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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

Hopefully a precedent for eventually millions of others:

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".

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!

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/

Our enemies explain their dislike of public transport:

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:

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!

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.

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!