Refugee/Migrant Crisis
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Our new ungracious immigrants
We are the Dr. Frankensteins who asked nothing of immigrants, in a complete break from our nation's past. And we got our wish.
Author of the article:Victor Davis Hanson
Published Mar 22, 2026 • 12 minute read
Police arrive outside Old Dominion University's campus
Police arrive outside Old Dominion University's campus after reports of an active shooter on Thursday, March 12, 2026 in Norfolk, Va. Photo by Kendall Warner /THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Silicon Valley was energized by legal immigrants from all over the world who founded eBay, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX, Stripe, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Yahoo, and a host of others.
The Greek American Elia Kazan’s 1963 film America, America is a fictional account based on the Herculean struggle of the director’s uncle to immigrate to the United States from an impoverished and hostile Turkish Anatolia.
The film summed up Americans’ traditional view of immigrants: They had risked everything for the chance to reach America, and once there, became hyperpatriotic in their gratitude for the magnanimity of their new hosts.
An excellent example is the recently released memoir from Encounter Books, American Trojan, by former University of Southern California president and Cypriot immigrant Dr. Max Nikias. It resonates with thankfulness to America for offering him opportunities undreamed of elsewhere.
He and his wife arrived in the U.S. from war-torn Cyprus nearly penniless but determined to work hard, master English, and enrich the country that welcomed them with their talents and education. What followed was an amazing American trajectory that saw Nikias become president of the University of Southern California — arguably the most successful one in recent memory.
I grew up in rural California surrounded by hard-working immigrant farm families from Armenia, India, Japan, and Mexico. Their work ethic, love of America, and productive farms were models for U.S. non-immigrants. Such immigrants explained why the San Joaquin Valley was the most productive and richest agricultural region in the nation.
My own Swedish grandfather, disabled by poison gas while fighting on the Western Front in the First World War, loved all things Swedish, but not nearly as much as his beloved America.
Four Hansons fought on the front lines of the First World War and the Second World War. One was disabled, and another was killed on Okinawa. And all felt blessed that their parents and grandparents had gotten to America.
Gratitude and ingratitude
But recently, something has gone terribly wrong with immigration — an open border, of course, but also a change in legal immigration as well as student visitors.
During the the First World War, Japanese Americans fought heroically in horrific conditions in Italy in the famous 442nd Regimental Combat Team and 100th Infantry Battalion — even as their families were interned in the Western United States. Few native-born Americans were more loyal or patriotic than the Japanese-Americans.
And now?
While America is at war with Iran and de facto with its terrorist proxies, crowds of immigrants, visitors, and foreign students in New York scream anti-American slogans as they cheer on our enemies in theocratic Iran and its terrorist proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas.
Are we surprised, then, when Islamic terrorists begin hunting down Americans on our own soil?
On campuses today, thousands of Middle Eastern international students, mostly arriving from autocratic, tribal, and failed nations, have staged often violent demonstrations in the years following the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. They are not shy about cheering on the Hamas slaughter of Israeli civilians.
These pro-Hamas students have not just damned Israel but also often harassed Jewish-Americans. They revile their host America and expect Americans to smile and shrug.
It is hard to determine whether such zealots hate the U.S. more than they love living in America and preserving their student visas and work permits.
Hating or loving the ‘Great Satan’?
Take Dr. Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani. She is the daughter of Ali Larijani, one of the late Supreme Leader Khamenei’s murderous henchmen. He sent his daughter Fatemeh to the top schools in the satanic United States. She was eventually even hired as a professor at Emory University — at least until popular outrage at the Larijani family’s hypocrisy prompted her dismissal.
To our enemies in Iran, we may be the “Great Satan.” But Iranian theocrats apparently prefer their children and other relatives to study and get rich in Luciferian America. So, many send their kids to universities in the U.S.
Another surreal example is the case of Mahmoud Khalil, who arrived on a student visa at Columbia University and soon led the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”
When the State Department sought to revoke his temporary visa, the Left made Khalil a veritable martyr. Apparently, his university supporters reasoned that the U.S. had an obligation to invite to its shores those who are active supporters of terrorists like Hamas.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a naturalized citizen from Uganda whose parents became public figures and multimillionaires in America, in the past has had little good to say about his adopted country.
His quite public wife, Rama, whose parents were naturalized Syrian citizens, illustrated a book that was rife with antisemitism. It’s no accident that after Oct. 7, she posted “likes” of social media praise of the terrorist Hamas killers, who are sworn enemies of her own country.
Many Somali immigrants of Minneapolis repaid the kindness of Americans in welcoming them from war-torn Somalia by committing the greatest welfare fraud in U.S. history, which may reach $9 billion in theft. Their iconic representative, Ilhan Omar, has voiced antisemitic vitriol, downplayed 9/11, claimed the U.S. has a dictatorship worse than the one she fled, and said the U.S. was turning into one of the worst countries in the world. That is the thanks she returns for entering a hospitable America under controversial circumstances and dubious legality.
Hating — or hating to leave — America?
Stranger still is the attitude of visitors and illegal aliens when they finally face deportation.
Former President Joe Biden allowed 10-12 million foreign nationals to illegally enter the U.S. during his tenure, among them some 500,000 known criminals. In the years since his inauguration, not a day goes by without news that illegal aliens of that era have murdered, assaulted, been arrested for felonious acts, or caused horrific auto accidents.
One of them was Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien from El Salvador, who long ago was ordered to be deported for his unlawful entry and residence.
Instead, he too became an icon to the Left when he was recently and belatedly facing permanent deportation. He had clearly ignored his earlier deportation orders, and was an alleged gang member, an often violent spousal abuser, and a human trafficker.
Abrego Garcia apparently felt he had a right to enter the U.S. illegally. He successfully made a mockery of our immigration laws. But he presciently expected that soon hundreds of thousands of dollars of free legal help would come his way, ensuring he could stay in the country for which he showed utter contempt.
And in the U.S., one of the most bizarre aspects of recent protests against ICE efforts involved episodes of Mexican nationals waving the flag of the country to which under no circumstances they wished to return, even as they burned the flag of the nation in which they insisted they had an innate right to stay.
We are the Dr. Frankensteins who asked nothing of immigrants, in a complete break from our nation's past. And we got our wish.
Author of the article:Victor Davis Hanson
Published Mar 22, 2026 • 12 minute read
Police arrive outside Old Dominion University's campus
Police arrive outside Old Dominion University's campus after reports of an active shooter on Thursday, March 12, 2026 in Norfolk, Va. Photo by Kendall Warner /THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Silicon Valley was energized by legal immigrants from all over the world who founded eBay, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX, Stripe, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Yahoo, and a host of others.
The Greek American Elia Kazan’s 1963 film America, America is a fictional account based on the Herculean struggle of the director’s uncle to immigrate to the United States from an impoverished and hostile Turkish Anatolia.
The film summed up Americans’ traditional view of immigrants: They had risked everything for the chance to reach America, and once there, became hyperpatriotic in their gratitude for the magnanimity of their new hosts.
An excellent example is the recently released memoir from Encounter Books, American Trojan, by former University of Southern California president and Cypriot immigrant Dr. Max Nikias. It resonates with thankfulness to America for offering him opportunities undreamed of elsewhere.
He and his wife arrived in the U.S. from war-torn Cyprus nearly penniless but determined to work hard, master English, and enrich the country that welcomed them with their talents and education. What followed was an amazing American trajectory that saw Nikias become president of the University of Southern California — arguably the most successful one in recent memory.
I grew up in rural California surrounded by hard-working immigrant farm families from Armenia, India, Japan, and Mexico. Their work ethic, love of America, and productive farms were models for U.S. non-immigrants. Such immigrants explained why the San Joaquin Valley was the most productive and richest agricultural region in the nation.
My own Swedish grandfather, disabled by poison gas while fighting on the Western Front in the First World War, loved all things Swedish, but not nearly as much as his beloved America.
Four Hansons fought on the front lines of the First World War and the Second World War. One was disabled, and another was killed on Okinawa. And all felt blessed that their parents and grandparents had gotten to America.
Gratitude and ingratitude
But recently, something has gone terribly wrong with immigration — an open border, of course, but also a change in legal immigration as well as student visitors.
