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Politics => Issues => Topic started by: 90sRetroFan on November 12, 2020, 11:35:56 pm
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news.gallup.com/poll/245255/750-million-worldwide-migrate.aspx
Gallup's surveys throughout this period found 15% of the world's adults -- or more than 750 million people -- saying they would like to move to another country if they had the opportunity.
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The countries where potential migrants say they would like to move -- if they could -- have generally been the same for the past 10 years. In fact, roughly 18 countries attract two-thirds of all potential migrants worldwide.
Although the image of U.S. leadership took a beating between 2016 and 2017, the U.S. continues to be the most desired destination country for potential migrants, as it has since Gallup started tracking these patterns a decade ago.
One in five potential migrants (21%) -- or about 158 million adults worldwide -- name the U.S. as their desired future residence. Canada, Germany, France, Australia and the United Kingdom each appeal to more than 30 million adults.
In other words, the only problem is that many people who currently want to migrate are being violently prohibited from doing so by closed borders which they never chose to be born on the wrong side of.
Note also that emigration from autocratic countries is also likely to reduce the chances of those autocracies being overthrown, as people who like the idea of voting can immigrate to existing democracies and vote there instead of trying to transform existing autocracies into democracies (as our enemies have been encouraging them to do by making migration difficult). Thus ending violence against migrants also helps the continued existence of autocracy as a system of governance, which is of course also in line with our aims.
It is crucial that we at all times talk about the issue in terms of ending violence. Rightists (and even some False Leftists) have made it sound like we are doing migrants a positive favour by letting them migrate. This is nonsense. Letting people move around as they choose is simply refraining from violence against them. (This used to be so obvious that no one even needed to explain it, yet for this very reason a new generation has never had it properly explained to them.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ys5rsZPuU
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www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/un-general-assembly-endorses-global-migration-accord/2018/12/19/88ab3944-03b0-11e9-958c-0a601226ff6b_story.html
The U.N. General Assembly endorsed a sweeping accord to ensure safe and orderly migration Wednesday over opposition from five countries, including the United States and Hungary.
The Global Compact for Migration, the first international document dealing with the issue, is not legally binding. But the escalating debate over people leaving their home countries for new ones has sparked increasing opposition and reservations among the U.N.’s 193 member states.
The General Assembly resolution endorsing the compact was approved by a vote of 152-5, with Israel, the Czech Republic and Poland also voting “no” and 12 countries abstaining.
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The drafting process for the global compact was launched after all 193 U.N. member states, including the United States under President Barack Obama, adopted a declaration in 2016 saying no country can manage international migration on its own and agreed to work on a pact.
But the United States under President Donald Trump pulled out a year ago, claiming that numerous provisions in the compact were “inconsistent with U.S. immigration and refugee policies.”
Further information:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Compact_for_Migration
One good thing about this: you know how rightists are always like: "We just want to be like Japan in terms of attitude towards migration!" Well, it's now official: Japan approved the compact. Israel didn't, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASEt-mpCrGA
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Finally a pro-immigration opinion column!
www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/opinion/open-borders-immigration.html
There’s Nothing Wrong With Open Borders
Why a brave Democrat should make the case for vastly expanding immigration.
The internet expands the bounds of acceptable discourse, so ideas considered out of bounds not long ago now rocket toward widespread acceptability. See: cannabis legalization, government-run health care, white nationalism and, of course, the flat-earthers.
Yet there’s one political shore that remains stubbornly beyond the horizon. It’s an idea almost nobody in mainstream politics will address, other than to hurl the label as a bloody cudgel.
I’m talking about opening up America’s borders to everyone who wants to move here.
Imagine not just opposing President Trump’s wall but also opposing the nation’s cruel and expensive immigration and border-security apparatus in its entirety. Imagine radically shifting our stance toward outsiders from one of suspicion to one of warm embrace. Imagine that if you passed a minimal background check, you’d be free to live, work, pay taxes and die in the United States. Imagine moving from Nigeria to Nebraska as freely as one might move from Massachusetts to Maine.
There’s a witheringly obvious moral, economic, strategic and cultural case for open borders, and we have a political opportunity to push it. As Democrats jockey for the presidency, there’s room for a brave politician to oppose President Trump’s racist immigration rhetoric not just by fighting his wall and calling for the abolishment of I.C.E. but also by making a proactive and affirmative case for the vast expansion of immigration.
It would be a change from the stale politics of the modern era, in which both parties agreed on the supposed wisdom of “border security” and assumed that immigrants were to be feared.
Exactly. The very vocabulary of "border security" (also nonchalantly used by the unthinking False Left) is absurd. A border is simply a line that marks where one set of institutions (currency, language, etc.) stop applying and another set of institutions start applying. As such, there is no issue of security to speak of. People crossing a border need to be made aware that they are crossing a border, so that they know what rules they now have to follow, and the state for administrative purposes needs to know how many people are crossing in and out, but other than that a border should be as convenient to cross as possible. The very notion of prohibiting people who want to cross a border from doing so is violent, and as such demands retaliatory violence in response.
People migrate because they see opportunity in their destination of choice. What "border security" actually means is using violence to suppress opportunism. It is no different than crippling someone in order to prevent them from pursuing their dreams. It is not enough to verbally condemn or even economically sanction states which do this; such states must be militarily invaded and overthrown.
As an immigrant, this idea confounds me. My family came to the United States from our native South Africa in the late 1980s. After jumping through lots of expensive and confusing legal hoops, we became citizens in 2000. Obviously, it was a blessing: In rescuing me from a society in which people of my color were systematically oppressed, America has given me a chance at liberty.
But why had I deserved that chance, while so many others back home — because their parents lacked certain skills, money or luck — were denied it?
When you see the immigration system up close, you’re confronted with its bottomless unfairness. The system assumes that people born outside our borders are less deserving of basic rights than those inside. My native-born American friends did not seem to me to warrant any more dignity than my South African ones; according to this nation’s founding documents, we were all created equal. Yet by mere accident of geography, some were given freedom, and others were denied it.
“When you start to think about it, a system of closed borders begins to feel very much like a system of feudal privilege,” said Reece Jones, a professor of geography at the University of Hawaii who argues that Democrats should take up the mantle of open borders. “It’s the same idea that there’s some sort of hereditary rights to privilege based on where you were born.”
This is basically the same point I have been emphasizing all along: no one chooses where they are born, so everyone should be allowed to choose where to live. It's good to see this argument being adopted at last.
I admit the politics here are perilous. Although America’s borders were open for much of its history — if your ancestors came here voluntarily, there’s a good chance it was thanks to open borders — restrictions on immigration are now baked so deeply into our political culture that any talk of loosening them sparks anger.
People worry that immigrants will bring crime, even though stats show immigrants are no more dangerous than natives. People worry they’ll take jobs away from native workers, even though most studies suggests that immigration is a profound benefit to the economy, and there’s little evidence it hurts native workers. And if we worry that they’ll hoover up welfare benefits, we can impose residency requirements for them.
Another point is that freedom to migrate applies to everyone. For those who dislike immigrants, the best thing they can do both for themselves and for everyone else is to themselves migrate elsewhere. We need to stop wasting time trying to persuade the prejudiced to drop their prejudices and instead just tell them that they are most welcome to leave if they don't like it, but not welcome to bully others into leaving.
But these are all defensive arguments, and when you’re on defense, you’re losing. For opponents of the president’s xenophobic policies, a better plan is to make the affirmative case for a lot more immigrants.
Economically and strategically, open borders isn’t just a good plan — it’s the only chance we’ve got. America is an aging nation with a stagnant population. We have ample land to house lots more people, but we are increasingly short of workers. And on the global stage, we face two colossi — India and China — which, with their billions, are projected to outstrip American economic hegemony within two decades.
How will we ever compete with such giants? The same way we always have: by inviting the world’s most enthusiastic and creative people — including the people willing to walk here, to risk disease and degradation and death to land here — to live out their best life under liberty.
A new migrant caravan is forming in Honduras, and the president is itching for the resulting political fight.
Here’s hoping Democrats respond with creativity and verve. Not just “No wall.” Not just “Abolish ICE.”
Instead: “Let them in.”
Exactly. In an economically sane world, states would be competing to attract immigrants to their own countries. In a sane world, it wouldn't even just be "Let them in" but moreover "How can we make sure they keep choosing us over all the other countries available?" And the answer would be: by treating fairly and kindly those who arrive, so as to build up a positive reputation for hospitality. This is what constructive immigration policy discussion should be about. In the same way that a company attracts recruits by establishing a reputation for treating its staff well, it should be the duty of a state to attract its folk by establishing a reputation for treating newcomers well. And yes, this includes zero tolerance for the bullies who deliberately try to make life miserable for newcomers so that they stop coming.
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Here is another moral inversion which annoys me, the Trump administration trying to make it look like the country it wants to deport people to is in the wrong for refusing to take these people:
www.dhs.gov/news/2019/01/31/dhs-announces-implementation-visa-sanctions-ghana
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced, in coordination with the Department of State, the implementation of visa sanctions on Ghana due to lack of cooperation in accepting their nationals ordered removed from the United States.
Pursuant to her authority under Section 243(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen notified Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the Government of Ghana has denied or unreasonably delayed accepting their nationals ordered removed from the United States. As a result, Secretary of State Pompeo has ordered consular officers in Ghana to implement visa restrictions on certain categories of visa applicants. Without an appropriate response from Ghana, the scope of these sanctions may be expanded to a wider population. The sanctions will remain in place until the Secretary of Homeland Security notifies Secretary Pompeo that cooperation on removals has improved to an acceptable level.
“Ghana has failed to live up to its obligations under international law to accept the return of its nationals ordered removed from the United States,” said Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen. “The United States routinely cooperates with foreign governments in documenting and accepting U.S. citizens when asked, as appropriate, as do the majority of countries in the world, but Ghana has failed to do so in this case. We hope the Ghanaian government will work with us to reconcile these deficiencies quickly.”
If the people involved wanted to go to Ghana, they would surely go by themselves. Deporting them means forcing them to go there despite they themselves not wanting to go. It is violence. Were Ghana to accept the deportees, Ghana would be passively complicit in this violence. By refusing to accept them, Ghana is honourably rejecting this violence. Ghana is setting an example of what every country should do if demanded to accept deportees.
And the response of the Trump administration is to initiate even more violence by prohibiting other people(!) who want to travel to the US from Ghana from doing so, in order to pressure Ghana to accept its violence against the deportees!
"International law?" According to whom? Western civilization, of course.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia
The Peace of Westphalia established the precedent of peace established by diplomatic congress. A new system of political order arose in central Europe, based upon peaceful coexistence among sovereign states. Inter-state aggression was to be held in check by a balance of power, and a norm was established against interference in another state's domestic affairs. As European influence spread across the globe, these Westphalian principles, especially the concept of sovereign states, became central to international law and to the prevailing world order.[2]
**** your Eurocentrism!
REFUGEES WELCOME! DEPORTEES NOT WELCOME!
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Refusing to take deportees works, as I said it would:
www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/9c4b9c4a-8c7d-47f2-a5af-6d06377fbb21
Finland has suspended the deportation of all Iraqis whose asylum requests have been rejected in a stalemate with the federal government of Iraq, which refuses to accept the forced return of its nationals, a local newspaper reported.
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Finnish police in 2018 so far have deported 150 Iraqi citizens, 128 of which were returned to Iraq, according to the newspaper. Nearly all these deportations were forced returns, meaning the person being deported does not voluntarily leave the country and are escorted by police back to their country of origin.
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The federal government of Iraq has repeatedly refused to sign an agreement with Finland on forced returns of rejected asylum seekers.
“Iraq has said that it will not accept anyone who has not voluntarily returned. For this reason, we are not deporting Iraqi nationals for the time being,” said police inspector Ari Jokinen, quoted by Finland’s Yle television channel.
Good for Iraq! Why isn't every country being asked to accept deportees refusing for the same reason? Rejecting refugees is violence. Accepting deportees is also violence.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM3XZu_ubwI
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An encouraging development:
www.foxnews.com/politics/tear-down-that-border-wall-the-new-dem-litmus-test
Beto O’Rourke may have inadvertently got the ball rolling this week on an emerging litmus test for Democrats eyeing the White House in 2020 when he said he “absolutely” supports tearing down the existing barriers along the southern border with Mexico.
Since then, the other Democrats eyeing the 2020 Democratic nomination are facing calls to say whether they agree. And some are now expressing an openness to it, as they work to appeal to a liberal base that argues the wall is immoral.
Hopefully one day this can lead to bombing countries which refuse to tear down their walls, such as Israel and Hungary.
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LOL:
www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/immigration-court-backlog-up-300-system-on-brink-of-collapse
In a new 176-page report that repeatedly raps the Trump administration’s policies, the ABA said that the backlog in immigration courts is over 1 million.
“Crucially, the number of cases pending before the immigration courts (which were about 262,000 cases at the time of the 2010 Report) has increased to unprecedented levels. There were more than 760,000 pending cases at the end of FY 2018 and an additional 330,000 cases that could be returned to active dockets in short order,” it said in revealing the latest accurate numbers.
Without fast changes, the lawyer’s group added, the immigration court system will collapse. President Trump has sought to increase the corps of immigration court judges.
How about (*gasp*) simply letting people migrate as they choose?
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europe.infowars.com/sweden-calls-for-sanctions-against-countries-that-refuse-migrants/
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has indicated that he would like to see sanctions levied against European countries that do not participate in migrant 'resettlement.'
Speaking with Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, PM Löfven was asked about economic penalties for countries that refuse 'refugees' but receive European Union funding, such as Hungary.
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"Hungary is one of the countries that gets the most," Löfven continued. "It is unacceptable that the country that received the most support from the EU said, 'No, we do not take responsibility for immigration.'"
I agree it is unacceptable. I disagree (and find ludicrous the notion) that mere economic sanctions will persuade Hungary to change its mind about accepting refugees, which Hungary considers to be a mortal threat. WMDs would be more effective. The only thing that can change someone's mind about a perceived mortal threat is a more vivid mortal threat. Refugees or airstrikes? That should be the choice we give Hungary.
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At least some people's hearts are on our side:
www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/05/02/40087675/boeing-field-contractors-agree-to-stop-flying-ice-detainees
Thousands of immigrants detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are shuttled out of Seattle every year through our county-owned airport. But that may soon be coming to an end after the private company facilitating these flights through Boeing Field announced Thursday that they would no longer work with the company running these flights.
Modern Aviation, a private company that has a permit from the county to operate flight services like refueling and hangar space for airlines, said Thursday that they will no longer facilitate ICE flights flown by Swift Air, the airline believed to be facilitating these flights. Two other companies that also provide these services at Boeing Field will also no longer work with ICE flights, according to a press release from County Executive Dow Constantine.
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Constantine first mentioned these ICE flights at a press conference back in June of 2018. With Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson at his side, Constantine pledged to use “everything in my power” to make sure Boeing Field “is not being used to perpetuate this brutality against people.”
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The county wants to put a requirement in these contracts that would stop them from working with ICE, but the county was unable to say exactly when they would be able to renegotiate these contracts, making it unclear if that route was even possible.
Now it looks like the county has avoided forcing these companies into blocking ICE flights by getting all three of the airport’s fixed base operators to voluntarily say no to any flights that are transporting ICE detainees. Airlines need a fixed base operator to run a flight and Parrott told me it was unlikely that a fourth fixed base operator could quickly set up based on size constraints and permitting requirements.
But still, this is only a slowdown, not a solution. ICE will find a way around this given enough time. So long as ICE agents exist, they will continue doing what they are doing. Any true solution must focus on ending the existence of ICE agents.
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cis.org/Sussis/How-Many-Would-Really-Come-if-Borders-Were-Open
A recent global Gallup poll found that 158 million adults around the world said they would migrate to the United States if they could.
We certainly don't have to worry about a shortage of people wanting to immigrate. The only problem is that rightists are willing to initiate violence to stop them:
slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/05/trump-rally-audience-suggestion-shoot-migrants.html
So are we ready to shoot those who shoot migrants? Because if not, then no matter how many people want to immigrate, they will either be shot trying, or decline to immigrate in order to avoid being shot. Migration is not (as the delusional False Left claims) "inevitable". Whoever is willing to initiate violence can very much stop it, absent others willing to use retaliatory violence to defend it.
Every day this is going on:
dailycaller.com/2019/05/09/self-deportation-spikes-trump/
This would not be going on if they saw ICE agents being shot dead every day. It would tell them that there are people fighting for them, and thus give them the courage to stay on.
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Nice!
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7049815/Hundreds-migrants-occupy-Frances-Charles-Gaulle-airport-call-end-deportations.html
Hundreds of undocumented migrants occupied a terminal at Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris yesterday to protest against Air France carrying out deportations and demanding they be given permanent residency.
Footage uploaded to Twitter shows some 500 members of the migrant support group La Chapelle Debout gathered in Terminal 2 of France's largest airport.
The protesters called on Air France to 'stop any financial, logistical or political participation in deportations' and demanded a meeting with its leaders, as well as French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe.
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Members of the organisation, which describes itself as the biggest union of undocumented immigrants in France, also call themselves GiletsNoirs - or black vests.
Black Vests >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yellow Vests
My advice: every Black Vest must own a firearm ASAP.
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The decisions of every individual make a difference, from aid workers to attorneys to jury members:
www.courthousenews.com/jury-deadlocks-in-case-of-arizonan-who-helped-immigrants/
TUCSON, Ariz. (CN) – Humanitarian aid worker Scott Warren walked out of court to cheers from supporters today after a jury deadlocked on charges that he helped two undocumented immigrants get into the United States and hid them from border agents.
Warren, 36, thanked his family, friends, lawyers and community for their support since his arrest Jan. 17, 2018. The volunteer for the nonprofit aid group No More Deaths was charged with one count of conspiracy to harbor or transport and two counts of harboring illegal aliens. His seven-day trial before U.S. District Judge Raner Collins went to jurors this past Friday.
In a brief statement outside the courthouse, Warren immediately highlighted the reason he helps immigrants.
“Since my arrest in January of 2018, at least 88 bodies were recovered from the Ajo corridor of the Arizona desert. We know that’s a minimum and many more are out there that have not been found,” Warren said. He noted the government’s response, which includes criminalizing humanitarian aid and planning a wall.
“Today it remains as necessary as ever for humanitarian aid volunteers to stand in solidarity with migrants and refugees,” he said.
Prosecutors claimed Warren conspired with Mexican aid worker Irineo Mujica and No More Deaths nurse Susannah Brown to help two undocumented migrants – Kristian Gerardo Perez-Villanueva from El Salvador and Jose Arnaldo Sacaria-Godoy from Guatemala – into the tiny town of Ajo, Arizona, about 30 miles north of Mexico where No More Deaths maintains a permanent aid station they call the “barn.”
Mujica, prosecutors said, was in contact with Warren in the days before the men climbed the border fence outside Sonoyta, Mexico, across the border from Lukeville, Arizona. The men hiked two nights, eventually getting to Ajo and finding a man who prosecutors say was Mujica, who gave them a ride to the barn.
The jury deliberated two days before coming back deadlocked.
Also in a brief statement outside the courthouse, Warren’s attorney Greg Kuykendall said the U.S. government has long demonized and “otherized” marginalized people, at times excluding them from the nation entirely, but there is another minority in the U.S. that counters the government efforts.
“People who love, honor and respect all people regardless of race or status, people who put to use in order to help the dispossessed, their own birth privilege or their own education privilege or simply their own privilege of being able to make themselves heard,” he said. “Ultimately they do that to change this county.”
Kuykendall declined to guess if prosecutors will retry Warren.
He also declined to directly address claims that the prosecution was in retaliation for a No More Deaths report just days before Warren’s arrest that included video of Border Patrol agents destroying water left by volunteers in the desert, where temperatures routinely exceed 110 degrees and water can save lives.
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We may have more allies than we thought we had:
www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-23/acting-dhs-chief-sabotaged-ice-raids-leaking-plan-washington-post
Since the Washington Post spoiled the surprise and published a report about the Trump Administration's plan to arrest thousands of migrant families who have been denied asylum - prompting the administration to cancel the raids - many have probably been wondering why somebody inside would break President Trump's longstanding policy of not telegraphing your moves in advance.
Well, now that question appears to have been answered by the Washington Examiner: The acting head of DHS, Kevin McAleenan, reportedly leaked the details of the operation (he traveled alongside the WaPo reporter who broke the story earlier this week) in what sources described as a deliberate attempt to sabotage the raids.
According to several sources who spoke with the Examiner, McAleenan had opposed the raids for months. The acting DHS head, who has been credited with pushing the policy of sending more agents to Guatemala, is said to be more concerned with what Congressional Democrats and the 'Never Trumpers' think of his performance than most other members of the administration.
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The White House said it had called off the operation to allow more time for lawmakers to work on a plan to fix legal "loopholes" that have helped to entice migrants to come to the US. In reality, McAleenan successfully stymied the operation by exposing the broad strokes. McAleenan allegedly told WaPo that the mass roundups would take place in 10 cities, including Chicago, Miami and Houston. The mayor of Chicago ordered Chicago Police not to grant ICE access to its databases, and refuse to cooperate in any way with the raids.
One officials said that, by leaking the details of the raid, McAleenan might have been trying to "be the martyr" in the face of blowback against Trump's immigration policies. That is, he was trying to distance himself from the administration's decision making.
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ICE advised the administration to cancel the raids after the leaks not only because targets might have been tipped off by the news and fled wherever they had been staying, but because the leaks could put agents in danger.
As I have been saying the whole time, the most effective way to oppose ICE is to make its agents feel unsafe carrying out their operations. What McAleenan did is nothing compared to what just a few dedicated snipers could do.
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A soft start to Ahimsa?
nbcpalmsprings.com/2019/06/25/border-patrol-agent-struck-with-large-rock-in-calexico/
A U.S. Border Patrol agent assigned to the Calexico Border Patrol station was assaulted while patrolling near the border wall, Saturday morning.
The incident occurred at around 11:55 a.m., near the intersection of 1 st. Street and Dool Avenue. The agent responded to the area in his patrol vehicle in order to effect the arrest of a man who illegally entered the United States through a breach in an old dilapidated section of wall.
At that time, a second individual threw a soft-ball sized concrete rock through the breach in the wall, which went through the driver side window and struck the agent’s face. Shortly thereafter, the rock thrower absconded.
The rock thrown at the agent caused a serious laceration above the eye which required medical attention. The agent was transported to a local hospital for medical treatment and further evaluation.
Hopefully a sign of more Ahimsa to come.
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Black Vests again:
www.dw.com/en/undocumented-migrants-occupy-paris-pantheon-for-right-to-remain/a-49573802
"We will remain here until the last one of us has been given documents," the text on a leaflet being handed out at the demonstration declared while young men chanted "black vests" in reference to the recent "yellow vest" protests against high fuel charges, and subsequently against the government.
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Migrant support group "La Chapelle Debout" (Standing Chapel) whose activists were also inside the Pantheon said 700 migrants and their supporters had gained entry to the building at the start of the afternoon and were surrounded by police. The atmosphere was "good-natured," a spokeswoman for the group told AFP. Tourists had been cleared from the building.
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In a statement, the group said they wanted papers and housing for everyone. "We do not want to have to negotiate any more with the interior minister and the prefectures," the group stated. "We want to talk to Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, now!"
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Far-right leader Marine Le Pen condemned the occupation, calling it unacceptable. "In France, the only future for an illegal immigrant should be expulsion, because that's the law," she wrote on Twitter.
The only people obliged to abide by any given law of any country are those who receive protection from the same law in return. For example, we are obliged to not steal because in return the state will protect our property. We are obliged to not run red lights because in return we get to use the safer roads that result from traffic lights. And so on. This principle breaks down when it comes to immigration, because those who abide by a so-called “law” that prohibits them from entering are not in any way protected by this same so-called “law”. On the contrary, they are simply left outside where the state need not care about them at all (and can even bomb them)! Thus so-called “laws” prohibiting immigration are not really laws at all, but tyranny.
In other good news:
www.vox.com/2019/6/29/19927682/border-wall-judge-blocks-us-mexico-california-arizona
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Baby, six months, dies hours after being saved from Mediterranean
‘The Med is a cemetery with no gravestones,’ refugee rescue organisation says as it announces infant’s tragic death.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/12/baby-six-months-dies-hours-after-being-saved-from-mediterranean
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www.dailysabah.com/americas/2019/07/09/peruvian-writer-mario-vargas-llosa-nominates-capt-carola-rackete-for-nobel-for-migrant-rescues
Nobel laureate Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa on Monday called for the Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded to German ship captain Carola Rackete, who was arrested in June for docking a migrant rescue ship without authorization in the Italian port of Lampedusa.
Vargas Llosa made his nomination in an article published in the Argentine daily La Nacion (The Nation) entitled "The captain Rackete, my candidate for the Nobel."
On June 12, Rackete, who works for the German rescue organization Sea-Watch, picked up 53 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya. Rackete rejected an offer to dock the "Sea-Watch 3" in Tripoli, which is considered an unsafe port due to the ongoing conflict in the city.
The 31-year-old captain headed the Dutch-flagged ship – which was carrying children, pregnant women and sick migrants – toward the nearest port of Lampedusa. But, on June 14, Italy closed its ports to rescue ships. Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini refused to authorize docking, except for 10 migrants in critical need of medical care, until other European countries agreed to take the rest of the migrants.
A desperate Rackete and her crew made inquiries with Malta, France and Germany. They tried petitioning the European Court of Human Rights, which rejected the appeal on grounds that Sea-Watch 3 should have taken the migrants to the nearest country of Tunisia instead.
Two weeks later on June 28, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg and Portugal agreed to take in the other 43 migrants.
On June 29, still awaiting authorization, Rackete decided to dock the ship, stating that the migrants aboard were exhausted.
Rackete was arrested after docking the ship and placed under house arrest until July 2, when she was released after a court ruled she had broken no laws and acted to protect the safety of her passengers.
She faces a second hearing on Tuesday on charges of aiding and abetting illegal entry by the migrants and illegal entry into territorial waters.
"When laws, such as those invoked by Matteo Salvini, are irrational and inhuman, it is a moral duty to disobey them, as Carola Rackete did," Vargas Llosa wrote, underscoring that the alternative of letting the migrants die of exhaustion at sea was morally untenable.
"The young German has violated a stupid and cruel law," Vargas Llosa said, adding that Italy's League party and its leader Salvini represent "not respect for legality, but a prejudiced and racist caricature of the Rule of Law."
"And it is precisely he and his followers (too numerous, indeed, and not only in Italy, but in almost all of Europe) who embody the savagery and barbarism of which they accuse immigrants," he continued.
"Thanks to the courage and decency of Carola Rackete, at least these 40 unfortunates will be saved, since there are already five European countries that have offered to receive them," Vargas Llosa added.
Vargas Llosa called for Rackete's trial in Italy to be closely followed, calling on the public to "demand that the judges save the honor and good traditions of Italy trampled today by Salvini and the League."
"I am sure that I will not be the only one asking for that young captain (to receive) the Nobel Peace Prize when the time comes," Vargas Llosa concluded.
I support this. However, gestures like these do not lessen the need to assassinate Salvini ASAP.
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Better than nothing, but will not stop the raids:
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/hotel-chains-vow-to-block-ice-from-using-rooms-as-backup-detention-centers-during-raids
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Captain Rackete speaks:
www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/07/16/migrant-ngo-captain-demands-europe-500000-migrants/
Migrant transport NGO Captain Carola Rackete has demanded that Europe take in all asylum seekers from Libya, a number believed to be over half a million people.
The Seas Watch captain told German media that she wanted to see Europe take in all of the migrants currently in Libya, according to German tabloid Bild, saying: “We hear of half a million people in the hands of smugglers or in Libyan refugee camps we need to get out.”
Rackete, who is currently under investigation in connection with aiding illegal migration in Italy, was arrested late last month and then released after forcing her vessel, the Sea Watch-3, into Italian territorial waters without permission and ramming a patrol boat in the process.
“As far as the accident goes, nobody was in mortal danger, that was a minor technical collision. But even politicians should not judge that, but experts alone. In general, all the excitement could have been prevented if Italy had supported us,” Rackete said.
She went on to say that Europe should also take in so-called “climate refugees” arguing that “asylum has no limit!” and went on to say: “The collapse of the climate system causes climate refugees, which we naturally have to absorb. In some African countries, caused by industrialised countries in Europe, the food base is being destroyed.”
According to Rackete, European states like Germany have a “historical responsibility” to Africa because of their colonial past. “There is a historical responsibility to accept refugees who can no longer live in their countries due to the balance of power or the climate situation,” she said.
I agree with all the above. There are going to be more climate refugees in future, whom we need to start preparing to take in now. However:
Rackete launched a lawsuit for slander against the League party leader earlier this month and has demanded Salvini have his social media platforms on Facebook and Twitter taken away.
Rackete briefly commented on the lawsuit in her interview with Bild saying: “I think you can not put up with everything. He has spread falsehoods and I want him to erase these untruths on Twitter and Facebook. And also that a judge tells him: ‘You can never say that again!'”
Salvini needs to have his life taken away, not his Facebook and Twitter. Salvini is not someone who will let a judge tell him what he can say, or do. He will keep pushing refugees back out to drown until he dies. Therefore his death must be hastened.
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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7275255/ICE-agents-forced-retreat-activists-link-arms-prevent-man-son-taken.html
A group of neighbors and activists in Tennessee formed a human chain Monday after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tried to detain a man who was with his 12-year-old son.
Cellphone video captured the controversial moment that friends and activists joined hands to allow the father and son to escape into their Forest Ridge home in Nashville, Tennessee's Hermitage neighborhood.
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'They were saying, "if you don’t come out, we’re going to arrest you, we’re going to arrest your 12-year-old son," local attorney Daniel Ayoadeyoon told WFTF. 'That’s just not legal, it’s not the right law.'
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'They don't bother nobody and this is illegal,' one bystander said during the encounter.
'I've been knowing these people for 14 years,' added another neighbor, Felishadae Young. 'It's sad to see these children being ripped away from their parents.'
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'I could see if these people were bad criminals, but they’re not, they’re just trying to provide for their kids,' neighbor Stacey Farley told reporters after the incident. 'They work every day, they come home, the kids jump on their trampoline, it’s just a community.'
Sanctuary cities are banned in Tennessee under a state law that went into effect on January 1, according to Think Progress, but Nashville police chief Steve Anderson has resisted calls for his department to help round up immigrants, saying doing so would make them fear cooperating with police in the city that has the state's largest foreign-born population.
Good work, but ICE will be back. If you do not want ICE back, you need to use firearms. You seem to have a sympathetic police chief, so if every person in the neighbourhood put one bullet each into the ICE agents, is the police going to arrest the entire neighbourhood?
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New subreddit:
www.reddit.com/r/WhereAreTheChildren/
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www.technologyreview.com/f/614146/whole-foods-amazon-palantir-ice-rekognition-technology-backlash/
A group of anonymous Whole Foods employees is calling out Amazon (which bought the supermarket chain in 2017) for working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). An open letter, posted via the group’s Twitter account, criticizes Amazon for providing cloud computing services to Palantir, a data analytics company that works for ICE, which has been cracking down on undocumented immigrants. The group, called Whole Worker, also asks Amazon to stop selling its facial-recognition technology, Rekognition, to law enforcement and demands that it stop business with “any other company involved in the continued oppression of marginalized groups.”
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Elsewhere in the company, employees have been protesting Amazon’s relationship with ICE for over a year, though momentum has grown recently because of anti-ICE protests. Last month, employees of Amazon Web Services circulated a letter that also demanded the company stop working with ICE.
Whole Foods > Amazon
news.yahoo.com/migrant-ship-150-board-arrives-123108197.html
A migrant rescue ship with nearly 150 people on board has docked near an Italian island after a judge in Rome overruled the interior minister Matteo Salvini’s ban on the boat entering the country’s waters.
The Open Arms was stranded in the Mediterranean Sea for nearly two weeks after Mr Salvini said the ship should not be allowed to dock.
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The court ruled that the ban violated international laws and called for “immediate assistance to the to the rescued people most in need”.
Following the ruling, Mr Salvini issued a fresh decree banning the ship from docking at the island of Lampedusa to disembark the passengers.
But the Italian defence minister Elisabetta Trenta, a member of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, refused to countersign it and said she was “listening to my conscience”.
But when are we going to start seriously punishing those states which violate international law? Because if there is no punishment for violation, there is no pragmatic incentive for following international law. Trenta may have a conscience, but Salvini clearly does not. The very reason law exists is because many people lack conscience and need to be threatened with death in order to be persuaded to not initiate violence.
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Nitpick time: Does it make sense to criticize pretentious and arrogant politicians in the UN for declaring certain "international laws" to be legit in all nations, including ones that do not consent to said laws ~~~ and then to cite the violation of one of those laws as a reason for action against a nation that has done so, even if the law being violated is perfectly moral?
It's better to just say "to Hell with these guys for doing evil ****" rather than "to Hell with these guys for violating a law".
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"politicians in the UN declaring certain "international laws" to be legit in all nations, including ones that do not consent to said laws"
Politicians in the UN speak to UN member states. UN membership is not compulsory. You would think that states disagreeing with UN legal standards would voluntarily leave the UN. In reality, however, they shamelessly want the privileges of UN membership but not the burdens. What I am criticizing is the fact that they are allowed to get away with this by the UN, which instead merely issues impotent "warnings" over and over again that carry no practical consequences with them:
www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/un-warns-italy-over-tough-law-on-migrant-rescue-boats/
"It's better to just say "to Hell with these guys for doing evil ****""
Sure, but that's for us to say. UN politicians speak within their capacity as UN politicians.
Everyone has to contribute in their own capacity:
www.worldreligionnews.com/religion-news/elca-americas-first-sanctuary-church-body
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Judges are not going be able to help us much longer:
www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/us/immigration-judges-union-justice-department.html
The Justice Department has moved to decertify the union of immigration judges, a maneuver that could muffle an organization whose members have sometimes been openly critical of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement agenda.
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“This is a misguided effort to minimize our impact,” said Judge Amiena Khan, vice president of the judges’ union, which has publicly criticized the use of a quota system in immigration court and other attempts to speed up proceedings.
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“We serve as a check and balance on management prerogatives and that’s why they are doing this to us,” said Judge Khan.
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Both Judge Khan and the union president, Judge Ashley Tabaddor, have spoken out repeatedly against what they say is an attempt to turn immigration judges from neutral arbiters of the law to law enforcement agents enacting the White House’s policies. They have called for immigration judges to be independent of the Justice Department.
Last year, the union criticized the department’s quota system, which required immigration judges to complete 700 cases per year, as well as a move to bar judges from an administrative tool they had previously used to reduce their caseloads. The union says the focus on efficiency impedes judges’ ability to work through complicated cases and could affect the due process rights of immigrants in court.
A day will come when due process will no longer exist at all, at which point firearms will be the only alternative to capitulation.
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Judges with conscience act while they still can (see previous post):
news.yahoo.com/judge-hurries-u-naturalization-pregnant-193453132.html
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A judge in California had to speed up the naturalization of a pregnant immigrant on Thursday when the woman, anxious to become a U.S. citizen because of President Donald Trump's immigration policies, started experiencing contractions.
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She refused to leave until she was sworn in as a U.S. citizen, said U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney, who performed an impromptu naturalization ceremony before the official event began for immigrants from 114 different countries.
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"I sped up this process because of the fact of the current president, because the immigration laws are under attack," said Tatev, a former California high school history teacher, adding she was fearful her green card, which makes her a legal permanent U.S. resident, would be taken from her.
Trump said on Wednesday his administration was seriously looking at ending the right of citizenship for U.S.-born children of non-citizens and people who immigrated to the United States illegally.
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"I don't want my kid to face these issues growing up in this country and having this be his home and not legally being part of this country," said Tatev, who stays home to care for her 2-year-old daughter.
Tatev said in a phone interview that she arrived in the United States from Armenia when she was 14 and it took her 17 years to first get a green card and then citizenship.
"If he (Trump) doesn't like what's happening, why don't we pass better policies that make it a little easier for people to go through this process instead of having to sneak into this country and go through so many horrible experiences?" she said.
Because Trump is a Westerner. Putting us through horrible experiences gives him a feeling of importance. This is called Western civilization. As a history teacher, surely you know something about this?
