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There are now quite a few news stories in Canada of immigrants leaving the country - some back home and others to the USA and other places. Many just get a Canadian passport and then leave. There are public health care and pensions, so it can be an asset and also a convenient travel document to have. A lot of Canadian university graduates have a very hard time finding work in their fields and a lot of them look to the US for a better future. Both immigration and unemployment in Canada are much higher that in the US - so more people are chasing fewer jobs that often pay less and are taxed more than in the USA. Opportunities are generally a lot fewer in Canada than the US, and the business environment is not as favourable, and taxes significantly higher. You would be getting some of the entrepreneurs from Canada moving to the US for more favourable conditions as well to launch a business and also now a lot more rich investor types, so-called high net worth individuals wanting to relocate, because they just raised the capital gains tax in Canada. Capital gains is also triggered on inheritance in Canada with a deemed sale of property and assets, so rich people would prefer the American system and want to be residents there for tax purposes and have their assets grow in value in the US compared to Canada. There are very large numbers of foreign students and other categories of immigrants which may have as their goal going to the US after getting a temporary visa to Canada which is easy to get - maybe something like half a million to a million people in those categories depending on the year, plus around another half million regular immigrants and refugees now. The Trudeau administration has increased immigration to record numbers. It has been steadily going up over the years for several decades since 1990. Because of family re-unification it can have a snowball effect and could significantly exceed 1 million per year. A lot of the sending countries have much larger populations than Canada, so there are a lot more that can be potentially sent to Canada in the future. About 1/4 of the population of Canada has been added in the past few decades. Add to that visitors and temporary visas - that is a lot of people potentially moving to the US. Before the 1990s Canadians visiting the US were not required to have a passport and a drivers' license or birth certificate was adequate. Now a passport is required. It is impossible to effectively control the long Canada-US border, so there could be some unified policies in that area agreed on between Canada and the USA on immigration and refugees. Canada currently has a very open immigration policy with the government actively seeking out more immigration beyond its current processing capacity and trying to take rejected immigrants from other countries. The Canadian government, especially in recent years under Trudeau is immigration hungry. It might be the only country in the world doing that. What some news reports are now saying is that some immigrants are actually leaving, since they find it so difficult in Canada and some are worse off than they were in the countries they came from, which were considered to be less developed than Canada. \nWashington currently has more immigration controls and administrative competencies than Ottawa, so US pressure and influence is a faster way to get reforms into the system than waiting for local politicians to do anything, which is unlikely. Canada is seen by some as a backdoor into the US. Biden's immigration policies could be seen as very conservative in Canada compared to Trudeau's. It used to be in the news about how refugees were trying to get to Canada and walking across the border in Quebec and out west from the US earlier, but now there are more news stories of immigrants leaving Canada trying to go the other way, probably due to high costs and unemployment because the government took in more people than it could absorb into the economy. They have the idea that immigration drives GDP growth so that they can borrow and spend more, expand the civil service, etc. without making any cutbacks or efficiencies, supposedly without the Debt to GDP ratio getting worse, just by bringing in more people as if that would drive the economy. A lot depends on who you bring in as well. Are they going to go on welfare, are they going to increase crime, will they somehow contribute to society, are they a net tax benefit or cost in terms of government services, will they invest money, will they start a business and create jobs for others ? Those issues do not factor into government decision making in Canada for the most part. Ontario Premier Doug Ford did say there were too many foreign students. It is bad planning not to consider those factors since there are other costs that grow with those policies as well, and infrastructure has to be expanded. I think that the real immigration numbers to Canada are not transparent or made public, nor are the costs involved, if anyone even knows what they are. Nor is the impact on crime. You can guess from what the reports are in other countries. The Fraser Institute has made some estimates on the net costs of immigration to the government budget a few years ago, which were very high and which by now have increased - the cost equivalent of several new aircraft carriers each year. They are big numbers which are not publicized, but it amounts to the fact that immigration is subsidized by the taxpayers in Canada and it is not paying for our pensions as an ageing society as has been claimed. There is less money for education, health care and pensions per person, and those social benefits will probably have to be reduced over time. Social programs can only be delivered to the extent that the government has money. The bigger social system a county has, the more such immigration policies are going to cost. Trudeau has been expanding various social programs as well, so higher taxes and debt are likely with that approach. Then more productive people and companies will want to leave Canada and go to the US. Probably the government does not know what the actual numbers and costs are and doesn't actively keep track of that information beyond what is required. Probably nobody knows what the true immigration figures and their associated costs are in Canada, and hardly anyone has even studied those issues. If they can just walk across the US border and get papers so easily making an asylum claim, it is not surprising, since it would take them longer to get a regular visa and work permit if they did it legally. You could call that a loophole in the US immigration system which is being exploited. The US is better governed in general and has a better system in many ways, but I am not sure if it is the same on that. People have arrived on boats and have not been sent back. At least in the US you have more open information about those issues. In Canada it is hard to find out anything about it. Deportations from Canada are very few. \nOn other issues in Canada when voting in federal elections you have to show a government issued photo ID like a drivers' license or passport to vote and bring a card that was mailed out to eligible voters that gets updated addresses when a person files their taxes. I have never heard of mail-in ballots in Canada, but there are remote areas of the country in the far north who may have special system for voting. It is easier to get a Canadian citizenship than US and many more citizenships are handed out in Canada each year in proportion to the population than in the US. Canadian might be one of the easiest citizenships to get in the world. The official line now is that it is a country of immigrants. Based on current trends, will very little opposition to it in the parliament and most MPs supporting it, future immigration to Canada could increase to several million per year because of the rapid growth of population in the world, and the momentum already growing of immigration to Canada, so it may change significantly in the future. Historically around the world you can see many examples that country names, borders, flags and languages change over time with population changes, so it might not be called Canada anymore in 50-100 years. For example, Bulgaria used to be called Thrace which had been a powerful kingdom in antiquity and had a different language which is barely known about anymore. Over the past 2,000 years it has gone through a number of changes and had various regimes governing it, has been independent and also part of several different empires. Canada has only been a country for a short time in comparison and has been been going through significant changes. Trudeau has said that Canada is a post-national country. Canada is also going through a period of critical self-examination and deconstruction-revisionism. A lot of what had been viewed as positive from its history now is seen more critically, with re-naming and removing historical figures now seen as negative.\nDiscussing immigration policy critically is considered by many to be taboo in Canada, unless a person is saying good things about it in general. You can hear people say that the government isn't processing enough people, for example, but not often that there are too many or that it costs a lot of money. The trend of migration from Canada to the US would only increase much more in the future as it is going currently, and its role as a stepping stone to migration to the US could increase. The way this would be seen by many in Canada is that they are losing valuable people to the USA whom they consider assets, since a lot of officials have been trying to bring in more people into the country, but not everyone wants to stay in Canada nowadays because of a lack of jobs and opportunities. Canada is quite laissez-faire about migration, with Toronto being a sanctuary city as well.

