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posted at 11:00 pm on September 19, 2007 by Allahpundit
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“I want to say thanks and to Canadians ‘thanks.’”
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And yet the price of my lettuce remains unchanged…
see-dubya on September 19, 2007 at 11:53 PM
How soon will we see the Tom Tancredo Pedestrian Bridge linking Matamoros and Windsor?
billy on September 19, 2007 at 11:56 PM
Well there go my plans for moving to Vancouver, BC if the U.S. became to much like Mexico.
MB4 on September 19, 2007 at 11:59 PM
Our refuge system is a messed up…
even deserters get a hearing, feh!
Canadian Imperialist Running Dog on September 20, 2007 at 12:00 AM
Canadians are such soft hearted suckers.
Maybe we can build an illegal alien super highway from the Mexican border right up to Canada.
Boy, how would Tancredo feel about that idea?
Drew on September 20, 2007 at 12:02 AM
STOP THE PRESSES!!!
Nonfactor on September 20, 2007 at 12:05 AM
The journey of 1,000 miles begins with one step.
Across the northern border.
Allahpundit on September 20, 2007 at 12:06 AM
OK, so now we are the bad guys for enforcing our laws. The question is are these guys refugees of America or Mexico? They say they can’t go back to Mexico, but they don’t want to come to America because we will send them to Mexico if we catch them.
This is all you have to do to solve the 12 million already here. If you enforce the law, you won’t have to ’round them up’, they’ll leave for the most part.
I hope their health care system is ready up there in Canada ( I know they aren’t).
ThackerAgency on September 20, 2007 at 12:08 AM
If 180 illegals constitutes a urgent crisis in Windsor what will they think when 12 to 20 million stream across their border asking for handouts or taking Canadian jobs.
Buzzy on September 20, 2007 at 12:08 AM
See what gaming the system gets you ? Bob and Doug were unavailable for comment.
bbz123 on September 20, 2007 at 12:10 AM
Good, now stay up there and suck their system dry.
dawgsleadtheway on September 20, 2007 at 12:11 AM
Just like here in the USA, when the social system in Canada collapses, you will here repeated Canadian calls for “secure the border.”
When Canadian Emergency Rooms are filled to over-capacity due to illegals seeking minor, non-urgent, outpatient health care, the Canadian calls for “securing the border” will be heard.
When schools become over-crowded, when home prices plummet in value due to 3 families living in single family homes, and when crime increases, then the Canadians will tighten the border again.
It is just a matter of time.
ColtsFan on September 20, 2007 at 12:13 AM
I should have done preview first.
I meant to say,
“Just like here in the USA, when the social system in Canada financially collapses, you will HEAR repeated calls for “secure the border.”
ColtsFan on September 20, 2007 at 12:14 AM
Well, it’s a start.
Buford on September 20, 2007 at 12:17 AM
Its okay Coltsfan, we knew what you meant :D
dawgsleadtheway on September 20, 2007 at 12:17 AM
5 down, 11,999,995 to go.
dawgsleadtheway on September 20, 2007 at 12:18 AM
¡Viva Canada!
Mojave Mark on September 20, 2007 at 12:21 AM
Camioneros del camino del hielo?
infidel4life on September 20, 2007 at 12:21 AM
I’m sure it’s more like 20-25+ million to go.
FireFly on September 20, 2007 at 12:24 AM
Heh. And nonfactor is nonplussed. Huh. Can’t wait to hear the moaning and wailing from Ontario when we crank them up to 1,000 unskilled Mexican surprise immigrants.
But not to worry, when we get them their first 1,000,000, they should have the immigrant processing systems running like clockwork. The next 10,000,000 will be much easier…
Jaibones on September 20, 2007 at 12:30 AM
I didn’t read the whole story, but isn’t this a Carlos Mencia joke? Maybe it was someone else, but they essentially said that the solution would be to let them all come here.. because they’re trying to get away from Mexicans.. if we let all the Mexicans come here, they’ll keep going north to get away from themselves.
