Saturday, November 25, 2023

Links - 25th November 2023 (2 - Migrants)

Collin Rugg on X - "JUST IN: New York City is gearing up to pay over $1,000,000,000 on just hotels over the next 3 years to house illegal immigrants.  Good! That’s what happens when you call yourself a “Sanctuary City.”  But that’s just the hotel costs. NYC Mayor Eric Adams estimates the total cost of the migrant crisis will be about $12B over the next 3 years.  “We are past our breaking point,” he said. “With more than 57,300 individuals currently in our care on an average night, it amounts to $9.8 million a day. Almost $300 million a month and nearly $3.6 billion a year.”  Residents in NYC have had enough. In the video below, Staten Island locals were arrested for blocking migrant buses."

Meme - Latino Migrant: "I come to America." *Texas*
Soyjak: "Yes, welcome home weary traveler."
Latino Migrant: "I go here?" *New York*
Soyjak: "Noooo! We don't have the resources!"
Liberal virtue signalling in a nutshell. And of course, conservatives are to blame

1 province aims to lure immigrants from preferred countries - "In August, the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program created six draws with the goal of inviting 542 skilled immigrants in dozens of occupational backgrounds to settle in the province as permanent residents.  The catch is only those who are living in one of these eight countries can qualify: Czechia, Germany, India, Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine.  While officials say the draws are designed to target immigrants based on their likelihood to succeed and stay in the province, experts fear this might mark the beginning of a return to Canada’s ethnocentric immigration selection approach of the past... The most populous provinces — Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta — all enjoy an immigrant retention rate of higher than 80 per cent. However, the rest of Canada struggles to keep their newcomers despite the provincial nominee program meant to let them pick their own.  The country-specific pilot is an attempt by Saskatchewan to devote its limited resources to target newcomers who are most likely to stay, provincial officials say.  According to Statistics Canada, only 64 per cent of newcomers who settled in Saskatchewan between 2016 and 2020 ended up staying. Among those who came under the skilled workers and skilled trades categories in 2019, only 43 per cent of them remained.  Inspired by the settlement success of the five flights of displaced Ukrainians who arrived in the province in the past year, officials came up with the pilot project with employers, professional regulators, industry associations and community-based partners.  In picking the select countries, they looked at labour-pool characteristics, language ability, history of successful recruitment and retention of newcomers from different countries, as well as the job opportunities available in the province.  One other key element they considered was the credential compatibility of migrants from those countries. For instance, long-haul truck drivers in Poland, Ukraine and Germany are quickly recognized by provincial officials to work in Saskatchewan.  “We want to ensure that they remain in Saskatchewan and that the program is being used for genuine intent to contribute to the community growth that we’re experiencing in this province,” said the province’s deputy immigration minister, Richelle Bourgoin...   Bourgoin said the country-specific draws are by no means exclusionary because there are other draws that are open to all candidates. This year alone, the province has nominated applicants from 116 countries.  “This is one tool in a very large tool box. And we are in a position with a growing economy, a very low unemployment rate (so we use) all of the tools we have available to us,” she explained.  “In this case, we are looking to test a theory that we think might yield positive results for not only our communities but our labour market.”"
White supremacist racism means that they want Indians

ICE arrests Salvadoran alien accused of rape who went to victim's house immediately after Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office failed to honor ICE detainer - "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Antonio Ulises Perez, a 38-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador accused of rape, Wednesday, after the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO) failed to honor an ICE detainer and released him from custody.   Almost immediately following his release from the Oklahoma County Jail on Oct. 9, Ulises Perez went to the home of the woman he is alleged to have raped. The victim contacted the police and Ulises Perez fled the scene.  Under federal law, ICE has the authority to lodge immigration detainers with law enforcement agencies who have custody of individuals arrested on criminal charges and who ICE has probable cause to believe are removable aliens. The detainer form advises law enforcement agencies to notify ICE in advance of release and to maintain custody of the alien for up to 48 hours so that ICE can take custody of that person in a safe and secure setting."
Clearly, ICE must be abolished

Meme - Jaden McNeil @JadenPMcNeil: "Message I received today
'You were right
About immigration
All of it
I went to Paris
My whole worldview was shattered'"
Comments (elsewhere): "I know dyed-hair women who used to volunteer in refugee arrival camps who now are active politically to get closed borders."

