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There are so many scary things about the US right now. Drugs, crime, mass murders, accessibility to healthcare, terrorism, racial hate crimes, etc. The list is quite long. Not everyone is affected by all of these things (knock on wood). One thing that is disgusting is politics. It is not dangerous per se as the aforementioned so it is probably not fair to say it as a justification against moving to the US. However, it is very commonplace in the US, and it is very annoying. Politics is extremely toxic, aggressive, and divisive right now. One wrong comment out of your mouth in public, and people will be ready to fight you. Or on the flip side, you hear one wrong comment in public, it is best to bite your tongue. \n\nPolitics in the US was not always intolerable. It has always been a strong subject of discussion since forever. However, it became disgusting and overly obnoxious ever since Trump came into the scene. I think his elitist personality gave his supporters a green light to be more vocal about their own divisiveness. Combine that with social media, and you have a recipe for disaster... so much hate, divisiveness, and willingness to not bite one's tongue right now in the States. American politics is really overbearing. And monkey see and monkey do... it will leak into Canada. I guarantee it.

Sorry Tyler, but given the current social and political environment in the USA I do not want to visit the country and definitely never move there.\n\nThe challenge for me is the realization that Canada was built on community, while I see many (too many) Americans fiercely independent and not seemingly caring about anyone but themselves. \n\nCanada IS NOT PERFECT. We have gang violence, drug issues, racism, homelessness, poverty, inefficient political and bureaucratic system, but in general I feel that people will be more polite and helpful to each other than in the US.

Drugs? Alcohol? Bipolar?

We cant fix Our Country because the top agenda is left, right infighting. They refuse to see that Uniting for these kind of issues and more is only way to strive for fixing anything. We were hoping that as things deteriorate or are ignored because blaming is more important. Politicians started this and most vocal of downing each other. How does anyone trust that this is helping any person or issue? This is chaos. Today there was a party rep saying that immigration and drugs have settled into a crawl.

Well cnn you see this is what you helped happen Invasion LOL get as much drugs kids and cartel members in as fast as possible

We spend more on war halfway across the global but wont stop drug dealers right next to us.

? that's crazy you could have anyone crossing your boarder it's a joke USA.i thought terrorism and drug gang's are a threat to your boarders.\nI wasn't a trump fan but atleast he was trying.

Why leave mexico......you will miss tacco......united stste is already crowded....see in philadelpia some people there are homeless and in drugs and the goverment do nothing .....

If it is about religion then what about sikhs drinking, taking drugs.

Canadians are taxed 53% before VAT's 13%(adds to 66%) + real estate tax(you pay on top of taxes) + environmental tax + taxes on Gas, plus Taxes on food = 85% TAXES all together!!!\nBasically working for the privilege of paying the bills, with the only prospect of ending up in old age on the streets amongst drug addicts, with no health care..!!. Thank you Justin Trudeau.. it's justinflation..!!!!!!!

Dear Americans, you can thank the CIA and other black organizations that control and racketeer the cartels for this. The CIA took over jobs from Pablo Escobar and created and organized the cartels. When they realized in the early 70's that the drug business was very lucrative and that Ustistan would never be able to to stop the huge number of people who use drugs in the USA, they decided to take over the job and move it to neighboring Mexico. Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer.

I love my mexico country and love America but this is not the way to go and besides American is becoming overpopulated\nPs. Most of these guys get addicted to drugs and stay on the street

Seems to me America needs to reassess the drug laws and interference that helps destabilize our neighbors to the south

Great, my tax dollars going to Ukraine for raging war and drug addicts to enhance their addiction.

Sorry but keep them away. Spend that money on Americans. Every major metropolitan city has a drug and homeless problem. \n\nThey are just coming for free shot and we as tax payers cough up the money.

And all this drug addicts and homeless make everything around disgusting ?. Quebec is the best region so far then.

Perception is a hell of a drug. Canada is a very corrupt country

This is a huge problem and the cause is the Government in Mexico it's called CARTELS . THEY ARE DESTROYING PEOPLE FOR DRUG MONEY ITS BULLSHIZ ALL THAT MONEY THE CARTELS GET IS FOR THEM AND THEIR GANG WHEN THEY COULD PUT IT TOWARDS THE PEOPLE BUT THEY DONT TO GREEDY AND EVIL .

