Well over 20,000 migrants who have claimed asylum in Ireland are being housed by the authorities. This represents a growth of more than 14,000 since October 2021.
Figures released this month by the Irish integration department reveal that the vast majority (49%) of those accommodated are single males. Less than 20% are children and just 15% are single females.
The number of people seeking asylum at Canada’s airports saw a massive spike in June with 4,350 people declaring themselves refugees upon arrival last month. That compares to just 2,750 seeking asylum in May of this year but even that is up dramatically from the 1,195 seeking asylum in the same time period a year earlier.
Demand created from a record influx of immigrants could be one factor keeping inflation higher for longer than anticipated, some economists say, though Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem doesn’t appear overly worried about it.
Sticky inflation prompted the Bank of Canada on July 12 to raise interest rates by 25 basis points to five per cent — the highest level since 2001. Though the inflation rate has fallen off its peak of 8.1 per cent last summer to 3.4 per cent in May, prices of more than half the goods in the consumer price index, such as meat, bread, coffee and rent, continue to rise, Macklem said in a press conference following the decision.
More than 20 community advocates are calling for the head of Toronto’s shelter system to step down amid a worsening crisis involving refugees camped out on a downtown sidewalk with nowhere to go.
In an open letter released Monday, the group accused Gord Tanner, the general manager of Shelter Support and Housing Administration (SSHA), of “repeated mismanagement of the shelter system.”
“Community Advocates” – Something tells me we’re going to see a lot of these in Chowtown, all of them with their hands out.
Andrew Griffith says he used to drop by a citizenship ceremony whenever he felt depressed or frustrated at work.
The former director general at the federal immigration department says seeing new citizens walking the stage, being greeted by a uniformed RCMP officer and congratulated by a citizenship judge, reminded him of the importance of his work at the citizenship and multiculturalism branch.
The Liberal-left have cheapened Canadian citizenship, it means very little to anyone any more.
There’s a long list of reasons for Canada to open its arms to newcomers from around the world – but when you invite half a million new people to the country every year, you better be prepared. And it’s looking more and more like we’re not.
It goes beyond the affordable-housing crunch and whether everyone will have access to primary health care. Now, some of the Calgary agencies that help people get settled in the country say uncertainty about funding from the federal government is leading to long waiting lists and layoffs.
This seems deliberately malign.
Canada’s slow economic growth crisis didn’t start with the Trudeau government and it won’t end as long as our politicians are more interested in redistributing our income than increasing it.
As Philip Cross, former chief economic analyst at Statistics Canada, reported in an essay for the fiscally conservative Fraser Institute last week — What is Behind Canada’s Growth Crisis? — Canada’s economic growth expressed as per person GDP, a common measure of prosperity, is at its lowest level since the Great Depression.
If the Uniparty told the truth they’d run on the slogan “A Smaller Piece Of The Pie For You!”
Despite high immigration, Canada’s standard of living is lagging: TD report
Officials with the town of Ajax, Ont., say in less than two weeks, the town has seen more than 200 asylum seekers arrive, creating a dire situation as shelters across Durham Region are at capacity.
Durham’s regional chair John Henry says the influx of refugees is something they’re not equipped for.
“We were never designed as a level of government to try to manage these problems,” says Henry.
A growing number of GTA regions are accusing higher governments of stranding them with the costs of sheltering refugees and asylum seekers — with some announcing shelter closures in response.
The cries for help come as Toronto has been locked in its own funding clash with the federal government, a dispute that has left a crowd of newcomers sleeping outside a street outreach referral centre. On Friday morning, representatives of social services such as refugee centres, hospitals and drop-in centres are expected to gather there to press elected officials to take action.
Why does everything Trudeau puts his hand to seem designed to make Canada a shithole state?
Enforcing the law has become abnormal.
The usual suspects have weighed in on recent belated efforts to enforce U.S. immigration laws.
Our now bankrupt media, the corrupt government of Mexico, and the Diversity/Equity/Inclusion apparat have damned a series of laws recently passed by the Florida legislature and signed by Governor Ron DeSantis that enforce existing federal immigration laws.