Meme - "THE BAGGINGSTON POST
Orc travellers spending months in field camps without stable housing, access to manflesh. The Shire should step up.
Grima Wormtongue
Goblin Daily Press
Hobbits have a moral duty to do what Men can't or won't do: give anyone arriving from Mordor whateve they desire, in any quantities and eagerly at that.
Trending now: Can we trust the Elves? Withered recluses board luxury boats and depart to a remote exotic island in droves. Read how to get a ticket to join the cruise."

NEWS: Toronto declares itself a ‘sanctuary city’, rejects Harper agenda
Toronto mayor instructs staff not to turn refugees, asylum seekers away from city shelters - "Chow told CBC Toronto that she has told staff to follow a motion passed by council in July that reverses a policy adopted by the city in May under Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie.   Under the previous policy, which took effect June 1, refugees and asylum seekers were turned away from the main shelter system and directed to federal shelter programs when they called the city's central intake phone line"
Olivia Chow asks Toronto residents to offer rental units for refugees as shelter spaces fill up - The Globe and Mail
Freeland rejects Toronto bailout, says Ontario in ‘excellent fiscal position’ to help - The Globe and Mail - "The letter from Ms. Freeland comes as Ms. Chow and Premier Doug Ford have been calling on Ottawa to fund more shelter spaces for a growing number of refugee claimants arriving in Toronto and surrounding municipalities. About 300 people are turned away from Toronto’s 9,000-bed shelter system nightly because of a lack of space, the city says, roughly half of them being asylum seekers."
No new money for Toronto asylum seekers after Chow, Miller meeting
When virtue signalling blows up in your face. Presumably, the solution is to blame conservatives (while increasing taxes)

'A declaration of war on Europe' – Salvini says 6,000 migrants landing on Lampedusa in 1 day threatens to collapse Italian society - "Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, known for his hawkish stance on immigration during his tenure as interior minister in 2018, said on Wednesday that when 120 boats filled with migrants arrive on the shores of Italy at the same time, “it is not a spontaneous phenomenon, it is a declaration of war on Europe.”  The deputy prime minister of the right-wing government in Rome, who currently heads the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, referred to the fact that the boats with approximately 6,000 migrants docked on the island of Lampedusa in one day. He stressed that the problem was not exclusive to Lampedusa and that the situation threatened to “collapse Italian society as a whole.” Salvni said he is convinced that mass migration to Europe was being orchestrated by criminal organizations, including human trafficking organizations. He added that Europe had completely abandoned Italy to protect its land and maritime borders and that Rome should act on its own to further tighten national security and migration regulations... Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ran on a campaign platform of blocking migrants and setting up a “naval blockade;” however, since coming to power, she has overseen a record number of illegal migrants arriving in Italy and has even approved plans for Italy to accept over 400,000 non-EU legal migrants per year. "
This won't stop liberals claiming they're "far right", even though they're not gunning them down

Meme - *awake at 2:39am* "Why are all the migrants fighting- age males?"

Is the cost-of-living crisis causing international students to reconsider Canada? - "Since Damanpreet Singh moved from India to Cape Breton for his studies two years ago, he has seen his daily expenses nearly double. The Punjab native moved to Sydney, Nova Scotia in 2021 to pursue his post-baccalaureate degree in Supply Chain Management. Now a new graduate, the financial reality of living long-term in Canada has shifted significantly for him.  “When I came to Canada in 2021, with it still being COVID, there were fewer students and I could find a house easily,” says Singh, who is the Canadian Federation of Students’ representative for international students. Upon arrival, he found a room in a shared apartment for $350 per month. But since his lease expired last year, he had to move into a new place he describes as sub-par that cost him $500 per month. The same goes for his groceries: “I used to pay $150 per month for groceries on average. Now, I pay $250 for the same amount.”  International students are currently required to show proof $10,000 in their bank accounts when they arrive in Canada – the amount estimated by the federal government to cover their living expenses. That’s on top of the $30,000 to $50,000 they have to pay for tuition each year. But some students and advocates say this minimum Guaranteed Income Certificate (GIC) is misleading given the current costs of living... The number of international students coming to study in Canada has reached record highs in recent years, but a new study shows that a sizeable proportion may no longer want to stay around after they graduate. A Leger study commissioned by the Institute of Canadian Citizenship published in March this year found that 25 percent of international students surveyed plan to leave the country in the next 18 to 24 months.  The high cost of living was cited as a top concern by the survey respondents, with students growing increasingly put off by rising rents and dwindling housing options...   The federal government has not updated its cost-of-living figure for international students since 2015."

