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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[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

You weren't talking about gun rights in any of these contexts. You were saying Canadians should have more powerful guns so they could shoot ICE agents (or similar potential invaders) that dare cross the border for "National defence", which is LUNATIC logic.

We already have national defence and it's not going to be improved with a bunch of poorly trained, undisciplined, disorganised half wits roaming the countryside making rogue decisions on who gets to live or die between sips of bud light.

Don't move the goal posts to an easily defensible strawman position so you can copy paste right wing gun activist rhetoric.