Canada rejects amnesty for illegals

Posted by Matra on March 29, 2006, 11:48 PM | #

I was on my way to the wine store when I heard on the radio that Portugal’s foreign minister arrives in Canada tomorrow. He’s “concerned” about the recent deportations I referred to at the top. Some of the poor illegals were only given a few days before being deported. The horror! 

I was so angry about this clear challenge to Canadian sovereignty I decided to forgo the Portuguese wine I occasionally buy and instead bought French. I’ve also been boycotting California wine since I read this at Parapundit.

Posted by Desmond Jones on March 30, 2006, 12:29 AM | #

Eglinton is the longest street in the world Matra. It runs from Rome to the Congo to Tel Aviv. ;]

Not that it’s problematic, however, why do you think Monte chose the Portugese? Happenstance? There was talk of a screw up by some immigration lawyer. Pick on the whites first to avoid Volpe screaming KKK? Or hit a group that will produce little consequence and then layoff deportation completely? Will he actually go after Jamaicans, Sikhs or Tamils?

Anonalogue suggests the Cons will employ a more subtle and cunning plan. [It sounds like Baldrick and Black Adder]. Shift immigration to focus on the best and brightest; i.e. scoop up a larger portion of the 200,000 Britons leaving the UK (or 150,000 Germans departing Deutchland) and entice them to Canader. Seems rather transparent though.

A wee bit of trivia. Do you know the origin of the Cdn political term ‘riding’?

Posted by Geoff Beck on March 30, 2006, 01:06 AM | #

Images of the March, via a reconquista web site. Notice the captions.

http://www.mexica-movement.org/granmarcha.htm

Posted by Geoff Beck on March 30, 2006, 01:11 AM | #

Thought John Ray would like this caption, scroll down to the bottom. Seems like the Reconquistas, like John, have picked up on that theme…. well certain types of minds think alike.

THE DEPORTATIONS NOW! First one to go should be this Nazi Rohrabacher! Sensenbrenner, Schwartzenegger, Rohrabacher, funny how they all have Germanic names! .....No, it’s not funny at all!

Posted by Desmond Jones on March 30, 2006, 01:32 AM | #

Well done Fred. Apparently the size of Yorkshire required it to be divided into three parts; thirdings or thridings in the old Norse.

Posted by Matra on March 30, 2006, 01:56 AM | #

Desmond,

I don’t know why it is the Portuguese. Maybe it has something to do with them mostly being in the same industry (ie., construction) and all getting caught together. It could just be a trial run before going after others though that may be too much to hope for. I wouldn’t have thought the Potuguese that easy to take on as there must be hundreds of thousands of them (I’ve known loads of them) and they can’t all be illegal. They have their own TV shows and papers as well so I imagine them to be quite a cohesive group. Although I like the Portuguese I can’t forget the way the community rallied to support a Portuguese hit and run driver (Castro or something like that) who killed a young girl in Toronto about ten years ago then fled to Portugal.

Who’s Anonalogue?

Posted by Desmond Jones on March 30, 2006, 02:01 AM | #

Amazing pics Geoff. I remember Broadway well. I worked at the LA Dept. of Water and Power at W.1st and N.Hope, living at the New Otani on W. 1st and N. Los Angeles (Little Tokyo) for the better part of ‘85. The change even then was amazing from a visit nine years earlier. It was a cardboard box city. The lawn of LA City Hall was covered in cardboard boxes. I started off walking to work but soon realized that a white boy in a blue suit was just lookin’ for trouble.

Southern California is gone, forever.

Posted by Desmond Jones on March 30, 2006, 02:09 AM | #

Sorry Matra, Anonalogue was there but looks like he’s gone. He posted at the Western Standard as well.

Good point about the hit and run.

Posted by Mark Richardson on March 30, 2006, 02:26 AM | #

Fred, the information on the Ford Foundation was very interesting. I hadn’t realised so much money was involved. I imagine that if any organisation was to be funded to the tune of $25 million it would enjoy at least some success.

Posted by Matra on March 30, 2006, 03:00 AM | #

Mexican workers to Canada?

Posted by Geoff Beck on March 30, 2006, 10:05 AM | #

Look at what Bush’s good hearted folks are doing in this set of photos:

(They are large so I didn’t autoload)

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Posted by Geoff Beck on March 30, 2006, 10:20 AM | #

Oh, Fred, Mexicans have family values too. Your words are very hateful. Don’t you respect diversity?

