This month, Townhall has covered how President-elect Donald Trump has promised to carry out mass deportations once he is in office again.
Some states, like Arizona, have pledged to not comply with this. As a result, Trump’s incoming “border czar,” Tom Homan, said that those states will lose federal funding.
In addition, a CBS News report this week revealed that some Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio have already left town over fears that Trump will end their Temporary Protected Status.
A report from the New York Times this month said that Canadian authorities fear that Trump’s planned mass deportations will push illegal aliens north (via NYT):
Canadian officials are drawing up plans to add patrols, buy new vehicles and set up emergency reception facilities at the border between New York State and the province of Quebec to prepare for what they expect to be a surge in migrants because of Mr. Trump’s hard line on deportations.
The northern border is also a focus of people named to top positions in the Trump administration, including his new border czar, Tom Homan. He has described the frontier as a major security vulnerability because of what he described as insufficient checks on people entering the United States.
The Times pointed out that this is a sharp contrast to how Canada responded to illegal immigrants during Trump’s first term in office.
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“To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau posted on social media at the time.
Last week, Townhall covered how Trudeau admitted that his country made mistakes regarding immigration in recent years. Due to this, the country decided to make changes and accept fewer immigrants in coming years.
“In the last two years, our population’s grown fast…and increasingly, bad actors like fake colleges and big chain corporations have been exploiting our immigration system for their own interests," Trudeau said in a video posted last week.
“We’re doing something major,” he continued. “We’re reducing the numbers of immigrants that will come to Canada for the next three years.”
Canadian PM Trudeau says he will not take any immigrants into Canda for 3 years. Not to worry, folks. It's not "Racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, white supremacist, etc," when a Liberal says this. Only when Trump does.
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 18, 2024
(SIDE NOTE: Why not start the video sitting?) pic.twitter.com/E8FmPzl28y