REMEBER PEOPLE ...... THINK .... THINK HARD BEFORE YOU VOTE, TAKE A GOOD LOOK WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU VOTE FOR BIDEN / Harris , I HOPE YOU ENJOY WATCHING YOUR TAX DOLLARS GOING TO WASTE !!!! ??TRUMP ?? 2024 ??

Thank you NYC, you are singlehandedly creating new Trump voters by taking hard earned tax money from paycheck to paycheck living citizens and feeding and housing illegal migrants.

It’s not an asylum crisis, it’s people taking advantage of an opportunity that has been made available to them.

No bro, they just walk over from Canada and get picked up by awaiting cars taking them to NYC. No feds no ICE officials.Sad to see what's happening in the US.

Well. Why don’t you just take some more Donald Trump’s money?

Some people will do anything and everything to come to America and work in one of the many slaughterhouses , and some people will do whatever it takes to make sure they eat from from those very same slaughterhouses .

Whatever it takes to stay in power. (Even it means destroying the middle class).

Don't worry, Kamala will take care of this...by encouraging more illegal immigration.

Why the hell are u advertising this in great detaiĺ?!?!?! Someone can watch this video alone and take your damn advice.

I'm taking my engineering degree, career experience, initiative, clean living, and tax dollars somewhere worth contributing too.

Do what heck America is waiting on to Block the border these people's careless about nothing until when the damages has done can u imaging what is going to take place in elections hmmm ?

If you guys think we can ever take back control of our country from this. It’s going to be a lot tougher than you think…

I think ill take my chances with Trump and project 2025 , dems openly admit they don't want this to stop. They made texas take its razor wire down......they want them here plain and simple.

You can take about 500,000 East Indians from Canada because we don't want them!?