Posted by JB on March 30, 2006, 02:06 PM | #

one illegal portugese is worth a 100 legal jamaicans

Posted by Svyatoslav Igorevich on March 30, 2006, 03:43 PM | #

THIS IS OUR CONTINENT,  NOT YOURS

The fruits of liberal-spawned surrender.

Canada is, of course, renowned for its political correctness - the Conservative minority government is planning to speed up the immigration application processs and to cut the landing fee. But the rejection of an amnesty, the on-going deportations, not to mention the basic respect shown for the law are more than the supposedly hard line right wing US Republicans are likely to manage. Yet US conservatives never tire of making fun of multicultural “socialist” Canuckistan!

I thought the same thing, but now that I know the deportees are Europeans I see that conventional wisdom prevails.

Lol, they’re deporting those nasty white folks!  Viva la Canada!

Posted by Matra on March 30, 2006, 04:25 PM | #

From today’s Globe & Mail newspaper:

In the past year, 190 Portuguese nationals, many of them working in Ontario’s construction industry, have been deported, along with hundreds of undocumented stonemasons, bricklayers and house framers from Mexico, Costa Rica, Argentina and other countries. The Canadian Border Services Agency is on track to remove about 10,000 people this year

This is from an article about a Pakistani paralympian who may be deported. (Here’s the link - it will probably become subscriber only some time this evening). So it’s not just Portuguese, though they seem to be harder hit than others.

Svigor - I like the Portuguese as individuals - one comes and stays with me every few years when he visits Canada on holiday. Taki has called them the nicest people in Europe and he may be right. 

But the Portuguese community in Canada seem to put their own ethnic group interests ahead of all others (imagine that!) and I believe the areas they live in all have Liberal MPs. Given that it’s in the interests of the Liberal Party to destroy traditional English Canada (and for that matter Quebec) through mass immigration why should those of us who live in the dwindling number of areas that are still recognisably Canadian worry about some deported Portuguese? Do the Portuguese worry about English Canadians becoming a minority in their own country? Judging by how they vote the answer to that is no.

More from the Globe & Mail:

The issue has galvanized community groups, opposition politicians, unions and churches, who are calling on Ottawa to issue a temporary moratorium on removals and regularize the status of illegal residents—something the past three Liberal immigration ministers pledged to do. Canada has an estimated 200,000 undocumented migrants.

Immigration Minister Monte Solberg, however, has called the issue “a low priority,” even as he and Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay meet today with Portugal’s Foreign Minister Diogo Freitas do Amaral in Ottawa to discuss the problem.

Mr. Freitas do Amaral condemned the recent expulsion of illegal Portuguese immigrants, saying it lacked humanity. “There has been excessive zeal, excessive hardness and sometimes even a lack of humanity in the way the expulsion of Portuguese immigrants has been carried out,” he told Agence France-Presse in Lisbon, before leaving for Ottawa.

Clearly the Portuguese foreign minister does not respect the right of Canada to enforce its laws.

Posted by Phil Peterson on March 30, 2006, 05:07 PM | #

Geoff and Fred,

I ordered this book from Amazon earlier this week and it arrived in the post today.
I hope the book is good - sound, well reasoned and well backed upo by sources. If the book does a good job of dealing with this clan, I’ll post a review as time permits.

The Amazon review says:

Paraphrasing a passage from Machiavelli’s The Prince, Kevin Phillips writes, “a ruler can ignore the mob and devote himself to the interests of the ruling class, gulling the inert majority who constitute the ruled.” He then says, “Borgia references aside, 21st-century American readers of The Prince may feel that they have stumbled on a thinly disguised Bush White House political memo.” These pointed words would sting regardless of who uttered them, but coming from Phillips, a former Republican strategist, they have an added piquancy. In American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush, Phillips traces the rise of the Bush family from investment banking elites to political power brokers, using their Ivy League network, vast wealth, and questionable political maneuvering to obtain the White House and consequently, shake the foundation of constitutional American democracy. Citing the Bush family mainstays of finance, energy (oil), the military industrial complex, and national security and intelligence (the CIA), Phillips uses copious examples to show the dangerous alliance between the Bushes’ business interests (huge corporations such as Enron and Haliburton) and the formation of national policy. No other family, Phillips says, that has fulfilled its presidential aspirations has been so involved in the ascendancy of the arms industry and of the 21st-century American imperium—often at the expense of regional and world peace and for their personal gain.