During the the First World War, Japanese Americans fought heroically in horrific conditions in Italy in the famous 442nd Regimental Combat Team and 100th Infantry Battalion — even as their families were interned in the Western United States. Few native-born Americans were more loyal or patriotic than the Japanese-Americans.
And now?
While America is at war with Iran and de facto with its terrorist proxies, crowds of immigrants, visitors, and foreign students in New York scream anti-American slogans as they cheer on our enemies in theocratic Iran and its terrorist proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas.
Are we surprised, then, when Islamic terrorists begin hunting down Americans on our own soil?
On campuses today, thousands of Middle Eastern international students, mostly arriving from autocratic, tribal, and failed nations, have staged often violent demonstrations in the years following the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. They are not shy about cheering on the Hamas slaughter of Israeli civilians.
These pro-Hamas students have not just damned Israel but also often harassed Jewish-Americans. They revile their host America and expect Americans to smile and shrug.
It is hard to determine whether such zealots hate the U.S. more than they love living in America and preserving their student visas and work permits.
Hating or loving the ‘Great Satan’?
Take Dr. Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani. She is the daughter of Ali Larijani, one of the late Supreme Leader Khamenei’s murderous henchmen. He sent his daughter Fatemeh to the top schools in the satanic United States. She was eventually even hired as a professor at Emory University — at least until popular outrage at the Larijani family’s hypocrisy prompted her dismissal.
To our enemies in Iran, we may be the “Great Satan.” But Iranian theocrats apparently prefer their children and other relatives to study and get rich in Luciferian America. So, many send their kids to universities in the U.S.
Another surreal example is the case of Mahmoud Khalil, who arrived on a student visa at Columbia University and soon led the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”
When the State Department sought to revoke his temporary visa, the Left made Khalil a veritable martyr. Apparently, his university supporters reasoned that the U.S. had an obligation to invite to its shores those who are active supporters of terrorists like Hamas.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a naturalized citizen from Uganda whose parents became public figures and multimillionaires in America, in the past has had little good to say about his adopted country.
His quite public wife, Rama, whose parents were naturalized Syrian citizens, illustrated a book that was rife with antisemitism. It’s no accident that after Oct. 7, she posted “likes” of social media praise of the terrorist Hamas killers, who are sworn enemies of her own country.
Many Somali immigrants of Minneapolis repaid the kindness of Americans in welcoming them from war-torn Somalia by committing the greatest welfare fraud in U.S. history, which may reach $9 billion in theft. Their iconic representative, Ilhan Omar, has voiced antisemitic vitriol, downplayed 9/11, claimed the U.S. has a dictatorship worse than the one she fled, and said the U.S. was turning into one of the worst countries in the world. That is the thanks she returns for entering a hospitable America under controversial circumstances and dubious legality.
Hating — or hating to leave — America?
Stranger still is the attitude of visitors and illegal aliens when they finally face deportation.
Former President Joe Biden allowed 10-12 million foreign nationals to illegally enter the U.S. during his tenure, among them some 500,000 known criminals. In the years since his inauguration, not a day goes by without news that illegal aliens of that era have murdered, assaulted, been arrested for felonious acts, or caused horrific auto accidents.
One of them was Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien from El Salvador, who long ago was ordered to be deported for his unlawful entry and residence.
Instead, he too became an icon to the Left when he was recently and belatedly facing permanent deportation. He had clearly ignored his earlier deportation orders, and was an alleged gang member, an often violent spousal abuser, and a human trafficker.
Abrego Garcia apparently felt he had a right to enter the U.S. illegally. He successfully made a mockery of our immigration laws. But he presciently expected that soon hundreds of thousands of dollars of free legal help would come his way, ensuring he could stay in the country for which he showed utter contempt.
And in the U.S., one of the most bizarre aspects of recent protests against ICE efforts involved episodes of Mexican nationals waving the flag of the country to which under no circumstances they wished to return, even as they burned the flag of the nation in which they insisted they had an innate right to stay.
Our new Americans killing Americans
Yet the immigration disaster transcends student visas and illegal aliens, since it extends to many naturalized citizens as well.
Consider the terrorist acts that have transpired in just the last several days.
On March 1, Ndiaga Diagne, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Senegal, shot up a beer garden in Austin, Texas. He murdered three people and wounded 14 others. Diagne wore a “Property of Allah” sweatshirt, along with an Iranian flag T-shirt.
On March 7, Emir Balat, the son of a naturalized citizen from Turkey, and Ibrahim Kayumi, the son of naturalized Afghan refugees, threw IEDs toward a conservative protest outside Gracie Mansion, the New York mayor’s residence.
The media sought to cover up their Islamist motives but could not, given that the two terrorists openly boasted of their aims. Indeed, the two bragged that they wanted to achieve something “bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing.”
That was a reference to Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the murderous Chechen-immigrant brothers. In 2013, they murdered three and injured hundreds at the Boston Marathon. Their aim too was apparently to further the so-called global “Islamic cause.”
This same week, on March 12, Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, another naturalized U.S. citizen, this time from Sierra Leone, went into an ROTC meeting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. Once there, he murdered the instructor, Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shah, a decorated combat veteran. Jalloh shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he fired. Jalloh had previously been convicted for attempting to support ISIS but was released before serving his full sentence.
That same March day, Ayman Muhammed Ghazali, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon, whose family in the Middle East currently has strong Hezbollah terrorist ties, drove his car rigged with explosive fireworks into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
Ghazali was killed by security guards before he could carry out his homicidal plan. Hezbollah, remember, in the past, butchered hundreds of Americans in Lebanon.
There is an endless list of illegal aliens and naturalized citizens who have killed hundreds of Americans, both as common criminals and as would-be jihadists.
And not all the killing is intentional. Thousands of driver’s licenses have been issued to both illegal aliens and legal residents from all over the world, including those who do not understand English, cannot pass a commercial driver’s test, and are utterly unqualified to drive. Is it any surprise that we have recently witnessed serial horrific crashes, where incompetent drivers rammed their 80,000-pound semi-trucks into unsuspecting drivers?
What happened to immigration?
So what made the U.S. adopt such a suicidal immigration and visitation policy — one that welcomes in millions illegally, hundreds of thousands who are known criminals, tens of thousands of students who despise the U.S., and thousands of terrorists themselves and their sympathizers?
In the mid-1960s, amid the Great Society’s dreams of transforming America, new immigration laws were passed that ended the older quota process. That traditional system tended to favor better-off immigrants from Europe and the former British Empire to reflect somewhat the founding demographics of the republic.
But the new law junked the prior merit-based system and instead admitted immigrants chiefly on the basis of family ties and the purported need of the host country for inexpensive labor–with most now arriving from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Suddenly, far less important for entry were critical skill sets, English mastery, high school diplomas, proof of self-support, and knowledge of, or familiarity with, the American system.
But in the subsequent 60 years, Democrats went even further beyond the 1965 Hart-Celler Act efforts to change the demography of the U.S. They began welcoming in anyone, legal or not, who simply crashed the border or claimed they wanted to study in the U.S. The old melting pot was banished, replaced by the “salad bowl.”
Immigration was seen by the Left as the answer to why they had never been able to complete their socialist agendas amid a skeptical American public. Supposedly, by welcoming in a “diverse” demographic, poor and without English fluency, they would grow the welfare state, creating a new dependent constituency.
The new immigrants and visitors were envisioned as left-wing voters-to-be who would look to the Democratic Party as their guarantors of open borders, a new entitlement society, and a criminal justice system that saw the perpetrator as a victim — and the real criminal as a racist America itself.
Diversity, the immigration force multiplier
The new “diversity” ideology peaked under Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The subtext of their open-borders nihilism was a new oppressor/oppressed binary.
It dictated that traditional America was still too white, too traditionalist, too Christian, too unfairly successful–and too hostile to the Democratic-socialist agenda of a mandated equality of result achieved through massive coercive government redistributive efforts.
Under this warped view, the criminally minded Abrego Garcia became a victim of supposed “Gestapo” ICE “goons” (ironic, when patriotic and skilled Mexican American officers disproportionately staff ICE ranks).
The Tsarnaev Boston Marathon killers became “hot” underdog freedom fighters. So the supposedly sexy, photogenic young murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was highlighted on the cover of Rolling Stone.
