While our immigration laws do need an update, Canada can go pound sand. Write your own immigration laws.
Some plan eh, Dec...........set up another Calais at the Canadian border......then sit back and wait till the fireworks start. Good frickin' grief.
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Except, Canada is not interested in overweight career baristas with gender studies degrees…
Libs Who Want To Move To Canada Post-Election | The Daily Caller
Liberals seeking to move to Canada because they are unhappy with the election results are finding that Canada won’t take them because its immigration policies exclude those who won’t contribute to the economy.
And BELIEVE ME... Canada has their finger on the pulse with US Liberals. If they start letting them into Canada they will do nothing but demand more and more. Can you imagine the first time they find out Canada has a Voter ID Law? Whoa Boy.
There's nothing wrong with a voter ID law. Just make passports free for the poor and let people register their finger prints if they want to. Then there would be no excuse for a person to scan his passport or fingerprint at the entrance to the voting booth. The scanning technology already exists and it's quite advanced.
New Migrant Surge Tests Canada’s Welcoming Stance
http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-migrant-surge-tests-canadas-welcoming-stance-1526376601
From the Wall St. Journal....
Selected high points of the article...
People breaching the border is a new challenge for Canada. The country’s geographic isolation has traditionally allowed it to maintain a highly selective immigration and refugee system,
“It forces Canadians, who have always patted themselves on the back for being very open to immigration, very welcoming, to deal with the kinds of challenges Italy, Greece and others have been facing and to realize it’s not so easy,” said Irene Bloemraad, a migration expert and the chair of Canadian studies at University of California, Berkeley.
Mr. Hussen and other officials are concerned shutting down unofficial crossings would push migrants to use more dangerous routes and sneak into the country undetected. Instead, they are trying head off a big wave of claimants ahead of summer. The minister met with Nigeria’s high commissioner to Canada last month to discuss the rise in the number of Nigerians using U.S. visas to enter Canada and then claim asylum. His department has also sent officers to Nigeria to communicate with U.S. embassy officials about abuse of travel visas; Mr. Hussen is in Nigeria this week. The Canadian government also aims to send officials to Nigerian churches in the U.S. to dispel myths of easy entry to Canada.
One woman said she and her family had taken a plane from Nigeria to New York City, then a bus to Plattsburgh, N.Y., and a shuttle to the Canadian border.
“We came here for protection, for a better life,” she said, adding that her family faced persecution and worries over female genital mutilation in Nigeria. She declined to give her name as she hurried across.
Wow... you'd be considered a racist with that suggestion down here.
Heck, social services could even help a person to apply for a passport at their office in collaboration with the feds. No excuse. Many states around the world have national ID cards.
Because you're Canadian I will accept the fact that you are not well informed when it comes to Voter ID Laws in the U.S.
Liberals here in the U.S are dead set against Voter ID Laws because they do not believe minorities are responsible enough to have an I.D. or educated enough to know where to get one. Therefor the Liberals believe that minorities will not vote because they do not have an I.D. This thinking stems from their liberal education and systematic racism among the white liberal elite. Also, Liberals know that it is very difficult to commit voter fraud with a Voter ID Law. They depend on that in closely contested areas.
Also, it is foolish to think that the U.S needs to give free passports to poor people or finger print them. This is yet another example of "White Savoir Complex".
My proposal for free passports was just an attempt to overcome the objection that poor people can't afford ID.
Which is ridiculous as they already have and need I.D.'s.
That is just another example of the White Savoir Complex.
Doesn't every province have a medical card with photo on it?
Or one of these
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_provincial_and_territorial_photo_cards
Canada has no national ID card either. Personally, I'd be in favour of either a national ID card or compulsory passports for all to fulfill the same role. A national ID card or its equivalent exists in many countries and it just makes sense and presents many advantages on a number of fronts.
So if they all have ID already, then where's the problem?
By the way, I'm curious. What ID do they have? Canada has no standardized national ID card. We can use either a driving license, a passport, and a few other acceptable forms of ID. The lack of a common standard ID probably imposes many costs on law enforcement, regulations, etc. when trying to regulate access to places, ID, people, etc. with the police having to run around between different unrelated databases. The closest things to a national ID card in Canada would be either the Canadian passport or different provincial ID cards. Most just use a driving license, but not everyone could acquire that, so that wouldn't really count as a national ID card of any kind.