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My husband and I are engineers from the US and Mexico and have lived in Germany for 15 years. Both speak fluent German and have raised three kids here. Yes, many people are racist. But if you learn the language well it’s not that hard to integrate and then things get much better. Germans can be the best friends you’ve ever had, much better than superficial Americans, but it can be hard to break through the shell. We have always loved it here. But to be honest with the steadily declining economy, massive scarcity in housing, and no salary increases in years, we are considering leaving as well. The outlook isn’t good for the Automotive industry and we could make double or triple the salary elsewhere. It would be very difficult to pull up our roots now gs better get better quick or we won’t stay much longer.

I don't want more Indians coming here. I'm not a racist or a bigot etc.(not that I even care anymore if people call me that). I'm a patriotic and cultural preservationist. They do not assimilate at all. They build grotesque eyesore temples and statues, they speak loudly to each other in Punjabi, sikhs are now bringing violence to our streets, they take all the entry level jobs, then men wear dresses and turbans, they don't wear poppies and they poop on our beaches. \nThey are NOT Canadians and they don't assimilate. They should go back home.

I don't want more Indians coming here. I'm not a racist or a bigot etc.(not that I even care anymore if people call me that). I'm a patriotic and cultural preservationist. They do not assimilate at all. They build grotesque eyesore temples and statues, they speak loudly to each other in Punjabi, sikhs are now bringing violence to our streets, they take all the entry level jobs, then men wear dresses and turbans, they don't wear poppies and they poop on our beaches. \nThey are NOT Canadians and they don't assimilate. They should go back home.

Omg so ignorant? Trump Hate Foreigner people Trump Racist his Wife was Ilegal she is not American??

This is why we voted for Trump because we want our country back All of these people need to freaking go I'm sorry I'm not a bigot or a racist but come over here legally pay taxes and work instead of getting everything handed to you for free and have a multiple children over here

People are leaving because they have realized that Canadians are not good people, they stereotype others and some are racist.

Pretty happy with this news. Local people should learn the hard way that immigrants are not the reason for their issues. It's their government. \nContinue hating the immigrants and no one will choose Canada. Don't worry; immigrants leaving are more prosperous than you think and have more options. They aren't making 16$ an hour like the majority of the people in the comments section.\n\nInterestingly, some third or fourth-generation immigrants think it's only their country. People who came in the last decade don't deserve to be in Canada. The country only belongs to native people. Everyone else is an immigrant. There are a bunch of hypocrites and racists in the comment sections.

Both Biden and Obama deported more people than Trump. It’s his angry racist rhetoric that not only prohibits border agents from doing their jobs but causes more issues!

Soo let's not discuss wat the actual problem with more migration is?\n\nI see none\n\nI see bigots and racists using a nationalist agenda to get rid of foreign looking people, please adress this.

Imagine framing Obama as pro illegal immigration. He was notorious for deporting large numbers of people. It was after Obama that the democrats decided deporting illegal immigrants was racist.

People keep conflating 'immigration' with 'illegal immigrantion'. And the Dems leverage this to call being against illegal immigrants racist.

There's a piece missing in the puzzle. Has anyone asked where's Mexico in all of this? everyone seems to forget that they're America's southern neighbor, and they're not helping with anything to mitigate the border crisis. Mexico has to be sanctioned, because they're not actively partaking in the protection of the shared border with the US, they're allowing immigrants to cross the border unchecked, sparing themselves the trouble of dealing with them. They're throwing the ball in America's court, making immigration America's problem. Since they share the border with America, they have an obligation to combat illegal immigrantion but they're not doing that. They want to get rid of their crimnals and the poverty in their country not by enforcing the law and trying to invest in their infrastructure to enhance the living standards of their people, instead they're encouraging them to move to America to find a better life. America doesn't have to pay the price of Mexico being a failed country. They're turning their backs on their own citizens and trying to get rid of them, obliging them to take the perilous journey across the border where they're prone to crime, drugs, rape, human trafficking, sex trafficking, child abuse and all sorts of tragedies but to them the ends justify the means, and they have the nerves to call America racist and inhumane for not rescuing them from the situation that they created for them in the first place. Since the vast majority of illegal immigrants came across the border with Mexico, they should be deported back to Mexico, and Mexico can take it from there, not our problem anymore