Bhai main USA or Canada dono jagaha work karta hu 4 Year ho gye hai .\nBut ab main hamesha k liy USA or CANADA ko LEAVE kr raha hu kuch month may Become of No Doctor, No MAID, weather Conditions, Racism, frozen food, No JUGAAD, Tax, Drugs, \nNassha patta, SCHOOL PRIVATE hai,\nBut HOSPITAL PRIVATE nhi hai, PUBLIC SCHOOL may Kuch or hi padaya jata hai LG....T.....etc.\n2024 may INDIA Ja raha hu.\nPODCAST kerlo marey SATH \nUSA Canada ki sari POL Khol duga

CIA needs to stop supporting the drug lords and la Familia in the Latin countries. Then these people won't be running to America as asylees.

People sad they can't come in but we have Americans literally destroying whole city blocks in Chicago and Florida. Send the lazy drug induced homeless Americans to those states or send them somewhere else and let these people come in and actually help rebuild this country that anti America rallying Americans are destroying...

I would've loved if they could've done that test with U.S./Canadian customs officer. I had one agent that I assumed I was carrying drugs just because I was attending a heavy metal concert.

Runaway INFLATION and ASSET Bubbles which are the direct results of BoC's mismanagement of monetary policies are the DIRECT THREAT to Canada's Security, Sovereignty, and Independence. \nThe rates must go WAY HIGHER, to fight high inflation from its core, exactly what Paul Volker, Fed/Res chairman did in the US back in the 1980s. \nWe need DEFLATION in this country and not inflation to bring consumer prices down from high real estate prices to food, energy/utilities, and taxes. \n \nAssesst Bubbles which were created by the Bank of Canada must be DEFLATED, if NOT the cost of living will NEVER GO DOWN and it would lead to SERIOUS and DEVASTATING Social, Economic & Political Consequences in Canada for years to come which subsequently would lead to Mass Protests, Riots, Mutiny, Social & Labour Strikes/Unrest, Crimes, Violent Crimes, Organized Crimes, Drugs, Unemployment, Homelessness, Tent cities, Inequality, and Disparity.

Bullshit… the 3 worst provinces to live in are Quebec, British Columbia and Ontario due to explosion in criminality and drugs addictions.

Can’t let those drug traffickers in

Wtf bra these people fail to realize we a drug and homelessness issue in America this just gone bring the numbers up and take from less fortunate sad...

a lot of people don’t understand that mexicos system for getting a visa is very expensive and tedious. america lives off the drug trade, so yall can stop crying about immigrants since america has been buying drugs from mexico for years, contributing to the shithole mexico is today

I wish USA would close all entrances and figure out how to make sure the ppl here now are ok. We have more poor drug addicted homeless ppl on the streets yet you wanna let more in??? Craziness. \n\nOn the same note you can’t blame these ppl for wanting to come heee. I mean from what I’ve been told they make it here Biden puts them up in 5 star hotels give them a allowance. It’s just sickening!!!

