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ICE is at the border of New Brunswick and Maine, premier says (globalnews.ca)

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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.”

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[-] shapeofthings@piefed.ca 26 points 4 days ago

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...

[-] xyro@morbier.foo 2 points 1 day ago

Don't set the bar so low because of our neighbors

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago

I hear Hans Island is nice this time of year.

[-] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 13 points 4 days ago

Canada should build gulags. They've got vast territories that are very remote and very cold. Perfect for criminal thugs like ICE

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Do you want to be Americans? Because that's how you become Americans.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

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.