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breitbart--2019-08-11--Mississippi Restaurant Offers Free Pizza to Immigrants Refugees
| 2019-08-11T00:00:00 |
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Mississippi Restaurant Offers Free Pizza to Immigrants, Refugees
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The owner of Dodo Pizza, Alena Tikhova, said that after moving to America from Russia four years ago, she wanted to do something to combat the “hate and cruelty” against people from other countries. “We do what we can,” she said. “We have pizza, and this is maybe small, but this is just our small way of showing support and I think this particular time, that group needs of people needs support and appreciation.” “We do what we can, so we address one topic at a time. Right now, I feel like this hate and cruelty is the biggest topic,” she concluded. On Wednesday, Breitbart News reported that the raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents was the largest single-state raid in U.S. history. The agents arrested 680 illegal aliens during the event. “According to federal officials, some of the hundreds of illegal aliens arrested on Wednesday have already been ordered deported by an immigration judge and have refused to self-deport. Those illegal aliens will be quickly deported,” the report said. However, Tikhova said the arrests by ICE agents “doesn’t feel right to me as a human being.” In a press release issued Wednesday, ICE said the agency worked with the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) to uphold laws established by the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) that “requires employers to verify the identity and work eligibility of individuals they hire.” “These laws help protect jobs for U.S. citizens and lawful U.S. residents, eliminate unfair competitive advantages for companies that unlawfully hire an illegal workforce, and strengthen public safety and national security,” the press release said, adding that “Unauthorized workers often use stolen identities of legal U.S. workers, which can profoundly damage for years the identity-theft victim’s credit, medical records and other aspects of their everyday life.” By enforcing the law, HSI investigators are able to combat many forms of illegal activity which include worker exploitation, child labor, and human trafficking, the press release concluded.
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breitbart--2019-08-12--Public Charge Self-Sufficient Immigrants Proficient in English Favored for Green Cards
| 2019-08-12T00:00:00 |
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Public Charge: Self-Sufficient Immigrants Proficient in English Favored for Green Cards
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During a press conference on Monday, Acting United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Ken Cuccinelli said the Trump administration will establish what is known as the “Public Charge” rule — a regulation whereby legal immigrants would be less likely to secure a permanent residency in the U.S. if they have used any forms of welfare in the past, including using subsidized healthcare services, food stamps, and public housing. These immigrants subject to the rule are technically mostly nonimmigrants in the U.S. and foreign nationals, including illegal aliens seeking to adjust their immigration status, temporary foreign guest workers wanting a green card, and foreign nationals looking to be sponsored for a green card by their employer or U.S.-based relative. The rule will take into account a number of negative and positive factors when assessing an immigrant’s qualification for a green card. Among the positive factors that will help secure a green card for an immigrant is their ability to speak English. “DHS will consider whether the alien is proficient in English or proficient in other languages in addition to English as part of the public charge inadmissibility determination,” the regulation states. “People who spoke a language other than English at home were less likely to be employed, and less likely to find full-time work when employed.” Today, there are roughly 65 million U.S. residents speaking a foreign language at home. In the nation’s largest cities, New York City, Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Phoenix, nearly half of the residents speak a foreign language at home. In Los Angeles, alone, almost one-in-six residents speak a foreign language at home. Self-sufficiency is similarly a positive factor that will make an immigrant more likely to secure a green card over those who are reliant on welfare and deemed a “public charge.” For example, foreign nationals in the U.S. who currently pay for their own non-subsidized health insurance would be more likely than nationals on Obamacare or Medicare to be approved for permanent residency in the country. USCIS will take into account an immigrant’s work history and total ability to earn a sufficient living in the U.S. without relying on taxpayers. “The ability of the alien to earn sufficient income to pay for basic living needs (i.e., food and nutrition, housing, and healthcare), as evidenced or impacted by, for example, the alien’s age, health, work history, current employment status, future employment prospects, education, and skills” will be considered in weighing whether an immigrant is approved for a green card, according to the regulation. The enactment of the Public Charge rule comes after Trump signed an order set to begin in September that enforces existing 1996 laws signed into statute by then-President Bill Clinton. The order mandates that a family member or business sponsor of a legal immigrant looking to permanently resettle in the U.S. is responsible for paying back the welfare costs previously used by that immigrant. For example, if a visa holder has used $10,000 in food stamp benefits while living in the U.S., when a family member sponsors them for a green card, that family member will be notified of the legal immigrant’s welfare costs to taxpayers and will be obligated to pay back the amount. If the sponsor of a legal immigrant does not pay the welfare cost, the Treasury Offset Program will take the money out of the sponsor’s taxes for that year. The order also ensures that the personal income of a legal immigrant’s sponsor is taken into consideration when a legal immigrant is applying for federal