Globe and Mail, Jan 15 – Nearly 50,000 foreign students listed as ‘no-shows’ by Canadian schools
Bloomberg, Jan 21 – India’s government is prepared to work with Donald Trump’s administration to identify and take back approximately 18,000 Indian citizens residing illegally in the United States
18,000 Indians residing illegally in the US?
I find that very hard to believe.
The US issued 1 million non-immigrant visas to Indians in each of 2023 and 2024.
https://in.usembassy.gov/u-s-mission-to-india-continues-to-break-records-in-2024/
There are now 5 million Indians holding non-immigrant visas to the U.S.
How many returned to India?
Yeah … it’s like the old Lawyer joke … “What do you call 18,000 dead Lawyers killed in a CA firestorm? A good start”
“I find that very hard to believe.”
Its only Vivek and his immediately family.
#rimshot.
Maybe 18k slipped into the US from Canada
This reminds me of the occasional drug bust where the cops will lay out the drugs and weapons seized on a table to be photographed by the press.
It makes for a spectacle with the expected response that we should applaud our law enforcement system, and perhaps even provide them with more funding.
When in reality the percentage of drugs seized relative to distribution is a rounding difference, with the problem growing each year.
This’ll get those who back Trump clapping their hands, while the root problem changes little. But makes Republicans think “America’s back!”.
I maintain that both sides of the political aisle are controlled by the same people, and that the politicians are just puppets from different mafia families. America (and Canada, as well as the rest of the western world) continue to slide downhill and the only change is in how the same outcomes are spun.
Spot on.
You’ll know they are serious when they cut off welfare and free everything for non-citizens. That’s the breaking point.
I can see Trump doing it. Poilievre, I’m unconvinced. But maybe. If he’s smart.
Didn’t Biden already preemptively pardon every illegal alien in the US? If not, then Lawfare will file 27 lawsuits to ensure the flow of Free Shit to illegals … so the great replacement can continue unabated.
My God, Trump just returned to office and the gist of Watto’s complaint is that Trump hasn’t done 10,000 things already.
I’m neither a fan nor an opponent of Trump, per se. I’m just pointing out my observations. And like you, I have four years of history by which to judge him.
If I judge him by his actions, then I see little for which he should be applauded.
If he is judged instead by his words, then he appears better.
But that’s the rub – any successful politician knows to focus on the latter, and the better he does so the less the former matters to far too many.
From another blog; Trump’s first term accomplishments:
1) stopped ISIS cold
2) EO stopping the drug companies from charging medicare more than what they charged foreign countries
3) EO forcing hospitals to disclose their prices
4) Move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem
5) ENERGY INDEPENDENCE for the first time in my lifetime of 70 years, and record low energy prices
6) Started no new wars
6A) Abraham Accords, bringing peace to the middle east instead of war
7) Elimination of regulations, required to eliminate 8 to add a new one
8) Cut Taxes across the board
9) Increased the individual tax credit eliminating the need to file more complicated returns
10) Started the space force, sorely needed today
11) Replaced NAFTA with an agreement better for American workers
12) Put tariffs on china, starting the process of moving American production out of the enemy’s land
13) Brought back massive amounts of money saved in foreign countries
14) Withdrew from the farce know as the Paris Climate Accords
15) Withdrew from the Iran deal
16) Increased the $$$ of the average family by over 5K
17) Started the process of fixing the VA
18) Increased the spending by other NATO countries
19) Killed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
20) Created several million jobs, actual creation not bafflegab bullshit
21) Economic growth rates were going up, somewhere around 4% before the marxist killed the economy with the scam chinaVirus
22) Lowest rate of unemployment ever, across the board for blacks, hispanics, asians, veterans, etc.
I agree. That’s a very good list of achievements. That’s particularly the case given the severe handicaps he was under 2016-2020. Even moreso given the fact that at least one House in Congress was utterly opposed to anything he did.
Can we amuse ourselves with a list of the achievements of Justatwit?
Not being an American I look at foreign affairs:
Pre Trump ISIS took over a large part of Iraq
nine months in ISIS was on the run
Pre T – Israel was at war with most of the Arab world, Post Abraham accords make greater moves toward peace than any time in the last 50 years.
