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Cost of living is very high. tax here tax there. I have job ticket deducted 51 euro. Its transportation card just with in the state you reside on contrary you can simply avail 49 euro the deutschland ticket. . Low salary is one reason also

For me the biggest deal breaker was the 2 year long waiting time for Family reunion visa for Pakistan even on Blue card. This is just insane, I have seen many skilled pakistanis (on blue card) leave Germany because of it.

But for example if we get EU blue card from a German company then when we leave the job wont it expire? I mean people can literally misuse into getting a German EU blue card and then move elsewhere??

Germany needs more labor while Stuttgart seems not. The so called Ausländerbehörde is so incompetent that people need to wait a crazily long time to get the time slot for visa renew or pick up the residence card. How ironic it is!

I am in Hamburg and got my appointment for Blue card after 1.5 year's ?

I am a designer and artist who moved to Saxony to reunify with family. I can say, being here for 3 years, it is VERY difficult to find a job in your profession when you do not speak the language. I am not a blue card holder, but my partner is. Despite our financial situation not being a dire one, I still look forward to integrating well in the job market and contributing my expertise + passion in the local society. \n\nI spent around 1.5 year reaching B1 level German (+including the waiting time for german tests, orientation course test and test scores etc.) Even with this B1 knowledge, you cannot communicate in a professional setting, more is needed. I also spent another half year time contacting our local Agency for Work, and experienced discrimination from their consultation service, a long waiting time and no assistance at the end. \n\nIt has been quite a discouraging journey, especially for someone who has high motivation to work and contribute. My current options are looking for jobs in Berlin, English speaker environments like Burger King etc. In my personal case, it has largely affected my confidence and enthusiasm for living in this country.

ohh that makes me what to post an ad 1 bed room - SINGLE WHITE FEMALE ONLY, MUST DO LAUNDY and be home all nights \n \nbut then im racist right? MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE. thats it! im doing it. and im going and applying for every single apt and when they say no cause im not indian im fuckin throwin the racist card.

I am an immigrant who moved to Canada about two decades ago, worked day and night now I can't even rent a bachelor room and my fridge is empty since few years, while new immigrants gets all the luxury and 15k credit card, living in Canada is like dying every minute not to be able to support my child and his activities.

I dont care if thy call me a rascist they have played that card too often way way past caring if they dont like it u no what to do

Welcome. Let me get some of that debt gift card

All of them will get free phones n 2gs on ebt card

If a thousand renters work together, they could avoid paying $41,600,000 that they would ordinarily have paid in rent. Using that money, they could start a credit card company. A credit card company doesn't have to extend much credit to one person, and it can charge high interest rates.

What's on my mind......dont play the race card.....dont play the race card ..... all are blll.......dont play the race card.....dont play the race card

what? you serious? FREE everything? PLUS $1,400usd per month debit card? you fcuking kidding me? I'm gonna leave my canada and come to NY also then, FCUK this! FCUK TURDeau!!!

Canada's cost to house and dine refugees is ridiculous. It's $224 per day or $6720 per month **per claimant**. It's more than the average Canadian household spending.\n\nWHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE WELCOME TO CANADA BONUS? Individuals who hold a valid Permanent Resident Card issued in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 or Temporary Workers with a valid work permit are eligible.

I live in Niagara Falls all my life. I can’t afford to keep my self and son fed without assistance or barley keep the lights . 10 mins away they are living in hotels, getting food, diapers. Hygiene all for free as well as a monthly pre paid card or cheque from 1800-2800 a month… I’ve lived here and payed taxes for over 30 years. Where is my help?

May be wrong ? I do live in USA and enter with a green card …and an immigrant … been in small business for long time… but this year I been grab and run quite a few times … and unfortunately they were Venezuelan immigrants…Not me lot of us … May be system needs a thorough check up …

This is my decision, leave the US, denounce citizenship, re enter as an illegal, and get all this free shit plus a monthly debit card that is worth more than my SSI!

All the illegals immigrants are coming here for Biden & Brown-Harris ,don’t forget to vote for them , get free debits card, food, luxury hotel…a lot more…???????????

