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Seems like a devoted Dad and a willing worker...but if he had the money, why not enter the U.S. legally? Sounds like he could have afforded it, and the wait is just as long in Canada, with no guarantee. These people from Mexico and Central America should take the steps to immigrate legally. People do it every year.

Nobody should just expect a welcome sign a big hug and a bank account of cash waiting on them anywhere they go.

a well spoken mexican guy with 2 kids and a wife doing what it takes to survive. i mean this shit is just made up. i mean cmon. Its not even REAL. Who leaves usa for canada XD Thats like saying, im going to trade in this ferrari for a honda thats not running but itll be super cheap to fix it, oh wait, everything costs tons more then i thought. Ya ok. A mexican in the snow. I dont buy it.

Wait, he's told he needs to show up for deportation and he simply skips it?  Then runs to BC?  He's already been refused refugee status so how is it possible for him to ignore it and just move to another province and cost us again for a trial and probably another appeal?  So if he gets refused by BC does he then move to Saskatchewan?  Then Manitoba?  What a charade this is.

Canada can't stop them? How about building a wall? And enhanced border security. Oh wait that is not PC.

I don't understand what's the point you're trying to make with this video. It seems like you're trying to blame Canada and Trudeau for the situation that he is in; You (VICE) place emphasis on his situation and his family, trying to drum up sympathy for him, but the way I see it is, he's to blame for it. He came here of his own volition and with a family by trying to get around the system. That's doesn't make him sympathetic, it makes him stupid and naive and impulsive. Frankly, it insulting and infuriating because there are people who wait YEARS and pay thousands of dollars who are actually in need of coming to Canada. And now, because of people like him is the reason why the system is backed up to point of instead of waiting for 60 days, you have to wait as much as 20 months before you hear back (which unfortunately, encourages more border-hopping and situations exactly like this)

I don’t know whether to believe him or call him a liar because if he had $15,000. $15,000!!! in Mexico do you understand the life you could live not saying you would be in a mansion but you would live comfortably enough to do it correctly file paperwork the way it supposed to be done wait your time and then move into America everybody thinks Canada so great but they don’t realize that Justin Trudeau is a lying piece of shit he may say one thing but Canada as a country follow the law that they have set for immigrants #fail sorry you thought Canada was better than the U.S.A

This is really simple. Don't offer people free stuff. And don't make special exceptions for people. There are tons of people that come to canada (many just visiting or working) and just stay here rather than go through the proper steps (and get denied) because they know some bleeding heart liberals looking down on them will offer a bunch of them amnesty if they wait long enough and pay off the right people. You don't have to live in toronto very long to meet people who have taken advantage of the system in this way.

Why don't all these Latin American asylum seekers go to places like Belize, Costa Rica, Panama? The economies and lower crime rates in these countries are good enough to attract many expats from Europe and the United States. Surely for someone seeking asylum they should be okay - and not too far to travel to get there. Plus, they already speak the language! Oh wait - the welfare systems of the US and Canada are so much easier to milk. Yeah, scratch that.

The reality is you can’t give free citizenship to illegals, how about those legal immigrants who spend years of living within the country while still waiting for their residence! I have to say it’s just not fair!

Wait. Vice News helped to smugle him? Oh...

It burns thier Ass to lose money. Yet they know how tough it is. They expect for prices and bills not to exist. Then they were here already a good amount of time. When they don't like the way things are going for them they pick up and start the Bullshit all over again. Meanwhile there are many people waiting to do things legal. LEGAL!

Well he should have just waited in his country saved up his money and did it the legal way. He and his family wouldn't be in that situation if he did. He clearly isnt trying hard enough if he still hasn't even learned English or French.

Wait a minute . Racial preference is not racism. Everybody wants to be with their own. Blue birds stick with blue birds. Red birds stick with red birds. Loving your race is not racism. Bdw this was Muhamad Ali's words.

we don't owe any illegal anything u are not entitled anything you violate our laws and cheat our system to get into our country while millions waiting innocently to enter legally.

I wish this documentary was in spanish that way they see is not easy be crossing countries as they wish.\nSouth American have the responsability for his own country why US have to fix this people stability? \nEverybody in this countries believes just for cross the border you have everything, the job is waiting for them and lots of money. This no sense is in this countries

Wouldnt 15k in mexico been worth a lot more? Not sure why you needed to leave. Plenty of business there. They make car parts, precision instruments, movie hard copies, cars, they get many tourists. \n\nYea it isnt as developed, but you have to learn a new language when leaving. You have to wait for due process, you have to find a place and get a job all of which has different requirements. \nIt would take a lot for me to just leave to china, russia or anywhere else even if it does have a more appealing offer. \n\nMy family is here, my home is here. be different if you were a refugee abroad in war zone.

We have 10%of the US racism oh wait we are 10% the US population yap we have the same amount of racism as the US. In Canada.