I'm also an immigrant, been in Canada for 16 years, came here initially for uni. It's funny that I have no negative feelings towards immigrants from any other countries but India. And I didn't have any negative feeling toward them before I came to Canada, if anything, I only remember something positive my grandma telling me about Indian people being beautiful, that they have big beautiful eyes. After I came to Canada, over the years, based on countless personal experiences dealing with them, sadly my conclusion is 99% of them are bad, 1% are the exception. They are aggressive, rude, stinky, unhygienic, dishonest, always trying to take financial advantage of people or situations to save a few more bucks by being super annoying or cheating, extremely disrespectful and aggressive towards women!! Really nothing is appealing about them. And at a job position, 1 Indian will bring 10 Indians, 10 will bring 100, they are slowly encroaching the environment and taking over everything. Other races try to assimilate into the local culture, while the Indians are imposing theirs onto the local and other cultures. Canada feels like it's turning into a second India. It's lost its politeness, manner, rules etc. I no longer want to live here, I plan to move back to my country after a few years. And I don't really go to Tim Hortons anymore cuz the Indians are taking over all the franchises and lowered the standards of Hygiene and friendliness. I don't think I'm being racist, cuz I'm not having all these negative feelings based on their skin colour or origin. It's purely based on real life experiences in dealing with them.

Brampton is an example of letting them build their hindu temples and statues \n\n\n These people dont care about the first nations indigenous or the euro nations who built this country for their comfort of having the freedoms and would rather spit in our faces and say we are racist blah blah blah....

And another thing she don't realize is. They don't just come to your house and say okay. You guys get together and get your stuff. We're gonna put you in a bus and take you back to the border. No, they violently arrest you like your criminal. And throw you in jail for months sometimes years at a time waiting to be deported. And if you think you'll all be deported at once, you got another thing coming. The man might go and jump. The woman might go in July. The kids might go separately next year. If you don't believe me. I saw it with my own eyes in 2019. I was locked up in Colorado. I watched them raid construction sites hospitals. Numerous other businesses arresting hard work in Mexican people. Imagine all the nurses and workers at hospitals that are from other countries. I watched them arresting nurses. Arresting tab drivers Uber drivers. I watched them raid schools and arrest children. I watched them put these poor people in jails with real criminals. All the immigrants loved me. I was actually in a federal and ICE facility. So I literally saw all of the immigrants. I protected them from the racist white people. I'm from Tampa Florida, so I'm used to the jails and prisons being majority, black guys. But in Colorado, it's white supremace, gangs and Mexican gangs. What's even more sickening? Is people from Washington would come in and take some of the Indians out. And when they came back, I would ask them questions and they said that the government people would get information on their family back in India and see if they could pay 50k to stay in America. It was sickening. I found out that what they were doing was deporting. Poor people and the people that have money back in their country. They have their families send money and let them stay. I saw it with my own eyes.

Ur party is a bunch of brainwashed Karens who believe all the propaganda & fear mongering. The whole world enforces their border policies, but if America does it, we r racist?? This is why u all lost biggly ? How people vote for a party of Evil is beyond me. Ur party supports pedophiles, child sex trafficking & having the right to abort/kill babies up until birth disguised as womens health.