It is hard to tell what offends Phillips the most: the Bushes’ systematic deceit and secrecy, their shady business dealings, their cronyism, or their family philosophy that privileges the very wealthy and utterly dismisses all the rest. It is clearly all of these things combined. But at the top of Phillips’ list is the dynastic nature of their family power, for it is that concentration of power and influence that strikes at the heart of our democracy. Past administrations have transgressed, albeit not so egregiously, and other political families have had dynastic ambitions. But none have succeeded as thoroughly as the Bushes. Jefferson and Madison would be horrified, and according to Phillips, we should be too.—Silvana Tropea—This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

My theory is that Bush’s support of illegal immigration from Mexico has to do with Mexico’s status as a major supplier of oil to the United States. In fact, Bush wants to avoid the Chavez situation arising in Mexico which if it did would create all sorts of problems for US oil supply. Being pro-Mexican immigration means that Bush can expect Fox to create few problems for him as long as he is President.

Bush is gambling that while Americans will detest him for letting the door stay open, they will resent an economic downturn more. He remembers how his father was roasted by the electorate during an election held in a recession year. My gut feeling is that he wants to avoid this during his Presidency at all costs.

That’s my theory. Now I may well be completely wrong. But there aren’t many other cogent explanations available.

Posted by Desmond Jones on March 30, 2006, 05:23 PM | #

Well said Matra.

The para-olympian article bolstered the view, that if you are illegal then you will be deported, period. This is why white nationalism is bullshit. If its Romanians in Italy or Portugese in Canada, and they are illegal they must go.

Posted by Matra on March 30, 2006, 05:26 PM | #

Here’s a shocker: Immigration Bill Draws Jewish Support:

As the Senate struggled this week to hammer out legislation on the contentious issue of immigration reform, Jewish groups were in boardrooms and on the streets advocating for the most liberal approaches to the issue...

Frist’s approach was blasted by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the organization that tends to set policy for the Jewish community. HIAS is part of faith-based coalitions supporting the more liberal approaches to immigration reform proposed by Senator Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican.

In a statement, HIAS criticized Frist’s bill for continuing “the House’s piecemeal and punitive approach with provisions that would negatively affect the lives of legal immigrants, asylum seekers, citizens and business owners.”

It goes on to say:

In recent years, some Jewish groups that were concerned about terrorism have come to stress border enforcement…

Richard Foltin, legislative director and counsel of the American Jewish Committee — a group that often is hawkish on security — said the relatively liberal bill that was passed by the judiciary committee was the right approach. “It strikes the right note in striving for the appropriate balance of enhancing our national security while protecting those who are most vulnerable in our society through earned legalization and increased worker protections,” Foltin said.

Translation: The bill can protect us from Muslim terrorists but at the same time further weaken European Americans. It’s a win-win situation!

But apparently Jews could do better when it comes to supporting illegal aliens. Daniel Sokatch of the Progressive Jewish Alliance:

“When we’re comparing ourselves to the Catholic community, I don’t think we’re good enough right now,” Sokatch said. “The cardinals and the Catholic diocese have taken real moral leadership on this.”

Sokatch goes on to call immigrants’ rights “a profoundly Jewish issue”.

Posted by karlmagnus on March 30, 2006, 05:40 PM | #

Philips is a well known leftist; he hasn’t been a Republican since Reagan was elected.  That’s why the media love him. If you want details on what’s wrong with Bush, try Bruce Bartlett’s “Imposter” which featuresd in my last Bear’s Lair post on this site on 13th March.

Posted by allotmentkeeper on March 30, 2006, 06:48 PM | #

Desmond Jones:

This is why white nationalism is bullshit. If its Romanians in Italy or Portugese in Canada, and they are illegal they must go.

Regarding illegals, that’s as may be - but White Nationalism is nationalism for peoples who happen to be White. Including Romanians, Italians, Portuguese and, I hope, Canadians.

Posted by Ben Tillman on March 30, 2006, 07:33 PM | #

This is why white nationalism is bullshit.

No, it’s not.  WN does not posit that white persons, nations, and cultures are fungible, or that the property of one is the property of all.  Your contention that ejection of white trespassers is incompatible with WN makes about as much sense as a contention that punishment of white murderers is similarly incompatible.

Posted by Desmond Jones on March 30, 2006, 07:56 PM | #

I thought the same thing, but now that I know the deportees are Europeans I see that conventional wisdom prevails.

So that’s your interpretation of the above. What’s the conventional wisdom? You can’t deport illegal Portugese because they are white. Even though their agenda cares little or nothing for the founding people. 

