‘We’re being taken for fools’: How soaring migration came back to bite Ireland’s political elite

With finite housing and overstretched public services, the government’s ‘cack-handed’ border policies have triggered a wave of public anger

Driving through Dublin in his taxi, Gavin Pepper gestures down a stretch of pavement. “You wouldn’t go there at night,” he says. “There’s gangs of foreign men hanging around all over the city. You don’t see many Irish people walking there any more.”

It’s the sort of forthright remark that tends to stay in a cabbie’s front seat. But Pepper no longer speaks only as a taxi driver. He’s now a councillor for Finglas, a working-class district of north Dublin, elected on a wave of public anger over migration.

He says his election was driven by a migration policy handed down from on high – imposed, as he puts it, by Ireland’s political elite on poorer communities with no say in the matter. “You’re punching a wall that won’t break,” he says. “They have all the money, all the power, all the NGOs.”

We have the same evil pricks in Canada.

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10 reasons fewer newcomers are becoming Canadian citizens

Douglas Todd: How do we explain the 40 per cent drop in permanent residents choosing to move onto citizenship? COVID-19, the devaluing of Canada and grim economics are among the factors.

Canada is witnessing a dramatic drop in newcomers choosing to become citizens.

There has been a 40 per cent decline in the past 25 years in the proportion of recent immigrants choosing to move on to citizenship, according to Statistics Canada’s Feng Hou and Garnett Picot.

Only 46 per cent of recent immigrants to Canada are applying for citizenship, say the researchers. That compares with 74 per cent in 1996. Most of the drop took place between 2016 and 2021.

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Liberals’ immigration program has purposely transformed the country

Canada’s history is one written largely by its industrious immigrants. Having said that, in this past decade, the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has turned this national strength into a chaotic social upheaval. There is no other way to describe the fact that the Liberals have implemented an immigration program that has purposely transformed the country’s ethnicity and its character. Canadians have yet to fully realize what has transpired. And still, the Liberals continue to permit plane loads of migrants to land at the Toronto and Montreal airports.

It is instructive to look back at the genesis of the Liberals immigration policy to understand exactly what has occurred to Canada’s population through the past decade. Accelerating the flow of people into Canada is an immigration strategy formalized in the Trudeau government’s early years. In 2016, the federal Advisory Council on Economic Growth, which was chaired by Dominic Barton (then-McKinsey & Co. global managing partner and later the Canadian ambassador to China), recommended that there be a 50 per cent increase in annual “permanent resident” immigration levels so that in five years (2021) the number would reach 450,000. Barton was also a co-author of a paper advising the government that the country’s population should be 100 million by 2100.

It was an evil act for which Trudeau and his Liberal party must pay.

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Why Democrats Still Defend Illegal Immigration

Yogi Berra famously quipped, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” In general, that’s true. Yet anyone familiar with the immigration debate can tell you how Democrats will react to any GOP attempt to pass or enforce laws aimed at controlling the border crisis. Who was surprised that majorities of congressional Democrats voted against the Laken Riley Act, or that blue state governors and mayors have vowed to resist the Trump administration’s effort to deport illegal aliens?

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DONOVAN: Canada’s intellectually bankrupt mass immigration policy

According to an Abacus poll released in October, 72% of Canadians want lower immigration — a statistical supermajority that includes a majority of voters in all four major political parties and all age groups. A Leger poll released this September found that 66% of white Canadians — and 61% of non-white Canadians — feel this way.

Talk about a consensus! Woke academics and mainstream media pundits portray immigration as a divisive issue; in fact, there are few issues on which the Canadian public is as remarkably unified as this one.

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Liberal Gov’t offers provinces incentives to flood Canada with benefit shopper migrants fleeing US crackdown

Immigration Minister offers provinces incentive to accept more asylum seekers

Immigration Minister Marc Miller is offering an incentive to provinces and territories to accept asylum seekers, saying he may allow them to select more economic migrants if they agree to help shoulder the burden.

As part of a wider drive to decrease the number of immigrants Canada accepts, this week Ottawa informed most provinces and territories that they must cut in half the number of people they bring in under provincial nominee programs this year. Each province receives an allotment from Ottawa for the number of nominees they can accept, although not all of them fill it.

The slimeballs just won’t quit.

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What Elon Musk Gets Wrong About Immigration

Musk is right to attack replacement migration, but he should push his own logic a little further.

Elon Musk is an undoubted asset to a counter-revolutionary movement in need of elite friends. His acquisition of Twitter, his crusade on behalf of free speech, and now his active support for Donald Trump all amount to an encouraging set of developments, barely imaginable in 2020, that could prove decisive in the upcoming U.S. election.