RACIST WITHE PEOPLE

I've been replaced 4 times by foreigners. I worked at Amazon and the entire huge warehouse of hundreds of people was only East Indians with only me and 3 other white people. I worked at Ballard and the entire production floor could not speak English at a elementary school level and was replaced by a guy from Iran who had never been to Canada and was in the country for 1 month. All the shift mangers were from Iran and my section was only Iranians, East Indians and Chinese. I was the top production worker by far doing the work of 4 other workers proven by the actual numbers in an attempt to keep my job but still got removed of course to make way for more Iranians because it was obviously a way to bring their people here. Zero locals were in the entire production floor. I can not have the dignity to own my own home and never will be able to even though I grew up here went to collage and university and worked hard. Rent is beyond insane and they raise it the maximum legal amount every year which is huge. All my life I had to bow down to foreigners. The locals have lost their homes and can not buy another house or could never buy one and never will be able to. All are slaves to foreigners who think they are superior and treat them like garbage. The foreigners get help from the government somehow and get loans they never should be able to get because they have crooked contacts in the Chinese owned financial institutions. They then build 5 to 10 unbelievably horrible illegal suites and that is where most of the locals now have to live in. The neighbourhoods went from a very low population of Chinese and East Indians to insanely high levels such as 98 percent. There is no sense in complaining to any government body because the Chinese and East Indians have infiltrated those key positions and always side with their own kind. The legacy news/media is fully aware but are owned by foreigners and never will talk about these issues. Canada has for sure been invaded and taken over and is lost. No one is bringing it to light and worst is no one is trying to fight it. Any attempts you are labeled as a horrible racist.

As a Jamaican, I can care less if i get deported. I always faced prejudice anyway. My job is also racist against my people. They don't like Jamaicans in FL. \nI'll be leaving the country permantly.

don't disturb Canadian people just live your life in india.why are your'll disturbing and changing the culture of other countries.if this happened in india it would cause a riot and very badly treated.it ain't racist she is just trying to protect western culture and lifestyle.

Apparently most people are racist: immigration rethoric also got Brexit approved.

Look at these people turn against their own people how they going to work for anybody else this is a damn shame she's racist against her own people

I am a U.S. born Mexican-American. This woman disgusts me. My father was a decorated WWII veteran. He, too, was a U.S. born citizen, as well as my mother. We never had much. One thing they both taught me was to help people who had less than we did. I look mexican, yet when I open my mouth, I don't have the accent my parents had. I have been targeted by random people just minding my business running errands. I have on occasion stuck up for my fellow Hispanic when I have seen them ignored and mistreated. What the f is wrong with this person. Was she not taught anything about empathy and compassion? Isn't she at risk of being deported? The green card can easily be taken away. Honey, they don't want us here. Yes, I include myself in that. This woman is as racist as any skin head. They will turn on her in a second. What a fool. Even Mexico doesn't deserve for this woman to be tossed back to them.

Lady first of all, MAGA wants the country back from people like you, you are a tool to help them further their agenda. Second, racists and stupid people like this woman ignore the fact that the US has its hand in the conditions then make people flee their homes from climate to CIA assassinations. Third, racist and stupid people like this woman ignore the fact that if businesses were held accountable for employing undocumented workers, border crossings would stop tomorrow. Stop vilifying poor people and hold businesses and government accountable.

I see evidence of some people who think electing Trump will essentially rid this country of Hispanics, whom they are just so eager to be seen removed from here. That is both an extremely naive and very racist set of expectations. Many of the worst racists are going around telling random Latinos to pack their bags and some are telling Latino Trump voters like me that we're gonna get what we voted for. The ignorance is just astounding!\n\nNo, I'm not getting deported. I'm an American. Not legal not illegal. I'm from here. My family has called this place home for generations. If you think Trump will be deporting me just because of my surname, you're an idiot. Trump will be deporting ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. He will NOT be deporting Americans due to skin tone or surname. That's so ridiculous, you have to wonder how hateful you have to be to assume Trump will do that? Wicked.\n\nAfter the mass deportations, Hispanics will still be around in very large numbers to spook those idiot racists right out of their neighborhoods and I am glad. Many of us are from here and will be going nowhere. In fact, I hope they marry the racists daughters have brown children and then they will be forced to care about them and will eventually stop being such bigot POS.

Common sense is the reason he won. Removing people that are here illegally is common sense. And the reason he not only won, but won big, is that if you say that democrats will call you racist. This was the least surprising election result of my lifetime.

Canadians love newcomers that are interested in helping Canada. The visa program was exploited. The govt is culpable but there are people circumventing and breaking laws to get here. That is unacceptable. \n\nThis ban affects white Irish people too. It isnt racist or personal.

