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Home Front: Politix
Some Americans look to Canada, NZ as Trump surges to victory
2016-11-09
[Reuters] Canada's main immigration website appeared to crash and New Zealand reported increased traffic to its website for residency visas from U.S. nationals in the hours before Donald Trump surged to victory in the U.S. presidential election.

Canada's main immigration website appeared to suffer repeated outages on Tuesday night as Trump took the lead in several major states and his prospects for winning the U.S. presidency turned markedly higher. In the following hours he won most of those states.

In New Zealand, immigration officials told Reuters on the eve of the vote that New Zealand Now website, which deals with residency and student visas, had received 1,593 registrations from United States citizens since Nov. 1 ‐ more than 50 percent of a typical month’s registrations in just seven days.

Visits to New Zealand Now from the United States were up almost 80 percent to 41,000 from 7 Oct to 7 November, compared with the same period last year.

Rod Drury, the chief executive of NZ-based global accounting software firm Xero, said the statistics matched up with interest his company has been seeing from prospective U.S. national employees concerned about a Trump win.

Drury said what started as a joke was becoming a reality.
Posted by:Besoeker

#18  @#16 Don't forget the tree bark. Tasty, tasty tree bark.
Posted by: Omomort Cheager7040   2016-11-09 19:40  

#17   Bye, bye. Please don't let us down.
Posted by: JohnQC   2016-11-09 19:38  

#16  I hear North Korea is always looking for good people to populate their labor camps.

Somehow I think that would be an excellent fit for them. They get their free meals, room, board, plenty of water being forced fed into them by the gallon.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2016-11-09 18:14  

#15  AMERICAN DIGEST NEWS SERVICE
DATELINE: OTTOWA, November 9, 2016

Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau today ordered all 215 members of Canada's armed forces to the porous southern border to stem the tide of tens of millions of disgruntled members of MoveOn, Democratic Underground, IndyMedia, Daily Kos and other assorted weeping moonbats that have begin to surge towards the socialist haven to the north in search of asylum.

"We feel their pain," said the PM, speaking to two reporters at a hastily called press-conference, "but we simply can't let in any more 'sunshine' Americans. We did that during the Vietnam years and our mental health care system is still groaning under the load.

"To let in more of Les fou Americans at this point would pretty much overload the sidewalk spaces already staked out by Canada's homeless."
Posted by: Pappy   2016-11-09 18:06  

#14  Van Jones is at least willing to consider South Africa, which considering his viewpoints and the education Besoeker has given us on SA politics, seems appropriate...
Posted by: Steve White   2016-11-09 13:31  

#13  Promises, promises.

Go, you @ssh*les, and don't come back.
Posted by: Barbara   2016-11-09 13:20  

#12  ...enough to drive millions of its own into this country? Not quite Venezuela, but you don't have to swim as far which is tough on a low calorie diet.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-11-09 13:10  

#11  Racists.
Something wrong with Mexico?
Posted by: JHH   2016-11-09 12:53  

#10  How about Cuba?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2016-11-09 12:40  

#9  Well Obama, this shows there are still a lot of red necks in this country.
Posted by: Huperese Platypus6497   2016-11-09 11:18  

#8  Why don't they want to go to a socialist paradise like Venezuela?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2016-11-09 11:11  

#7  by ---> but
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-11-09 11:05  

#6  Sorry, by Canada only admits Muslims.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-11-09 10:52  

#5  Canada and New Zealand, but not Mexico? What a bunch of *racists*.
Posted by: Crusader   2016-11-09 10:13  

#4  Get out. The self purging of liberals would be just as welcome as the Tories after the revolution. We don't want your kind, we don't need your kind so please exit stage left.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-11-09 09:23  

#3  Door ass bang
Posted by: SR-71   2016-11-09 09:09  

#2  In the immortal words of Curly Bill, "Well...bye."
Posted by: SteveS   2016-11-09 09:06  

#1  Why are the whiners bothering with immigration processes? They're the ones for open "cross anywhere at anytime" borders for the US!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2016-11-09 08:48  

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