The more Mahmoud Khalil took on the mantle of an anti-American, pro-Hamas activist, the more the Left rallied to his cause.
When Major Nidal Hasan, the son of naturalized Palestinian immigrants, slaughtered 13 and wounded 32 fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, the Pentagon resisted efforts to tie him to the Islamic terrorist cause. That was hard to do, since he screamed “Allahu Akbar!” as he mowed down his fellow soldiers.
Then Army Chief of Staff George Casey responded to the mass murder with his lamentation on CNN that, “As great a tragedy as this was, it would be a shame if our diversity became a casualty as well.” He sought to quash any speculation about Hasan’s Islamic motives, in fear that the ensuing truth might endanger the Army’s diversity efforts.
Then we come to the case of Eileen Gu, the recent American Winter Olympic multi-medalist skier.
She was born in San Francisco to a Chinese immigrant mother and an American father and lived her entire life in the U.S. But Gu chose to compete in the games for communist China, despite its efforts to isolate, dehumanize, and eventually vastly “reduce” its Uyghur minority population.
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster
The final irony: Why do so many criminals believe they can enter the U.S. illegally and get away with murder?
Is it because they feel contempt for any nation that opens its borders, requires no background checks, destroys its own immigration laws, and weaponizes its criminal justice system to make the criminal the victim and the state his victimizer?
Why do so many burn the U.S. flag while waving the flag of Mexico, a country they have no intention of returning to?
Is it because they sense they might be praised for “celebrating diversity,” as the popular culture would term such abject cultural schizophrenia?
Why would the Tsarnaev brothers repay the country that took them in by killing innocent Americans?
Would it be because, in their formative years in American schools, their teachers and texts emphasized what was wrong with a supposedly exploitative U.S.?
Why, in the middle of a near-existential war with Iran to stop its efforts to obtain nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles pointed at the U.S. and its allies, would naturalized citizens feel so free to slaughter Americans for the cause of Islam?
Would it be because they sense from left-wing universities and popular culture that it is a virtual open season on Jews?
Or that any time an Islamic terrorist commits an act, a Democratic operative will warn America of “Islamophobia” — as if, say, mowing down soldiers at Fort Hood is the lesser crime?
Why would a rich, privileged Eileen Gu feel no discomfort competing for a murderous regime whose agenda is to displace her country from its global preeminence in favor of a communist dictatorship?
Is it because in our relativist modern America, Gu’s “truth” is just as meaningful as any other? And who, after all, is qualified to judge anything or anyone?
Who created our current Frankensteinian monstrosities?
We did.
We are the Dr. Frankensteins who asked nothing of immigrants, in a complete break from our nation’s past.
And we got our wish for a new, quite different class of immigrants, who treated the U.S. the very way they were taught to do by the Left: as an evil entity that deserved what it got.
And we sure have gotten it.
– Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. He is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of “The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won,” from Basic Books. You can reach him by e-mailing authorvdh@gmail.com.
Yet the immigration disaster transcends student visas and illegal aliens, since it extends to many naturalized citizens as well.
Consider the terrorist acts that have transpired in just the last several days.
On March 1, Ndiaga Diagne, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Senegal, shot up a beer garden in Austin, Texas. He murdered three people and wounded 14 others. Diagne wore a “Property of Allah” sweatshirt, along with an Iranian flag T-shirt.
On March 7, Emir Balat, the son of a naturalized citizen from Turkey, and Ibrahim Kayumi, the son of naturalized Afghan refugees, threw IEDs toward a conservative protest outside Gracie Mansion, the New York mayor’s residence.
The media sought to cover up their Islamist motives but could not, given that the two terrorists openly boasted of their aims. Indeed, the two bragged that they wanted to achieve something “bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing.”
That was a reference to Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the murderous Chechen-immigrant brothers. In 2013, they murdered three and injured hundreds at the Boston Marathon. Their aim too was apparently to further the so-called global “Islamic cause.”
This same week, on March 12, Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, another naturalized U.S. citizen, this time from Sierra Leone, went into an ROTC meeting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. Once there, he murdered the instructor, Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shah, a decorated combat veteran. Jalloh shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he fired. Jalloh had previously been convicted for attempting to support ISIS but was released before serving his full sentence.
That same March day, Ayman Muhammed Ghazali, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon, whose family in the Middle East currently has strong Hezbollah terrorist ties, drove his car rigged with explosive fireworks into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
Ghazali was killed by security guards before he could carry out his homicidal plan. Hezbollah, remember, in the past, butchered hundreds of Americans in Lebanon.
There is an endless list of illegal aliens and naturalized citizens who have killed hundreds of Americans, both as common criminals and as would-be jihadists.
And not all the killing is intentional. Thousands of driver’s licenses have been issued to both illegal aliens and legal residents from all over the world, including those who do not understand English, cannot pass a commercial driver’s test, and are utterly unqualified to drive. Is it any surprise that we have recently witnessed serial horrific crashes, where incompetent drivers rammed their 80,000-pound semi-trucks into unsuspecting drivers?
What happened to immigration?
So what made the U.S. adopt such a suicidal immigration and visitation policy — one that welcomes in millions illegally, hundreds of thousands who are known criminals, tens of thousands of students who despise the U.S., and thousands of terrorists themselves and their sympathizers?
In the mid-1960s, amid the Great Society’s dreams of transforming America, new immigration laws were passed that ended the older quota process. That traditional system tended to favor better-off immigrants from Europe and the former British Empire to reflect somewhat the founding demographics of the republic.
But the new law junked the prior merit-based system and instead admitted immigrants chiefly on the basis of family ties and the purported need of the host country for inexpensive labor–with most now arriving from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Suddenly, far less important for entry were critical skill sets, English mastery, high school diplomas, proof of self-support, and knowledge of, or familiarity with, the American system.
But in the subsequent 60 years, Democrats went even further beyond the 1965 Hart-Celler Act efforts to change the demography of the U.S. They began welcoming in anyone, legal or not, who simply crashed the border or claimed they wanted to study in the U.S. The old melting pot was banished, replaced by the “salad bowl.”
Immigration was seen by the Left as the answer to why they had never been able to complete their socialist agendas amid a skeptical American public. Supposedly, by welcoming in a “diverse” demographic, poor and without English fluency, they would grow the welfare state, creating a new dependent constituency.
The new immigrants and visitors were envisioned as left-wing voters-to-be who would look to the Democratic Party as their guarantors of open borders, a new entitlement society, and a criminal justice system that saw the perpetrator as a victim — and the real criminal as a racist America itself.
Diversity, the immigration force multiplier
The new “diversity” ideology peaked under Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The subtext of their open-borders nihilism was a new oppressor/oppressed binary.
It dictated that traditional America was still too white, too traditionalist, too Christian, too unfairly successful–and too hostile to the Democratic-socialist agenda of a mandated equality of result achieved through massive coercive government redistributive efforts.
Under this warped view, the criminally minded Abrego Garcia became a victim of supposed “Gestapo” ICE “goons” (ironic, when patriotic and skilled Mexican American officers disproportionately staff ICE ranks).
The Tsarnaev Boston Marathon killers became “hot” underdog freedom fighters. So the supposedly sexy, photogenic young murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was highlighted on the cover of Rolling Stone.
The more Mahmoud Khalil took on the mantle of an anti-American, pro-Hamas activist, the more the Left rallied to his cause.
When Major Nidal Hasan, the son of naturalized Palestinian immigrants, slaughtered 13 and wounded 32 fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, the Pentagon resisted efforts to tie him to the Islamic terrorist cause. That was hard to do, since he screamed “Allahu Akbar!” as he mowed down his fellow soldiers.
Then Army Chief of Staff George Casey responded to the mass murder with his lamentation on CNN that, “As great a tragedy as this was, it would be a shame if our diversity became a casualty as well.” He sought to quash any speculation about Hasan’s Islamic motives, in fear that the ensuing truth might endanger the Army’s diversity efforts.
Then we come to the case of Eileen Gu, the recent American Winter Olympic multi-medalist skier.
She was born in San Francisco to a Chinese immigrant mother and an American father and lived her entire life in the U.S. But Gu chose to compete in the games for communist China, despite its efforts to isolate, dehumanize, and eventually vastly “reduce” its Uyghur minority population.