welfare. Currently, only the income of legal immigrants is considered by federal agencies when applying for public benefits. Under the rules set out by Clinton’s 1996 law, the Trump administration will make certain that the income of both the legal immigrant and their sponsor is considered when applying for benefits. As Breitbart News reported, the majority of the more than 1.5 million foreign nationals entering the country every year use about 57 percent more food stamps than the average native-born American household. Overall, illegal and legal immigrant households consume 33 percent more cash welfare than American citizen households and 44 percent more in Medicaid dollars. This straining of public services by a booming 44.5 million foreign-born population translates to the average immigrant household costing American taxpayers $6,234 in federal welfare. John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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2019-08-12 19:21:08+00:00
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breitbart--2019-08-12--Statue of Liberty Question Our Immigration System Is for the Benefit of This Country
| 2019-08-12T00:00:00 |
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'Statue of Liberty' Question: 'Our Immigration System Is for the Benefit of This Country'
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“I’ll drive it home with a sledgehammer here: America’s immigration system is first and foremost, for the benefit of America. Period,” USCIS acting director Ken Cuccinelli told Breitbart News. The purpose of immigration policy was raised during a White House press conference on Monday when Cuccinelli unveiled the new “Public Charge” regulation which will help deny green cards to foreign people who are likely to need welfare and aid from taxpaying Americans. Cuccinelli’s pro-American statement came shortly after a sharply ideological question by a CBS reporter: Almost as long the public charge rules has been in the effect since the late 1800s, there also has been — almost as long — the words at the base of the Statue of Liberty that read “Give us your tired, your poor.” You are implementing a public charge rule for the first time. Is that sentiment, “Give us your tired, your poor,” still operative in the United States? Or should those words come down, should the plaque come down off the Statue or Liberty?’ The 1886 statue was inspired by the Union victory in the civil war and was subsequently built in France. The statue is named “Liberty Enlightening the World” to emphasize the statue’s message — that Americans’ freedoms show the way forward for other people and countries. But that pro-freedom message has been buried under a pro-migration drumbeat by pro-migration advocacy groups and friendly media outlets. In 1903, 17 years after the statue was opened, pro-migration advocates added a plaque with a pro-migration poem, saying “Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” The plaque was part of a broader immigration debate, which ended in 1924 when Congress sharply reduced the inflow of new migrants, so allowing Americans to win a rapid rise in their standard of living from roughly 1945 to 1970. The period of rapid income growth ended several years after Congress expanded immigration in 1965. In 1986, the plaque was moved from the statue to a museum inside the statue. But the plaque is still being used by pro-migration groups to help change the public’s understanding of the statue from its pro-U.S. “Enlightening the World” message to their anti-U.S. “nation of immigrants” message. In the White House press conference, Cuccinelli first dodged the CBS question about the plaque, saying “Well, I’m certainly not prepared to take anything down off the Statue of Liberty.” “We have a long history of being one of the most welcoming nations in the world on a lot of bases, whether you be an asylee, whether you be coming in here to join your family or immigrating yourself,” he added. But a few minutes later, Cuccinelli provided the answer to the statue question when he told another reporter that “the entire legal immigration system is designed by Congress for the benefit of America.” In a subsequent phone call with Breitbart News, Cuccinelli expanded his answer: That plaque was added after the Statue of Liberty. It wasn’t part of the Statue of Liberty, and you can talk to National Park Service about that. But there’s no question our immigration system, as this President has frankly and without apology proclaimed, is for the benefit of this country. It does have collateral benefits to the rest of the world. But first and foremost, Americans’, American immigration policy is about America, and making us stronger in the future. And this rule is consistent with that policy, and frankly that tradition. By ensuring that people who come here won’t eventually be people who would go on welfare, or likely to go on welfare, we strengthen both America and America’s immigration policy, and that is the goal of this rule … I’ll drive it home with a sledgehammer here, America’s immigration system is first and foremost, for the benefit of America. Period. Cuccinelli’s statement has always been at the center of Americans’ immigration policy, said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies. “The idea of letting [only] people in who can pay their owns bills not only predates the Statue of Liberty, it predates the United States itself,” he told Breitbart News, adding: The renewed focus on the public charge rule was caused by President Bill Clinton’s decision to loosen the rule, Krikorian said. The immediate “purpose of this new rule is to overturn Orwellian rules by the Clinton administration which narrowed the definition of welfare as much as possible, limiting it only to cash [aid] so that if you were on food stamps, on Medicaid, living in public housing, you would still be considered self-sufficient under those dishonest rules,” he said. When asked about Cuccinelli’s use of “America” instead of “Americans,” Krikorian replied: In a sense [the use of ‘America’] is sort of true … But that overriding purpose still leaves the question of which Americans should be helped by immigration law? Every immigration policy can help some Americans and hurt others, so the point of politics is to work that out. Current immigration policy helps monied interests at the expense of poor Americans, and I suppose you can decide that