More Americans applied for refugee status in Canada in the first half of 2025 than in all of 2024, and more than in any full year since 2019, according to data published on Thursday by Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board.
Their share of total refugee claims – 245 of about 55,000 – is small and Canada’s acceptance of U.S. refugee claims has historically been low. Asylum-seekers from other countries crossing the land border from the U.S. are sent back under a bilateral agreement with the reasoning that they should apply for asylum in the first “safe” country they arrived in.
Stay and fight for a better country, cowards.
Fuck that. If you are a MAGA targeted person in danger of imprisonment, abuse, or physical harm, and you have the means to get the fuck out…please get the fuck out.
If I was trans or a woman that doesn’t want to have children, or had trans kids or a daughter, I’d be planning my exit.
Think of the safety of you and yours. You don’t owe this country jack fucking shit, and don’t let anyone guilt you out of what is best for yours.
Agreed.
Currently about to head to Germany as a stepping stone, with Canada as a backup, and the Netherlands as a stretch.
And no other country owes you shit either, we don’t want you cruel Americans coming to our civilised countries
Would you tell Jews or Germans fleeing in the 30’s the same? Some of them will do more from the safety of Canada.
If you guys really think that the United States is genuinely comparable to Nazi Germany, then why the fuck are you doing nothing about it? Pretending that you can just migrate to another country, find work, live your life isn’t doing something. There are massive logistic hurdles to do that. Spending time on some social media app wistfully complaining doesn’t do much either. Is everyone’s anger here performative or real? Have you guys done anything other than gripe to forestall whatever is coming?
And what would you have us all do? To be honest (as a straight, white dude in America with no real minority status) im pissed as all hell. Ive watched what was initially a kinda shitty country turn to straight far right Authoritarian in a heartbeat, and I dont want any of this shit. But aside from a large scale revolution, which includes burning it all down and starting over from scratch, what the hell do we do. Our votes all count the same, so we can go out and vote but we wont always have numbers. Realistically all I feel empowered to do is bitch on social media UNTIL something big pops off, and then go participate in it.
What have you done? Be the change you want to see.
What do you do to fight?
Comment and post in Lemmy
It’s easy to judge someone else’s situation when you have the context of only your own life to compare their decisions to.
And what pray tell have you done there bucko.
You going to take up arms and protect them from the daily physical harassment and threats of violence on a daily basis?
No? Then maybe take your hot take and shove it.
The problem is our distance between each other. Organization is extremely difficult without setting off flags from surveillance.
Because of that you have cells of like…5 people trying to take aggressive action and that just doesn’t work.
No u.
Cool. I just hope they can get everyone in ASAP!
A few in Ireland too. They’re getting the applications denied though :(
Awe I had no idea that they had refugee applications. I was looking at normal citizenship and they extended the time for Americans specifically.
I sympathize with people wanting and trying to leave. Personally, I’m tired. I’ve been fighting these republicans for over a decade. I even spent a weekend in jail for trying to fight for other people’s rights. There is a bigger issue in the US that most people on Lemmy seem to ignore. Let’s say we get all the fascista out of government. Let’s say we push them out and get control and bring back democracy in the US.
If this happens, our problems won’t be fixed. The core issue of the US is the people who have been fed propaganda for decades. The racism, the fear, the hate, all runs deep into the core of their personalities now. And there is nothing I can think of that can change this. Maybe after decades when they all die off and hopefully our kids learn from their mistakes that we might be able to see change. But I don’t see it happening in the next decade. The country is screwed.
So staying and fighting will do fuck all to fix this country. I sympathize with people who have the means and money who are trying to leave. If I wasn’t struggling to make ends meet I’m sure I’d try and do the same.