Aren’t we fortunate in the US to have **none** of these problems!\n\nWe have no homeless here!\n\nTake a look at SF, LA (where all “solutions” are rooted in Bolshevism; “Hi, we’re from the government and will be taking over half of your front yard for homeless yurts (Ok, tents)--true story. Take a gander at any large, medium, and even a few small cities.\n\nHave you ever heard of Detroit (once proud home of my beloved Motown music), Baltimore (complete devastation), or Chicago (my home town—don’t make me cry)?\n\nThe entire homeless situation started when mental hospitals were snake pits and certain factions demanded that people be released.\n\nSure, it sounds humanitarian but they didn't bother to consider what would happen to mentally ill patients suddenly left to their own devices on the streets.\n\nThe do gooders actually were foolish enough to believe that the seriously ill patients (schizophrenic, bipolar, borderline, and plenty of others) would take their meds on their own. It doesn't work that way for patients who are not in contact with reality.\n\nNow we add extreme drugs (crack, meth, heroine, ketamine, whatever they hand out at parties, etc) and severe cases of PTSD/PTSS. It's obscene that we have veterans on the streets.\n\nHeath care--?. Pre Obamacare it wasn’t terrible but medicine had become a CYA project. We are so litigious (side eye to John Edwards ) that doctors practice defensive medicine and carry high limit malpractice insurance (guess who pays for that?). Every decision is driven by avoiding lawsuits, not proper patient care.\n\nPost Obamacare, US health care is an unmitigated disaster at every level. We’re short on doctors, too. Many quit and students are losing interest—medicine won’t pay enough anymore to justify $500K in loans.\n\nWe could repeal every bit of Obamacare tomorrow and still not be able to fix it. The leviathan grew tentacles that released toxins into every nook and cranny of the system. Now that they have buried themselves in critical layers, it would be impossible to yank them out.\n\nI have a good PCP who is booked 6-8 weeks out. Specialists? Hah. GI, neuro, and derm? Four to six month wait post referral.\n\nI never thought I would say such a thing but I would probably swap the Serial Sexual Predator occupying the WH for your Little Lord Fauntleroy.\n\nCan Canada compete with us in corruption? Government employees seriously tried to topple a sitting president and not only were there no consequences, they were able to retire on fat pensions that we citizens work hard to provide for them.\n\nOur government is run entirely by K Street lobbyists; our “representatives” don’t even draft legislation, that’s done for them by K ST.\n\nHow about crime? Do we even need to talk about it?\n\nHousing crisis? Prices were already too high when the regime (predictably) created runaway inflation and we saw the end of affordable interest rates. Even 0.25% increase will knock out many buyers; they won’t be able to qualify.\n\nWe are seeing huge jumps; young people have resigned themselves to never being homeowners.\n\nRacism? Again, look to the US. It’s nothing even close to what the make believe media caterwauls about. If white supremacists are behind every tree, where is the evidence? Surely, in 2023 has caught a cell phone video, right? Where are the videos? Show me the proof. There is plenty of footage of BLM destroying property and injuring, even murdering innocents. If we gripe about this behavior, we are raaayyyycccciiiiissssts.\n\nNo rational adult would claim that the US is not a violent country and becoming more so. Nor can we claim to have eliminated racism. That takes time; it cannot be done by force.\n\nOur economy went from smokin hot to dumpster fire in a short span of time. Pre election, head hunters were shaking the trees to find job candidates.\n\nOur unemployment is up as are our taxes with the stomping out of the tax cuts. \n\nDespite the endless sloganeering about how the Trump tax cuts only benefited “rich” people, it’s quite the opposite.\n\nHigh earners lost their pet deductions and lower income taxpayers were quite pleasantly surprised when they did their returns. The cuts were targeted to preserve wealth for the middle and lower classes.\n\nI could go on for another 100 pages but you get the idea and I get crabby writing for free.\n\nI will leave you with the caution that it’s best if you doubt and question any data and any stats coming from our government. Those are seldom legit. If the data comes from a study, always look to see who paid for it. And how large the sample size was; how were the participants selected? We are all on our own when it comes to ferreting out info.\n\nOh Canada!\n\nYou’re welcome.

Lived in us for 10 years and also Canada for 7. I can 100% say that life in Canada is a whole lot better then USA. Although pay is more in USA, it’s quickly eaten up by all the expenses and trust me when I say you will spend a ton. Your entire city you live in will most likely try to eat away as much of your wallet as you can. People and going outside is just better in Canada. Usa really really sucks apart from pay, especially for kids unless you live in an expensive city. People are Riddled with hate and it’s not safe for kids to play outside because something is def out to get them. Usually it’s a car or a criminal. One thing I’ve noticed is kids in USA end up doing drugs a whole lot more, because there’s not much for the kids to do. Kids can’t spend much and can’t travel far or at all, so they resort to drugs. With my hs done in highschool, a huge majority of the schools were doing one or another sort of drug. Also I’m back in Canada because life as a student is just a whole lot better then the snaky system of USA. Both suck in their own ways though, Canada a whole lot less, plan to move out to an eastern country anywya tjough.

Not one criminal in that whole bunch .. no human traffickers no drug trafficking no rapists no terrorists whatsoever NOT ONE in that sea of humans right? Right?

These people are trying to escape genocide over there with those drug lords. What there doing is not really right but they need to come up with a solution to the problem. If they join forces like this in there own country things can get done. Get rid of corruption in high places first. That's the problem.

So the US starts the War on Drugs which results in money going into the hands of organised crime and when these criminals wreak havoc all over South and Central America, people are surprised by the mass migration north?\nY'all gotta deal with the fallout of your government's karma #SorryNotSorry

Our National deficit is rising and they always say they can’t touch social security, SSDI and Medicare the stuff we pay into since we start working so one day when we are old enough or hurt enough we will have something given back to us to help us make it through the rest of our lives and have medical coverage after working hard paying into it. How can they just let them flood our country and give them money and threaten that their won’t be anything left for social security in the coming years. We need secure borders and our National security is compromised not to mention the drugs, criminals and not fair to the ones that apply for citizenship legally

We need to bring the gangs nd drugs out there straight up nd down see how they like that lol

Because Mexico sucks !!! I don’t blame them .. I’d rather die trying then live in poverty and crime .. unless your working on USA side and take money to Mexico or your a drug dealer .. life ain’t great .. that’s why girls are getting married at 12-13 years old so some old guy can take care of them.. that’s if you don’t die or get robbed trying to get an education that you pay for … but can’t afford if your poor..