Brampton food banks are banning international students from using their services - ""There can be a lot of abuse with food banks," Rivera says, saying that her location verifies ID, proof of living in the catchment area that Ste. Louise covers, and bank statements to ensure applicants are truly in need.  "For certain groups like permanent residents, we can't serve you until you've been here for a year since the government standard is that you need to be able support yourself... and students, who are here temporarily, we also will not serve."... Ste. Louise has had numerous experiences with these students who have more than enough money for food in their bank account, but can't access it because it was borrowed from elsewhere solely for them to be able to obtain a visa.  "People come to us with $60,000 in their bank account asking for free food — when we look at this banking, we're floored," Rivera says. "They’re borrowing money then giving it back once they get here, then when they get here, they want our services."   Being a small, volunteer-run program that does not operate on government funding, Ste. Louise has identified this as a real problem that reduces the supply needed for families, seniors, people with disabilities, refugees and other groups that truly need it...   Some videos on YouTube and other platforms have also even publicly encouraged international students to use food banks as a way to "get free food in Canada.""

One simple fix could make Britain an economic powerhouse - "migration policy shouldn’t be about filling a labour shortage in this or that region of the country: it should be about inviting people whose children and grandchildren are likely, on average, to become great successes, who are likely to become educated, informed voters, who are likely to be socially, religiously, and sexually tolerant, and who are likely to themselves become magnets for global capital investment and job creation."

Hypocrisy exposed? Political activist asks pro-refugee marchers to take one into their home - Buy, Sell or Upload Video Content with Newsflare - "A British political activist claims to have exposed leftist hypocrisy by posing as an official and asking demonstrators on a pro-refugee march to take one into their own home.  "I just noticed your placard saying 'refugees welcome here' so I was wondering if you'd be willing to go down on a list saying you're willing to take refugees into your home," Jim Boobeh asks an unidentified marcher at the event in London on June 18.  "The only problem is I rent," says the demonstrator.  Davidson moves on to several other protesters with his clipboard asking the same question and all those he interviews come up with reasons not to take in a refugee.  "Left-wing activists: do as I say, not as I do," said Boobeh of his video."

Fear of X-ray age tests in UK ‘may force child asylum seekers to flee’ - "Children seeking asylum in the UK may run away and disappear because of fears of being subjected to X-rays and bone scans to verify their ages, human rights campaigners have said."
Fear of X-ray age tests ‘may force UK child asylum seekers to flee’ | Immigration and asylum : unitedkingdom - "Considering they've traversed entire continents and opted to fearlessly navigate the choppy English channel in an inflatable dinghy, it's almost laughable that an X-ray is considered a step too far."
Weird. What could they have to fear if they're really minors, especially if they've already run away from a war? Of course liberals claim these tests are inaccurate, and they pretend there's no risk to treating adults as children

Meme - "Africa, come to Europe. Because of declining population."
"Europe, Stop having children! For the environment"
"The malevolence of EU"
"Want to fight climate change? Have fewer children"
"Refugee influx helps halt decline in Germany's population"
Clearly having people from the Third World go to the First won't increase their carbon footprint

Meme - Population Matters @PopnMatters: "Greece is paying Greek people to have more babies, while trying to reduce immigration. This worrying nationalistic pro-natalism is also occurring in other countries and is the opposite of what humanity and the environment need."
William Bairamian: "tfw foreign organizations intervene to lobby for the disappearance of a nation. *Greece with Population decreasing*"

Human Error Blamed For Pakistan Plane Crash - "40% of pilots at PIA were flying aircraft with fake licenses. These pilots weren’t given the exams themselves and didn’t have the proper flying experience.  As Pakistan’s Minister for Aviation explained, “pilots are also appointed on a political basis, unfortunately. Whilst appointing pilots, merit is ignored.”"
Dozens of nurses and midwives from Nigeria STILL working in the UK despite fears their medical exam results are 'fraudulent or incorrect' - "The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) today confirmed that 48 Nigerian professionals are suspected of paying someone to a sit computer-based exam that tests medical knowledge and is needed to work in Britian.  The NMC said it was 'more likely than not' that those it has identified obtained their result fraudulently... The 48 people identified sat the exam, which covers drug dosage calculations and clinical questions for health issues like diabetes, at the Yunnik Technologies Test Centre in Ibadan, south west Nigeria.  An investigation by the NMC found 'evidence of widespread fraudulent activity' at the centre, meaning all the test results it has issued have now been deemed invalid"
Too bad it's racist to have stricter standards for some countries than others