This is disgusting to listen to. No country on Earth wants millions of immigrants flooding in getting welfare to the moon and being a statistic of crime cause by these immigrants. No one wants that. What makes anyone think they do? They are all going to get to vote. Just watch. They just crossed our border, got welfare better than citizens, and will get to vote. Whoever is doing this to Europe and the USA should be in jail or dealt with per the constitution for treason. Unfortunately the swamp is too much. We have too much corruption in our governments. Time to start realizing this and we are going to have to make a change because protesting and trying to vote isn't cutting it when they rigg things against you and demonize you for not being okay with this garbage they are shoving down your throat.\nAt no point has anyone in my family filled out a green card or visa. I have no idea what it is like to be an immigrant. I can't get that perspective because I have never been one and neither has anyone in my family. But coming from my perspective this is some BS. Coming from someone who didn't have to get a work visa or apply for citizenship ever, this all seems like some BS. There wasn't this kind of migration going on when I was growing up. Where did it come from? Why is it happening now of all times? What are these people being told? Wtf is going on because a born, bred, and raised citizen is highly confused, offended, angry, and fed up.

Its not Harassment...why always playing victim card

I suggest work visa and PR cards to be given only to those with over 250k Dollars in their bank accounts! Student visa especially for people from South Asia should be stopped permanently!

I agree that immigration should be regulated based on need or requirement. But let me ask this, are Canadians willing to work in the fields and do all blue-collar jobs for $8/hour? I don't know about Canada, but the problem in the US is that most Americans don't want to do these tasks for low pay so businesses rely on immigrant workers. If businesses pay a higher salary they won't be competitive with foreign companies. There is no easy solution to this. At least Canada doesn't have a green card lottery (which is 100% useless) system but a skilled-based immigration.

These people are not migrants, they are opportunists. Here in Canada we watch daily on news people escaping from US crossing the border. I guess in New York migrants can get prepaid card for some time and then authorities cut them off and migrants come back to Canada for canadian money, it's a revolving door

Banks benefit by having more deposits from newcomers. Corporations benefit cause people from over seas will Work for less. Government benefits cause every newcomer needs to pay 1000s of dollars for different fees like drivers licence and health cards you name it. Schools benefit by the fact they can take an entire Indian families life savings in a single tuition payment. \n\nto claim that this insane immigration we have here is to the benefit of the average Canadian is psychotic and cynical.

I'm Canadian. I tried to get a Green Card to work in the States many years ago...even consulted an immigration lawyer. He told me that Clinton closed the lottery for Canadians. I guess I went about it the wrong way.

My husbund is a Veteran legally ( blind ) n no prepaid cards no luxury hotels....that is insane Do Somenthing ......??

Where are our Heroes?? They must stop this Invasion or alse !!! Mayorga that guy must go to jail.... luxury hotels pre pay cards for them ??? Evil just evil

Pulled the good old reverse card

I’ve yet to hear Trump say anything negative about her being black .. he’s simply stating she’s using it as a card to get votes .: never said be scared of her bc shes black .. but be fearful of our economic and criminal future if she gets elected .. have the last 4 years gotten better or worse ? Was 2016-2020 better for your neighborhoods and pocket book ? STOP

I don't think Canada just says, cmon in.\nHere's. Free rent,free food and a credit card. \nBut globally. All over the internet. \nUtube does say come to this sanctuary city and the world is yours. \nJust for showing up.all our western countries should smarten up.\nSo many coming up here to Canada through the states with government assistance to our borders.\nUnlike the ?? southern border that you can be a criminal and cross with ease on route to Canada. \nFlying into Canada requires documentation.

I don't think Canada just says, cmon in.\nHere's. Free rent,free food and a credit card. \nBut globally. All over the internet. \nUtube does say come to this sanctuary city and the world is yours. \nJust for showing up.

wait, 1,400 a month credit cards ,...and disabled homeless American's and people fleeing Domestic abuse situations and children aging out of foster care are told to go screw off and live on the streets...what the actual frick???

All of this should be blamed on Joe Biden‘s fault for years ago and not to mention, I don’t know why these people wonderful Kamala Harris as well do she is following the same path as Biden is doing to remember what Trump said that he’s going to control all of this and flip the owner of a verse card to go back to normal but these people are literally a Simp for asking for destruction and the fact that New York City is close to Canada than where had been the border even been doing the border is like wide-open dude close it up but nope lazy Joe Biden and now soon about to be Kamala Harris they just gonna keep it open dude this country needs to be clean up June 2020 messed up the whole shit sorry for my language but it’s true I know there are a few mispronounce words, but I am going crazy with this news right now

Someone found a receipt an illegal left at the Grocery Store she had 13 grand on her food stamp card!

