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it shouldn't be legal. its ridiculous that this is happening in the first place.

This country has plummeted drastically this past decade. The immigration is absolutely ridiculous. Doesn't matter from where. This problem won't be solved until the Baby Boomer generation has passed away, but that will also cause issues too. We need to focus on our own before accepting others in. I hope things don't escalate like it is in the UK right now, but people are sick and tired of what's become of Canada.

They move into a country and demand that everyone conform to their ideology. It's ridiculous. If you like it so much stay where you were.

Ridiculous! Half of them have designer clothes and the latest smart phone … stay in your country and fix the problems there! it’s your responsibility!

Canada's cost to house and dine refugees is ridiculous. It's $224 per day or $6720 per month **per claimant**. It's more than the average Canadian household spending.\n\nWHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE WELCOME TO CANADA BONUS? Individuals who hold a valid Permanent Resident Card issued in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 or Temporary Workers with a valid work permit are eligible.

Cherry on top are the income taxes. Cost of living is ridiculous expensive because not much is left in the bank after the government takes their part. I was able to build some wealth in Canada and left as soon I could. Being taxed 53% to live next to an injection site? Waiting MONTHS for healthcare? Not able to afford the expensive condos because the government took me half of my money? No thanks. \nLook at the US. Cost of living is still high these days but way more is left in your wallet. Canada doesn’t want anyone to build wealth. The system is really messed up. They want poor immigrants earning minimum wage in bad conditions.

Investigate Conestoga college, who made a mess of KW, and only Indians are students there, it is ridiculous, so not only private colleges are playing shade games

I got laid off 5 weeks ago ( no renewal of contract).. after 7 years working for that NFP.. I applied for snap and unemployment… while applying for jobs( social worker field)… first, they ask for so many documents… including my bank account….( again I was laid off .. not fired nor left my job, nor finding reasons not to work all those years ), department of labor had a mandated zoom meeting to discuss what I needed to do 4 weeks after I was laid off( like i don’t know)… I ve been working for years and paying taxes… a lot of them in NYC, I was also told that I have to show what I am doing to search for work and eventually should take a job( even if the salary is low..ridiculous)… I was also informed that I may get a call from investigator from DOL..they may call individuals receiving unemployment benefits($441 a week after taxes?)… to verified that I was searching and applying for jobs( even though I enter my activities related to work weekly on their website…..)….. meanwhile… people with 0 legal documentation are entering the US and living here, free snap, free housing, free health insurance!!!! Lala land!!!! Can’t wait for this non sense to stop!!! Every corner of NY , you see families begging for money. Food…I feel bad as a human being, but refuse to help or I ll be joining them too… welfare system needs to change too! The politics NEED to change!!!All the best !

What a ridiculous question with a very smart and clear reply.

Gee idk, maybe it's because immigration has spiked by 400% in the last 5 years and it's gotten so unregulated that we now have convicted terrorists slipping through the cracks? Our problem isn't with immigration itself, it's concerning the fact that literally ANYONE can enter the country now. It's beyond ridiculous

The gov has received so much money from new immigrants, but failed to spend it properly . The PM just know how to show off himself and spent our tax money on ridiculous area.

I like how words are increasingly being replaced. Migrants = illegal immigrants. Unhoused = homeless.\nIt's getting ridiculous

Shame on people voting for Kamala, just wanting the same crises to continue. War, illegal immigration, inflation, recession, drug epidemic, high crime, homelessness, disgusting cities, lack of resources, incompetent DEI leadership, censorship, fake climate agenda for blatant financial gain, regression of women’s rights through men invading women’s spaces, ridiculous energy costs, sending jobs overseas etc etc. All for what?? Abortion?? Identity politics?? Wtf are you people doing voting for the destruction of our country?!

Family immigrated there in 85. Back then my parents needed to prove and bring certain assets as part of the requirements. \n\nNow it seems they don’t really care, just come in with nothing, and the first thing to figure out is how to get the gov to pay out to sustain.\n\nHow this change came about… got no idea. \n\nAnd when looking at it culturally, that has changed as well. Being Chinese, we brought along our traditions. Those were celebrated and introduced to other Canadians, and it was a joyous thing. That being said, Canadian culture should come first and foremost. That should be understood. You are living underneath someone else’s roof, you should learn their culture and accept it. If not, why are you there.\n\nNowadays, it feels like it is a right to alter, and place your original culture above that of Canada’s. That’s just weird. Why did you move there in the first place if you can’t accept and get along with everyone else there.\n\nI decided to move back to Hong Kong because I didn’t like it, and for people that feel the same, get out of there. People that want to stay in Canada should be contributing, and live like a Canadian.\n\nProud to be Canadian, but it feels different now. Only hear crimes and homelessness, drugs… gun violence. How things have changed in these past 25 years or so.\n\nI do hope the gov wakes up. But yeah, not betting on it. Wish my fellow Canadians the best of luck. It’s a pity that groups fighting for this issue is being called racist. Utterly ridiculous… the power of the western media. ?