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster
The final irony: Why do so many criminals believe they can enter the U.S. illegally and get away with murder?
Is it because they feel contempt for any nation that opens its borders, requires no background checks, destroys its own immigration laws, and weaponizes its criminal justice system to make the criminal the victim and the state his victimizer?
Why do so many burn the U.S. flag while waving the flag of Mexico, a country they have no intention of returning to?
Is it because they sense they might be praised for “celebrating diversity,” as the popular culture would term such abject cultural schizophrenia?
Why would the Tsarnaev brothers repay the country that took them in by killing innocent Americans?
Would it be because, in their formative years in American schools, their teachers and texts emphasized what was wrong with a supposedly exploitative U.S.?
Why, in the middle of a near-existential war with Iran to stop its efforts to obtain nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles pointed at the U.S. and its allies, would naturalized citizens feel so free to slaughter Americans for the cause of Islam?
Would it be because they sense from left-wing universities and popular culture that it is a virtual open season on Jews?
Or that any time an Islamic terrorist commits an act, a Democratic operative will warn America of “Islamophobia” — as if, say, mowing down soldiers at Fort Hood is the lesser crime?
Why would a rich, privileged Eileen Gu feel no discomfort competing for a murderous regime whose agenda is to displace her country from its global preeminence in favor of a communist dictatorship?
Is it because in our relativist modern America, Gu’s “truth” is just as meaningful as any other? And who, after all, is qualified to judge anything or anyone?
Who created our current Frankensteinian monstrosities?
We did.
We are the Dr. Frankensteins who asked nothing of immigrants, in a complete break from our nation’s past.
And we got our wish for a new, quite different class of immigrants, who treated the U.S. the very way they were taught to do by the Left: as an evil entity that deserved what it got.
And we sure have gotten it.
– Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. He is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of “The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won,” from Basic Books. You can reach him by e-mailing authorvdh@gmail.com.
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Man who sexually assaulted 84-year-old Montreal-area woman had been ordered removed from Canada
Van Giau Do has a criminal record that includes at least two previous convictions for sexual assault.
Author of the article
aul Cherry • Montreal Gazette
Published Mar 24, 2026 • 3 minute read
The Montreal courthouse.
The Montreal courthouse. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette files
This story includes details that some readers might find disturbing.
A man sentenced last week to an eight-year prison term for sexually assaulting an 84-year-old woman inside her home in Côte-St-Luc was ordered to be removed from Canada many years before he attacked the octogenarian in December.
In a decision made at the Montreal courthouse on March 19, Quebec Court Judge Thierry Nadon sentenced Van Giau Do, 44, a resident of the St-Laurent borough, to the prison term while describing what happened to the woman as “a veritable scene from a horror movie.”
Do has a criminal record that includes at least two previous convictions for sexual assault.
According to a decision made by the Parole Board of Canada on Jan. 4, 2022, while he was serving his most recent sentence for sexual assault, Do has a “permanent resident status (in Canada). You are facing deportation proceedings with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). On November 8, 2011, a release order was issued against you and several conditions were imposed (while the removal order was pending).”
The parole board revoked Do’s statutory release while he was serving a 33-month sentence he received in April 2019.
The name of Do’s country of origin was redacted from the summary obtained by The Gazette, but it mentions that: “It is noted in your file that when you were two years old, your family ended up in a refugee camp after fleeing a war. Two years later, they settled in Canada.”
A spokesperson for CBSA said they will reply to a request for an update on what happed with Do’s removal order “as soon as possible.”
On Dec. 14, the woman was home alone watching television. During a commercial break, she headed to her basement to tend to a load of laundry. As she was about to return upstairs, she saw Do standing in her home, nude from the waist down. He was only wearing a winter jacket.
Do threatened to rape the woman and then forced her into her bedroom, where he sexually assaulted her. He then walked around her house and began disconnecting telephone landlines. The woman took advantage of a moment of distraction and fled to a neighbour’s home dressed only in her pyjamas.
When the Montreal police arrived, officers found Do running through the woman’s backyard and arrested him.
Last week, when Do was sentenced, the judge referred to Do’s criminal record as being among the factors that contributed to his eight-year sentence.
His record includes the sentence he received in 2019 for sexually assaulting a woman he knew three times.
“The victim was an adult at the time of the offences, but you initiated contact with her when she was (a minor). The acts were described as highly intrusive and sexual in nature,” the author of the 2022 parole decision wrote.
“During the first incident, you ignored her refusal and her cries. Before the second assault, you gave the victim a pill, and she appeared to have no recollection of the events that followed. You used force to coerce the victim into sexual intercourse a third time, without her consent. Following this incident, she filed a complaint against you.”
The parole decision made in 2022 involved revoking a statutory release that Do automatically qualified for. Offenders serving time in a federal penitentiary in Canada automatically qualify for a statutory release after they have served two-thirds of their sentence and were not previously granted parole.
Do automatically received his release on Nov. 5, 2021, and breached one of the conditions attached to it less than two weeks later when he ignored a curfew and did not report to a halfway house.
Do later told his parole officers that he left the halfway house because he was unable to sleep one night. He blamed this on another offender’s snoring and a toothache. He said the toothache caused him to go to a hospital, but he found the wait was too long. He decided to self-medicate by going to a childhood friend’s house seeking something for the pain.
“You admitted to using a wide variety of drugs and said you ‘went a little overboard’ by using cannabis, crack, cocaine and alcohol,” the author of the parole decision wrote. “Not wanting to return to the (halfway house) intoxicated, you spent the night at this friend’s house.”
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The Montreal courthouse.
The Montreal courthouse. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette files
This story includes details that some readers might find disturbing.
A man sentenced last week to an eight-year prison term for sexually assaulting an 84-year-old woman inside her home in Côte-St-Luc was ordered to be removed from Canada many years before he attacked the octogenarian in December.
In a decision made at the Montreal courthouse on March 19, Quebec Court Judge Thierry Nadon sentenced Van Giau Do, 44, a resident of the St-Laurent borough, to the prison term while describing what happened to the woman as “a veritable scene from a horror movie.”
Do has a criminal record that includes at least two previous convictions for sexual assault.
According to a decision made by the Parole Board of Canada on Jan. 4, 2022, while he was serving his most recent sentence for sexual assault, Do has a “permanent resident status (in Canada). You are facing deportation proceedings with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). On November 8, 2011, a release order was issued against you and several conditions were imposed (while the removal order was pending).”
The parole board revoked Do’s statutory release while he was serving a 33-month sentence he received in April 2019.
The name of Do’s country of origin was redacted from the summary obtained by The Gazette, but it mentions that: “It is noted in your file that when you were two years old, your family ended up in a refugee camp after fleeing a war. Two years later, they settled in Canada.”
A spokesperson for CBSA said they will reply to a request for an update on what happed with Do’s removal order “as soon as possible.”
On Dec. 14, the woman was home alone watching television. During a commercial break, she headed to her basement to tend to a load of laundry. As she was about to return upstairs, she saw Do standing in her home, nude from the waist down. He was only wearing a winter jacket.
Do threatened to rape the woman and then forced her into her bedroom, where he sexually assaulted her. He then walked around her house and began disconnecting telephone landlines. The woman took advantage of a moment of distraction and fled to a neighbour’s home dressed only in her pyjamas.
When the Montreal police arrived, officers found Do running through the woman’s backyard and arrested him.
Last week, when Do was sentenced, the judge referred to Do’s criminal record as being among the factors that contributed to his eight-year sentence.
His record includes the sentence he received in 2019 for sexually assaulting a woman he knew three times.
“The victim was an adult at the time of the offences, but you initiated contact with her when she was (a minor). The acts were described as highly intrusive and sexual in nature,” the author of the 2022 parole decision wrote.
“During the first incident, you ignored her refusal and her cries. Before the second assault, you gave the victim a pill, and she appeared to have no recollection of the events that followed. You used force to coerce the victim into sexual intercourse a third time, without her consent. Following this incident, she filed a complaint against you.”
The parole decision made in 2022 involved revoking a statutory release that Do automatically qualified for. Offenders serving time in a federal penitentiary in Canada automatically qualify for a statutory release after they have served two-thirds of their sentence and were not previously granted parole.
