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Yeah, I've been talking to a Canadian over discord for almost 2 years now trying to learn more about the country and what he told me was shocking. Canadian make about 25% less and pay 33% more in taxes then American and somehow a house in the middle of goddamn nowhere cost as much as a house in Portland. If you live in NYC, SF, or LA yeah you can forget about buying a house but its not like in America housing is unaffordable everywhere like in Canada. In Texas, you can get a big beautiful house for 300k, the catch being that real estate taxes is really high and you still be paying that even after the mortgage been paid off. Florida is affordable but hurricanes, Cleveland is really cheap despite a good reputation, and a house in the rural areas is easily under 100k. Canada pretty much have no houses under 300k which is made worse by the fact that they make less, taxed more, investment is harder + more expensive, and it actually hard to establish credit because they don't have looser standard like in the US.

Canada is basically another state of US at this point. Canada has independent domestic policies just like any US state but foregin policis are Washington lead. Canada has great educational instuation just like many other US state but ultimately, the graduates leave for better states in the US to get better pay. Almost all export of Canada is to US and almost all import are from same US suppliers from Asia. Some will say Canada is very different from US in the way people act and live their life. That is true but even inside US, California is very different from Texas and New York is very different from Iowa. Just goes to show different states have different lifestyle but are still part of the same country.\nThis is not a bad thing, in fact Canada is lucky to have access to the biggest market of the world. Being under US security umberlla means no one will attack you. Canada's government know this so they made policies that lead to integration with US economical and defence system.

As a resident of Quebec, I had invest massively in 2003 in robotic, automation and numerisation of our manufacturing facility with almost no employees.\nI can produce any kind of component and turn arround less than 1/2 hours of set up.......\n\nOur data base is so huge, I can reapeat order from last 20 years..in less than 1 minute.....\n\nI will say......we are 100% R&D each day...we design...produce...and ship....material dosen't exist......only in imaginary....we bring it to life

The Raza has been planning to take over California for almost a hundred years when the financial collapse happens there will be all kinds of his people are literally coming for the Mexican-American war they know it but you don't

They got a better life over here and let him come over here and I mean nobody here wants to work anyways everyone here wants to be drug addicts and almost anyways most homeless people I know are homeless by choice so let them come over here if they want to come over here if it's for their safety we do not own land this land was my ancestors land okay it was stolen from us so

If they would have just let Trump build the damn wall none of this would be happening. They sued him non stop for two years over building the wall. By the time he was able to start his 4 yr term was almost up. Fukking democrats smmfh. We need that wall like right now!! Trump / Lake 2024

And as proud Canadian I'm sick of it . We'll welcome almost everyone , but apply through the proper channels .

It's unconscionable that we've invited people to come to Canada without actually following through on the promise we made to them in the first place. Was it all just sloganeering designed to appeal to liberal progressive NIMBYers? Was there ever any intent on actually doing something for these poor people beyond a sound bite or photo op? \n\nThe solution to migration because of war, terror, famine and so on is not by opening up the borders and allowing everyone in, the solution to mass migrations (over 100 million worldwide) is to tackle the conditions that make such migrations necessary. Almost without exception, each one of these migrant/refugee situations are the result of political problems that have to be tackled in those countries where the conditions exist. There are over 100 million people fleeing conditions that make life unbearable, even if we wanted to, how are we to take them all into North America? How does anyone propose we do that, and even if we could manage it somehow, another 100 million would show up on our doorstep next year...or next week...it's simply not possible or reasonable to expect us to be overwhelmed by wave after wave of the poor unfortunate. The solutions to war and famine abroad can't be found here and we need to make it plain that people who live in such conditions must first rise up to help themselves. We can and should help, politically, through foreign aid and individual donations (North Americans are among the most generous donators after all), and even militarily where feasible or possible. The UN and other coalitions of nations, must each take up the burdens before people smugglers take it up for them. We have our own problems to deal with here and I'm not willing to vote for promises made that were never meant to be kept.

All latinoamericans and south americans countries where almost destroyed by the europeans and americans laws and interventions, this was an obvious reaction and future for every first world or second world countries, and now with communism being stablished in every south american country this is just the begining.

Man, I really do love everyone who is currently in office for our government at the moment. I just love letting any & everyone into our country, not to mention the cost of groceries & gas is amazing too! I absolutely love paying almost $7.00 just for a gallon of milk. It also just makes me think about such better times that were...... I don't know, like three fucking years ago! When the average American could afford to buy groceries & gas, and any other essential as needed. \n\nNow we will find housing for all of the people illegally entering our country, while we have more than enough Veterans sleeping on the street, & not to mention that 22 Veterans a day kill them selves on average. But MS-13 gang member and Mexican Cartel members deserve a nice place to live, hopefully they don't cut off anyone's head during their stay! ?\n\nBut, anyways....This current regime deserves nothing but praise! Thank you, Democrats, seriously thank the Fuck out of you people!!!?