RightWinged on September 20, 2007 at 12:30 AM
Bank accounts they can’t access? Excellent. We start doing that regularly and we really won’t have to round anyone up.
kate q on September 20, 2007 at 12:31 AM
While seeing how Calgary (pop 1,019,942) did not have enough neonatal beds (nor did the whole nation for that matter), and had to send a expectant mother of quintuplets to Great Falls MT (pop 56,690) to give birth.
Source
I expect a one way fence will be built on the northern border pretty quick.
F15Mech on September 20, 2007 at 12:41 AM
Canada’s population is about 33 million. They would double their size instantly.
Egfrow on September 20, 2007 at 12:56 AM
Camioneros del camino del hielo?
infidel4life on September 20, 2007 at 12:21 AM
Si no escurr el camino antes de que consigan alli.
MB4 on September 20, 2007 at 12:59 AM
Good riddance. Gud bye.
Mcguyver on September 20, 2007 at 1:00 AM
Emigrating to Canada…yet another job Americans won’t do.
ronsfi on September 20, 2007 at 1:00 AM
You’re up late tonight. Don’t bigots have day jobs?
scooter on September 20, 2007 at 1:04 AM
Wait till winter.
Canada may be Viva la Loco now, but a lot of Canadians winter in Cancun.
Dress warm! Oh, health care is FREE!
Kini on September 20, 2007 at 1:07 AM
Sorry to feed the troll but wow.
Right back at you.
F15Mech on September 20, 2007 at 1:11 AM
Scoot it!
Mcguyver on September 20, 2007 at 1:18 AM
Isn’t this why they are building the NAU highway? To more easily migrate from Mexico to Canada?
bnelson44 on September 20, 2007 at 1:20 AM
HAHA!!
They aren’t goping to stop either. They are going to become such a nuisance Canada is going to bar them. Their enormous influx, and fecundity is really going to heat the healthcare debate. This should be fun.
Theworldisnotenough on September 20, 2007 at 1:51 AM
HAH!
Theworldisnotenough on September 20, 2007 at 1:53 AM
They’re stealing our illegal Mexicans! Quick, we need more generous social services to win them back!
frankj on September 20, 2007 at 2:11 AM
Anywhere but Mexico, I guess.
And to think, it’s such a land paradise in Central and South America, rich in resources of all kinds … and these people will run to the north pole just so not to have to return to their own country.
How utterly pathetic.
progressoverpeace on September 20, 2007 at 2:12 AM
It is obvious to me that he was doing two jobs that American clitizens wouldn’t do. No American would want to rent a house in Naples, Fl.(large enough for a wife and three kids and where the rent isn’t cheap) and buy a van. How dare America chase away this fine upstanding criminal, and force an American citizen to get a job(s) that will allow him to house his family and provide transportation.
I agree with Allah.
Helloyawl on September 20, 2007 at 2:13 AM
scooter
well, name calling like that’s gonna get you banned REALLY fast. I saw a guy get banned after his very first comment because it was a derogatory reference toward MM. Good luck hanging around here for long….
j_ehman on September 20, 2007 at 2:15 AM
200,000 more illegals head into Canada and I predict that Quebec secedes within 2 years. Then we’ll really get to see what the political systems of North America are made out of.
progressoverpeace on September 20, 2007 at 2:17 AM
Thank goodness Canadians are so polite.
I like Drew’s idea: let’s build a superhighway from Mexico to Canada, with no off-ramps.
Splashman on September 20, 2007 at 2:21 AM
Got Gold?
“Saudi Arabia has refused to cut interest rates in lockstep with the US Federal Reserve for the first time, signalling that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom is preparing to break the dollar currency peg in a move that risks setting off a stampede out of the dollar across the Middle East.
China threatens ‘nuclear option’ of dollar sales.
Fears of dollar collapse as Saudis take fright.
Ben Bernanke has placed the dollar in a dangerous situation, say analysts
“This is a very dangerous situation for the dollar,” said Hans Redeker, currency chief at BNP Paribas.”
MB4 on September 20, 2007 at 2:40 AM
We’re the night shift…
allie on September 20, 2007 at 2:43 AM
allie on September 20, 2007 at 2:43 AM
Good one!
But do we get any kind of differential pay?
We should.