The same with EU: all Africans take a plane to Istanbul and then they cross Greece's border

If they got plane tickets, then they aren't poor, and they aren't asylum seekers, they are criminals and prove that by breaking the border laws, yep, it's illegal and they know it because that's why they are going up there to cross, so they all.... Every single one knows they are entering into a country with laws that say it's illegal to just come into the US, so what's that say about there character of person, they can't be trusted that's what it says, they aren't in need, and they feel privileged to take from the government so of course they will vote for the Democrats

Understand this. Evil controls the world, always has, people used to resist, now most take the 30 pieces of silver, live in denial, or willingly help build what will soon be the most malevolent, violent, subversive, Empire ever seen on earth. Then billions die or are enslaved.

N.Y is the number one socialist state in America with a close California and Minnesota 2nd, and 3rd. Most of America has lost all it's empathy for all three states. Illeagals know not to come to the Southest because they know they will be picked up from Texas to Florida. So, now we have states working aganist each other which will leave to civil war in the near future. All sides will take heavy losses.

How are they getting across the border? They give Americans all kinds of hassle crossing the border and yet these people are allowed in with no ID and no passport. The criminals have turned the city into a great big trash heap. What do they think they are going to find? They can’t even get a place to live. New Yorkers can’t even get a place to live! Crap ?!! They are taking better care of the immigrants than they do their own citizens. Interesting that they let them have everything on a platter and yet our ancestors coming through Ellis Island suffered unbelievable indignities!

Dear cash, you’re not doing it alone. Texas has been taking care of migrants for years. NY does it for a couple years and now they think they’re doing it alone!???

This is BS! We need to lock the borders and take care of our own people first. I feel for them. I really, really do. I would try too if I were in their situation. We can't afford it.

A lot of the immigrants coming are just middle-class but in other countries. my sister-in-law took in some Venezuelans and all they cared about was visiting New York City to take pictures with the Statue of Liberty. I sell used clothes and my sister-in-law took them to my shop and they did not want the clothes because it was used. These people are ungrateful.

Where is the ID check everybody taking a flight from abroad have to take??? Why is nobody checking the ID and passports on the US border??? If US has a visa agreement with Canada for Canadians it is not including foreign intruders! US Biden-Obama-Clinton-Clique and their sick politics make me throw up. To hell with Trudeau, Macron and Von der Leyen.

AMERICANS GOT TO SAVE AMERICA NOW!!!! Vote wisely please!!! Four more years of this and American born citizens will be the immigrants in our own country!! Trump 2024!!! Black woman from Ohio!! Crazy as hell !!!! Take ,Take , and Take some more!!! We barely have housing for Americans Now…IDC all kinds of new diseases are coming too!!! Suppose this is Trumps fault too!!! WAKE UP !!!!??❤️❤️❤️❤️

They are coming to take our right and kick us out from our land

I think a lot of Americans either forgot or didn't know that a few yrs ago illegals were pouring into Canada from US from Vermont. Roxam Rd in Quebec was their landing spot. Taxis in US made a fortune taking them to the border there where they crossed into Can and were greeted by RCMP acting as baggage carriers, loading these ppl unto busses and driving them to $50.00 a day hotels. Neither Canadain or American govt did anything to stop this. Ppl died out west crossing through the woods in dead of winter in the bitter cold. Both Canada and US are very proud of our unprotected border but if the law on both sides would have nipped this in the bud both countries would not have ended up in such a mess.

Take this shit to the streets because you're government doesn't care about the future of real Americans and their kids.

I want to thank New york for taking them away from us.

This is what globalism is. Take heed.

4:18 they are all doing it because of the meta trafficked song's, like... JAY-Z - Empire State Of Mind ft. Alicia Keys ... sets on a verbal induction to wander to a place, tho they fall off of themselves after the first week that the 8 bit world of cards locks then out of everything. paper money is an old contract intended to be phased out, only they use it. walking down the street picking up a quarter here or their is where some start, not as a joke tho that's another immigration path. whatever they forget to pick's left behind for the last of us to follow to work with and live, taking nothing where their is nothing. the gas for that plane flight would have bought them 100'000kg of mangos back home but they can't do the math to see the sale sign selling them for 2 cents a kilo, the division of a square pie is to much to make a thought of or off the tree picked to fall wait till fall and that state welfare disturbance check of costs gets sent back to their point of origin. G8 to date

