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Jesus christ ! It's already bad enough here in the United states ?? we're bursting at the seems! We can't take care of the whole world and it's problems! Sorry but we can't let them in! My lord please keep them out of the country! Our country already has millions of illegal immigrants in it !

Who's gonna tell em that they'd be better off turning back, this place isn't as great as everyone wants to make it seem

Why are we seeing this right now? They were invited by the Administration, that's why.....this is what journalism has become? Now the anchors ask the viewers questions? Seems about 180 degrees F'd up!

Invasion ! Maybe we should go to the countries they are fleeing from and help them fix their problems because they seem completely unable to do it themselves!?

It’s interesting watching the superpower of the last century slowly erode before our eyes. I read about the decline of the western Roman Empire and how over the course of give or take 150 years it eventually fell. But Americas fall seems to be happening much faster. I don’t see how you could claim America will still be the leading superpower in 50 years with the way things are going

Doing it with smiles on their faces too. Really seems “dangerous” like they all claim once they get across?

It is really sad but the Grass always seems Greener on the other side I love the united states but I feel like it's not truly a free country anymore and you don't have to kill yourself to come here to be happy thing's are always difficult it's how you handle it

The Americans in the comments make me sick for how little sympathy is on display and how racist and hateful y’all are being. I’m not saying they should be let in, but as a child of an illegal immigrant who came for a better life and then worked his ass of to become a legal citizen of this country just for this country to hate him… it’s sickening. You white folk seem to forget your roots here in America for how fuckin hateful you are towards immigrants.

It sure does seem like Joe Blow and Caramello Harris are actively trying to destroy this country. It makes me fn sick to see all the damage they've done!!!

​@Popeye Sailor you guys never seem to remember Obama doing that? You don't mind babies being separated from their womb or people being separated going to jail for political crimes

Seems the US can't win! They come in for so much scrutiny & criticism in so many ways yet everyone wants to get in there! With you Texas! ??

Lots of so-called patriotic Americans seem to be complaining with videos like this. I’d like to see most of them prove with 100% accuracy that all of their relatives came in legally through Ellis island. They probably can’t prove it. Hypocrites

During the 1930's media in various countries made immigrants and asylum seekers out to be this horrible thing and demonised them. This came after a huge recession in 1923, the Wall Street crash, and the subsequent dramatic rise of far right parties in various countries, specifically Italy, then Germany and Spain. \nFast-forward to modern times. 2008 saw another global recession. Once again politics swung massively to the right with countries like Italy (once again), Hungary, Austria, Poland and Sweden, voting in right wing governments, France ending in a run off that narrowly defeated the far right, Belgium and Spain looking likely to be heading into heavily right wing governments at the next elections, whilst the US and UK governments both saw their politics swinging far further in that direction, especially the UK right now whilst led by an unelected leader who is demonising people in ways that would make Trump look soft. One of themajor rallying calls: immigration. The way media report on this becomes increasingly demeaning and hateful. During the 1930's much of the European media and even as far as the UK was ramping up the scorn against the ever increasing influx of Jewish immigrants coming from Germany. Even into 1944 there was a vast amount of demonisation of them seeking asylum, despite the knowledge by this point that there were horrific conditions in camps where extermination was becoming ever more apparent. The Nazi German government in 1936 passed laws that enabled them to revoke citizenship and stripped away laws on human rights. It would be great to say that these poor souls who were being demonised in their own country were accepted into nations who could see what was going on and who wanted to help, but that just wasn't the way it went. Media played out as it is now, leading to rejection and a greater number of deaths as a result of this. The way the UK government is currently working, it actually sounds like the maxi government of the mid 30's during the time of the Nürnberg laws. \n \nThe world feels far smaller now with double the amount of people and with things like social media playing a huge role in the lives of many. The ease of access to people around the world has made issues seem to stretch to far more countries now, whereas back then it was a time of empires. I get that there will be many here who support Trump, many who support Biden, there will be Brit's who support Sunak and the rather vicious words of Suella Braverman, whilst others will be more on the side of Starmer (I'm well aware of all the other parties but they don't stand to gain as much). There will be French people backing Macron, whilst others back Le Pen. We could go through each country all the way to the battle between Fujimori and Castillo in Perú, and the stories are much the same, but how will history judge us when people look back to this time? Will it be another occasion where we demonised those trying to escape the horror of the place they had the bad luck to be born in whilst we were luckier? \n\nI know there is hardship everywhere. I'm struggling more than most and I know I can't keep living this way. However, I don't want to be a part of history people look back at and say ‘if only they did something to help prevent this.’. I would rather be a part of history people look back upon and say; ‘that was a boring time period where nothing important happened’. It's already too late for that. Instead I try to remember that, though I was born into a family who never really wanted me, I was lucky enough to be born into a country that could support me during the hardest times. When you look at immigrants, remember that every one of us has immigrants in our family tree somewhere.

It seems like land mines would work really really well

The same people saying that they should start a revolution in their own country forget that the US government was the one that started the problems in those countries in the 20th century, with all the CIA-aided coups and far-right military dictatorships. One must also not forget the problems that the United Fruit Company brought to Central America. If anything, the US should embrace these people with open arms. There always will be housing. If the US stopped zoning every square inch of its land as solely single family housing, we could solve the housing crisis and accommodate a lot more people, Americans and immigrants included. That being said, the federal government needs to allocate more resources to allow these people to enter in a proper manner, something which Biden certainly hasn’t done. This is the land of opportunity, people seem to forget that. I bet the coming of thousands of people into Ellis Island in the past two centuries wasn’t labeled as an ‘invasion’.