And I predicted long ago that our enemies would be going after the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Good news!
thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/458325-illinois-enacts-law-barring-landlords-from-evicting-tenants-over
Illinois enacts law barring landlords from evicting tenants over immigration status
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed a bill into law Wednesday that prohibits landlords in the state from evicting residents due to their immigration status, the second state in the nation to do so.
The law, which passed with bipartisan support through the state legislature after a broader version was vetoed by former Gov. Bruce Rauner (R), also prohibits landlords from using their clients' immigration status in any way to intimidate them, including barring landlords from threatening tenants with calls to immigration officials.
Those found guilty of doing so can be fined up to $2,000 for each violation, according to the governor's website. The bill takes effect immediately.
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news.yahoo.com/italian-doctor-fights-shed-light-mediterraneans-migrant-dead-035822027.html
Paris (AFP) - For Cristina Cattaneo, the thousands of migrants who have died trying to reach Europe's shores in recent years deserve the same as any other disaster victims: a concerted effort to find out who they were and let their families know the painful truth about their fate.
"The dead need to be identified -- not for the dead, they are lost, but for the living. People need to bury and identify and grieve their dead," Cattaneo, an Italian forensic pathologist, told AFP in an interview.
Since 2013, the laboratory she heads at the University of Milan has been waging a lonely fight to piece together a life from the photos or love letters, school reports and bits of clothing carried by migrants, who have drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.
Many younger victims from Eritrea and Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, she said, also tuck away small pouches of soil from their homelands -- just like the leaves and flowers that Cattaneo herself stashed away on summer trips back to Italy after moving to Canada as a child.
"I was putting them in my pocket to remind me of the place I loved," she said.
"If people could see what these adolescents had in their pockets, they would understand that they are actually us."
Fine, so why are we letting rightists drown us by the thousands and not ensuring rightists die in greater numbers? These are not "disaster victims", these are victims of artificial barriers knowingly and purposefully set up by rightists to be lethal on a mass scale to those who happened to be born on the wrong side through no fault of their own. We should be talking about what rightists deserve. The unjustly dead need not to be buried, identified or grieved, but before all else to be avenged.
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OLD CONTENT contd.
More from the Captain:
news.yahoo.com/captain-broke-italys-migrant-ban-162920782.html
BARCELONA, Sept 10 (Reuters) - A German captain who defied Italy's ban on boats bringing migrants ashore said on Tuesday she was determined to carry on rescuing migrants from the Mediterranean, even though her ship Sea-Watch 3 remains impounded in an Italian port.
Carola Rackete, in Barcelona to receive an award from the Catalan parliament for her rescue missions, also urged the European Union to agree on a policy for redistributing migrants around the bloc to help relieve the pressure on Italy.
I told you Catalonia was on our side. Imagine if Catalonia had become independent a few years ago (which we supported back then); refugees could be landing there now!
"We are definitely willing (to continue rescuing migrants) and there's a full crew on board ready to sail at any point ... I think it’s a very, very important duty to rescue people in maritime distress," Rackete, 31, told Reuters.
Sea-Watch 3 is currently detained in the Italian port of Lucata. In June, Rackete piloted the vessel into port on the Italian island of Lampedusa with 41 migrants aboard despite efforts by the then-interior minister Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right League, to stop her.
Rackete was arrested in Lampedusa and accused of endangering lives by barging into port but a judge threw out the accusations and freed her from house arrest. She still faces possible charges of aiding illegal immigration and defying official orders.
"We are very hopeful that even if it comes to a court case our state of necessity will justify our entering the port," she said, speaking in English.
Unknown numbers of mostly African illegal migrants have drowned in recent years while attempting to cross the Mediterranean by boat from Libya to Italy in search of a better life in Europe.
Italy welcomed in almost all of the migrants rescued by humanitarian groups at sea until a populist coalition government took office in 2018 and immediately sought to close the nation's ports to the charity ships.
Rackete called for a European solution to the problem.
"I would hope that there's an agreement of the European Union to transfer all the people that arrive in Italian ports" to EU countries, she said. "I hope then the Italian state would open the ports and allow people to disembark."
Europe is "responsible in many ways for what is happening in these countries" after centuries of colonialism, Rackete said, adding that naval vessels should again be used to rescue migrants adrift on the Mediterranean.
Asked whether charity boats would no longer be needed with an EU-wide policy in place, she said: "Definitely that would be what we are aiming for."
Exactly.
Nevertheless, what if Salvini comes back and the ports close again? At what point do we finally say we have had enough and will use firearms to keep the ports open?
Also, an article praising Rackete:
www.tellerreport.com/news/2019-07-05---carola-rackete--an-antigone-of-our-time-.rkr49RhxS.html
The most important thing to remember is that such articles should not even be necessary (and would indeed not have been necessary during the Counterculture era). Anyone who needs convincing that Rackete is the good guy and Salvini is the bad guy is already beyond saving.
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Some good news:
news.yahoo.com/italian-government-reaches-eu-deal-163111284.html
ROME (Reuters) - Italy said on Thursday it had done a deal with EU countries to share out migrants aboard a charity ship at sea in the Mediterranean, resolving the first of what may be repeated episodes that will test the new government in Rome.
The Ocean Viking, run by French charities SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders, is carrying 82 people that it rescued in various operations off Libya this week, and has requested a safe port.
The government, which was sworn in last week, has promised a change of tack compared with the previous administration in which far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini closed Italy's ports to migrant rescue boats.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said after a meeting of his top ministers on Thursday that "several EU countries" had agreed to take in the migrants aboard the Ocean Viking, "which will ensure a rapid and suitable solution" for them.
Nicola Zingaretti, head of the center-left Democratic Party (PD), which now governs with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, tweeted that a "positive solution" had been found thanks to the involvement of other EU countries.
However no details were given and a spokeswoman for SOS Mediterranee told Reuters they had not received any indication that their boat could dock at an Italian port.
Update:
news.yahoo.com/break-past-rome-lets-charity-085203994.html
LAMPEDUSA, Italy, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Italy's new government allowed a French charity ship to head to the island of Lampedusa on Saturday and bring ashore some 82 migrants, reversing the uncompromising, closed-door policy of the previous administration.
The Ocean Viking, run by French charities SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders (MSF), said on Twitter it had received the green light to sail to Lampedusa, six days after it carried out its first rescue off the coast of Libya.
"The Italian authorities have just offered Ocean Viking a place of safety," MSF said. Local officials confirmed the news.
Italy's government formally took office on Tuesday, promising a new approach to migration following the hardline clampdown on rescue ships introduced by former interior minister, Matteo Salvini, who heads the far-right League.
Also:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/12/california-private-prison-ban-immigration-ice
The private prison industry is set to be upended after California lawmakers passed a bill on Wednesday banning the facilities from operating in the state. The move will probably also close down four large immigration detention facilities that can hold up to 4,500 people at a time.
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The private prison industry is set to be upended after California lawmakers passed a bill on Wednesday banning the facilities from operating in the state. The move will probably also close down four large immigration detention facilities that can hold up to 4,500 people at a time.
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Immigration advocates still worry that Ice and its contractors could find a way to circumvent the ban.
“This legislation is the most powerful we’ve had. It’s a very big step,” said Abeln about AB32. “But we know Geo Group and Ice work in secrecy, and they work to circumvent contract laws, so we’re still monitoring things.”
Servin said that while the new law was a significant victory, there was one other thing immigrants rights groups were concerned about. When several sheriffs’ departments canceled their contracts to house Ice detainees last year, instead of freeing the detainees, Ice moved many of them to prisons in Colorado and Hawaii.
“We have to worry about all the people who are detained right now,” said Servine. “Where will they end up?”
What really matters is turning refugees into voters ASAP. Even some mainstream journalists are finally catching on:
www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/06/migrants-should-automatically-be-offered-care-education-housing-food-and-the-right-to-vote/
Refugees also need to own and know how to use firearms. This could be fairly easily achieved by drafting them into military service. Mainstream journalists have not caught on to this point yet, however.
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news.yahoo.com/asian-american-groups-oppose-cambodian-131654567.html
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — Asian American groups are objecting to the Trump administration's efforts to step up deportations of Cambodians with criminal records.
The Southeast Asia Resource Action Center and other groups say more than 50 Cambodian nationals living in Massachusetts, California and elsewhere have been ordered to report to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement next week for removal.
Demonstrations are planned in San Francisco, Sacramento, and Boston next week against the orders.
Kevin Lam, of the Asian American Resource Workshop, says many of those facing deportation served criminal sentences decades ago but are now valuable members of their communities.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say Cambodian deportations rose about 280% from fiscal year 2017 to 2018.
The agency says it respects the groups' rights to demonstrate, but remains committed to enforcing the nation's immigration laws.
The last sentence is the key. How many of the demonstrators are willing to use firearms against ICE? That is the only question that will affect whether the deportations will proceed.
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This is your Captain speaking:
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news.yahoo.com/aid-ship-captain-slams-eu-122143883.html
The comments by Sea Watch 3 captain Carola Rackete came as EU lawmakers were debating Mediterranean search and rescue methods amid the increasing criminalization by member countries of non-governmental organizations, activists and volunteers who help people attempting the perilous Mediterranean Sea crossing.
“The EU member states have engaged in a policy of externalization of their responsibilities and a practice of pushbacks and omissions of rescue, delegating interventions to a country at war, Libya, in breach of international law,” Rackete said to applause and occasional harangues from far-right lawmakers.
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Rackete said she hoped the EU’s new focus on search and rescue methods will result in “some real improvement and not just a mixed bag making it even more difficult for people like me and many, many organizations to carry out solidarity and to help people who are in danger.”
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“Society in general is encouraged to view humanitarians as criminal suspects and individuals and groups are discouraged from providing assistance to vulnerable asylum seekers and migrants,”
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Asked if she would still defy EU authorities in similar circumstances, Rackete _ whose charity vessel remains impounded in Italy _ said: “There is a huge need for ships to be out there. People are dying every day so I would do it again... I was in compliance with the international maritime law.”
This is an understatement. As I have been saying since 2015, every EU member state with a navy should be deploying its ships by the hundreds to ferry refugees across the Mediterranean 24/7. It is absurd to leave such large-scale rescue work to charities alone. Navy vessels could open up dozens more trans-Mediterranean routes, allowing refugees to cross from any part of the South Mediterranean coastline instead having to congregate in only a few spots and wait ridiculous lengths of time for passage as they currently do, thereby in turn trivially solving the problem of overcrowding (and all consequent logistical problems) at the current few waiting spots.
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Good news:
www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/world/asia/jacinda-ardern-refugees-new-zealand.html
After months of growing pressure, the government of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand abolished on Friday a policy restricting refugees from Middle Eastern and African countries, a curb imposed by the previous government that refugee advocates called discriminatory and racist.
The reversal of the decade-old rule set New Zealand in opposition to the increasingly restrictive refugee policies of allies like Australia and the United States. Last week, the Trump administration announced a sharp cut to the number of refugees it will accept, and Australia’s system of offshore detention of refugees arriving by sea continues to draw international condemnation.
The move also lifts a political millstone from around the neck of Ms. Ardern, who has been perceived globally after the Christchurch mosque attacks in March as a champion of migrants and refugees. For months, she had been forced to deny that the policy amounted to discrimination because one of her key political allies supported it.
The restriction, introduced by the center-right government that preceded Ms. Ardern’s center-left government, which has been in power for nearly two years, allowed refugees from Middle Eastern or African nations to resettle in New Zealand only if they could prove they already had relatives there.
The rule was ostensibly meant to prioritize refugees closer to home in the Asia-Pacific region. But government documents also revealed a desire to save money on resettlement costs, as well as “broad security concerns” about refugees from Africa and the Middle East.
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Under the now-discarded policy, refugees from the Middle East and Africa were each allocated 14 percent of New Zealand’s annual refugee quota of 1,000 people. But the requirement that they have family links in the country meant officials had struggled to fill the quota, said Murdoch Stephens, a lecturer at Massey University in Wellington and a campaigner against the rule.
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The immigration minister, Iain Lees-Galloway, said on Friday that the Middle East and Africa quotas would each be increased from 14 percent to 15 percent. Fifty percent will continue to be drawn from the Asia-Pacific region, and 20 percent from the Americas.
Earlier, I was worried that Ardern was all talk, but this latest development is encouraging. I think Ardern can be pushed further left if we are skillful about it.
With all this said, let's put things back in perspective:
New Zealand, a country of about 4.8 million people, will increase its overall quota from 1,000 people annually to 1,500 in 2020. By contrast, the United States, with nearly 330 million people, will accept only 18,000 refugees over the next 12 months.
1500 per year is still utterly pathetic.
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www.yahoo.com/entertainment/21-savage-calls-automatic-citizenship-151855385.html
21 Savage — the rapper who endured his own immigration saga earlier this year — was honored Thursday by the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), where he stated that children who live illegally in America should automatically become citizens.
“When you’re a child, you don’t know what’s going on,” 21 Savage told the Associated Press. “Now, you grow up and got to figure it out. Can’t get a job. Can’t get a license. I’m one of the lucky ones who became successful. It’s a lot of people who can’t.”
The rapper born She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph — who moved to America from the U.K. when he was seven years old — added of immigrant children living in America: “I feel like we should be exempt. I feel like we should automatically become citizens.”
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OLD CONTENT contd.
news.yahoo.com/least-13-dead-migrant-boat-143813658.html
MILAN (AP) — The deaths of at least 13 people early Monday on an overloaded migrant boat that capsized near the Italian island of Lampedusa have galvanized calls to shut down smuggler routes and revamp search-and-rescue efforts in the deadly central Mediterranean Sea.
The Italian coast guard said one of its vessels was about to begin the rescue about six nautical miles Italy's southernmost island when the boat capsized. Survivors told the U.N. refugee agency that the migrants moved to one side of their unseaworthy vessel when they saw the rescue ship, capsizing it.
Twenty-two people were plucked from the sea and brought to safety. But 13, all women, were pulled dead from the water, and the search was continuing for 15 still missing, including an unknown number of children.
The boat had departed Tunisia, with about 50 people on board, mostly west Africans and Tunisians.
The incident brings to more than 1,000 the number of people who have died in the Mediterranean Sea this year.
"Enough massacres in the sea," Lampedusa Mayor Toto Martello said. "We cannot continue to watch bodies being unloaded of poor people who are following a dream to better their lives. Politicians must react."
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The U.N. refugee agency said that Monday's deadly shipwreck "highlights once again that urgent action is needed to address the situation on the Mediterranean." It called for the European Union to resume its search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea, especially along the dangerous route from Libya.
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In the absence of an EU search and rescue operation, the job of patrolling the Mediterranean has largely been left to humanitarian rescue ships.
But there are fewer of those than a year ago because of sanctions they face under measures adopted when hard-liner Matteo Salvini was interior minister. And once a rescue has been carried out, both Italy and Malta have closed their ports to the NGO ships, leading to days or weeks of haggling with the EU to find a safe harbor.
One of those, Spanish NGO Open Arms, said Monday it rescued 44 people, including one toddler and a months-old baby, on a wooden boat trying to reach European shores.
Gerard Canals, chief of mission of the Open Arms rescue boat, said the boat was found late Sunday in Malta's rescue zone, about 50 nautical miles from Lampedusa.
Canals said that Malta's rescue coordination center told the group not to offer the migrants any assistance, saying that Italy would probably send a patrol boat from Lampedusa, about an hour away. But Open Arms decided to rescue them anyway after waiting five hours because the boat wouldn't have made it to land without fuel and faced adverse weather.
All 44 rescued — 38 men, four women, a 4-year-old boy, and a baby around 6 to 9 months old — were in good condition.
"The surprise was to hear Malta's instructions -- who told us to let them continue to sail. We are evidently talking about a vessel in distress, an overcrowded boat without any type of guarantee that it can reach anywhere, and evidently without enough fuel to reach the island of Lampedusa," Open Arms Founder Oscar Camps told a news conference near Barcelona.
Malta's government declined to comment.
Camps said that had the Open Arms been cleared to rescue the 44 earlier -- instead of waiting five hours -- the ship could have been available to sail to Lampedusa and aid in that rescue -- perhaps saving lives. But he said they were not called in any case, an indication of authorities' reluctance to coordinate with them.
"Once again we denounce that these boats are in distress. They are by themselves, vessels in danger, because of the dimensions, the overweight (overcrowded) and the lack of navigation capacity and little security guarantees they can offer," Camps said. "They must be intervened immediately they cannot be left to their own luck."
Which is what I have been saying.
(Also, people like Martello and Camps are examples of authentic populism. Unfortunately almost no one these days remembers the correct definition of populism.)
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townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/10/08/dc-city-council-votes-unanimously-to-end-working-with-ice-n2554377
Yesterday, Townhall reported that the Washington D.C. City Council would be considering "emergency" legislation on Tuesday that would order all D.C. government agencies and facilities from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as other federal immigration authorities unless given an explicit court order. On Tuesday, the D.C. City Council voted unanimously to pass this bill, officially known as the "Sanctuary Values Act."
Good but not good enough. ICE can and will work effectively even without third-party cooperation. Only when ICE is too afraid to even enter a given territory in the first place can that territory truly call itself a sanctuary. This requires willingness by locals to use firearms to shoot ICE agents on sight RoboCop 3 style:
https://swordofelysium.wordpress.com/2017/09/22/robocop-3-duty-vs-power/
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news.yahoo.com/italy-lets-french-migrant-ship-131850952.html
ROME, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Charity rescue ship Ocean Viking headed towards the southern Italian port of Taranto on Tuesday after the government gave it authorisation to bring 176 migrants ashore in a decision that angered the far-right League.
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Salvini denounced on Tuesday the decision to let the Ocean Viking dock immediately.
"The Ocean Viking is a French NGO and is Norwegian-flagged. Can you tell me why it has to come to Italy?? Either go to France, or go to Norway," he wrote on Twitter.
Yes, I can tell you why, Salvini. Because Italy is (*gasp*) closer. If the Ocean Viking drops off refugees in Italy, it can return to the Libyan coast sooner and hence pick up the next round of refugees sooner, while the refugees it has just dropped off can (if they wish) travel to France or Norway more efficiently overland. On the other hand, if the Ocean Viking has to sail all the way to France or especially Norway, it will have to take considerably longer getting back to the Libyan coast, during which time the refugees it could have saved might be drowned.
Can you tell me what it says about your supporters that you are so popular while being such an utter moron?
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This would not have happened if no one has to fear being deported:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7606715/How-39-desperate-stowaway-migrants-locked-metal-coffin-left-die.html
The 39 migrants, locked inside a bitterly cold and airless shipping container, never stood a chance – their cries for help fading away with no one to hear them.
The stowaways – 38 adults and one teenager – slowly froze to death in 'absolutely horrendous' conditions after they tried to reach the UK on a cargo ferry from Belgium, it is feared.
Experts yesterday said the temperature inside the refrigerated trailer unit, which is said to usually carry biscuits, might have been as low as -25C (-13F).
The migrants were huddled inside for at least 15 hours by the time the door was opened on an industrial estate in Essex at 1.40am yesterday.
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn also reflected on the tragedy, branding it 'unbelievable'.
He said: 'Can we just think for a moment of what it must have been like for those 39 people, obviously in a desperate and dangerous situation, for their lives to end, suffocated to death in a container?'
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the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants has already blamed the British government.
The charity's chief executive Satbir Singh said: 'Nobody should be in any doubt that the ultimate responsibility for these deaths lies with government policy which has deliberately closed down safe and legal routes into Britain.'
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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7642387/Smugglers-Mexico-SAWING-sections-Trumps-virtually-impenetrable-border-wall.html
Smugglers in Mexico are SAWING through sections of Trump's 'virtually impenetrable' border wall using popular power tools that cost less than $100
Well done! Next, our side needs to shoot through CBP/ICE agents. Practically effective firearms can cost only a few times as much as power tools:
www.cheaperthandirt.com/firearms/rifles/
Whereas the cost of rehiring CBP/ICE agents to replace the dead will go up far faster than the cost of repairing the wall. Again, much of strategy is just elementary number-crunching.
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Support Scott Warren:
news.yahoo.com/second-trial-against-activist-helped-044814624.html
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Jury selection started Tuesday in the second trial against an Arizona border activist accused of harboring migrants who sneaked across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Scott Warren, 37, contends he was fulfilling his mission as a humanitarian when he helped two Central American men at a camp run by the border group No More Deaths, which also drops off water jugs in the desert. But prosecutors have said the men were not injured and that Warren conspired to help them evade authorities.
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While Warren has said he was performing a humanitarian mission to help migrants in need, prosecutors contend they were never in distress. They say Warren gave them directions on how to avoid a Border Patrol checkpoint when they left the No More Deaths camp in Ajo in January 2018.
Warren is one of nine No More Deaths members who have been charged with crimes related to their work, although he's the only facing felony charges.
Warren's arrest came months after Border Patrol agents began an investigation into the No More Deaths camp, according to documents released after news organizations sued to get them.
The documents show that in April 2017, an anonymous Ajo resident told Border Patrol officials that he suspected members of the group were harboring immigrants in their building, known as "The Barn."
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Thousands of immigrants have died crossing the border since the mid-1990s, when increased enforcement pushed many to Arizona's scorching desert.
nomoredeaths.org/
Water jugs are not enough, though. Will the water jug protect refugee from being captured by CBP/ICE? What they need most now are firearms.
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I warned long ago that any country stupid enough to accept deportees would be rapidly overloaded (why do you think those people left in the first place?):
qz.com/africa/1751948/returning-migrants-from-europe-cause-problems-for-the-gambia/
Roughly 38,500 Gambians left the country through ‘irregular’ means between 2013 and 2017.
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As a result, a large number of citizens, mostly young men, sought asylum in Europe. But very few have been allowed to stay. Even more were turned away when Jammeh was toppled after elections in 2017 and the country returned to democracy. More recently, there has been a big push from European Union (EU) member states to return failed asylum seekers back home to The Gambia.
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Despite initial cooperation with the EU on returns, in March 2019 Barrow’s government imposed a moratorium on any further deportations of its nationals from the EU. After a standoff of several months, the moratorium has now been lifted.
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Before the moratorium was imposed in March 2019, the government had started to tentatively cooperate with the EU on return matters. For example, it sent regular missions to Europe to issue nationals with identification documents to facilitate their return.
Relations began to sour when European governments increased returns in a way that authorities in The Gambia viewed as inconsistent with the ‘good practice’ agreement. The agreement stipulates that return numbers should not overstretch the country’s capacity to receive returnees. It also states that adequate notice must be given before asylum seekers are returned. Both of these provisions were allegedly breached.
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The moratorium can be linked to diplomatic and technical inefficiencies, but it is also based on a more fundamental problem for Barrow’s government. By cooperating with the EU on returns, they risk their domestic legitimacy because by and large, most Gambians in Europe do not want to return home.
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Allowing more deportations from the EU is perceived as betrayal by many migrants and their families.
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In these politically tense times, pressing a pause button on returns fulfilled a symbolic function by defending Gambians against foreign national interests. The recent lifting of the moratorium is politically very risky. It paves the way for more of the deeply unpopular chartered return operations.
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In the alternative, the EU could take a more cooperative stance by working on more holistic, development-oriented solutions. A starting point would be to move away from plans to return high numbers of failed asylum seekers. Sending back large numbers of migrants has never been feasible.
The Gambian government will be more honest about its migration dealings with the EU if the agreements are fair and practical. Most importantly, if Gambians had access to fair and practical migration pathways this would lessen cases of irregular migration, which continue to remain high.
If any of the refugees themselves wanted to return to Gambia, they would do so on their own initiative. Therefore deportees are victims of initiated violence. To accept deportees is to be complicit in the violence initiated against them. Another way to look at it is: if another country can make you accept their deportees, you have been reduced to a colony of that country in practice.
On the contrary, all transport crew carrying deportees should be arrested as human traffickers (which is exactly what they are) and executed. Only this will send the message that deportation will not be tolerated.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/angela-merkel-welcomed-refugees-to-germany-theyre-starting-to-help-the-economy/2019/05/03/4bafa36e-6b60-11e9-bbe7-1c798fb80536_story.html
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Brussels still delusionally thinks it can use pieces of paper to persuade V4:
www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15245/eu-migrants-relocation-quota
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has unveiled a new plan to reform the European asylum system. A draft of the proposal leaked to the media shows that all member states of the European Union would be required to take in illegal migrants.
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The new plan is aimed at replacing the European Union's Dublin Regulation, a law that requires people seeking asylum in the EU to do so in the first European country they reach.
Southern European countries — especially Greece and Italy — have complained that, in the context of mass migration from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, the current system places an unfair and disproportionate burden on them. They say that all EU member states should take equal responsibility for migrants reaching European shores.
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The key part of the document calls for asylum applications to be assessed immediately upon arrival at the EU's external border. From there, a newly created European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) would "determine" which member state is responsible for taking in the applicant and processing his or her application.
Seehofer's plan is intended to be permanent and not limited to crisis situations. Notably, the plan does not address the issue of returning illegal migrants back to their countries of origin.
The plan studiously avoids using the politically explosive term "quota" and replaces it with "fair share" (gerechter Anteil). The document also omits the term "mandatory," although it is assumed throughout that the migrant relocation scheme will be compulsory for all EU member states.
If everything goes according to plan, the draft legislation would be adopted by the European Parliament in the second half of 2020 when Germany holds the presidency of the EU. It would then be ratified by the European Council, made up of the leaders of the EU member states.
The new European Commissioner for the Promotion of the European Way of Life, Margaritis Schinas, expressed support for the scheme:
"Migration Commissioner Ylva Johansson and I met Horst Seehofer. We completely agree with Germany. We need this consensus from all Member States, and we are working hard to achieve it."
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, however, voiced his opposition to the German plan. In an interview with the Czech news agency ČTK, he said that he saw through Seehofer's semantics:
"We fundamentally reject illegal migration. We also reject allowing smuggling gangs to decide who will live in Europe. We reject quotas and I am surprised that this issue has once again returned to the negotiating table. I hope that the new European Commission will put a stop to this."
Czech Interior Minister Jan Hamáček said that the Czech Republic would "coordinate our position" with the other members of the Visegrád Four (V4), a cultural and political alliance of four Central European states — the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said that the V4 would not bow to EU pressure to accept migrants:
"The V4's position is clear. We are not willing to admit any illegal migrants into central Europe. The success and security of central Europe is thanks to our pursuit of a firm anti-migration policy, and this will endure.
"This is why central Europe is one of the most successful regions of the European Union today, and its engine of growth. We do not tolerate any kind of pressure and we Hungarians insist on our right to decide whom to allow into our country and with whom we wish to live."
OK, so imagine the new plan passes but then V4 simply refuses to abide by it on ground level by physically shutting out refugees sent to them. Then what? As I have said over and over again, the only question of practical importance is how the EU intends to enforce cooperation, specifically whether or not it is willing to militarily destroy V4. Read the last two paragraphs again:
"The V4's position is clear. We are not willing to admit any illegal migrants into central Europe. The success and security of central Europe is thanks to our pursuit of a firm anti-migration policy, and this will endure.
"This is why central Europe is one of the most successful regions of the European Union today, and its engine of growth. We do not tolerate any kind of pressure and we Hungarians insist on our right to decide whom to allow into our country and with whom we wish to live."
You think mere economic penalties (let alone verbal condemnations) will change their minds? No, they will only change their minds when WMDs are raining down on them every day. If you are not willing to do this to them, then V4 has already won.
What makes it most annoying is how easy it would be if only the major EU powers were willing to use their military strength:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Defence_Forces
Active personnel
27,800 (2018)[8]
Reserve personnel
20,000 (2018)[8]
Deployed personnel
895 (2018)[9]
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Sanctuary cities tested:
www.borderreport.com/news/national/denver-officials-wont-hand-over-information-sought-by-ice/
WASHINGTON (AP) — Denver officials on Thursday said they would not hand over information requested by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement on four men wanted for deportation.
ICE, the Homeland Security agency tasked with arresting and deporting people in the U.S. illegally, sent four administrative subpoenas earlier this week to law enforcement looking for information on three Mexican nationals and one Honduran who had been in custody in Denver.
It was the first time subpoenas had been sent to a law enforcement agency — an escalation of the conflict between the Trump administration and so-called sanctuary cities.
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Chad Sublet, Senior Counsel to the Department of Safety in Denver, noted in a letter to ICE officials that the subpoenas were administrative — not issued by a judge — and there was no verifiable information on the documents to show the purpose was for law enforcement and not civil immigration enforcement.
“The documents appear to be a request for information related to alleged violations of civil immigration law,” he wrote. “Based on these facts, we are denying your request.”
Sublet wrote the subpoenas could be “viewed as an effort to intimidate officers into help enforcing civil immigration law.”
Here is what our enemies have to say:
vdare.com/posts/denver-challenges-dhs-subpoena-will-dhs-fold
A better strategy could be one of two more effective strategies; obtain a search warrant for the information and raid the City of Denver, seize their computer system, and take it away to review at the leisure of the ICE ERO officers. The second strategy, and these two are not necessarily exclusive, is to obtain an arrest warrant for Sublet for violation of Title 8 USC 1324, Bringing In and Harboring Certain Aliens and the above 18 USC 1505. This would be the shock and awe strategy, letting Sanctuary Cities know that DHS and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are serious about punishing their support for illegal immigration.
The only question is does Chad Wolf, DHS Secretary, have the balls to actually do something about Sanctuary Cities, or is he just another Kevin McAleenan? Stephen Miller should make it happen.
So suppose ICE actually does this. Is the self-proclaimed sanctuary city willing to order its local police to shoot the raiding ICE agents? If so, only then can it truly call itself a sanctuary city. If not, then it cannot. Can it?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNHy_BYwTPs
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Good news:
www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/22/greyhound-border-patrol-cant-conduct-immigration-checks-buses/4841999002/
SEATTLE — Greyhound, the nation's largest bus company, said Friday that it will stop allowing Border Patrol agents without a warrant to board its buses to conduct routine immigration checks.
The company's announcement came one week after The Associated Press reported on a leaked Border Patrol memo confirming that agents can't board private buses without the consent of the bus company. Greyhound had previously insisted that even though it didn't like the immigration checks, it had no choice under federal law but to allow them.
In an emailed statement, the company said it would notify the Department of Homeland Security that it does not consent to unwarranted searches on its buses or in areas of terminals that are not open to the public — such as company offices or any areas a person needs a ticket to access.
Greyhound said it would provide its drivers and bus station employees updated training regarding the new policy, and that it would place stickers on all its buses clearly stating that it does not consent to the searches.
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Greyhound has faced pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union, immigrant rights activists and Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson to stop allowing sweeps on buses within 100 miles of an international border or coastline. In many cases, the buses being checked were not crossing or even approaching an international boundary.
Critics say the practice is intimidating and discriminatory and has become more common under President Donald Trump. Border Patrol arrests videotaped by other passengers have sparked criticism, and Greyhound faces a lawsuit in California alleging that it violated consumer protection laws by facilitating raids.
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“Today’s announcement from Greyhound confirms what should have been obvious to the company since I contacted them a year ago – it has both the power and the responsibility to stand up for its customers, who suffered for far too long from Greyhound’s indifference to CBP’s suspicionless bus raids and harassment," he said.
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“When transportation checks occur on a bus at non-checkpoint locations, the agent must demonstrate that he or she gained access to the bus with the consent of the company’s owner or one of the company’s employees,” the memo states. An agent's actions while on the bus "would not cause a reasonable person to believe that he or she is unable to terminate the encounter with the agent.”
I have been saying since 2017 that warrantless searches should be resisted, including with firearms as necessary if ICE/CBP agents try to force their way in:
aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/fighticewithfire/
In other good news:
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/17/ceos-keep-1-million-indian-graduates-in-u-s-jobs-legally/
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Why I love Turkey:
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey is sending elite special operations police to the border to stop Greek officers from driving back people who try to cross over to Europe, Turkish authorities said Thursday.
Greek police fired tear gas, stun grenades and water cannons to repel people trying to breach the land border from Turkey's side. Turkish authorities allege that Greece's officers also fired live ammunition and killed a migrant, an assertion Greece denied.
Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said Ankara intends to bring a case before the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of the dead migrant.
But so what if the Court convicts Greece? Who will punish Greece? Conviction is meaningless without punishment, and only military force can punish Greece.
During a visit to the border area Thursday, Soylu said 1,000 officers from the tactical units of the Police Special Operation Department would be deployed to the Turkey-Greece border to counter the Greek officers working to repel migrants and refugees.
“As of this morning ... we are bringing 1,000 fully equipped special forces police (along) the Meric river system to prevent the pushbacks,” Soylu said. “With the help of Zodiac boats, they will (stop) those who mistreat people.”
Soylu asserted that Greece violated international conventions by using force to stop about 4,900 migrants from getting across the border. He also accused the European Union and Europe's border protection agency Frontex of complicity by remaining silent.
An estimated 4,000-5,000 people near the Pazarkule border crossing, opposite the Greek village of Kastanies, were being prevented from crossing, Soylu said.
“It is a border gate. They are obliged to take them in. They are obliged to take in asylum-seekers,” the minister said.
But he added the migrants were not obliged to use the official border crossing and could cross anywhere along the roughly 200-kilometer (125-mile) -long border. Much of the border is demarcated by a river, and many have tried wading, rowing or swimming across it.
“I want to say that there is no rule that says they have to cross from Pazarkule,” Soylu said.
This is why Turkey deserves to rule the entire region again. But again, just telling Greece what is ethical behaviour will not cause Greece to behave ethically. Only ruthless exercise of raw power can achieve this. Not only does Turkey deserve to rule the region, it must do so (in practice even if not in name) if it is to reliably ensure fair treatment of refugees.
Our enemies also report:
rairfoundation.com/exposed-turkish-government-arms-migrants-with-tear-gas-drones-to-attack-greek-borders-agents/
We have learned that many mayors of Turkish municipalities as well as businessmen have declared that they will pay for the transport of the refugees to Pazarkole and other points on the border with Greece, so, indeed, the people are coming.
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Greek border police complain that the Turkish side not only are cutting the barbed wire, but also drones with tear gas are sent from Turkey to the migrants.
All encouraging, but the Greek border guards still have better equipment overall. Why not give the refugees assault rifles? They would be able to overwhelm Greek border guards with such firepower, forcing Greece to deploy its military, whereupon Turkey can then deploy its far superior military and crush the Greek military with ease:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_weapons_of_the_Turkish_Air_Force
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They are now calling Greece "the shield of Europe". Clowns....
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Could it be that Erdogan reads this forum?
www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-greece-idUSKBN20T0PX
The good guys:
Turkey’s coastguard rescued about 120 migrants, including small children, early on Friday. The migrants said the Greek coastguard had disconnected their boats’ motors, leaving them adrift in the Aegean.
The bad guys:
On Lesbos, just a few miles (km) from the Turkish coast, fishermen, hoteliers and shopkeepers expressed concern that more migrant arrivals would further harm their island’s reputation as a dream holiday destination.
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Time for Turkey to flex its military prowess and steamroll into Greece, lebensraum style.
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Will Germany support Turkey just like in the old days?
www.yahoo.com/news/migrants-try-reach-eu-germanys-153735288.html
BERLIN, March 7 (Reuters) - Social Democrat state premieres on Saturday called for Germany to take in vulnerable refugees from crowded reception camps in Greece, in the latest sign of discord in the ruling coalition over the prospect of a new refugee wave hitting Europe.
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The Social Democrats, Merkel's national coalition partners, control seven of the 16 states that make up the German Federal Republic, and represent a more urban voter base which is more relaxed about immigration.
"Putting all political calculation aside, now is the time to act and at the very least get at least children and young unaccompanied refugees out of this situation," said Michael Mueller, mayor of Berlin.
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In Saturday's statement, the left-wing premieres, including the mayors of the three city-states of Berlin, Hamburg, and Bremen, and the minister-president of Lower Saxony, a major industrial region, demanded a "pact of humanity" under which vulnerable refugees could be shared out across the country.
Not only should Germany accept refugees, the best thing it can do is fast-track them to citizenship so that they can then migrate to other EU countries as they wish. The point is not for Germany to accommodate refugees that other EU countries should be accommodating, but for Germany to use its leverage to undermine the attempts of other EU countries to keep refugees out.