That's the problem with these ppl. They all come in swarms (by the thousands even millions) each & every year for the pass umteen decades and sit under the U.S government once they get naturalized comfortable situated or whatever you want to call it they don't go back to their countries to try & fix whatever problem that's making them all run to the U.S which only then creates a whole nother generation of latinos running to the U.S pleading for sanctuary and salvation...& it just keeps going on & on & on. It's really sad that america has to be the only country on this side of the planet to carry the burden of taking in all these ppl from almost every country south of the american boarder because they don't know how to provide create opportunities for themselves or because their governments doesn't know how to maintain proper order.

Now you want to show this. It's a little too late don't you think? It's been almost 3 years!!!

me and parents immigrated to the US with almost nothing, we lived in a used 2004 sienna but they worked their asses off. my dad even got mugged within the first 5 months being in the us. fast forward, both of my parents still work blue collar jobs and we have 2 30k+ SUVs and a 2 story $300,000 home. i can never respect my parents enough for their hard work in order to provide for me and my brother\n\nwe came here through a legal port of entry and are doing relatively well from shit poor, if they did it, these people can too

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There's a homeless person at almost every stop light and the sleeping in cars and tents in my neighborhood!

What's unbelievable is that history reminds us that almost half of the United States on the west side was MEXICO and these individuals are restricted to a barrier/wall keeping them out of what was primarily there's, something that colonizers stole, illegally sold.

I feel like they make all these immigration laws that ultimately only hurt people trying to get in legally. Almost seems like they're promoting coming illegally. Maybe we should just have open borders and realize most people aren't violent criminals.

The joke is on them! We're almost communist!! Aha ha ha ha!

So freaking sad…..Americans are struggling as it is….a homeless vet is treated worse that immigrants…..that’s so wrong…..the sad truth is that these people need our help but our government is too busy sending $100 billion of OUR money to Ukraine because HE has personal business ties to Metabiota and Burisma there…not because he cares about Ukrainians. He’s making so much money and using our resources to do it…….meanwhile there’s an almost completely open border. A rise in crime, fentanyl, human trafficking, child trafficking, adrenochrome harvesting, homelessness, starvation…….and he’s worried about Ukraine..and ice cream

We dead ass got a ton of abandoned houses almost on every block of every neighborhood of every state in ameriKa and ameriKa can give away free money to Ukraine but we got the audacity to say that we’re overly populated or that we don’t have enough home. I would like to know how ya gonna explain that to God on Judgement Day

i talked to some Mexican construction workers who are building my parents' retirement home there. what i make in 1 day takes them weeks, almost a month to make. i asked why don't they apply for a visa. they can't afford it and said the wait could be around 11 years and even then, visa workers are corrupt and help their friends or those who bribe them first. it's a shit situation for everyone. i'm lucky to have been born on the U.S. side of the border. it is what it is.

I almost didn't recognise what was happening, there was no boat's ?

Almost looks organized

Almost free future democrats.

It only seems fair that the USA has all the Mexicans and Canada because of Justin Trudeau. we have almost a million Afghanistan people in CANADA. Yes, we have housing problems n now welfare income though the roof.\nI wonder what year was Desert Storm.??\nAnd I wonder who these Afghanistan people are going to vote for...lets all guess?, Justin Trudeau 2025

It's almost like that in the UK now. All the little boats crossing the channel ILLEGALLY entering!! They are NOT refugees. Hosting the criminals in nice hotels whilst our elderly for want of a bit of help are being ILLEGALLY forced from their homes into RESIDENTIAL CARE and Fraudulently made to pay by Whatever Means, including the fabrication of their status and finances even ROBBING them of their PENSIONS in client Contributions!!! \nIt's disgusting, despicable and NEEDS to stop !!

Well I have heard rumors that the Citizens of Mexico have had enough of the cartels. Now this is coming from a source I’m not to trustworthy but it’s safe to know than not knowing. So I have heard that the people have been warned that starting today there where going to be groups a so called vigilantes going round warning store owners or anyone who owns business to close down their business at a curfew date. For if the see them open they will get lifted (kidnapped) and killed. Supposedly that the cartels want to start charging the elderly for their monthly pension funds (their way of social security benefits) also they want to start charging a fee for almost everything to the people. So maybe that’s why they are trying to escape the war that’s bout to happens with the mass vigilantes and the cartels they a war bout to start.

Nothing new. Been going on for almost 3yrs...✌️

Ummm they have guns for a reasons and bullets smugwhats funny to me all these supposed poor refugees dress better then almost everyone I know working class these people get here in brand new clothes new cars botching and moaning they are so poor yet their full of shit

As an Australian, I failed almost the entire thing

Bring them in for fuck sakes. Ain't not much better here but I'm damn sure our southern friends deserve a chance. They're culture is almost the same as the USA. And the more people we have in the USA willing to fight for human rights the better. The world is on the verge of ww3

Similar happening here in Ireland - we are in the middle of a housing crisis with the highest number of homeless ever recorded - and still our government floods the country with migrants - almost exclusively young men - the majority who arrive without passports or any docuents making it impossible to vet them - this is part of the Globalists agenda - to destroy our country by changing it beyond all recognition - by putting the native Irish in the minority in our own country...!\nAt least you guys have guns - God Bless the Patriots everywhere who stand up against this Tyranny...!