Do automatically received his release on Nov. 5, 2021, and breached one of the conditions attached to it less than two weeks later when he ignored a curfew and did not report to a halfway house.
Do later told his parole officers that he left the halfway house because he was unable to sleep one night. He blamed this on another offender’s snoring and a toothache. He said the toothache caused him to go to a hospital, but he found the wait was too long. He decided to self-medicate by going to a childhood friend’s house seeking something for the pain.
“You admitted to using a wide variety of drugs and said you ‘went a little overboard’ by using cannabis, crack, cocaine and alcohol,” the author of the parole decision wrote. “Not wanting to return to the (halfway house) intoxicated, you spent the night at this friend’s house.”
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Man who sexually assaulted 84-year-old Côte-St-Luc woman had been ordered removed from Canada
Van Giau Do has a criminal record that includes at least two previous convictions for sexual assault.
Immigration dept not keeping up with demand for student visa probes: AG
The federal government launched only about 4,000 investigations of 150,000 flagged cases, the report said
Author of the article:Canadian Press
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David Baxter
Published Mar 23, 2026 • Last updated 1 day ago • 4 minute read
Passports on top of the Canadian flag.
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OTTAWA — Auditor General Karen Hogan says the immigration department isn’t keeping up with the demand for investigations of student visa holders in the International Student Program.
An audit of the program published Monday says about 150,000 cases in 2023 and 2024 were flagged because the student visa holders may not have been complying with the terms of their study permits. Such files are most often flagged because students are not attending the academic institutions that accepted them.
The report says the federal government launched only about 4,000 investigations of those flagged cases — and 1,600 of those were marked as inconclusive because the student in question did not respond to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
IRCC makes two attempts to reach out to students involved in these investigations before a file is marked inconclusive, an official from the auditor’s office explained in a background briefing. The official said this process takes about six months.
Immigration department officials told the auditor they only have the budget to conduct about 2,000 of these investigations annually until 2028.
The department reports about 1,400 students whose files were investigated were found to be studying at the right school, while just 50 were found to be non-compliant. Another 915 investigations were cancelled and 37 investigations are still in progress, the auditor reports.
The department also did not follow up on 800 cases of applicants for approved study permits using bogus documents or misrepresented information on their applications between 2018 and 2023, the auditor found.
The report said this lack of action is a source of “serious concern” because the department would have no warning on file if any of these individuals make future immigration applications.
The audit says 92 per cent of these problematic visa holders applied for some other kind of immigration status to stay in Canada, and 456 of them received approvals.
The audit found that IRCC has no way of knowing how many international students with expired visas are leaving Canada.
The report looked at 549,000 people with expiring study permits in 2024 and found that 93 per cent of them were allowed to remain in Canada, leaving 39,500 who were ordered to leave the country.
The auditor general’s office worked with the Canada Border Services Agency to confirm that only about 16,000 of those expired 2024 student visa holders actually left the country.
The auditor recommended that the IRCC begin sharing with the CBSA a list of students with expired study permits who have not applied for other types of immigration status, so that the agency can better track entry and exit data.
Immigration Minister Lena Diab said in a media statement that the department accepts all of the auditor’s recommendations.
“At the same time, this report captures only the first 18 months of a broader multi-year reform effort that runs through 2027. It reflects an early phase of implementation, not the full impact of the changes now underway,” Diab said.
The annual Immigration Levels Plan outlines a broader goal of reducing the number of temporary immigrants in Canada to less than five per cent of the total population by the end of 2027. A key part of this plan is putting hard caps on the number of international students admitted to Canada each year.
The auditor’s report says that new student visa approvals were far below their predicted levels in both 2024 and 2025.
Roughly 150,000 student visas were approved in 2024 when the anticipated target was nearly 349,000 visas — a 41 per cent approval rate. Only 50,000 had been approved as of Sept. 30, 2025, when officials had expected to approve just over 255,000 visas for the year — a 38 per cent approval rate.
The study permit approval rate was 58 per cent in 2023 and 54 per cent in 2022, the auditor’s report says.
The immigration department says it is not sure why approval rates are dropping, the report adds.
The auditor investigated whether the decline could be linked to new letter-of-acceptance verification rules or increased financial requirements but found neither measure could account for the extent of the approval drop.
The report found that all provinces saw larger-than-anticipated declines in study permit approvals, with all provinces but Quebec seeing reductions in study permit approvals of more than 59 per cent in 2024.
The department reported it expected to see a fluctuation of about 10 per cent in study permit approvals in all provinces except for B.C. and Ontario.
Diab said in her statement that the number of students coming to Canada is influenced by more than just federal policies.
“Provinces and territories oversee education systems and designate institutions, while institutions recruit and enrol students. Actual volumes are also influenced by affordability, housing pressures and student choices,” she said.
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The federal government launched only about 4,000 investigations of 150,000 flagged cases, the report said
Author of the article:Canadian Press
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David Baxter
Published Mar 23, 2026 • Last updated 1 day ago • 4 minute read
Passports on top of the Canadian flag.
Passports on top of the Canadian flag. Photo by iStockphoto
OTTAWA — Auditor General Karen Hogan says the immigration department isn’t keeping up with the demand for investigations of student visa holders in the International Student Program.
An audit of the program published Monday says about 150,000 cases in 2023 and 2024 were flagged because the student visa holders may not have been complying with the terms of their study permits. Such files are most often flagged because students are not attending the academic institutions that accepted them.
The report says the federal government launched only about 4,000 investigations of those flagged cases — and 1,600 of those were marked as inconclusive because the student in question did not respond to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
IRCC makes two attempts to reach out to students involved in these investigations before a file is marked inconclusive, an official from the auditor’s office explained in a background briefing. The official said this process takes about six months.
Immigration department officials told the auditor they only have the budget to conduct about 2,000 of these investigations annually until 2028.
The department reports about 1,400 students whose files were investigated were found to be studying at the right school, while just 50 were found to be non-compliant. Another 915 investigations were cancelled and 37 investigations are still in progress, the auditor reports.
The department also did not follow up on 800 cases of applicants for approved study permits using bogus documents or misrepresented information on their applications between 2018 and 2023, the auditor found.
The report said this lack of action is a source of “serious concern” because the department would have no warning on file if any of these individuals make future immigration applications.
The audit says 92 per cent of these problematic visa holders applied for some other kind of immigration status to stay in Canada, and 456 of them received approvals.
The audit found that IRCC has no way of knowing how many international students with expired visas are leaving Canada.
The report looked at 549,000 people with expiring study permits in 2024 and found that 93 per cent of them were allowed to remain in Canada, leaving 39,500 who were ordered to leave the country.
The auditor general’s office worked with the Canada Border Services Agency to confirm that only about 16,000 of those expired 2024 student visa holders actually left the country.
The auditor recommended that the IRCC begin sharing with the CBSA a list of students with expired study permits who have not applied for other types of immigration status, so that the agency can better track entry and exit data.
Immigration Minister Lena Diab said in a media statement that the department accepts all of the auditor’s recommendations.
“At the same time, this report captures only the first 18 months of a broader multi-year reform effort that runs through 2027. It reflects an early phase of implementation, not the full impact of the changes now underway,” Diab said.
The annual Immigration Levels Plan outlines a broader goal of reducing the number of temporary immigrants in Canada to less than five per cent of the total population by the end of 2027. A key part of this plan is putting hard caps on the number of international students admitted to Canada each year.
The auditor’s report says that new student visa approvals were far below their predicted levels in both 2024 and 2025.
Roughly 150,000 student visas were approved in 2024 when the anticipated target was nearly 349,000 visas — a 41 per cent approval rate. Only 50,000 had been approved as of Sept. 30, 2025, when officials had expected to approve just over 255,000 visas for the year — a 38 per cent approval rate.
The study permit approval rate was 58 per cent in 2023 and 54 per cent in 2022, the auditor’s report says.
The immigration department says it is not sure why approval rates are dropping, the report adds.
The auditor investigated whether the decline could be linked to new letter-of-acceptance verification rules or increased financial requirements but found neither measure could account for the extent of the approval drop.
