Juno News - July 18, 2024


Immigration minister tells students to GO BACK HOME


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In a press conference on Monday, Canadian immigration minister Mark Miller said that gang members and others with serious criminal backgrounds have entered the country on student visas. Who knew that was happening? And why are they allowed to enter the country without going through criminal background checks?

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00:00:00.000 It seems we are witnessing a major shift in messaging from Justin Trudeau's Immigration
00:00:10.500 Minister Mark Miller about the whole international student situation. We went from complete open
00:00:15.960 borders in 2023 to an announcement of major cuts in the number of student visas issued at the
00:00:22.600 beginning of 2024 to now Mark Miller telling these students to go back to where they came from.
00:00:29.220 A welcomed shift, I'm sure, to many Canadians who have seen their communities and cities
00:00:34.280 completely change over the past few years due to a mass influx of international students.
00:00:40.460 Now that reporting from Bloomberg came a day after Mark Miller said in a press conference
00:00:45.240 that gang members and others with serious criminal backgrounds have entered this country on student
00:00:52.280 visas. Surprise, surprise. Who knew that was happening? The Canadian government is also
00:00:58.020 deporting migrants at its highest rate in more than a decade, much to the disappointment of open
00:01:02.940 border activists and Toronto Star journalists. It's all very strange because you would think
00:01:08.560 that the rhetoric of telling international students to go back home after receiving an
00:01:13.260 education would be coming from the conservative opposition leader and not the open borders liberal
00:01:19.680 government. What appears to be happening is that the current government slumping in the polls and
00:01:24.480 desperate for any boost of approval are reacting to a major public shift in perception on immigration.
00:01:31.340 Meanwhile, the conservative opposition seems paralyzed in fear of being called racist.
00:01:37.480 Now, before we get into the show today, be sure to drop a like on this video. Help us out by subscribing
00:01:41.640 to the TrueNorth YouTube channel. And the comment question for the episode is this. Why is the
00:01:47.480 immigration minister now telling students to go home? Let me know your answer in the comments section
00:01:53.720 below and let's get into it. We start today with immigration minister Mark Miller on Monday telling
00:02:00.700 Canadians what most of us already knew, that many of the people entering our country as international
00:02:06.520 students aren't exactly young future leaders, the cream of the crop. Some, in fact, happen to be gang members.
00:02:14.500 Well-determined actors, regardless of the country, and particularly sophisticated gangs are often able
00:02:21.580 to get around even the most stringent immigration requirements. And Canada has some of the robust,
00:02:27.580 the most robust requirements in the world when we are checking people, but it's not perfect.
00:02:33.040 There is a multifaceted way that we employ and that our enforcement agencies employ to track people,
00:02:38.820 but regrettably, at times, people do get in and they do commit crimes. So well-determined actors do have an
00:02:46.220 ability, despite best efforts, to get in. As reported by TrueNorth, in a press conference with ethnic media
00:02:52.640 outlets on Monday, Miller was asked how criminals from India can slip through the vetting process and come to
00:02:58.240 Canada. Miller admitted that gang members are coming into the country, implying that it was inevitable when dealing with
00:03:03.800 sophisticated criminal organizations. While Miller did not specifically name India, he said that the
00:03:09.840 Canadian government often admits immigrants from countries whose governments are unreliable, allowing 1.00
00:03:14.580 gang members to slip in with phony police background checks. You might be thinking to yourself at this
00:03:19.840 point that one easy solution to this problem would be to stop taking in so many immigrants from India. 1.00
00:03:25.740 But something just tells me, and I'm not quite sure what it is, that that solution is off the table for this
00:03:31.540 liberal government. Maybe, also, just maybe, the reason why known gang members and other people with
00:03:38.680 criminal backgrounds are able to enter the country on student visas is because international students
00:03:45.280 are not required to go through criminal background checks. Mark Miller, in May, lied about that when
00:03:53.580 asked in a press conference. Generally speaking, if someone were on a student visa, would there be criminal record
00:03:59.560 checks? Yes. There would be? Yeah. And then, how does that process work? You check them, and if they have a
00:04:05.100 criminal record, they don't come in. You know, it seems pretty easy to slip through the criminal background
00:04:09.620 check process if you're not actually being checked. And consider this for a moment. Mark Miller and his
00:04:16.080 predecessor, Sean Fraser, oversaw the expansion of the international student program to, at one point, have over a
00:04:24.200 million active student visas in this country. It appears that many of them were involved in these
00:04:29.900 sham colleges, these diploma mill colleges. And during that time, when nobody, no reporter, was asking
00:04:37.400 questions about the backgrounds of these international students, these bright scholars that we were entering
00:04:43.660 into our country, nobody bothered to inquire about who these people really are, about whether or not they
00:04:49.600 happen to be gang members, whether or not they have long rap sheets. How many of these gang members
00:04:55.220 have we actually allowed into this country? The program has been allowed to continue knowing that
00:05:00.680 this was an issue for years. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people have entered Canada on
00:05:07.460 student visas. And only now, only now is it starting to become an issue. Because when Canadians weren't 0.76
00:05:13.920 aware of just how bad the situation was, they didn't seem to care. They didn't seem to be
