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(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.

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.

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!

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.”

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.

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;

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.

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.

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.