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Why Is Trump Identifying the U.S.-Canada Border as a Problem?

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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Canada, USA

John Ivison: Trump’s tariffs are shameful, but Canada has given him easy targets

Blinkered partisanship often blinds people to the fact that two things can be true at once.

You can be critical of the Liberal government’s drug and immigration policies and still believe that Donald Trump’s threat to impose 25-per-cent tariffs on America’s closest ally and second-largest trading partner is shameful.

The stakes for Canada couldn’t be higher. Trump could be bluffing, but the currency markets were spooked enough to send the Canadian dollar to a four and a half year low. Economist Trevor Tombe estimated that 25-per-cent across-the-board tariffs would send the country into recession.

30%? 40%? Mark my words Trudeau will deliberately make things worse in the hope he see’s a poll bump.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

GUNTER: Time to get serious about immigration if we want to avoid Trump’s tariffs

President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods entering the U.S. as of his first day in office has to be taken seriously. Seventy-eight percent of our exports (and about 42% of our economy) are based on trade with the U.S.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Freeland, LeBlanc insist Canada’s border is secure, despite Trump’s allegations and 25% tariffs

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government on Tuesday defended Canada’s border integrity.

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday said he would impose 25% tariffs on his first day in office due to excessive drug trafficking and illegal immigrants coming across America’s northern and southern borders.

Canada’s border is secure? That’s a delusional statement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

As Trump threatens tariffs against Canada and Mexico, here are five things we know so far

President-elect Donald Trump is vowing to impose tariffs of 25 per cent on all goods coming from Canada and Mexico on his first day back in the White House, until the U.S.’s two neighbouring countries stop all migrants and fentanyl from entering the nation.

Mr. Trump made the announcement at 6.35 p.m. Monday on his Truth Social platform, firing an opening salvo in the global trade war that he has long promised in his second term as U.S. president.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

They’re STILL Counting Votes, but Four Million Are Still Missing

The presidential election of 2024 was three weeks ago, but as of Tuesday morning, New Jersey has still counted only 91% of the votes that were cast (or something) there. California and Oregon have only gotten around to counting 93%. And so, several times a day, the popular vote totals for Donald Trump and Kamala Harris continue to be adjusted. Trump still has a comfortable lead, but Harris has (surprise, surprise) been steadily narrowing that lead. On what is quaintly still referred to as Election Day, Trump’s popular vote lead was about 4.5 million; now it’s down to 2.4 million and decreasing, but should still hold. The real question is: What happened to the four million voters who turned out for Old Joe Biden in 2020 but were nowhere to be found in 2024.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, USA

Trump proves he is serious on tariffs – but it’s not about trade

Is Donald Trump serious about tariffs? This has been the question hanging over not just world markets but the whole world of economics.

The popular wisdom had become that he wasn’t really that serious, and the key bit of evidence for that was his nomination of hedge fund investor Scott Bessent as his Treasury Secretary, someone seen as a moderate when it came to tariffs compared with others whose names were floated for the role.

The answer overnight, though, was pretty brutal. Yes, he is serious, and in the most unexpected way. By choosing to target Mexico and Canada as well as China, he is confirming threats made on the campaign trail that appeared the most fanciful.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, President Trump, USA

“Refugee Lawyers” – Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown: Here’s what it means for Canada

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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Canada, USA

How mailmen saved rural America

Amazon will never be neighbourly

“You have to be a neighbour to have a neighbour.” That’s Mark Jamison’s mantra — and he should know. Until he retired, after all, the 68-year-old was the postmaster in Webster, a small town enveloped by the mist and hollers of North Carolina’s Great Smoky Mountains. And while he surely dealt with letters and parcels, townsfolk brought Jamison their troubles too. The title of postmaster, he says, “gives you some heft” in a quiet place like Webster, where he was the only representative of the federal government. Between sorting mail, that authority meant he also wrote money orders for people who couldn’t read, or else deciphered tax statements. Sometimes, he just offered advice to the downtrodden or simply loosened the jars of old ladies driving home from the store.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Donald Trump promises 25 per cent tariff on products from Canada, Mexico

Donald Trump has levelled his most severe threat against Canada in years, warning that on his very first day on office he might impose punishing economic sanctions across North America.

The U.S. president-elect threatened Monday evening to slap a 25 per cent import tariff on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico on Jan. 20, 2025, his inauguration day.

He delivered the warning via his social media platform Truth Social, in a post that began with a complaint about migration and drugs spilling across both the northern and southern border into the U.S. Then he foreshadowed a damaging import fee that would drive up costs for Canadian and Mexican exporters, making their products less attractive while also potentially raising costs for American consumers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Why illegal alien invaders from India are risking it all to chase the American Dream

In October, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) sent a chartered flight carrying Indian nationals back home, marking a growing trend in deportations to India.

This was no ordinary flight – it was one of multiple large-scale “removal flights” carried out this year, each typically carrying more than 100 passengers. The flights were returning groups of Indian migrants who “did not establish a legal basis to remain in the US”.

According to US officials, the latest flight carrying adult men and women was routed to Punjab, close to many deportees’ places of origin. No precise breakdown of hometowns was provided.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Camp Of The Saints, Canada, USA

Canada’s 1st female defence chief ‘can’t believe’ U.S. senator would question a woman’s role in combat

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The first woman to command Canada’s military called out a U.S. senator on Saturday for questioning the role of women in combat.

Gen. Jennie Carignan responded to comments made by Idaho Republican Sen. Jim Risch, the ranking member of the U.S. Senate foreign relations committee, who was asked on Friday whether president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, should retract comments that he believes men and women should not serve together in combat units.

“I think it’s delusional for anybody to not agree that women in combat creates certain unique situations that have to be dealt with. I think the jury’s still out on how to do that,” Risch said during a panel session at the Halifax International Security Forum on Friday.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", USA