Crazy how they get 1400 in prepaid debit cards, and there are Vets still sleeping on the street and blowing their heads off because the VA is a joke

Send each and one of them to FJB, KHarris, Maryarkas, Democrats, Obamas, Clintons and Administration front homes let them deal with them they will be handling out Visa card with money and handling out food stamps cards as well!!!! LOL They want this illegals crossing into America let them have them!

Yet an American can go on vacation in Canada without a vaccine card

Completely unsustainable, everybody knows it, the most liberal politician knows it, but puts their heads in the sand and won’t change from their completely completely lunatic dogma. I know people on Social Security that are totally squeezed but yet they have migrants in five star hotels and give them debit cards.

Good for them, I hope they suck every penny out of that city and all the sanctuary cities that want to destroy our country, I wouldn’t doubt they are going to bankrupt the EBT, since they are getting thousands on their card,plus debit card 4 grand a month, free place to live, hell they can do what every they want to do living like this. When they start cutting others off EBT and other resources because they are running out of money, please sit down because you voted for this, just like they cut millions off Medicaid, to give to the illegals, getting used again over and over. \nK

Wow. And how much do we get from Social Security? You know, the people who paid into it their WHOLE LIVES? And where's MY free medical, FREE HOUSING, and 1400.00/mo debit card? WTF? Vote out the Left before they finish turning the rest of our country into the mess/3rd world/slum/disease ridden $H!THOLE that they've made of their 50 year supermajority in California.

Let me get this right, they live in former luxury holtels for free and get 1400.00 debit cards..

Migrants?\n\nAs of late tally US $35+ Trillion debt. It on human scale is about $104,000.00 debt on each newborn baby and everyone else until after in graves, including their successors, all plus interest / usury. \n\nTo who/ whom is the debts owed?\n\nPaid by imposed plethora of taxes, levies, assessments, fees, whether Fed, State, County, City, local all plus interest / usury. \nCompounded by fostering, promoting, urging, forceing more debts:\nMortgages, equity-loans, reverse-mortgages, small business & farm loans, credit-cards, payday loans, car loans, personal loans, cash-advance loans, etc all plus interest / usury. \n\nUndermining, suffocating, attacking traditional family structures to assure dysfuntional human relationships, children without both mother & father, along with extended family. \n\nBlemded with mass survailences, Biometrics, microchips, Facial recognition, QR code/ bar code tattoes, Dossiers from conception to after in graves, Real IDs/ Digital IDs/ Voter IDs as if panaceas, Guilty until proven innocent, \nFeeyat fiscal system based on nil more than entries on spreadsheets issued whether banknotes, digital, CBDCs, at whims of politicians, bureaucrats, financiers, elites, bankers, all plus interest / usury on 95% of humanity,\nFurther enhanced by Social Credit System \n\nAssuring poverty. landless-ness, destitution, homeless of all ages including veterans. \n\nIn short, Indentured servitude, serfdom, subtle camouflaged slavery now and into future generations. \n\nIf any questions, critiques: It's off to re-education & pharma treatments, \nIf still not compliant reward is MAID.

Wow. I’m British. That sounds unbelievably attractive. Luxury hotels and $1400 debit cards. If I fly over can I apply?

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.

If you are a legal citizen traveling on a plane or cruise, they check all your IDs, frisk you, and dig through all your bags. Meanwhile, illegals are allowed to waltz in unchecked and unbothered. If I dared tried to circumvent TSA I'd be tackled and arrested immediately but these people are given free housing, gift cards, and other perks.

Canada accepting many bogus international students who come to Canada to get the residency card. if that's possible, they claimed refugee status. This is thanks to our genious PM, Justin Trudeau!

This is beyond messed up. Our criminals and people who have illegal right to be here are treated better than our citizens. We can't feed, shelter, educate, and give health care to our own who so desperately need it but we hand it over to anyone who crosses the border no questions asked. And on top of that we will give you a prepaid credit card that nobody can afford to pay for. No wonder our roads and schools are shit.

Woohoo! Everyone is welcome! What a blessing for immigrants coming to New York to celebrate their good fortune of free housing, free food, prepaid debit cards, free medical, free education and a care free life. Good thing New Yorkers make great incomes to afford this tax expense.

A Venesulan lady neighbor has $13,000 EBT food assistance and $10,000 in money on her card. She drives a 2024 electric SUV and pays ZERO rent for her house. She wears only name brand expensive clothes and she is investing in gold. \nIn 6 years she plans to go home to build her house and retire. \nThat's why they come here. They dont come her to assimilate as Americans they come here to take American money home. ??