The report found that all provinces saw larger-than-anticipated declines in study permit approvals, with all provinces but Quebec seeing reductions in study permit approvals of more than 59 per cent in 2024.
The department reported it expected to see a fluctuation of about 10 per cent in study permit approvals in all provinces except for B.C. and Ontario.
Diab said in her statement that the number of students coming to Canada is influenced by more than just federal policies.
“Provinces and territories oversee education systems and designate institutions, while institutions recruit and enrol students. Actual volumes are also influenced by affordability, housing pressures and student choices,” she said.
Immigration dept not keeping up with demand for student visa probes: AG
The audit found that IRCC has no way of knowing how many international students with expired visas are leaving Canada.
Why are Liberals expanding temporary foreign worker program?
High unemployment, a jobs crisis for young Canadians and yet the Liberals are pushing ahead to broaden it
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Mar 23, 2026 • 3 minute read
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The low-wage temporary foreign worker program, different than the agricultural program that supports so many farms, has become a lightning rod as youth unemployment has stayed consistently high, writes Brian Lilley. Photo by FILES /POSTMEDIA NETWORK
On the same day that Statistics Canada revealed a higher unemployment rate of 6.7% and a youth unemployment rate of 14.1%, the Carney government made it easier for some employers to hire temporary foreign workers. On March 13, the latest Labour Force Survey showed that Canada had lost 108,000 full-time jobs and that over the past year had added more than 30,000 people to the unemployment line.
Still, labour minister Patty Hajdu announced that employers would be allowed to “increase the allowable share of low-wage temporary foreign workers from 10% to 15% of their workforce in eligible rural regions.”
Which regions will be eligible isn’t known and provinces will need to opt in for employers to be able to take advantage of the program.
“Strong rural economies depend on local employers being able to find the workers they need to keep businesses operating and communities thriving. Canadians must always be first in line for available jobs, but in some rural regions employers are facing persistent labour shortages,” Hajdu said in a statement announcing the change.
Program a lightning rod
The low-wage temporary foreign worker program, different than the agricultural program that supports so many farms, has become a lightning rod as youth unemployment has stayed consistently high. Employers, especially fast-food restaurants like Tim Hortons, have faced criticism that they would rather hire foreign workers.
Yet those employers have been claiming that they need the foreign workers to fill job gaps with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business saying their members are short tens of thousands of workers.
Funny, because people aged 15-24 say they are short hundreds of thousands of jobs. StatsCan reports that 437,500 people in that age category are listed as unemployed, the same report lists 227,100 people over the age of 55 as unemployed.
Mysterious move
Why we are importing any foreign workers when among all age ranges there are more than 1.5 million Canadians unemployed is a mystery.
Still, as Blacklock’s Reporter has revealed, both Tim Horton’s and A&W have lobbied the federal government extensively to expand access to the program. Also reported by Blacklock’s a briefing note prepared for Secretary of State, Children and Youth before her committee appearance found that youth unemployment was worsening.
“Labour market outcomes have been worsening for youth since early 2023. Their employment rate has been trending down, while their unemployment rate has been on a strong upward trend,” the note stated.
Liberals to blame
That worsening unemployment rate for young people — currently 16.3% unemployment for 15-24 year-olds in Ontario and 14.6% in Alberta — can be traced back to bad policy decisions by the Liberals in 2022.
As announced in April 2022, the Liberal government raised the cap on how many foreign workers could be employed in a business from 10% to 20%. However for manufacturing, food and accommodations, hospitals and nursing homes they raised it to 30%. They also got rid of a stipulation that if unemployment was above 6% then TFW approval would not be granted.
Later that same year, in November of 2022, the Liberals suspended regulations that stated foreign students could only work 20 hours per week.
The overall unemployment rate in 2022 was just over 5% and youth unemployment was just over 10%. Since these changes, unemployment overall is up, but youth unemployment is up tremendously.
Still, the Liberals don’t see an issue with this program despite all the evidence.
The Conservatives have said this program is being abused by employers who don’t want to pay fair wages. They’ve been calling for at least the last year for the program to be abolished.
There is no way that the Liberals will abolish this program. The problem is they won’t even look to do the real reforms needed to stop the obvious abuse.
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High unemployment, a jobs crisis for young Canadians and yet the Liberals are pushing ahead to broaden it
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Mar 23, 2026 • 3 minute read
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The low-wage temporary foreign worker program, different than the agricultural program that supports so many farms, has become a lightning rod as youth unemployment has stayed consistently high, writes Brian Lilley. Photo by FILES /POSTMEDIA NETWORK
On the same day that Statistics Canada revealed a higher unemployment rate of 6.7% and a youth unemployment rate of 14.1%, the Carney government made it easier for some employers to hire temporary foreign workers. On March 13, the latest Labour Force Survey showed that Canada had lost 108,000 full-time jobs and that over the past year had added more than 30,000 people to the unemployment line.
Still, labour minister Patty Hajdu announced that employers would be allowed to “increase the allowable share of low-wage temporary foreign workers from 10% to 15% of their workforce in eligible rural regions.”
Which regions will be eligible isn’t known and provinces will need to opt in for employers to be able to take advantage of the program.
“Strong rural economies depend on local employers being able to find the workers they need to keep businesses operating and communities thriving. Canadians must always be first in line for available jobs, but in some rural regions employers are facing persistent labour shortages,” Hajdu said in a statement announcing the change.
Program a lightning rod
The low-wage temporary foreign worker program, different than the agricultural program that supports so many farms, has become a lightning rod as youth unemployment has stayed consistently high. Employers, especially fast-food restaurants like Tim Hortons, have faced criticism that they would rather hire foreign workers.
Yet those employers have been claiming that they need the foreign workers to fill job gaps with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business saying their members are short tens of thousands of workers.
Funny, because people aged 15-24 say they are short hundreds of thousands of jobs. StatsCan reports that 437,500 people in that age category are listed as unemployed, the same report lists 227,100 people over the age of 55 as unemployed.
Mysterious move
Why we are importing any foreign workers when among all age ranges there are more than 1.5 million Canadians unemployed is a mystery.
Still, as Blacklock’s Reporter has revealed, both Tim Horton’s and A&W have lobbied the federal government extensively to expand access to the program. Also reported by Blacklock’s a briefing note prepared for Secretary of State, Children and Youth before her committee appearance found that youth unemployment was worsening.
“Labour market outcomes have been worsening for youth since early 2023. Their employment rate has been trending down, while their unemployment rate has been on a strong upward trend,” the note stated.
Liberals to blame
That worsening unemployment rate for young people — currently 16.3% unemployment for 15-24 year-olds in Ontario and 14.6% in Alberta — can be traced back to bad policy decisions by the Liberals in 2022.
As announced in April 2022, the Liberal government raised the cap on how many foreign workers could be employed in a business from 10% to 20%. However for manufacturing, food and accommodations, hospitals and nursing homes they raised it to 30%. They also got rid of a stipulation that if unemployment was above 6% then TFW approval would not be granted.
Later that same year, in November of 2022, the Liberals suspended regulations that stated foreign students could only work 20 hours per week.
The overall unemployment rate in 2022 was just over 5% and youth unemployment was just over 10%. Since these changes, unemployment overall is up, but youth unemployment is up tremendously.
Still, the Liberals don’t see an issue with this program despite all the evidence.
The Conservatives have said this program is being abused by employers who don’t want to pay fair wages. They’ve been calling for at least the last year for the program to be abolished.
There is no way that the Liberals will abolish this program. The problem is they won’t even look to do the real reforms needed to stop the obvious abuse.
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Strong local businesses and a reliable workforce are essential to keeping rural economies growing and communities thriving across Canada. Canadians must always be first in line for available jobs. However, in regions experiencing severe labour shortages, the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW)...
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Numbers show Canada's immigration system failing on all fronts
Our system is still bringing in people faster than we can absorb them.
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Mar 24, 2026 • 4 minute read
Auditor General Karen Hogan
Auditor General Karen Hogan is seen during a news conference in Ottawa, Monday, March 23, 2026. Photo by Adrian Wyld /THE CANADIAN PRESS
Canada’s immigration system is a mess in more ways than one. Over the last decade, the Liberals have taken a system that was admired around the world, supported here at home and they trashed it.