Racist much! everyone one of color be prepared to be racially profiled and treated like Shit . Let’s see how many lawsuits and how much money this will cost every State . It’s 2024 but definitely doesn’t seem like it . For some reason the white skin colored people always get treated as if they’re better than others. Jesus is watching

Mass deportation means there will not be anyone to harvest our produce, so we will have massive food shortages and dramatic increases in inflation. The Republican Party used the border security lie to scare people into voting for their racist ideology. They despise non-white people, even the ones our economy depends on. Everyone should prepare for a major recession and dramatic increases in inflation. These Republican policies are going to crash the US economy. This is what you get when you vote for a convicted felon who is a prolific liar and racist named Donald Trump.

Remember wanting 60% of the Hispanics do construction work work and meat factories cutting up meat and chicken to send it to the market and grocery stores and some of them work out in the field for 10 12 hours a day without complaining rain or hot weather and get paid minimum wage just to be out there to have all those vegetables send to the markets and to the groceries now that's where all the prices are going to go up because there ain't going to be not too many people doing that kind of work I'm not being racist but black people and white people will not be out there out in the field for 10 to 12 hours a day they will start complaining it's not easy work it's hard work and the rest of the 40% are wise or blacks are meat cutters Park Construction like I say 60% are Hispanics that do that kind of work everything is going to go up the prices are going to go up and the economy is going to crash everything is going to go up prices on Foods clothing all the Imports Blake Automobiles and parts animatronics and parts and clothing that mostly comes from China all that's going to go up and we're all going to have to pay more money out of our pockets like a extra dollars more and this is the truth??? Trump is considered the worst president in history and it's going to get worse with him with the second term in 2025

HELLO MY NAME IS GURPREET SINGH FROM INDIA ?? I AM KHALISTAN SIKHS IN CANADA ?? ? I NEED PERMANNT RESIDENT FOR CANADA AND I CAME HERE AS STUDENT AT BRAMPTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE ITS INSIDE A VERY GOOD SHOPPING MALL ? I AM STUDYIJG FOR SECURITY GUARD ?‍♂️ PLEASE GIVE ME PERMANENT RESIDENCY I AM OWED IT BECSUSE YOUR PEOPLE IS RACIST

I guess she doesn't realize that racist people don't know or care if she's legal or not illegal ?

Man these Latinos just don't get it. America is systemically racist it's in its roots. The whole MAGA and build that wall montra was about white people being replaced and last I checked y'all ain't white. Ask Steven Miller who vows to not only deport all of you but start changing amendments in the constitution. Jan 20th be ready.

Call me racist or whatever.\nBut any Christian country should only help Christian people first or soon our country to become Hindu ir Muslim inside parliament we have staff with turbans wtf???? open minded country my ass.\nnow it's even inappropriate to say merry Christmas????‍?\nI wonder if it was the other way around, what would THEY do??

Cuban in flroiduh are sonenof the most bigoted, selfish people. They won't even help their own when they first arrive. The North East Cubans are so much better. Not racist, always helping those in need. They do not forget where they came from. These clowns are children of parents who put the murderous dictatorship castro in power in 56. Now it's their children to put an academically and intellectually illiterate wanna be dictator in office. Can't make this up.

Mass Deportation? That is why we wanted him! The fact that there are people here who assume if you're hispanic, you are either illegal or know an illegal. Which is MORE racist when you think about it

IT'S A LOGISTICAL PIPE DREAM, money and morals not withstanding:\nThere are about 800,000 law enforcement personnel in the entire U.S. from local to Federal level, incl. FBI, DEA, etc. There is NO way of deporting 11,000,000 people. It takes 4-6 law enforcement officers to make 1 regular felony arrest, more if there is more danger (i.e. SWAT, etc.). One would have to ask every single officer from local to Federal to essentially arrest and deport 12-13 people EACH - and stop doing all other law enforcement work to do that. And here's the other thing: \n\nU.S. citizens do MORE crime per capita than ANY immigrant community, be it legal or illegal. This is conveniently not mentioned by the MAGA and the right. It's just racist bullshit in fake patriotic clothing.

