Hey boardgamers with your resources represented by various coloured wooden cubes. When thinking about #immigration, remember that #immigrants are one of those resources. Sure, every 20th light brown wooden cube or so may come with a point penalty. But the net effect of receiving those cubes is super strong. It's how you win the game after the Demographic Transition.
"The twice-impeached, two-time popular vote loser, adjudicated business fraud and rapist, and convicted felon Donald John Trump hates Black people, hates strong and educated women, and hates immigrants (until Black people, women, and immigrants can do something positive for him). He is having his life changed and his legal problems increased by Black people, women, and immigrants."
"Despite numerous legal obstacles to finding jobs in the United States, immigrants are more likely to work than U.S.-born workers overall and at every education level—a difference that grows significantly among the least skilled. Immigrant adults without high school degrees are about 20 percentage points more likely to work than comparable U.S.-born adults. Furthermore, nearly 97% of immigrants who looked for jobs in 2022 found them."
"Research shows that immigration is linked to decreases, not increases, in violent crime. Neighborhoods with higher concentrations of immigrant populations also have lower crime rates, multiple studies found. Between 1990 and 2014, undocumented immigration, in particular, was 'generally associated with decreasing violent crime,' according to one study."
#Ontario Premier #DougFord has suggested #immigrants r 2 blame 4 the shooting of empty #Jewish school in Toronto over wknd, despite police saying they have little info on the suspects
#Toronto police have said 2 suspects fired shots shortly before 5am last Sat @ #BaisChayaMushka Elementary School & that no 1 was injured, though there was damage 2 the building
"Shout this from the rooftops: #TFG's "deportation plan" is really a plan for a US dictatorship. Blue cities will be in essence be invaded by red-state NG soldiers, who'll aid dead-of-night raids & violently suppress protests.
“I take all of it seriously,” Nunn, a counsel who monitors nat. sec. & liberty issues -expert in the pres. uses & abuses of the Insurrection Act *allows for the deployment of soldiers on US."
It goes without saying that #Canada’s #LGBTfriendly official policies, like recognizing #GayMarriage, put it high on the list for potential destinations, but so did its points system for assessing potential #immigrants, which awards points based on work experience & education & other factors.
I know our story isn’t necessarily a common one for #GayPeople in the #Philippines & a lot of gay people struggle more to be accepted by their families there.
"The former president's vow to deport 15 million people is the cruelest, most illiberal, most openly authoritarian campaign promise in modern U.S. history. Oh, and it would also destroy the economy. ...
The pre-World War II Jewish population of Europe — including the Soviet Union — was about 9 million."
"So just in terms of transporting people, we’re looking at an operation that would need to be two thirds larger than the Nazi transport of Jews during the Holocaust — if they’d managed to get to every Jewish person on the continent.
The Trump immigration plan would be the second largest forced displacement of human beings in human history, on par with Britain’s disastrous partition of India, and second only to total forced displacement during World War II."
Lawyers & migrant rights campaigners have warned that the government is heading for a repeat of the Windrush scandal after imposing a “cliff edge” deadline by the end of 2024 for immigrants to switch from physical biometric residence permits (BRPs) to digital e-visas.
Our incompetent Home Office is in charge of this change, so it will go swimmingly of course.