But the Portuguese community in Canada seem to put their own ethnic group interests ahead of all others (imagine that!)

Like the Jews, what’s good for the Portugese is what’s good. If that’s the deal they should stay in Portugal and get the hell out of my country.

Posted by Geoff Beck on March 30, 2006, 10:01 PM | #

Phillip’s book is very good. It is really a history of the Bush family.  The information he brings out is interesting, fascinating… a good read. Recommended. But don’t always agree with his conclusion. Still, the Bush family is a menace.

Posted by Svyatoslav Igorevich on March 31, 2006, 12:54 AM | #

I thought the same thing, but now that I know the deportees are Europeans I see that conventional wisdom prevails.

So that’s your interpretation of the above. What’s the conventional wisdom? You can’t deport illegal Portugese because they are white. Even though their agenda cares little or nothing for the founding people.

But the Portuguese community in Canada seem to put their own ethnic group interests ahead of all others (imagine that!)

Like the Jews, what’s good for the Portugese is what’s good. If that’s the deal they should stay in Portugal and get the hell out of my country.

Gimme a break.  They actually throw out some illegals and they’re white?  I’m not holding my breath waiting for the Jamaicans to be next.

Posted by Desmond Jones on March 31, 2006, 12:57 PM | #

Gimme a break.  They actually throw out some illegals and they’re white?  I’m not holding my breath waiting for the Jamaicans to be next.

Cry me a river! It’s the same damn group, along with the Italians who cried about immigration reform in the 50s bringing an end to white preference.

The sponsorship system was one very popular method of circumventing the difficulties of this[1952 Immigration] Act. Canadian residents sponsored thousands of dependent relatives, many of whom were destined for Toronto, Ontario. Toronto consistently received over 50 per cent of all arriving immigrants. Certain ethnic groups were more likely to sponsor relatives than others. Over 90 per cent of Italians were sponsored relatives, and Italians became the ethnic group with the highest overall rate of sponsored immigration. Among some native-born Canadians a concern arose over the large number of arriving semi-skilled immigrants who they feared would lower the working wage and create ghetto-like slums in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Until 1957 non-white, non-European immigrants composed only about 5 per cent of immigrants.

Good riddance!

Posted by Phil Peterson on March 31, 2006, 04:46 PM | #

Desmond,

I can only be amazed at the irnoy of this situation - a Nordicist jumping for joy at the deportation of white Portugese migrants while hundreds of thousands of Tamils, Sikhs, Pakistanis and Chinese keep sneaking into the country easily.

I would say that your resentments seem to have lost contact with current ground reality.

Posted by Desmond Jones on March 31, 2006, 06:03 PM | #

Phil,

Why should I have sympathy for a group that, for the last 50 years, cared for nothing but their own ethnic interest. A group who for the last 50 years continually voted for a political party that enabled Tamils, Sikhs, Pakistanis and Chinese not only to sneak into the country, but to be accepted legally. Why, because all they cared about was furthering their own interest. An open border and an amnesty not only helps the vismins,  but also the Portuguese.

Integration is limited. They speak their own language, have their own television stations, read their own papers; gather at their own clubs;  in short they are colonizers, like all the others. They do not serve in the military, and the illegals don’t pay taxes but utilise the infrastucture to make a good living.

How are they any different than the others? What advantage does a mass of Portuguese provide to the northern European founders of Canada?

Posted by Phil Peterson on March 31, 2006, 06:14 PM | #

How are they any different than the others? What advantage does a mass of Portuguese provide to the northern European founders of Canada?

They’re not. But that wasn’t my point. The fact that a drive against illegal immigration had to pick on white illegals first says something about Canadian political correctness does it not? 

In any case Desmond, why do we Anglos* all across the globe just want to commit suicide? Our problem is much worse than that of Germany or Italy or Denmark or Norway. Why does the Anglo race want to die out before anyone else - we are doing this in America, Canada, Britain, Australia (where our good friend John can think of nothing other than GDP ratios and crime rates when raising any concerns at all), New Zealand? What is it about us that makes us so much more vulnerable to this sort of suicidal tendency?

The Portugese and the Italians you resent, Desmond, arrived in Canada because the Anglo Canadians let them in. The Sikhs, the Tamils and the Chinese also got in because the Anglo Canadians let them in (I would be willing to wager that the ethnic White vote was negligible in achieving this - the Anglo Liberal vote was the largest voting block in favour of this). And even if one could come up with the Anglo vs French argument in Canada, what explains the insanity you see in America, Britain, Australia?