MB4 on September 20, 2007 at 2:46 AM
[progressoverpeace on September 20, 2007 at 2:17 AM]
Canada.com is pushing the story ’cause it’s a slam on the US. Once they find these are alerting Canadians they’ll, they’ll start to neutralize the stories. When the numbers hit the 100,000 the stories be a happy and sanitized “guess the nationality”.
By 150,000 they’ll be burying the stories. Before it hits 200,000 the counting will have stopped, the stats blurred, and the pols will hedge and ignore until Canadians wake up one day with 6 or 8 million, just like happened here.
Quebec will secede but I’ll lay two to one odds the official language won’t be French.
Dusty on September 20, 2007 at 3:09 AM
dose this mean Canada is now part of Mexico ???
Mojack420 on September 20, 2007 at 3:47 AM
180 down 19,999,820 to go
trailortrash on September 20, 2007 at 5:55 AM
Wherever there are Mexicans…, that’s Mexico. Right…?
Rugged Individual on September 20, 2007 at 5:57 AM
Doesn’t these people being refugees imply that both Mexico and Florida are horribly oppressive states which abuse human rights on the level of Cuba or Iran?
I’m glad to an American, but if I were Mexican I don’t think I could honestly argue that the Mexican is as evil to its people as the world’s truly evil dictatorships.
thuja on September 20, 2007 at 6:21 AM
Oh the Mexicans. Why are we so hostile? Because there are WAY TOO MANY. Compared to folks from so many other places around the world.
What really is at the heart of it? It is that 20 million is an ARMY. Enough to make any social, economic change they wish in Mexico – if they would only try. But hey don’t.
Viva la revolution! When was the last time you heard of a protest March in Mexico?
Agrippa2k on September 20, 2007 at 6:36 AM
How about a bullet train from our South border non-stop to Canada? Won’t need the fence. Now they can do the jobs Canadians won’t do – eh!
Do they have ANY idea what a real WINTER is like ??!!!!
This is going to get amusing !
MUI FRIO !!!
stenwin77 on September 20, 2007 at 7:01 AM
Hasta la vista EH!
Adios Hoseheads!
TheSitRep on September 20, 2007 at 7:03 AM
Thanks for dumping 4 or 5 more poppers out on my healthcare system before taking off. It did wonders for our healthcare billing departments. And the jobs you had, could have put a good Amer. kid to work, yet your drug cartel friends made sure that you drug them up and make the women your druged up horrors before leaving town.. Don’t think anyone is watching yet,,,WE ARE. that’s why your leaving…the French are going to love you up there..
Legions on September 20, 2007 at 7:04 AM
So, if America wont take them back, and they have to have a valid claim for asylum, what will Canada do with them? Deport them to the north pole? What then? Santa’s elves aren’t going to give up their jobs. I figure Santa will deport them to Russia, Russia will deport them southward. And so on and so forth until they get to Antarctica and the Penguins deport them to Argentina. Eventually the will end up back in Mexico where they belong.
This is obviously just a vast Mexican conspiracy to travel the world without spending a dime on transportation, food, or lodging. Cleaver bastards!
csdeven on September 20, 2007 at 7:32 AM
In order to survive from one generation to the next, parasites have a series of distinct developmental stages and hosts collectively known as a life cycle. Life cycles range from a simple, single host that is home to the larval and adult stages of a parasite, to the more complex life cycles requiring one host for the developmental stage of the parasite and a second host for the adult stage.
coldshot on September 20, 2007 at 7:33 AM
Stories like this just warm my heart. It blows away the old “but we can’t deport all 12 million.” All we have to do is start, and the others will leave of their own accord.
Unfortunately, then I read stories like this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/19/AR2007091900047.html
BeachBaby on September 20, 2007 at 7:40 AM
Can you imagine that nightmare? The Canadians wont take them in and we want them out. The quintessential Mexican stand off.
csdeven on September 20, 2007 at 7:42 AM
From another article:
Jerusalem Haitian center is making a buck sending illegals to Canada.
Well, I think I will emigrate to …. the lunar surface.
jihadwatcher on September 20, 2007 at 7:55 AM
Quebec was paying for people, from anywhere that could speak French, to move there and was paying something like $10K if they were willing stay. The U.S. needs to hand out pamphlets on conversational French and pass them through.
