Germany is heading towards an immigration catastrophe

The German Social Democratic party (SPD) has published its working paper on immigration. It calls for half a million more migrants every year, no deportation of illegal immigrants unless they are extremely violent, voting rights for foreigners, automatic citizenship after 25 years, and a new ministry for immigration and integration.

You would think the left-wing party was in no position to make demands. After all, the SPD led the coalition government which lost the last election, when it failed to be one of the top two parties for the first time since the 19th century. But the centre-right Christian Democratic Union, which won the most votes in the election, has ruled out dealing with Alternative for Germany (AfD), which came second. That has left them with only one potential coalition partner to form a government: the SPD.

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Deporting Hamas Supporters Like Mahmoud Khalil Is Perfectly Legal

For noncitizens, residing in the United States is a coveted privilege, not a right. Progressives, however, have lost sight of this principle of immigration law—at least as applied to a zealous supporter of Hamas.

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CHARLEBOIS: Canada keeps losing at geopolitics, and farmers pay the price

Canada has walked itself into an unnecessary trade war with the United States’ biggest geopolitical rival, China.

The consequences are clear: new retaliatory tariffs from China are directly targeting our farmers, affecting over $3-billion worth of agrifood commodities and products.

These measures are a direct response to Canada’s decision to impose a 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in October, a move designed to align with U.S. trade policy and shield the North American auto sector from low-cost competition.

h/t patthedog

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Chutzpa Productions’ Igal Hecht: Documentary on Hamas’s Massacre in Israel, October 7, 2023

In 1999, Igal Hecht, an Israeli based in Toronto, Canada, created Chutzpa Productions Inc. His award-winning films have been described as controversial and thought provoking. They have dealt with human rights issues as well as pop culture. Throughout his 20-year career, Hecht has been involved in the production of more than 50 documentary films and more than 20 television series. His work has been screened internationally on Netflix, Amazon Prime, BBC, Documentary Channel, CBC, YES-TV (Canada) and HBO Europe, among other outlets.

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LILLEY: City Council adding unelected member based on race usurps democracy

The City of Toronto is looking to add a new councillor based entirely on race, and they may not even be elected.

An item added to the council agenda on Thursday morning looks to ask for “the creation of an Indigenous member of council.”

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Muslim group CAIR long linked to Hamas accused of ‘financial irregularities’ with $7 million taxpayer cash now unaccounted for

A Muslim charity with links to Hamas was awarded more than $7.2 million in taxpayer cash, which has now disappeared, according to a watchdog group.

An “immediate investigation” needs to be launched into The Council on American-Muslim Relations’ (CAIR) California chapter’s use of funds, according to the watchdog, who sent a complaint to the Department of Justice Thursday.

According to the Intelligent Advocacy Network (IAN), a California-based, non-partisan advocacy group, the money was given to the chapter to help re-settle impoverished immigrants in California between 2022 and 2024.

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Canada’s new PM on Trump’s 51st state talk: ‘It’s crazy’

New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney shut down President Trump’s talk of Canada potentially becoming the U.S.’s 51st state, characterizing it as “crazy” and vowing the North American neighbor will remain independent.

Carney, a former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor who was sworn in as Canada’s leader on Friday, succeeding his predecessor Justin Trudeau, said Canada and the U.S. are “fundamentally different” nations and that Ottawa “expects respect from America and Trump.”

“We will never in any way, shape or form be a part of the U.S. America is not Canada,” Carney said.

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Pro-Israel group says it has ‘deportation list’ and has sent ‘thousands’ of names to Trump officials

A far-right group that claimed credit for the arrest of a Palestinian activist and permanent US resident who the Trump administration is seeking to deport claims it has submitted “thousands of names” for similar treatment.

Betar US is one of a number of rightwing, pro-Israel groups that are supporting the administration’s efforts to deport international students involved in university pro-Palestinian protests, an effort that escalated this week with the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, an activist who recently completed his graduate studies at Columbia University.

This week, Donald Trump said Khalil’s arrest was just “the first of many to come”. Betar US quickly claimed credit on social media for providing Khalil’s name to the government.

This kind of thing is only OK when the left does it.

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Who is this Mark Carney guy, anyway?

It’s heartening that Canadians across the spectrum have summoned from themselves a stout pride in their country and a like-minded fury about the mania for trade-relations vandalism and sabotage that has gripped the degenerate belligerent in the White House. Necessarily throwing ourselves into a federal election in the middle of the crippling trade war Donald Trump has decided to wage against us is just whatever the opposite of serendipity is.

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