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Erdogan says what I have been saying:
www.rt.com/news/482606-erdogan-greece-open-border/
Greece should follow Turkey's suit and simply “open the gates” for migrants amassed at the Turkish-Greek border, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, insisting that thousands of people would simply go to other EU countries.
Erdogan shared his wisdom on how to free Athens from the refugee “burden” while speaking in Istanbul on Sunday.
"Hey Greece! I appeal to you... open the gates as well and be free of this burden. Let them go to other European countries."
So obvious!
Also, good to see that there are still some real Germans left:
www.dw.com/en/germany-thousands-rally-urging-government-to-accept-more-refugees/a-52678683
Up to 5,000 people gathered in Hamburg on Saturday in protest of the German government's handling of the fresh migrant crisis unfolding at the Turkish-Greek border.
The rally took place in response to the rush by thousands of and migrants and refugees in Turkey — many from Afghanistan, Iran and Syria — towards the EU border last week after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that the frontier had been reopened. Germany, along with other EU countries, has maintained that the border remains closed.
"When Europe officially closes its borders and state-condoned violence against those seeking refuge escalates, then everyone needs to go to the streets in solidarity with the right to asylum," said protest organizer Christoph Kleine of the activist group "Seebrücke" (Sea bridge).
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"I am ashamed of Europe," Heiko Habbe of the migrants' consultancy group "Fluchtpunkt," told EPD news agency. Placards on display read "Stop war, not people" and "Help!"
The protesters' demands echo those made by several German politicians on the left, who have asked Chancellor Angela Merkel to take in vulnerable refugees.
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us.yahoo.com/news/msf-urges-greece-evacuate-migrant-160034891.html
ATHENS, March 13 (Reuters) - Medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has urged Greece to immediately evacuate migrants from overcrowded camps on its islands due to a high risk of the coronavirus spreading swiftly among people living in squalid conditions.
Greece reported its first fatality from the virus on Thursday, in the town of Patra on the mainland. It has confirmed 117 cases of coronavirus so far, including one on the island of Lesbos, where the notorious Moria camp is located.
"The evacuation of the camps on the Greek islands is now more urgent than ever," the charity said.
"We need to be realistic: It would be impossible to contain an outbreak in such camp settings," it said, adding that it had not yet seen a credible emergency plan in case of an outbreak.
More than 40,000 asylum-seekers are living in camps, which are operating far beyond their capacity on five Greek islands.
MSF did not specify where it thought the Greek authorities should transfer the migrants but said both Greece and the European Union should act swiftly to avert a disaster.
Just set them free! They can worry for themselves about where to go so long as they are allowed to move wherever they want!
The Moria camp on Lesbos was set up to accommodate 3,000 people but now hosts at least five times that number. The MSF said that in parts of the Moria camp some 1,300 people shared just one water tap and there was no soap available.
"Forcing people to live there as part of Europe’s containment policy was always irresponsible, but with the virus spreading, it is on the verge of becoming criminal if no action is taken to protect people," it said.
That is an understatement. Actually, it warrants WMDs being dropped on Greece in response.
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www.ekathimerini.com/250486/article/ekathimerini/news/erdogan-says-turkey-will-chase-greek-boats-in-the-aegean
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday appeared to applaud a seemingly deliberate attempt by a Turkish Coast Guard vessel to ram into a Greek Coast Guard patrol off the coast of the Greek island of Kos in the early hours.
“They will run away and we will chase them. That’s how it will be from now on,” Erdogan said, according to reports in the Greek media, in translated comments.
His comments come after the Greek Shipping Ministry issued a statement saying that it is treating the early morning incident off the coast of Kos as a deliberate attempt by the Turkish Coast Guard to ram into the Greek vessel.
#IStandWithTurkey
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Good move:
www.yahoo.com/news/guatemala-turns-tables-blocking-u-174716314.html
Guatemala on Tuesday became the first Central American nation to block deportation flights from the United States in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, a dramatic turnabout on Trump administration policies barring entry to asylum seekers from the region.
All countries should block all deportation flights as an ethical duty irrespective of conditions, no less than should all countries accept asylum seekers. To fail to block a deportation flight is to be a passive accomplice to initiated violence.
That it took coronavirus to spur Guatemala into action is disappointing in itself, though of course it is better than no action at all.
Guatemala’s move to refuse deportations will have a significant impact on the Trump administration’s efforts to ramp up a controversial agreement under which the United States sends migrants who are seeking asylum in the United States to Guatemala instead, even those who aren’t Guatemalan citizens.
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Casa del Migrante, a shelter in Guatemala City that since November has housed hundreds of Salvadorans and Hondurans returned under the U.S.-Guatemala agreement, announced over the weekend that it would stop receiving immigrants who had been deported from the U.S. or Mexico.
Mauro Verzeletti, director of the shelter, declared Guatemala's action "extraordinary" and "a victory." For days, he had called for the U.S. to stop deportation flights to Guatemala, to slow the spread of the virus. He said the immigrants were already vulnerable to illnesses because they arrived from the U.S. physically exhausted and simply “in a really bad condition.”
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Coronavirus spurs more to say what we have been saying for years:
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/why-must-close-border-camps-161701327.html
Here in America, we have detention camps full of people. We are currently in the midst of a pandemic.
That bodes very poorly for the people in those camps.
If you are someone who studies history — or even just watched the HBO show Years and Years — this might make you think about the camps the British operated during the Boer war in South Africa, at the turn of the 20th century. These camps were for refugees, and they were kept deliberately overcrowded. The British officials hoped that, rather than having to kill the refugees themselves, the unsanitary conditions in the camps would do the work for them. They did. Disease festered and killed off thousands in those camps — including 22,000 children. A century later, Britain’s actions during that war are remembered as an incident of genocide.
Today, the camps on the Mexican-American border suffer from similarly unsanitary conditions and dangerous overcrowding. After visiting the camps, Dr. Dolly Lucio Sevier issued a medical declaration that children at those facilities have “no adequate access to medical care, basic sanitation, water, or adequate food.” Teen mothers in the camps have claimed that they’re unable to wash out their babies’ bottles. Many of them haven’t been able to wash their hands. Dr. Sevier remarked that those conditions are “tantamount to intentionally causing the spread of disease.”
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In an environment like the camps, coronavirus will spread like wildfire, and its effects will be similarly devastating, because the lives of the people at the camps have not been prioritized in the past, and doubtfully will be moving forward. Remember: As you share those memes about songs to sing while washing your hands remember that until very recently children at the detention camps were not allowed to have soap. While we might bemoan the lack of available toilet paper at the pharmacy, the people in detention camps have been told to drink out of toilets.
So, perhaps it’s not surprising that, reportedly, the immigrants aren’t even being informed of what’s happening.
“Nobody has come from the administration and told us about coronavirus. Nobody,” explained an asylum seeker at the Port Isabel Detention Center near Brownsville to the San Antonio Express. The same man claimed he sleeps in a room with 75 other people.
Perhaps even more unsurprisingly, Trump has leaned into his most xenophobic inclinations throughout the epidemic. He’s described coronavirus as “a foreign virus” and said that “to keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days.” He’s claimed, regarding South America that “we need the wall more than ever!” This, despite the fact that the director of the CDC has explained that the wall would not actually help mitigate an outbreak of disease.
Besides, the problem with Trump’s notions about building a wall to keep the virus out, is that the virus is already here. And viruses do not really care about anyone’s nationality.
But Trump does, very much. During this time he’s been blaming the disease upon immigration and claiming that, “We must understand that border security is also health security… Whether it’s the virus that we’re talking about or many other health threats, the Democrat policy of open borders is a direct threat to the health and wellbeing of all Americans.”
All of this means that we’re inclined to be ill-disposed towards those people being held in camps on the border. If they’re being tended to so poorly they can’t survive simple flu, why do we think they’d be treated better at a time when the President is demonizing immigrants?
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If there was ever a time to shut down the camps, it’s now. Otherwise the U.S. is at risk of being forever remembered as the British were during the Boer war — indifferent to suffering, and guilty of genocide.
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Someone gets it:
greekcitytimes.com/2020/03/13/iranian-granted-asylum-in-greece-now-calls-for-illegal-immigrants-to-fight-greeks-bullet-for-bullet/
Abtin Parsa, the self-proclaimed “anarchist refugee” said that the “…most useful solidarity to the immigrants who are at the border is to arm them because the answer to bullets should be bullets back and this is the only way to open the border for all the immigrants. We as immigrants should fight for what we need and at the moment, our first need is survival, so we must destroy those who are killing us; we have nothing to lose but our fear.
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This is an excellent idea:
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/eu-called-to-use-decommissioned-cruise-ships-to-evacuate-refugees-from-greece-migrant-camps
A REFUGEE rescue charity has called on the European Union to use decommissioned cruise ships to evacuate the thousands of refugees trapped in overcrowded camps on Greece’s Aegean islands.
German aid organisation Sea Watch warned today that while the continent is gripped by the coronavirus crisis, those seeking international protection from “the humanitarian disaster at Europe's borders” are at risk of being forgotten.
“Leading cruise operators have already suspended their cruises until at least April,” the charity said, adding that most of these ships could carry several thousand people and have comparatively well-equipped medical stations.
"Necessary quarantine and protection measures against corona must be implemented everywhere to prevent exponential spread, including in refugee camps,” said Sea Watch medic Aline Wedel, currently deployed on Lesbos.
“This means immediate evacuation of the overcrowded Greek camps and accommodation in places where people are protected from the virus. The cruise ships can do both. We must leave no-one behind.”
Sea Watch chairman Johannes Bayer said: “The refugees on the Greek islands, but also the local population, have been left alone by Europe long enough.
“If the EU Commission does not act now, the humanitarian catastrophe that is already taking place there will cost many more lives.”
The charity is offering to help the commission and cruise ship operators with logistical and medical support to carry out the evacuations.
“More than 140 German cities and municipalities have declared their willingness to take part; 40,000 free places are available in the German federal states alone,” Mr Bayer said.
Still, this does not guarantee the refugees will be safe after arriving:
Some European countries, Mission Lifeline co-founder Axel Steier told the Star, are using the coronavirus to justify a “fortress Europe” policy and violate the Geneva and human-rights conventions.
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Human Rights Watched warned last week that the Greek authorities had denied the fundamental right to seek asylum to at least 625 newly arrived migrants on Lesbos between March 1 and 18.
Senior crisis and conflict researcher Belkis Wille said: “For up to two weeks the authorities have been holding women, men and children — many of them fleeing war and persecution — in the open in cold temperatures, denying their right to seek asylum and preventing them from getting the humanitarian and legal assistance they need and are entitled to.
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“Such policies are abusive and illegal.”
The only way to ensure refugee safety is to make sure every country that mistreats refugees gets WMDs dropped on them. Nothing else will work.
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www.yahoo.com/news/ngo-restarts-mediterranean-migrant-rescues-despite-virus-fears-114856741.html
Berlin (AFP) - The Alan Kurdi migrant rescue boat is heading back out into the Mediterranean after a two-month break despite the coronavirus pandemic, according to the German organisation that operates it.
The boat has already left port in Spain where it had been undergoing repairs and is expected to reach waters off the coast of Libya this weekend, NGO Sea Eye said in a statement on Monday evening.
Led by German captain Baerbel Beuse, the Alan Kurdi will be the only rescue boat operating in the area, the NGO said.
Due to the spread of COVID-19, Sea Eye is taking extra security precautions and has established an "outbreak management plan", according to mission manager Jan Ribbeck.
"We have sufficient personal protective equipment for our crew on board," he said.
Sea rescue operations currently face great difficulties finding a safe harbour, according to Sea Eye.
Do you know why you face such difficulties finding a safe harbour? It's because those who refuse to let you land suffer no consequences for doing so. It's good that you want to rescue refugees, but the correct sequence of action is to first physically eliminate the anti-refugee forces throughout the EU.
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A hint of ethical consideration from Portugal:
www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/europe/1585600219-portugal-migrants-granted-residency-rights-amid-covid-19-pandemic
Undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers in Portugal have been granted the same rights as residents, including access to medical care, during a state of emergency to curb the spread of coronavirus.
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Portugal's decision was welcomed on Monday by the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatovic.
“(It is) a good practice to protect vulnerable people and society in response to the pandemic,” Mijatovic wrote on her Twitter account.
"In times of crisis, it is a duty for a secure society to ensure that migrants have access to health, stable employment and housing," Portuguese Interior Minister Eduardo Cabrita told local newspaper Publico.
All EU countries should follow suit. All it is is not treating individuals differently for something they had no choice in (where they were born). There was a time when this used to be obvious.....
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Willingness to use retaliatory violence is what produces results:
rairfoundation.com/breaking-italys-socialist-government-announces-trial-against-their-biggest-threat-matteo-salvini-watch/
Italy’s leftist government under their Socialist Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has kept its promise to reverse Salvini’s immigration stance, empowering NGO human trafficking vessels to enter their seaports. In fact, they have gone to great lengths to support NGO captains flooding Italy with dangerous illegals, including left-wing radical Carola Rackete.
Salvini and Rackete squared off in June 2019, when she ignored Italian military orders prohibiting her from docking her George Soros-backed NGO ship trafficking illegals at a port in Lampedusa. Rackete instead crushed a patrol boat putting the lives of soldiers at risk, and illegally entered the Italian port.
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Salvini responded on social media:
“In the eyes of some judges, a German woman who risked the lives of 5 Italian soldiers should not be put in jail. And instead they want to put a minister on trial who defended the country’s borders and stopped the [undocumented migrant] landings.
As Rackete has been hailed for smuggling in three dangerous rapists and murderers, Salvini will be tried as a criminal.
The trial itself is not going to finish off Salvini, however:
The former Deputy Prime Minister faces potential steep fines and even prison time for as long as 15 years.
Even if he gets the maximum sentence, what happens after 15 years? The only reliable solutions are: 1) assassinate him during trial; 2) assassinate him in prison after sentencing.
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www.yahoo.com/news/op-ed-im-immigrant-doctor-200725025.html
I am a kidney doctor in rural Pennsylvania, caring for COVID-19 patients and trying my best to survive despite limited supplies of personal protective equipment.
I am also one of some 300,000 Indians in the United States on a H-1B work visa, waiting in line for a green card that would give me legal permanent residency.
My greatest fear is that if I contract and die from COVID-19, my wife, who is on a dependent visa, will be asked to go back to India. My 1-year-old daughter, an American citizen by birth, cannot travel with her as the Indian government has a travel embargo on all foreign citizens to limit entry of COVID-19 patients.
Every year, the United States issues 140,000 green cards based on employment. A maximum of 7% can go to any single country (usually, only 3,000). This system has resulted in a backlog of several hundred thousand immigrants from India waiting for permanent residency status. Their immigration petitions have been approved, but there are no green cards available. The Cato Institute and other agencies estimate the wait time for Indian immigrants approved today to be up to 150 years.
The never-ending wait is sheer torture. After paying taxes for decades, I would not be eligible for Social Security in retirement. Getting a driver’s license requires multiple trips to the DMV, waiting for immigration verification. There is a court battle going on over whether my wife and immigrants like her can work during their decades in limbo. Many employers are unwilling to deal with hiring people on a work visa, like me. Most credit unions will not make me a member and lenders will not consider me for a mortgage.
Most of my friends and patients are happily oblivious of this situation. A lot of people seem to think that I can just walk to an immigration office, fill out some applications and get citizenship. They don’t realize that there is no viable path for immigrants like me. Politicians claim to be “for” legal immigration and “against” illegal immigration all the time. Yet, initiatives to help highly skilled immigrants have gotten nowhere.
One proposal, the federal Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act , was approved in the House but has been stuck in the Senate Judiciary Committee. During this pandemic, it would make good sense to eliminate country caps by declaring a onetime, emergency increase in the number of green cards issued to immigrants with critically required skills.
Doctors from India like me make up around 5.1% of the total physician workforce in the United States. With the never-ending wait, many of them are abandoning their American dream and taking their skills elsewhere. Their absence will be felt even more in public health crises such as the COVID-19 outbreak. I hope and pray that this situation gets resolved before I am forced to join this exodus.
In the meantime, I will keep on being extra diligent with my reused personal protective equipment. I cannot afford to die while waiting for a green card.
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OLD CONTENT contd.
greekcitytimes.com/2020/04/13/albania-plans-to-replace-greeks-in-northern-epirus-with-jihadists-and-turkish-intelligence-officers/
Albanian media has exposed Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama’s deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to relocate illegal immigrants and refugees in Turkey to Albania.
Recently, Tirana and Ankara signed a defence co-operation plan, with many in Albania and Greece believing that the issue of relocating migrants and refugees from Turkey to Albania is also included. Details of the plan have not been made public, but a part of the deal includes “activities that the two countries’ defence ministries are committed to completing by 2020 in order to strengthen and intensify security and defence interaction.”
According to Albanian media, there is an agreement between Rama and Erdoğan to relocate 30,000 refugees and illegal immigrants from Turkey to Albania in the region of Northern Epirus where up to 120,000 Greeks live. Although Greece liberated Northern Epirus during the First Balkan War (1912-13), the Great Powers gifted the region to the new Albanian state. Greece would once again liberate the region in World War Two, but it was once again gifted to Albania by the Great Powers.
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There is little doubt that Albania and Turkey are collaborating to not only change the demographics of the Greek-majority region, but to also open another front for illegal immigrants to enter the European Union (Greece) illegally.
Albania’s Top Channel television station revealed that since last summer a working group has been set up with absolute secrecy to set up Immigrant Reception Centers in the Greek towns of Argyrokastro (for 5,000 people), Korytsas (5,000), Agioi Saranda (1,000), while First Aid Stations will be set up in border crossings with Greece (Kakavia, Ripesi, Mavromati, Treis Gefyres, Kapestitsa). The initial plan concerns the establishment and operation of Refugee Reception Centers, but the working group that has been set up – according to Albanian reports – is working to ensure that these populations are permanently housed either in new functional structures or in rural houses in the area.
In writing for SLPress, Lieutenant Colonel of the Greek military, Christos Pougialis said “Officially, of course, the 30,000 will be immigrants and refugees, some of whom will have their families with them. But beyond that, Turkey is sure to send its own agents among them to guide and control the situation. Turkey will send some ‘retired’ jihadists from those fighting alongside them in Syria, who will be with weapons.”
Just as Turkish intelligence agents played a key role in inciting violence on the Greek-Turkey border, they will now be able to create tensions on the Greek-Albanian border.
The Lieutenant Colonel in his article on SLPRESS also said that the refugees and jihadists “will be used by Rama for demographic alteration of the Greek population of the region […] as has happened historically, it is very likely that gangs will be organized independently or led by agents who will ravage Greek homes and villages. In this way, they will force the Greek population to leave so that they can permanently change the demographic composition in Northern Epirus.”
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What used to be obvious now needs to be stated explicitly (and even then our enemies complain about it):
www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15976/eu-covid-19-immigration
Persons "in need of international protection or for other humanitarian reasons", however, are exempted from these restrictions on non-essential travel from third countries." — European Commission statement, March 30, 2020.
This means that people who apply for international protection cannot be turned away and that the rights of migrants and refugees to apply for asylum cannot be suspended, even in the time of coronavirus.
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This policy was on display during the recent crisis on the border between Turkey and Greece, when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used migrants -- whom Turkey transported to the border with Greece -- as political blackmail, threatening to unleash a new migration crisis on Europe. At least 14,000 migrants were brought to the border, according to media reports. Greece, at the time, said that it was suspending all asylum applications, based on article 78 (3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which states:
"In the event of one or more Member States being confronted by an emergency situation characterised by a sudden inflow of nationals of third countries, the Council, on a proposal from the Commission, may adopt provisional measures for the benefit of the Member State(s) concerned".
The European Commission, however, did not approve. The Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, ordered Greece to allow the migrants that Erdogan transported to the border to apply for asylum.
"Individuals in the European Union have the right to apply for asylum. This is in the treaty, this is in international law. This we can't suspend," said Johansson.
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This is our enemies' proposed response to our (occasional) judicial wins:
vdare.com/posts/kritarch-royce-lamberth-strikes-again-banning-us-marshalls-from-arresting-illegals
Lamberth has decided that the USMS cannot take illegal aliens into custody and turn them over to ICE as part of their management of the District of Colombia Superior Courts pre-trial detention system.
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The best reaction of the USMS would be to ignore this order. All Federal judges know that their lives are protected by DUSMs and merely issuing such an order, much less ordering another DUSM to arrest another DUSM for violating this order would likely make a DUSM unlikely to take a bullet to protect a Federal judge. Moreover, as punishment, the Director of the USMS should order his subordinates to ignore this order and provoke a confrontation over this. Let Kritarch Lamberth know who holds the guns. Kritarch Lamberth holds no guns, as Alexander Hamilton stated in Federalist No. 78: The judiciary has “no influence over either the sword or the purse, …It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment.”
Time to go Andrew Jackson on the corpulent Kritarch Lamberth. But I tire of pointing this out. Time for action this day to defeat the kritarchy.
Why are we not responding to their (much more frequent) judicial wins in the same way?
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/court-packing/
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I am liking Cuomo more and more:
www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/green-light-law-amendment-officers-can-be-charged-with-felony
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — In April, Governor Andrew Cuomo passed the 2020 budget, and in it, an amendment was made to a law that was passed last year allowing undocumented immigrants to get a New York State driver’s license.
The Green Light Law also prohibited the sharing of DMV information to any federal agency in charge of immigration.
Last month, the original law was amended as part of the 2020 budget, now making it an E Felony for any law enforcement officer to share DMV records with another law enforcement agency in charge of immigration like ICE or DHS.
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“If any law enforcement officer in Texas ran across a New York State registered vehicle they could not run that plate if it was any officer who was involved in the enforcement of immigration law.”
Though again it is my duty to remind everyone that no legislation is a substitute for firearms with respect to stopping ICE. ICE has already shown its willingness to ignore any law it considers inconvenient:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/ice/
The only things ICE cannot ignore are bullets.
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Is change on the horizon?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-plans-sweeping-reversal-of-trump-s-immigration-agenda/ar-BB1aV0m7
Biden plans sweeping reversal of Trump's immigration agenda
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After Mr. Biden is sworn-in in January, his administration will move to fully restore an Obama-era program that shields 640,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation, halting Mr. Trump's unsuccessful efforts to end it, people familiar with the plans told CBS News. The incoming administration also intends to rescind Mr. Trump's travel and immigration restrictions on 13 mostly African or predominantly Muslim countries.
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A source familiar with Mr. Biden's plans said new guidance would be designed to curb so-called "collateral arrests," which are apprehensions of immigrants who are not the target of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations but are nevertheless taken into custody because they are in the country without legal status.
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"All that stuff was done administratively through the [president's] executive authority, and so a new executive can basically reject those and start from scratch," a source familiar with the Biden team's plans told CBS News.
At the southern border, Mr. Biden has pledged to discontinue the Trump administration's policy of requiring non-Mexican migrants to wait in Mexico for the duration of their U.S asylum cases. It is unclear, however, how the cases of thousands of asylum-seekers currently waiting in northern Mexico will be adjudicated and whether any of them will be paroled and allowed to continue their proceedings in the U.S.
A source familiar with the Biden team's planning said the incoming administration will withdraw from the three bilateral agreements Mr. Trump brokered with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras that allow the U.S. to send rejected asylum-seekers to those countries and have them seek refuge there.
The incoming administration will also look at reinstating an Obama administration initiative that allowed certain at-risk children in Central America to request refugee or parole status and reunite with their families in the U.S. if their parents were authorized to be in the country, the source said. The Obama administration created the Central American Minors program in 2014 in response to a rise in border crossings by unaccompanied migrant children but Mr. Trump ended it in 2017.
The potential revival of the program, coupled with increased foreign aid to Central America, would be part of a broader Biden administration approach to address unauthorized migration from the region — a diplomatic task Mr. Biden was charged with overseeing during President Obama's tenure.
Mr. Biden's team is also planning to begin the process of terminating the "public charge" rules the Trump administration implemented to deny green cards and immigrant visas to applicants who U.S. officials determine rely — or could rely in the future — on government benefits like Medicaid, food stamps and Section 8 housing vouchers. Because the 2019 rules were instituted through the regulatory process, experts expect their rescission to take longer than that of presidential directives.
Citing the coronavirus-induced economic downturn, Mr. Trump invoked his executive authority this spring to limit legal immigration and the issuance of temporary work visas — and those restrictions have yet to be lifted.
The Trump administration has also expelled tens of thousands of unauthorized border-crossers, including unaccompanied children, without court hearings or asylum screenings through an order issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While the Trump administration has defended the policy as one based on public health, former officials have said they were pressured into authorizing it.
Mr. Biden has yet to say whether his administration will continue, alter or completely scrap Mr. Trump's pandemic-era limits on immigrant and work visas. Mr. Biden's campaign promised that the former vice president will direct the CDC to review the expulsions policy "to ensure that people have the ability to submit their asylum claims while ensuring that we are taking the appropriate COVID-19 safety precautions."
The president-elect has promised to dramatically increase refugees admissions, moving away from the record-low 15,000 spots set by Mr. Trump and raising the cap to 125,000. Mr. Biden has also pledged to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to certain Venezuelan exiles in the U.S. to shield them from deportation.
León Rodríguez, who led U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) during the Obama presidency, said a Biden administration should prioritize reviewing Mr. Trump's efforts to end TPS protections for approximately 300,000 immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan, Nepal and Honduras. In September, a federal appellate court allowed the Trump administration to terminate the programs, but TPS beneficiaries are not set to lose their protections until March 2021.
Jennifer Molina, a spokeswoman for the Biden campaign, said the incoming administration will also create a task force to help locate hundreds of migrant parents who were separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2017 and 2018 and remain unreachable. "President-elect Joe Biden will restore order, dignity and fairness to our immigration system. At its core, his immigration policy will be driven by the need to keep families together," Molina said in a statement.
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Mr. Biden has vowed to introduce legislation that would allow the nation's estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants to legalize their status, but such an effort — which has proved elusive for two decades — would need to be approved by a divided Congress. Several House Democrats lost their seats last week and while control of the Senate will hinge on the outcome of two Georgia races in January, any potential Democratic majority would be razor-thin.
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Marielena Hincapié, a member of a task force of Biden and Bernie Sanders supporters who created a unified immigration platform, said the incoming administration should use "all the levers of government" to protect certain undocumented immigrants, including COVID-19 essential workers, from deportation.
"We can't at the same keep applauding all these essential workers who we are relying on and not recognize them legally," Hincapié, who is also the executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, told CBS News. "And so, providing them with some kind of protection and work authorization so that they can do the work without the fear of detention or deportation, and to actually be able to work within the law, is also really critical."
If Biden does not keep his promises, he too is our enemy.
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Biden Corrects Obama Wrongs With Immigration Reform
Joe Biden's immigration policy plans to not only undo the wrongs of the Trump administration but Obama's as well.
"From ending prolonged detention to a 100-day moratorium on deportations, president-elect Joe Biden’s vision for a new chapter in US immigration policy departs dramatically from the border wall construction, family separations and kids in cages that marked the Trump era.
But fixing chronically broken statutes while reversing more than 400 of Donald Trump’s immigration-related executive actions requires time, resources and in many cases bipartisan support, a tall order for the incoming administration."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqarUXxx7u8
Excellent news for once!
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Is a migrant crisis unfolding off West Africa's Atlantic coast? | Inside Story
A sea journey to Europe once shunned by many migrants for being too dangerous is busy again. Hundreds have drowned this year in the Atlantic Ocean off Senegal on their way to the Canary Islands, a Spanish territory. More than 16,000 migrants have made the journey this year, 10 times last year's total. Hotels have been turned into reception centres. So why are people risking their lives to take this risky route?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHJXRFUukPc
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A district judge has granted a preliminary injunction to block the Trump administration’s use of a pandemic policy to turn away thousands of unaccompanied migrant children without due process.
Since March, the Trump administration has been using an emergency regulation issued by the Centers for Disease Control to expedite the removal of migrants, including unaccompanied children, who present themselves at the U.S. border. The regulation allowed for a suspension of ‘the introduction of persons from designated countries or places, if required, in the interest of public health’ amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, a federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, ruled against the Trump administration’s justification of the policy that denied these children the right to apply for asylum and resulted in their removal without deportation proceedings. The opinion held that the children denied their right to petition for asylum were ‘likely to suffer irreparable harm because they could be subject to “sexual and other violence and face the possibility of torture and death.“’
At the heart of the case is the story of an unnamed 16-year-old Guatemalan boy from an Indigenous Mayan family who entered the U.S. in August 2020, claiming he ‘experienced severe persecution in Guatemala’ as a result of his father’s political opinions. Instead of being placed in the custody of his father, who lives in the United States and has a pending immigration case, or being placed in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the boy was ordered to be expelled. The case was filed as a class-action suit to represent others that have faced similar situations at the border. Roughly 13,000 unaccompanied migrant children were turned away as a result of the policy, the ACLU says.
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LIVE: Hundreds camp in the heart of Paris following evacuation of Saint-Denis refugee camp
Ruptly is live from Place de la Republique in Paris on Monday, November 23, as hundreds set camp to protest the country's refugee situation following last week's evacuation of the Saint-Denis migrant camp.
On Tuesday, November 17, a police operation dislodged some 2,500 from the camp located in the north of Paris. Around 800 of them remain without a lodging solution, according to the pro-migrant activist group Utopia 56.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeKsKHGPfEQ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqjd92styiI
But how many firearms among them? Protesting is useless. Only firearms can protect refugees.
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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/23/spain-deploys-police-west-africa-migrant-influx-increases-1000-per-cent/
Spain will send law enforcement personnel into Senegal, Africa, to tackle people-smugglers after illegal migration from West Africa to the Canary Islands increased by 1,000 per cent on 2019.
Can Senegal send its police into Spain? If not, why should it allow Spain to send its police into Senegal?
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/military-decolonization/
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Live: Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Plan to Exclude Undocumented Immigrants From Census
Listen live as the Supreme Court hears arguments over the Trump administration's challenge to the 2020 census to not include undocumented immigrants living in the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH-M_sLPZrs
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Syria: UN says urgent aid needed for three million displaced
The United Nations says urgent aid is needed for three million Syrians living in refugee camps.
Winter can be harsh, so they desperately require essentials and shelter to keep warm.
And as Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports, many more people could soon become homeless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7SmnPUe4b4
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On Friday, U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis issued an order requiring the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to post a public notice saying it will begin accepting DACA applications again. First-time DACA requests, renewal requests, and advance parole requests must be accepted under the new court order. The move will affect the approx 1.1M undocumented minors in the U.S. who are eligible to apply for DACA.
The Obama-era program, which launched in 2012, protects immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation. The Trump admin worked to end DACA for a number of years beginning in 2017, but the Supreme Court blocked that attempt in June 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgzNTDbB-UmKxtiXOYR4AaABCQ
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Concerns for child refugees, migrants in Spain
More than 2,000 children are among refugees and migrants who have arrived in the Canary Islands in the last two months. Save the Children says it is extremely concerned about their physical and mental health.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPnvvAy5Src
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Some sanity still exists in the EU!
https://rmx.news/article/article/german-cities-want-more-asylum-seekers
About 130 German cities are going against the anti-migration trend and petitioning the German federal government to send them more asylum seekers and refugees.
Many of Germany's major cities, such as Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Freiburg, are included in the lobbying efforts.
According to Deutsche Welle, a media outlet funded by the German government, a number of representatives from Düsseldorf, Potsdam and other cities said during a joint press conference that they wanted to upend Germany's migration policy and resettle migrants in their cities.
The German cities are primarily focused on resettling refugees rescued on the Mediterranean Sea
"We would be prepared to take in more people if we were allowed," Mike Schubert, mayor of Potsdam and member of the Cities of Safe Harbors initiative told journalists. "We are currently experiencing a policy of wait and see, but that's the opposite of acting."
Rottenburg am Neckar, a small town of 5,800 people, might be one of the most dramatic cases. Stephan Neher, from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is active in trying to push the federal government to allow his town to accept more refugees. So far, reports Le Figaro, the town has accepted about 850 refugees.
“Our city does not want to remain inactive and just watch people die simply because Europe does not respect the right to life. We, as a municipality, want to take our part in this challenge and make sure that we act in a human way,” told Neher to the Le Figaro daily.
Neher has quite an unorthodox request. He wants permission from the government to send a bus to one of the refugee centers in Malta or Lampedusa in Italy to bring asylum seekers to his hometown. Neher has already planned to accommodate refugees in a vacant building that can house about 60 migrants.
Still, the Greens remain for now the only party with similar estimates to mine on how many refugees Germany could actually take if it were serious about the issue:
At the beginning of January, many were also surprised by the proposal of the German Green Party to accept about 150 million undocumented climate refugees.
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Turkish Coast Guard rescues migrants battered by Greek Coast Guard
“They beat him up really bad.”
Here is the moment irregular migrants were rescued by the Turkish Coast Guard. Many of them carry marks of beating, and say they were treated inhumanely by the Greek Coast Guard.
#Greece #Migrants #CoastGuard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpBzC_QtH18
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Undocumented migrants protest in Paris for right to live and work legally
Protesters gathered on International Migrants Day in Paris, France, to demonstrate for the right to live and work legally as many of them helped the country during the Covid-19 pandemic
#paris #francemigrants #parisprotest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxUgdBNlTdc
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Thank you Cuomo!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-york-cuomo-signs-protect-our-courts-ice-arrests-undocumented
New York Gov. Cuomo signs Protect Our Courts Act prohibiting ICE from making arrests in state courthouses
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The Protect Our Courts Act, signed Tuesday, comes amid concerns from immigration advocates that fears of being arrested deter undocumented immigrants from making court appearances. The bill prevents Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents without a warrant signed by a federal judge, from arresting anyone inside a statehouse, or those going to or leaving a court proceeding.
"Unlike this federal government, New York has always protected our immigrant communities," N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a news release. "This legislation will ensure every New Yorker can have their day in court without fear of being unfairly targeted by ICE or other federal immigration authorities."
The next step:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6-lyUnWb-M
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Migrants held in inhumane conditions in Saudi detention centre – HRW
Human Rights Watch says a detention centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is holding hundreds of mostly Ethiopian migrant workers in inhumane conditions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7vC3IICjVw
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/harris-teases-immigration-agenda-green-011648794.html
The incoming administration will focus on decreasing wait times to obtain citizenship, granting automatic green cards to protected undocumented immigrants and adding immigration judges to decrease backlogs on court hearings, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris said on Tuesday.
Speaking with Univision's Ilia Calderón, Harris teased a sweeping immigration reform bill that her and President-elect Joe Biden's administration plans to introduce. Harris said their bill would grant green cards immediately to immigrants protected by the Temporary Protected Status and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policies. She added that the administration would also try to decrease the amount of time required to acquire U.S. citizenship to eight years from 13 years by making the naturalization process more efficient.
Very weak. Does Harris understand Demographic Blueshift or not? If she does, why would she not want more Blue voters?
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Caravan of Central American migrants heads toward US border
Thousands of migrants from central America are gathering in Guatemala for an expected push north towards the United States. Mexican border forces are on alert for their arrival. It's thought the migrants are hoping Joe Biden's incoming administration will be less tough on migration than the current one.
Determined not to stop till they reach the US, a group of several thousand Honduran migrants, now in Guatemala, have been walking for weeks. Some of them clashed with Guatemalan police as authorities tried to push them back towards the border. But with little effect. Escaping an economy battered by the pandemic, gang violence and hurricanes - they are seeking a better life in the North.
With a new US administration being sworn in next week and Joe Biden promising a more humane approach to immigration, these travelers are hopeful.
Mexican authorities have deployed 500 officers to the border. An agreement with the US stops them letting migrants through. But, like so many before them, the people here see no alternative but to keep pushing on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keWu3mRTXQE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVGw919SVZQ
Not only the architects of the policy should be prosecuted, but so should all those who had any part in implementing it on the ground:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/ice/
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On his first day in office, Joe Biden plans to float an immigration bill that could provide approx 11M people living in the U.S. without legal status an eight-year path to citizenship. The legislation, which would help fulfill one of President-elect Biden's campaign promises to Latinx and other immigrant communities, is a marked shift from the Trump administration's harsh policies and significant deportations during the last 4 years.
