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    Thousands Of Americans Crashed Canada's Immigration Website On Election Night

    Traffic to the website was 12 times the normal rate as Donald Trump's presidential victory was announced.

    This is what Canada's immigration website usually looks like.

    And this is what it looked like Tuesday night, as Donald Trump won the US presidential election.

    On Thursday, officials confirmed to CBC News the website crashed as more than 200,000 people, more than half of them American, visited the site.

    A week earlier, traffic was 17,000 with average 10% of that from the U.S. Traffic was 12 times normal rate as Trump's victory sank in. 2/2

    Seriously.

    Not joking: Canada's Immigration site just crashed. #Elections2016

    This is what it's come to.

    CIC (Citizenship and Immigration Canada) website is being hammered right now. I am actually not kidding.

    THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

    "The Canada Citizenship and Immigration site has crashed."

    Y'all, look at Immigration Canada's website 😂

    YO @CANADA FIX UR IMMIGRATION WEBSITE I HAVE FORMS TO FILL OUT

    Canada seeing how many Americans on their immigration and citizenship website