Maybe all the immigrants finally started to recognize the lies they were being told about living here being a comfortable family dream when it's actually unaffordable, inhumane and degrading wage-slavery. It's not much better for the average Canadian either, but at least most of us have some kind of family support system to fall back on, and we have the entire time we spend growing up here to come to terms with the reality of the lies that the economy and media sell us, instead of getting thrown into the deep end of this unfair economy like the immigrants do. No wonder so many of them turn to crime.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago

It sure sounds like you have never lived anywhere else in your life, certainly not anywhere in the developing world. It's hard to conceive how much worse life is in a lot of places, unless you have lived there. Granted that people who can afford international student fees are in the upper class of most poor countries, but it doesn't take away from the very real increase in the standard of living.

[–] brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

No wonder so many of them turn to crime.

I agreed with you until this point. What percentage of them "turn to crime"? Is that percentage higher than non-immigrants? My guess is that it's a negligible fraction.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, I let my frustration turn to sarcasm and leak out, I don't actually believe immigrants have any meaningful impact on crime other than what the news likes to cherry pick. I apologise for the poor taste of that.

[–] brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

I appreciate you saying that. It's all good.

[–] DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

It may actually bring crime down, but certainly the statistics don't bear out immigration causing increased crime rates.

https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/does-immigration-really-increase-crime-347099

It's a growing misperception is what it is.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I'm gonna need sources for all that bunk you've written. It sounds very War Room.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I mean, unless thay immigrated from Iceland or something, it's still going to be an improvement. The trick is that they're now at the bottom of the food chain, where often they were at the top, where they came from.