Under the terms of the bill, undocumented immigrants who pass criminal background checks, pay taxes, and meet other unspecified requirements would become eligible for a green card after 5 years, with a 3-year path to naturalization thereafter. DREAMers, agricultural workers, and people under temporary protective status are eligible for green cards even faster if they meet certain criteria. The likelihood of the bill's passage in a tightly split Senate has yet to be determined.
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Guatemalan security forces block Honduran migrant caravan heading to US
Guatemalan security forces blocked hundreds of migrants advancing towards the US on Monday. The government said the road in eastern Guatemala reopened to traffic on Monday after troops and police officers launched teargas and pushed them back down the highway.
The removal of the group was the latest effort by Guatemalan authorities to break up the caravan, which authorities said numbered close to 8,000 people within hours of its departure for the US last week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYCSBDq_Giw
Had Native Americans stopped Western colonialists from colonizing the Americas none of this would be happening and we probably wouldn't have nuclear weapons on the planet and an ocean filled with plastic either.
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Refugees stuck in winter shelters at EU border in Bosnia | DW News
European lawmakers are set to discuss the fate of migrants stranded along the EU's external borders. The situation is especially acute in Bosnia, where thousands of mostly Middle Eastern migrants remain in limbo. Bosnia is not an EU member, but it borders Croatia, which is part of the union. Human rights groups say migrants have frequently reported rough encounters with Croatian police, including beatings and being forcefully sent back into Bosnia. Croatian authorities deny the allegations. Currently nearly 9,000 migrants are estimated to be in Bosnia. Many are from Afghanistan, Pakistan or Syria. The UN's migration agency says more than a third are living without any shelter. Many were left homeless when a camp in Lipa was evacuated in December, after Bosnian authorities failed to prepare the camp for winter. The empty camp was later set on fire. The Bosnian army has set up new tents, but NGOs say more permanent shelter is sorely needed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPH36ymQTXk
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Guatemala forces forcibly disperse Honduran migrant caravan
Guatemalan security forces have forcibly turned back thousands of Central American migrants, mainly from Honduras. who are trying to reach the United States. Their move comes as US President-elect Joe Biden has said he will adopt a more humane approach than his outgoing predecessor Donald Trump. The migrants say that they are fleeing lawlessness and chronic unemployment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzEkmD4bbhs
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Lebanese journalist's racist remarks against refugees cause outrage
Nidal al Ahmadieh, a Lebanese journalist and founder of Al Jaras Magazine, sparked outrage after this racist rant targeting refugees in Lebanon. #Refugee #Lebanon #Syrians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjzsomeStlY
Abd Ever
1 hour ago
She hates herself too, that's why she had so many plastic surgeries.
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Common sense returns to the US government:
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/democrats-legislation-decriminalize-immigration-233300380.html
On Tuesday, Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.) and co-sponsors Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) held a virtual press conference discussing their New Way Forward Act — originally introduced in 2019, alongside Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.). It would ban for-profit immigration detention facilities, end the use of local police for immigration enforcement and decriminalize border crossings.
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“Decriminalizing immigration is not a radical concept at all,” García said. “What is radical is caging school-aged children. What is radical is detaining thousands of refugees in dangerous conditions of squalor. We’re simply asking for fair treatment.”
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Pressley hopes the legislation will end the “prison-to-deportation” pipeline, in which immigrants of color, who are stopped and arrested more often by police and given harsher sentences than their white peers, can end up in ICE detention and at times deported back to their home countries.
“For too long our immigration and criminal legal systems have been deeply and fundamentally intertwined,” Pressley said, adding that this bill package aims to create an immigration system that “finally centers the humanity of our immigrant neighbors.”
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There must be accountability for all who have initiated violence against refugees:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/syria-rights-group-urges-intl-142956093.html
BEIRUT (AP) — A Washington-based Syrian rights group filed a case with the International Criminal Court on Thursday, calling for an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity by Greece for its mistreatment of refugees.
The Syria Justice and Accountability Center said witness testimony and video evidence back its claims of mistreatment and abuse of refugees at Greece's borders and inside overcrowded camps. It cites instances of security guards using tear gas to disperse refugee protests, and shabby and unhealthy conditions at the sprawling camps.
Mohammad Al-Abdallah, the group's executive director, said this was the first legal challenge to the European Union over its treatment of refugees.
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The mistreatment documented since March 2016, the Syrian group argues, extends to Greece’s territorial waters where it has documented sabotaging of migrant boats, leaving them to drift back to sea — even pushing them back into water.
Such “pushback" incidents are considered contrary to international refugee protection agreements, which say people shouldn’t be expelled or returned to a country where their life and safety may be in danger.
The Syria Justice and Accountability Center said there is evidence that personnel from Frontex, the agency that monitors and polices migrant movements around Europe’s borders, participated in or were complicit in these abuses, which it says could amount to crimes against humanity.
Frontex is already under fire after an October investigation by media outlets said evidence in video and other public data suggests its members were “actively involved in one pushback incident at the Greek-Turkish maritime border in the Aegean Sea.”
But let us not delude ourselves that mere accusation is enough:
“We are hoping this would also influence the policy and discourse on refugees within the EU, not only in Greece,” Al-Abdallah said. “No EU country wants an accusation of crimes against humanity."
Being accused of crimes against humanity is meaningless unless followed by punishment. The harsh truth is that no EU country is afraid of an accusation of crimes against humanity unless the accuser is willing to follow up the accusation with devastating military action.
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What migrants face as they journey through the deadly Darien Gap
Whether fleeing war, persecution, poverty or the effects of climate change, migrants and refugees worldwide routinely find themselves in great danger. Perhaps the most hazardous migrant trail of all is the Darien Gap, a wild, lawless stretch straddling Colombia and Panama. Before the pandemic, special correspondent Nadja Drost and videographer Bruno Federico reported from this perilous path.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMPX1547Pss
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Updated: President Joe Biden's administration announced Thursday that it will start allowing thousands of migrants to enter the U.S. while their asylum claims are being processed. The asylum seekers were previously forced to remain in Mexico under the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols. Many migrants affected by that Trump policy have struggled to find permanent shelter or safety in Mexico while waiting months, or more than a year, for their days in court. The Biden admin says it will start slow, processing approx 300 individuals daily, but it's estimated the total number of people affected by this policy change could be 25,000. In a statement, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that 'the U.S. government is committed to rebuilding a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system,' but the agency added that this news 'should not be interpreted as an opening for people to migrate irregularly to the United States.'
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgyzS-Zq_5QMJ8pCDRF4AaABCQ
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Shelters for migrant children near capacity along the border
U.S. Border Patrol is now allowing asylum seekers to begin crossing into the country to have their requests processed, a reversal of Trump administration policy. But there are concerns as more migrant children are crossing alone. CBS News correspondent Mireya Villarreal has the latest from the border, and CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez joins CBSN AM to discuss how the Biden administration is handling the influx.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QJU9lJ6kkU
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https://youtu.be/hmg3P8dgv_A
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Good work!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/eight-10-flights-deport-illegal-190245107.html
Eight in 10 flights to deport hundreds of illegal migrants and foreign criminals from the UK have been disrupted or blocked by human rights challenges, internal Home Office figures reveal.
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The figures, revealed under freedom of information laws, will reignite Government criticism of "lefty lawyers" exploiting human rights laws to block the deportation of illegal migrants and criminals.
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The data shows that the Home Office was forced to remove migrants from or abandon 26 flights out of 32 in the nine months from April to December last year.
Only 18 migrants were taken off deportation flights up until August, but the number increased to 333 from August, out of a total of 495 earmarked for deportation or removal – giving the ratio of two to one who managed to delay their departure after legal challenges.
Not good enough, though. Any number of deportations above zero is unacceptable. Every deportation is an initiated violence. Every initiated violence must be opposed with retaliatory violence.
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GOP Blasts Biden on Immigration Amid Migrant Influx at U.S-Mexico Border
President Joe Biden’s plan for a broad immigration overhaul, including a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., doesn’t have enough support to pass Congress anytime soon, the Senate’s second-ranking Democrat said.
“I don’t see any means of reaching that,” Illinois Senator Dick Durbin said of a comprehensive approach.
House Democrats have already opted for a piecemeal approach and plan to vote this week on two narrower measures for agricultural workers and young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children. Durbin, who chairs the Judiciary Committee that would consider those bills, said he wants to see if there is support to move them through the Senate.
“I think Speaker Pelosi has discovered she doesn’t have the support for a comprehensive bill in the House,” Durbin said. “And I think that indicates where it is in the Senate as well.”
Biden has proposed a plan that would provide a pathway to citizenship for roughly 11 million people living illegally in the U.S., would bolster assistance to Central American countries and would ease immigration for people fleeing violence. Republicans declared the proposal, which did not include any added resources to secure the border, dead on arrival.
A surge of migrants at the border is highlighting the practical and political challenges of immigration reform, which could complicate Democrats’ efforts, Durbin said.
Last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported that 100,441 people tried to cross the border illegally in February, the first full month of the Biden administration, a 28% increase over January. More than 9,500 unaccompanied children came to the border in February, a 62% jump above January.
During a Monday visit to a detention center in El Paso, Texas, House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy said Biden’s stance on immigration is luring more people from Central America. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, a senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee that Durbin chairs, is also among those calling for the border situation to be addressed.
The two bills the House is set to vote on this week would provide a pathway to citizenship for young immigrants eligible for the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and would allow farm workers who don’t have legal status to obtain a green card.
Durbin said he wants to push those House-passed bills through the Senate Judiciary Committee and then onto the Senate floor.
But Graham said the effort to get immigration legislation through the Judiciary Committee is made far more complicated by the influx of migrants at the border.
“I think it’s going to be really difficult with what’s going on at the border,” he said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frko7vqyHqA
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https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1372670642592563211?s=19
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War-stricken Syrians tussle with collapsing economy
Syria’s economic crisis is growing and 10 years of war have made things worse for Syrians trying to survive on what little they have left. As Obaida Hitto reports from Afrin, those living in opposition areas say the situation in regime territory is much worse. #SyrianEconomy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRkL-UrPr5g
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Our enemies correctly recognize that fascism is leftist:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/04/fighting-fascism-through-mass-immigration/
The Sea-Watch 4 is currently in the port of Burriana in Spain to get the migrant ferry ready for the next search-and-collection mission. Two shots show the (anti) fascist flag on the bow of the migrant cutter; apparently members of the crew belong to the fascist movement, or the NGO — and probably not only this — belongs to the field of left-wing extremists, and now reveal whose brainchild the “philanthropists” truly are.
Unfortunately the antifa still do not understand this yet. Still, well done to them for continuing to do the practical rescue work!
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Success:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-uighurs/us-senators-match-house-bill-to-assist-uighur-refugees-idUSKBN2C02FN
Priority 2 status would allow hundreds, or possibly thousands, of Uighurs to forgo a United Nations referral and apply directly as refugees to the U.S. government, reducing concerns that Beijing could be notified by a third country and seek their deportation back to China.
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The bill also encourages U.S. partners and allies to make refugee accommodations for Uighurs.
Some Uighurs will prefer to stay in China even if given the choice to emigrate, and other Uighurs will prefer to leave China if given the choice to emigrate. The obviously most sensible policy is to let them all choose for themselves where they would rather live, instead of continuing meaningless arguments about meaningless abstractions such as "human rights" that fail to treat people as individuals.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-56829089
For Syrians such Ahmad Alkhaled, the forthcoming Scottish election will be the first national vote where refugees will be able to take part.
For many, it will be the first time participating in a free and fair electoral process.
Ahmad, 24, arrived in Aberdeenshire last year as he and many relatives fled the conflict at home. He is now looking forward to going to a polling station.
There are about 20,000 refugees in Scotland, and work is ongoing to support those heading to the ballot box.
They are among an estimated 55,000 foreign nationals who will be entitled to vote in this election.
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"This country gave me a lot of things and a lot of chances to live. So I want to do my best for this country, and to return the favour."
This is nationalism, the opposite of identitarianism.
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Rightists have no problem handing the most schizophrenic book ever pasted together, the Judeo-Christian Bible, to "blacks":
(https://pics.me.me/when-the-missionaries-came-to-africa-they-had-the-bible-46356356.png)
But heaven forbid a "black" leftist hands her book "Super Heroes Are Everywhere" to migrant children:
Psaki has no answers when asked about Harris’ book being given to child migrants
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki didn’t have an answer Monday when pressed on the Post report that a copy of Vice President Kamala Harris’ children’s book was being given to young migrants when they arrive to border detention facilities in the US.
She was asked at her daily briefing about whether Harris is making any money from it.
“I’d have to check with our Health and Human Services team,” she responded, referring to the federal department that is responsible for the minors at the border.
The book, “Superheroes are Everywhere,” is included in the kids’ welcome kits, the reporter pressed Psaki.
“I have to certainly check on that. Hear it’s a good book,” Psaki said, seeming to make light of the thousands of illegal immigrant minors being given the veep’s book upon their arrival to the overcrowded facilities after being apprehended.
https://nypost.com/2021/04/26/psaki-has-no-answers-about-harris-book-being-given-to-child-migrants/
It's really not that hard to tell who the evil people in this world are is it?
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Heeding complaints, Biden lifts refugee cap to 62,500
President Joe Biden said he has resurrected a plan to raise refugee admissions this year to 62,500 after drawing a wave of criticism from supporters for initially keeping the refugee cap at a historically low level.
#News #Reuters #Biden #Refugees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v538344KaY
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/14/glaswegians-lauded-online-for-blocking-uk-immigration-officers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q084mQ4597I
You will never see this happen in V4+ countries.
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Was just going to post this. Too bad more people on this planet aren't Scottish aye....
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-administration-officially-ends-trumps-211414249.html
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued a memo Tuesday officially terminating the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" program.
Why it matters: The program, known formally as Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), forced tens of thousands of asylum seekers to await their immigration court proceedings in often dangerous and squalid conditions in Mexico.
Better than Trump, but not good enough. Biden needs to pass a full amnesty before 2022 or there may not be a chance to do so.
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How much must change just to get back to the pre-Trump normal:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-expelled-refugees-against-cdc-080024432.html
As cities and states nationwide begin to ease up on COVID-19 restrictions, the southwest border remains closed to asylum-seekers. While families across the United States are reuniting with loved ones for the first time in more than a year, refugees fleeing violence and danger are being expelled at the border, with COVID-19 as a pretext. These illegal border expulsions endanger children and families, and fly in the face of scientific evidence. Both should be cause for serious concern.
While the Biden administration has made some key changes to rebuild our asylum system, decimated by four years of relentless attacks under former President Donald Trump, the most sweeping anti-asylum policy has yet to be rescinded. Known as Title 42 for where it falls in the Public Health Service Act, it was put into place in March 2020 under the auspices of protecting Americans from COVID-19. Simply put, noncitizens who arrive at the Southern border are expelled and sent to Mexico, regardless of their country of citizenship.
Cruelty doesn't improve public health
The expulsions are swift and uncompromising. Indeed, only through litigation has a small exception been carved out for unaccompanied minors, leaving vulnerable and desperate families with the terrifying choice of sending an 8-year-old alone to the border to live in refugee camps for children within the United States. Under Title 42, about 537,000 immigrants and refugees have been expelled from the United States in the past year.
From the beginning, public health experts have decried the policy, a brainchild of Trump senior White House official Stephen Miller, as unnecessary, cruel and counterproductive. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, coerced into implementing the expulsions under the Trump administration, told advocates in April that it is still examining them under President Joe Biden’s Feb. 2 order to reassess immigration policy.
Last month, the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, called on the United States to end the asylum restrictions.
However, despite advice from public health experts and condemnation by UNHCR, expulsions under Title 42 continue and the human cost has been devastating. Though refugees come from countries all over the world, the Department of Homeland Security expels them to Mexico, just on the other side of the border.
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Expulsions don’t just impact migrants from Mexico and Central America. Despite the recent designation of temporary protected status for Haitian migrants within the United States, the Biden administration has sent plane after plane of asylum-seeking families back to Haiti, with some Haitians being expelled to Mexico.
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Public health has often been used as a pretext for restrictionist immigration policies. Beginning as early as 1793, when Haitians were blamed for bringing yellow fever to Philadelphia, nativism and xenophobia have long merged with concerns about public health to exclude immigrants and refugees. These concerns were not justified by science then, and they certainly are not justified now.
By inaction, Miller's policy would become the new normal, which is unacceptable.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/17/doj-citizenship-foreign-victims-crime-abuse/
President Joe Biden’s radical appointee to the Justice Department’s civil rights division is smashing another legal hole in the nation’s immigration law with a June 16 decision offering citizenship to migrants who claim they are fleeing spousal abuse or local crime.
The decision was announced by the radical chief of the civil regulation division, Vanita Gupta, and it revives discarded asylum-expanding rulings by President Barack Obama’s appointees to the department-run immigration courts.
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Gupta’s decision, approved by Attorney General Merrick Garland, was praised by pro-migration groups.
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Under Trump, the statement said, “asylum approval rates plummeted for people escaping persecution perpetrated by members of their families and communities, with a disproportionate impact on women, children, and LGBTQ+ people. Many were ordered deported to their home countries to face the very violence they had fled.”
“Today’s announcement will help undo some of the damage caused by the Trump administration’s attacks on asylum,” said a statement from the ACLU.
Well done Gupta! Note:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanita_Gupta
Gupta was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Indian immigrant parents.[8]
The moral of the story is that:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/demographic-blueshift/
really works.
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https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009958117/the-u-s-will-relocate-thousands-of-afghan-citizens-who-worked-with-u-s-troops
The United States will relocate thousands of Afghan citizens who worked for the American government before U.S. troops exit the country in the next few months.
The plan is to relocate between 20,000 and 100,000 Afghan citizens, a senior White House official tells NPR. The White House is in the process of informing both the U.S. Congress and the Afghan government, the official said.
Most of the Afghan applicants for Special Immigrant Visas, or SIVs, are translators and interpreters. Their family members will also be relocated.
Better than nothing, but really the US should accept all Afghans who dislike the Taliban.
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What I always say:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/uk-create-asylum-fast-track-170641115.html
UK should create asylum fast-track for Uyghurs, say MPs
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the UK should implement an asylum fast-track for Uyghurs and members of other minority ethnic groups who are fleeing from persecution in China. It called on the UK to form a coalition of “sanctuary states” that will publicly recommit to the principle of non-refoulement.
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China denies mistreating the Uyghurs, insisting it is simply running vocational training centres designed to counter extremism.
The best solution is always to let people as individuals choose for themselves where to live, since no one chooses where they are born. Uyghurs who dislike China can leave. Uyghurs who like China can stay. So long as there is freedom of movement, everyone will find the country that best suits themselves.
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Folkism is real:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VOs4n2YzsM
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https://www.reuters.com/world/canada-accept-20000-vulnerable-afghans-such-women-leaders-human-rights-workers-2021-08-13/
OTTAWA, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Canada plans to resettle more than 20,000 vulnerable Afghans including women leaders, human rights workers and reporters to protect them from Taliban reprisals, Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said on Friday.
The effort is in addition to an earlier initiative to welcome thousands of Afghans who worked for the Canadian government, such as interpreters, embassy workers and their families, he told a news conference.
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It covers both people who want to leave Afghanistan and those already in neighboring countries.
Good, but 20000 is a tiny number. Hopefully other NATO countries can take many more. Millions will be wanting to leave Ahghanistan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2OZCanm6Lo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbxxi8UGN6E
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2021/08/15/america-must-save-afghan-refugees-from-the-taliban/
The closest analogy to the situation in Afghanistan is the end of the Vietnam War. “After the fall of Saigon, nearly a million South Vietnamese fled across the sea as so-called boat people,” said Schwartz. “The United States resettled many hundreds of thousands in the United States, and more through an ‘Orderly Departure Program.’ We owe Afghans the same degree of decency.”
As detailed in the book Honorable Exit by Thurston Clarke, the United States was also unprepared to help refugees when the Vietnam’s government fell. However, in the first year of its resettlement plan, the United States resettled 120,000 refugees from Vietnam and the region. “During the next 25 years, they were joined by another 1.3 million Vietnamese,” writes Clarke.
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Having made the decision to withdraw, the Biden administration must fulfill an obligation to those abandoned to the Taliban and, together with our allies and those in the region, offer a place for Afghan refugees to live their lives in safety.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/20-years-destruction-us-moral-162251267.html
Those now in flight, as well as nearly 6 million forced to flee their homes since 2001, are part of what the US's 20-year war has brought Afghans. With lives hanging in the balance, the question now is what the United States owes the Afghan people. While some want to debate the US withdrawal, we must focus instead on making every effort to aid those whose lives have been so damaged and endangered by our war. One important place to start is for the Biden administration to welcome one million Afghan refugees to the United States.
1 million sounds much better than 20000. But why stop at that?
Before turning to the solutions, consider what we would ask for if another country invaded ours and waged a war that killed, injured, and displaced millions. I've been tracking the damage that our war has inflicted on Afghanistan as part of Brown University's Costs of War Project. The project has spent more than a decade documenting the human and financial costs of US wars waged since 2001.
Last year we worked with a team from American University to calculate the number of people displaced by the war in Afghanistan, as well as the US wars in Iraq and six other countries. We found the Afghanistan war has displaced at least 2.1 million Afghans as refugees and 3.9 million internally. That's about 15% of Afghanistan's total population today and nearly 30% of its pre-war population.
2.1 million + 3.9 million = 6 million. This would be a better number to take in.
Try to imagine just 15% of the United States forced from their homes. We're talking 50 million people - or everyone in Florida and Texas combined.
Our war has also killed around 150,000 Afghan civilians and combatants through combat alone; factoring in deaths from disease, hunger, and the destruction of health and other infrastructure, the death toll is likely at least 600,000-750,000. Millions have been injured and traumatized.
What would justice look like if another country invaded the United States and waged a war that displaced 50 million and killed and injured millions more?
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To start, the Biden administration and Congress must admit far more Afghans to the United States. Compared to the 5.9 million displaced, granting Special Immigrant Visas to only 71,000 translators and other former US government employees and their family members represents a tiny step. We must resettle no fewer than one million Afghan refugees over the next ten years. In the wake of our wars in Southeast Asia, we admitted more than 800,000 refugees fleeing Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. We owe a similar debt to Afghans.
So why not 5.9 million?
And it is feasible: In one year, 1980, the United States admitted more than 350,000 refugees, including 125,000 Cubans. Given population and economic growth, we can absorb larger numbers today. In 2015 and 2016, Germany admitted more than one million refugees, and their population is a quarter that of the US population.
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Unfortunately, President Biden set a cap of 62,500 total refugee admissions for 2021 and 125,000 for 2022. The latter number sounds good but is misleading given that Biden acknowledged his administration wouldn't reach either year's resettlement goals. More than 80,000 refugees and asylees entered the United States during former President Trump's first fiscal year in office. Given that our Costs of War team found that US wars since 2001 have displaced at least 38 million people, Biden should set a global target of admitting at least 300,000 refugees annually.
Too low.
The costs of such efforts may seem overwhelming, but they pale compared to the $2.3 trillion spent on 20 years of war in Afghanistan and the obscenely bloated US military budget, which tops $700 billion annually and exceeds that of the next 11 countries combined. Congress should use money saved by withdrawing bases and troops from Afghanistan to resettle Afghans and provide additional aid.
Exactly. The US could accept hundreds of millions of refugees with ease just by scaling back its military budget (or by ceasing to give tax breaks to the rich!). Awareness of this simple fact must be spread as widely as possible before the climate refugees start arriving:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/climate-refugees/
More than anyone, the US government and citizens like you and me have an obligation to repair the damage we have inflicted. Our leaders chose to wage 20 years of war. Our taxes funded it. Given the dead and injured, the 5.9 million displaced, and the 30,000 now being displaced each week, welcoming one million Afghans to our country is just the start of making good on what we owe. If war forced us to flee, wouldn't we expect the same welcome?
So why only 1 million?
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As usual, only Scotland responds as every NATO country ought to:
https://news.yahoo.com/sturgeon-says-scotland-ready-help-143052154.html
Nicola Sturgeon has said Scotland is ready to do all it can to help refugees fleeing Afghanistan amid the Taliban’s rapid offensive in the country.
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“I hope UK government does similar and offers as much refuge for vulnerable Afghans as possible,” Ms Sturgeon tweeted.
She said the Scottish government was “willing to play our full part and do all we can to help those in peril as a result of the horrifying situation currently unfolding”, in the same way it did with refugees from Syria.
Meanwhile, it has become fashionable in many other NATO countries to talk as though accepting Syrian refugees was somehow a mistake to not be repeated. All who talk like that deserve to be hit with WMDs.
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Uganda isn't even a NATO country and it is doing more than most NATO countries:
https://qz.com/africa/2048615/uganda-will-host-hundreds-of-afghan-refugees/
Uganda will host thousands of Afghan refugees
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Uganda’s minister for relief, disaster preparedness and refugees, Esther Anyakun, told the country’s Daily Monitor newspaper that president Yoweri Museveni had granted a request by the US to let them stay in Uganda for three months. The US will then relocate them, she said, without specifying where.
Uganda hosts more refugees than any other country in Africa. Around 1.5 million people have found asylum there, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, most of them from neighboring South Sudan. Uganda is known for having friendly policies that give refugees plenty of rights, including education, work, and property ownership.
We previously covered Uganda's strong record on refugees here:
http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/a-review-of-refugee-resettlement-by-numbers/
Compare and contrast Uganda and Denmark. The latter’s GDP per capita is about 77 times larger than the former’s. Yet in January, the enlightened Danes passed a law allowing the authorities to seize the jewelry of refugees, supposedly in order to cover the costs of hosting them.
Uganda’s 2006 Refugee Act, however, allows refugees in that country to work, travel and even start their own businesses.
If Uganda can take 1.5 million refugees, Denmark (whose population is ~1/10 of Uganda's) can take 1.5 million x 77/10 = 11.5 million. It has not. Therefore Denmark must be destroyed:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/denmark/
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/congressman-calls-us-evacuate-afghan-151554807.html
'Just put them on f---ing planes and get them out of there,' wrote Rep. Ruben Gallego on Twitter.
Gallego, a veteran, argued that the US could easily evacuate refugees and deal with paperwork later.
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"There are tons of cruise ships that are empty. There are bases everywhere around the world and there is this whole massive country that is used to assimilating immigrants (and Canada)," he wrote.
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Gallego's tweet echoes a similar one the congressman wrote on Sunday, where he argued that it was important to help the refugees before worrying about the paperwork involved.
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"Land them any where in the United States. We are a country of 330 million people. We can easily absorb 100,000 people."
This is the kind of attitude we need!
Similarly, there should be hundreds of navy ships deployed to ferry refugees across the Mediterranean 24/7. I have been saying this since 2015, yet to this day refugees are still forced to use dinghies.....
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4NIhs5hL04
This attitude used to be normal. Pressure from our enemies made it rare. We must make it normal again.
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Well spotted!
https://www.businessinsider.com/asylum-seekers-get-second-chance-after-cases-rejected-blank-spaces-2021-8
60,000+ asylum-seekers who had applications rejected by the Trump administration over 'blank spaces' are about to get a second chance
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long-time immigration attorneys began complaining in 2019 that asylum cases were being rejected for a novel, pedantic reason: irrelevant lines on the application being left blank.
Some asylum-seekers had their cases rejected because they listed two siblings, for example, but did not write "N/A" in the remaining spaces provided for brothers and sisters they did not have. Spanish speakers had their applications turned away for not spelling out their name, for a second time, in a "native alphabet."
More than 60,000 applications were rejected for such reasons, according to the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, which filed a November 2020 lawsuit over the policy change, alleging that was a mere bureaucratic pretext for denying humanitarian relief.
In July 2021, a US federal judge approved a settlement in that case. Under the agreement, US Citizenship and Immigration Services will allow provide rejected applicants a chance to apply again by July 20, 2022, with their application backdated to the time their initial claim was rejected.
USCIS said this month it will notify anyone who might be eligible.
"It was an outrageous policy clearly aimed to impede individuals from obtaining the humanitarian benefits that Congress has provided," Matt Adams, legal director at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, said in a statement. "It aptly demonstrates the Trump administration's utter disregard of the law."
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/afghan-girl-seen-viral-photo-202009696.html
A moving photo of a young Afghan girl skipping on the tarmac of a Belgian airport after being evacuated from her war-torn native country has gone viral.
The picture was taken at Melsbroek military airport near Brussels on Wednesday.
"This is what happens when you protect refugees," wrote former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, one of many who shared the photo, on Twitter. "Welcome to Belgium, little girl!"
(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/kW85YhahtT9uqjbmXsBxew--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTM5Ni41NjI1O2NmPXdlYnA-/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wD2vYnstsCnybMAjFtURrw--~B/aD03MjA7dz0xMjgwO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/https://media.zenfs.com/en/fox_news_text_979/15c0e0b0d88a93e0b353081eaf802443)
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Did Mexico invade Afghanistan? No, but it is still taking in Afghan refugees without hesitation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag6kPT4Y-O8
Note the positivity in the comments section.
Meanwhile, apparently it's OK for NATO countries to be "white":
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17680/europe-afghan-migrants
"I am clearly opposed to us now taking in more people. That will not happen under my chancellorship. Taking in people who then cannot be integrated is a huge problem for us as a country." — Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
"As minister of the interior, I am primarily responsible for the people living in Austria. Above all, this means protecting social peace and the welfare state over the long term." — Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer.
"It is clear to us that 2015 must not be repeated. We will not be able to solve the Afghanistan issue by migration to Germany." — Paul Ziemiak, general secretary of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party.
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"Our country will not be a gateway to Europe for illegal Afghan migrants." — Greek Minister for Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarachi.
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Slovenia, which currently holds the EU's six-month rotating presidency, said that the European Union will not allow a surge in Afghan migration. Prime Minister Janez Janša tweeted:
"The #EU will not open any European 'humanitarian' or migration corridors for #Afghanistan. We will not allow the strategic mistake from 2015 to be repeated. We will only help individuals who helped us during the #NATO Operation. And to the EU members who protect our external border."
Which way will the US choose: the American way or the Western way?
And if the former, does the US understand that the true American destiny is to militarily invade all the above (and many more) Western countries to turn all their territory into lebensraum for the refugees whom they turned away?
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/afghan-girl-seen-viral-photo-202009696.html
A moving photo of a young Afghan girl skipping on the tarmac of a Belgian airport after being evacuated from her war-torn native country has gone viral.
Meanwhile, this is what Duginist backlash herders turned this image into:
https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1430665629305081859
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9q-sguWUAAG7rX?format=jpg&name=small)
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If only the picture was reality...
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Some success:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/courts-are-beginning-admit-that-some-immigration-laws-are-racist-2021-08-23/
(Reuters) - A federal judge in Nevada ruled for the first time last week that a longstanding law that makes it a felony to reenter the United States after deportation is unconstitutional because it’s explicitly racist in its origins.
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Judge Miranda Du of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada dismissed on Aug. 18 a case against Gustavo Carrillo-Lopez, who was indicted for being in the U.S. after previously being deported. Du held that Carrillo-Lopez had shown that the reentry law was "enacted with a discriminatory purpose and that the law has a disparate impact on Latinx persons." The government failed to show it "would have been enacted absent racial animus."
The ruling is a momentous judicial acknowledgment of the plainly racist and nativist underpinnings of laws, like the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, that criminalize reentry. It marks a rare admission by the courts that foundational elements of the federal immigration machinery – enforcement processes we now take for granted – actually clash with constitutional equal protection guarantees, and perpetuate a stigmatizing disparate impact on Latinos and Hispanic people.
It’s also a recognition that courts can and should strike down laws motivated by bias, especially given the prevalence of approaches to law enforcement that are inextricably linked to race and identity, like drug-crime sentencing.
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Ahilan Arulanantham, professor and co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, told me the ruling is significant culturally because it airs out "incredible archival and legislative history of these laws, which is really very sordid and just racist."
The U.S. has criminalized border crossing for more than 90 years, and the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump all ratcheted up the deportation and prosecution of immigrants for entering or reentering the country illegally.
But the historical record shows – quite clearly – that the criminalization of unauthorized entry and reentry rests on fundamentally racist foundations.
That history was laid out in Carrillo-Lopez's case by UCLA historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez and Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien, a political scientist at San Diego State University. The Aug. 3 ruling by Judge Simon in the District of Oregon also acknowledged that history, and suggested Congress should explicitly repudiate the racism underlying immigration laws. Government lawyers in Carrillo-Lopez’s case too “conceded that discriminatory intent motivated the passage” of some immigration laws, Du wrote.
I asked Gonzalez O’Brien whether it’s fair to say that it’s generally accepted among historians and political scientists that U.S. immigration laws of today have racist underpinnings.
“Yeah, because if you look at that history in this country, it’s fundamentally impossible to separate race and racism from immigration policing,” Gonzalez O’Brien said. “The desire to shape the racial and cultural characteristics of this country is deeply intertwined with our immigration policy.”
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Du’s opinion is a rare court ruling laying out the strong factual, moral and Constitutional grounds for striking down some current laws because of their original racist intent. Still, the likelihood that this particular ruling will be appealed means the case may end up as an exemplar of how systemic racism operates.
Here, the people who held racist personal beliefs – lawmakers in 1929 – are dead and gone. But their racist policies have been continued and expanded by the government under both political parties, none more so than the administration of the first non-white president. And now, under a president who has spoken more strongly about righting the racist wrongs of our past than any before, the government will (more than likely) again defend the reenactment of policies it admitted, per the ruling, were racist in their conception.
More than anything else, that speaks to the necessity for the judiciary to follow Judge Du’s lead.
Carrillo-Lopez’s public defender, Lauren Gorman, told me she’s “overjoyed for Mr. Carrillo-Lopez and his family."
“Though the racism and nativism embedded in the law’s historical record is blatant, it has taken nearly 100 years for a court to probe its outrageous history and assail the law’s constitutionality,” Gorman said. “The Court’s decision is a landmark ruling but one our Constitution demands.”
Our enemies remind us of Du's background:
https://vdare.com/posts/judge-miranda-du-viethamese-refugee-and-the-dangers-of-assimilation
True. So if we want more judges like her, we know what we need!
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/demographic-blueshift/
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As I keep saying, one of the most practical pro-refugee actions any country can take is to refuse to accept deportees from another country:
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-escalates-row-with-gambia-over-expelled-migrants/a-59072367
The European Union is mulling over Gambia's decision to deny landing permits to flights carrying Gambian deportees from EU countries — particularly Germany.
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According to initial plans, the first batch of "failed Gambian asylum-seekers" was expected to arrive in Banjul, Gambia's capital, on September 1. But an official from Gambia's Foreign Ministry responsible for diaspora affairs told local media that Gambia's new position is not to accept requests for deportations.
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Tegulle insisted there is no reason why the EU should be treating people like this in the age of globalization.
"They didn't go to Europe to be deported back to Africa," he said.
Exactly! Let individuals decide for themselves where they want to live!
Is Gambia setting a precedent?
There are fears that Gambia's refusal to welcome home migrants expelled from the EU may become the new normal for African countries.
I hope so!
International law expert Gawaya Tegulle said the recent Gambian decision is not isolated, citing similar incidents involving Sierra Leone, Guinea and Eritrea. He added that in 2016, Gambia had taken similar measures, only caving in later after being threatened with sanctions by the West.
The more sanctions imposed, the more the country's carrying capacity will be reduced, and thus the more people will emigrate. So bring it on!
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https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/17/politics/haiti-deportations/index.html
(CNN)More than 50 Democratic lawmakers urged the Biden administration Friday to halt deportations to Haiti as nearly 10,000 migrants have overwhelmed Del Rio, Texas, many of whom are Haitian.
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Haiti is still reeling from a major earthquake that resulted in more than 2,000 deaths and thousands more injuries, as well as the assassination of its late President Jovenel Moise in July. For those reasons, the lawmakers, led by Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Nydia Velázquez, argued the Biden administration should consider indefinitely halting deportations to Haiti, update eligibility for a form of humanitarian relief, and help mitigate Covid-19 in the country.
"The Biden administration cannot claim it is doing everything it can to support the Haitian community while continuing to unjustly deport Haitians as the island weathers its worst political, public health and economic crises yet," Pressley said in a statement.