Can Anglo conservatives see nothing other than “economic growth” and GDP? Is that all that Anglo conservatism is now? It seems to have been that for quite some time. And Im not sure you could explain all of that by only blaming it on the Jews (though they certainly do deserve the blame for a lot of it).

*Im using that to encompass nations populated and colonized by colonists originating from the British Isles.

Posted by Ben Tillman on March 31, 2006, 08:26 PM | #

Why does the Anglo race want to die out before anyone else….

The fact that for 365 years England was officially (if not actually) free of Jews likely has something to do with it.

Posted by Alex Zeka on April 01, 2006, 11:50 AM | #

Ben, nobody remembers that nowadays. Why would anglos suffer collective guilt over something they don’t know about?(Who says dumbing down is all bad? )

Posted by Matra on April 01, 2006, 03:31 PM | #

Phil - The fact that a drive against illegal immigration had to pick on white illegals first says something about Canadian political correctness does it not? 

Possibly, but as I said earlier I think it has more to do with the industry they are in. Given how many illegals are in construction it is the obvious industry to go after as the authorities are more likely to get a lot of illegals in one fell swoop. Mexicans and other Latin Americans have also been deported.

Meanwhile in Calgary there has been a demonstration by Portuguese nationals against the deportations. They don’t demonstrate when other nationals are deported. When a Portuguese hit and run driver killed a young white girl back in the mid-90s members of the Portuguese community formed an organisation to help him. I recall a Toronto Portuguese TV program giving the woman who formed the organisation air time to make her case in English. No doubt there were similar appeals to help the driver in their own language press. Indeed it was curious that a TV program normally in their language (I only had one channel at the time!) had a segment with an ethnic Portuguese in English. I assumed that meant she was Canadian born and raised and couldn’t speak Portuguese yet still there she was making a plea to help a criminal member of her own ethnic group.  Clearly they put their own group interests ahead of Canada’s.

Besides if they’d been given an amnesty they would have got Canadian citizenship and the Liberal Party would’ve have had more votes. I won’t lose any sleep over them.

Posted by Jack on April 02, 2006, 08:46 AM | #

This is thier continent? Well this is our fucking country you maggotty filth. Go back to your third world hell hole and die. You and your failed cultures come to this country to plunder and steal from the hard working taxpayers. You have nothing to offer but ignorance, disease and crime, go the fuck home.

Posted by Phil Peterson on April 02, 2006, 09:13 AM | #

I won’t lose any sleep over them.

Agree.

Posted by Matra on May 08, 2006, 05:04 PM | #

Deportations are continuing but media coverage is increasing and that could mean more sob stories intended to make Canadians ashamed of themselves for enforcing their laws.

The latest case to get media attention is that of an illegal alien Costa Rican family that is to be deported.

Fifteen-year-old Kimberly Lizano-Sossa and her 14-year-old brother, Gerald, were pulled out of North York’s Dante Alighieri Academy on April 27, the same day their mother, 2-year-old Canadian-born sister and grandparents were taken into custody after police were alerted to the family’s illegal status.

The unusual tactic was apparently used by immigration officials to draw their father out of hiding…

“Since I’ve lived here I know that Canada’s a multicultural country and I didn’t know that they could treat us this way,” Lizano-Sossa told CTV Toronto.

“Being a country built by immigrants it’s hard to see that Canada’s been treating people that built this country like this.”

Did you get that? This illegal thinks she and her family are the equivalent of the settlers who built Canada. No doubt this ‘nation of immigrants’ nonsense was drilled into her head at the school she was illegally attending.

Two Liberal MPs, Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener-Waterloo) and Borys Wrzesnewskyj (Etobicoke Centre), have already offered to post the $30,000 bond to keep the family intact at least for now.

I’ve looked up these MPs. Andrew Telegdi was a refugee from Hungary who has taken a special interest in refugee and immigrant rights. His website even has a section entitled “The Inglorious Past” about Canada once being the Commonwealth country with the “worst” record for deporting illegal immigrants. Way to thank Canada for saving you from a life under communism!

Borys Wrzesnewskyj is a third generation Ukrainian-Canadian who also takes a keen interest in immigration issues. He’s also constantly sticking his nose into Ukrainian political affairs and active in Ukrainian-Canadian heritage circles. Another ethnic European who doesn’t seem to care about Canada’s British roots.

“Ripping apart a family is not something Canada should be proud of, no matter what political party you come from,” Toronto New Democrat MP Olivia Chow told the Toronto Star.