Family immigrated there in 85. Back then my parents needed to prove and bring certain assets as part of the requirements. \n\nNow it seems they don’t really care, just come in with nothing, and the first thing to figure out is how to get the gov to pay out to sustain.\n\nHow this change came about… got no idea. \n\nAnd when looking at it culturally, that has changed as well. Being Chinese, we brought along our traditions. Those were celebrated and introduced to other Canadians, and it was a joyous thing. That being said, Canadian culture should come first and foremost. That should be understood. You are living underneath someone else’s roof, you should learn their culture and accept it. If not, why are you there.\n\nNowadays, it feels like it is a right to alter, and place your original culture above that of Canada’s. That’s just weird. Why did you move there in the first place if you can’t accept and get along with everyone else there.\n\nI decided to move back to Hong Kong because I didn’t like it, and for people that feel the same, get out of there. People that want to stay in Canada should be contributing, and live like a Canadian.\n\nProud to be Canadian, but it feels different now. Only hear crimes and homelessness, drugs… gun violence. How things have changed in these past 25 years or so.\n\nI do hope the gov wakes up. But yeah, not betting on it. Wish my fellow Canadians the best of luck. It’s a pity that groups fighting for this issue is being called racist. Utterly ridiculous… the power of the western media. ?

What country allows free open borders! We can’t afford all the people. this is ridiculous! Ruining The Big Apple! Ugh!!

I agree with the anti immigration. They should have made more robots rather than trying to replace Canadian workers. These people don't even have to speak English, but we apparently have to learn Punjabi or something else to get normal jobs. This is ridiculous, especially with the minor fringe french minority trying to force french language on people for the remaining jobs. This country is Canadian, which means we speak ENGLISH.

People are upset because we're being forced to accept these ridiculous immigration policies. Also the increase in crime.

Teenagers can’t even get a fast food job anymore cause there are whole families of immigrants taking over everything. Not one subway, Burger King or McDonald’s has any youth anymore here, in Sudbury ON anyway. It’s pretty ridiculous.

This is the our current so called admissions fault, they started letting them flood in and now the closer we get to election time, they are just now allowing TX to try and stop it now that it has gotten so out of hand. This is sad and ridiculous. Joe and Kamala need to be held accountable.

This is ridiculous!!! Who are we now? Why are we allowing this to happen? America needs wake up!

Rupinderpal Singh, give me a break. The audacity. Just because the government here cares about its people does not mean yu get to come in and exploit. In India the government would not give 2 shits about a protest like this. Just because these guys know the Canadian government gives them a platform, they exploit it. That is ridiculous.

It is so ridiculous that they say on the video that Mexican citizens have a better chance to get across the border from Canada when the US pushed Canada to ask Mexican citizens for a Visa and Canada obeyed right immediately. All those peopele are coming from other countries.

About time politicians on both side of border stopped the maddness. Start implementing 24 hour deportation hearings to prevent this ridiculous situation

Tell me it's not an invasion..... Ridiculous.

Thanks to those far left ridiculous immigration policies.

This is ridiculous. These people are breaking immigration laws and they are posing risk to citizens

And taxpayers end up paying for the cost of their living. I can’t wait until I leave United States. This is getting ridiculous.

This is ridiculous. We don’t even know who’s coming over scary af

You Canadian journalists are bastardizing the word “immigrant” which means a person that moves to live and work legally and PERMANENTLY in a foreign country. The term “temporary immigrant” is a ridiculous use of words put together which is antithetical and diametrically opposed in meaning, much like saying “pretty ugly”. ALL IMMIGRANTS ARE PERMANENT SETTLERS. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TEMPORARY” IMMIGRANT! They are called NON-IMMIGRANTS OR TEMPORARY RESIDENTS.

This is ridiculous but it will stop lefty leaders sure as there's a God and a Hell

Same thing happens the other way... Canadians are not the problem. The ridiculous laws are the problem.