Musk has even been calling out the Democrats’ long-standing strategy of weaponizing replacement migration to rig the balance of political power in what is meant to be the world’s model republic. “If Trump doesn’t win this election,” he lately reiterated to Tucker Carlson in an interview, “it’s the last election we’re gonna have.”

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Oh No! Greater Vancouver Food Bank won’t serve first year international students

A Greater Vancouver Food Bank policy prevents international students experiencing food insecurity during their first year in Canada from receiving free food while they adjust to an unfamiliar country and community.

Emma Nelson, communications manager at the GVFB, said in an email the policy exists because the federal government requires international students to have “substantial savings” before coming to Canada.

Federal rules require international students to have $20,635 saved up, in addition to tuition and travel costs, in order to come to study in Canada.


Trudeau’s immigration scam makes the most vulnerable Canadian citizens compete with his foreigners for food.

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Canada’s Corporate Welfare Class ‘addicted’ to depressed wages migrant workers enable

Immigration minister says Canada ‘addicted’ to migrant workers

Canadian businesses have become “addicted” to temporary foreign workers, Immigration Minister Marc Miller told the Senate, acknowledging concerns over the country’s growing reliance on migrant labour.

Blacklock’s Reporter says in response, Miller is preparing to introduce a new Immigration Levels Plan in November, which is expected to significantly reduce the number of temporary workers entering Canada.

The Liberals would know they’re the ones that loosened the rules.

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A Moral Argument against Migration

A government’s primary obligation is to the native people.

Migration is perhaps the most consequential issue of our time. Our world is far more mobile and interconnected than any point in human history and, as a result, we have seen historic demographic shifts and movement of peoples, especially in the Western world. This socio-political trend has become highly charged with emotional and ethical accusations such that those who stand opposed to the current levels of migration are being systematically labelled ‘hateful,’ ‘far-right,’ or ‘bigoted.’ Meanwhile, we are repeatedly told, in what has become trite rationale for unmitigated mass-migration, that ‘love has no borders,’ or indeed—as the Archbishop of Canterbury argued in an Easter Sunday address—that government policies to deter and remove illegal migrants cannot stand the judgement of God. 

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Unchecked Immigration Has Transformed America

The wall of silence surrounding the harm to low-wage workers has begun to crack.

The United States is deep into a season of severe discontent. Our politics are polarized, our Congress is moribund, and our purchasing power has tumbled. A Gallup poll in early 2024 showed that only 20 percent of Americans are satisfied with the “way things are going.” Nearly 70 percent believe the country is on the “wrong track.” 

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Show us your immigration math, Ottawa

Back in March, Immigration Minister Marc Miller laid out the beginnings of a plan to control Canada’s runaway population growth.

The share of temporary residents in the population, then 6.2 per cent, would be eased to 5 per cent over three years. The group – a mix of study and work permit holders, their family members and asylum claimants – would need to drop about 20 per cent from 2.5 million, he estimated.

How’s progress so far? Nonexistent.

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Birth tourism families could reap ‘never ending chain’ of Canadian citizenship abroad: critics

Proposed changes to the Citizenship Act have prompted concerns of a “never-ending chain of citizenship” for Canadians choosing to live abroad, including for the children of so-called birth tourists.

Bill C-71 is a proposed amendment to the Act that intends to allow Canadian citizenship to be continuously passed down by citizens who were born abroad to their children who are also born abroad, as opposed to the current first-generation limit.

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Canada’s Low-Wage Immigration Problem

The Temporary Foreign Worker Program has undercut the nation’s domestic workforce.

Mass immigration has caused a backlash nearly everywhere in the West, erupting in the mid-2010s with Brexit, Donald Trump, and the rise of right-wing parties in Europe. Canada, however, had been an exception.

Immigration to Canada has always been high by the standards of developed countries. There was a national consensus in favor of it until recently. Before the Liberals were elected in 2015, about 250,000 new Canadians were granted permanent residency every year, and about 67 percent of them were high-skilled economic immigrants. Those immigrants were qualified to work and spoke at least English or French competently. But under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the overall number now approaches 450,000 a year, and the proportion of those who are high-skilled has fallen to about 50 percent. Refugees, family-reunification, and other so-called humanitarian forms of immigration have ballooned. And so has the most controversial immigration stream of all: the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.


Trudeau acting on behalf of his Corporate bloodsucker friends and to serve his own agenda flooded Canada with unneeded immigrants from incompatible cultures to depress wages, profit from the ensuing shortages and harvest future ethnic vote blocs. 

The cruel greed of this evil policy has robbed us of our birthright and destroyed our economic and social well being.

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