The RCMP says it’s looking to redeploy up to one-quarter of its eastern region workforce to areas considered an operational priority, including to the Canada-U.S. border.
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump pledged this week to impose 25-per-cent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports until more is done to stem illegal border crossings and drug trafficking.
The threat spurred calls from premiers and opposition leaders for the federal Liberal government to do more to secure Canada’s border.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Canada is a growing concern when it comes to potential terrorists trying to enter the U.S.
“Of the 410 terror suspects stopped at a U.S. land border crossing in the past year, 87% came from Canada,” reported the National Post on Friday.
Eight percent of Los Angeles County is illegal. This is where 800,000 illegal aliens out of an estimated 3 million statewide (the real numbers are likely much higher) have been harbored.
And that may be about to change.
Canada needs to significantly strengthen its border, says a former chief of staff to Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, because it can’t absorb large numbers of migrants who could flee here to evade U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s pledge of mass deportations.
Peter Wilkinson, who recently spent 21 months as Ms. Joly’s top lieutenant and previously served as chief of staff to former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty, said Canadians should be deeply concerned about Mr. Trump’s plan to deport up to 11 million undocumented migrants after he takes office in January.
Germany will promote the inherent value of its “dominant culture” and make migrants assimilate, an MP from the country’s government-in-waiting has said.
In a clear shift from the Angela Merkel era, the centre-right Christian Democrats Union (CDU) has made the concept of “Leitkultur” a key pillar of its manifesto ahead of snap elections in February.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Alexander Throm, the CDU interior affairs spokesman, said Leitkultur was fundamentally the principle that foreigners should adopt German cultural values and not vice versa.
This is a win for the AfD. h/t DS
FREDERICK, Md.—If President-elect Donald Trump ramps up deportations as promised, he will have a strong ally in Chuck Jenkins, the longtime Republican sheriff of Maryland’s Frederick County.
“I’m willing to support the president 100%,” said Jenkins, 68, gravel-voiced with a gray buzzcut. “I want to do more, within the law.”
That prospect is spreading fear in immigrant circles, advocates say, and drawing mixed views from residents in this growing county, which backed Democrats in the last two presidential elections. But Jenkins, once dubbed among the nation’s 10 toughest immigration sheriffs by Fox News, sees Trump’s imminent return to the White House as a mandate for a more assertive approach.
h/t DS
In many ways, Dundrum looks like the average Irish village. There’s a family butcher, a pub called Bertie’s, and rows of squatting slate-grey terraces. Yet walk down the R505, where Dundrum melts into the hedgerows of County Tipperary, and you’ll soon spot something else. There, outside Dundrum House, is an anti-migrant camp. Established back in August, locals are fighting the planned settlement of 277 refugees, with the former hotel set to be converted into an International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) centre.
Dundrum
“Stop forcing these situations on ordinary people.”
Residents of Dundrum are out protesting after the announcement that 280 migrants will be planted in their village of 165 people. pic.twitter.com/KXcfIP2jPm
— MichaeloKeeffe (@Mick_O_Keeffe) July 17, 2024
Donald Trump has announced that, even before he takes office, he has already extracted a promise from the Mexican president to block illegal aliens seeking to pour into the USA.
The federal government’s failure to properly vet and keep track of lawless migrants leads to false claims that the illegal border-crossers are less likely to commit crimes.
In June, Victor Martinez-Hernandez was charged with the murder of a mother of five in Maryland, Rachel Morin. Police in Oklahoma tracked the accused repeat offender down with a sample of his DNA recovered from a Los Angeles home invasion in which a 9-year-old girl and her mother were assaulted. Police say he came to America illegally to escape prosecution for at least one other murder in his native El Salvador in December 2022.
On a late Saturday afternoon, two days before U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened tariffs on Canadian goods over migrants and fentanyl, the RCMP alerted U.S. Border Patrol about a group of people crossing illegally from Quebec into an area near Chateaugay, N.Y.
Border Patrol agents initially spotted the group, but then lost them in the forests along these borderlands. Then, at about 7 p.m. ET, they found a white Acura with New Jersey plates parked on a dirt road near the border. The driver told the agents he was looking for a hotel before driving off.
Canada could make a good start by declaring a moratorium on all immigration, that includes closing the door on benefit shopping “asylum” seekers.
President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to slap a 25% tariff on Mexico’s goods unless it stops fentanyl trafficking and illegal migration risks setting the trade partners on a collision course over an intractable challenge for both countries.
Ahead of the new trade negotiations, Mexico’s greatest weakness has been its historic inability to confront the powerful drug gangs that control about a third of the country. Mexico has had success stopping immigration over the past year, but ending drug smuggling might be an impossible ask, in part because of strong demand in the U.S.
Fentanyl is cheap to produce and easily smuggled. In some large areas of Mexico, organized crime groups dominate local and state officials. Different attempts to fight the gangs, sometimes with U.S. support, have led to violence at home without making any dents on the drug business.
QUEBEC — The best way to take away U.S. president-elect Donald’s Trump’s complaints about the Canadian border is to beef up controls, Premier François Legault said Wednesday.
Arriving for question period at the legislature a few hours before a meeting of Canada’s premiers and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Legault said he expects a concrete plan from Ottawa.
President-elect Donald Trump’s ire toward Mexico for the flow of migrants into the U.S. is nothing new. Now, he has added Canada as a target over the issue.
“As everyone is aware, thousands of people are pouring through Mexico and Canada, bringing Crime and Drugs at levels never seen before,” he asserted on the social media platform Truth Social on Monday. The post also laid out his planned course of action: a 25 percent tariff on all imports from both countries.
Here’s a look at what’s happening at the northern U.S. border.
No question that the Canadian numbers do not approach those of the US-Mexican border but the numbers are increasing and Canada has done very little to secure immigration & refugee” screening while becoming an easy mark for human traffickers.
President-elect Donald Trump’s advisers are discussing how to unilaterally strip federal resources from Chicago and other Democratic-run cities if they refuse to participate in deportations of undocumented immigrants next year, according to three people familiar with the conversations.
Advisers to Trump have pushed for using federal pressure — such as withholding federal funds — against municipalities that don’t cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on deportations, the people said. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe efforts not yet made public.
The more Tom Holman talks the more I like him. Honestly, this was an amazing pick. pic.twitter.com/cS6cWPWI8N
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) November 26, 2024
The incoming Trump administration plans to send families to internment camps, deport 12 million undocumented people, and to end temporary protected status (TPS), a designation for migrants who cannot safely return home. Some of these people will have well-founded refugee claims and will look to Canada.
As refugee lawyers, we heard countless stories from clients during the first Trump administration who initially arrived in the U.S. but did not remain there. Trump’s anti-migrant rhetoric and policies propelled them to cross into Canada, many at Roxham Road.
Must be worried they’re going to lose business if Canada cooperates with Trumps sensible plans.