No, the Russian part, is the incredulous ridiculous.

We are being taxed for working, taxes for spending, taxed for saving, taxed for dying. We shouldnt have to support this. Ridiculous

This is ridiculous

The sanction cities need to get in on the $$ train. Charge each illegal a HUGE entry processing fee . It will help cover the ridiculous amount of $$ the NYC tax payers are shelling out. WTF have we done to this city ?

Anyone involved in this is guilty period! Right is right and wrong is wrong! Ridiculous. Fight evil!

I believe the U.S. signed an agreement with NATO to accept immigration from countries around the world....that would be Biden and current administration. All NATO nations are getting swamped with migrants - it's a ridiculous mess that won't be fixed anytime soon.

This is ridiculous

This series has been the gift that keeps on giving, one of the most Democrat ran States having to deal with its own ridiculous policy of unchecked illegal immigration, this is Hannibal at the gates and something will give sooner or later (hopefully for the better)

It's not even just in Brampton even 1 to 2 hours away immigrant and international students take all customer service jobs to the point that Canadians can barely get hired into these roles because we have expectations and rights that we worked for and I've seen these immigrants willing to work for less than legal minimum wage and they do not stand up for themselves or work towards having any shared rights. In addition many politicians on both sides of the aisle are rental landlords so only stand to profit from low rental vacancies and cramming as many people into a small space as possible. They've also cut funding to a lot of post-secondary institutions who rely on inflating tuition cost for international students. At my current role on a team of 15 people plus one manager there are only three white people, born and raised Canadians. The rest are all Indians including the manager and will frequently talk amongst themselves loudly in Punjabi while we're trying to serve customers in the English language. That's actually against policy but Canadians are so outnumbered by immigrants and specifically Indians in this place that it never gets enforced properly. I've never been anti-immigration but it's gotten so bad in Canada especially in places like Ontario that I'm now against it and will tell anyone regardless of their skin color to avoid immigrating here. I've been on a wait list for a doctor for over 11 years, I know people who have died from cancer due to delayed referrals due to long wait list for additional screening, it's insane and absolutely ridiculous especially considering the amount of taxes I currently pay and have paid my entire life as a born and raised Canadian.\n\nAlso it's absolutely true every single one is either taking or has taken post-secondary studies in business admin or management. We don't need more people in these fields we need Healthcare sector workers and not a single one that I've spoken with which again is quite a few studied anything related to medicine Healthcare nursing... not one.

If you vote blue and live in NYC you have zero justification to complain. You voted for this, live it love it and inhale Democrat policies for awhile. Hopefully you wake up before everywhere is like this. Ridiculous.

So a legal resident that's on Social security, most of the time supporting a family, has to live and pay rent on less than $1000 a month but an illegal family gets rent bills food clothes and $1400? Sounds legit, this is the stupidest shit I've ever seen. What is going to happen to our country? We're gonna end up like the countries they're fleeing. This is ridiculous wake up! VOTE Get these yahoos out of office that are destroying our lives and our childrens futures!!!! Im so scared for our childrens futures.

And people wonder why we no longer want to live in NY between this and the stores being robbed every 30 seconds its ridiculous

It won't stop until there is a change in government - Biden can stop it and he said he was going to only allow 5,000 per month - just the thought of that is so ridiculous - that's their solution

Poverty in a different country is not a legit reason to come here illegally. There are 2.5billion like that, sso should they all come to NYC? This is ridiculous! Stop them at rhe border, use firearms if necessary. It worked in other places.

As a Canadian, we have been so upset with the present government for the past 9 years and this is one of the reasons.... totally woke atmosphere and it doesn't get any better. As Canadians we can see how ridiculous this is and how detrimental it is to your border. We are siding with you! We have one more year of this government's agenda, and we can't wait to see a change!

Utter insanity, yes I feel for the less fortunate regardless from where they come from but to surrender your own country, destroying your own standard of living is ridiculous. Multiculturalism seems a big lie and focusing on our differences as those with a voice seem determined to continue is sure to end horribly

No. If I go to school in another country, I don't get to stay there just because I really, really want to. That's not how it works *anywhere*. If it did, I'd sign up for some flimsy little school course in Mexico and make myself at home there forever. \nWhy would anybody think they should be able to stay? Why should the government be considering it? It's ridiculous.

Well said. Somebody like you needs to come forward and speak up. If these students are not eligible and not meeting the required criteria to get PR then they have to go back. This is ridiculous they are protesting and forcing government to achieve what they want?