Citizens of western nations all over the world have been dumbfounded by the absolute collapse of immigration services in country after country.  Until very recently, agencies in charge of the flow of people into their nations did a reasonable job of securing borders.  Then something changed.

What used to be a trickle of illegal immigrants has turned into a torrent of millions.  Since 2020, over ten million illegals have entered the southern US. This week San Diego’s former Border Patrol Chief Agent Aaron Heitke testified at a hearing by the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security that far more than ten million illegals have entered.  Heitke says border patrol agents were so entirely overwhelmed “80% to 90%, sometimes 100% of the agents on duty [were taken] away from” the southwest border. There were miles of the border unmanned in Texas, Arizona and California, he said, where there was “no agent presence for weeks and months at a time.” This means of course that the unofficial number of migrant “gotaways” is far larger than the already shocking official numbers.

In Canada, illegal immigrants take a different path but the results are similar in terms of the percentage of immigrants compared to the general population.  Most undocumented migrants in the US pour in through the southern border.  Canada’s undocumented migrants tend to enter the county legally as refugee claimants, or with valid student, work, or visitor visas.  Then they simply stay.  While the official immigration numbers are in the 500,000 range, the undocumented migrants are easily twice that number.  As a result Canada’s population is absolutely skyrocketing, putting pressure on anyone trying to buy a home, making a lot more competition for entry level jobs, and contributing to inflation as the economy plays catch up with the number of consumers.

The influx of people into western nations has caught citizens off guard.  The question is, are the governments of western nations also surprised? It’s obvious that something is broken. The way our governments protect borders has changed in each of these nations (and it’s different in nations where people can simply walk over the border compared to nations like Canada and the UK where that’s not possible).

Another question is, who’s even looking into this? In times past we’d expect governments to hold inquiries into such nation challenging events.  Failing that, the media would be up in arms, demanding government officials do their jobs and investigating how things fell apart.  In nation after nation, the traditional media doesn’t seem all that interested. Surprising, because with an election bearing down on America, alternative news sites are reporting growing concerns millions of illegal immigrants will have access to voter registration forms and may help to choose the next President.

A research organization called Centre for Immigration Studies has found itself swamped in the 2020’s trying to keep track of what’s happening and who’s coming to the US. The Executive Director of The Center for Immigration Studies testified this week at an Oversite Committee Hearing into Biden Immigration Policies. The CIS is the nation’s only think tank devoted exclusively to the research of U.S. immigration policy to inform policymakers and the public about immigration’s far-reaching impact. Executive Director Mark Krikorian is one of the few people watching government specifically to answer questions such as “Is the largest border crisis in history some kind of accident?”  His answer is stunning and disturbing.

“The largest border crisis in the history of our country, probably the largest such event in human history, began on January 20th, 2021, ON PURPOSE, not due to incompetence.”

FINALLY some truth-telling in Congress!pic.twitter.com/l97R9uuPCq

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) September 19, 2024

While this testimony applies to the United States, it very likely points to similar situations in other western nations.  The question for Canadians is, who’d looking into this in Canada?