When I can stop pressing “1″ for English, it will be a good day.
Hening on September 20, 2007 at 8:09 AM
Waaaaah, boo hoo hoo!
What the hell is wrong with these people? You have a chance, you have your own country, fight to change it instead of running away.
Why do they wave the Mexican flag, that’s a bunch of BS, they have no national pride. I’m thoroughly disgusted now. We don’t need tens of millions of whiny cowards.
reaganaut on September 20, 2007 at 8:27 AM
Hasta la bye bye.
Congress should pass a provision to give free gas to all of the border jumpers that want to immigrate to Canada. Let’s see how well Canada’s health care takes care of this group of people. Are they (Canada) in for a suprise.
right2bright on September 20, 2007 at 8:58 AM
Don’t you wonder how many of them maxed out their Bank of America credit cards before leaving the US?
Ernest on September 20, 2007 at 9:04 AM
Off topic but this looks like a good headline Allah
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22439156-5012895,00.html
Darth Executor on September 20, 2007 at 9:12 AM
Dammit, wrong topic.
Darth Executor on September 20, 2007 at 9:13 AM
Don’t you people see what’s happening? It’s Global Warming! They’ve made Mexico uninhabitable and the U.S. south is heating up and Canada is going to have all of the usable farmland, and the migrants are all going there.
There will be nothing left here!
Jaibones on September 20, 2007 at 9:22 AM
Obviously you haven’t seen one of our emergency rooms. The average wait time is about 4-5 hours unless you happen to come in from an ambulance, then you’ll be lucky to spend 2 hours waiting (assuming you survive).
Canadian Imperialist Running Dog on September 20, 2007 at 9:26 AM
Gee, sounds just like the American Dream- IF THESE PEOPLE WEREN’T &^*%98 ILLEGALS!
Shame on us for not enforcing our laws in the past but that doesn’t make us the bad guys when we begin cracking down on illegals now. I note with interest that Florida’s illegals are rushing north when the SOUTHERN border (and home countries) are much closer.
highhopes on September 20, 2007 at 9:30 AM
See? The highway running from Mexico to Canada may not be such a bad idea afterall. We’ll just let the smugglers shoot right on into Canada.
jediwebdude on September 20, 2007 at 9:37 AM
Bump.
Lawrence on September 20, 2007 at 9:41 AM
Exactly. We might actually get an ally when they’re forced to walk in our shoes for even a moment.
Esthier on September 20, 2007 at 9:48 AM
It’s all warm and fuzzy until they over-run your hospitals, drain your infrastructure, buckle your education resources, tap out your social services, break your law enforcement resources, accept 1/3 of the going rate to perform your job, multiply and change the demographics to the point where your neighborhood is unrecognizable, your local culture is ursurped, your property values decrease, gangs pop-up, low riders zip around, and washing machines are thrown out on the front lawn remaining there for years.
Enjoy the generous welcome while you can, Jose, it will be short lived, I can assure you that. Canadians may be nutty, but they aren’t stupid, even the cute little seals get their heads bashed in because they deplete the fishing industry resources.
Alden Pyle on September 20, 2007 at 10:00 AM
I didn’t read the whole story, but isn’t this a Carlos Mencia joke?
RightWinged,
That’s absolutely impossible. Carlos Mencia doesn’t actually write jokes, he just steals them.
Krydor on September 20, 2007 at 10:01 AM
That’s because he took work away from people like my husband, you bastard.
Miss_Anthrope on September 20, 2007 at 10:58 AM
Jobs ain’t pork chops
Ochlan on September 20, 2007 at 11:02 AM
Maybe I’m obtuse, but what do you mean by this?
Miss_Anthrope on September 20, 2007 at 11:33 AM
Just an FYI, this did happen to my husband. He was unemployed almost 2 years because of sh*t like this, which is why I made that statement.
Would rather not get into details about it, because it’s just too painful, but let’s just say it was pretty clear that even being incredibly reasonable about pay despite his phenomenal talent didn’t make it easier for him.
Miss_Anthrope on September 20, 2007 at 11:39 AM
From the article:
It used to be that America was where people like that came. I guess we don’t want people like that anymore. We’re too good for them or something. Now we want to turn the country into an exclusive gated community. If you want to realize your dreams, go to Canada … America is closed.