It seems like there's no more way to fix the mess of the country, the entire world.\nWe just need to be ready of the CONSEQUENCES.

I’m just here for the comments that seem to think this is a problem unique to America, blaming Biden for problems that happen around the world, including European borders way way way bigger than the American one.

Why are they smiling whole doing this it seems as if some folks are stoking this

Seems like I am watching born in east l.a. movie lol

I don’t get it.. I was just in Cancun the other day. Seems like such a nice place.. why do they all want to leave so bad?

all these countries and we can’t seem to be together on things, yet our whole world is a 3rd world. As a whole we are pathetic creatures. The rest of the “mindless animals” have more reason and meaning of living than our own kind.

Seems like Mexicans and other Hispanics don't wanna be anywhere in Mexico or South America they wanna run over here bringing all the bullshit with them

Yea need more of those violent people with no respect for our laws here. Seems peachy

-.- why dont they force themself on the mexican goverment though? It seems to work.. :(

What is the UN doing to implement stabilising countries so people don’t have to flee? It never seems to be about making all countries a place for citizens to be safe within.

Why does it seem like it's only Europe and the United States that these migrants want to go to...and it feels they think they have the RIGHT to do so. I can tell you with a british passport I have to comply with all types of entry policies including covid policies and strict restrictions on how many days I can visit. Yet these guys can just force their way in! ( .. or try to )

Seems like some of you democrats are starting to FINALLY understand why we can’t keep accepting illegal immigrants.

Hmmm strange you all seem to talk about America like it's a piece of shit never seen people run for shit before guess it's not as bad as you say ??

Gun's will stop them. Come to America legally. Nobody seems to be invading other countries! We have enough homeless already here that the government doesn't help and yet the government is going to help illegals

This might seem sad, but we don’t allow American Citizens to illegally pour into a bank, courthouse or the White House without a legal process just because they are needy.

Democrats need votes it seems

As a New Zealander, this seems accurate

Vote for Democrats seems to be working so well. ??????????

why did trudeau say we cant close it then. whats his excuse now , to avoid ppl coming?? idk he just seems incompetent

Close the freaking boarder. Have some balls. I guess the Americans will have to take care of the immigrants. It seems we take care of other countries and thier problems. Now we have this crap to deal with. How much more are Americans willing to take

All I see is more stabbings and robberies crossing to come to Toronto. I think I saw Justin crossing over in one of his many costumes. Keep voting liberal Ontario, seems to be working for ya so far.

Seems fair. They even seemed to have built them a temporary border station as evidenced by the lines. No complaints here. Gotta follow the process.\n\nEdit: Oh, I see. They arrest them and transport them to the border station. Great! Everyone gets what they need. Sounds good to me.

There should be a big gate thet comes up as well.\nRazor wire sure seems to work.\nScary.

27:51 but he seems so aggressive about his donation going in there lol. And hope and what he says just makes me feel like he wanted to help but not give it to her. I how I'm wrong but there was some negative feelings giving that change up.

United States of America need to close its borders immediately, Governors that states is close to mexicos border should start right away, biden's memory seems to be in lala lala land

It looks like the video games they advertise on YouTube before some videos. They use machine guns and grenades in them. They seem to work too!?

It doesn’t seem to be much different if they’re just shunting these people to the Immigration office down the road and given resources. Are they sending people who don’t qualify as legitimate asylum seekers back? Or do they just give these people papers and voila! They are now legal and proceed to be provided housing, food, etc.\nWhere are these people coming from?

seems like scam

Not cool. The U.S. doesn't seem like a safe country these days; especially for visible minorities.\nWe need these migrants to become immigrants. ASAP.

Seems like a wall would help…

I don’t believe every person crossing feels unsafe, most likely more than 60% are trying to take advantage of easy way in.. seems to be the pattern when these kinds of people come over, they start trying to pull off things that work in other countries… unfortunately many start taking advantage of the system and before you know it the country has to create new laws for everyone to follow

This happens more when there's a democrat president but it doesn't surprise me because the republicans in office would pay somebody over there and tell them america would let them in just to make this seems to use it as political about the border to make democrats not caring about borders in some interviews some have said that there letting them in so they come

Thanks The Fifth Estate! We need you guys here in the US! lol Anyway, it seems you Canadians follow the same bad patterns as the US, including doing this. This is not good. Not only that, in the end, there are no real winners. Only losers. Greed is never satisfied and is in constant need of feeding, needing of new victims. This applies to greedy schools in need of new bodies, to homeowners over charging for houses. Canada will end up with newly homeless that needs housing, to unpaid debt that is saddled upon taxpayers. And worse of all, the victims..who traveled all this way, only to end up with debt, and an unfortunate life lesson.

Canada has been run into the ground by government after government for 40 or 50 years now. Every level of government in Canada serves itself at the expense of the people paying taxes. All government employees have unshakeable job security, unbelievable benefits and pensions, and a total lack of accountability of any kind. Debt has been run up over this period continuously at every government level. In spite of the huge taxes, government continues to borrow ever more money to serve itself.\nI wrote a letter to then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney decades ago asking why the government was continuously running deficits and how did he expect to pay for it all? All I got back in response was a bull$hit form letter. Now with the liberals in government you can see the bloat in government and it's spending increasing even more than under the conservatives.\nThe most frustrating thing about Canada and Canadians is that they keep voting in incompetent and spend thrift governments. It seems that in Canada the dream is to get yourself a cozy government job and just turn into a taker rather than a creator. This idea seems to be very strong in new immigrants as well.\nCanada is done. Stick a fork in it and turn it over.

is this for real? they call you right away seems fake to me. has anyone tried it?