosecuted for brutal murders, fentanyl trafficking

Federal, state and local law enforcement officers continue to target Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) U.S.-Salvadoran transnational gang members nationwide.

MS-13 was designated as a foreign terrorist organization earlier this year. The gang originated in Los Angeles in the 1980s to protect Salvadoran illegal foreign nationals but later expanded its criminal enterprise. Its members engage in “campaigns of violence and terror in the United States and internationally” and present “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States,” President Donald Trump said in a June MS-13 FTO order.

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Indian man won’t get $15K back for ‘illegal contract’ with Alberta immigration fixer

An Indian man who paid a fixer $15,000 in a failed attempt to extend his work permit in Canada entered into an “illegal contract” and is not entitled to get his money back, according to a recent decision from Alberta’s Court of Justice.

Ritik Sibbal sued Rajiv Chourhary Nathyal because the letter of endorsement from the City of Grande Prairie that Nathyal had agreed to help him obtain never materialized.

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Confronting Anti-Ellis Island Immigration

Ellis Island built a nation through law and order; Biden’s border chaos dismantled it with lawlessness, division, and the greatest illegal influx in U.S. history.

Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S.—or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year.

All were registered, documented, and given rudimentary health exams.

They arrived as rich and poor, white and non-white, and, without exception, legally.

With the gradual decline of such great influxes, Ellis Island finally ceased operating roughly 71 years ago.

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Report: 75% of Offenders in Retail Crime in Germany Have Migration Background

According to a recent report commissioned by trade association GCSP, offenses and aggression in German shopping centers are on the rise, with 75% of perpetrators identified as having a migration background. The GCSP warns that this trend is creating a sense of lack of safety among staff and customers, compounded by inconsistent law enforcement.

Last Saturday in Stuttgart, a 37-year-old Romanian man caught shoplifting attempted to punch a store detective and resisted arrest even after police arrived.

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Time for the UK To Declare a State of National Emergency?

The murder of little children by Alex Rudakubana in Southport, England, on the 29th of July 2024 feels almost like ancient history now. Nearly every day Brits learn of another stabbing of innocent people on the streets of their country by individuals who, well, let’s just say aren’t wearing corduroys and tweed jackets.

A man was murdered and two other civilians (including a child) were injured from knife wounds by an Afghani in Uxbridge at the end of last month. Earlier that month, a gang of Kurdish illegal immigrants roamed Dorset’s seaside town of Boscombe attacking people with machetes. This month, an ethnically Caribbean man knifed people on a train pulling into Huntingdon railway station. We have grown accustomed to such violence as an everyday trait of modern British life.

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