Crazy that 100+ years ago this would likely be considered an act of war. By literally almost any country.\n\nDisclaimer: No, I'm not suggesting war be made on anyone over this. I'm merely putting the enormity of mass border storming, by force, into perspective for the gross violation of sovereignty that it is.

It is almost halarious listening to a latino describe this.

I feel bad, but my mama and uncle in the Philippines have been waiting for almost 30 years to come here trying to do it the legal ways. They're finally getting processed to come here and I hope everything goes well. I miss my mama so much and I can only imagine how much she misses me. I was 10, now in the late 20s ?

i live in a almost 65year old 8by6 CANVAS trailer with zip up windows and door in the SF bay area in California. its so expensive to live here i cant get us out of the giant hole of shit im stuck in. were stuck in. its been 3 years. the cops impounded my only car for expired registration some months back. i work 11hours a day doing heavy physical labor for 140 bux a day and im the only english speaking guy in the whole company lol . everyone i work with has an apartment and cars and a family 3times the size of mine and all of them r here illegally and somehow im the only one struggling to keep my family afloat. my daughter turns ten in two weeks and said the only thing she wishes for was a normal house with her own room...\nsometimes i feel like im living in the twilight zone..

Man I can’t imagine why they would all want to come here. Almost like we’ve spent the majority of the last 15 years telling them to show up, and flying them in, and just generally treating them better than our own citizens. What a joke.

I’m shocked this is even being mentioned …. There are people regularly jumping the fence and running across freeways …. It’s almost a daily news update here in El Paso the latest police chase that happens everyday… cars drive into a house flip over in a ditch or off a mountain always smugglers fleeing here. But the more people know the more they realize so can’t let them know….. our freeways have signs that say watch for pedestrians just normal life here now theses signs in middle of main freeways??‍♂️

Almost 1/2 America isn’t even populated…..??‍♂️ Housing is “Not” an issue whatsoever. ….the United States should have never gave Mexicans “Mexico” after annihilating them in the War. ?….Mexicans are incapable of running there own country, the only talent they have is “Working” for the bare minimum and making babies. ?

Our country has been invaded by almost 11 million people. How many military from other countries are here? More than Americans can imagine

Almost like straight ppl are the problem, they're allowed to duplicate, and the masses of ppl will never stop

I submitted immigration sponsorship for my family and have been waiting for the last 15 years. What do these people think they are entitled to come just because there are issues in their own country? This is getting ridiculous. I am outraged by the fact that we go through the legal system and waiting period has been almost two decades with just one hope that someday we get to reunite with our family and these people keep ruining our chances.

it’s kinda interesting that their environment is more fertile and filled with natural food. \n\nIn the US we are swelling so badly with overpopulation, we are about to economically collapse. We are almost out of water supply. We are losing thousands and thousands of jobs. The government is corrupt. \n\nthey’re crying to get in here. They’re nuts. They will just be made into cheap labor to exploit. smh

Almost looks like an insurrection

I always thought Trump was being dumb when he said, “they don’t send their best ppl” until I moved to Mexico and cross Paso del Norte once a month. Every month I take a bus up to Juarez and I ride with these migrants, and let me tell you something… they’re not all women and children. About 60-70% are young LITERAL thugs. I almost got jumped by a group of four of them when I arrived to the Juarez bus station for the first time. Mexicans are tired of these ppl as well, don’t get it twisted. 90% of Mexicans I’ve talked to don’t want them in their towns bc they say that since they’ve arrived muggings, burglary’s, and r@pes have severely gone up. In the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s most of the migrants were just ppl who wanted to work, these ppl that I’ve met time and time again talk like the US owes them and has to let them in. It’s crazy. You don’t realize it until you see them and meet them. That’s not to say there’s no good ppl in there, there is. But most are thugs.

US Army invaded almost every Latin American country. Those people are following THEIR wealth. I am a 5th Generation US born Mexican descent living in OCCUPIED Mexican territory. Let's just face facts white folks.

Almost all isfake.

Almost like these comments are being edited. Not one compassionate comment near the top. Where are people's hearts? Humanity makes me so, so sad.

As a proud resident of Alberta, this is quite possibly the least accurate list of worst to best provinces. I don’t know who voted in this poll lol. BC and Alberta are the best followed by Quebec then Ontario and that’s almost objectively true, maybe not in that order but those are the 4, period.

This is absolutely unacceptable we need to secure and shut the border down now!!! Why is it so fucking hard for these people to get anything done at our borders? It's almost like the illegal immigrants are being given a free pass to invade our country with impunity