These Racist Congressmen, are so ignorant about the Majority Reason, why people come to this country. The Majority come because, they want a better life for themselves, and their family. They don't leave their Native Country because they want to take a Vacation to the U.S. They have every Right, to Seek A Better Future. This Country is for Every Human Being! People from All Walks Of Life, are here to STAY! Everyone has come to USA, from around the World! The Only Native Americans, were the Indians, that were here, before Christopher Columbus arrived! Did they tell Cristopher Columbus, go back to Italy, you are not Welcome Here? No Ignorant People, they ateTHANKSGIVING TOGETHER! It seems, that many people didn't learned History in School. They just went to fool around, and stay dumb! It's Ashamed!

???? nothing new… racist in Canada only comes up when Trump either running for election or elected… in 5 years, they will all slowly disappear. Trump is like a health potion for white people. ???? \n\nPeople of colour, just be patient, in 5 years this will be under the rug, it’s better to take note, who is racist or NOT, and make up your own judgement.

There are less than 1% of illegals committing crimes. These people are just racist. PERIOD!

They don't care about no one Trump is crazy and antitchrist people what you need to know all those people are racist just like Trump God has planned for America

You want to bet he's going to implement the same laws that the bipartisan agreement was on what he's going to do is just more chaos calamity it's going to be a total madhouse who the f*** is he kidding yeah it's going to go real smooth about as smooth as any of his f****** goddamn businesses like he said he loves the ignorant but not the poor not the needy not the sickly the most unchristian piece of s*** walking on this Earth ? and to top it off he's not really that f****** sharp I mean if you f****** read what he says you got to scratch your head if you see his actions you see how incompetent he is I've been watching this full since his father was in business back in the seventies another f****** piece of s*** turd goddamn slumlord racist piece of crap if Nixon told you to clean up your act you know there's something not right there blatantly they always were to find always acting like they did nothing wrong seems to have worked for him he's got these morons convinced years ago he made the statement City people are too slick country people are too slow like the song says blinded by the light shaking that shiny thing in front of them

It is sad when people are so brainwashed. God wants us to repent of our sins, have agape love and unite. Trump does not represent either. Trump does not even want anyone that's not his race to be here. Project 2025 will mess up a lot of people. They will have sincere regrets for their vote. You should know that a person is dangerous when they can deceive not only Christians, but people with PHD's. The only hope we have is 2Chronicles 7:14. Don't put our faith in Trump, but in Jesus. Only Jesus can heal our racist, divided and dark land. Only the love of Jesus in our hearts can make America Great.

Undocumented imagrants is a misnomer. They are illegal aliens. That is way they get away with calling anti illegal aliens people racist. Sick people!

I don’t support his racist rhetoric AT ALL but I would love to see him put her on the first thing smoking away from the US. People like her who enable his racism are dangerous. Have some pride about yourself lady. Sheesh. ?

They’re not going to deport those people- Republicans just use that as a talking point for elections to gin up their racist base. News flash: the shadow, black market, undocumented labor force is integral to the American economy. Without that cheap labor the cost of everything would increase exponentially…

The plan is particularly cruel and it looks to be extremely racist in nature. It looks as though it is going to cost $10K per person to deport them so why not offer people $10K per head if they will leave voluntarily? However, can the USA afford to lose all these people? There will be massive job vacancies that cannot be filled, so many businesses will have to close down, causing hardship to the business owners. Perhaps the first step should be to find out why these people are considered to be such a drain on America's economy. It seems to me that they make a massive contribution. That being the case, why not make some criteria which, if met, will allow people to legalise their presence in America?\n\nAnything must be better than mass incarcerations and deportation which looks an awful lot like Nazi Germany.

They are going to find out Trump and his people are racist and don’t care if they are here legally or not. Canadians will not be on the deportation lists. Trump is not a law and order guy—he talks about having good genes, not being a good citizen.

That’s what the American people want. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not one of them. I think you gotta be a racist pig act that way.

His team is full of racist people so this is just a playground for them to act out