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I see lots of comments bashing these folks and I get it, sort of. Trump won by a landslide, and most of his supporters want mass deportation. I find that ironic insomuch as everyone here, other than Native Americans, are or are descendants of immigrants. Did they all come here legally? And for those whose ancestors did, how much easier was it way back then. Plenty of hypocrisy to go around.

The likelihood of obtaining a green card after being deported is slim to none. As it is, the wait time for someone from Mexico can be significantly long, often exceeding 20 years, especially for family-based petitions like siblings of U.S. citizens. So… yeah. Add a deportation to their file and you’re basically never seeing them again. Immigration is not like it used to be—when she stood in line for a matter of days.

PUT A PER COUNTRY CAP ON IMMIGRATION. Start with India. As a matter of fact, stop the visa issuance to Indian citizens for a few years and do not extend the working visas of Indian international students. LOWER THE NUMBER OF INDIANS IN CANADA!

How smug is she??? Stupid Ass. I was born in this country so in my eyes, she's an immigrant???

Come to Surrey BC! I've lived here all my life, and live about 7km's from the house I was brought home as a baby, so I've never left this city, and I, like that gentleman and lady you talked to, often feel like I am the only Caucasian in Surrey! Go by any elementary school, and you'd find it difficult to see any hair colour than straight black! Like when I went to school, so many now are driven to school by parents or grandparents that where brought over to Canada as well, so traffic around schools very often is chaotic at best! The once peaceful sound of birds singing, is now taken up with sirens, from ambulance and fire trucks, it's hideous! I too would love to move, but we keep asking, 'where'...as we'd like to be in an area with just caucasians, to feel 'at home' again! It's not that I don't like the people, but most in Surrey, are much more well off than the average Canadian, driving high end cars, and even their teenage kids have high end vehicles. So, like many Canadians, I'd just like to see normalcy & common sense once again, and a complete end to immigration, until ALL of our crisis's are taken care of!

??shame on u women it's not your country u are immigrants

See even hispanics are tired of illegal immigration.

Will Melania be deported too? She's an immigrant and she absolutely hates the Whitehouse. She wants it in mauve.

The system is broken in Canada, housing is so expensive. So many people are coming without control. Immigration should be in order and controlled.

If so few people want to live in Canada how come there are millions of people wanting to migrate here? We have had to cap immigration recently. What a BS headline

1.5billion indias trying to migrate to Europe and North America is an invasion not immigrants

The original immigrants NEVER DEMANDED food shelter or anything. They made it on their own without WELFARE.

I have no issue with an immigrant keeping their traditions. However, some immigrants seem to feel that once here that Canada owes them every single thing that they want. Immigrants forget that they chose to come here. Instead it feels like now instead of becoming part of our society, many come here and want to change our way of life to suit them. It's not right.

Come in LEGAL WAY!!\na lot of people dont know and don't understand hiw broken the immigration system is.\nI have seen they don't want to fix the problem and they use that excuse of come legally, but won't truly fix it.\nThey deny and deny when its done the legal way. So , by denying they keep those people away and so on and so on. \nYou have to be white and from an European country with lots of money to get in quickly. \nJust look at Melania how she became a citizen . ?

As an Indian immigrant myself.. I hate to see what has become of Small towns and cities Specially Brampton becoming a menace. People should be allowed to keep their traditions but not at the cost of local values and laws… and I really wonder what law enforcement is at play when people are driving like crazy… \nPlazas and strip malls turning in to a complete mess in the evening … these were never a problem before… now the quality of immigrants have gone down. Coz Mr. Trudeau values quantity over quality…

Only adopt Indigenous traditions then! Everyone else is in an Immigrant!

Result of a failed immigration and border policy,

Yeah , Those people are not from families who immigrated in the last couple generations.

Canada has more lakes than its human population. Just a large landmass does not make a real country. With only a fraction of the U.S. population of 350 million, Canada could be vulnerable in trade disputes. To be more influential globally, it would need about 150 million people, achievable only through immigration, which would inevitably impact cultural traditions.

Little does she know the Trump presidency is also going to look for every excuse they can to also get rid of legal immigrants. Don't cry to me when that happens. She voted for it. She can deal with it. ?

Its only help canada so much immigration become problem for any country they it generates the gap between native population and foreign population

Not necessarly all their traditions etc BUT I do see more and more not even trying to assimilate to Canadian life. So many immigrants from earlier generations made more of an effort to adopt Canadian ways & traditions

The Bible states immigrants should conform to their new land\n.