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"The news of renewed Haitian deportation flights is the type of morally indefensible news we would have expected from the Trump Administration, not the Biden Administration. Given the instability and suffering on the ground in Haiti, the last thing we should be doing is deporting Haitians. These deportation flights should stop, full stop,"
https://twitter.com/RepPressley/status/1440505464349872129
Black Lives Matter means Haitian Lives Matter–period.
There must be accountability for the inhumane treatment of Haitian migrants by @CBP
agents.
@POTUS
must lead with compassion & #StopTheFlights.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_20E7-VIAcF8ej?format=jpg&name=900x900)
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Thank you:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/protesters-shut-down-traffic-golden-193400780.html
Protesters obstructed the Golden Gate Bridge on Thursday to bring attention to what they said is "20 years of failed promises" on immigration reform from lawmakers.
Demonstrators parked their cars on the bridge, blocking traffic, before getting out to stand with signs at around 7 a.m., footage from the protest showed.
Several people spoke about their experiences with the immigration system during the protest.
“We are escalating our actions and our undocumented families are risking arrest and possibly deportation to send the message we can no longer wait,” said Luis Angel Reyes Savalza, a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipient and undocumented immigrant, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
“The immigrant community has endured a politics of fear from both Democrats and Republicans over the last 20 years, from horrific family separations to for-profit detention, which has skyrocketed beyond recognition, inhumane treatment inside detention centers, and caging children at the border,” Reyes Savalza said.
“We were called essential workers, and yet both the Trump and Biden administrations excluded undocumented families from stimulus relief,” he added.
A sign held by protesters read “Override the Parliamentarian,” referring to the decision made by Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough to remove immigration components from Congress's $3.5 trillion social spending package.
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The demonstration was reportedly organized by the Movement for Citizenship for All and the Bay Area Coalition for Economic Justice and Citizenship for All.
But what if your concerns are dismissed yet again? What will you do next? Why have your concerns been dismissed for 20 years, as you yourself point out? Answer: because protest signs do not threaten their lives. Try firearms instead.
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This is how Western civilization treats heroes:
https://mynorthwest.com/3172160/italian-ex-mayor-who-welcomed-migrants-sentenced-to-13-years/
ROME (AP) — A court in southern Italy on Thursday convicted the former mayor of a tiny town dubbed “the town of welcome” of aiding illegal immigration and sentenced him to 13 years and two months in prison.
Domenico “Mimmo” Lucano was also convicted of fraud, embezzlement, criminal association and abuse of office by the court in Calabria, the region which forms the “toe” of the Italian peninsula.
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Humanitarian groups that rescue migrants from traffickers’ unseaworthy boats in the Mediterranean expressed outrage at the court’s verdict and sentence.
“The former mayor of Riace gave life and future to his city through welcome and solidarity,” tweeted Sea Watch Italy. “We are at the side of Mimmo Lucano and whoever practices solidarity every day.”
Many migrants in Riace, a town of some 1,700 people, obtained municipal jobs, such as as street cleaners, while Lucano was mayor.
Another humanitarian group, Mediterranea Saving Humans, decried the verdict as “shameful.” In a statement it described the trial’s outcome as “the gravest repressive attack on the culture and the practice of solidarity in our country.”
The charity added: “Who is poor or a migrant is forced to suffer every violence, and whoever helps them is considered a criminal.”
The 'crime scene', according to rightists:
(https://s.rfi.fr/media/display/668dff52-0fa5-11ea-bf88-005056a99247/w:1280/p:16x9/dsc_0023_0.jpg)
Previous coverage:
http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/support-domenico-lucano/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X-IfIcBfD0
Thank you for the activism, Lucha Arizona!
https://twitter.com/lucha_az/status/1444729925408153601
https://www.luchaaz.org/
UPDATE
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sinema-confrontations-escalate-she-accosted-030900380.html
https://twitter.com/Peoples_Watch_/status/1445142854892929032
https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1445148449482153994
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At least Cuomo's successor seems to be doing well so far:
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/ny-state-of-politics/2021/10/11/new-law-criminalizes-threats-to-undocumented-immigrants
A measure criminalizing threats in New York to expose a person's immigration status was signed into law this weekend by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
The new law considers threats to expose undocumented people in the state as extortion or coercion, and is based on similar measures already on the books in California, Colorado, Maryland and Virginia.
It's already illegal to threaten to expose a person's immigration status in labor trafficking or sex trafficking cases, but had not been previously considered as extortion or coercion offenses.
"New York is built on the hard work and determination of generations of immigrants, and we need to support people who are trying to build better lives for themselves and their families," Governor Hochul said. "This legislation will protect New Yorkers from bad actors who use extortion or coercion due to their immigration status, and make our state safer against vile threats and intimidation."
The measure is meant to allow prosecutors to take on blackmail cases when a person is threatened with deportation, even when the larger case does not relate to sex trafficking or labor cases.
"For an undocumented immigrant who fled danger in their home country, being reported to ICE can be a death sentence, yet sadly, far too many people are willing to take advantage of our more vulnerable neighbors by threatening to reveal their immigration status in order to exploit them in some way,"
Well done Gov. Hochul!
In unrelated development:
https://twitter.com/najatvb/status/1448341024275841028
Helping #refugees rebuild their lives and find jobs. @TentOrg
's mission is simple. And the contribution of businesses incredibly valuable. So proud of this tremendous energy. Thank you to the entire team and to all our partners
https://www.tent.org/
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German police actually doing their job for once (to our enemies' outrage):
https://barenakedislam.com/2021/10/25/german-police-guarding-border-with-poland-not-from-illegal-alien-muslim-invaders-but-from-german-patriots-trying-to-stop-the-illegal-aliens-from-entering-germany/
German police were called in on Sunday morning to disperse about 50 supporters of the “Third Way” militia that intended to patrol the border area itself to turn back foreigners seeking to enter. This movement is considered violent and dangerous by the Internal Intelligence Service. Officers seized a machete, a bayonet, sticks and pepper spray.
This is the difference between Germany and Turandom countries such as Poland:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/hungary-v4/msg9452/#msg9452
And herein is the wisdom behind Generalplan Ost:
(https://static.miraheze.org/reallifevillainswiki/5/56/Generalplan_Ost.jpg)
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Thank you for the good work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9eqBJ7nwXk
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Please support:
https://www.sponsorcircles.org/
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Minor success:
https://us.yahoo.com/news/california-sheriff-ends-cooperation-ice-194633845.html
A county sheriff in Northern California announced Tuesday that his office would no longer respond to any requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) about the release or transfer of illegal immigrants in order to "protect the safety" of residents in his county.
San Mateo County Sheriff Carlos Bolanos said that his office’s policy was now consistent with other counties in the Bay Area.
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"This change is being made after we heard from hundreds of residents who shared their perspective on how we will all be safer when the entire community understands the Sheriff’s Office is here to protect the public, not enforce immigration laws," Bolanos said.
Reminder: there is no such thing as an "immigration law". A law protects the same people who follow it. Those who follow so-called "immigration laws" are not protected by them, as they are left outside.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/world/asia/migration-eu-poland-belarus.html
Belarus is granting visas to thousands of Middle Easterners and driving them to the borders of Poland, Latvia and Lithuania, all E.U. member states. Those countries must then either process them — or allow them to freeze at the border, which has so far been their preference.
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Belarus, in the process, put thousands of innocent people in harm’s way. Still, it did not invent the E.U.’s refusal to process migrants and refugees who it considers undesirable, even if it means their deaths. Nor did it invent the E.U.’s embarrassment at the world seeing this.
Belarus has done nothing wrong. All it has done is shorten the overland distance refugees have to travel to enter the EU by letting them fly into Belarus. It is those refusing to let the refugees continue their journey who are solely to blame. If EU countries were willing to take in refugees on flights just like Belarus did, we wouldn't even have a problem!
International law, as well as the domestic laws of most countries, requires processing any border arrival with a credible asylum claim. The host country has to let those people stay while it evaluates their claims, which can take months or even years.
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These laws grew out of World War II, when many Europeans were themselves refugees.
A.k.a. it's OK for refugees to be "white".
It instilled a belief that basic human rights, as well as global stability, required safe countries to accept people who were at great risk.
But only if they are "white".
In 1991, the United States opened a loophole in these obligations. To prevent refugee boats from reaching Florida, which would oblige the United States to process the Haitians on board, Coast Guard vessels diverted them elsewhere.
See?
Ever since, several wealthy states have embraced this as explicit policy, and none more enthusiastically than the European Union.
“It allows wealthy states to have their cake and eat it, too: maintaining a formal commitment to international refugee law, while at the same time largely being spared the associated burdens,”
A.k.a. it's OK for countries to be "white".
European officials have repeatedly stressed, through policies aimed at would-be migrants overseas, that they have made the journey more dangerous to dissuade people from coming. When many crossed the Mediterranean in small boats, the E.U. curtailed search-and-rescue missions, restricted aid groups and even closed its ports to emergency rescue vessels.
This predictably increased the number of people who have drowned while trying to cross, sometimes by the hundreds. And some researchers believe that these efforts have not actually deterred people from coming. Sea crossings have remained numerous, and refugees often say, when asked, that they are fleeing far more desperate or dangerous circumstances.
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The Polish government has been particularly forceful in its attempts to keep people out, sending thousands of soldiers into the frontier zone. The hard-line policy has played well with Poland’s right-wing nationalists.
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This and similar deals with other countries have proved, for the European Union, effective. Refugee arrivals are down by two-thirds since 2015. The effect is noticeable. On a recent trip to Italy, in cities where a few years ago refugees were highly visible, I saw almost none.
But the global refugee crisis has hardly eased since then. Rather, the E.U. has simply succeeded in offloading it to poorer and more authoritarian countries on its periphery, freeing itself of legal obligation and of having to confront the substantial human cost of its policies.
A.k.a. it's OK for the EU to be "white".
This set of priorities applies to the standoff with Belarus, too. Poland’s government, in addition to refusing to process the people huddling at its border, has blocked journalists and aid agencies from visiting the border. Even doctors are not permitted, despite what is thought to be a rising risk of death.
It’s not clear how different this is from preventing refugee and migrant arrivals by forcing them into extremely dangerous circumstances in the Mediterranean or in North Africa. Perhaps the difference is that, in Europe’s usual strategy, those people are kept out of sight, far from Europe, and detained indirectly so that Europeans do not have to feel culpable. Now, the scene that might normally play out in Tripoli is playing out on the Polish border.
A.k.a. it's OK to feel "white".
Although it would be easy to put responsibility entirely on Poland’s right-wing government, which has frequently transgressed the bloc’s more liberal norms, it may not be so far off from European Union preferences. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor who accepted one million refugees in 2015, publicly thanked Poland, Latvia and Lithuania for protecting the E.U. borders.
I always told you Merkel was not on our side.
In contrast, look at Albania (which is poorer than Poland) setting a positive example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15ZH828qYEI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq1JAuC28oQ
This is all it takes to welcome refugees. How difficult is it? Not difficult at all! Yet most of the EU are more concerned about making it OK to be "white".
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https://artykulyaryjskie.wordpress.com/2021/11/18/refugees-welcome/
I made this short post to reaffirm our stance on the issue. The way this Zionist occupation government, which has the audacity to call itself "Polish", treats refugees on Polish-Belarussian border compromises and disgraces my country in the eyes of the whole world. The fight against PiS continues, but the situation is really depressing. We truly live in the time of Kali Yuga.
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The persecution of heroes continues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFxdKjw01rs
(Ignore the idiot who thinks Denmark is not as bad as Greece.)
What happened to Mayor Lucano:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/refugees-welcome/msg9188/#msg9188
will happen to more heroes unless we are willing to fight back:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/firearms/
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Lukashenko is doing his part of the duty; it is the EU which has derelicted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-vVvacvVyU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVh1GB1ZP-4
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/lukashenko-tells-migrants-belarus-poland-100411683.html
In his first public appearance at the border since the start of the crisis, Lukashenko met migrants at a warehouse turned into shelter and told them they were free to head west or go home as they chose.
An Iraqi teenager told Lukashenko she could not return home and hoped to continue on to Europe. "We won't only hope," Lukashenko answered. "We will work together on your dream."
Lukashenko said no-one would be coerced.
"If you want to go westwards, we won't detain you, choke you, beat you," he said as hundreds of migrants applauded. "It's up to you. Go through. Go."
He added: "We won't in any circumstances detain you, tie your hands and load you on planes to send you home if you don't want that."
What is so hard about Poland behaving similarly? Most refugees don't even want to stay in Poland, but merely want to go through to reach Germany and beyond. It would cost Poland almost nothing to open a route to let the migrants walk through. Yet Poland would rather spend far more money on stopping them. This is not about economics:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/true-left-breakthrough-non-economic-explanations/
It is identitarianism:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/identitarian-movement/
Poland doesn't only deciding to itself be an ethnostate; it is deciding on behalf of other EU countries that they are also to be ethnostates!
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/lukashenko-offers-migrants-stay-border-115221962.html
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday promised food and warm clothing to migrants who opt to stay at the border between the ex-Soviet nation and Poland and won't return to their homeland.
Lukashenko made the pledge during a visit to a facility that accommodates migrants at the border.
“My task is to help you, people in trouble,” Lukashenko said, addressing thousands of migrants during a visit to a facility accommodating migrants at the Bruzgi warehouse. “We, Belarusians, including myself, will do everything as you wish, even if it is bad for Poles, Latvians and someone else.”
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Lukashenko again called on Germany to accept migrants.
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When our enemies are complaining, we know the new German government must be doing something correctly:
https://barenakedislam.com/2021/12/04/germany-incoming-government-to-open-doors-to-even-more-muslim-invaders-than-ever-before/
The populist anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) slammed the immigration policies of the new coalition on Friday, releasing a statement saying the proposal “opens the floodgates and promotes the abolition of Germany. Instead of putting a stop to illegal immigration, the coalition simply wants to legalize every possible abuse.”
“While our European partners are struggling to secure the EU’s external border, the new German government is kicking them in the back and inviting illegal migration. This policy will not only tear our country and its social systems apart but will also dangerously deepen the division of Europe,” AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla said.
Chrupalla has a subhuman face to match his inferior attitudes:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/2020-03-11_Politik%2C_TV%2C_Maischberger_vor_Ort%2C_Sendung_vom_11.03.2020_1DX_4077_by_Stepro.jpg/600px-2020-03-11_Politik%2C_TV%2C_Maischberger_vor_Ort%2C_Sendung_vom_11.03.2020_1DX_4077_by_Stepro.jpg)
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Ireland continues to show the way:
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40758132.html
Up to 17,000 undocumented migrants “living in the shadows” could become Irish citizens under an amnesty to be announced today.
Of those, 3,000 are believed to be children.
Justice Minister Helen McEntee is to confirm that people living in Ireland illegally will be granted permission to officially reside here.
The scheme, part of her Justice Plan 2021, will be for long-term undocumented migrants and their eligible dependents, as long as specific criteria are met.
Successful applicants will receive immigration permission, access to the labour market and can begin the path to citizenship.
The Golden Rule practiced:
"I believe that in opening this scheme, we are demonstrating the same goodwill and generosity of spirit that we ask is shown to the countless Irish people who left this island to build their lives elsewhere.”
(In contrast, Poles were welcomed as refugees in Iran etc. not so long ago:
http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/the-face-of-identitarianism/comment-page-1/#comment-143512
but look at how they are treating refugees today. A bit more Turanian blood makes all the difference.)
But in Ireland, the criticism of the above scheme is that it is still not good enough:
Brian Killoran, chief executive of the Immigrant Council of Ireland, said: “[We] welcome the long-awaited introduction of this scheme.
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But he added: “While we are delighted at the inclusive nature of the scheme, there are challenges we feel should be addressed.
“These include the particularly high – and potentially prohibitive – application fees for the scheme for undocumented individuals and families.
“Many of the potential applicants of the scheme will struggle with the cost of the fees, given the shadow nature of their employment conditions.
“We are disappointed in the State’s omission of any financial hardship exemptions for the application costs.
“We welcome the scheme being open for six months and recognise the challenge in communicating the scheme to hard-to-reach migrant populations across Ireland who may be eligible.”
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See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/solidarity-between-fellow-victims-of-colonialism/
Bonus meme:
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An almost insultingly small step:
https://www.barrons.com/news/eu-member-states-agree-to-take-in-40-000-afghans-01639075807
A group of 15 EU member states have agreed to take in 40,000 Afghans for resettlement, Commissioner Ylva Johansson said on Thursday after meeting interior ministers.
Germany will accept the bulk of the new arrivals, with 25,000, with the Netherlands accepting 3,159, Spain and France 2,500, and other countries lower numbers, according to a document seen by AFP.
"And I think this is an impressive act of solidarity," Johansson said
No, it is pathetic. The population of Afghanistan is 40 million. 40000 is 0.1%! Contrast:
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3158393/more-third-hongkongers-bno-status-are-considering-uk-move
A third of Hongkongers with British National (Overseas) status are considering moving to the United Kingdom, while 6 per cent have applied for a scheme to do so, according to a survey, while new figures on pension withdrawals show an increase in the number of people leaving the city for good.
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An estimated 5.4 million of Hong Kong’s 7.5 million people are eligible for the scheme, which allows successful applicants and their dependents to live, work and study in the UK for up to five years. They can then apply for citizenship after six years.
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Some 88,900 Hongkongers have applied for the visa since its introduction on January 31, of which 76,176 have been approved.
This is to the UK alone! The entire EU cannot take in more Afghans than the UK alone can take in Hongkongers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buAlvWoJpUs
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The way this Zionist occupation government, which has the audacity to call itself "Polish"
I agree with you putting quotation marks around "Polish".
If "Polish" rightists were at least strictly Polonocentric, they would still be Germanophobic, meaning that even if they had a bad attitude towards refugees, they would still have an incentive to at least let them pass through to Germany, if only in the hope that they would destabilize their traditional enemy from within or even take over the country wholesale.
In fact, up until 2015 I did occasionally come across comments by more authentic Polish nationalists arguing that an Islamization of Germany was in Poland's national interest, as they identified the supposed "German threat" with Germany's "white" population.
They seem to have evaporated into thin air though and all that remains is a subhuman rabble of generic "white" identitarians.
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"They seem to have evaporated into thin air though and all that remains is a subhuman rabble of generic "white" identitarians."
Yes. Being Polish to them now means killing Muslims in exchange for praise by other "whites". By their own admission, the favourite historical event of Polish identitarians is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_III_Sobieski#Battle_of_Vienna
Sobieski ordered a full attack. In the early morning, the united army of about 65,000[32]–76,000[31] men (including 22,000,[32]-27,000 Poles[26]) attacked a Turkish force of about 143,000[32][31] men. At about 5 pm, after observing the infantry battle from the Kahlenberg hilltop, Sobieski led the Polish husaria cavalry along with Austrians and Germans in a massive charge down the hillside. Soon, the Ottoman battle line was broken and the Ottoman forces scattered in disarray.[33] At 5:30 pm, Sobieski entered the deserted tent of Kara Mustafa and the Battle of Vienna ended.[29][31]
The Pope and other foreign dignitaries hailed Sobieski as the "Savior of Vienna and Western European civilization."[34]
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/egypt-leader-criticizes-europe-handling-164942609.html
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Egypt’s leader on Tuesday criticized Europe’s handling of the migration crisis and its refusal to receive refugees arriving at its borders, saying his own country has taken in millions of people who left their home countries.
President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi said Egypt hosts at least 6 million people who fled conflict and poverty at home. He said his government, unlike some other countries, doesn’t hold migrants in refugee camps but allows them to live freely in the community.
For years, people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East have made dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean and Aegean seas, seeking safety and a better life in Western Europe.
But after the arrival of more than a million people in 2015, European Union nations put up concrete and razor-wire walls, installed drone surveillance and cut deals with Turkey and Libya to keep migrants away.
“I’m talking about huge numbers, not about five or ten thousand, (that) our friends in Europe refuse to receive,” el-Sissi said.
He said his government provides education, health care and other services to all migrants and refugees despite his country’s limited resources and economic strains.
“We made what we have available (for them) without making a fuss,” he said.
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Thank you for demonstrating how easy it would be for all EU countries (which are considerably wealthier than Egypt) to do the same if they wanted to. But now that we have established beyond any doubt that the problem is not that they can't but that they won't, the important question is: how do we make them? (Answer: it requires WMDs.)
Egypt has for decades been a refuge for sub-Saharan African migrants trying to escape war or poverty. For some, Egypt is a destination and a haven, the closest and easiest country for them to enter. For others, it is a point of transit before attempting the dangerous Mediterranean crossing to Europe.
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With restrictions and tight security on Europe’s Mediterranean borders, a new route to the European Union has emerged through the forests and swamps of Eastern Europe.
In recent months, people from Iraq, Syria and elsewhere have flown to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, on tourist visas and then traveled by car — many apparently aided by smugglers — to the border.
The three EU countries that border Belarus — Poland, Lithuania and Latvia — accuse Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of acting to destabilize their societies.
Poland has denied entry to thousands of migrants and refused to let them apply for asylum, violating international human rights conventions. The country has been criticized by human rights groups at home and abroad.
And this is where the WMDs should be dropped first.
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At last someone points out the obvious:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gov-abbott-border-crackdown-operation-222354259.html
Gov. Greg Abbott’s border enforcement effort violates the U.S. Constitution, a Travis County state district judge on Thursday ruled, threatening Operation Lone Star's future and opening the gates to a flood of court challenges.
Travis County state District Judge Jan Soifer's ruling came in a legal challenge to the detention of a man from Ecuador who is seeking asylum. His lawyers say he is among thousands of migrants arrested as part of Abbott’s effort to combat illegal border crossings.
Soifer's ruling "sets a clear pathway for everybody arrested under Operation Lone Star to challenge their arrests," said Kristin Etter, a special project director at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, which represents about 800 defendants arrested as part of the operation. Etter also testified during the hearing.
Seeking asylum is legal, period. Just because rightist media keeps calling asylum-seekers "illegals" over and over again doesn't make it true, any more than Trump saying he won the 2020 election over and over again makes it true. Both are Big Lies.
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Algeria learns the correct response to deportations:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/01/22/claim-algeria-no-longer-accepting-forcibly-deported-migrants-from-france/
French media have claimed that an internal email from the French Interior Ministry has revealed that Algeria is no longer accepting any forced deportation of its nationals from France.
The alleged confidential internal Interior Ministry email, dating from the 6th of December of last year, states that Algerian authorities now outright refuse to accept any Algerian nationals who have been deported from France against their own will.
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“Algiers has instructed its consular network in France to no longer ensure any consular hearing and not to grant any issue of laissez-passer,” the letter states. The Laissez-passer is temporary passport granted to allow travel in lieu of a passport.
According to French media, the Algerian government has also moved to automatically cancel any airline tickets booked by the French Interior Ministry, which now has a policy that all returns must be both voluntary and deportees must purchase their own airline tickets in order to avoid Algieria blocking their return.
Deportees should of course refuse to purchase such airline tickets. There is no such thing as a "voluntary deportation". All deportation is initiated violence.
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Our enemies complain about cereal:
https://vdare.com/posts/kellogg-foundation-paying-new-mexico-illegals-universal-basic-income-500-per-month
The far-left Kellogg Foundation is now funding a global basic income (GBI) pilot program in New Mexico that would provide monthly payments of $500 to 330 families of illegals across 13 counties. The program, named the New Mexico Immigrant Global Basic Income Project, is led by The New Mexico Economic Relief Working Group (ERWG), made up of Somos Un Pueblo Unido, El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos, NM Voices for Children, NM CAFé and Partnership for Community Action.
The serious story:
https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/2022/02/08/new-mexico-universal-basic-income-program-application-undocumented-immigrants/6698863001/
https://www.wkkf.org/who-we-are/overview
Related information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg%27s
Kellogg's has donated to notable groups opposing voter-ID laws, such as the Applied Research Center (now RaceForward).[93] The company also decided to remove their advertisements from the Breitbart News website.[94] Breitbart News in turn called for a boycott of Kellogg's products.[95]
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In January 2012, Kellogg's gave the Calhoun School a $250,000 grant for a "three-part youth-based project on issues of white privilege and institutionalized racism".[96]
Thank you Kellogg's!
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The far-left Kellogg
Hey, on another note rightists are also arriving at the conclusion that cereals belong to the True Left, which ultimately means the True Left is responsible for creating the foundations of civilization during the Neolithic Revolution, and that rightists do NOT have what it takes to run a functional society!
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https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/scale_small/16/164924/2867261-1714988022-Tony_.jpg
I just love their cast of characters, in particular this merry comrade here:
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There's just something about them that puts a huge grin on my face whenever I see them. After the revolution, we'll dress them in Hitler Youth-style clothes (though I like their current outfit as well) and have them promote vegan "Smacks"!
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/11/uk-may-extend-visa-scheme-to-young-hongkongers-seeking-refuge
The UK government has given its strongest indication yet that it will agree to calls to extend its visa lifeboat scheme to cover Hongkongers aged between 18 and 24 who were at the heart of recent civilian protests.
The current scheme, opened a year ago, is available only to British national (overseas) (BNO) passport holders born before 1997, the date of the handover of the city to China and the ending of the BNO scheme.
A campaign that has the support of senior Conservatives including the former foreign secretary William Hague and the last governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, has been under way for months. It calls for a route to citizenship in the UK to be opened to younger Hongkongers if they are the children of BNO passport holders who do not wish to come to the UK.
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Research published last year found 93% of the defendants in street protest cases were between the ages of 18 and 25.
Good, but why not also Afghan refugees?
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Migrants detained after boat lands in Florida:
https://youtu.be/uL2PevqcUDc
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Benedict Cumberbatch has a great response for a reporter who calls him out for speaking about refugees on stage
The British actor Benedict Cumberbatch has been using his fame to raise awareness and money for refugees arriving in Europe, and was not ashamed to use the stage in order to reach out to people.
After his performances of Hamlet at the Barbican theatre in London, Cumberbatch urged his audiences to donate money to Save The Children in order to help Syrian refugees. The appeals were very successful, estimated to have raised £150,000 for the charity.
However some people criticized him for his views and his use of the stage in order to discuss what they believed are political matters.
Hypocritical & foul-mouthed left-wing actor abuses stage to harangue audience with his naïve political views https://t.co/ITd7JUxb3H
— Western Defence (@westerndefence) November 4, 2015
Benedict Cumberbatch stick to playing Hamlet and Sherlock lad & leave out the whining political messages.
— John. (@JohnG1706) October 13, 2015
@SkyNews Cumberbatch should stick to acting and stop talking lefty crap about Muslim mass immigration. Vast majority DONT WANT IT!
— rubium (@rubium) October 11, 2015
However he couldn't care less about what these people think of him.
Cumberbatch received a CBE award at Buckingham Palace this week recognizing his services to the performing arts and charity. Outside the palace he was questioned by a reporter who challenged him on his discussion of the refugee crisis after performances, and Cumberbatch had a great response. See the video below:
Benedict Cumberbatch defends Hamlet tirade on refugees
"I'm not interested in what flack I'm taking - I'm interested in trying to raise awareness and funds for people who are in far worse positions than an actor."Benedict Cumberbatch has defended his decision to speak out against politicians' treatment of refugees after a performance of Hamlet.
Posted by ITV News on Tuesday, 10 November 2015
https://www.albawaba.com/loop/benedict-cumberbatch-has-great-response-reporter-who-calls-him-out-speaking-about-refugees-stag
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Benedict Cumberbatch says he will take part in ‘homes for Ukraine’ scheme
Actor says Britain must ‘create a haven’ for refugees and wants to help via programme announced by Michael Gove on Sunday
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/mar/13/benedict-cumberbatch-homes-for-ukraine-scheme
Compare Cumberbatch's idealism to:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/hungary-v4/
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https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/39534/seaeye-4-carrying-migrants-rescued-by-container-ship-headed-to-malta
The Sea-Eye 4 is on its way towards Malta, the private German rescue organization Sea-Eye communicated in a press statement on Wednesday, March 30. It is carrying 32 people rescued from the Mediterranean Sea by the crew of a container ship, the Karina.
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Karina’s captain is Ukrainian national Vasyl Maksymenko.
Curious whether Blumenthal, Abunimah and Co. will find an Azov-angle on that story as well.
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;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKVs0eAUFDY
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The comedy continues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyy4Qxboo6A
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Thank you Univision!
https://www.foxnews.com/media/univision-swimming-lessons-rio-grande
Univision airs segment on teaching migrants how to swim across the Rio Grande River
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Sunday’s Edicion Digital spotlighted a swim coach who has been training migrants how to navigate the Rio Grande and cross the U.S. border.
"We now go live to Mario Veneiro, the swim coach for Club Mantarrayas (Club Stingray), who teaches his countrymen that are set to migrate, free of charge," Univision anchor Borja Voces said.
Veneiro told viewers that "all types of people" join his course and "each day more are added" to his waitlist.
Fellow anchor Carolina Sarassa asked Vaneiro about the process of training migrants to swim across currents.
"Obviously, when people see the Rio Grande it looks very calm, still waters- like a pool. However, there are many currents which are very dangerous. What do you do so that your pool has turbulent waters like those of the Rio Grande and that people truly learn to swim against the current?" Sarassa asked.
"We made a tunnel with some lanes inside the pool, and we placed 10 people with boards on each side, and we created turbulence (by) splashing water on the person going over the channel," Vaneiro replied.
"It's good that you're telling us about this course, which has gone viral. Fathers, mothers, children who are thinking about coming to the United States and facing those very dangerous waters of (the Rio Grande). Thank you very much," Sarassa concluded the segment
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RIP HERO!
Learn more about Texas National Guardsman who died trying to save migrants
Officials say Bishop Evans dove into the river Friday morning to save two drowning migrants struggling to cross.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwPOCpF8PTE
Missing Texas Guardsman's friends unsurprised by 'heroic' actions
Bishop Evans' friends said the Arlington man always strived to help others and hope for the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX21DR3xEB8
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This is what should be happening all over NATO:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/st-louis-seeking-boost-population-123626009.html
St. Louis seeking to boost population with Afghan refugees
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An aggressive effort in St. Louis is trying to lure Afghan refugees like Niazai. About 600 have arrived so far and another 750 are expected later this year.
Civic leaders are hopeful that over the next few years, thousands more will decide to relocate to the Midwestern city, helping to offset seven decades of population loss and rejuvenate urban neighborhoods — just as the arrival of Bosnian refugees did three decades ago.
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In the 1990s, St. Louis became America's most popular landing spot for Bosnians displaced by war in the former Yugoslavia. Among the estimated 300,000 who fled to the U.S., some 40,000 now call St. Louis and the region home.
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St. Louis' Afghan Resettlement Initiative is backed by over $1 million in donations and more than 800 volunteers, and it has support from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis, the International Institute of St. Louis and other nonprofit groups. Advocates say they’ve received no opposition to their efforts.
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“There’s a mutual need. We have been stagnant,” Schlichter said. “With this one-time opportunity with Afghan refugees ending up somewhere in this country, we should take advantage of it.”
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St. Louis isn’t the only city with a declining population trying to attract Afghan refugees.
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Detroit corporate and community leaders in April launched the Detroit Refugee Network, with hopes of raising more than $1 million to provide services such as housing, education, transportation and language training. About 250 Afghan refugees have settled in Detroit, with another 400 or so elsewhere in southeastern Michigan.
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Tobocman and Alan Mallach, a senior fellow with the Center for Community Progress, studied two Detroit neighborhoods filled with immigrants from Bangladesh, Yemen, Mexico, and Central and South America. Those two neighborhoods have grown by nearly 50% in the past two decades or so.
The result is less crime, well over 100 new businesses and reductions in home vacancies and tax foreclosures, the study found. Residents surveyed were more satisfied and optimistic than Detroit residents as a whole.
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https://twitter.com/Refugees/status/1528363556193845251
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
@Refugees
Financial support abroad for certain refugee crises cannot replace the responsibility of States and the obligation to receive asylum seekers and protect refugees on their own territory – irrespective of race, nationality and mode of arrival. https://bit.ly/36k3sBW
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So obvious, but somehow so rare:
https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2022/06/23/husco-embraces-afghan-refugees-workforce.html
Husco International embraces Afghan refugees as solution to workforce shortage
After months of limited results in hiring for second-shift positions at its Waukesha plant, Husco International executives leaped at the opportunity to recruit refugees from Afghanistan — and the manufacturer has filled many of its openings.
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Hopefully a precedent for eventually millions of others:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hong-kong-activist-granted-political-093000574.html
Hong Kong activist granted political asylum by Sweden in security law first for EU
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Sweden has granted political asylum to a Hong Kong journalist and activist, ruling that he would otherwise "risk arrest" in the city for activities that would be "considered in breach of the national security law".
The Swedish Migration Agency made the ruling in April, but Narayan Liu, who was born in Taiwan but raised in Hong Kong, is now going public with the news - having received his residency documents this month.
It is believed to be the first asylum award for a Hongkonger in the European Union to explicitly cite the national security law, which Beijing rolled out in June 2020.
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Liu said he was "surprised" that the ruling had referred to the national security law in detail. He said he had since been inundated with congratulations from other Hong Kong campaigners, and "hopes that it shows others can do this too".
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Eva Pils, a professor at King's College London specialising in human rights, law, and society in China, said the mounting arrests in Hong Kong will "sadly strengthen the case for asylum to be given to those who get out".
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Success:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGSjAIkgKzg
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/20/democrats-introduce-daily-rolling-amnesty-millions-illegal-aliens/
On Wednesday, Reps. Lou Correa (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Norma Torres (D-CA), Jesus Garcia (D-IL), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), and Grace Meng (D-NY) announced their legislation that would allow millions of illegal aliens every year to secure green cards and eventually naturalized American citizenship.
Thank you to all Reps listed above!
“The bill would allow applicants who entered the United States at least seven years prior to the application date,” a news release from Correa’s office states. “This law would establish a permanent rolling registry that would be renewed daily.”
“Now is the time to pass legislation in the House and Senate,” Correa said.
Yes!
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Ethnonepotism is not to be tolerated! Our enemies report:
https://barenakedislam.com/2022/07/27/paris-illegal-alien-muslim-invaders-from-africa-and-afghanistan-storm-asylum-center-for-ukrainian-refugees/
On Sunday, hundreds of Muslim freeloader-wannabes from camps in and around Paris, and their bleeding heart leftist supporters, took over the reception center at Portede Versailles reserved for Ukrainian citizens exclusively. They demanded to be given same treatment as the Ukrainians, accusing center officials of being “racist” and “apartheid.”
This needs to happen every day in all countries which have prioritized Ukrainians until the ethnonepotism ends.
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/msg11646/#msg11646
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/msg12152/#msg12152
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/msg12164/#msg12164
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/msg12189/#msg12189
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/msg12620/#msg12620
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/msg12941/#msg12941
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/msg13105/#msg13105
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/msg13395/#msg13395
etc.
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https://us.yahoo.com/news/western-countries-shipping-refugees-poorer-122513064.html
Western countries are shipping refugees to poorer nations in exchange for cash
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The U.K. government was due to begin its first deportation flight to remove asylum-seekers to the East African country of Rwanda on June 14, 2022, exactly two months after signing the U.K.-Rwanda agreement. The asylum-seekers were from several war-torn and politically unstable countries, including Syria, Sudan and Iran.
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The European Court of Human Rights, the regional judicial human rights body in Europe, issued what are called interim urgent measures to stop the scheduled flights.
Such measures are most often issued in cases where there is imminent risk of death or torture.
Member states are bound by the decisions of the Court, and its rulings are enforced by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe – Europe’s leading human rights organization.
But instead of abiding by the decision, the U.K. government not only stressed its commitment to deportation flights, it also signaled its intention to pull out of the European Court of Human Rights.
As a scholar of refugees and postwar reconstruction, I see the deportation flights to Rwanda as part of a growing list of what are euphemistically known as migrant deterrence practices. These practices are used by Western countries to deter future migration of mainly people of color from countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa and Oceania, collectively known as the Global South.
In exchange for money paid to the receiving country, asylum-seekers are sent to those poorer countries to enable wealthier nations to circumvent international legal obligations to those seeking asylum.
Beyond Rwanda
The use of countries like Rwanda by Western states is on the rise.