00:05:19.260 concerned about any of this. It was easy money for large employers, easy money for colleges. It
00:05:25.900 artificially boosted the GDP. But at what cost? And it was just a day after Mark Miller said in a press
00:05:32.620 conference that gang members and criminals have entered Canada on student visas and slipped through the
00:05:38.700 criminal background checks, which in many cases don't even appear to be happening, that Miller told Bloomberg
00:05:44.460 news that international students, as he says, should perhaps go home and bring those skills back to their 1.00
00:05:53.340 country. Better late than never, I suppose. But still, it's quite late to be telling them this now. Now that
00:05:59.740 they're all protesting in the streets, demanding permanent residency and work permit extensions and are
00:06:05.380 getting increasingly more angry by the day. What a great formula in this country. Potentially dangerous
00:06:12.380 international students who are very angry at the Canadian government, and perhaps the Canadian
00:06:17.580 people. And they are now making demands of this government. What could possibly go wrong? As Miller
00:06:23.500 says in this Bloomberg article, no one was promised permanent residency who came to this country as an
00:06:29.020 international student. In fact, what Miller doesn't say in this article, and what many Canadians may not be
00:06:33.980 aware of, is that in order to receive your student visa, you have to have an interview with an immigration
00:06:39.500 official. In that interview, you were asked point blank, if you intend to go back home when your
00:06:46.700 student visa expires. If you say no, and you plan to stay, well, guess what? You're not getting your
00:06:52.460 student visa. So all of these students who are now in this country protesting and demanding to be given
00:06:59.180 permanent residency without meeting any of the requirements that would actually make them eligible for
00:07:04.940 permanent residency. They all told a Canadian border official that they would go home after their
00:07:11.100 permit expired. So they all lied. I am very, very sneaky, sir. Someone in their admissions process at
00:07:18.060 some point told them that they were going to be given permanent residency, whether it was an immigration
00:07:22.940 consultant in Canada, whether it was an education agent in India or whatever other country they came from,
00:07:29.500 or it was the university or college that they attended. And where do you think all of those
00:07:34.300 people got their messaging from? Might it be perhaps from the government itself, since the government went
00:07:39.980 on a spree of giving permanent residency to basically anyone for a few years after the pandemic? Mark Miller and
00:07:46.700 Sean Fraser, as immigration ministers, have brought upon this country incalculable levels of damage.
00:07:52.300 Under Justin Trudeau's leadership, they have changed Canada forever. They have demographically changed
00:07:59.820 Canada forever. They have economically changed Canada forever. Our population has never grown this
00:08:06.940 fast. There was no mandate for this from the public. Trudeau didn't tell us that he was going to
00:08:12.140 do this explicitly. It was just done to us and we've been told to accept it. Quietly and behind the scenes,
00:08:18.620 I might add, the Justin Trudeau government has actually increased the number of deportations they
00:08:25.100 have conducted and it's now at the highest rate the federal government has seen in the last decade.
00:08:31.500 Last year, the federal government deported over 29,000 migrants. That sounds like a pretty decent 1.00
00:08:37.740 number if you're in favor of kicking illegals out of the country, which I think many people are, 0.90
00:08:43.260 until you realize that there are in fact over 500,000 undocumented people living in Canada.
00:08:49.420 So there's a long way to go. And it's not as if that number is slowing down anytime soon
00:08:55.180 with our record levels of population growth. Migrant activists, open border activists as I call them,
00:09:01.340 and the Toronto Star are very upset. They feel like a promise has been broken because Justin Trudeau
00:09:08.940 made a campaign promise to regularize illegals. To put illegals on a pathway to citizenship 0.99
00:09:16.460 in Canada. Nothing like rewarding those who break the law. As reported by the Toronto Star,
00:09:22.300 who just can't seem to hide their disdain, Canada has spent more than 115 million dollars
00:09:28.220 deporting nearly 29,000 migrants since 2022. An unprecedented rate that flies in the face
00:09:34.700 of the federal government's promise to regularize the status of undocumented workers, advocates say.
00:09:40.620 In 2023, Ottawa spent more than 62 million dollars on deportations, the highest amount spent in a year
00:09:47.100 in over a decade. With the headline, shocking and unjustifiable, Canada is deporting migrants at its
00:09:54.140 highest rate in more than a decade. And this all goes back to the comment that I made at the beginning
00:09:59.020 of the show. Which is why the conservative leader isn't the one telling these students to go back home.
00:10:05.820 Why the conservative leader isn't saying that it's time to deport the 500,000 illegals living in Canada,
00:10:13.260 working under the table, bringing down wages, causing economic problems in our country. The only
00:10:19.260 justification I can think of is that he just doesn't want to be attacked as a racist. He doesn't
00:10:24.300 want to be seen as a as a xenophobe or perhaps he's not a big believer in deportations. He's not a big
00:10:31.980 believer in deporting those that really ought to go. In fact, in 2022, when a large number of
00:10:38.220 international students were protesting around Toronto with fake acceptance letters, fake letters to these
00:10:46.460 sham colleges, Paulie have shut up to their protest and tried to rally support. And as he says,
00:10:53.340 stop the deportations. Stop the deportations. We need 700 young people driving truck. But I guess 1.00
00:11:00.940 we're all just going to have to see what happens because the Justin Trudeau government seems dead in
00:11:06.700 the water. All right, everyone, that's going to do it for us this week on the show. Thank you so
00:11:10.300 much for tuning in. My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ratio.
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