[aCDNinUSA]

A few weeks ago you would have said never in a million years, but Canada is leading the way with what to do with illegal immigrants.

[Don Corleone]

Well...there goes the cod fish and baby seal industries.

[sheana]

Dang IT can be done! Canada is setting a fine example.
Gooooooooooooo Canada!

[Gay State Conservative]

Are you listening,Mr Bush? Start with the white illegals (Irish,Canadian,Brits,Germans,Italians,Aussies) then go on to other first world illegals (Japanese,Taiwanese,South Koreans) and then concentrate on the rest....just so that the "progressives" no that there's no racism involved.

[Gay State Conservative]

Should read "know that there's no racism".

[NRA1995]

Quick....send a copy of this to Dubya and several hundred to Congress! The Canadians don't CARE if the Portguese are doing jobs Canadians won't do....

[b4its2late]

Heck, if Canada can ship thier illegals back across the Atlantic, we should be able to move a bunch of them back over the US southern border. So what if it takes a couple years. In the long run, it'll save the US as we know it.

[azhenfud]

Wow! Canadians have more balz to enforce immigration than Washingmachine DC.

[layman]

Portuguese working in Canada without a permit would be ordered to return immediately to their country

We can't do this in the USA because we don't know who the illegals are or where they live.

[balk]

to discuss ‘the sudden change in policy by the authorities in relation to Portuguese nationals living and working there without visas’

That sudden change would be a newly democratically elected government.

[No Truce With Kings]

I don't have problems with a nation deporting illegal aliens, but why is Canada starting with Portuguese rather than say . . . Arabs? I don't know of any Portuguese that flew airliners into buildings or strapped on suicide bombs.

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

"BETWEEN 15,000 and 22,000 Portuguese illegal immigrants could be deported from Canada. An unprecedented operation has started to expatriate all the illegal immigrants working in the country."

You have my blessing, Canada. NO country needs lawbreakers, in any way, shape, or form...

[Lx]

But I always thought Portuguese were the master race?

[CzarNicky]

I wonder what will happen if they try this with muslims?

[DustyMoment]

Yeah, I knew from the headline that this wasn't about the US.

[Westbrook]

Yes, of course.

Deport all the peace-loving, affectionate, CHRISTIAN Portuguese,

But keep the hateful, veangeful, blood-thirsty, murderous MUSLIMS.

Way to go, Candada.

[Liberty Valance]

...all Portuguese working in Canada without a permit would be ordered to return immediately to their country.

I'm amazed eh.

[Bon mots]

Kick out the hardworking European Christians. Swing the doors wide open for Muslims and lazy third world immigrants.

Way to go Canada.

[Razz Barry]

The first Portuguese families have been put on aeroplanes and forced to leave. Some of the families had been living in Canada for several years and many had already bought houses there. They were given only a few days’ notice to make preparations, pack their bags, and get rid of possessions they couldn't take on the flight to Lisbon. A large number of the group being deported went to Canada to meet the demands of a booming construction industry, particularly in Toronto. Estimates state that about 75 per cent of the workers are in the country illegally.

"If you have bought a new home or a new condo, you know that the waiting times for getting a place just keep on getting longer and longer," Pedro Barata of the Portuguese National Congress said. "I think that the more we deport people who are needed in the construction industry, the longer those waits are going to be."

Deportation of illegals should alleviate the shortage