Canada Is On Track for Record Asylum Claims This Year

The closing of the unofficial border crossing Roxham Road last year stemmed the flow of asylum-seekers into Quebec from New York state, but overall numbers are rising in Canada with a spike in those arriving by air. The rise has many reasons behind it and can’t be accounted for by the growing scope of global conflict alone, immigration experts told The Epoch Times.

A major contributor is likely an increase in travel visa approvals.

No question Trudeau is deliberately altering Canada’s demographic to harvest future votes.

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Sabrina Maddeaux: Canada can’t cynically rebrand temporary foreign workers and call it a day

In the span of just over a year, immigration went from a political non-starter to regular headline news. Now, just about everybody–including the federal Liberals–agrees immigration simply can’t continue as is. Unfortunately, “can’t continue as is” is manifesting more as a rebranding exercise than a substantial policy overhaul.

In 2022, the federal government dramatically expanded the low-wage Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) stream, which predictably resulted in exploitative working conditions, surging youth unemployment, and stagnant wage growth. The Wild Westification of the program has been bad for Canadians and newcomers alike.

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Liberals hope to import enough foreigners to secure election victories in 2029 and beyond

Liberals go hog wild on immigration, hoping to secure victory in 2029 and beyond

You would think a government that’s down 20 points might want to telegraph an aura of sanity, rather than spend its days finding new ways to eviscerate an immigration policy that has served Canada well since Lester Pearson led the Liberal party.

In a vacuum, some of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s changes might seem justified: whether it be the streamlined $7 electronic visas, or broadening refugee claims beyond the U.N.’s definition of those facing “persecution” to include accumulated “intersectional” experiences.


Why this sounds like the Great Replacement!

The Star is now publishing content on immigration that would have had them calling you a racist 1 or 2 years ago.

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From ‘open hearts’ to closed borders: behind Sweden’s negative net immigration figures

Ten years ago the then prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt asked Swedes to “open your hearts” to refugees. Now the country’s migration minister is celebrating the fact Sweden has “negative net immigration”, with more people thought to be leaving the country than entering for the first time in more than half a century.

“The number of asylum applications is heading towards a historically low level, asylum-related residence permits continue to decrease and for the first time in 50 years Sweden has net emigration,” Maria Malmer Stenergard announced earlier this month.

Sweden’s Moderate-led government, which is supported by the far-right Sweden Democrats, has pursued increasingly restrictive asylum policies, including plans for a “snitch law” that would legally require public sector workers to report undocumented people.

The Swedes are realizing the horrid mistake they made.

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WARMINGTON: Only in Toronto would illegal residents be celebrated

Just call this a party at Toronto city hall for residents who are not legally supposed to be here.

One might think encouraging illegals to attend an official gathering between 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. would be the perfect time to address their illegal status, return to their country of origin, and then return when they get their documentation right.

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Quebec to limit temporary foreign workers in Montreal with six-month freeze

Quebec is implementing a six-month freeze on the intake of new temporary foreign workers for low-wage jobs in Montreal starting in September, the province’s premier said Tuesday.

François Legault’s announcement comes as his government has been calling for a “significant and rapid” reduction in the number of temporary immigrants in Quebec. The total number across the province has doubled to 600,000 from 300,000 in just two years, he said.

Six decades is a better idea.

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Take it from an immigrant: Canada urgently needs to slow immigration growth

In 2006, I arrived in Canada from England on a temporary skilled visa, sent by the University of Manchester to Edmonton to advance my training in sports surgeries. Born and raised in India, I completed my medical education there before moving to the UK for postgraduate orthopedic surgery training, spending eight years refining my skills. As the immigration officer handed back my passport that day, his parting words — ”Hope you stay back in Canada” — felt like a personal promise of acceptance and opportunity, an invitation to make Canada home after completing advanced training.

Fast forward to 2024: I did stay in Canada, planted roots, developed a practice, raised a family, and poured my heart into the community in Alberta, which embraced me as their own.

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‘The Irish elites think the working class should go to hell’

Months before riots erupted in the UK, Dublin was rocked by its worst street violence in decades. On 23 November 2023, more than 60 officers were assaulted, buses and a tram were destroyed, and over a dozen shops were looted or vandalised when an anti-immigration protest turned into a riot. Earlier that day, a man stabbed three children and a care assistant at a Dublin primary school. He was rumoured to be an illegal migrant. Since then, anger over Ireland’s migration crisis has only grown. Asylum applications rose fivefold between 2019 and 2023, with tens of thousands of newcomers now arriving each year, placing pressure on already strained services and adding to an already chronic housing shortage. Asylum hotels in deprived and rural areas have become targets of both peaceful protests and, despicably, arson attacks.

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Small immigration protest sparks response from five police forces

Officers from five different forces were brought in to police an anti-immigration protest that fizzled out within three hours.

Anti-immigration protesters congregated at 11am outside Bournemouth town hall on Sunday but were met with activists from Stand Up to Racism on the other side of the road in Central Gardens with drums and loudspeakers.

But the stand-off faded into lone echoes of “stop the boats” from the crowd of anti-immigration protesters, who were drastically outnumbered by counter-protesters.

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Trudeau government’s policy record speaks volumes

In the past nine years, perhaps no policy has proven to be as harmful for the Canadian society and its economy than the Trudeau government’s immigration policy.

Conventional wisdom suggests that governments defeat themselves. There is a shelf life of every administration because sooner or later the accumulative negatives outweigh the positives and the populous becomes agitated seeing the same faces providing the same excuses. American author Mark Twain summed up this phenomenon rather colourfully when he observed, “Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reasons.”

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Union speaks out after 3 Toronto police officers injured during west-end eviction

A man is facing several charges after three officers were injured while assisting sheriffs with an eviction late week in Toronto’s west end, say police.

The incident happened last Friday in the Earlscourt neighbourhood, near Caledonia and Rogers roads.

Toronto police said they were called to that area at around noon for reports of a break-and-enter in progress.

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No, illegal immigration does not help the U.S. economy

The media and other Democrats have been working very hard to say that Kamala has not been responsible for the open border policy that allows millions of illegals, including terrorists and gang members, to flood our country.

Sanctuary cities and states have been whining continuously about Texas sending these illegals to them and begging Gov. Greg Abbott to stop.

They are complaining about how much these illegals are costing and how they are running out of room. They are begging the federal government for money.

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Man who led mob that dragged Romanians from car given longest riots sentence

A man who led a violent mob and chased three Romanian migrants from a moving car has received the longest sentence in connection to the far-right riots so far.

David Wilkinson, 48, admitted violent disorder, attempted arson and racially aggravated criminal damage after he admitted to playing a “prominent role” in a far-right rally in which businesses were torched and shops looted in Hull on August 3. He was sentenced to six years in jail on Friday.

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Trudeau Liberals to import French-speaking minorities from Africa — France excluded

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has launched a Francophone Minorities Communities Student Pilot (FMCSP) to encourage even more immigrants to come to Canada.

Immigration Minister Marc Miller this week announced the program, to be launched August 26. Most of the students will come from Africa. People from France are excluded.

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HANNAFORD: Canadians should take note, English rioters may have a point

“The Government of Canada will — wrongly — take British riots as validation of their vicious suite of legislation to control how we use the internet here.”

The recent spate of rioting in Great Britain appears to have subsided. However as the smoke clears, two things are left to talk about.

First, could this kind of rioting happen in Canada? Answer, probably not and if it did, it wouldn’t be for quite the same reasons. But the kind of free-speech crackdown employed by Westminster is exactly what Canadians can expect the next time we want to talk about government overreach in — let’s say a pandemic response.

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