Short sighted liberal nonsense in action. If you think its bad now, do you realize 20x this is en-route? This is like 5% of the amount of people coming over the next decade, and nothing will stop it now. Think NYC is broke now? Think NYC is crime-ridden now?\nThis is the honeymoon period. We haven't even started to see the problems. Wait until a demographic of migrants outnumbers an existing, established population. And displaces them. That's how these things work. How do you get a Chinatown? How did Compton get so black? That's going to happen, but now with Muslims, or Indians, or whoevers. Hope whichever group takes a borough shares our values... oh wait, we already know...\nHey Jews--we are 2 decades out from history rhyming. Are you ready? Hey Mexicans immigrants, you ready to hold the bag for all the spicy migrants from Asian nations that end in stan? How about are you ready to fight them for your USA dreams? Because there's never been enough to go around--ask the white trash in the trailer parks across the continent. Ask native americans.

How long before we become the exact same thing these migrants are escaping?! I want to help people better their lives but I don’t see how we can help if we get to a point where we can’t even take care of ourselves! Maybe I’m wrong ?‍♂️

This is the new gold rush for lazy freeloaders how take advantage of dumb people in blue states.

Good take them all ? Canada ??

Kamala has been taking a knee way before Kapernick. She will bend over backwards for illegals .

Persecution my ass....\nThey take all the dregs of society from other from other lands and then dumped them here.?

VOTE RED ALL THE WAY DOWN. Take down all the politicians who are for illegals.

In the 1990s, when we traveled up to Blaine, WA we would take the children to Peace Arch Park and let them play. My son, (around 5 or 6 yo) would do a Bart Simpson where the border was and hop on one foot then switch to the other foot back and forth saying U.S.......Canada.....U.S. .......Canada. While they were playing I would on occasion see a male with a back pack crossing from one country to another. Can only imagine it now. Those poor people who live in Blaine.

there you mr trump,, take care of your people,they love you

WE ARE TRYING HARD DNOUGHT OF THESE PEOPLE SHOULD ALL BE DEPORTED AT OUNCE. O MORE MONEY NO MORE FREEBIES A D FREE MEDICAL CARE. BIDIN HAS NOT FI ISH HIS JOB TO BRING OUR COUNTRY DOWN WILL THESE PEOPLE BE ALLOWED TO VOTE. KAMALA HARRIS THINKS SHE WILL MAKE A GOOD PRESIDENT. LET US START PRAYING HEANVELY FATHER TAKE CONTROL... .AMEN

Don’t forget Harris never did anything at border. If you want this vote Harris taking our SS MEDICARE TO SUPPORT ILLEGALS OPEN EYES AMERICANS

The news media you posted this was up here in my area of Plattsburgh,.NY . People up along the border in Champlain. Rouses Point and so on been seen an up take .

The US: getting over on its own people taking more power they didn’t have away from them.\n\n\nStupid American: I’m voting trump, Kamala caused this, I blame Biden etc.

I’m in Canada for 2 years now and I’m returning back home . \n\nI will not tell anyone not to come, diaspora can transform your mindset for good. I dint struggle getting a job. I did a customer service job and an admin assistant job. \n\nHowever, this system is a dangerous. It’s a system whose work is to put you in debt, through the famous credit score. If you put yourself in this system, kurudi home itakuwa ngumu. You are also just one paycheck away from being homeless. \n\nCost of living is overly high. You work for bills. Some people get subsidized housing, but those housing are not the best places you would want to live. Mostly in poor neighborhoods and neglected. \n\nI came here and took myself back to school. One of the programs I did was an eye opener Leaderahip program. It gave me a glimpse of who I am and what potential I carry. And boom, I realized this is not my place. My life is not just about working and paying bills, it’s more. And this more can only grow home. Otherwise I will keep working with slow growth in employment, and come back home when I can’t live my full potential \n\n\nIf you have to, leave, come to Canada. Exposure is worthwhile. Make sure you take a technical course, avoid debts. Go back home and grow with your country. \n\nKenya is our Canaan.

When government keeps taking citizens and making money why not go to usa

We deserve what’s coming in America. For not standing for the flag and the principles it stands for. And for allowing terrible people to take the reins.

Kamala Harris is the border czar and is allowing these illegals to enter the country, taking jobs and taxpayer money

Their home countries aren't being destroyed and they're not being persecuted. The just don't want to fix the shit-holes they come from and would rather take advantage of the instant welfare they get, for they never plan on getting employment here. If anyone is being destroyed and persecuted it is us.

I don't understand how We The People are allowing this bullsh-t. We complain and take no action.