Just a few weeks ago, on World Refugee Day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau trumpeted his government’s commitment to refugees. In a statement , he said, “Everyone deserves a safe place to call home … And Canada is stepping up: In 2022, for the fourth year in a row, we were the top country in the world to resettle refugees.”
He concluded it with, “Today, we come together as Canadians to keep our country a welcoming place and help build a safer world for everyone.”
Chow and Trudeau seem made for each other.
Record immigration to affluent countries is sparking bigger backlashes across the world, boosting populist parties and putting pressure on governments to tighten policies to stem the migration wave.
Many places, including Canada and parts of Europe and Asia, have been encouraging more migrants to come to help alleviate labor shortages and offset demographic declines.
But the jump in arrivals, along with increases in illegal immigration to the U.S. and Europe, is making more voters uneasy. The influx since the end of the pandemic is altering societies, with many people blaming immigrants for increases in crime and higher housing costs.
And this from a NYTimes newsletter I get …
… In earlier eras, the political left in the U.S. included many figures who worried about the effects of large-scale immigration. Both labor leaders and civil-rights leaders, for example, argued for moderate levels of immigration to protect the interests of vulnerable workers.
“There is a reason why Wall Street and all of corporate America likes immigration reform, and it is not, in my view, that they’re staying up nights worrying about undocumented workers in this country,” Bernie Sanders said in 2015. “What I think they are interested in is seeing a process by which we can bring low-wage labor of all levels into this country to depress wages for Americans, and I strongly disagree with that.”
… Democrats frequently like to point out the many ways in which Republicans are out of step with public opinion, including on abortion bans, the minimum wage, taxes on the wealthy and background checks for gun owners. Immigration cuts the other way, polls show. It is a subject on which much of the Democratic Party, like the political left in Europe, is in a different place than many voters.
I remember how shocked Progressives were when Bernie’s views on immigration became widely known during his run for the Democrat nomination. I give him credit for being an Old School Lefty on immigration.
In a striking move, Canada has unveiled a new pathway for high-skilled immigrants in the United States to migrate north. The policy risks undermining America’s economy and geostrategic position and should serve as a wake-up call to Washington. Reforming the nation’s high-skilled immigration system is a pressing need.
On net, legal immigrants with college degrees create jobs. Immigrants founded most U.S. billion-dollar startups. And the most successful immigrants, like Elon Musk, came to the U.S. as international students and then transitioned to an H-1B visa, designed for specialty occupations.
I call Bullshit, in the US H1-B Visas are a known scam benefitting the corporate class by depressing wages …
THE H-1B VISA PROGRAM HARMS AMERICAN WORKERS AND SHOULD BE REPEALED
“… According to data compiled in 2020, some 60 percent of H-1B workers were paid at the two lowest prevailing wage levels for these top H-1B employers, meaning that three out of five foreign visa workers were being paid wages far below the local median wage for similar occupations. Amazon and Microsoft are particularly egregious in their practices, with over 75 percent of their H-1B workers in 2019 paid at the two lowest prevailing wage rates.
There is substantial data to suggest that the H-1B visa program continues to be one of the most abusive programs condoned by the federal government. The design and implementation of this program necessitate inflicting real harm on middle-class and middle-class-aspiring Americans, their families, and their communities, as well as many of the foreign recipients of the visa.”
For about as long as most politicians and voters alive today remember, Canada has been a solidly pro-immigration nation. Until now, public opinion was effectively unanimous, at least outside of Quebec, that more newcomers represent an absolute good.
This allowed us the luxury of being rather superficial about immigration policy. It was far from a matter that decided elections — in fact, it’s such a historic nonstarter, pollsters rarely bothered to include it when asking Canadians about what issues mattered to them.
Border Patrol agents in Texas recovered the bodies of four migrants, including a baby, who drowned attempting to illegally cross the Rio Grande last weekend — but could not verify their identities because none of the river’s victims carried documentation.
“The identities of the deceased remain unknown since none possessed identifying documents,” a Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman confirmed on Twitter on Monday.
