Granting legal status to Venezuelans won’t fix the problem
Scenes of chaos on the southern border of the United States have been a recurrent spectacle of the Biden administration. But in recent weeks, the challenge has become a lot worse: big cities and small towns across the country are experiencing a significant influx of migrants.
Immigration is neither as good for Canada as recent federal government pronouncements would suggest nor as bad as some critics might claim. The best economic evidence suggests that, in the long run, immigration has limited impact on the average Canadian’s wages or job prospects. Immigration boosts the economy, but it increases our population, too, leaving the average Canadian’s living standards more or less unchanged.
Yet these long-run averages mask the fact that specific policies create winners and losers. A government that ignores the fact that immigration can have costs risks making two mistakes. First, it might uncritically accept the arguments made by those who stand to benefit from immigration. Second, if it does not take the downside risks of specific immigration policies seriously, it might not act to mitigate them.
Germany’s left-wing Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has suggested extending the right to vote to foreigners in local elections, including those who may only have been in the country for as little as six months.
It is the RCMP’s most famous outpost, where Canadians and the world have grown used to seeing migrants crossing into the country on foot for protection.
For years, the images of desperate asylum seekers with luggage — and children — in tow walking into Canada and being greeted by uniformed officers have been plastered on front pages of newspapers here and abroad.
TPS or Temporary Protected Status is one of the worst scams in the immigration system. TPS is extended to immigrants from dysfunctional countries, like say Haiti, pretty much indefinitely giving illegal aliens from those countries legal status and the ability to work. TPS has become a backdoor amnesty.
Eagle Pass Mayor Rolando Salinas Jr. said he believes “100%” that President Joe Biden is at fault for the recent increase in immigrants in his border town.
The city is on the banks of the Rio Grande and recently issued an emergency declaration over the 4,000 foreign nationals that illegally crossed the river between ports of entry and under the international bridge. It is set to expire in seven days from Thursday. Salinas was asked during an interview if he faulted Biden for the sudden increase.
Texas installed razor wire in Eagle Pass to stop illegal crossings.
Today the Biden Admin CUT that wire, opening the floodgates to illegal immigrants.
I immediately deployed more Texas National Guard to repel illegal crossings & install more razor wire. pic.twitter.com/eMtLS8Z6WI
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) September 20, 2023
The majority of individuals issued deportation orders by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) are believed to still be in the country, according to internal government data.
Between Jan. 1 and May 24 of this year, 1,004 deportation orders were issued, of which 185 recipients complied. Enforcement agents removed another 168 individuals, with the rest still in Canada, according to data contained in an order paper requested by Calgary-Shepard Tory MP Tom Kmiec.
A clip of comedian Louis C.K. on the Joe Rogan show has been circulating on X (formerly Twitter) this week in which he goes on and on about how opening up the southern border would be a good thing because Americans shouldn’t have such a high standard of living compared to the rest of the world, how poor people in other countries just want what Americans have, and how it’s not fair that we have so much. “It shouldn’t be so great here,” he says. So open the border and let them pour in.
My friend John who lives near Eagle Pass just sent me this from today. I’ve covered the border for roughly 20 years and it’s never been as bad as it has been under the Biden admin. This is Biden’s policy-this is absolutely a dereliction of of duty, Nat Sec, humanitarian disaster pic.twitter.com/FHwOe3u299
— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) September 20, 2023
Toronto’s ombudsman is launching an investigation into the city’s decision to deny refugee claimants space in city shelters and direct them to federal programs.
Ombudsman Kwame Addo says the investigation will determine whether the city met its obligations to treat the claimants and asylum seekers looking for a shelter bed with fairness, dignity, respect and care.
Ottawa forecasts 1.4 million international student applications a year by 2027, document shows
The number of foreign students applying to come to Canada each year is forecast by the federal immigration department to rise to 1.4 million by 2027, an internal policy document says, which also raises concerns that such growth is “unsustainable.”
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada forecast the rapid rise in the number of foreign students in a paper last month about establishing a class of “trusted” universities and colleges, which would qualify for faster processing of international student study permits.
Chaos erupted outside a Staten Island shelter for migrants as protesters tried to stop asylum seekers from moving in.
About 10 protesters were arrested on Tuesday outside a former Island Shores Assisted Living Facility in Midland Beach, where a crowd met migrants with chants including, ‘Take them back, Take them back.’
Footage from the scene shows protesters banging on the bus windows as they tried to prevent the migrants from disembarking and entering the shelter.
Staten Island NY. ( full video)
Choas erupts at the Midland Beach Nursing home after residents blocked a bus full of migrants from being housed at the location. Multiple arrests broke out.
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Places like New York are struggling to deal with an influx of migrants
If it were not so tragic, it would be funny. For years the progressive Left — in the US as well as across the West — has boasted about its willingness to accept people even if they have arrived in America illegally. With over one million having crossed the border illegally since Joe Biden took office — and their numbers are rising — the facade of the sanctuary city is falling apart.
A sexual assault expert testifying at the British Columbia Supreme Court trial of a man accused of killing a 13-year-old girl six years ago says she believes the girl’s injuries were “highly indicative of blunt force trauma.”
Dr. Tracy Pickett, a doctor specializing in emergency and clinical forensic medicine, says it is unlikely those injuries, to the girl’s vagina, came from a small object such as a tampon, and is more consistent with penial penetration.
Ibrahim Ali has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of the teen, whose body was found in Burnaby’s Central Park early on July 19, 2017, just hours after her mother reported her missing.
What we know about the man India allegedly killed on Canadian soil
… He came to Canada in 1997, Global reported, and claimed refugee status, having used a false passport to enter the country.
His refugee claim was rejected, but 11 days after that, he married a woman who sponsored him for immigration. That, too, was rejected, although Nijjar called himself a Canadian citizen, and Trudeau referred to him as such in the House of Commons on Monday.
Not a Canadian citizen, just a suspected terrorist and murderer on the run who used Canada as a doormat just like Trudeau does.
Many other nations have assassinated troublesome types abroad. Some Canada considers allies.
Few complain that Israel offed the Munich terrorists wherever they found them.
Trudeau’s selective faux outrage is disingenuous given Canada chose sides in this conflict and offered a safe haven to Khalistani separatists.
Trudeau hoped this announcement would deflect from his horrid domestic predicament and it will but only to illustrate what a sorry hypocrite he is for having sought to wrap himself in the flag in a desperate attempt to boost his flatlining popularity and divert attention from the LPC’s corrupt links with Communist China.
Given the animosity between China and India it is reasonable to wonder if Trudeau isn’t acting on Xi Jinping’s intruction or on his own initiative to embarrass India and score Brownie points with his ChiCom friends.
After all it is alleged the CSIS China leaks were due to the Trudeau government’s efforts to restore “normal relations” with Communist China despite their having taken two Canadian citizens hostage and resolute commitment to undermine Canadian sovereignty.
When it comes to Trudeau no motive is too low to be ruled out.
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