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Hay Make sure you keep voting for either wing of the bird. Blue or Red. ITs working. LOL

Keep voting democrat and this will NEVER end!

You asked for it, voted for it, New York, you got it. Now keep it.

They know NY is turning red and this is the only way to keep it blue. Fake votes

New Yorkers keep voting for Democrats. No Republican can win any office because those darn Republicans are meanies. I'M NO RACIST=I'll keep voting Democrat! (And just complain that NY is ruined until I'm forced to move out. But at least I'm no racist who never voted Republican. ?)

Keep voting democrat

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.

I love it keep voting blue ?

People keep voting democrat then complain you get what you vote for. ?

NY, this was your voted in problem. Just keep it there out of the rest of the country. We told you so. How do you like your sanctuary status now?

This way Dstated Dems want doing .they import immigrant replace voters Usa & keep NYC blue stated. 4 years later 2028 election Dstated Dems unneed Usa voters. Immigrant voted them .look NYC doing .15k in Account & 5k cash .inwhile Usa People homeless nothing not enough buy food gas rent ? anything take shelter of you .wake up Usa

Keep Voting the Democrat Party Freaks!

crazy how new yorkers keep voting in people who dont care about the actual citizens living there lmao. Wont open buildings for the homeless or homeless vets, but will gladly renovate it and give it to people who came here illegally :)

Keep voting democrat, we're almost there.

YUP!!! KEEP VOTING DUMOCRATS IN OFFICE BUT COMPAIN THAT YOUR CITYS GOING TO SHIT. WHAT A JOKE!!!!!

Don't worry our POS Prime Minister is responsible and the NDP is keeping him in power. Canada needs to vote for Pierre Poilievre and Americans need to vote for Trump

How do Americans keep voting democrat? Please Lord Jesus come quickly.

Keep voting Democrat why you guys don't like this you vote for it

Yeah people keep voting for this s***

So vote democrat to keep boarders all open ?

Well keep them coming Vote Democrat, like Hello! NYC is becoming an absolute nightmare all because of Democrat open border policy!

Sure, keep voting for Dems... \n\nThis is because of the Kackler...

Border crossings are down in Texas due to the Texas Governors tactics to stop illegal Crossings. The Feds have done nothing to help but everything to fight the Texans. They want them to swarm New York so that the Illegal Demonic Demoncrats can use them to vote illegally. All this is so the Dems can stay in power. Keep it up Dems. Keep voting for your same old reps. They have your back.

lol good job New Yorkers, keep voting blue. ? ?

13,000 new votes to keep the Blue DEMONS in office.

Thank the corrupt communist administration for this. Keep voting for globalists people!

Keep voting democrat

This is great, I wonder why the people aren’t complaining to the democrat administration, or their senator they voted for? Seems like the democrats are more like sheep and just keep voting for democrats without any thought of the consequences.

Okay Im not a New Yorker and I do not have a horse in this race I did a little googling on it because I was fascinated. As outlined in the Constitution , the House represents citizens based on district populations, while the Senate represents citizens on an equal state basis. This means flooding New York City with all these illegal immigrants drives up the population and creates moue House votes for the state of New York. Now you may think, no that's citizens, actually it isn't. \nMore than 205,000 migrants have arrived in New York City since the spring of 2022. Now while New York's citizen population has been on a slight decline for the last 20 years. While the population is declining make it easier for illegal immigrants to replace those number more quickly. I mean just saying you want to know why this is happening, why the laws are allowing it look at the very basic facts and draw your own conclusions. \nIll keep my own personal opinions to myself as they are theory and nothing I can offer valid proof without them sounding like a conspiracy theory.

They will destroy this Country if we don't do anything about it. Keep voting the liberal Democrats in !

Keep EM' in New York!! U voted U gottem

Living in a liberal wonderland! Keep voting Democrat of you want more of this.

You voted for it so you deserve it. Keep voting for it and keep crying. ?

We here in Canada are f**k. The Country is full of idiots who keep voting Liberal. Letting in hundreds of thousands of immigrants who take their job, driving inflation and pushing wages down.\n\nOne question to everyone, how can demand and inflation goes down when consumption goes up by the very people's they let in. Time to deport.

Keep voting Democrat and this will be in your town soon.

This movie gets better an better keep voting democrat thats what you get keep up the great work ???

Ok ??? keep voting ? ????

Keep voting blue guys…

and since you all love to vote demo, biden and his assholes will keep saying the illegal crossings across the southern border are decreasing every month and demos like you state will not even think about why the northern border has increased....

Keep voting blue out there?????????wake the F UP NEW YORK....... VOTE RED...... AT LEAST VOTE RFK IF U GOT TDS....... I MEAN COME ON.......... WTF AFTER A WHILE Y'ALL ARE GOING TO HAVE TO VOTE RED..... OR EVENTUALLY IT'S LIKE U CAN'T KEEP COMPLAINING ABOUT THE THINGS U REFUSE TO CHANGE........ CUZ U GET PLAYED BY DEMOCRATS......... WAKE THE F. UP..... OR DON'T. L..... Y'ALL MUST LOVE BEING A SANCTUARY CITY?

The American dream ONLY applies to illegals now. Keep voting for democrats.

The blame falls on the American people who stand by and ignor the problem and just complain about it. Treat these ILLEGALS just as you would be treated if you went illegaly into their Country. Don't vote, or keep voting the way you have been, and it will get worse.

??? *Keep Voting For Your Chosen Misery..... ENJOY!!* ???

Sanctuary benefits 100% go to illegal aliens, as a NYC citizen about to be homeless, NONE of thay free money, foos, housing and college goes to me, a black American citizen, it goes to illegal aliens and MY TAXES fund their luxury.\n\nSTOP VOTING DEMOCRAT.\n\nps: i never voted blue and never will because it's democrats who are purposely replacing us with illegal aliens to keep them in power

Keep voting for it

Keep voting for democrats ? your city can easily withstand another couple hundred thousand criminals living it up for free in your high-rise hotels blowing all that free tax payers cash on the first of the month ??????????????????

Keep voting blue

How is that Sanctuary City you voted for working out? Keep voting Democrat NY.

They keep talking about democracy, I don’t remember voting for NYS becoming a sanctuary state. Do you?

I think you should stay right where you are and keep voting Democrat This is going to be great??? please make sure you don't move especially if you vote Democrat