The way they presented it didn't seem convincing at all. The reporter saying there are very few of these men and the heads of the local mosques have nothing to do with this. You must be joking. Even if they are few what are you waiting for, them to increase? Ridiculous.

I hope these people leave our country cause issues are going to occur. freedom of choice? Ok then my choice is to hate Muslims and that is my choice so bear it and go back to your country, or wait till we get rid of Trudeau and you will be gone

Guess he could have stayed in the US, but wouldn’t ICE have him and his wife in one prison and the kids in another prison? \nDamn us Canadian are meanies, get to live your life and work while you wait. We cannot let everyone in no matter what Trudeau thinks

3 days after Christmas? That's so wrong. You should wait at least 4 days...(joke)

he's not an immigrant he's an illegal alien... immigrants are people who apply for a Visa in their home country and waited patiently until they were approved

Having worked for Best buy in my experience my bosses made us be that annoying and ask and talk to each customer more than once depending on time in the store if u didn't they cut ur hours the following week and I hated it personally when someone says no need no help I feel like awesome I can go bk to waiting for this shift to end cause I hate my job!

Some justice for people waiting sometimes years to legally enter Canada. Illegal immigration must be treated as it is: Illegal. And really? 15 years in the US and not speaking English; not a strong case for willingness to integrate

Can’t wait until Trudeau is taken out of office! Then we’ll actually make some progress!

I went and viewed 3 vacant apartment in a building. Available immediately. I was ready to take one. I noticed, as we went to each apartment that they were all inhabited by Polish people. The Superintendent and the Property Manager, also Polish. I am guessing the owner was too.\nI am a single, middle aged, clean and healthy, responsible white woman. NOT polish though. After submitting my application and deposit I waited. 5 days later called and left a message, 2 days after, called again. No answer. Then, called from a Private number and they answered right away. I asked them the status of my application. We are sorry ... all three apartments taken. \nI believe I was discriminated against because I am not Polish. Oh well ... I've moved on. Found a great apartment up the street for less rent, free parking and a very welcoming atmosphere.\nLife goes on.

I got bored halfway through, bored waiting to see the racism that never occurred between the male researches

Of course it's a entitled, rude white woman telling someone to go back to where they came from...smfh ( patiently waiting for the purge)

Yeah so just be done with being properly... If you do me right, I'm cool with you, treat me different, oh well... Wait and see...

Wanna come to Canada? Send literally 5 lbs worth of documents proving your age, credentials, work experience, knowledge of English (at least, sometimes French as well) wait 3-5 years and done. Do not regret spending that years in anticipation. Came legally - it really works. Though it could be a bit faster) I was 21 when I applied, came 1 week before turning 27. No regrets still!

Prime minister said that just to look good. Big lies!. ... But wait!.. If you are Muslim, you are in!!!

Another bogus refugee thinking he will be waited on hand and foot

The Canadian president is a moron he tries to throw this out for publicity it backfires because he doesn't necessarily live in the poverty and the desperation at Immigrant families living so he doesn't know that when they hear him say something it's going to spread like wildfire and communities are going to shift and things are going to change and then he goes on the defensive sending some a****** to Los Angeles to tell everybody their hopes are false inshort that's all he said at least in this documentary he probably just wanted high-skilled immigrant labor for cheap not blue collar workers and either way Canada belongs and will always belong to indigenous people no matter how many people speak French in that cold-ass funky place from Cali with love we are all citizens of Earth can't wait till this old mentality goes away under the truth

Am i supposed to feel bad for people who won't wait their turn and immigrate legally?\nHow about doing it legally next time.

wait wait wait... you come from another country illegally that you were originally in illegally and expect to be greeted with open arms? how did he figure that would work?

RE: Canadian healthcare, my wife broke both her hips in 2017 in two separate falls, she was admitted immediately to hospital without delay and operated on the next day (half hip replacement), after physio and occupational therapy she was discharged and provided Homecare, 16 times per week plus weekly Day Hospital. Our cost for both operations was roughly $160.00 for parking spots for me so I could visit her and about $140 in Tim Horton doughnuts for staff. The system does not have enough of certain types of specialists thus wait times for those specialists, and there are wait times for elective surgery. The system has not really been reviewed since its inception in the 1960s but making significant changes is the third rail of Canadian politics and a hard look is justified after 70 years. Re: illegal crossings; The gentleman in the video has a problem in that the US and Canada have signed a “safe country” agreement and neither will accept refugees from the other as both Canada and the US are deemed “safe havens”. He crossed illegally, if he had crossed legally he would have been immediately turned back at the border but he clearly entered the country between border crossings and was likely arrested and released on recognizance but not returned immediately as the agreement is silent on illegal entries (yes, seems a touch strange). As many people are leaving the US for Canada the system is overwhelmed. Tent cities have been set up in Quebec and public housing used in Manitoba to house illegal immigrant pending processing - those with criminal records are held for deportation. Canada has accepted roughly 25,000 Syrian refugees from camps in that part of the world. These refugees were first vetted by the UN then Canada. These refugees are completely different from the people crossing the border illegally from the United States. This pales to the 75,000 boat people accepted after the fall of Saigon. Canadians have been generally accepting of refugees but wants the process guided by the rule of law. Immigrants are a separate from refugees and the rules governing their entries into Canada are different.