The recent U.S.-Mexico Migrant Protection Protocol and the U.S.-Guatemala “third country safe” agreement follow a similar principle.
Since 1992, Australia has had a mandatory detention policy for “unauthorized” arrivals, which have included asylum-seekers.
Since 2001, it has also been removing asylum-seekers to Manus Island in Papua New Guinea and Nauru – a poor island country in the Pacific Ocean – for processing.
This has been the case even if arrivals applied for asylum in mainland Australia immediately upon arrival.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, “externalization of Australia’s asylum obligations has undermined the rights of those seeking safety and protection and significantly harmed their physical and mental health.”
Hence:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/australia/
Continuing:
European countries have also been pursuing similar programs with Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia and West African nations such as Nigeria.
They each provide financial aid packages to the respective low-income countries in exchange for preventing migrant mobility and absorbing deported asylum-seekers.
Thus far, Austria, Denmark and the Flemish far-right in Belgium have welcomed the U.K.-Rwanda agreement with the hope that more European states will seek partnerships with countries outside the continent to address irregular immigration.
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/denmark/
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/hungary-v4/ (includes Austria)
Continuing:
Johnson’s resignation on July 7, 2022, is not expected to halt the U.K. government’s plans to continue deportations to Rwanda. But in a new turn of events, Rwanda said on July 22 that it can only accommodate 200 deported asylum-seekers and will not be able to stop their efforts to cross the English Channel again.
All it would take to stop this is the poor countries themselves refusing to accept deportees. All they need to do is not be tempted by the offers of money. Is this really so difficult?
But if it must be about money, left-leaning wealthier countries should offer these same poor countries the same amount of money to not accept deportees. Then there would be no incentive for the poor countries to accept the deportees, since they get the money either way.
Deportations to Rwanda are part of the U.K.‘s 2022 Nationality and Borders Act, a law that drastically changed citizenship and asylum rules in the U.K.
In addition to deportations, the act allows the government to strip citizenship from British people without notice for reasons related to, among other things, national security or counterterrorism.
In the U.K., the reasons to strip citizenship can be defined broadly and may affect about 6 million Britons from immigrant backgrounds.
The 2022 Nationality and Borders Act also allows for the criminal prosecution of those who cross the English Channel on small boats to seek asylum.
The U.N. Refugee Agency has criticized the legislation on which the act is based for being at “odds with the United Kingdom’s international obligations under the Refugee Convention.”
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Deportations under such conditions are controversial because they are violations of the principle of non-refoulement in international refugee law.
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Despite this, the U.K. and other European countries have continued to deport asylum-seekers to such places.
Because the first countries to deport refugees were not nuked, now more and more countries are doing it. This is exactly what I warned would happen. You cannot expect countries to care about rules when they have seen that there are no consequences for ignoring the rules. Lest we forget:
Israel paid $5,000 for every African migrant deported to Rwanda under a “voluntary” migration agreement.
Israel made a similar arrangement with Uganda. Under the terms of the controversial arrangement, several thousand Sudanese and Eritrean asylum-seekers had to choose between immigration detention in Israel or to “voluntarily” agree to be deported to Rwanda and Uganda.
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/israel/
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https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/u-deports-children-documented-immigrants-153615822.html
In 2016, I was meeting with my international student advisor at the University of California in San Diego, and they explained that my sister and I could soon be deported. I was flummoxed. We were—and had always been—documented immigrants. But as I learned that day, if our parents couldn't get green cards before we turned 21—a mere 10 months away—then our legal status expired and we'd be forced to self-deport. As it turns out, we are among 250,000 "documented Dreamers" currently stuck in the same terrible situation.
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my parents had applied for green cards. They'd done exactly what so many immigrant friends had done before them: they submitted their paperwork and expected their permanent residency status to become official in a matter of four or five years. But nobody, not even our lawyers, predicted green card wait times would skyrocket, particularly for Indian nationals. That's because green cards are allocated evenly across countries, so the wait times for receiving permanent residency among people from highly populated countries have become many decades long. My parents' initial green card applications were approved years ago, but they had to wait in line for an actual green card to become available. With each passing year, their lawyer reassured them that they would receive their green card "any day now." But then my sister and I turned 21 and got kicked out of that line completely.
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this country's immigration system has upended our lives in another tragic way. After years of not visiting India, my family took a trip in late 2019 to attend a family wedding. But on the way home, my dad's return visa stamp was delayed without explanation. That was two years ago. He's been denied reentry to the U.S. this entire time.
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And then, as if things couldn't get any more absurd, they did. In October 2020, my parents' green card applications became current. They'd reached the front of the line. Only one last round of paperwork, a biometrics appointment, and a final interview were required. My mom can complete these final steps, but my dad can't. He must be physically in the United States—but the United States won't let him back in.
Of course, even if my mom does get her green card, it won't extend to me or my sister, her daughters. We lost our place in line the moment we turned 21. If I'm lucky, after graduating with my Ph.D., I may be able to secure sponsorship for a visa, but I will be at the back of the same line that my parents are still waiting in for 11 years and counting. That line has only gotten longer—we're talking multiple decades, up to 150 years by some estimates—if I were to join it tomorrow.
There's no logic to this system, and it benefits nobody. It has strained our family in ways we never could have imagined. Throughout our time in America, we've heard the refrain delivered to immigrants, "Follow the rules. Wait your turn in line." We did all of these things, and yet here we are.
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In 2021, I joined Improve the Dream, a nationwide organization of documented Dreamers. We've been telling Congress about our plight, and there have been two positive developments. The House of Representatives recently passed the America Competes Act, which would allow foreign-born STEM Ph.D.s to more easily secure a green card. Ultimately, though, we need a bill like the America's Children Act, which creates a pathway to permanent residency for documented children who are raised and educated in the United States. Until these bills become law, we will live in limbo. Many of us will be ejected from the country we call home.
https://www.improvethedream.org/
By the way, I want to highlight the next-level bad faith attitude that rightists are taking these days. From the comments:
8 hours ago
Boo hoo, you're parents obviously didn't abide by the rules
7 hours ago
Did you even read the article? They did everything according to the rules.
7 hours ago
Obviously they didn't
6 hours ago
obviously you didnt read
5 hours ago
I did read it, they still aren't doing what they are suppose to do, send them back!
8 hours ago
Our nation’s laws are our laws no matter how you try to twist it. If someone is caught here illegally, they should lose any future legal attempts to gain legal entry for life.
4 hours ago
Did you read the article?
4 hours ago
Follow the rules and stay. Don't follow the rules- leave. It's not hard to understand.
3 hours ago
Did you even read the article?
8 hours ago
Not sorry for what they've done only sorry they've been caught.
5 hours ago
Did you even read the article. Bigger question is CAN you read?
4 hours ago
Why didn’t they apply for citizenship and made them legal? Too bad so sad
reapply again then
3 hours ago
Did you even read the article? THEY DID, IT TOOK 20 YEARS FOR THEIR PARENTS, BUT BY THEN THE DAUGTHERS WERE 21 AND COULD NOT GET THE GREEN CARDS WITH THE PARENTS. SO THEY HAVE TO GO BACK IN LINE 20 YEARS! THE DAD IS STUCK OUTSIDE THE US FOR 2 YEARS BECAUSE THE EMBASSY WONT ISSUE A RETURN VISA IN TIME.
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/superiority-cannot-be-taught/
The only effective way to deal with rightists is extermination.
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Our enemies explain their dislike of public transport:
https://vdare.com/posts/great-replacement-update-will-amtrak-be-the-biden-regime-s-next-mode-of-transportation-to-brown-the-country
GOP Lawmakers Concerned ‘Amtrak Joe’ Is Using Taxpayer-Funded Trains to Transport Illegal Aliens into the US
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“We are deeply concerned that Amtrak’s resources—especially those supporting the Sunset Limited route—will be used to transport these undocumented persons,” the congressmen wrote
thereby proving our enemies are anti-American. Recall:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad
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Thank you, Mayor Lightfoot!
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/were-a-welcoming-city-says-chicagos-lightfoot-as-texas-gov-abbotts-second-busload-of-immigrants-arrives-01662398532
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago officials have asked the public for volunteers and donations to help immigrants being bused to the city from Texas amid the Republican-led state’s political battle over the immigration policies of President Joe Biden’s administration.
A busload of about 50 immigrants arrived Sunday in Chicago, days after the arrival of the first busload of about 75.
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The city of Chicago set up a website for members of the public who want to volunteer to help the migrants or donate to the cause, requesting such items as children’s books, backpacks, diapers, hygiene kits and sporting footwear.
Lightfoot said several organizations were already providing assistance.
“We’re a welcoming city, so we’re always going to step up and do the right thing to make sure that migrants who are coming here to our city are well-received.” Lightfoot said.
https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/texas-new-arrivals/home.html
While there is much else to dislike about Abbott, his policy of transporting refugees forward is infinitely preferable to the EU rightist (illegal) approach of pushing them back. Imagine how much better it would be if refugees crossing the Mediterranean to Greece/Italy/Spain were all transported to France/Germany instead of being drowned!
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More Red states voluntarily highlighting Blue state superiority:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/us/desantis-florida-migrants-marthas-vineyard.html
Florida Flies 2 Planeloads of Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard
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The migrant group, which included children, arrived on two planes around 3 p.m. without any warning, said State Senator Julian Cyr, a Massachusetts Democrat representing Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. Officials and volunteers from the island’s six towns “really moved heaven and earth to essentially set up the response that we would do in the event of a hurricane,” he said.
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One of the migrants, who asked to be identified only as Leonel, said in Spanish that the people of Martha’s Vineyard were generous and that he “had never seen anything like it.” They gave him a pair of shoes.
“I haven’t slept well in three months,” said Leonel, who does not have any relatives or friends in the United States. “It’s been three months since I put on a new pair of pants. Or shoes.”
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The Rev. Chip Seadale said St. Andrew’s had decided to take in the migrants for the night after learning that they had nowhere to go. A parishioner had reached out to him, knowing that the church helps house homeless people in the winter.
The island’s sole homeless shelter does not operate during the summer and has room for 10 people, with one bathroom, said Barbara Rush, the warden at St. Andrew’s. “Fifty people with no homes is an overwhelming number for the size of the community,” she said. “But this is a strong and capable community.”
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She said local community groups, churches and restaurants were all pitching in. Among the volunteers was Sergio Racig, a property manager who went to the church to help translate.
Thank you, Martha's Vineyard! This is what America should be about!
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Blue politicians just don't get it:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/aoc-says-gop-lawmakers-flew-135232343.html
AOC says GOP lawmakers who flew migrants to Martha's Vineyard committed 'crimes against humanity'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-biden-finally-spoke-buses-155708582.html
“Republicans are playing politics with human beings ― using them as props,” Biden declared during remarks at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute gala in Washington, D.C. “What they’re doing is simply wrong. It’s un-American. It’s reckless.”
Actually:
The idea of providing asylum seekers transportation to the interior of the United States – albeit, usually by plane – to “decompress” communities at the border is not inherently troubling to immigrant rights groups.
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Citing the United States’ history of welcoming immigrants and benefiting from their contributions to society, Rapaport added, “This is not a burden on us – it’s a help.”
Exactly!
Elier, 28, a native of Barcelona, Venezuela, who declined to provide his last name, said he had been told he could get a bus to New York City or Washington, D.C. If he refused, he was told he would be sent back across the border to Mexico.
Being given a choice is better than not being given a choice. (Orban, who does not give refugees a choice, is the one committing crimes against humanity. Is AOC paying attention?)
Fernando Luna, 30, from Managua, Nicaragua, said he was told that he could go anywhere in the United States as long as he left Texas. He chose the free bus ride to New York City and is hoping to pull together enough money for a bus ticket to Los Angeles, California, where his sister already lives.
Luna and his friends have their complaints about conditions in the homeless shelter. For example, they don’t appreciate that other residents smoke marijuana in the building. But he said it was still significantly better than the “freezing-cold” border patrol facility in Texas where Luna found it very difficult to sleep.
Yes, Abbott is a bad guy. So why would we trust a bad guy to provide adequate care for refugees? Would we not prefer the bad guy to send the refugees onward ASAP to people more likely to provide adequate care for them? Why are Blue politicians complaining?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-governors-sending-thousands-immigrants-012347404.html
Abel Nuñez, executive director of the Central American Resource Center, one of the organizations helping immigrants who were dropped off at DC's Union Station, said Abbott might actually be having unintended consequences.
"Most immigrants on the buses are really happy and thankful for the governor's free bus ride," Nuñez said in a recent interview. "It's counterintuitive. Yes, Abbott is making a point, sure, but this will encourage people on the buses to tell their networks back home, 'Hey, go to Texas.'"
It is because Orban understands what Nunez understands that Orban does not behave like Abbott behaves. Orban, unlike Abbott, calculates his response with the sole aim of causing misery for the refugees themselves. This is why Hungary must be nuked whereas Texas need not be.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/17/us/marthas-vineyard-migrants-journey-desantis/index.html
A familiar quiet had descended by Friday afternoon on the tree-lined downtown block on Martha's Vineyard, where Jackie Stallings, 56, could not stop thinking about a young Venezuelan -- she was 23 but looked 15 -- who sat with her in the St. Andrew's Parish House the night before.
The asylum seeker showed Stallings cell phone video taken during the journey across a remote Central American jungle, pointing out migrants who died along the way.
"It was like she was showing me cat videos but it was actually their journey and what they endured to get here," said Stallings, a member of the Martha's Vineyard Community Services nonprofit. "There were bodies and moms with babies trying to get through mud that was like clay."
"The heartbreaking part is seeing these beautiful young ladies become desensitized," said her husband, Larkin Stallings, 66, an Oak Bluffs bar owner who sits on the nonprofit's board. "For them, they just flip and show you a picture."
Stallings cut him off.
"She was like, look, this one died, part of their original party. And he died and this one died. The mud is like to up to here to them," she said Friday in the shade of the parish house porch, pointing to her thigh. "And you see them, they literally have to lift their legs out the mud. They die because they get stuck."
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"I want them to have a good life," she said. "I want the journey they experienced and the hardships they experienced to have been worth it for them and their families. I want them to come to America and be embraced. They all want to work. And I just I want their journey to have a happy ending."
I agree. But are you ready to shoot 75 million Trumpists in order to get this happy ending?
"The year round community is very strong because you are kind of isolated here -- whether it's the ferry or the bad weather, you're stuck here," he said. "We're used to helping each other. We're used to dealing with people in need and we're super happy -- like they enriched us, we're happy to help them on their journey."
I agree. But are you super happy about shooting 75 million Trumpists?
"The governor of Florida got it wrong," he said. "I think he thought we wouldn't know what to do. And actually people here really give a damn. They really care."
I agree. But do you care enough to shoot 75 million Trumpists?
The migrants "will be housed in dormitory-style spaces . . . with separate spaces accommodating both individuals and families," and families will not be separated, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker's office said in a news release. They will have access to services including legal, health care, food, hygiene kits, and crisis counseling.
"I kept telling them it was like a dormitory. I didn't want to say you're going to a military base," she said. "We want to go make sure they're OK."
Actually, arguably the single best thing that can be done for refugees is to give them military training and weaponry so they can defend themselves against the 75 million Trumpists.
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What I have been saying:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-sent-him-washington-one-183737372.html
When Lever Alejos of Venezuela arrived at the southern border penniless in July, he gladly accepted a free bus ride to Washington, D.C., courtesy of the state of Texas. He had no family or friends to receive him, and spent one night in the plaza across from Union Station. He soon settled into a homeless shelter.
“I have nothing,” Alejos, 29, said on his third day in the city, “but I have the will to work and succeed.”
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Democrats have called the stunts cruel, and many migrants have been left at least temporarily homeless as their new host cities scramble to help them.
But others, like Alejos, have called the free transportation a blessing. They are already employed and achieving some measure of stability. They have found jobs in construction, hospitality, retail, trucking and other sectors facing worker shortages in an economy still recovering from the impact of the pandemic.
“In most big cities, including the ones where governors are shipping migrants, employers are scrambling to find workers,” said Chris Tilly, a labor economist at UCLA. “They are meeting a need.”
Michelle Rumbaut, a hospital administrator who assists migrants in San Antonio, recalled a recent group of young Venezuelans she encountered who were determined to reach New York, where jobs awaited them.
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After spending a night in the street and another in a shelter where he felt unsafe, Alejos has been staying at a different shelter that he described as tidy, comfortable and orderly. “Each person has a locker; the sheets are clean; showers have hot water and there’s Wi-Fi — all the services,” he said.
“I feel fortunate the governor put me on a bus to Washington,” Alejos said. “It opened up doors for me.”
The same could be happening in the EU if not for Orban & Co.:
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This is what Blue politicians should be angry about, not free bus rides!
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/swapping-hong-kong-crewe-wont-231836988.html
Swapping Hong Kong for Crewe: 'We won't go back'
Good!
Yowin keeps a book of photographs of the 2019 protests called Defiance, including several showing violent clashes between protesters and police. When Hayley is a bit older, Yowin hopes the photos will help explain why they felt they had to leave.
"When two million people are marching on the street and the government still ignores these voices, you will find the city is hopeless," says Yowin. "Every time I talk about it, I cry."
All those 2 million should migrate to the UK! You should encourage and help them to do this.
They're far from alone in wanting to make the life-changing move. Government statistics suggest 140,000 Hongkongers have applied to live in the UK under a new visa route. It was brought in last year in response to China imposing a controversial new security law in Hong Kong, which the UK said was an erosion of freedoms and rights.
140000 is not even 10% of 2 million! Why is it so low?
The North of England is a popular destination, with many families settling in places like Crewe, Stoke, and Warrington. And businesses are springing up to service this flurry of migrants.
One recruitment company has taken on two Cantonese speakers to tap into the new labour force. "We realised there was quite a big opportunity in terms of people coming over from Hong Kong," says Charlotte Shaw from KPI Recruiting in Stoke.
The agency hopes Hongkongers might offer a solution to the labour shortages, driven both by Covid and Brexit, says Charlotte. "We found that a lot of Eastern Europeans decided to leave the UK and have gone back home."
De-Turanize the UK gene pool!
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Newsom is on a roll:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/newsom-signs-bill-allowing-california-210719203.html
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law Assembly Bill 1766, also known as “California IDs for All.” Under the bill signed last week, California ID eligibility will be expanded for close to 2 million people who lack legal status.
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In a statement Friday, Newsom touted the bill, along with other legislation that would allow street vendors to more easily obtain local health permits and provide immigrant students with improved access to in-state tuition at public colleges and universities and to ESL courses at community colleges.
In addition, he signed a bill that will provide low-income Californians, regardless of their immigration status, eligibility for legal assistance in civil matters affecting basic human needs.
"California is expanding opportunity for everyone, regardless of immigration status," Newsom said in a written statement. "We’re a state of refuge — a majority-minority state, where 27% of us are immigrants."
Newsom said signing the bills would "further support our immigrant community, which makes our state stronger every single day."
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Advocates say the bill will also help unaccompanied immigrant children who arrive in the United States without their parents or legal guardians. When released from federal custody, these children often encounter barriers to accessing basic services they are eligible for due to a lack of identification, according to nonprofit organization Kids in Need of Defense.
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Victoria Dominguez, policy director at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California, said the organization, which co-sponsored AB 1766, is excited that "the state and the governor continue to show a commitment to protecting and supporting immigrant communities in California."
"California has always been like a beacon of hope for a lot of the immigrant communities here in the United States," Dominguez said. "This is part of that, a continued promise of making sure that all Californians, regardless of their immigration status, have a place and a sense of security in our communities."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xbf-FmL4cU
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As I have been saying all along, helping refugees get where they want to be is a good thing:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrat-led-texas-city-steps-100241178.html'
Democrat-led Texas city steps up migrant busing to New York, outpacing Republican effort
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El Paso, which sits across the border from Juarez, Mexico, has bused roughly 7,000 migrants to New York City since late August and sent more than 1,800 to Chicago, a city-run effort that far exceeds the more ad-hoc transportation of the past.
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El Paso's Democratic leaders say they are coordinating with receiving cities and that migrants take their chartered buses voluntarily. City officials say their buses were needed because up to 2,000 migrants were arriving daily, including impoverished Venezuelans without family in the United States to pay for onward travel.
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The buses now depart from a converted warehouse in northeast El Paso that serves as a migrant processing center. On Monday, several hundred migrants waited for buses to New York City and Chicago, among them Frederick Pinango, 28, and his wife and 3-year-old daughter.
The Venezuelan family trekked through the Darien Gap, an often dangerous passage through a jungle separating Colombia and Panama. They worked their way through Central America and Mexico by cleaning bathrooms, emptying trash and begging, according to Pinango.
They took a bus to New York because they had no contacts in the United States and it was free.
"I have faith that they will help us with some shelter, so I can start to work," he said.
Edwin Rico, a 28-year-old Venezuelan who boarded a bus to Chicago on Monday, said the food that El Paso officials provided for the trip was not enough, but he rationed it.
"I don’t have money, so I’m grateful for the help," he said.
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New York City officials traveled to El Paso last month to watch the process firsthand. During the visit, they discussed adding drop-off points in cities on the way to New York, Leeser said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0bBZ81E9EY
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This is more like the America I remember!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nyc-mayor-says-boroughs-host-192305647.html
NYC mayor says all boroughs will host migrants: 'No one gets a pass'
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that every New York City community would see asylum seekers in the coming days.
"Staten Island and other communities, they are going to – everyone is going to see asylum seekers. So, all the calls that I'm getting from elected officials, all the calls that I'm hearing from people of saying, you know, 'Please, not here…' That just can't happen. This is a citywide crisis and all of us are going to be impacted. Staten Island is going to be impacted like the other four boroughs."
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"No, you can't have it both ways. Either we're in this together, or we're not. And, I'm not listening to that. No one gets a pass during an emergency. Everyone must do their share.
This should be applied not just to the boroughs of NYC, but to every county of every state. But it has to start somewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqe5NP86OCc
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/ron-desantis-flying-migrants-marthas-063604177.html
Ron DeSantis flying migrants to Martha's Vineyard may have unintentionally opened the door for them to remain in the US permanently
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A Texas sheriff on Thursday certified that the nearly 50 migrants, who flew from San Antonio to Massachusetts in September, were the victims of a crime, The Texas Tribune reported.
"Based upon the claims of migrants being transported from Bexar County under false pretenses, we are investigating this case as possible Unlawful Restraint,"
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Victims of certain crimes can apply for a "U visa." If approved, the U visa can provide the victims and their families with temporary immigration status, including the ability to work, and the possibility of lawful permanent resident status, or a green card, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
;D
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What our enemies are complaining about is actually how, in a sane world, every EU country should be behaving:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2022/10/let-em-in/
After lengthy negotiations, the federal government has launched an admission program for “particularly endangered” Afghans. Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) and Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) announced on Monday in Berlin that the plan is to take in around 1,000 Afghans and their family members each month.
1000/month is not many, but at least it is a start. Hopefully this sets a precedent for taking in 1000/month from each country from which refugees are fleeing.
Better still, the Greens are being compared to the NSDAP:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2022/10/the-greens-embrace-bans-on-speaking/
a German “Sonderweg” is the language of the National Socialists. Adolf Hitler, as the influential Bielefeld social historian Hans-Ulrich Wehler explained, sought for the Germans’ a “special path” that then led to the abyss.
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The Union chalked up a German “Sonderweg” to the traffic light government in the Bundestag today, because all other countries in Europe are closing their borders, while Germany is the only country that wants to open them further.
Whereas the Greens are accusing the CDU of being pro-Russian:
Katrin Göring-Eckard is Vice President of the German Bundestag and a Protestant Christian. The Greens have been discussing asylum issues for years. She says that anyone who, like Friedrich Merz (CDU), talks about “social tourism” is doing Vladimir Putin’s bidding. “Push and pull” are “imaginary factors”. This “is like an imaginary illness; that’s nonsense.” Göring-Eckard refers to Angela Merkel’s refugee policy, including her “We can do it”. She says: It is “completely normal politics that you create things.”
Most importantly:
Annalena Baerbock: “We have to be prepared, there will not be one, ten, hundred, but thousands of flights, there will be eight to ten million refugees, and we will take them all in.”
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Continuing from:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/giorgia-meloni/msg16279/#msg16279
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/matteo-salvini/msg16296/#msg16296
now:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/charity-group-challenges-italy-over-142627004.html
ROME (Reuters) -A German charity operating a migrant rescue ship said on Monday it would go to court to try to overturn efforts by Italy's new right-wing government to prevent some of the people it had saved from the sea coming to land.
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German charity SOS Humanity has said it will shortly present a suit to a Rome court appealing a government decree that refused to a designate a safe port to the rescue boats. It is also appealing in a Sicilian court so that those migrants left aboard should be allowed to enter Italy and seek asylum.
Do you think this approach will work?
Meloni's government has accused the charity ships of acting as a de-facto taxi service for migrants seeking a better life in Europe.
How is this a bad thing?! The charity ships are only doing what the Italian navy should be doing (but aren't)!
The charities, including France's Doctors without Borders (MSF), which operates the Geo Barents, say they play a vital role saving lives in one of the world's most deadly migration routes and accuse Italy of breaking international law.
"The partial and selective disembarkation, such as suggested in the Italian government's decree, is heinous and can't be considered lawful according to maritime conventions," MSF said on Monday.
Exactly.
The United Nations agencies for migration and refugees, respectively the IOM and the UNHCR, said the stranded migrants "need to be disembarked swiftly without any further delay."
And yet the time it will take for the case to go through the court is itself a delay.....
France, Germany and Norway have all called on Italy to take in the migrants, however Hungary's right-wing prime minister, Viktor Orban, has praised Rome's hardline approach.
"Finally! We owe a big thank you to Giorgia Meloni and the new Italian government for protecting the borders of Europe," Orban wrote on Twitter at the weekend.
Hungary should have been nuked in 2015.
European Commission spokesperson Anita Hipper said member states had a "legal and moral duty" to save lives of people, regardless of the circumstances that led them to sea.
Successfully doing this duty requires killing other people, specifically those who actively make it impossible for us to do this duty. There is no avoiding this straightforward conclusion.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/explainer-whats-behind-italys-migrant-131305468.html
The new government’s confrontational posture is reminiscent of the standoffs orchestrated by Matteo Salvini when he was briefly interior minister from 2018-19.
Salvini's refusal to open ports resulted in ships having to travel to France or Spain to disembark migrants, adding up to three days to the migrants’ journeys. A German captain, Carola Rackete, famously defied Salvini and entered an Italian port despite orders not to, citing an emergency situation on board.
Salvini, who is infrastructure minister in charge of ports in the new government, is facing trial on charges of kidnapping for refusing to let the Spanish migrant rescue ship Open Arms dock in an Italian port in 2019. Another case against him has been dismissed.
Salvini is still awaiting trial for his 2019 crime! This is how slow it is for a case to get through the courts! How many more refugees will die while we wait? The only refugees saved for sure were the ones which Rackete brought to land by not asking permission from rightists.
WHAT DOES INTERNATIONAL LAW SAY?
Article 98 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea requires every shipmaster “to render assistance to any person found at sea in danger of being lost.” Charity ships say rescuing migrants from flimsy, unseaworthy smuggling boats, or in many cases straight from the water, is their legal obligation.
International Maritime Law also requires coastal states to run adequate search and rescue services, including by cooperating with other nations in the same region during rescues.
Rescues are only considered complete after survivors are disembarked to the nearest place of safety, to be assigned by the maritime authority in charge of search-and-rescue coordination. But NGOs say their requests for a place of safety in the Mediterranean Sea are increasingly delayed, ignored or denied by both Italy and Malta.
The law is clearly on our side. So instead of forcing the refugees to wait while a court case is filed against the rightists, just disembark the refugees without rightist permission, and let rightists file a court case against us if they want to! Follow Rackete's example!
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/refugees-welcome/msg2174/?topicseen#msg2174
Salvini and Rackete squared off in June 2019, when she ignored Italian military orders prohibiting her from docking her George Soros-backed NGO ship trafficking illegals at a port in Lampedusa. Rackete instead crushed a patrol boat putting the lives of soldiers at risk, and illegally entered the Italian port.
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/refugees-welcome/msg2169/?topicseen#msg2169
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/refugees-welcome/msg2171/?topicseen#msg2171
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Thank you!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-judge-blocks-title-42-184641858.html
A federal judge on Tuesday barred U.S. border officials from rapidly expelling migrants under Title 42, a pandemic health policy that has been used to expel more than a million people.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington, D.C., vacated the Trump-era policy instituted in March 2020 to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Sullivan described Title 42 as "arbitrary and capricious" in violation of federal law in his ruling.
The ruling takes effect immediately and applies to all migrants, including families and adults traveling without children, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, the organization that filed the lawsuit resulting in the decision.
"This ruling is proof that Title 42 was never about public health — it was a thinly veiled racist smokescreen put in place by the previous administration and continued by the current administration," Donna De La Cruz, director of communications for the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, said in a written statement.
"President (Joe) Biden must once and for all eliminate the use of Title 42 for asylum seekers."
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"The only way to reform what's happening at the border is to create a system where there truly are legal pathways, and only Congress can do that," she said.
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El Paso may consider reopening its Migrant Welcome Center, should the need arise, city spokeswoman Laura Cruz Acosta said in a statement. The city is seeking advance funding from FEMA to help support efforts to manage the needs of asylum seekers released in the city, she said.
In other news, more refugees are finally taking my advice, as our enemies report with chagrin:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2022/11/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-passports/
Asylum trick at the border: Heute reader Michael found passports, torn money and plane tickets from refugees in a meadow.
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These were five Turkish passports, banknotes and plane tickets from Istanbul to Sarajevo.
The documents are likely to have been deliberately disposed of by migrants before they were apprehended, in order that they might hide their real place of origin and actual citizenship from the authorities.
If you are a refugee in an EU country and someone who wants to deport you asks you where you came from, always tell them you came from another EU country. They will probably not believe you, but they will have to do the work themselves to get the answer they want.
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Well done Philadelphia!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/asylum-seekers-bused-texas-arrive-054236414.html
Asylum-seekers bused from Texas arrive in Philadelphia to warm welcome
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Peter Pedemonti, a co-director of Philadelphia-based community organization New Sanctuary Movement, was busy getting his young children ready for school last week when he got a call from a colleague in Texas: Gov. Greg Abbott was sending a bus of asylum-seekers to Pennsylvania.
The colleague didn't know when the bus would leave, nor when it would arrive.
Pedemonti jumped into action, activating a network of more than a dozen advocacy organizations and Philadelphia city departments that had been preparing for this moment since the summer, when Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis began sending migrants to so-called sanctuary cities like Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C.
“We always knew Philadelphia would be a destination,” he said.
If Abbott was hoping for a public backlash to asylum-seekers’ arriving in Philadelphia, he didn’t achieve his goal, said Pedemonti, who, along with other community organizers, greeted the newcomers Wednesday morning with warm drinks and clothing.
"We chose to welcome people with dignity, with love and with support and solidarity," he said. "I’m really proud of the city today."
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The outpouring of support for the arrivals appeared to be a moment of pride for Mayor Jim Kenney, who pushed the city to become a sanctuary for immigrants in 2018. He famously broke into song and dance when a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration couldn’t cut off grants to Philadelphia over how it deals with immigrants in the country illegally.
Since then, Philadelphia has expanded its services and made the office of immigrant affairs permanent.
“I’m very pleased with the high level of coordination occurring to best welcome individuals seeking asylum to Philadelphia, where they are and will always be welcomed," Kenney said in a statement Wednesday. "We are proud to protect the rights and dignity of our newly arrived neighbors."
This is what all of America should be like!
"Eventually we will need a state-coordinated plan, and we really need the U.S. and federal government to shift to a long-term plan," said Andy Kang, the executive director of the Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition. "Our hope is that, at some point, asylum-seekers are treated more like refugees."
Finally, keep exposing the rightist lies every single time:
Abbott warned President Joe Biden in a letter Wednesday that Texas would ramp up its efforts to deal with the influx of migrants. He said Biden must implement or reinstate policies that enforce federal immigration laws “and protect the states against invasion.”
“Two years of inaction on your part now leave Texas with no choice but to escalate our efforts to secure our State,” the letter said. “Your open-border policies, which have catalyzed an unprecedented crisis of illegal immigration, are the sole cause of Texas having to invoke our constitutional authority to defend ourselves.”
But advocates are quick to point out that the people who arrived in Philadelphia aren’t in the country illegally, having been paroled into the U.S. after they declared asylum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS2PQs_IRNk
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https://us.yahoo.com/news/advocates-launch-campaign-welcome-migrants-151554360.html
Advocates launch campaign to welcome migrants relocated north
An alliance of advocacy groups on Friday launched a campaign to counter the migrant busing policies of GOP officials like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by highlighting the massive civil society response to welcome migrants throughout the country.
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The campaign website features a map highlighting individuals, organizations and elected officials who have in some way contributed to welcoming migrants bused or flown north by Republican governors.
For instance, the map shows a blue dot — representing an elected official — over Syracuse, N.Y.
Clicking on the dot leads to a local news story about Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh speaking out in favor of welcoming migrants, and Syracuse’s sanctuary policies.
“Anytime we have refugees coming into this country, we want to make sure the federal government knows that Syracuse is a welcoming place and will work hand and hand with them to make sure that we are helping these humans that are in crisis,” Walsh told Spectrum News 1 in September.
The campaign also helps highlight individuals and organizations that have rendered aid, both short and long term, to migrants arriving in their cities and towns.
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While civil society and local government assistance has been consistently available to migrants relocated north, the Choose Welcome campaign is also seeking to institutionalize some of that aid.
To that end, the campaign has three public demands: to grant immediate access to basic services and work permits for asylum applicants, federal funding to help civil society welcome migrants and a full restoration of asylum rights at the border.
https://choosewelcome.org/
(https://choosewelcome.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Graphic-for-individuals-2.png)
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/niger-president-calls-job-based-170149387.html
MILAN (Reuters) - Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum said in an interview with an Italian newspaper on Friday that African and European states should agree quotas for African immigrants tailored to employment needs.
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"In France, Spain and Italy you have many jobs in sectors of employment where Africans can work," Bazoum said.
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Bazoum spoke on a trip to Italy where he met Italian President Sergio Mattarella and attended a conference in Rome with other African heads of state.
Italy was on the frontline of a European migration crisis in 2015 and 2016, when a million refugees fled war and poverty in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, adding to existing migration.
Niger is both a source country and a transit point for migrants who continue to trek to north Africa and travel across the Mediterranean to Europe's southern coastline.
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He also noted the limits of funding development projects to stem economic migration - a widespread approach in Europe - pointing out that "Africa's development is something far more complex".
"The idea that European investments in Africa can be enough to bring about development and stop migrants in their countries of origin is unrealistic," he said
This is what I have been saying all along! Keep the money in the EU; just let the refugees into the EU where they will spontaneously join the circulation of money already in operation by filling the labour shortage! It is the elementary economics! In contrast, "investments in Africa" means spending money to try to deliberately create another labour shortage nearer to the labour excess so that the labour excess can fill this new, artificial shortage instead of the already-existing, organic shortage in the EU. WTF?!
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Our enemies report:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/19/sanctuary-counties-making-private-deals-abolish-ice-groups-protect-criminal-illegal-aliens/
Officials in Arlington, Virginia, are working behind the scenes with left-wing non-governmental organizations (NGOs), who support abolishing federal immigration enforcement, to shape county policy that shields criminal illegal aliens from arrest and deportation.
An investigation from the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) reveals the extent to which Arlington County board members are working hand-in-hand with activists from the Legal Aid Justice Center (LAJC) to protect illegal aliens arrested for crimes from being turned over to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
In July, the Arlington County board unanimously approved a quasi-sanctuary policy that bans local police from inquiring about a suspect’s immigration status and requires officers to ask their supervisor’s permission before notifying ICE agents about an illegal alien in their custody.
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LAJC has advocated for abolishing ICE altogether, posting earlier this year:
Yesterday we were proud to attend the #CommunitiesNotCages rally in front of #ICE HQ as part of the National Day of Action calling on the Biden administration take immediate action to shut down immigration detention centers, #FreeThemAll, defund ICE and CBP and stop deportations!