Pre T – Israel was at war with most of the Arab world. Post a number of those states had embassies in Israel
Pre T – surges of up to 100k soldiers in Iraq, Post down to about 2500
Pre T surges of up to 100k soldiers in Afghanistan, Post down to about 2500 and a pullout schedule agreed to
Pre T Ukraine fighting into semi truce, Post Russian invades again.
Pre T China aggressive in South China Sea, Post quiet, under Biden threats on Taiwan
Pre T drone strikes irritate Muslim world, Post only select strikes used
Pre T N Korea missile tests, Post N Korea quiet
Can’t confirm but heard only 75 +/- killed on active service during Trump’s administration
So my question is….. What did Obama do to get the Nobel Prize?
You forget how both the dems and RINOS did all they could to either slow down his ideas or stop him altogether.
Remember the fight just to build the wall.
Drug dealers will supply drugs to those who want them. Why do people want these drugs?
l believe from others in the know, that some of these drugs need only a ‘freebie’ first dose to start the long but accelerating and very lucrative, for the dealer, downhill slide. why would they kill their customer? l asked. just get another one the answer.
is that the answer to your Q?
No, not really.
Have you tried any of these drugs? I’ve tried most of them, and I want them! I’m just a bit too smart to spend my own money buying them. If I had more money or less smarts, who knows where I’d be.
Don’t blame the drugs. They’re amazing! Blame the people. They are too open to a good thing.
Yesterday I saw an interview from a CBSA rep and he was saying that they have no means to inspect all of the containers that are coming into canada via ships. That will likely be another pressure point for the Americans to push on.
Poilievre, I’m unconvinced. But maybe. If he’s smart.
Even if he does our Ermine wearing judicial betters at the SCOC will rule otherwise.
Too true.
Is it true that a university or college gets money from the government on a per student enrolled basis? If a whole bunch of “students” enroll and then drop out does the government have to return that money? When I was in university (holy crap, year withdrawn) our department received money for each student enrolled in its courses (explains why there was never any money in the department).
If the above is true then what a scam.
There’s a huge difference, both province to province and between universities and colleges. In Ontario, universities set their own tuition fees. Colleges only charge the tuition fees as dictated by the Ontario government.
None of them receive funding from the federal government. Provincial support for both is determined by the allocation for Base Operating Grants. This is provided on a per-student basis depending on enrollment. This is generally much less than the actual amount required to heat buildings, provide municipal services such as water and electricity supply and pay Grants In Lieu of Taxes (property taxes to municipalities.)
None of the money is refundable if students do not show up. This is reasonable, because the university or college still has to incur the fixed costs of heat, light, water, property tax as noted above.
hmmm. sooooo given that, there is a *financial motive* for the edjukaySHUN institute to enjoy the above scenario, because, yes there are fixed costs regardless of a given student population, but the variable costs to serve a lower population would be less?
anyways thats whut l learned at one of them . . . .
whaut a racket, whut a racket. bring them on!!! the no shows!!! vote liberal!!
All Canadian provinces have surplus university/college capacity. The system was built up to its present size because of the baby boom of the 1950s-60s. So, managing the surplus capacity becomes a choice:
1. dismantle physical assets by sale or demolishing;
2. import students to make use of them.
For a couple of decades, strategy 2 has been followed. Foreign students pay enormously greater tuition than Canadians. It has been a huge cash windfall for universities and colleges because of this much higher tuition. What has complicated matters is that post-secondary education in Canada became a well-accepted route for immigration TO Canada. And this was fine, because these people generally wanted to work and were capable of highly skilled work. And they were bringing in lots of money by coming here to school.
But things went sideways because amonge them federal, municipal and provincial governments have been making it onerous to build more housing. So Canada has been underbuilding residential housing for decades. It caught up with Canada during Trudeau’s years in power, and the goof decided he could blame it all on foreign students.
Never, never, never underestimate the ability of Justatwit to lie about anything and everything.
They should look for them at Wasaga beach taking a dump.
Universities are in the BUSINESS of selling degrees. And they can get 4.4X the $ for a foreign student compared to a Canadian.