Personally, I think it’s sad.
crosspatch on September 20, 2007 at 12:14 PM
Good point, but I bet they’re surprised to see how happy Americans are that this is happening.
No doubt, Dusty. It will look like the British press’ coverage of their muslim problems, “Mohammed Islami, Yussuf Jihadi, and Osama Mohammed were all arrested … No connection between the perpetrators was readily apparent …”.
They will try to hide the flow, but the Quebecois will react violently to the imposition of Spanish and the rest of Canada will notice the increasing sluggishness of public programs.
In the end, such a population movement would almost surely be enough to tip Quebec solidly into the separation camp, and I don’t think that bodes well for our Union, here. Quebec is a little too close (and Canada is considered too much to be like the US) and its separation would spark secessionist feelings in the US, from Vermont to Utah to the Southwest, that has rapidly increasing populations whose allegiances lie with Mexico and not the US.
This whole illegal movement is the most destabilizing force that we have seen since the Civil War. Very, very dangerous.
progressoverpeace on September 20, 2007 at 12:24 PM
I think it’s sad that you just said that.
America is still a place for hardworking people to come, but guess what, they have to do it legally or, you’re right, we’re NOT interested. I don’t really think expecting people not to break our laws makes us an “exclusive gated community.”
hollygolightly on September 20, 2007 at 12:25 PM
Sorry for your troubles Miss_A.
I wasn’t really addressing the whole “illegal alien” issue, as it’s been beaten to death and I don’t think we’re going to unearth any surprising revelations anytime soon.
I was just making a flip comment on the whole “taking jobs” attitude of many people (I wasn’t needling you personally). Like a job is a pork chop that someone took from your husband, like it ‘belonged’ to him…jobs are employers’ to award, and if you get undercut, c’est la vie.
S’all
Ochlan on September 20, 2007 at 12:30 PM
It’s called “National Sovereignty” and those gates are called “Borders”.
Yes, go to Canada. They’re nicer.
From your comments, I don’t believe that you think, at all.
progressoverpeace on September 20, 2007 at 12:32 PM
If we can’t build a fence to keep them out of America, Let’s construct a path that leads directly into Canada.
ackrite55 on September 20, 2007 at 1:06 PM
I do want to point out that, while I’m definitely for enforcing our borders rigorously and finding ways to deport illegals (preferably by mainly promoting “self-deportation”), the sad thing is that this first wave is likely going to be mainly the good, (post-illegal-migration)law-abiding of the bunch. The ones with something to lose…these are likely the ‘hard working’ people that ‘they’ are constantly referring to.
The gang members, thugs and leeches won’t likely run for the borders quite so quickly. Since we’re unlikely to completely eliminate all illegal immigrants (and possibly not even most), I do fear that we’re most likely going to wind up with only the worst of the lot.
I guess I’m mostly encouraged by this report…but I don’t think I can really be “happy” about it.
No solutions, just a lament.
pjaromin on September 20, 2007 at 1:11 PM
If Mexico would just let a few million of us immigrate, buy land and business, and run for office, we could fix this mess. That country should be rich, with all of its resources and yes, hard-working, decent people.
NellE on September 20, 2007 at 1:11 PM
I gotcha…and usually I agree ’cause I’m flexible about adding skills to get/remain employed, but seeing what he endured makes it tough to maintain that perspective. He’s such a hard worker & so talented, and so reasonable about salary that ‘normal’ competition never worried us, but this was just too much.
No problems, though, you know that…even when we disagree. I just didn’t get what you meant, for some reason. A li’l stoopid today. ;)
Besides, he just got a job, and it’s because you have to be a citizen to work for the company! Go figure, eh?
Miss_Anthrope on September 20, 2007 at 1:40 PM
Serendipitous indeed Miss_A! Congrats to your husband :-)
Ochlan on September 20, 2007 at 3:18 PM
Excellent point of view..
Legions on September 20, 2007 at 4:25 PM
They’ll be back. Just wait until they figure out that they not only have to learn English now, but French as well.
CyberCipher on September 20, 2007 at 6:06 PM
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