Of course all this will merely slow down ICE/CBP, not stop them. The only way to truly stop them is with ruthless firepower. I repeat: every refugee needs to own an assault rifle and at least 1000 rounds of ammunition. Instead of donating money to groups such as LAJC, it would be more effective to use that money to buy assault rifles and ammo in bulk and hand them out to refugees whichever side of the border they are on.
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Authentic Christmas spirit:
https://wjla.com/news/local/migrant-buses-dc-texas-vice-president-kamala-harris-home-naval-observatory-christmas-eve-cold-weather-18-degrees-illegal-immigration-border-security-crossing-undocumented-greg-abbott
WASHINGTON (7News) — A group of migrants was dropped off outside Vice President Kamala Harris' D.C. home on Christmas Eve, as temperatures dropped into the teens and some people were seen without adequate winter clothes.
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The Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network was there to take all three busloads of people to a church to help provide them with necessary resources and welcome them to our area.
"This is a welcome effort that we've been doing since the first bus arrived," said Amy Fischer, a core organizer with the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network. "D.C. just continues to show up as a welcoming city that is always ready and willing to open their arms to welcome people, whether it's Christmas Eve, whether it's 9 degrees outside or 90 degrees outside."
To protect the migrants, Fischer did not disclose which church they were taking the migrants to, however, she said they provided warm food and clothes to them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAfDgntyWs8
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Thank you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ql7hn4mZvA
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Our enemies complain about ships following the law:
https://vdare.com/posts/great-replacement-update-cruise-ship-picks-up-illegals-for-free-ride-to-florida
“Crews aboard two Carnival and Celebrity cruise ships rescued about two dozen migrants drifting at sea in small boats off the coast of Florida just days after hundreds of other migrants arrived at boat landings in the Florida Keys,” says a report from Fox News [Carnival, Celebrity cruise crews rescue dozens of migrants drifting in small boats off Florida, videos show, by Stephen Sorace, January 4, 2023].
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The Celebrity Beyond rescued 19 migrants from a crowded boat. Capt. Kate McCue said in a video she posted to social media that she turned the ship around after her chief officer noticed a glimmer on the horizon. The glimmer turned out to be the migrants.
After the migrants were aboard the ship, crew members provided them with blankets, a change of clothes, food, and a medical evaluation, McCue said. The U.S. Coast Guard was also contacted.
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"The IMO explicitly states this requirement in its International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea: ‘A master of a ship at sea, which is in a position to be able to provide assistance on receiving a signal from any source that persons are in distress at sea, is bound to proceed with all speed to their assistance,’” according to SeaLaw.com.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndY9yaSwnxM
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This is actually a funny story. Not what I expected to read when I came on here. Cruises are kind of a sleazy business, especially the ones operated by Carnival and other such companies, so I would have expected at least some misconduct with the refugees, considering your average clientele. Maybe this proves that while people tend to treat migrants like garbage from afar in their voting booths, kindness is more common when they have to look at the victims in the eye?
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Those who have already made it in have a duty to help those trying to make it in behind them:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/haitians-u-feel-pressure-sponsor-194436270.html
(Reuters) - Haitians in the United States are facing enormous pressure to help family and friends under a U.S. migration program announced this month that may help some people escape Haiti's escalating violence but is also putting strain on the nation's diaspora.
Giubert St Fort, a South Florida resident from Haiti said he was inundated with calls almost immediately after the Biden administration said on Jan. 5 it was opening a new legal pathway for migrants from four countries, including Haiti who had U.S. sponsors.
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Guerline Jozef, executive director of non-profit immigration advocacy group Haitian Bridge Alliance, which is helping Haitians find sponsors, described the dilemma.
"People will say 'I have more than one cousin I would like to sponsor, I'm only able to sponsor one of them,'" Jozef said. "And that creates a major issue because how do you choose which one to sponsor?" She is also opposed to the expulsions of Haitians and other migrants arriving at the southwest border, many who are seeking U.S. asylum.
Jozef said immigrant advocates have long fought for measures such as humanitarian parole, but said the program should not be attached to systematic deportation or expulsion of immigrants seeking asylum.
Chain migration is deliberate cruelty. If one person can sponsor only one other person, we have to wait for that new person to acquire citizenship before they can then sponsor the next person. It is far too slow, as the pace is stuck at 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+..... Even increasing the number of people who can be sponsored from 1 to 2 would already be a considerable improvement, because then the pace would become 1+2+4+8+16+32+64+..... See how much quicker that would be?
Of course if we were in charge, we would not even require sponsors, and just let everyone in first. (Oh wait, that was what they actually did, but only for Ukrainians! https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/ )
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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadian-lawmakers-back-resettlement-10000-uyghur-muslims-2023-02-01/
Canadian lawmakers back resettlement of 10,000 Uyghur Muslims
The Canadian parliament on Wednesday unanimously voted in favor of a non-binding proposal for the resettlement of 10,000 Uyghur Muslim refugees from China's Xinjiang region into Canada over two years.
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We were ahead of the curve as usual:
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/06/1154412106/busing-migrants-asylum-border-republicans-democrats
Busing migrants was a partisan lightning rod. Here's why Democrats have embraced it
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"If we're spending money to bus people, why just not get them to their final destination?" Hobbs told reporters at a recent press conference.
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Buses operated by the state are "incredibly useful," says Burrow.
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Some bus passengers also appreciate the free ride.
"I didn't know that the ticket to get here cost $500 dollars," says Selina, a migrant traveling from Chile who caught a state-run bus from Texas to Philadelphia. NPR is not using her name because her immigration case is pending.
Selina, who wants to meet up with her brother-in-law in New Jersey, tells NPR in Spanish that when she got into the United States, a guard told her about the free buses and showed her where to get in line for one. Otherwise, "I couldn't pay," she says.
That reality has helped shift the politics of transporting immigrants. "Something that looked like a punitive thing towards immigrants done for political gains suddenly turned itself on the head because migrants are rational people," says Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute.
Not only could they get a free ticket to a family or a shelter, but "they found these cities were actually quite hospitable to immigrants," says Chishti.
Government agencies and nonprofits in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Chicago and New York have welcomed tens of thousands of immigrants bussed from the border. In many cases, they provide food, shelter, legal services and help with transportation.
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Democrats have started to adopt the process
Cities and states led by Democrats started busing immigrants last year – with some tweaks.
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Murphy Hebert, communications director for the Arizona Governor's Office, says the new administration has an obligation to use the $15 million appropriated by the legislature to transport immigrants away from border areas.
"We are reallocating those funds to a program that is more effective and more humanitarian," she says.
I was saying this all the way back here:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/refugees-welcome/msg15495/#msg15495
transporting refugees forward is infinitely preferable to the EU rightist (illegal) approach of pushing them back. Imagine how much better it would be if refugees crossing the Mediterranean to Greece/Italy/Spain were all transported to France/Germany instead of being drowned!
back when AOC was behaving like an idiot:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/refugees-welcome/msg15701/#msg15701
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/refugees-welcome/msg15727/#msg15727
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/refugees-welcome/msg16070/#msg16070
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/refugees-welcome/msg16540/#msg16540
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https://financialpost.com/globe-newswire/repeat-thousands-to-mark-anti-racism-day-across-canada-calling-for-equal-rights-and-permanent-resident-status-for-migrants-and-refugees
REPEAT – Thousands to mark Anti-Racism day across Canada calling for equal rights and permanent resident status for migrants and refugees
Thousands of migrants and supporters will mark International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Edmonton, Montreal, Sudbury, Toronto, Vancouver and Niagara Falls on March 18 and 19 to call on Prime Minister Trudeau to ensure permanent resident status for all migrants and refugees, including undocumented people, as he promised in December 2021.
Over 1.7 million migrants grow food, take care of children, the sick and the elderly, and are essential to our communities but are denied rights available to everyone else because they don’t have permanent resident status. Mostly in low wage essential jobs, migrants are also the hardest-hit by the affordability crisis.
An uncapped regularization program that grants permanent resident status (not temporary permits) to all undocumented people could lift half a million people out of poverty; give them the tools to protect themselves against abuse; ensure gender justice; unite families and correct a historic wrong.
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https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/03/18/ottawa-to-introduce-measures-to-support-turkish-and-syrian-nationals-affected-by-devastating-earthquakes.html
Ottawa eases the way for Turkish, Syrian nationals affected by devastating earthquakes to stay in Canada
The federal government is making it easier for Turkish and Syrian nationals in Canada, whose homeland was devastated last month by earthquakes, to obtain open work permits allowing them to remain here for up to three years.
“People who have been impacted (from the earthquakes) will benefit from special treatment in their application to come and receive temporary protection in Canada, including the family members of people who are here,” said Fraser, speaking in Mississauga.
As part of the new measures, a Turkish or Syrian national who has temporary Canadian residency — such as a visitor, a student or a worker — will also be able to move between temporary residency streams to extend their stay in Canada. This will give them the opportunity to continue studying, working, or visiting family.
Normally, an individual with a temporary visa or residency in Canada would have to leave the country to obtain a work or study permit, once their existing permit expires. But the new measures will now allow them to remain in Canada while they apply for any permit until they are approved.
Fraser said it’s essential that Canada continues to treat this as a priority, and shared his hope the “new measures will give them peace of mind that they don’t need to return home to an uncertain future.”
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https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/government-opens-new-pathway-for-refugees-who-can-fill-labour-shortages
Government opens new pathway for refugees who can fill labour shortages
The government is opening up a new immigration stream focusing on refugees but putting the focus on the skills they’re bringing to Canada, instead of the violence or persecution they’re fleeing.
Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said Monday the new pathway will welcome up to 2,000 refugees per year, starting this summer. The government has already expanded other economic immigration streams to refugees, but this new program will be dedicated to refugees who also bring economic skills.
In a speech to the Empire Club in Toronto, Fraser said refugees can be economic immigrants as well, because they often bring important skills and could fill some of the thousands of jobs available in Canada now.
“The people that we’re providing a second lease on life for humanitarian reasons, we can demonstrate to the world that they come up with an awful lot more than the contents of their suitcase,” he said.
“I don’t think we have to take it as a given that we live in a world where refugee camps are something we accept as normal,”he said. “The reality is if we do the right thing, we’re able to also serve our self-interest.”
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Court finally understands what I have been saying since 2015:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dutch-court-bars-return-african-123423522.html
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands' top administrative court ruled Wednesday that immigration authorities can't send migrants back to Italy, because they face possible human rights violations there — a decision that will likely put further pressure on the strained Dutch asylum system.
The ruling came in cases brought by two migrants, a Nigerian and a man who claims to be from Eritrea. Both entered Europe via Italy. The Nigerian applied for asylum three times in Italy before applying in the Netherlands, and the other man arrived in Italy but didn't seek asylum there, according to the Council of State.
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“Without reception, there is a genuine risk that their basic needs, such as shelter, food and running water, will not be met, which is a human rights violation,” the Council of State said in a statement.
The decision will likely serve as a precedent and prevent the return to Italy of other migrants who sought asylum in the Netherlands after traveling through Italy.
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The Dutch government sought last year to cut the number of migrants entering the Netherlands by restricting family members from joining asylum-seekers who have been granted residency, but the move was scrapped after courts ruled it unlawful.
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Thank you to all volunteers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JECprQPCzTE
Best comment:
“When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a lonely place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” Jesus said, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.”
- Matthew 14:15-16
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jif1a3oJL7g
Best comment:
gosh does US Gov't have no conscious; just keep them all; there is plenty of land for everyone; remember what u do unto others; others will do unto u; Jesus said, "those who are poor today will be rich tomorrow-n-those rich today will be poor tomorrow; heed the warning of Christ our Lord; Fear the Lord; live in humility NOT GREED;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN5qJkkaEbA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eom54qF8fSg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtRyv0vNovI
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/because-human-arizona-farmworker-gives-131525797.html
Luis Ames, 66, is well-known in that corner of San Luis for distributing food and water to migrants waiting to be processed for custody who could wait for hours or days, according to some migrants.
He works on the land that borders the wall overseeing irrigation of Lee Farms fields.
He will never forget the first day he started bringing food and water to migrants waiting to be processed by the U.S. Border Patrol.
On Dec. 1, 2021, Ames was checking the fields as he usually does.
As he approached the border wall, he saw hundreds of migrants sitting in the square dirt lot.
“When I was passing by, I saw a lot of hands coming out through (the slats of) the wall,” Ames said.
With hands reaching out of the slats, people were crying out for help. He recalled hearing desperation in their voices. They had been waiting there for some time without food or water.
He saw many children, women, pregnant women, and elderly people among the anguished crowd.
Ames sped away, rushing to the nearest store and bringing back truckloads of bread, sandwich ingredients, water, Gatorade, soda, and anything else he could get quickly. He made a few other trips, rushing back and forth, to get enough food and drink for everyone.
Once they were fed, a tranquility blanketed the group.
“That made me realize a lot of things, everything these people suffer when they leave their country. They travel through corrupt countries where they get robbed of their money and everything they own,” Ames said. “Most people arrive without anything.”
This activity has now become part of his daily routine.
Every morning after overseeing the farmworkers who work under him, Ames checks the fields closest to the wall and sees if anyone has been brought there overnight and is in need of food and water.
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He thinks he gets his love of giving to others from his father, who grew zucchini and corn in Mexico and frequently gifted some of his crops to others.
Woke comments:
This is a true American.
This guy is what America SHOULD be like.
That my friends is what Jesus would have wanted
"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink"
"Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me."
Hats off, sir, for doing what the Good Book says.
This man is behaving as Jesus would have!
He is a good Christian man!
This man acts like a Christian should.
People like this simple farmer is what made our country the greatest country on earth. We need to plant more farmers like him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlw4PM3KA4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOosNEH2kLQ
Repost:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/china-and-united-states-relations/msg15706/#msg15706
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYYoiRBH3PM
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A good idea:
https://everycampusarefuge.net/
ECAR is a higher-education initiative founded in September 2015 at Guilford College. Its mission is to make every U.S. college and university a Resettlement Campus which partners with a local refugee resettlement agency to host refugees on campus grounds and supports their successful integration. Since ECAR’s inception, twelve campuses including Lafayette College, Wake Forest University, Russell Sage College, Old Dominion University, and Siena College among others have started their own ECAR Chapters.
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Thank you, Mayor Adams!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-wants-204630564.html
New York City Mayor Eric Adams asked residents to welcome the tens of thousands of migrants pouring into the five boroughs, and even suggested the idea of paying homeowners and landlords to house them, the New York Post first reported.
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The mayor said partnerships with faith-based organizations have played a critical role in the city’s response to migrants being dropped off in New York City, and at full scale, this program should be able to offer housing for 1,000 asylum seekers while also having the potential to expand and house more.
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Along with announcing the partnership with faith-based organizations, Adams floated the idea of eventually housing thousands of migrants in private dwellings and paying landlords and homeowners to do so.
"It is my vision to take the next step to this faith-based locales and then move to a private residence," he said. "We can take that $4.2 billion, or $4.3 billion maybe now, that we potentially have to spend, and we can put it back in the pockets of everyday New Yorkers, everyday houses of worship instead of putting it in the pockets of corporations, and some of those corporations come from outside of our city.
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The city, he said, will look for a way to get around rules that bar the city from housing homeless people in homes. He added that his team is pushing for a deal with state legislators to bring basement apartments typically deemed illegal, up to code.
"First of all, it’s cheaper and it’s an investment for us to go to a family and assist them instead of placing people in large congregate settings or all these emergency hotels," he said.
The New York Post reported that the city’s Office of Management and Budget pays about $380 a night for a household to eat, sleep and get services at hotels turned into shelters. Under Adam’s new plan, houses of worship would be significantly cheaper at about $125 per night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dNaSH2N3Ww
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams asked residents to welcome the tens of thousands of migrants pouring into the five boroughs, and even suggested the idea of paying homeowners and landlords to house them, the New York Post first reported.
With that program happening, the rightist will get encircled soon and move away from New York, I hope they will be outnumbered in Florida. So, if we want to defeat them, they will have no way out to escape
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Mayor Adams always on the job:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nyc-considers-housing-illegal-immigrants-190148666.html
Democrat Mayor Eric Adams' office confirmed that the city is looking into using schools, reportedly 20 to 30, for temporary migrant shelters during the summer months.
"As Mayor Adams has said repeatedly, we have more than 51,800 asylum seekers in our care and have reached capacity," a spokesperson for City Hall told Fox News Digital Thursday. "While this option is not ideal, none are, and we are in no position to take anything off the table."
New Dorp High School, Mark Twain Middle School for the Gifted and Talented, and Russell Sage Middle School are reportedly being considered as potential migrant shelters, a source told the New York Post.
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After more than 81,200 asylum seekers have entered New York City’s intake system since Spring 2022, Adams has housed migrants in various locations, including taxpayer-funded hotel rooms, a former NYPD training facility, and the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuYqJ6Yrwps
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Mayor Adams demonstrates authentic populism and American nationalism:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/york-city-mayor-eric-adams-185318920.html
New York City Mayor argued Tuesday that it is "anti-American" not to allow the approximately 84,000 migrants who have come to the Big Apple to legally work in the United States.
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"It's just unbelievable what's happening to the people of the city of New York that are going through this. And nothing is more anti-American than you can't have a job when you come to America. There's nothing more anti-American. Every one of us in this room, family members came from somewhere. And the guiding light of this country is to be able to come here and work. We have a population of 84,000 people that we're saying you cannot work. That's anti-American."
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Adams and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, both Democrats, have called on President Biden for expedited work authorization for asylum seekers.
"I just want to say that on behalf of migrants, we ask President Biden to give us the ability to work, to give us a right to work so that we can contribute back to the City of New York and others that have opened the door for us to be here," New York City Immigration Affairs Commissioner Manuel Castro said at a press conference in May. "So that we can have a dignified life that we all deserve as human beings. So that we can provide for our families and continue forward in our journey."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXsc10DPXvw
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Refugees forced to sleep on the streets in Toronto
Refugees arriving in Toronto are finding themselves having to sleep on the street after funding for a housing program ran out.
https://youtu.be/VIjIaJ8H9UI
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/ll-die-hunger-anyway-boy-015813349.html
‘We’ll die of hunger here anyway’: Boy’s tragic journey exposes impossible choice faced by millions
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Abuzar was aboard a fishing trawler that capsized in the Mediterranean last month, sinking with it hundreds of people searching for a better life.
The boat was carrying up to 750 Pakistani, Syrian, Egyptian and Palestinian refugees and migrants. Only 104 people have been rescued.
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The choice for Abuzar, like millions of others like him, was to watch his family starve at home or risk death attempting to reach Europe where there was a promise of work.
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At least 289 children are estimated to have died or disappeared this year attempting to cross the central Mediterranean Sea migration route from North Africa to Europe, UNICEF said in a statement on Friday.
According to UNICEF, this equates to nearly 11 children dying or disappearing every week.
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More than 600 people drowned on June 14 in what would become one of the deadliest migrant boat tragedies. Among the survivors were just 12 Pakistanis, but Abuzar was not one of them.
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Greek authorities have faced criticism for how the disaster was handled, and uncomfortable questions have been raised about European countries’ attitudes toward migrants. Greek officials denied claims that the boat had capsized after the coast guard attempted to tow it to shore.
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Every year, tens of thousands of people fleeing war, persecution, climate change and poverty risk treacherous routes to Europe.
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Pakistan, a nation of about 220 million, is in the throes of its worst economic crisis in decades. Work is scarce; inflation is soaring; and essentials including food and fuel are increasingly costly.
The number of Pakistanis traversing dangerous routes to Europe in search of a better future has increased since last year, according to the Mixed Migration Center.
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“It’s easy to judge refugees and migrants and their family as reckless,” Forin said. But “migration is sometimes a strategy for a family to cope with a very difficult situation back home.”
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In Europe, Forin said, current policy discussions on migration in the European Union typically center on “breaking the business model of smugglers as if we are dealing with organized crime.”
“Whereas in our view, we are dealing with a demand for irregular journey that is mostly led by the lack of legal pathways. We are hearing about further increasing border protection, increasing detention at the border. This will actually feed more demand for smuggling,” he said.
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What America is supposed to be like:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/come-country-dream-woman-teaches-100000506.html
‘They come to this country with a dream’: Woman teaches English to migrants on a South Loop basketball court
There hasn’t been a single day since May that Samantha Oulavong is not thinking of the migrants who stay at the police station in her neighborhood in the South Loop. The children, she said, remind her of her younger self, when her parents made their way from Laos seeking asylum in the Chicago area when she was 5 years old.
Of course, in more than one way, their story is not the same, she said, “but our heart is.”
“They come to this country with a dream,” she said.
Oulavong has been visiting the 1st District police station almost every day since May, when the first families began to seek refuge at the station near her home. She drops off food and clothes and, most recently, has begun to teach basic English to the migrants and their children regardless of a language barrier — she doesn’t really speak Spanish — in the bleachers of a basketball court across from the South Loop station.
“Most want to know how they can ask for a job,” she said. “‘Busco trabajo,’ I tell them to say, meaning, ‘I’m looking for a job.’”
Oulavong is just one of the many Chicagoans who have stepped up to provide more than just food and donations for the thousands of asylum-seekers who have arrived to the city since August of last year, filling a void as state and city official grapple to create more temporary housing for the migrants.
The volunteers have celebrated birthdays with migrants, taken them to baseball games, given them haircuts, provided professional therapy — and now are teaching them English.
Right before 11 a.m. on a recent weekday, wearing a small summer hat and a long maxi dress, Oulavong walks over to the station to announce in broken Spanish that she is heading to the bleachers to begin the one-hour class.
In a white tote, she carries small notebooks and pencils to share with those who decide to be her students for the day. “¿Quieres aprender inglés?” she asks a young man who approached her as she held a white dry erase board.
Though she doesn’t know Spanish, she taught herself some words and phrases that she thinks are essential for the migrants to know as they navigate their days in the station. When Oulavong and her students hit a language barrier, they communicate through a translator application on her phone.
The lessons can attract anywhere from three to 10 migrants, depending on how many are staying in the station that day. The students sit on the bleachers adjacent to the basketball court at Margaret Hie Ding Lin Park, just as the sun shines the brightest. There are mornings when classes take place alongside the loud pinging sound of basketball games.
“I wish they could be my students forever,” Oulavong said softly with a light smile. When a group that had been at the station for more than two weeks got moved, she cried and hugged them goodbye.
“It’s bittersweet, I hope it gets better for them,” she said.
When they’re moved into shelters, she assures them that she will be at the court teaching every morning at least during summer break.
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And some of Oulavong’s students are learning — at least the basics for now.
There’s Karla Urbina, a mother from Nicaragua who lived at the station for nearly a month. She was one of Oulavong’s first students. Though she has been moved to a shelter in Rogers Park, she makes the nearly hourlong train and bus commute to the South Loop every so often to keep learning English with Oulavong.
“Karla is fearless,” Oulavong said. “Sometimes she translates for us,” she laughed.
Urbina, a social worker by trade in her home country, has become a part of the volunteer network that assists the families arriving at the 1st District police station, along with Brayan Lozano, an asylum-seeker from Colombia who also spent several weeks at the station.
Lozano, also a social worker and an organizer in his home country, often encourages his fellow migrants to learn English.
“That’s the next step if we really want to succeed here,” he said.
Both Urbina and Lozano have stayed diligent in their learning process, often meeting with Oulavong or other volunteers one on one. Though their English is very limited, they’re now able to communicate their needs and the needs of those arriving, Oulavong said.
Even though the two have become an essential part of the volunteer team assisting new arrivals in the South Loop, they believe that their roles could be amplified if they were to master the English language, by not only assisting volunteers, but even helping city officials.
“Imaginate que podriamos lograr,” said Urbina with a grin. “Just imagine what we could accomplish”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUjvm6iS6P0
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As I have explained before, every additional refugee arriving reinforces the safety of all refugees already present (and conversely, every refugee who self-deports makes it more dangerous for all refugees remaining, equivalent to desertion):
https://us.yahoo.com/news/asylum-seekers-giant-us-immigration-144414251.html
For asylum seekers, giant US immigration backlog can be a boon
The massive backlog of cases in US immigration courts has made it evermore attractive for many migrants to come to the United States, knowing that they can work legally for years without being deported as their cases inch through the system.
The approximately 650 immigration judges carry a backlog of more than 2.4 million cases, according to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), an organization at Syracuse University.
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Last year, 313,000 cases were terminated but the Department of Homeland Security filed 700,000 new ones, "more than twice what we could complete," he said.
Asylum seekers, who account for 40 percent of the courts' caseload, wait an average of four years to get their first court hearing, according to the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) think tank. And even more years for the case to be adjudicated.
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"It is clear that the length of time it is now taking to get through the immigration court process has become a significant pull factor that is driving migration throughout the region," Blas Nunez-Neto, assistant secretary for border and immigration policy at the Department of Homeland Security, told the colloquium, which was hosted by MPI.
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"We are... seeing the court system essentially become a proxy and legal pathway for people to come to the United States," he added.
The only sensible response to which is the ethically correct response: amnesty. The bigger the backlog we can build, the more obvious it will become that amnesty is the only way to clear the backlog once and for all.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/welcome-center-former-school-sheltered-152033637.html
What is the Welcome Center? Former school has sheltered thousands of asylum seekers
Fifty-seven asylum seekers — men, women and children from Guatemala, Brazil, India and Guinea — climbed off a bus at the Welcome Center one recent morning. The former school in Phoenix has expanded over the past four years into one of the busiest and most sophisticated migrant shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Since the once-vacant building reopened in 2019 as a migrant shelter, more than 105,000 asylum seekers from 84 countries have passed through the same glass doors students entered.
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The Welcome Center, however, has played a key role in turning Arizona into a model for providing temporary shelter to asylum seekers released by federal authorities in a safe and orderly manner.
Buses arrive several times a day, seven days a week, bringing between 100 and 300 asylum seekers daily.
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“The Welcome Center has provided more capacity and coordination for a safer process for migrants while helping to reduce the burden on Arizona’s smaller border towns and communities that don’t have the resources or services,” said Luis Heredia, state director for U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.
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Before the center opened in July 2019, federal authorities used to release busloads of asylum seekers at the Phoenix bus depot day and night, leaving them to fend for themselves.
Scenes of families sleeping on the floor with children, many sick with colds and respiratory illnesses caught during their long journeys, or wandering on neighboring streets begging for food, became commonplace from 2014 to 2018.
The releases created a political firestorm, drawing the ire of local and state elected officials, while humanitarian groups rushed in to deliver boxes of food, water, diapers and other supplies, turning the bus depot into a scene that resembled a refugee camp.
The disorder and confusion at the bus station mostly ended when a network of working-class Hispanic churches stepped forward in 2018, opening their doors to feed and house asylum seekers released by federal authorities.
But that effort quickly proved unsustainable. Aiding asylum seekers strained the resources of congregations. The congregations also became fearful after armed members of anti-immigrant groups began showing up, hurling accusations that the churches were facilitating illegal immigration.
Then the Welcome Center opened on July 27, 2019 — a collaboration between the International Rescue Committee, which provided resources, logistics and organizational skills, and grassroots groups such as the Phoenix Restoration Project, which provided the workforce.
The center's lack of visibility is by design. The International Rescue Committee has intentionally kept a low profile to avoid attracting the same kind of unwanted attention that plagued some local churches targeted by anti-immigrant groups that showed up to harass and intimate asylum seekers and volunteers.
There are no signs that identify the center. The building is hidden from view by a chain link fence with screening and fortified with a surveillance system and heavy locking gates. Buses enter through a rear gate, allowing asylum seekers to get off without being seen from the street. Even so, at least once someone has fired shots at the building, prompting staff to contact police, who can be seen patrolling the area.
"We have had some safety incidents," said Stanford Prescott, the senior communications officer for The International Rescue Committee, noting that no one was hurt. That is why "we are very serious about our safety. It's because there are these real threats out there."
If you are truly serious, every refugee should be given a firearm and relevant training. The threats (in bold) will not go away on their own. They will only end when physically exterminated. There is no way around this.
Beth Strano used to collect water and prepare sandwiches to pass out to asylum seekers at the bus depot as a Phoenix Restoration Project volunteer. She now co-runs the Welcome Center. She is one of about 10 former volunteers hired by the International Rescue Committee to staff the center.
"Every single day and every single night, families ... were being released on a 24-hour schedule" at the bus station, Strano recalled. "The state of toddlers getting off the busses was horrifying. You know, no shoes, just wearing a diaper and kids hadn't eaten for days. It was very, very rough."
But the community responded, Strano said.
"We started to build systems that worked to help support people. We started to build relationships as grassroots groups with (the U.S. Department of Homeland Security) to coordinate when they had larger releases," she said. "And it built the foundation for us to come in and build something that could support everybody."
The center employs a staff of over 30 people. The bulk of the center's funding comes from federal emergency funding allocations to help communities provide aid to asylum seekers. The rest comes from private donations, Strano said. The center has received nearly $9.9 million in public and private funding since opening. That includes more than $6.4 million through the Emergency Food and Shelter Program and nearly $2 million through the Shelter and Services Program, both administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. There's also been almost $800,000 in other public funding. The center rents the building, which had been vacant for years, from the Phoenix Elementary School District.
By providing humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers, the Welcome Center reduces costs that used to be incurred by other local aid groups and medical facilities, Strano said. The shelter also prevents asylum seekers from winding up on the streets and adding to the state's population of unhoused people, she said.
"The cost savings alone from folks not ending up in the emergency room and instead going through a medical clinic, not ending up at the Greyhound station and ending up as long-term homeless here, that's a huge savings to the entire community," Strano said.
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There are rooms stocked with racks of donated clothing and boxes of shoes sorted by size. Asylum seekers can pick out items to replace the soiled or worn clothing they often arrive wearing. Asylum seekers are also given backpacks and personal hygiene supplies to take with them as they continue their journeys. Volunteers check paperwork, looking for errors and ensuring asylum seekers know when to check in with immigration authorities once they reach their final destinations.
Hot meals prepared in the former school's kitchen are served in a dining hall. The former school cafeteria also doubles as a living space.
On a recent morning, asylum seekers sat together at tables and charged phones. Others waited at a booth where volunteers armed with computers helped book airline tickets, typically paid for by asylum seekers' friends or relatives already in the U.S.
A television monitor looped a video explaining how to navigate the security and boarding process at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. A free shuttle transports asylum seekers there. Staff at the center coordinate with officials at the airport, Strano said.
Thank you for your work!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH9vLNdzsjg
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Nothing but good work from Mayor Adams:
https://nypost.com/2023/08/01/nyc-college-students-to-help-thousands-of-migrants-file-for-asylum-under-new-city-partnership/
Mayor Eric Adams is tapping New York’s college students to assist thousands of migrants with their asylum claims, The Post has learned.
Adams’s office plans on announcing a partnership with NYU, Columbia University School of Social Work and City University of New York campuses including Hunter College’s School of Social Work to help migrants navigate the complicated process, sources familiar with the program said.
“There is tremendous talent in the student bodies of both the public and private colleges. There are students who are multilingual and they’re used to taking exams and filling out applications,” a source familiar with the plan said.
“Helping migrants navigate a complex process of applying for asylum is a no-brainer. Students can be a valuable resource.”
Students are expected to get credit for performing the clinical work on behalf of migrants, sources said.
CUNY already operates a Citizenship Now! program — touted as the largest university legal assistance program in the nation providing free and confidential citizenship and immigration law services to immigrants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1aRjnH4b8A
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https://us.yahoo.com/news/governor-healey-asks-residents-house-101853601.html
Governor Healey asks residents to house migrant families amid growing shelter crisis
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The state’s shelters are reaching capacity and now the governor is asking residents to help by opening their doors. That was part of Governor
’s announcement--as she also is looking for help from the federal government.
The governor said anywhere between 10 to 30 migrant families a day are coming into Massachusetts. There are 40 hotels across the state helping to house them, but the governor is now pleading for help from the federal government—as well as you.
Governor Healey says close to 5,600 families are currently housed in the state’s emergency shelter system. That number is 80% higher than one year ago. Massachusetts is the only state in the country with a right-to-shelter law that guarantees homeless families access to emergency shelters. She says Massachusetts has been spending around $45 million a month to help assist these families. The situation is so bad, the Healey administration is now asking people to open their homes and businesses to help people in need.
“Most importantly, if you have an extra room or suite in your home, please consider hosting a family. Housing and shelter is our most pressing need and become a sponsor family,” said Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll.
Anyone willing to do this should get a tax break. Anyone unwilling to do this should get a tax multiplier.
About Healey:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maura_Healey
On January 31, 2017, Healey announced that her office was joining a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's Executive Order 13769,[38][39] commonly known as a "Muslim ban."[40][41] Healey condemned the order as "motivated by anti-Muslim sentiment and Islamophobia, not by a desire to further national security."[38] A federal court eventually struck the order down on similar grounds.[42]
On March 9, 2017, Healey announced that her office was joining a lawsuit challenging Trump's Executive Order 13780.[43][44] She said the new order, a revised version of the one that had been struck down, "remains a discriminatory and unconstitutional attempt to make good on [Trump's] campaign promise to implement a Muslim ban."[43] The order has been blocked in various federal courts on similar grounds.[44][45]
On May 11, 2017, after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, Healey led efforts calling for a special counsel to investigate Russia's meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
https://maurahealey.com/
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The correct attitude:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hochul-force-ny-towns-migrants-192100857.html
Dozens of advocacy groups have joined in a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul demanding the state force towns to accept migrants from New York City, pressuring the governor to take a more aggressive approach to the city’s deepening asylum seeker crisis.
Hochul should take executive action overruling county-level orders meant to block the movement of migrants, according to the Monday letter, which was led by the Coalition for the Homeless and the Legal Aid Society.
The groups said in the letter that Hochul should deploy executive powers to “invalidate executive orders in counties that have refused to accept new arrivals” or “alternatively, have the State intervene in pending cases to overturn the obstructive executive orders.”
The letter also asked Hochul to personally pressure mayors and county executives to accept migrants; to help coordinate relocation efforts; and to identify more state-run spaces to house people.
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“She’s allowed this complete chaos to fester,” he said, “where you have dozens of counties and municipalities issuing executive orders that are precluding New York City from sheltering people — who are desperately in need of shelter — in their counties.”
Giffen argued the governor would be on strong legal footing to force counties to take asylum seekers, citing a public relief and care clause in the state Constitution.
“We need to make sure that people aren’t sleeping on the streets,” he said.
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Hochul has said regions of the state have employed “bigoted policies based on fear and intimidation.”
But she has sometimes seemed reluctant to push upstate communities on the issue, perhaps concerned about alienating areas that could be pivotal in 2024 House races, as noted by political observers.
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the letter highlighted steps Hochul has so far shied away from, saying that while the groups appreciate her efforts, “much more is needed.”
Otherwise we will only get more of this:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/how-the-(false)-left-sold-out-everyday-people/msg21497/#msg21497
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Credit where credit is due:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/home-office-ex-asylum-boss-184538536.html
Home Office’s ex-asylum boss joins pro-migrant charity
A former Home Office chief accused of resisting key Conservative policies while in charge of asylum is joining a charity that has said the Government’s policies are “inhumane, racist and divisive”.
Emma Haddad, who was the Home Office’s director general for asylum until October 2022, will help to oversee Amnesty International UK, which has been campaigning against the Government’s attempts to halt Channel crossings and deport migrants to Rwanda.
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One source described Ms Haddad as “very difficult” and the “chief blocker” of ministers’ policies during her time at the Home Office. A Home Office source claimed that, during her time at the top of the department, the senior civil servant was “hostile” to the Government’s agenda on asylum
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an email in Suella Braverman’s name to Conservative members blamed an “activist blob of Left-wing lawyers, civil servants and the Labour Party” for blocking the Government’s plans to stop small boats carrying migrants across the Channel.
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Ms Haddad, who has also taken up a post as chief executive of St Mungo’s, the homelessness charity, since leaving the Home Office, applied for the unpaid role at Amnesty having seen an advertisement.
Amnesty has been one of the fiercest opponents of the Government’s crackdown on illegal Channel crossings over several years, describing Rishi Sunak’s Illegal Migration Act, which became law in July, as “inhumane, racist and divisive”.
