“Societally Destructive Immigration Policy”

How Alberta fell out of love with mass immigration

A few short years ago, before she had proposed a new set of referendum questions on Thursday aimed at curbing rapid population growth, Premier Danielle Smith was actively courting newcomers to the province. Indeed, with the private sector facing a shortage of skilled workers, the premier could hardly bring in enough people to satisfy her appetite.

Smith’s latest referendum push, then, seems like a dramatic shift in policy. Instead, the premier told reporters on Friday, her change in tone is the result of a stark mismatch between Alberta’s efforts to recruit skilled workers and changes to Canada’s immigration system made under former prime minister Justin Trudeau.

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

Fingerprints from an immigration file: Deadly Mother’s Day Home Invasion

In the quiet rural enclave of Arcadian Way, a Mother’s Day celebration turned into a nightmare of unimaginable violence. Arnold De Jong, 77, and his wife Joanne De Jong, 76, were found bound and lifeless in their longtime home on May 9, 2022, victims of a calculated home invasion that shocked the Fraser Valley community. What began as a welfare check by concerned family members unravelled into a chilling tale of greed, exploitation, and cross-border opportunism. Three young men from India, barely out of their teens, stand accused of orchestrating the robbery and murders – a case that highlights vulnerabilities in elderly isolation and the dark undercurrents of financial desperation among newcomers.

They all have to go along with the bastards who let them in.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity Crime", "Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

Cap on international students leading to drop in Ontario transit ridership

After the COVID-19 pandemic, ridership on Toronto’s buses, streetcars and subways struggled to rebound.

But it surged back in nearby cities.

Brampton, Mississauga and parts of Waterloo Region were among the suburbs that rapidly recovered from COVID-19, setting records for the number of passengers and struggling with overcrowding.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

The people who want the temporary migrants to stay permanently

With a record two million temporary migrants set to lose their status in the coming months, a union-championed campaign is emerging to demand that all of them be allowed to stay permanently in Canada.

This week, a new group calling itself the United Immigrant Workers Front announced plans to hold its inaugural rally in Brampton, Ont.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

Lebanese drug dealer wins chance to avoid deportation from Canada over possible lung cancer diagnosis

A Lebanese immigrant ordered deported in December 2019 after he was convicted for possession of fentanyl and hydromorphone for the purposes of trafficking has won another chance to stay in Canada.

Mohamad Kassar, who arrived in Canada as a permanent resident about 35 years ago, was scheduled to be removed to Lebanon on Feb. 13. Instead, Federal Court Justice Angus Grant stayed his removal because Kassar has a preliminary diagnosis suggesting he might have a lung tumour.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, WTF?

Canada’s “Asylum Seeker” Scandal

Read the entire thread.

h/t Auntie Polly

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Camp Of The Saints, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Canada’s Shadow Refugee Claim System: How Tens of Thousands Are Approved Without a Single Question

New report warns Canada’s paper-based refugee fast track may be prone to abuse by terror-linked and transnational fraud networks.

OTTAWA — A sweeping new border control investigation has revealed that since 2019, Canada’s refugee hearing board has been quietly accepting tens of thousands of asylum claims without ever questioning the migrants, effectively rubber-stamping applications from some of the most dangerous countries on earth — Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran — through a paper-based process that is wide open to fraud and bypasses the security screening architecture designed to protect the nation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

Canada has a hidden asylum-policy problem

For an organization with a budget of nearly $350-million and 2,500 employees, the IRB is something of a mystery.

Structurally, it is an outlier, at “arm’s length” from government. Most organizations of that size and scope do not have the authority to develop public policy without the involvement of ministers, deputy ministers and possibly cabinet. But the IRB possesses policy authorities into which the rest of government has limited lines of sight.

This may help explain how the IRB was able to adopt a policy that dispensed with core adjudicative safeguards, and accepted refugee claims solely on the basis of the written application, without in-person hearings. This has significant implications for the integrity of Canada’s refugee system.

This is the report the article mentions – Accepting Asylum Claims Without a Hearing: A Critique of IRB’s “File Review” Policy

Accepting Asylum Claims Without a Hearing – A Critique of IRB’s File Review Policy

I would put reform of the IRB on every pols must do list as it has done huge harm to Canada as constituted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

Canadians now spending $1 billion per year to cover health-care costs of refugee claimants

Paying the health-care premiums of refugee claimants will cost Canadians a record $1 billion this year, with some of the beneficiaries continuing to receive free health care despite their claims having already been rejected.

That’s according to a new analysis by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, and it’s just one of several ballooning costs wrought by the unprecedented number of foreign nationals currently living in Canada by virtue of a claim of refugee status.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Camp Of The Saints, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canadian immigration officers investigating hundreds identified by extortion task force

Next election cycle

Canadian immigration officials are investigating hundreds of foreign citizens identified by B.C.’s anti-extortion unit, according to new figures released to Global News.

The Canada Border Services Agency said it had launched probes into 296 people who were “brought to our attention by B.C Extortion Task Force partner agencies as persons of interest.”

The latest statistics, which are as of Feb. 4, represent a sharp increase from just a month ago, when the task force said that just over 100 CBSA investigations were underway.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics", "Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

LILLEY: False asylum claims drive refugee health-care program toward $1B price tag

A federal program to provide health care to refugees and asylum claimants that a decade ago cost just $60 million a year is expected to cost taxpayers close to $1 billion this year. And according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, the program will cost more than $1.5 billion annually by the end of the decade.

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

Jamie Sarkonak: Immigration minister’s refusal to deport knifepoint robber is another justice failure

Stupid rhymes with witch

By the time repeat violent offender Oral Carver Lewis threatened to kill an Ontario Crown prosecutor, he had already been under a deportation order for two years.

“You b–ch, I’m going to kill you,” he told her during court in January 2022. “You watch, I’m going to f–king kill you…. When I get out of jail, I’m going to kill you, Crown. I’m going to find you and kill you. I’m going to kill you the f–k.” A few months earlier, he made vulgar comments to her and pulled his pants down in court, exposing himself.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity Crime", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Conservatives to propose banning foreign predators convicted of crimes from claiming asylum

OTTAWA – The Conservatives are planning to introduce a motion today to bar non-citizens convicted of serious crimes from making refugee claims.

The motion also calls on the government to prevent asylum claims from people whose cases are still working their way through the courts.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said on social media Monday non-citizens who commit serious crimes “must be forced to leave our country.”

So whose lame-brained idea was it to allow asylum claims by foreign predators to begin with?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

Canadians still want to own a home but they no longer believe it is possible

Here’s the truth about the housing crisis in Canada: it is no longer just a policy problem. It is becoming a political identity problem.

A new national survey conducted by Abacus Data in partnership with the Canadian Home Builders’ Association (CHBA) finds that Canadians have not given up on the dream of homeownership. In fact, it remains deeply rooted. Seven in ten non-homeowners (70%) still say they want to own a home someday, including nearly nine in ten young adults aged 18 to 29 (89%) and 80% of those aged 30 to 44.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government