It's funny to see so many comments of America needs to take care of ours first! Wtf are you in the same America. I'm in. We have been corrupt from Columbus. F we don't and haven't taken care of ours. Don't call the kettle black if you're white, Trump voter, never have done anything to stop racism, hunger etc. Don't dare say drugs because it's whites that started the opioid crisis by Greed and it goes on.

You cannot find homes for the American people the crime will increase by 50% drugs cartel

Damn CNN struggling to not be racist asf these days.. yall stop being sheep people.. get rid of these folks running the country.. we are here to welcome people that aren't murderers or drug dealers and always have welcomed them

Such a bittersweet scene. People so desperate to gain entry into the USA. But, we can't even take care of our own citizens. Homelessness, drugs we can't even clean up our own cities. Let alone take care of others not from the USA. I can't imagine how these people feel. Fleeing their country to gain entry into the USA. I feel so blessed to be an American. May God find a home for all these people.

No more cross American period! Too many homeless and drugs

AMERICA NEEDS TO REPLACE FIX THAT BORDER WALL. FENTANYL IS KILLING PEOPLE HIJACKING MURDERS SHOPLIFTING THEFTS BURGLARS ARE UP.. VETERANS GETTING KICKED OUT OF HOTEL TO PUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN. COMMUNITIES RESOURCES ARE BEING BURDENED.. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE SHOPLIFTING AND STORES HAVE BEEN CLOSING. BECAUSE OF IT. MORE VEHICLES ARE BEING STOLEN. SEX TRAFFICKING HAS. INCREASED. SINCE 2021CRIME IS UP POLICE. PRESCENSE DOWN. SAD FOR THE COMUNITIES AND CHILDRENN DIEIING DUE TO DRUGS. 15 YEAR OLD WAS KILLED. JUST A WEEK AGO BY MS 13 members from Mexico in the US.. More terrorist. Please God I pray for everyone pleaase help your peopple from the murders thefts pains. ??❤Amen

Ok, did you hear correctly, they said Venezuelans crossing Mexicos border! Stop blaming only Mexicans. So many other countries come illegally. While you don’t apply or accept a hard work job somebody else is more than willing. It’s not their fault their good at work. Plus most our homeless choose to be that way due to drugs or mental illness. Who knows what else. So does Venezuelans sound like Mexicans, nope, or get your ears checked.

They smuggle drugs n kill Americans with fentanyl

This is what insanity looks like. A massive pack of people with nothing to offer the US except the desire to take from it. Crime, trafficking, drugs. And they deman to be let in simply because they have 10,000 at a time when every single one would be denied if they try this shit 1 at a time. This is what machine guns were created for. Spew rubber bullets and send the crowd home

Well,well!Only in Canada,you say .How about the US,France and other countries in the world? I assume that there are no homeless people in the US or France...How many thousands and thousands die from drugs in the US and other countries in the world.Yes,the governments should do better and find/build special housing for these people.They should set up special\nclinics in order to detoxify these drug addicts.The problem is that people don't want to have these clinics in their neighbourhood because they are afraid of fights,their houses will go down\nin value and so on.I saw a documentary about the homeless people and I was surprised and not surprised about what they are saying.There is what they call the Old House Brewery in\nMontreal and there are about 50 beds (or more) and the homeless people can sleep,eat and shower.There are a lots of then who refuse to go to this place,some say that so people were\nmaking noises at night and they prefer to sleep under bridges ..Homeless people are everywhere in the world.DON'T FORGET THAT IT 'S ALSO THE JOB OF THE PROVINCES TO FIND\nSHELTERS FOR THESE PEOPLE...

Racism every where don't think you anything special alot of african refugees lives in Alberta the play book is cry racism on everything I'm a black man grew up in Toronto a black man suffers way more than black female we looked upon we drug dealers and killers only good for rap and sports while black females play the system have a baby government support them even if women shelter # the play book now is cry Racism no matter what ethnic back ground you from # oh Canada ??

He got what he deserved you can't just go into the country illegally and then expect them to bend over and give you what you want crime gangs drugs and violence is not a reason for asylum\nSo hopefully Canada sent their butts back

what gets me is no matter what one do they coming, dig tunnels, inner-tube, no president should be blamed, for example drugs still get here,

Here you have proof that the Biden Administration has been lying to you all along. Millions have crossed along with drug, gun and human traffickers.