The first bus filled with dozens of illegal immigrants from Texas arrived in Washington, DC, Wednesday, one week after Gov. Greg Abbott vowed to transport migrants in the US illegally to the nation’s capital as the immigration crisis along the southern border grows.
The bus arrived in Washington around 8 a.m., parking blocks away from the US Capitol in front of the building that houses Fox News, NBC News and C-SPAN.
Canada’s finance minister has described the country’s out-of-control housing prices as an “intergenerational injustice”, as political leaders struggle to rein in a spiralling affordability crisis.
Chrystia Freeland, who also serves as Canada’s deputy prime minister, said the issue is her top domestic concern.
… “We cannot have the fastest growing population in the G7 without also having the fastest growing housing stock,” she said.
And their intervention in the market is going to solve the problem they themselves created.
Alrighty.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wasn’t bluffing when he said he would bus illegal aliens dropped off by the federal government in small Texas communities to Washington, D.C. Apparently, DHS simply dropped the illegals off without warning and without asking permission. Many Texas towns were blindsided by Joe Biden’s “catch and release” policy and were begging Abbott for help.
Tech group wants new visa for skilled workers to enter country without a job offer
TORONTO – A group representing 150 of Canada’s fastest growing and most promising technology companies wants the federal government to pilot a new visa stream allowing high-skilled tech workers to enter the country without a job offer.
The visa proposed Thursday by the Council of Canadian Innovators would target in-demand professions like software developers and data scientists, allow recipients to work, switch jobs or employers and help them extend their stay and attain permanent residency without needing to switch into another visa category.
Canada’s self-image is that of a country welcoming to immigrants, where newcomers are tightly woven into the national fabric. But, results of a recent survey suggest that at least some new immigrants are souring on Canada. A Leger poll commissioned by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship (ICC) found that 30 per cent of new Canadians aged 18 to 34 said they were likely to move to another country within the next two years. Even for new Canadians who are university graduates, the percentage of those saying they wanted to leave was 23 per cent. ICC CEO Daniel Bernhard said that he believes some new immigrants are experiencing a “crisis of confidence” in their new country. Ironically, while 72 per cent of new Canadians thought that Canadians as a whole don’t understand the challenges new immigrants face, only 54 per cent of Canadians shared this opinion.
Young immigrants may leave Canada due to high cost of living: survey
A new poll suggests 30 per cent of new, young immigrants to Canada could leave the country in the next two years.
According to a national survey conducted by Leger for the Institute for Canadian Citizenship (ICC), 30 per cent of new Canadians aged 18-34, and 23 per cent of university-educated new Canadians, said they are likely to move to another country in the next two years.
While the Canadian adults and new Canadians surveyed both generally believed Canada provided a good quality of life for immigrants, researchers said Canadians were more likely to have a positive outlook on Canada’s prospects for immigrants than the immigrants themselves.
I don’t think it a secret that many immigrants view Canada as a waystation on their way to the US.
Policy-makers should pay attention to per capita GDP before they rush to encourage more immigration.
The recent release of the Census Bureau’s population estimates, which show the U.S. population has grown by “only” 393,000 between 2020 and 2021, has prompted a number of commentators to argue that we need more immigration to increase population growth. Otherwise, we are told, the country will be “older, less productive, and less dynamic.”
The view that “population growth is inextricably linked to economic growth,” while widespread, is mistaken for several reasons. Although immigration can certainly increase a country’s population, it is well established that it has only a small impact on the share of the population that is working-age. And while slower population growth—and the societal aging that generally accompanies it—will certainly require some adjustments, our economic future is not bleak on that account. Equally important, having a more stable population offers some significant benefits that population-boosters overlook.
Canada wants to welcome 1.3 million newcomers over three years — but can its immigration system keep up?
Canada Trudeauscu’ handlers plan to welcome more than 1.3 million new immigrants to the country over the next three years to help its economy recover from COVID-19 and to drive future growth.
Immigration Minister Sean Fraser’s multi-year immigration-levels plan was announced Monday.
