There were big factors in turning away refugees in the late 30's, people play the anti-semitic race card and that was part of it but reality was the country was near broke from the great depression with 30% unemployment rates.
What a terrible reason to send people to their death.
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At their annual party rally, the Nazis announce new laws that make Jews second-class citizens and revoke most of their political rights. Further, Jews are prohibited from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood." "Racial infamy," as this becomes known, is made a criminal offense. The Nuremberg Laws define a "Jew" as someone with three or four Jewish grandparents or who is a practicing Jew. Consequently, the Nazis classify as Jews thousands of people who have converted from Judaism to another religion, among them even Roman Catholic priests and nuns and Protestant ministers whose grandparents were Jewish.
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We don't even have to go back to the 30s to see Canada keeping undesirables out of the country. Racial immigration restrictions to keep blacks out of Canada were in place and enforced until 1962. So Trump's proposed policies aren't anything new, and Canada isn't all sunshine and lollipops when it comes to this sort of thing.
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We don't even have to go back to the 30s to see Canada keeping undesirables out of the country. Racial immigration restrictions to keep blacks out of Canada were in place and enforced until 1962. So Trump's proposed policies aren't anything new, and Canada isn't all sunshine and lollipops when it comes to this sort of thing.
Haha, dude I get the point your making, but you're comparing 1962 to 2015. Different times by a country mile. Saying "we don't have to go back to the 30's to see it in Canada" and then going back over 50 years doesn't serve the argument well.
Haha, dude I get the point your making, but you're comparing 1962 to 2015. Different times by a country mile. Saying "we don't have to go back to the 30's to see it in Canada" and then going back over 50 years doesn't serve the argument well.
Canada supported Apartheid South Africa well into the 1980s.
Not saying it was. My comment was directly related to "sending people to their death".
I believe Canada did take in some Jewish people. But sending away people in boats did send many to their death assuming they didn't survive the luxury of Dachau.
Clapper said ISIS was "taking advantage of the torrent of migrants to insert operatives into that flow," adding that they were "pretty skilled at phony passports so they can travel ostensibly as legitimate travelers."
Well this is ####ing heartbreaking. Certainly gives you some perspective on refugees.
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Sorry to bump an old thread, and maybe it was covered, but story in the Star this morning about how many of the refugees Canada took in are being charged for the travel and medical expenses to get here - up to $10,000.
I get it from a taxpayer point of view, but telling a bunch of desperate people "Welcome to Canada!" and then handing them a bill when I would assume they don't have that kind of money seems harsh.
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Yup, this has been a practice in Canada for forever.
We came to Canada in 1992 during the Balkan wars as refugees. It ended up being something like $6000 for the four of us. Adjusted for inflation, that's $9,456.91, so about the same.
We did have a certain number of years to pay it off (via a payment plan) and they didn't demand it all at once. I think there was a 1 or 2 year grace period before payments were due. I do remember us paying it off and it feeling like a big f#####g deal.
It pretty much covered things like our airfare and the cost of some of the paperwork and health testing?, etc, from what I can recall, but I was pretty young so I could be wrong.
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