The number of Italians who died of fright by the Poltergeist on Halloween is 20,743 in Vaughan and only three Italians did not die of fright as they were swarmed by the Zombies of Native Indians resurrected as Warriors on Halloween and that was Nick Cortellucci and Mario Cortellucci and Nick Cortellucci Jr. And so on Halloween the Italians lost the War. And on Judgement Day all War Criminals lost the War. And only the 2,743 Native Indians as Warriors were Zombies in an Apocalypse on Halloween on Judgement Day 2017. They live in their own world as Mohawk of the Tribe of Toronto Native Indians of the past. Their families are waiting until Paradise on Earth to be born again as People to Walk the Earth after this War against them started in 1955 when the slaughter began on the Royal Land of the Indians by the Italians lead by the Cortellucci Family of Italy ??

The Babies of Native Indians are Souls in Heaven and come and visit their bones to see if its time to resurrect as I was there with a baby bone pile north of the Kortright Conservation Area with Ontario Heritage Foundation as David Donnelly was really upset that there were OS's aries found that the Italian builder was going to build on and so he called our office and yelled at the top of his lungs to issue a Stop Work Order Immediately. They got through to the Top Brass and We did issue it from our Office as Government Staff and then we visited and I found as the Holy Grail of Christ Second Coming the Baby Bones in Piles and I picked one up in my hand and the Soul of the Baby came to visit it and smiled as very innocent still waiting to resurrect and it went went back to heaven and I put the bone back in the baby bone pile. The cover up by the Italians of Maasacres by War Criminals who are Italian is by builders to build over the bone piles hence the Poltergeist that is there to haunt a those who are Italian living in subdivisions over the Dead Indians that were killed by the Italians. And that happened on Halloween by God to send out the Poltergeist to haunt and kill the Italians throughout Vaughan on Halloween on Judgement Day 2017.

And that's why laws exist, be a decent human being and do things properly like others, don't try to jump ahead of others that did things properly and waited their turn in line. Follow the law and if you are accepted into another country don't vote like you did back home!

That's what happens when you intentionally try to cut corners and illegally immigrate whilst others waiting in line. No asylum seeking from the US soil! it's the law. That man has only himself to blame. It is HIS fault his family is alone, it is HIS fault they continue their illegal flying around the country in attempts to further abuse the law, it is HIS fault he lost his money trying to take advantage of the system.

Farmers in Canada are building an army to send all these Muslims home can't wait for that to happen

Wait 15 years here and he doesn't speak English?

third installment . i was standing on the corner waiting for the bus going east . girl comes running up to me asking wheres the stop for the south bond bus thats coming . so i say on the corner where the womans standing , she looks around and cant see her and asks again this time more worried about missing her bus. i get it why she cant she the woman ,i think to myself should i say the fat woman because she was fat. but i knew why she couldnt see her , so i said the black woman and boom there she could see her. is that racism could be . she couldnt see her because she saw black first. or maybe thats not racism.

So wait... this guy has spent fifteen years in another country as an illegal immigrant because he refused to enter by normal laws, all the while apparently not having learned a single lick of English while he was there (or simply refused to)... and now he's complaining because he 'made a mistake' of illegally immigrating AWAY from said country?\n\nFolks, I'm starting to think there might be a damn good reason why people like this are 'illegal' in the first place. Just saying.

Wow,I'm an American and I don't have 15,000 dollars to spend on attorneys ,wait that's because we have to pay taxes, food medical insurance, and use a drivers licence to drive a vehicle or we get in trouble, these peoples sense of entitlement is utterly ridiculous and think laws don't apply to them.

Getting a visa or any form of legal residence in Canada is a pain in the ass, I know because I've tried. I was gonna move up there full time from Los Angeles at one point and I spent 10 full months applying and waiting and still got denied. I wasn't even a refugee either, they make you prove what you have to contribute to the country as far as skills and education and it's very difficult to get accepted

It's very hard to have sympathy for someone who just shows up and expects to get to stay.\nIt shows that you're an entitled brat who think they're special. Honest people apply and wait in line for their turn.\nIf you can't be bothered to apply for citizenship or recidency before you come to a country, then that should be an automatic refusal and deportation.

15 YEARS IN THE GOOD OLD US OF A........and doesn't speak english.......hhhmmmmmmmm.........i guess this means he is only here for himself....and wait a sec....he had 15000 for a lawyer on immigration issues...but didn't have the money to become a Citizen of the US OF A........... a little confusing here

I can't wait to get to Canada been in US my whole life