Apologists for people-smugglers

Human-rights lawyers need to stop making excuses for the English Channel traffickers.

Last week, the UK government’s Illegal Migration Bill passed its second reading in the House of Commons, by 312 votes to 250. The controversial bill would allow for the detention of any migrant entering the UK through illegal means, such as on a small boat over the English Channel. Under the bill, migrants arriving illegally in Britain would also be denied access to asylum and to lawyers, and would be automatically deported to the nearest safe country.

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Why ̷a̷s̷y̷l̷u̷m̷ ̷s̷e̷e̷k̷e̷r̷s̷ benefit shoppers are choosing Canada in record numbers

Last year, nearly 40,000 migrants crossed into Canada at an unofficial border at the end of a remote rural road in upstate New York – a record number – to seek asylum. Many are driven by the belief that the country is more welcoming than the US. But can Canada handle the influx?

On a snowy winter day, Roxham Road is cold and quiet. The silence is interrupted by the sound of wheels approaching the end of the path, or the crunching of footsteps on snow.

Around 150 migrants are dropped off here each day, determined to step foot into Canada. Many began their journey as far away as Brazil, with this road in New York state as their finish line.

… Some pinned its sudden popularity to fears of deportation from the US under the Trump administration, others to a tweet by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that read: “To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you”.

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70 Migrants on Terrorist Watch List Apprehended this Year After Crossing Border

Border Patrol agents along the Mexican and Canadian borders apprehended 70 migrants who crossed between ports of entry so far this fiscal year. This compares to the record-shattering apprehensions last year of 98 migrants on the FBI’s list for the entire FY22. The five-month total also exceeds all four years of the Trump administration combined.

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‘State of shock’: As Canada ramps up immigration, unsuspecting newcomers are running into inflation shock from soaring prices

A year after hearing “welcome home” for the first time at the Canadian border, Shahzad Gidwani found himself questioning whether he and his wife made the right decision to start a new life here.

The timing wasn’t ideal, arriving in Toronto from India with their son just as the pandemic began sweeping the globe. Yet the 53-year-old held high hopes for his family’s future. He was bringing with him decades of international work experience in sales and marketing, and a master’s degree in business from the U.S.


You mean inflation from the soaring prices of the housing shortage they’re helping create?

Why are they here? I don’t think Canada has a massive shortage of “sales and marketing” people with or without dime a dozen “masters degrees” either.

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Ontario set to double numbers of economic immigrants under federal agreement

Ontario is set to double the number of economic immigrants it welcomes to the province under an agreement with the federal government to boost the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program.

The federal and provincial immigration ministers are announcing today that the province will have more than 18,000 spots under the program in 2025.

Not getting enough Roxham Road coders?

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‘People Just Flocked’: DCNF Reporter Describes Canadian Border Chaos With People Crossing ‘Both Ways’

A Daily Caller News Foundation reporter said Friday that the northern border of the United States was chaos with migration going “both ways.”

“On my northern border trip, I didn’t realize how many people were coming both ways,” DCNF investigative reporter Jennie Taer said on the Timcast podcast on YouTube. “So, what I did while I was down there or up there, is I took a bunch of taxis filled with people from all over the world, they just filled up. People just flocked to them at the airport, at bus stops.”

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Britain is addicted to mass migration – and it is not racist to say this must change

Politicians haven’t just lost control of the Channel: the huge scale of legal immigration is being allowed to continue with little scrutiny

There was something horribly ironic about Gary Lineker claiming to “speak up for those poor souls who have no voice” on the question of immigration, after effectively trying to silence dissenters with comparisons to 1930s Germany. He was right in one sense – there is a group of people who don’t have a voice on this issue – but they certainly aren’t the ones Gary’s advocating for.

No, it’s the silent majority with legitimate concerns about mass, uncontrolled migration who have been cut out of the debate by elites who consider it crass to want to manage Britain’s borders. They are the ones hounded and patronised into submission by supposedly “tolerant” liberals who use their sense of moral superiority to justify political browbeating. And this tactic, which has been hugely successful in shutting down the national debate, helps to explain why the Conservative Party has failed to get a grip on post-Brexit immigration.

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‘It’s Like a Graveyard’: Record Numbers of Migrants Are Dying at the U.S. Border

EAGLE PASS, Texas—Local officials keep a refrigerated truck to hold the bodies of migrants who drown in the currents of the Rio Grande while trying to cross the border into the U.S.

Across the river, families having picnics or walking along the waterfront promenade of Piedras Negras, Mexico, say they sometimes see bodies floating by or bobbing among the reeds under a bridge. “We had times when we received four or five bodies a week,” said Hugo González, owner of Funerarias González in Piedras Negras. “At one point, there were a lot of corpses and there was nowhere to put them. We just didn’t have enough refrigerators at the funeral home.”

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Indian students face exit from Canada over fake papers

More than 150 Indian students have been told to leave the country by the Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA), which says they arrived in the country on forged college admission letters.

The students say they were unaware of the forgeries and insist they were duped by their immigration consultation agency in India that provided them the document.

Many who received the eviction letters are now embarrassed to come forward – living in a Western country is seen as a matter of prestige by many Indian families, especially in the state of Punjab where Dimple K is from.

“My mind is dark. I cannot move forward, nor go back,” said Dimple. She has been living in Canada on a student visa since 2017.

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Canada to deport 700 Indian students as visa documents found to be fake

Chandigarh: The Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA) has issued deportation notices to over 700 Indian students whose admission offer letters to educational institutions were found to be fake.

Talking to indianarrative.com on phone from Toronto, Chaman Singh Batth said that after passing +2, about 700 students applied for study visa through Education Migration Services, Jalandhar headed by one Brijesh Mishra. These visa applications were filed in 2018 onwards till 2022.

What a mess. h/t DM

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Here’s the deal on Roxham Road

For years, Canada has wanted the United States to change a key border agreement in order to shut down irregular border crossings, notably Quebec’s Roxham Road, but the U.S. didn’t want to make a deal.

Now, there is something President Joe Biden wants: help in dealing with the United States’ own southern border and with migration across the hemisphere.

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‘Absolute madness’: Massive horde of migrants storm El Paso border checkpoint in brazen attempt to enter the US

A massive group of around 1,000 migrants were caught on camera attempting to rush the U.S. southern border from Mexico on Sunday afternoon.

Video captured by a Fox News reporter saw hordes of migrants rushing a border checkpoint from Juarez, Mexico into El Paso, Texas.

Footage sees the group, which consists of mostly of young men but also includes women and young children, running along a border road as they attempted to overwhelm those at official check points as they made their way through the port of entry in El Paso in an effort to get into the United States.

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