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In April, the charity stated: “Harsh asylum and immigration policies do not deter people from making dangerous journeys, indeed, the Home Office’s own research contradicts this … The Home Secretary has spread nonsensical scare stories about the numbers of people trying to come to the UK and blamed people for failing to take safe and legal routes that do not exist.”
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Mattarella also does not understand the difference between human smuggling and human trafficking, but at least his intentions are good:
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-08-25/italys-president-calls-for-more-legal-migration-to-beat-people-trafficking
ROME (Reuters) - The European Union should allow more legal migration into its borders to stop people trafficking, Italian President Sergio Mattarella said on Friday, amid a surge in arrivals by sea to his country.
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"Migration phenomena must be tackled for what they are: global movements, which cannot be erased by walls or barriers," Mattarella said at a conference in Rimini hosted by the Catholic group Communion and Liberation.
"Regular, sustainable and sufficiently high quotas are the only way to stamp out the cruel traffic in human beings" as "the prospect and hope of coming without inhuman costs and suffering" would convince migrants to wait for their turn, he added.
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The Italian president, who as head of state is a non-partisan figure, said action needed to be taken at EU level. Migration has long been a political hot potato within the bloc, hampering joint decisions by its 27 member states.
In his speech, Mattarella said he keeps in his office a drawing of a teenage victim of a migrant shipwreck who had set off with a school report sewn into his jacket, indicating that "he wanted to come to Europe to study."
"This drawing reminds me that, behind the migration numbers and percentages which we often list, there are countless individual people, each one with their own story, projects, dreams, future," the president said.
Also note:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Mattarella
Mattarella was born in Palermo on 23 July 1941 into a prominent Sicilian family.
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/mythical-world/padania-vs-saturnia/
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Rare Red support:
https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/08/ana-navarro-illegal-migrants-cities-suburbs/
“The View” co-host Ana Navarro called for illegal migrants to be moved from major U.S. cities and “resettled elsewhere” Friday.
Navarro argued the U.S. is big enough to spread illegal migrants out and allow them to resettle outside of the overwhelmed big cities
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“They need to be spread out. This is such a massive country,” co-host Sara Haines said in agreement.
“And it’s only going to get worse with global warming and climate change, because people can’t live in certain parts of this world,” co-host Joy Behar said.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Navarro
She is a member of the Republican Party.[6]
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In October 2016, she made headlines when she strongly criticized Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on CNN after the Donald Trump and Billy Bush recording surfaced, and called for party leaders to disown Trump.[17][18] She also harshly criticized Trump's comments about immigrants, labeling him a racist.[19] Navarro has been labeled a "Never Trumper."[20] She voted for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
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Navarro was a vocal opponent of Roy Moore in the 2017 Alabama Senate election, due to the allegations of sexual assault and molestation against him.[21] In the 2018 Florida gubernatorial election, Navarro voted for Democrat Andrew Gillum over Republican Ron DeSantis because of DeSantis' ties to Trump.[15] On August 11, 2020, she stated that she would be voting for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 United States presidential election.[22] She and George Lopez hosted an online concert fundraiser for Biden on October 25, 2020.[23]
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She is a strong supporter of LGBTQ+ Rights. In February 2013, Navarro publicly supported the legalization of same-sex marriage in an amicus curiae brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court.[24] In 2017 she spoke out against the Trump Administration's ban on Transgender Individuals serving in the Military, calling it "repugnant".[25] In 2019 she was given the Ally Leadership Award by Equality California for her activism in support of the LGBTQ+ Community.[26] In 2022 she criticized the passage of the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act calling it "completely unnecessary" and in 2023 spoke out against Drag Panic and anti-drag legislation saying "I hate how drag queens are being made into a political issue, into a manufactured, made-up cultural issue, because I tell you what: No drag queen ever killed a little kid
It reminds me of an earlier era when both sides at least pretended to be pro-Amnesty.....
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Helping refugees also leads to positive side-effects:
https://nypost.com/2023/09/10/nypd-overtime-to-be-cut-to-help-pay-for-migrant-crisis-even-as-crime-remains-higher-than-before-covid/
The NYPD’s OT budget exceeded $700 million last year, and critics have long complained about high police overtime costs.
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/09/07/20/75184503-12492779-image-a-45_1694115633239.jpg)'
Thank you, Mayor Adams!
Also, as I keep saying, every refugee needs to have a firearm.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/tiny-italian-island-coping-thousands-115250966.html
LAMPEDUSA ISLAND, Italy (AP) — A migrant reception center in Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa was overwhelmed Thursday as authorities worked to transfer to the mainland thousands of people who arrived on small, unseaworthy boats in a 24-hour span this week.
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Commercial ferries and Italian military vessels were taking newcomers from Lampedusa to mainland Italy.
“After a particularly challenging day like yesterday, today people are being continuously transferred,’’ Francesca Basile of the Italian Red Cross said.
This is what should be happening every day! There are thousands of ghost towns waiting to be refilled!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuRtWt5xMiA
(Note also the non-Homo-Hubris architecture:
(https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190705164828-poggioreale-abandoned-italy.jpg)
(https://media.timeout.com/images/105938190/image.jpg)
(https://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/3118101/1200x630/flatten;crop_down;webp=auto;jpeg_quality=70)
(https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article27463788.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200b/0_PAY-VIDEO-Incredible-drone-footage-inside-8th-century-GHOST-TOWN-plagued-by-tragedy-and-its-even-featu.jpg)
(https://images.dwell.com/photos-6669603880357388288/6688867208694915072-large/only-10-people-live-in-the-crumbling-town-of-civita-di-bagnoregio-italy-the-italian-villages-project-aims-to-revitalize-rural-ghost-towns-across-the-country-to-ensure-that-funds-are-reinvested-in-the-community-airbnb-does-not-take-a-commission-on-bookings.jpg)
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/mythical-world/padania-vs-saturnia/ )
Some residents handed out pasta, Sicilian rice balls and water to the migrants they encountered. A pair of islanders lugging a carton of fresh peaches stopped to give pieces of fruit to migrants
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A local firefighter said he asked his mother to cook up spaghetti and serve several young men from Burkina Faso
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“They were exhausted, but above all famished,'' ANSA quoted Antonello Di Malta as saying about the migrants his mother fed on their patio. ”One of them got down on his knees, asking to eat."
Thank you to everyone voluntarily helping those in need!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aih0Bnafoaw
Woke comments:
Am loving this
I was most impressed with the old lady that offered food. Do unto others…
We welcome with open arm.
Everyone is welcome here in europe ❤ come in london too guys ❤
Wishing these asylum seekers a safe and happy life.
you encourage Ukrainians not to go to Germany or UK or Canada? Or it is only about people of colour?
We could absorb 100 times more like when we welcomed the Ukrainians.
We could manage 10 million Ukrainians, do you even see them? 125000, thats NOTHING, a small city in the outskirts of Luxembourg.
Finally Europeans getting the FEEL of how does one feel when you go at their places uninvited...they are THERE because 'you' were THERE now COPE!
France still have today colonies in Africa.
They have pillaged Africa for so long
Well, I guess the English really liked to live in Kenya, I dont get why they dont like if Kenyans live in England.
There are more Brits in Kenya than the Kenyans who live in the UK - that's for sure. UK also has military bases in Kenya and have interests in the tea sector, mining, wildlife, finance - name it!
blame to France 🇫🇷 government who still stealing west African countries
France should just take in all of their (former) subjects.
Europe need the population growth! Europe elderly won’t be able to retire early because of its shrinking working population!
Who did tell ya Europe doesnt have enough living spaces? It had enough living space just after WWII when Europe was literally in ruins.
I support and encourage all our brothers and sisters from Africa to come to Europe; We will take care of you and make sure you have a good life here!
Give them citizenship. It’s for the economy growth. You need that labor extra hand !
And how much Britain ejected? 600 million? Into Australia and North America? Brits are everywhere in the world, and you are crying that some of the world is coming to your island?
UK should do their best to accommodate these poor and desperate souls as much as possible.
yes UK can host them as a way to repay for colonialism
After all all these problems have been created by you and for now you to come and say that it is enough that is a bit irresponsible.
Its your colonies! your people! accept them! or is only their resources welcome?
At least those immigrants are not arriving with guns, cannons, iron chains to shackle your hands and feet; iron neck rings and wooden yokes for your neck...like the European colonizers did in Africa.
Lmfao karma baby! 🤣💯👍✨
when europe was hungry, they went to other parts of world; today reverse is happening
Gaddafi's revenge.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/critics-lambast-giorgia-meloni-failed-170650758.html
Haruna Manneh shudders at the memory of the journey he took to reach this far-flung outpost of Europe.
Starting out in March from his family home in Gambia, he travelled through West Africa and across the Sahara to Tunisia, where he paid smugglers 50,000 Gambian dalasi (£670) to take him by small boat across the Mediterranean to the island of Lampedusa.
“In Mali and Algeria, I was very scared. In each place we reached, we worked to earn money. We washed dishes, we cleaned houses. When you see that your family doesn’t have enough to eat, when you know that there is not enough money for school fees or rent, you cannot sit around and do nothing.”
Travelling alone, he hopes to make a new life in Italy, or maybe Britain. He is 16 years old.
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On Thursday night, hundreds of people took part in a candle-lit vigil down the main street in memory of a five-month-old baby boy who drowned earlier this week.
Another tragedy struck on Saturday when a newborn died on a migrant boat shortly after its mother gave birth. The tiny infant was brought ashore by the Italian authorities in a miniature white coffin.
Everyone who voted for the Meloni or Salvini has innocent blood on their hands.
Many islanders are still deeply sympathetic to the plight of the migrants. Restaurants give out free meals to the many Africans who wander Lampedusa town with nowhere to go and nothing to do. The owner of a café said she hands out free croissants to migrants, particularly the young boys travelling alone.
Thank you!
“My father passed away so now I have to help my family by earning money,” said Yunus Ceesay, a 17-year-old boy from Gambia. “I have six brothers and sisters.”
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“The Meloni government’s policies have been a resounding failure,” said Giusi Nicolini, who, as mayor of Lampedusa from 2012 to 2017, knows the migration issue better than most.
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She believes the only way to tackle the phenomenon is to undercut the traffickers by offering migrants legal routes of entry. “Europe needs labour. We need to start making courageous choices,” she said.
Although Nicoloni makes the errors of calling smugglers "traffickers" and of calling irregular routes of entry "illegal", I otherwise agree with her. I have been saying since 2015 that no refugee would choose to risk crossing the Mediterranean in unsafe and overloaded boats if naval vessels were offering to ferry them across. That is what navies should have been doing 24/7 since 2015. Imagine how many more refugees would already be in the EU, and how many fewer would be dead, if that had actually been done!
From Sicily, the arrivals will be distributed to migrant centres across Italy. Many will simply walk out of the front gate and head to other European countries, as has happened for years.
Among the migrants waiting to be shipped off the island was Jonh Cok, 23, a member of the Dinka tribe from South Sudan.
He says he fled his homeland because of militia fighting. It took him two years to reach Lampedusa, by way of stints in Sudan and Libya. He hopes to start a new life in Europe.
“For us African migrants, whichever country colonised you, that’s the country you head for. If you’re from a place that was colonised by the French, then you want to go to France. We Sudanese were colonised by the British, so I want to go to Britain.”
(https://i.pinimg.com/550x/a9/1e/98/a91e98f5808d5b73aa3039993f7818f7.jpg)
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Thank you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPQV6sgyzss
Woke comments:
Amen ❤ when he said we are all of the same god brought tears to my eyes ! 😢
NO one can choose their Mum or dad .. NO one can choose where they are Born ... ?
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No cause for panic:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mexican-border-town-adapts-needs-225034202.html
Mexican border town adapts to needs of African migrants
SONOYTA, Mexico (Border Report) – Karina Zayas has learned to do business with newly arrived citizens of Ghana, Senegal and Cameroon who speak neither English nor Spanish.
“Mostly they point to things. ‘I want this, I want that.’ When it comes to numbers, we do this,” the Mexican fruit drinks and ice cream vendor says, holding up one, two or three fingers. “If they are short 5 pesos, we go like this. … If they have change coming, I just give it to them.”
Easy! This is all it takes!
Gustavo Solis, secretary of government in Sonoyta, said the town has seen migrants from many countries pass through on the way to the U.S. for generations. He said the surge of migrants from African countries is a novelty, but is no cause for concern and is, in fact, a financial boon.
“They buy food and other items from our businesses. We have had no problems with them and we do not get involved in immigration matters because that is a federal concern,” Solis said.
But he said the latest uptick in migrant arrivals prompted the city to open a temporary shelter two months ago. “There is a bottleneck to enter (the United States), whether we are talking San Luis Rio Colorado (south of Yuma, Arizona), Mexicali, Tijuana,” Solis said. “Here in Sonoyta, we respect their rights. […] Our city does not mind their stay or their passing through here.”
Karina, the fruit juice and ice cream vendor, also said she doesn’t mind the migrants.
It used to be unimaginable that anyone would mind them Well done to Sonoyta for retaining the old normal!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xcMERRFbU4
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At last Biden begins to listen to Adams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKPvZROBXBs
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuelan-man-pet-squirrel-made-050846731.html
MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — During the weeks it took Yeison and Niko to migrate from Venezuela toward the U.S., they navigated dangerous jungles and over a dead body. The two are so inseparable that Yeison sold his phone so both had enough bus money to continue their journey.
Now as Yeison prepares to finally enter the U.S., it's likely he will have to leave Niko behind.
That's because Niko is a squirrel.
The 23-year-old man and his pet squirrel are an unusual but blunt reflection of the emotional choices migrants make over what to take — and what to leave behind — as they embark on the dangerous trip north. Yeison, who declined to give his last name because he fears for his family’s safety in Venezuela, said going without Niko was out of the question. But Mexico is where they might be forced to part ways.
Yeison, who is among millions of Venezuelans fleeing political and economic unrest back home, secured an appointment for Saturday to present himself at the border to seek entry to the U.S. and request asylum. Animals are generally not allowed to cross the border.
They have already successfully crossed several borders just to get to Mexico from Venezuela:
(https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2BK2P15/the-americas-single-states-political-map-with-national-borders-caribbean-north-central-and-south-america-different-colored-countries-2BK2P15.jpg)
So if those borders allow animal crossings, what is so special about the US-Mexico border that it does not allow animal crossings?
On a recent day, Niko crawled over Yeison's shoulders and stayed close while darting around the tent. Chances are slim Yeison can take Niko across the border, but volunteers at the encampment aren't giving up.
Gladys Cañas, the director of a nongovernmental organization, Ayudándoles A Triunfar, said she has encountered other migrants who wanted to cross with their pets — cats, dogs and even a rabbit once. But until now, never a squirrel.
Cañas helped connect Yeison with a veterinarian to document Niko's vaccinations to provide to border agents. She is hopeful they’ll allow the squirrel to cross, whether with Yeison or with a volunteer.
Again, why was this not even an issue when they crossed the prior borders?
Woke comments:
I hope he gets in with his beloved pet squirrel!
What a cruel thing it would be to separate them.
Let him keep the pet
He seems like a good guy. Let him keep his squirrel.
Oh for Pete's sake let this guy keep his pet. It's such a small thing.
I hope he gets to keep him and I pray the man finds solace and a job here in America.
Please god don't let Yeison get separated from Nikko. Let Nikko always be protected by Yeison.
It will be a sad day for America if Niko is denied entry.
If he were near the CA border, I would get Niko across for him legally.
He's not an "illegal alien". He's a refugee patiently waiting in Mexico for his turn for the US to legally admit him. You people always crying about "illegal" fence jumpers but also moan when they do it the legal way. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
To those who hate immigrants I would ask, how did you choose to be born in America? The answer is you didn't. You could just as easily have been born in one of these 3rd world countries and you would be making the same journey to find a better life that these people are. And what if they were Norwegian - white skin, blonde hair, blue eyes, you think you'd have the same attitude? This is a humanitarian crisis and a wall isn't the answer.
No way man because we have been here forever. And by forever I mean since we crashed North America and stole the land from the Indians.
Talk to the Native Americans that were systematically cheated and robbed of everything by "the [original] invaders"
It goes without saying that when the Western colonialists were colonizing the New World, they did not hesitate to bring plenty of animals:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dietary-decolonization/msg20629/?topicseen#msg20629
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Continuing from:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/drowning-kidnap-and-jaguars-travelling-the-deadly-darien-gap-migrant-route-to-th/
fortunately some people want to help:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/migrant-rest-stop-panama-brutal-220640281.html
A migrant rest stop in Panama after brutal crossing of the Darien Gap
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Perched on the riverside is Bajo Chiquito, the first Panamanian village where migrants -- some 3,000 a day, most of them Venezuelans, many with children -- arrive after the tortuous journey northward. Most are headed to the US and, they hope, a better life.
After an exhausting slog of three to five days across the Darien Gap, they reach the village under crushing heat, but cheered by the prospect of a hot meal and a safe place to sleep -- even if it is under the stars. NGOs like the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders are there to help.
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The Darien jungle, 165 miles (265 kilometers) long, has become a necessary, if hugely trying, passage for thousands of migrants from South America trying to reach the US via Central America and Mexico.
Most of them are Venezuelans, but there are also Ecuadorans, Haitians, Chinese, Vietnamese, Afghans and even Africans from Cameroon or Burkina Faso.
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From Bajo Chiquito, migrants can pay $25 each to be taken in long canoes on a three-hour trip up the Tuquesa to Lajas Blancas. From there, they can take buses to the Costa Rican border.
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Residents of Bajo Chiquito have opened food stands, they rent hammocks and camping sites, and they offer charging stations and Internet access to the migrants.
(https://www.turimiquire.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/bajo-chiquito-el-primer-pueblo-despues-de-cruzar-el-darien.jpg)
Why doesn't Hungary have these for refugees trying to reach Germany? We all know why not.
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Lampedusa is handling the influx fine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dywd63SWao
Woke comments:
If a large, wealthy country cannot handle a few extra thousand, or even tens of thousands of people, especially countries like the UK, Germany, Spain, France, Italy and many others, then they are either lying, holding back resources, or run like ****, or some combination of the three, none of which are the migrants fault. Even multiple hundreds of thousands of migrants it should be possible to house them if the EU worked to do so, how can we treat these migrants the same before Ukraine, during Ukraine and inevitably after Ukraine, but then say we can absolutely house and support Ukrainians?
Well done to the mayor, a man who is well educated and fair, unlike many Europeans
Thank you for helping these people
The locals seem fine with it.
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Germany: Between needing foreign workers and growing anti-immigration views | DW News
A look into the struggles migrants are facing in Germany, with a particular look at Dresden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrpiS6xNSRI
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/spanish-charity-protests-italys-impounding-190827348.html
MILAN (AP) — Italy has impounded the Spanish charity rescue ship Open Arms for violating rules by Italy's right-wing government banning multiple rescues at sea, the charity said Thursday.
The boat is blocked from leaving the port of Carrera in Tuscany for 20 days and the charity has been levied a fine of between 3,000 and 10,000 euros ($3,200-$10,500), the charity Open Arms said.
Open Arms called the sanctions a violation of the law of the sea that requires boats to rescue people in distress. It said it was being punished for rescuing 176 people in three operations, including people of “extreme vulnerability.”
Italy assigned a port after the first two rescues of 69 people in international waters Saturday. Open Arms said it then received a mayday call from the Seabird aerial surveillance charity that another migrant boat was in danger, overcrowded with 109 people.
After ascertaining its ship was the only rescue boat in the area, Open Arms said, it informed authorities that the craft would head to the overcrowded vessel, which was about 20 nautical miles, or two hours sailing, away.
The charity said its captain was questioned for six hours and the boat was impounded after arriving in Carrera, the port it had been assigned.
Well done for ignoring the multiple rescue ban! But consider how may more rescue trips you could be making in the next 20 days that you won't be making just because you are abiding by the block. Ultimately Meloni still gets what she wants: refugees drowning who could have been saved but aren't. If you are willing to ignore the ban, why not also ignore the block? Storm the pound with firearms and get your ship back! Better still, you should have used firearms to prevent them from impounding your ship in the first place! Either way, willingness to use firearms could mean thousands more refugee lives saved.
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Scotland leads the way again:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/scotland-first-minister-says-country-181843454.html
Scotland’s first minister says country willing to take Gaza refugees
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Yousaf noted in a recent speech that his wife, Nadia El-Nakla, is Scottish Palestinian and has family living in Gaza.
“So, many of them don’t want to leave and neither they should have to leave but for the million that have been displaced just in this current conflict, for those that want to leave, there should be a worldwide refugee scheme,” Yousaf said in a video posted to X. “Because of the numbers, the world should be involved.”
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“Let’s say that Scotland will be a place of sanctuary for them as we have shown that kindness and compassion for others. Let us show it once again and this time for the people of Gaza,” Yousaf said.
Scotland is willing to lead the way for the rest of the U.K., Yousaf noted.
“And Scotland is willing to be the first country in the U.K. to take those refugees,” he said.
In a separate video, Yousaf said Scotland’s hospitals will care for people in Gaza who have been injured in the war. The first minister said he is calling on the U.K. government to “begin work on the creation of a refugee resettlement scheme for those in Gaza who want to, and of course are able to, leave.”
He also urged the U.K. government to support the medical evacuation of injured civilians in Gaza.
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Continuing from:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/drowning-kidnap-and-jaguars-travelling-the-deadly-darien-gap-migrant-route-to-th/msg22398/#msg22398
Nicaragua is saving many refugees every day:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nicaragua-weaponizing-us-bound-migrants-203044210.html
MEXICO CITY (AP) — More than 260 charter flights believed to be carrying migrants from Haiti have touched down in Nicaragua in recent months, according to flight data and experts in the region, adding to a historic crush of migration by people hoping to reach the U.S.
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Nicaragua has long been used as a migratory springboard for people fleeing struggling Caribbean nations like Cuba and Haiti as well as countries as far away as Mauritania in Africa, because it is one of the few countries that doesn’t require visas for many of them to enter.
Such flights from Cuba were already gaining steam late last year amid a historic exodus from the island. In August, Orozco said the Nicaraguan government allowed charter airlines to carry out the flights.
The journeys are not on official air routes, but flight tracking data that has been analyzed by Orozco and The Associated Press shows that 268 of the charter flights went from Haiti to Nicaragua since the beginning of August.
The charter airlines have flown as many as 31,000 people out of Haiti, which would represent nearly 60 of the Haitians arriving to the U.S. border, Orozco's data shows. Over the same period, some 172 flights have carried 17,000 people from Cuba to Nicaragua.
The AP spoke to three Haitian migrants who were aboard the charter flights, who said they doled out thousands of dollars to leave the poorest country in the hemisphere in hopes of reaching the United States. Orozco said most tickets range between $3,000 and $5,000 a seat.
Things came to a head this weekend, when local media reported that in 48 hours, 27 charter flights from Haiti had landed in Nicaragua.
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After boarding the pricey flight to Nicaragua, migrants have described to the AP walking out of the Managua airport and seeing crowds of smugglers waiting for migrants with photos and their names. From there, they are smuggled north.
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Migrants already in debt for their journey are eager find work to begin paying it off.
This - getting people out, not sending stuff in - is the correct way to help Haitians!
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/haiti/msg16025/#msg16025
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/haiti/msg16095/#msg16095
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/haiti/msg20759/#msg20759
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/haiti/msg21145/#msg21145
More about Ortega:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ortega
Soon after the 2006 election, Ortega paid an official visit to Iran and met Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ortega told the press that the "revolutions of Iran and Nicaragua are almost twin revolutions...since both revolutions are about justice, liberty, self-determination, and the struggle against imperialism."[137]
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During the Libyan Civil War, Ortega was among the very few leaders who spoke out in clear defense of the embattled Muammar Gaddafi.[149] During a telephone conversation between the two, Ortega told Gaddafi that he was "waging a great battle to defend his nation"[150] and stated that "it's at difficult times that loyalty and resolve are put to the test."[151]
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In 2016, Daniel Ortega did not sign the Paris Agreement because he felt the deal did not do enough to protect the climate, although he later changed his mind. Moreover, Nicaragua rejected projects of mining of the Canadian group B2 Gold which could represent a threat to the environment.[155] According to government estimates, Nicaragua has passed from 25% renewable electricity to 52% between 2007 and 2016.[156]
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/colonial-crimes-dw-documentary/msg19973/#msg19973
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The most important principle of refugee resettlement is to let refugees CHOOSE FOR THEMSELVES where to go:
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/26/new-york-city-migrants-one-way-plane-tickets
New York City has started offering migrants airplane tickets to destinations of their choosing in response to an increase of asylum seekers arriving in the city.
Why it matters: More than 130,600 people seeking refuge from humanitarian crises around the world have arrived in New York City since 2022. Mayor Eric Adams (D) has warned that the city is running out of space and resources to house them.
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"When people come across the border, we have 108,000 cities and villages — we should spread them out across the entire country, and not just New York, Chicago, Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston," Adams said.
Listen to Mayor Adams! The US could easily absorb more than a billion refugees if the entire country were used to host them. This would merely increase the US population to around that of China (which is similar in land area and GDP).
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One billion Americans is a popular meme on r/neoliberal:
https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/127l70h/one_billion_americans/
This is why I like neoliberalism. It is what allowed my parents to immigrate to the US.
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See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/re-war-2249/msg22933/#msg22933
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/debunking-rightist-anti-immigration-arguments/msg21583/?topicseen#msg21583
On the other hand, it is necessary to qualify that we obviously do not consider a higher population in itself to be a good thing, unlike many neoliberals who are also capitalists. Our position is strictly that, given the entire world is overpopulated anyway (which we would have preferred to avoid in the first place), the world population should be allowed to distribute itself, whereupon currently richer and less densely populated countries would end up hosting a larger share than they currently do with closed borders. Neoliberals are likely to oppose policies that we advocate, such as limiting birth rate.
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Yes, neoliberals/capitalists who believe in perpetual economic growth would see a large population as a good thing in and of itself. I agree that we do not share this view, but hey, if that can convince them to import more immigrants, I'm all for it.
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Actor Cate Blanchett calls for Gaza ceasefire and urges EU to step up support of refugees
Actor Cate Blanchett, a goodwill ambassador for the U.N.'s refugee agency UNHCR, on Wednesday urged the European Union to step up support of refugees and host countries and ensure the bloc's policy "focus on their protection and not on fortifying borders".
The Australian actress said she felt "shame and regret" over her country's hardline policies that for years has seen asylum-seekers sent to detention centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru and barred from settling in Australia.
The Oscar-winning actor also urged Israel to accept a ceasefire in the Gaza conflict.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoxZycEodU8
Comments:
Bless you Cate! As a child of refugees, you have no idea how much it means to hear you speak the truth...
Excellent statement, immigrants aren’t leaving behind a comfy home, there is a reason behind their move.
The west complain about them yet their governments are a huge factor behind these homes destroyed.
Impressive and Eloquent! Glad to see that such voices of influence are standing up for the right cause. Thank you 🙏
Thank you. Please speak for the people who are not able to speak. So many killed and still being killed. Their land now taken by Israel indefinitely (as they planned all along) please the innocent children suffering and their families too. These are human beings not collateral damage!!
As african regugees. Thanks for thinking about us.❤
A voice of reason, clearly heard amidst the clamour of suspicion and hatred. Thank you Cate. Thank you UNHCR.
This makes me want to support her more. Bless her for doing this work seriously.
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Our enemies report that my idea from a decade ago has finally reached mainstream consideration:
https://thefederalist.com/2023/12/11/democrats-propose-solving-their-military-recruitment-crisis-with-illegal-aliens/
The proposal last week was made not by some Twitter screecher or Ibram X. Kendi but by sitting Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin who, in a speech on the Senate floor, said:
Do you know what the recruiting numbers are at the Army, Navy, and the Air Force? They can’t reach their quotas each month. They can’t find enough people to join our military forces. And there are those who are undocumented who want the chance to serve and risk their lives for this country. Should we give them a chance? I think we should.
My original idea was actually for EU militaries recruiting the Mediterranean influx of refugees, but I'll support a US version too!
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-to-republicans-work-with-democrats-to-fix-our-broken-immigration-system
Of course our enemies are horrified by the idea:
Such a military will be much more willing to open fire on citizens protesting another lockdown
That's the point! Had anti-lockdown protestors all been shot (as they deserved to be), how many infections of people (who did not deserve to be infected) could have been prevented? Such a military would be the answer to:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/plebian-hubris/
that we have long been waiting for.
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Our enemies negatively spin a positive story using their MAP-phobia (part of their propaganda arsenal ever since Q-Anon):
https://vdare.com/posts/welsh-government-baiting-black-refugees-with-white-underage-girls
The commendable PSA:
“We understand that being a refugee isn’t easy,” one girl says. “Fleeing your country is difficult, but Wales wants you to help you feel welcome,” another adds.
A girl offers the council’s contact information, while another says that “we welcome anyone and everyone. We recognize your skills and talent.”
Video here:
https://twitter.com/Klaus_Arminius/status/1739723781856276959
Well done Wales!
But what do our enemies focus on? Twitter link:
UK: Welsh Government is using 14-year-old Welsh girls to attract migrant men to the country
Migrants arriving in Europe come from Africa and Asia where pedophilia is wide spread.
Wales is using little girls to encourage migrants to move to Wales and claim benefits and housings.
VDARE link:
The girls are clearly under 15 and perhaps as young as 11. The council’s subliminal message is this: More than free stuff awaits you in Wales; take a look at our little girls.
The video reminds one that American universities use gorgeous white girls to recruit black athletes [There’s Recruiting, Then There’s Recruiting, Off the Cuff, February 23, 2004]. One of the more repulsive examples was Florida State University’s trying to lure Andrew Wiggins to its basketball team [FSU Uses Sexy Girls To Try And Land Top Hoops Recruit Andrew Wiggins, by Glenn Erby, Black Sports Online, December 6, 2012].
But at least the college bait girls have reached the age of consent.
Anyway, parents permitted communists to use their daughters as sex bait for “refugees” who will **** some of those girls, or least **** girls like them.
(Of course, our enemies also mischaracterize communism along the way. Actual Cold-War-era communist countries were infamous both for their closed borders and for their suppression of non-traditional sexual preferences:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/communism/msg24616/#msg24616 )
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/questions-debates/re-eroticism-sexuality-2463/
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Another benefit of welcoming refugees is reduction of compulsory schooling:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12945135/Migrants-NYC-Brooklyn-school-shelter-storm.html
Thousands of James Madison High School students are kicked out of their NYC building to make room for 2,000 migrants evacuated from Floyd Bennett Field due to storm threat
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'The health and safety of migrants in our care is always a top priority, which is why we are currently overseeing the relocation of 1,900 guests from the humanitarian emergency response and relief center at Floyd Bennett Field due to an updated forecast with increased wind speeds estimated to be at over 70 MPH tonight.'
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The cuts would also decrease funding for two children's programs: summer school and universal prekindergarten.
:)
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How easy welcoming refugees actually is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIzGb7OnPEI
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Mayor Adams never stops working:
https://www.newsweek.com/migrants-food-money-new-york-snap-benefits-1867058
The city is launching a new pilot program that will hand out pre-paid debit cards to 500 migrant families with children, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday. The mayor's office told Newsweek the program allots about $12.52 per card each day, giving each recipient roughly $350 a month to spend on food and baby supplies
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Like SNAP, the new cards being distributed to migrant families also have restrictions. Use is limited exclusively to local bodegas, grocery stores, supermarkets, and convenience stores to ensure that city funds are going to food and baby supplies. The mayor's office has stressed that the cards will act similarly to SNAP benefits and Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards and that the program is a "cost saving measure" that will save the city $600,000 a month.
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Adams called the plan "brilliant," arguing it was a "cheaper, more efficient way" to get resources to migrants because it would eliminate the delivery costs associated with providing food for asylum seekers, reduce food waste in situations where food aid recipients do not like the meals provided and put money back into the local economy.
"We are required to provide food and baby supplies to migrants, the only difference here is we're asking them to buy it themselves as opposed to being delivered to their door," a spokesperson for Adam's office told Newsweek.
In other words, treat refugees like they are ordinary residents as opposed to a special group! It is literally that simple!
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What I had recommended long ago (though I had EU countries in mind at the time):
https://cbsaustin.com/news/connect-to-congress/bill-offers-faster-path-to-american-citizenship-for-migrants-who-enlist-in-military-immigration-army-recruiting-shortfalls-marines-navy-air-force-united-states-armed-forces-service-border-security-politics-congress-rep-pat-ryan-congressman-john-james
(TND) — Lawmakers are introducing a bill to give migrants who enlist in the U.S. military an expedited path to citizenship.
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“If folks have the courage to raise their right hand, swear an oath to protect and defend this nation, and put their lives on the line, then they sure as hell deserve the opportunity to become an American citizen.”
Ryan, who blamed the failure of the Senate immigration deal this week on “partisan posturing,” and James say their bill addresses two pressing concerns in the country: an influx of migrants looking for work and the severe recruiting deficits for our military.
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“Immigration is both an economic and moral imperative, and giving specific America-loving immigrants who want to serve the country the chance to become citizens is a no-brainer,” James said in the news release. “Some of the heroes Pat and I served with in Iraq were immigrants, and I can’t think of a more deserving person to become an American citizen than immigrants who are willing to serve in our military.”
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“The rationale is that these noncitizens serve the United States,” Johnson said. “We should honor them like they honored us and bestow immigration status and citizenship on them sooner as opposed to later.”
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Restating the obvious:
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-02-18/returning-sea-migrants-to-libya-is-illegal-italys-top-court-says
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's top appeals court has established that sending sea migrants back to Libya is unlawful, a ruling hailed by charities and human rights groups.
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Italy and other European governments have taken an increasingly hard line on immigration in recent years, amid a swell in support for right-wing parties that want strict curbs on sea arrivals from North Africa. The Libya to Italy crossing is one of the most-used sea migration routes.
"Now there is also a judicial precedent that confirms what we have been saying for years: Libya is not a safe country", the Mediterranea Saving Humans migrant rescue group said on X.
The Italian office of Amnesty International also hailed the verdict, and criticised the government for cooperating with Libyan authorities on migration.
"Pushing people back to Libya and collaborating with the so-called (Libyan) coast guard conflicts with the duty to bring rescued people to a safe place", it said.
So when do we start executing every last person who has ever called for pushbacks and/or deportation?
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Thank you!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13118737/Tucson-Samaritans-hold-open-border-migrants-crossing.html
Volunteer from Tucson Samaritans is seen holding open hole in border fence and encouraging migrants to walk through as Republicans demand probe into the NGOs 'facilitating the crisis'
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the migrants were transported to an encampment in the Coronado National Forest run by No More Deaths, a non profit working with the samaritans groups.
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'As an organization that has been in existence for more than 20 years, we work to ease suffering and prevent deaths along the US-Mexico Border.
'The situation with asylum seekers offers challenges to everyone to respond in a humane, legal manner.
'This is what we do.'
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/02/23/20/81648129-13118737-image-a-6_1708720706586.jpg)
The non-profit states its mission is 'to offer humanitarian assistance to migrants in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands' and later asserts that 'humanitarian assistance is never a crime.
The organization is sponsored by The Good Shepherd United Church of Christ, a 501(c)(3) charity which means donations are tax deductible.
Meanwhile, Tucson Samaritans says it provides, 'water, food, first aid, and other essential items to migrants who cross the border in southern Arizona.
The organization is supported by Southside Presbyterian Church and spent $13,804 on supplies in 2023, according to its website.
https://www.tucsonsamaritans.org/
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/border-patrol-must-care-migrant-164429672.html
WASHINGTON (AP) — Migrant children who wait in makeshift camps along the U.S.-Mexico border for the Border Patrol to process them are in the agency's custody and are subject to a long-standing court-supervised agreement that set standards for their treatment, a judge ruled.
The issue of when the children are officially in Border Patrol custody is particularly important because of the 1997 court settlement on how migrant children in U.S. government custody must be treated. Those standards include a time limit on how long the children can be held and services such as toilets, sinks and temperature controls.
Wednesday's ruling means the Department of Homeland Security must quickly process the children and place them in facilities that are “safe and sanitary.”
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“This is a tremendous victory for children at open air detention sites, but it remains a tragedy that a court had to direct the government to do what basic human decency and the law clearly require," Neha Desai, senior director of immigration at the National Center for Youth Law, said in a statement.