Olivia Chow is Chinese, that’s the main reason she got elected in a riding with many other Chinese. She is also the wife of the leader of Canada’s main left wing party, the NDP.

The family came to Canada in 2001 on a visitor visa. They then applied for refugee status, claiming they would be in danger from drug dealers if they were forced to return to their homeland.

Costa Rica is one of the best places to live in the hemisphere. According to Wikipedia:

“Costa Rica is a democratic republic with a strong constitution. It is seen as one of the most stable countries in Latin America. Costa Rica has avoided the violence that has plagued Central America; it is seen as an example of political stability in the region, and is referred to as the “Switzerland of the Americas”.

It also has a strong economy compared to most of Latin America.

So far the Canadian people have shown no interest in the deportations. Only a handful of left wing activists, business, and some ethnic communities such as the Portuguese, are upset. The increasing media coverage is a concern. Hopefully the Conservative minority government (riding high in the polls) will not back down.

Posted by Desmond Jones on May 08, 2006, 06:22 PM | #

Etobicoke-Centre is a slam dunk. Majority Catholic and a vis-min population over 20% has Librano written all over it. However, Kitchenerloo is something of an anomally. A vis-min population of ~13% and majority Protestant appears to make it a riding with great CPC potential.

Interestingly, he quotes Irving Abella, author of None Is Too Many.

“Canada’s record in deporting immigrants was by far the worst in the entire British Commonwealth.”
This blunt indictment was issued by Irving Abella, President of the Canadian Historical Association and Professor of Canadian Jewish History at York University…

The Baptist Anglo-Saxon Frederick Blair is of course the target of his fury,

“He was anti-Semitic, anti-radical, anti-East Indian, anti-Eastern European, and anti-Southern European - a typical churchgoing English-Canadian civil servant, exemplifying much of the worst of Canadian society of the time. [sounds like my kinda guy ] It was Blair who played a major part in refusing entry to and deporting Polish jews around 1920, and who held the line (even in the face of occasional rebellions by his Minister) against European jewish refugees in the late 1930s, even after he began to realize that they were going to be killed in Europe. Blair was perfectly capable of knowingly deporting communists to prisons or worse.”

It is interesting to note that even though the whole world, according to Abella, ‘began to realise that ‘they’ were going to be killed, disproportionately, Canadian Jews did not fight. Many sat out the war as conscripts.

Jack Granatstein writes,

The Second World War representation of other ethnicities in the CF was better than in the Great War, but still below standard. Every ethnic group has carefully massaged data to show that it sent the highest percentage etc, etc; this is all nonsense, in my view, because it includes conscripts and fails to differentiate between combat arms and services: Jews, who might have been expected to be especially concerned with the Second World War, e.g., had a lower percentage than their population share in volunteer enlistments and a higher percentage among conscripts; they also had a lower casualty rate than the norm which suggests a low combat arms representation.

Posted by Matra on May 09, 2006, 01:52 PM | #

The Costa Rican family, mentioned two posts up, will be allowed to stay in Canada until the end of the school year. A deal was reached with the in-hiding father who will turn himself in and be released an a $2000 bond. The mother will be released under a $3000 bond. This keeps the family together until the deportation. The authorities thought deporting either the mother or father would lead to the others leaving Canada voluntarily. Not a bad tactic. I’d like to see them continue that but with the bad publicity involved in this case, particularly pulling the teens out of a classroom, they may in future be more careful how they go about deporting illegal aliens. The family has been ordered to leave by July 2 but they already skipped one deportation flight last February (I wonder who paid for the family’s seats on that missed flight.)

Canada’s largest circulation newspaper, the Toronto Star, will no doubt be keeping an eye on the immigration authorities. Last week they printed a despicable rant entitled “Clampdown on illegals shames Canada” by Shahrzad Mojab and Soheila Pashang. I’m guessing their ancestors weren’t
United Empire Loyalists.

Desmond Jones quoting Jack Granatstein:

Jews, who might have been expected to be especially concerned with the Second World War, e.g., had a lower percentage than their population share in volunteer enlistments and a higher percentage among conscripts; they also had a lower casualty rate than the norm which suggests a low combat arms representation.

That’s not surprising. I suspect it’s the same for the U.S. military in WW2. Kudos to Granatstein for saying it in public.

Posted by Lurker on March 24, 2009, 08:42 AM | #

That’s not surprising. I suspect it’s the same for the U.S. military in WW2. Kudos to Granatstein for saying it in public.

And I wouldnt be surprised to find the same with the British military either.