OTTAWA — Provinces that are sending conservation officers and other local authorities to patrol the Canada-U.S. border are setting up what the president of the union representing border officers calls “history’s most expensive taxi service,” given that anyone caught crossing illegally must ultimately be delivered to border agents.
Canada faces calls to suspend asylum agreement with U.S., saying Trump orders undermine migrants’ rights
The federal government is facing calls to suspend a long-standing agreement with the U.S. to return asylum seekers at the border, with immigration experts saying the United States should no longer be considered a safe place for people fleeing persecution.
They say U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive orders that make it easier to deport or detain migrants – including plans to hold 30,000 migrants accused of criminality in Guantanamo Bay – undermine their rights to such an extent that Canada should halt returning asylum seekers to the U.S.
As protests against mass deportations continue at Los Angeles and other American cities, Republican members of Congress are growing increasingly irate with crowds forcing the shutdowns of major highways — so much so that one is reintroducing a bill to make the act a federal-level crime.
“I will soon reintroduce legislation to make blocking a highway intentionally a federal crime,” a Republican from Georgia, Congressman Mike Collins, said in a post on X in response to reports from KTLA showing video footage of the 101 freeway at Los Angeles being blocked by protesters on Sunday.
Try waving an American flag in Beijing and blocking a freeway. See what happens to you.pic.twitter.com/d4pP5XXDeN
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) February 3, 2025
For years, loads of cash, courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, have bolstered migrant resettlement services, often administered by faith-based nonprofits. In fiscal year 2024 alone, the U.S. government spent more than $2.7 billion on “refugee and entrant assistance” programs, and more than $1 billion went to nonprofits connected to four major Christian denominations: Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopal, and the United Methodist Church.
They choose to harm their fellow citizens.
President Trump is making good on his campaign promise of deporting illegal aliens. So, of course, various self-described Christian leaders are outraged.
Mariann Budde, the Episcopalian “bishop” who reportedly owns a $2 million D.C. mansion, has drawn much attention to herself due to her lecture at the Washington National Cathedral. “I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” Budde said to Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance at the inaugural prayer service, adding that “the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals” but are “good neighbors” and members of religious communities.
Space constraints and legal limits are forcing the freeing of detainees despite administration’s tough stance.
With more than 8,000 immigrants arrested by federal agents since President Trump arrived back at the White House, some have already been released back into America despite the promise of mass deportation.
With the number of arrests increasing, space constraints at Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities, and federal court orders that forbid indefinite detention, ICE officials have been forced to release some of those arrested as an alternative to holding them until deportation can be completed, according to a report from NBC News.
I trust Homan to work this out.
WASHINGTON, Feb 3 – President Donald Trump is set to test the limits of his immigration crackdown by invoking a wartime law to deport immigrants alleged to be gang members without court hearings, a broad authority that could supercharge his mass deportation push and potentially sweep in people not charged with crimes.
After taking office, Trump ordered military and immigration officials to be ready by Feb. 3 to implement the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, last used to justify internment camps for people of Japanese, German and Italian descent during World War Two. The move – which would almost certainly face legal challenges – could allow him to bypass due process rights and rapidly remove migrants.
54 percent of Americans back mass deportation of immigrants: Poll
This will definitely change Tom Homan’s mind about deportations… ♂️ pic.twitter.com/b2Z5ELyloe
— Clown World ™ (@ClownWorld_) February 2, 2025
BREAKING: LAPD is facing off with criminal aliens who are protesting mass deportations and blocking 101 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles
Sh*ts about to go down.
pic.twitter.com/GdfRowx5kJ— Jack (@jackunheard) February 2, 2025
H/T XC
The truth is that the border crisis itself has threatened the very fabric of our society. The Catholic Charities and US Bishops should acknowledge this.
Faithful Catholics have been saddened by the allegations — most recently suggested by Vice President JD Vance — that their Church has been complicit in creating the humanitarian crisis at the border. Vance pointed out that the Catholic Church has received over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants. Much of that money has been spent on providing transportation and housing for newly arrived illegal immigrants and helping to resettle them from the border to the interior of the country.
This collaboration with the Democratic Party continues today as the federal government pays for most of the activities of Catholic Charities.
#BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has announced she and Trump have stopped ALL GRANT FUNDING for the NGOs who are assisting in the invasion of the United States
Organizations like Catholic Charities and Red Cross received over $340 MILLION in 2024 from DHS assist illegals… pic.twitter.com/knaitqoeG7
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 29, 2025
CHICAGO—President Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda descended upon Chicago’s “Mexico of the Midwest” precisely one week after his inauguration.
But Little Village—a predominantly Hispanic enclave of around 70,000 on the city’s southwest side—stood ready to thwart the government.
When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities in dark SUVs arrived on the streets that day, another operation began. The community launched its own counteraction: an urgent system of text chains, social-media groups and calls between local leaders.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington signaled Friday that Catholic teachings support President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement.
Pope Francis and several bishops have previously taken stances against the president, calling Trump’s mass deportation plans a “disgrace” and stating that Catholic teaching requires countries to be open to migrants. Burbidge stated that although Catholics should affirm the dignity of migrants, nations also have a duty to uphold the rule of law and common good for its citizens.
Last week Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington received backlash when she injected politics into her sermon during a prayer meeting with President Trump, Vice President Vance, and their respective families in attendance.
The bishop urged President Trump to be merciful towards gay, lesbian, and transgender children and illegal aliens. Many were outraged by her casual mention of transgender children as if their condition was a natural phenomenon.
A man who sparked violent protests after burning the Quran has been shot dead in Sweden, according to local media reports.
Salwan Momika, 38, is reported to have been killed in an apartment in Södertälje, Stockholm, on Wednesday evening.
Unrest broke out after Mr Momika set fire to a copy of Islam’s holy book outside Stockholm Central Mosque in 2023.
Stockholm police said in a statement that five people had been arrested after a man in his 40s was shot dead overnight.
The Swedish government is not in control.
This is the textbook definition of a failed state. Sweden, a brand new member of NATO has imploded and may need outside intervention to figure herself out. Europe take heed.https://t.co/J3qzLs4eaN https://t.co/W7uvS6Z3rh
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali (@Ayaan) January 30, 2025
The race-obsessives denounce Trump’s deportations.
The progressive response to President Trump’s deportations is just getting under way, and it’s already dumb and hysterical.
Tom Homan wants to be Bull Connor, don’t you know? (So opined Princeton University’s Eddie Glaude.) According to Nicole Wallace and Joy Reid, we are potentially headed down the path of another Holocaust. “Similarities to what happened in Germany, and what’s happening now in America are just undeniable,” Reid said the other day.
Selena Gomez just tried pulling off what she could not deliver in her latest box office flop: a convincing performance. In a now-deleted Instagram video, the entertainer sobbed over deportations under the new Trump administration. “I wish I could do something,” she whimpered, tears streaming down her face.
The problem with these theatrics is their glaring inconsistency. Americans can respect principled celebrity activism, even when they disagree with it, but not when it only surfaces to serve hyper-partisan narratives.
I didn't have Selena Gomez on my bingo card getting canceled in January of 2025.
Where were you when 350k children went missing from the border? Where were you when Americans were being killed by illegals? Where were you when cartels were bringing fentanyl across our border?… pic.twitter.com/0RtY4FuDWL
— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) January 27, 2025