“If we’re not ready to significantly increase our ambition when it comes to immigration, we are going to be in a position where our economy will suffer, and it could put into jeopardy so many of the public services and social supports that make me very proud to be Canadian,” Fraser said.
But the plan comes amid calls from critics for the federal government to first reduce the ballooning backlog of 1.8 million applications piling up in the system as a result of slowed processing capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mass immigration does not benefit Canadians. It benefits Trudeau’s handlers.
Hey let’s make that housing shortage even worse! See how it works? You pay and pay and pay while Trudeau’s crony capitalists get rich.
Ontario’s plan to build 1.5m homes isn’t possible, says @BMO. The big bank believes "Canada’s latest problem is about excess demand." It blames the Bank of Canada's missteps. Via @BetterDwelling #BCpoli #torontorealestate #onpoli #Vanre #vanpoli https://t.co/4npvVFcRvc pic.twitter.com/1YACIHsV42
— DouglasTodd (@DouglasTodd) February 14, 2022
Average Canadian home price hit $748,450 in January, up 21% in past year
The Canadian Real Estate Association says home sales in January fell compared with a year earlier, but still posted their second-best showing for the month as the average price climbed to a new record.
The association says actual sales in January totalled 33,166, down 10.7 per cent from 37,137 in January 2021.
OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the national population almost hit 37 million last year as it grew at the fastest rate among G7 nations.
… Statistics Canada says there were about 1.8 million more people calling the country home in 2021 compared with 2016, with four in every five being immigrants.
How have you benefitted from Trudeau’s mass immigration policy?
Let’s see…
In 1853, Frederick Douglass wrote of cities in the North:
Every hour sees the black man elbowed out of employment by some newly arrived emigrant, whose hunger and whose color are thought to give him a better title to the place.
With only a handful of interruptions, black workers have faced the same situation for nearly two centuries — mass immigration of foreigners whom employers prefer to black workers, pushing them to the back of the hiring line.
After demonizing Border Patrol agents and nullifying legal border enforcement as a profession, Biden officials were surprised and ‘exasperated’ to find that Border Patrol agents weren’t applauding them.
That was what Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Border Patrol chief Raul Ortiz found when they decided to visit Border Patrol stations in Laredo, Texas, and Yuma, Arizona, supposedly to take the temperature of the troops at the sharp end of the mighty border surges.
Videos leaked out of the meetings and they did not go well.
While Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi go all out to protect Ukraine’s national sovereignty, at the same time they are orchestrating a clandestine invasion of America across the southern border.
Two million illegal immigrants from dozens of countries crossed over from Mexico last year, and the Biden administration is facilitating the cartels’ people-smuggling operation — at taxpayer expense.
Todd Bensman, who’s doing yeoman’s work on the international rackets enabling big migrant surges at the U.S. border, has found the United Nations at the nexus of the matter, aiding and abetting illegal immigration into the U.S., and not for the first time.
Anti-racism advocates call for educational reform after concerning immigration assignment
Advocacy groups are calling on a number of organizations, including the education department and school districts to undertake an anti-racism educational reform.
The recommendations from the groups come a week after CBC News posted a story about a junior high school assignment that asked students to write down why immigrants and refugees should and should not be allowed into the country, using the textbook.
University professors called the assignment racist and were concerned with the textbook’s suggestions for opposing migration: newcomers “may take jobs away from resident Canadians,” and “Some immigrants draw on social welfare programs and services,” according to the textbook.
The Horror! They strayed from the Liberal-left “narrative!”
University professors, the media and the usual cast of vote whoring politicians who seek to criminalize dissent are the problem not an honest discussion of immigration policy.
Immigration policy should benefit a nation’s citizens. In Canada it benefits the political & corporate classes at our expense.
The South China Morning Post published a disturbing story recently about an immigration to Canada scheme involving bogus credentials.
“Hongkongers keen to move to Canada offered MBAs for cash, without classes or homework,” read the headline to a January 8 story. “For the tidy sum of up to HK$250,000 (US$32,000) emigration firms offer no-show degrees and experts to write dissertations for ‘postgraduate students’,” it said.