This country was built by immigrants

The fact that we have so many people in the US undocumented and living here for decades tells us that our legal process is not sufficient for allowing people to come legally. Having that many people tells us we need to treat this as a policy problem, not an individual-making-bad-choices problem. And spending billions of dollars on border patrol tactics that still allow for so many illegap immigrants tell us that our resources are grossly misspent. Plus we treat legal asylum seekers as if they were illegal (depriving people of food, keeping them from crossing in the first place) so people will choose whatever method will get them here. People can be here legally for well over a decade before getting a green card and then even longer to get citizenship.

Proud dual citizen Canadian here. Love the country, people and culture. However, the Liberal politics of the last 9 years have been a disaster, from high inflation, uncontrolled immigration, lack of pro business investments, homelessness, housing… this is to list just a few issues. The same thing has been happening in the US and Western Europe. Thank you God for helping elect Donald Trump. Many on this forum may not like the guy, but he was before, and will be good for the country, economy, overall people of the US and indirectly Canada. The Trudeau gang must go, a monkey could do a better job governing this beautiful Canada than that moron Trudeau. Do you all remember him saying…. “ the budget will balance itself”…. WTF… Really Justin???

You have NO idea about those immigrants. Just playing Trump mouth.

Those accusing immigrants are already accused themselves. Your president is a criminal

Wait until people realize what they've done. Just freaking wait. All hell is going to break loose in our country. The GOP is going to show us chaos... Ripping people away from their families again!!! No more due process for immigrants.

If Kmart Harris was president she would allow more illegal immigrants in this country to get in like it's Disney World for the next four years. People need to WAKE UP!!! Stop voting based off of IDENTITY!!!

You a holes here in the comments section don’t understand that they are ALL FOR LEGAL IMMIGRANTS like themselves not illegals who you all are paying for. Idiots.

This country needs immigrants. This will not end well at all.

Cubans need to stfu about immigration. They all get an automatic asylum. Only country in the world we do that with. There are zero illegal Cuban immigrants in the US. They are completely disconnected from what a real immigration process looks like

I have been hearing the word de-nationalise being tossed around for these immigrants.

This country was built on immigration....yeah\nBut why let immigration destroy the country

What she did is NO LONGER POSSIBLE. At that time Visas were offered to many countries No one does that any more, is impossible to do, this lady knows that well too.\n\nthe broken immigration policies of the USA ?? are so bad is almost impossible to enter legal UNLESS you have $500 and invest in apt or a business , that’s how the wealthy like Arabs , Russians and Chinese do it. Every day I see illegals from Russia, Ukraine , China , Israel \nPolish. But no one bothers them

Cuban immigrant in the 80s marielitos ilegal 90s balseros ilegal Is no diferentes people con this time.

She doesn’t realize that THEY look at her as an immigrant. ?

This politician is such a simpleton.\n\nIf by miracle the Republicans remove all so-called illegal immigrants, Republicans better get ready for severe push back from growers who have no one harvesting their crops, hotel owners who have no one to clean their hotel rooms and cater to guests etcétera.\n\nThe list is endless of the trickle down effect of mass deportation is going to play on the economy and in turn, the cost of goods and services.\n\nWay to address the concerns (the economy) of your constituents (voters) Republicans.\n\nIt's ok since in two years the House will be back to a majority blue and ready to impede Trumps' right-wing agenda.

Ahhh the pick me immigrant. So many of them worldwide

Imagine the deportation of illegal immigrants who have entered a country illegally being given refuge in the sanctuary city, where they have been provided with free housing and credit cards , whilst American soldiers are homeless on the street, being a controversial thing?????\n\nThis is only controversial if you’re a vile left, leftist democrat, who despises their country

I think to secure boarder each illegal immigrants paid 10 to 20 thousand dollars give them id card or work permit for this to hopping billion dollars with be spending

GET THE ILLEGIAL IMMIGRANTS OUT OF USA. IMMEDITALY!!!!!!!

And again VIOLENT CRIME is coming from US CITIZENS NOT IMMIGRANTS.

Mexican American veteran here. If my family members did the crime, and they get caught, then they got to do the time! \nThis old lady thinks like a productive citizen of the United States, not like a criminal immigrant with a victim mentality❤

If 100 billion can remove all the undocumented immigrants, so be it, it's much much better than investing 200 billion for Ukraine's hopeless war

Why would America worry if illegals are, lawfully, removed? Cotton didnt stop getting made in the South after the slaves were set free. Tough example, and complicated discussions, but we got to reset the immigration process or look at how states ignored the homeless/drug issues? They just got to be out of control. We following the law or not here??

Our food will skyrocket . We need all these immigrants to work at our farms . Poor southerners will get hit the hardest . Perfect

Who pro illegal immigrants they should be mandatory open up their houses and take in 5 illegal immigrants. Everything under their expenses. Let's see anyone willing to do it.

Liberals think it's racism if you don't let everyone into our country. The economy can't accommodate mass immigration, we don't have housing and it's a cultural strain bringing their historic hate to Canada.