France: Foreigners commit 69% of robberies, violent crimes, and sexual assaults on public transport - "Last year, 69 percent of violent robberies and other violent crimes, including sexual assaults, on public transport in the greater Paris region of Île-de-France were perpetrated by foreign nationals, according to the annual figures of the SSMSI, the statistics bureau of the French Ministry of Interior.  However, looking closer at the data, it is revealed that Africans alone are responsible for 52 percent of such crimes while only representing 3.2 percent of the population of France.  Even for all of France, the data clearly shows that African nationals account for 42 percent of the above-mentioned types of crimes, way above their statistical weight within the French population. Regarding crimes specific to public transport, the situation has actually not changed substantially over the years. The last time Remix News reported on such data in 2020, 69 percent of sexual assaults were committed by foreigners at that time as well. Overall in France, these crimes are also mostly (55 percent) committed by foreign nationals, the data indicated.  In a breakdown of the statistics from the city of Paris, 38 percent of violent robberies and other violent crimes were perpetrated by foreign nationals from the Maghreb region, which constitutes North African countries such as Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, followed by Africans from countries outside the Maghreb region. In total, foreigners committed approximately 70 percent of all violent robberies in Paris...   One factor to keep in mind is that the French statistics do not break down crimes based on race or ethnicity; nor do they reveal immigration background. So, a French citizen whose parents are both from Algeria will be counted as a French national in the crime statistics. In Denmark, such information is available, and it shows that second-generation migrants with Danish citizenship actually have higher rates of crime, including murder and physical assault.  As Remix News reported in June, a poll conducted for top French newspaper Le Figaro shows that nearly three out of four French people believe there are too many migrants in the country, with the poll results coming after the country accepted a record number of foreigners in 2022 under President Emmanuel Macron."

Wilfred Reilly on X - "The argument that nations should not have borders, because - if they do - a woman or child might be injured while trying to illegally cross one is just an updated version of the weaponized-empathy argument used for banning anything.  "Can you JUSTIFY your guns/fast cars/alcohol/going outside, if JUST ONE GRANDMOTHER..."   Yes. The answer is ~always yes."

Indians with fraudulent credentials : SingaporeRaw - "I was speaking with a few mates and lassie over drinks during lunch and the topic of applicants from Indian came up to which they shared they regularly found more than 40% of these applicants having fraudulent credentials when a third - party agency was commissioned to conduct a background check on them.  Visa applicants from India have regularly been scrutinised and delayed for years because of an exorbitantly high rates of forge documents from them.  Not only that: it is phenomenal that despite the small population size of foreign Indians in Sydney and Melbourne relative to the natives, these people tend to be over-represented in IT - related roles with the strikingly common dubious theme of an entire line managers being Indian (director is Indian and everyone below is Indian). They seem more populated in technical areas of banking where technical rigour is not emphasised and seldom found in technical roles within big tech (which also raise the question of "perhaps they did not made the technical cut").  I wonder if there are any similar issues like these in Singapore."

Rebecca Brannon on X - "New York City: NYC homeless sleep on concrete in filth with rats during the last few rainy cold nights as hundreds of migrants - mostly men - continue to arrive on busses - housed up in hotels, fed and supported."

Meme - Auron Macintyre @AuronMacintyre: "Notice the strategy here. manufacture the problem, call anyone who notices a bigot, and then pretend the problem has become unsolvable so the only answer is to embrace the future the left was engineering from the outset"
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: "Roughly 2.5% of the US population is undocumented. "Deport them all" means a mass purge, roadblocks in communities around the country, "papers, please" at every corner, and a fundamental transformation of this country from a free one into a police state."