Support for immigration is falling across the country, and other countries now look at us as a cautionary tale rather than an example to follow.
No part of the system works properly anymore, and despite Prime Minister Mark Carney promising to clean up the mess created by his predecessor Justin Trudeau, it’s not happening. Our system is still bringing in people faster than we can absorb them, and as this week’s report from the Auditor General showed, there are not sufficient guardrails or oversight.
By the numbers
Canada’s various immigration streams went from taking in roughly 579,000 people in 2015 to taking in 1.36 million by 2024. The numbers are pulling back a bit, but not nearly enough to bring balance to the system.
In the permanent resident stream — these are people who have been selected to live permanently in Canada and are on the path to citizenship — we went from 271,845 in 2015 to 483,640 in 2024.
That’s a 78% increase just for permanent residents and while the Carney government cut that back to 393,500 in 2025, that’s still a 45% increase over the 2015 numbers.
The number of international students grew from 219,000 in 2015 to 515,000 in 2024, but the peak year was 2023, when 680,000 visas were issued. Temporary foreign workers increased from 73,000 in 2015 to 191,000 in 2024 and asylum claims went from 16,000 in 2015 to 172,000 in 2024.
Growth of immigration in Canada. TORONTO SUN GRAPHIC
Growth of immigration in Canada. TORONTO SUN GRAPHIC
Growth at all costs
The Liberal plan released as late as November 2023 called for increasing immigration as high as 550,000 this year.
It was only the deteriorating economic conditions and worsening public sentiment that saw the government change course.
But only slightly.
The current immigration plan still calls for permanent residence numbers to fall within a range of 350,000 to 420,000 from now until 2028. While the government promotes their immigration plan as being about jobs and the economy, only about 245,000 of those new permanent residents are considered part of the economic immigrant stream.
The rest fall under refugees, humanitarian grounds and family reunification.
According to the latest population estimate, Canada’s temporary population is 2.6 million or about 6.5% of the total population of 41 million. The Carney Liberals are still promising to get Canada’s temporary population to below 5% of the total, down from a high of 7.5% in October 2024.
Even a temporary population of 5% is higher than it should be, another sign of a system out of control.
International student numbers. TORONTO SUN GRAPHIC
International student numbers. TORONTO SUN GRAPHIC
Students gone wild
Between when the Liberals took power in 2015 and the peak of student mania, the international student population in Canada increased threefold from 219,000 to more than 680,000.
As we learned this week from Auditor General Karen Hogan, this was a system rife with abuse.
The audit released Monday showed that, over two years, more than 153,000 students were flagged as potentially non-compliant with study permit conditions but the department, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, could only investigate 2,000 cases per year. That in itself is a problem but so too are the results from a system that seemed to turn a blind eye to abuse.
The Auditor General found that of 4,057 investigations opened, 1,654 of them were shut down because the students simply ignored requests for information. Don’t answer the call from the Canadian government and you can just stay in the country indefinitely.
The department identified 800 study permits issued between 2018–2023 that were obtained with fraudulent documents or misrepresentation. You would think that would be grounds for those individuals to be kicked out, instead the audit found that the government didn’t seek any enforcement measures and later approved new visas for 351 of the fraudsters.
Of those 800 people who gained access through fraudulent means, 110 of them would claim asylum.
Asylum abuse is the norm, not the exception
Canada’s asylum and refugee system is supposed to be there for people fleeing war and persecution and for many years, that’s what it was. Today, it is abused as back-door entry into Canada for people who are really just economic migrants but don’t want to wait in line.
How else do we explain Canada’s refugee system going from 16,000 in 2015 to 172,000 in 2024?
The Carney government brags that they’ve reduced that number by more than one-third to 113,000 but that is still seven times higher than when the Liberals took office.
The 110 international students claiming asylum rather than going home when their visa expired are part of the problem. In 2024, 20,245 international students claimed asylum while roughly 11,000 temporary foreign workers did the same.
The majority of asylum claims made in Canada today are made by people already in the country, not those showing up at border crossings, ports or airports.
If they are always here, are they temporary workers?
“Increasingly, more and more businesses are relying on temporary foreign workers in a way that is driving down wages in some sectors,” then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in April 2024.
It was a shocking admission from the political leader whose government had ramped up the Temporary Foreign Worker Program by removing guardrails in 2022. Prior to the Trudeau government making changes to the program in April 2022 the number of people coming to Canada had crept up from about 73,000 to 103,000.
After the changes were introduced, use jumped to 135,000 in 2022 and then up to 192,000 by 2024.
Two weeks ago, on the same day that Statistics Canada announced the unemployment rate had increased to 6.7% nationally, they announced the expansion of the Temporary Foreign Wimorker Program. Youth unemployment is above 14% and the Carney government is going to allow restaurants in certain areas to bring in foreign workers, a move that comes after heavy lobbying by Tim Horton’s and A&W franchisees.
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Our system is still bringing in people faster than we can absorb them.
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Mar 24, 2026 • 4 minute read
Auditor General Karen Hogan
Auditor General Karen Hogan is seen during a news conference in Ottawa, Monday, March 23, 2026. Photo by Adrian Wyld /THE CANADIAN PRESS
Canada’s immigration system is a mess in more ways than one. Over the last decade, the Liberals have taken a system that was admired around the world, supported here at home and they trashed it.
Support for immigration is falling across the country, and other countries now look at us as a cautionary tale rather than an example to follow.
No part of the system works properly anymore, and despite Prime Minister Mark Carney promising to clean up the mess created by his predecessor Justin Trudeau, it’s not happening. Our system is still bringing in people faster than we can absorb them, and as this week’s report from the Auditor General showed, there are not sufficient guardrails or oversight.
By the numbers
Canada’s various immigration streams went from taking in roughly 579,000 people in 2015 to taking in 1.36 million by 2024. The numbers are pulling back a bit, but not nearly enough to bring balance to the system.
In the permanent resident stream — these are people who have been selected to live permanently in Canada and are on the path to citizenship — we went from 271,845 in 2015 to 483,640 in 2024.
That’s a 78% increase just for permanent residents and while the Carney government cut that back to 393,500 in 2025, that’s still a 45% increase over the 2015 numbers.
The number of international students grew from 219,000 in 2015 to 515,000 in 2024, but the peak year was 2023, when 680,000 visas were issued. Temporary foreign workers increased from 73,000 in 2015 to 191,000 in 2024 and asylum claims went from 16,000 in 2015 to 172,000 in 2024.
Growth of immigration in Canada. TORONTO SUN GRAPHIC
Growth of immigration in Canada. TORONTO SUN GRAPHIC
Growth at all costs
The Liberal plan released as late as November 2023 called for increasing immigration as high as 550,000 this year.
It was only the deteriorating economic conditions and worsening public sentiment that saw the government change course.
But only slightly.
The current immigration plan still calls for permanent residence numbers to fall within a range of 350,000 to 420,000 from now until 2028. While the government promotes their immigration plan as being about jobs and the economy, only about 245,000 of those new permanent residents are considered part of the economic immigrant stream.
The rest fall under refugees, humanitarian grounds and family reunification.
According to the latest population estimate, Canada’s temporary population is 2.6 million or about 6.5% of the total population of 41 million. The Carney Liberals are still promising to get Canada’s temporary population to below 5% of the total, down from a high of 7.5% in October 2024.
Even a temporary population of 5% is higher than it should be, another sign of a system out of control.
International student numbers. TORONTO SUN GRAPHIC
International student numbers. TORONTO SUN GRAPHIC
Students gone wild
Between when the Liberals took power in 2015 and the peak of student mania, the international student population in Canada increased threefold from 219,000 to more than 680,000.
As we learned this week from Auditor General Karen Hogan, this was a system rife with abuse.
The audit released Monday showed that, over two years, more than 153,000 students were flagged as potentially non-compliant with study permit conditions but the department, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, could only investigate 2,000 cases per year. That in itself is a problem but so too are the results from a system that seemed to turn a blind eye to abuse.
The Auditor General found that of 4,057 investigations opened, 1,654 of them were shut down because the students simply ignored requests for information. Don’t answer the call from the Canadian government and you can just stay in the country indefinitely.
