There are problems with our immigration policy yes.
However saying there are problems with our immigration policies and then in the next breath inferring immigrants are criminals based on subjective anecdotal observations is illogical.
Whether immigrants commit crimes is determine by using proper objective methodology. If anything research and statistics has not shown imigrants are necessarily criminals or more likely to be criminals and I would invite Sir John to provide the research where it shows this.
I would suggest there is a reason his posts on immigrants always return to his subjective anecdotal observations and no hard proof.
He would also dismiss articles like this:
https://crdcn.org/immigrants-and-crime-evidence-canadahttps://www.immigroup.com/news/does-immigration-cause-more-crimehttps://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/79009/3/Jung_Seyun_Maria_201706_PhD_thesis.pdfMy comment is that immigration policy should be based on:
1-bringing in to Canada needed skilled workers
2-bringing in to Canada needed skilled trades people
3-bring in to Canada legitimate foreign investors and businesses that would expand operations into Canada hiring Canadians and contributing
to our economy.
Believe it or not our immigration policy tries to do the above. Its not perfect, its cumbersome, people try take advantage of it and misrepresent themselves to get in via 1-3 but its there and tries to do the above with an expedited entry process if the applicant meets the entitlement criteria.
Where we have problems is not with legitimate immigrants coming in with 1-3 above. They are screened and have to speak English or French if goingt o Quebec., its with:
4-family reunification
5-bogus refugee applications
6-illegal immigrant entry now flooding our borders.
In regards to 4, in particular countries and cultures where arranged marriages are the norm, family reunification has been abused and thousands of prospective brides are finding themselves dumped and on welfare in Canada as people use marriages as a way to get citizenship and then leave their wives.
In regards to 5, the current refugee process is flooded with persons who can not speak English or French and can not qualify for immigration so use the refugee process as a method to circumvent the immigration application process they know they would be rejected from.
In regards to 6 which is closely related to 5, coyotes, or people smugglers working with organized crime, organized terrorist cells, organized paedophole and **** rings use the refugee process and illegal entry as their primary methods to smuggle people in and out of the country being used in sex rings, to transport drugs, weapons, etc.
Our current government and past Liberal governments and Conservative governments have failed to reform the refugee system. We signed onto a UN Refugee Convention agreement that we then incorporated into our federal immigration laws which fails to understand reality. It was drafted by elitist academics from sheltered environments who had no clue what the real world is.
Had we truly been interested in helping refugees we would simply each year go to refugee sites and bring in a certain amount of refugees after setting up private sponsors via churches, mosques, synagogues and non profit organizations. This was what Stephen Harper did and Trudeau decided to take credit for the Syrian refugees Harper brought in. After posing and using these refugees as monkey props handing them winter coats and giggling, trudea was off to another photo shoot. Those refugees he posed with were privately sponsored.
Since then what the Trudeau government has done is allow hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to flood into Canada. In fact Canada signed a convention that said if people came into Canada applying for refugee statys from "designated" nations, they would be deported back to those nations and asked to apply for refugee status in those nations. The United States is one of those nations.
What has happened is Trump has
**** down on illegal immigrants and so they now after living in the US 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 years have packed their bags, and take buses and taxis to the Canadian border where they walk across our border.
The Canadian government has told them, if you enter a legal port of entry, i.e., a border crossing and apply for refugee status, you'll be sent back to the US where you will probably lose your refugee hearing application-but if you come across the border illegally, you CAN apply for refugee status and the designated country rule won't apply.
In the interim while you wait for your hearing we will put you up in a hotel and give you free dental and medical care not to mention prescription medication, education and training benefits-in fact we will treat you better than actual Canadian citizens and far better than Canadian native peoples who Trudeau likes to cry and shed tears over.
Trudeau's Immigration Minister, a Somali refugee, with a direct conflict of interest will make sure anyone coming illegally will get a hearing.
Oh by the way, if your hearing takes too long, you can argue your Charter rights for a speedy hearing were violated. Oh hey now, what with the huge back log that means tens of thousands of you now waiting in hotels automatically can make that argument to get permanent and instant citizenship.
As well while Trudeau and his Immigration Minister allow Canada to be flooded with illegals who then apply for refugee status, the Refugee Board has told its members to follow a decision by Board Member Lois Figg, that says people from Nigeria should mot be considered refugees meaning what exactly?
No one rejected is deported. We don't do that.
As of today we have about 2-8,000 Nigerians coming to Canada each month illegally all from the US. But no worries our RCMP help them climb in off US soil.
There is the problem. We have made it impossible for legitimate refugees to come to Canada. The legitimate refugees live within walking distance of conflict zones in squalid facilities, suffering from tuberculosis, diaheria, typhoid fever, malaria, stomach parasites, e-coli or being
**** by their fellow refugees. Who the hell wants them.
So we have a class of illegals flooding are borders who are neither immigrants or refugees.
They are rewarded for breaking our law by being protected by the Charter the moment they step foot on Canadian soil illegally
So our problem is not with immigrants or for that matter refugees.
Our problem is with a government that is allowing illegal immigration because it will use this to pander to ethnic votes to try get re-elected.
It also allows this current government to say if you question this illegal immigration you are anti immigrant and a racist.
No I am the son of a father whose parents were immigrants and a mother who was a refugee deported simply because she was a Jew and had to get special dispensation from a Senator in the Canadian government to stay as her medical discipline was badly needed in Montreal.
I am a Canadian- a product of immigrants (as are all Canadians) and a refugee (as some are).
I was born in Canada and taught to be bilingual and taught aboriginals were the first Canadians and everyone else came after.
I was taught to respect the British legal system and French culture of Quebec.
I am a boring Canadian.
So when I hear people
**** on genuine immigrants which most Canadians are I say shut up. When I hear people
**** on genuine refugees, I say shut up.
When I see bull
**** liberal guilt elitists apologizing and allowing people to break the law and jump the line ahead of genuine immigrants and refugees I challenge it.
I also challenge Sir John because to me he is no different than Trudeau. He sees all immigrants in one stereotype category.
Trudeau uses it to pander thinking all immigrants blindly support illegal immigration because he Trudeau is a racist bigot. Its why he went to India flipping and flopping in black face mimicking what he thought Indians were. He's just Eddy Cantor singing Mamee in black face.
As for Sir John, I have no time for people who spit on immigrants. Immigrants built this country. We are all immigrants.
The fact that people are taking advantage of loopholes is because our idiot politicians allow those loopholes to pander for ethnic votes.
Stop scapegoating legitimate Canadian immigrants and refugees who build this country and want to build it and do not commit crimes and discuss concrete solutions to get rid of the loopholes such as:
1-deport all illegals now coming in who do not come in at a port of entry back to the US;
2-deport all refugee applications back to designated countries (safe countries they came from before Canada)for refugee hearings
3-deport illegals back to their countries of origin or offer them the option of working as employees of the Canadian government to be placed in specified communities in the North to build roads, houses, infrastructure for aboriginal and other communities.
That is a start.