cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/news/p/484228/ice-is-at-the-border-of-new-brunswick-and-maine-premier-says
New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt on Wednesday criticized the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the U.S. that has now spread to neighbouring Maine, saying it’s making people in her province “very, very uncomfortable” to have them at the border.
Holt told reporters in Ottawa that the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at the New Brunswick-Maine border was affecting people with cross-border family and business ties that have already been struggling under strained relations due to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and attacks on Canada.
“We see what’s happening in the country,” she told reporters. “We see it in New Brunswick right now with ICE agents on the border of New Brunswick and Maine, in Calais. And it makes us all very, very uncomfortable.
“There’s nothing that we recognize in our neighbours right now, with the leadership that they have. We’re eager to support them in a return to the long-standing and strong partnership that Canada and the U.S. have had for generations.”
will RCMP defend people on canadian soil if they dare step foot on Canadian land? they better…
That would be an invasion. Possibly as they are illegals we should send any ice agents who cross the border to a concentration camp and then to a third world hell hole…
Don’t set the bar so low because of our neighbors
I hear Hans Island is nice this time of year.
Canada should build gulags. They’ve got vast territories that are very remote and very cold. Perfect for criminal thugs like ICE
Do you want to be Americans? Because that’s how you become Americans.
They can work in a penal colony in the high arctic and work for release/ community service. Give them rusty spoons and let them build us a subway tunnel from Alert to Union Station in Toronto.
When the subway is built, they go free.
We really shouldn’t but goddamn it do we want to.
I hope they meet our world famous snipers
We did do some of our training in New Brunswick
If they cross the border dog pile them and call it what it is, an attempt at intimidation and border hoping.
Send that Pet Semetary Wendigo after those fuckers. At least get Cujo’s assistance. /s
Shit like this is why canada needs to restore gun rights and allow for ownership of guns for national defense. It isn’t a novel concept in Canada, Canadians were the ones who taught Americans how to shoot.
We don’t need a bunch of toothless hillbillies with guns to take matters into their own hands for “National defence”. You want to defend the nation part time? Join the reserves. You get to shoot more powerful guns than you’re ever allowed at home, and you can ACTUALLY defend Canada.
We also have enough gun rights for everything you need a gun for. You want to hunt or shoot targets? Have at it. All you have to do is prove you can operate a gun safely and you can have as many guns as you want.
You want to shoot a human beings outside of sanctioned war? Thanks for outing yourself as someone who shouldn’t have guns.
I am really fucking tired of this argument. Gun control in Canada has was never about public safety but was always about fear of people actually challenging the government. You know why in the recent years passing laws still using Polytechnique as the reason despite more recent (and deadlier) mass shootings? Because it was never about that.
In the 19th century and early 20th century gun laws in Canada were fuelled entirely by anti-Irish and anti-immigrant racism in general. In the 1970s the first real long-gun control was spurred by Quebec independence movements and in the 90s it was neither Polytechnique nor the Concordia shootings that spurred the modern gun license scheme. It was the Oka Crisis that had actual large numbers of armed First Nations forcing the government to negotiate instead of bulldozing over their land.
As for having enough gun rights for everything we need? Have you been living under a rock? Since 2020 the gun bans in Canada have gutted almost all shooting sports. Handguns cannot be obtained anymore, 3-gun is effectively dead, and they’ve banned thousands upon thousands of models of guns that were formerly non-restricted and uncontroversial, and now they stated they’re going after shotguns and they’re putting hinting at putting any shotgun with any kind of magazine on a to-ban list. They’ve also banned so many semi-automatic rifles that there are very, very few models that are legal, and I guarantee you, they will likely be mentioned soon.
They stated that any gun with a detachable magazine is not off the table for a ban. Do you understand that basically every single bolt-action rifle made after WW2 has a detachable magazine? It isn’t a war on gun crime. It is a war on shooting sports. Canada now, you might find hard to believe, likely has fewer legal gun models than the UK.
In the UK their licenses are harder to get, but if you get them, there are no magazine limitations, manually operated AR-15 are legal, and there are no illegal semi-auto rimfire rifles or magazine restrictions on them. In Canada they effectively are going to ban almost all semi-auto rifles and they’re going after many bolt-action rifles.
On top of that, the laws in Canada have never been proven to be effective. They’re also extremely expensive and have never delivered on their promises of gun confiscation despite the massive claim that it has.
Tell you don’t understand either guns or gun laws in Canada without telling me you don’t know that.
You weren’t talking about gun rights in any of these contexts. You were saying Canadians should have more powerful guns so they could shoot ICE agents (or similar potential invaders) that dare cross the border for “National defence”, which is LUNATIC logic.
We already have national defence and it’s not going to be improved with a bunch of poorly trained, undisciplined, disorganised half wits roaming the countryside making rogue decisions on who gets to live or die between sips of bud light.
Don’t move the goal posts to an easily defensible strawman position so you can copy paste right wing gun activist rhetoric.