The department identified 800 study permits issued between 2018–2023 that were obtained with fraudulent documents or misrepresentation. You would think that would be grounds for those individuals to be kicked out, instead the audit found that the government didn’t seek any enforcement measures and later approved new visas for 351 of the fraudsters.
Of those 800 people who gained access through fraudulent means, 110 of them would claim asylum.
Asylum abuse is the norm, not the exception
Canada’s asylum and refugee system is supposed to be there for people fleeing war and persecution and for many years, that’s what it was. Today, it is abused as back-door entry into Canada for people who are really just economic migrants but don’t want to wait in line.
How else do we explain Canada’s refugee system going from 16,000 in 2015 to 172,000 in 2024?
The Carney government brags that they’ve reduced that number by more than one-third to 113,000 but that is still seven times higher than when the Liberals took office.
The 110 international students claiming asylum rather than going home when their visa expired are part of the problem. In 2024, 20,245 international students claimed asylum while roughly 11,000 temporary foreign workers did the same.
The majority of asylum claims made in Canada today are made by people already in the country, not those showing up at border crossings, ports or airports.
If they are always here, are they temporary workers?
“Increasingly, more and more businesses are relying on temporary foreign workers in a way that is driving down wages in some sectors,” then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in April 2024.
It was a shocking admission from the political leader whose government had ramped up the Temporary Foreign Worker Program by removing guardrails in 2022. Prior to the Trudeau government making changes to the program in April 2022 the number of people coming to Canada had crept up from about 73,000 to 103,000.
After the changes were introduced, use jumped to 135,000 in 2022 and then up to 192,000 by 2024.
Two weeks ago, on the same day that Statistics Canada announced the unemployment rate had increased to 6.7% nationally, they announced the expansion of the Temporary Foreign Wimorker Program. Youth unemployment is above 14% and the Carney government is going to allow restaurants in certain areas to bring in foreign workers, a move that comes after heavy lobbying by Tim Horton’s and A&W franchisees.
Supplementary Information for the 2026-2028 Immigration Levels Plan - Canada.ca
Supplementary Information for the 2026-2028 Immigration Levels Plan
IRCC Minister Transition Binder 2025-05 - Public Opinion Research on Canadians' Attitudes Towards Immigration - Canada.ca
IRCC Minister Transition Binder 2025-05 - Public Opinion Research on Canadians' Attitudes Towards Immigration
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Illegal migrant accused of killing Chicago university freshman: 'VIOLENT AND PREVENTABLE ACT'
Sheridan Gorman was shot in the head and died at the scene in what's described as a random shooting
Author of the articleenette Wilford
Published Mar 23, 2026 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
Sheridan Gorman
Sheridan Gorman, left, and Jose Medina-Medina. DHS
A Venezuelan man accused of fatally shooting a university student in Chicago had entered the United States illegally under the Biden administration nearly three years before last week’s killing.
Jose Medina-Medina, 25, allegedly opened fire on a group of friends who were walking along the Chicago lakefront on March 19, killing 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman.
The Loyola University freshman was shot in the head and died at the scene in what’s described as a random shooting by a masked gunman, CBS News reported.
Gorman, who was from Yorktown in Westchester County, New York, had been attending the college for just six months when the slaying occurred.
Medina had been living in the U.S. illegally since 2023, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Medina’s previous charges
He was charged with shoplifting at a Macy’s store in September 2023 but was released on bond a month later.
A warrant was issued for his arrest when he failed to show up for court.
The warrant was still outstanding when he was arrested in Gorman’s murder on Friday night, one block away from the scene of the shooting, DHS said.
Medina was due in court on Monday, as a judge will determine if the alleged shooter will remain in custody.
He is facing one felony count of attempted first-degree murder, three felony counts of aggravated assault by discharge of a firearm, and one felony count of aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon.
Federal immigration officials have asked that Medina remain behind bars, and have requested an immigration detainer.
Sheridan Gorman, shot and killed by illegal migrant in Chicago.
Sheridan Gorman, shot and killed by illegal migrant in Chicago. Instagram
Homeland Security blasts Chicago politicians
Homeland Security took to X to rip Chicago’s sanctuary politicians, saying they “should be ashamed for dismissing the brutal murder of Sheridan Gorman as ‘wrong place, wrong time.'”
They wrote: “This tragedy was entirely preventable. The Biden Administration released this monster into our country in 2023, and later that year he was released again, following an arrest for shoplifting. How many more innocent Americans must die because sanctuary politicians prioritize criminal illegal aliens over American citizens?”
Gorman’s family also issued a similar statement, noting that Medina’s arrest was a “first step” toward justice but noted that it was “a violent and preventable act.”
“What Sheridan was doing that night — walking with friends near her campus — was normal. It was safe. It is what students do every day,” they said, per CBS.
“We will not allow this to be dismissed as ‘wrong place, wrong time.’ This was not random misfortune. This was a violent and preventable act,” her family continued.
“This cannot be just another case that fades from public attention,” they added. “Sheridan’s life mattered. What happened to her matters. And we will make sure she is not forgotten.”
The investigation is ongoing.
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Sheridan Gorman was shot in the head and died at the scene in what's described as a random shooting
Author of the article
enette WilfordPublished Mar 23, 2026 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
Sheridan Gorman
Sheridan Gorman, left, and Jose Medina-Medina. DHS
A Venezuelan man accused of fatally shooting a university student in Chicago had entered the United States illegally under the Biden administration nearly three years before last week’s killing.
Jose Medina-Medina, 25, allegedly opened fire on a group of friends who were walking along the Chicago lakefront on March 19, killing 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman.
The Loyola University freshman was shot in the head and died at the scene in what’s described as a random shooting by a masked gunman, CBS News reported.
Gorman, who was from Yorktown in Westchester County, New York, had been attending the college for just six months when the slaying occurred.
Medina had been living in the U.S. illegally since 2023, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Medina’s previous charges
He was charged with shoplifting at a Macy’s store in September 2023 but was released on bond a month later.
A warrant was issued for his arrest when he failed to show up for court.
The warrant was still outstanding when he was arrested in Gorman’s murder on Friday night, one block away from the scene of the shooting, DHS said.
Medina was due in court on Monday, as a judge will determine if the alleged shooter will remain in custody.
He is facing one felony count of attempted first-degree murder, three felony counts of aggravated assault by discharge of a firearm, and one felony count of aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon.
Federal immigration officials have asked that Medina remain behind bars, and have requested an immigration detainer.
Sheridan Gorman, shot and killed by illegal migrant in Chicago.
Sheridan Gorman, shot and killed by illegal migrant in Chicago. Instagram
Homeland Security blasts Chicago politicians
Homeland Security took to X to rip Chicago’s sanctuary politicians, saying they “should be ashamed for dismissing the brutal murder of Sheridan Gorman as ‘wrong place, wrong time.'”
They wrote: “This tragedy was entirely preventable. The Biden Administration released this monster into our country in 2023, and later that year he was released again, following an arrest for shoplifting. How many more innocent Americans must die because sanctuary politicians prioritize criminal illegal aliens over American citizens?”
Gorman’s family also issued a similar statement, noting that Medina’s arrest was a “first step” toward justice but noted that it was “a violent and preventable act.”
“What Sheridan was doing that night — walking with friends near her campus — was normal. It was safe. It is what students do every day,” they said, per CBS.
“We will not allow this to be dismissed as ‘wrong place, wrong time.’ This was not random misfortune. This was a violent and preventable act,” her family continued.
“This cannot be just another case that fades from public attention,” they added. “Sheridan’s life mattered. What happened to her matters. And we will make sure she is not forgotten.”
The investigation is ongoing.
Man charged with killing Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman misses first court date with tuberculosis
The man charged in the murder of Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman last week missed his first court appearance on Monday, because he was being treated for tuberculosis, prosecutors said.
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Illegal migrant accused of killing Chicago university freshman: 'VIOLENT AND PREVENTABLE ACT'
A Venezuelan man accused of fatally shooting a university student had entered the U.S. illegally three years before the killing. Learn more.
Just think. . . if it weren't for EEE-vil Biden, she coulda been shot by a nice, clean-cut White guy!
Because that is such a regular occurrence.
Feeling a bit frisky, Saskatchewannabe?
Yes, of course it was guaranteed she'd be murdered. Whatever it takes to sustain your delusion.