Meme - Wall Street Silver: "This is Spain. It sort of seems like D-Day. Their troops are landing on the beaches. Then at the end of the video their troop carriers head back to bring more reinforcements. If the government was at all interested in stopping this, they would be sinking those boats so they can't be used again. Create expenses for them and it will slow them down or bring it to a stop entirely." |
End Wokeness @EndWokeness: "It's not a border crisis, it's a plot. It's not immigration, it's an invasion. It isn't spontaneous, it's coordinated. Western civilization will be gone within a generation. Our grandkids will hate us."

Visegrád 24 on X - "Scandal erupts in Sweden after a newspaper published data on jobs held by "ISIS women" taken back to Sweden from the Al-Hol camp (ISIS women & kids) in Kurdish Syria Of the 83 women who returned, more than 1/4 now work in Swedish schools, kindergartens & asylum centres for kids"

Wall Street Silver on X - "These days in Germany, the native Germans are more likely to be arrested for showing the German flag because it might offend migrants and make them feel unwelcome or unsafe.  That is how ridiculous Europe has become. They need to stop being so soft and start electing real leaders who actually care about their countries."

Meme - Drake no: "Europe sucks so much AlLaHu SnAckBaR1!11!!" Drake yes: "But ill take those 2500€, free apartment and healthcare every month"

Heather ⚡️🇬🇧 🦀 on X - "If I were to go to a Middle Eastern country where I would be expected to wear a veil and cover my hair. I would 100% do it out of respect for the culture, laws and traditions of the country. I would not go over there, refuse to wear it and demand they change thousands of years of tradition in order to satisfy me.  Yet.. this is exactly what the open door policy and the globalist one world lunatics are trying to achieve. How the hell can this ever work. No one rule for everyone exists. It’s like trying to mix oil and water.  It’s impossible. Get back to individual countries. Get back to being proud of our nations. Get back to protecting everything that makes us all unique and different."
The kind of people who say it's racist to expect migrants to Western countries to integrate are also the kind who condemn Westerners who don't follow the customs of the countries they visit/live in

France: Muslim disrupts mass with screams of ‘Allahu akbar’ - "A mass celebrated by a priest in the Saint-Éloi church in Dunkirk (North), Sunday November 5, was disrupted by an individual who distinctly shouted “Allah Akbar” twice, Le Figaro learned from a police source."

'At least half of Paris crime is committed by foreigners': Where does Macron's claim come from? - "Mr. Macron cited a statistic: "If we look at crime in Paris today, we cannot fail to see that at least half of the crime comes from people who are foreigners, either illegal immigrants or waiting for a residence permit. In any case, they're in a very delicate situation, often coming in through these [illegal immigration] channels."...   In a book published in October, Didier Lallement, who was the head of Paris police until last July, cited a figure close to the one used by Mr. Macron. "In Paris, one out of every two crimes is committed by a foreigner, often in an irregular situation," he wrote. When questioned, the Paris police prefecture reported that "the share of foreign nationals in crimes committed in Paris was 48% for the first few months of the year." This is not broken down by the proportion of illegal immigrants and type of crime, as the statistics are based on "all offenses combined.""

Catholic Church Allows Muslim Call to Prayer During Mass - "A Roman Catholic Church in Ballyhaunis, a town in County Mayo, Ireland, has been criticized for opening its doors to Muslims for an Islamic Call to Prayer during Mass recently as this demonstrates the lengths that the Catholic Church is willing to go to embrace its ecumenical endeavor...   The Catholic Church’s imprudent attempts to promote ecumenism and interreligious dialogue have infected Evangelical denominations and have led to a dilution of Christianity, blurring the lines between Christianity and other blatantly false religions."
Priest criticised for allowing Muslim call to prayer in church - "A priest’s decision to allow the Muslim call to prayer to feature during a Mass in Mayo was “misguided”, according to an expert on the Church in the Arab world.  Fr Stephen Farragher of Ballyhaunis Parish organised for members of the Muslim community in Ballyhaunis to say the final prayer at 10am morning Mass last week, broadcast on Midwest Radio... “The Muslim call to prayer boldly proclaiming ‘I profess that that there is no god but God, I profess that Muhammad is God’s prophet’, can have no place in a Catholic Eucharist,” said Fr O’Sullivan, who is a fluent Arabic speaker.  “There are many ways of furthering dialogue with Muslims which today should only be recommended and encouraged.  “For obvious reasons, inviting the Islamic call to prayer to be made from the lectern in a Catholic church is not one of them.”"

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