either way but I root for poor Americans … The question is who loses and who gains? Which Americans are being helped and which Americans are being hurt? And who do we think is more important? I think it is more important not to hurt poor Americans [with massive waves of cheap labor] than to provide a very small [financial] benefit to other Americans who own shares in Koch Foods which is using immigration for its [cost-saving] benefit. However, many pro-migration advocates are ignoring the impact on Americans, he said. “Immigration policy is supposed to benefit Americans, but the advocacy groups seem to focus almost exclusively on whether immigration policies are good for foreigners who are not even here yet. Who are you rooting for? The anti-border people seem to be rooting for foreigners instead of Americans.” Each year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after graduating from high school or university. This total includes about 800,000 Americans who graduate with skilled degrees in business, health care, engineering, science, software, or statistics. But the federal government then imports about 1.1 million legal immigrants and refreshes a resident population of approximately 1.5 million white-collar visa workers — including about 1 million H-1B workers and spouses — and around 500,000 blue-collar visa workers. The government also prints out more than one million work permits for foreigners, tolerates about eight million illegal workers, and does not punish companies for employing the hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants who sneak across the border or overstay their legal visas each year. This policy of inflating the labor supply boosts economic growth and returns for investors because it transfers wages to investors and ensures that employers do not have to compete for American workers by offering higher wages and better working conditions. This policy of flooding the market with cheap, foreign, white-collar graduates and blue-collar labor also shifts enormous wealth from young employees towards older investors, even as it also widens wealth gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, and hurts children’s schools and college educations. The cheap-labor economic strategy also pushes Americans away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions. The labor policy also moves business investment and wealth from the Heartland to the coastal cities, explodes rents and housing costs, shrivels real estate values in the Midwest, and rewards investors for creating low-tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
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Neil Munro
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2019-08-12 20:04:08+00:00
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breitbart--2019-08-13--Dem Rep Heck Trump Hates All Immigrants Except His In-Laws and Wife
| 2019-08-13T00:00:00 |
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Dem Rep. Heck: Trump 'Hates All Immigrants,' Except His In-Laws and Wife
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On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Representative Denny Heck (D-WA) reacted to the Trump administration’s new immigration rule by stating that “the president hates all immigrants, except his mother- and father-in-law and his wife, evidently.” Heck said, “Look, the president hates all immigrants, except his mother- and father-in-law and his wife, evidently. He hates them whether they’re here without documents, they’re here with a green card, they’re here seeking asylum. He hates them all. And the incredible irony of this particular circumstance, Wolf, is, a lot of people here who are on green cards are working in very low-paying jobs that nobody else wants to do, and that’s why they qualify for some of these benefits. He’s not only going to be hurting these families, he’s going to be hurting the local economies, which need these people to fill these jobs.”
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Ian Hanchett
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2019-08-13 00:13:57+00:00
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breitbart--2019-08-20--New York Times Hides to Smear Donald Trumps Policies as Anti-Immigrant
| 2019-08-20T00:00:00 |
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New York Times Hides $$$ to Smear Donald Trump's Policies as 'Anti-Immigrant'
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The paper’s dismissal of economics is buried deep in a long and critical article about Trump’s immigration policy and his top aide, Steven Miller. The dismissal allows the article to comply with the August 12 instructions from the NYT‘s senior editor who urged reporters to treat public debates over immigration policy as racial conflicts, not as disputes over money, wages, salaries, profits, and stock prices. The article’s subheadline claims the nation’s immigration policy is now driven by hostility towards individual immigrants, not by the widespread public opposition to the painful economic distortions caused by the government’s support for mass migration: “Behind Mr. Miller’s singular grip on the Trump anti-immigrant agenda are forces far bigger than [Miller’s] own hostility toward the foreign-born.” The NYT reporter, Jason DeParle, dismissed the public’s concerns about jobs, wages, and housing prices with a few vague sentences crediting unnamed “economists”: Yet DeParle’s admission of “greater downward pressure” indirectly admits that immigration does exert some downward pressure on wages. His mention of “other forces” also hides the indirect economic effect of mass immigration, such as companies’ ability to break unions by hiring refugees and illegal migrants for jobs in meatpacking, construction, and restaurants. DeParle also cited the misleading summary issued by the National Academies of Science to cover up the dynamite results of its 643-page, landmark study of immigration economics in 2016. DeParle wrote: But the summary by the National Academies downplays the data and statements in the report which admit that imported workers cut Americans’ wages. For example, on page 171 of its September 2016 report, the academies’ experts agreed to a formula which shows that immigration imposes a 5.2 percent income tax on Americans: The NAS panel declined to state the dollar value of the 5.2 percent immigration tax. But panel member George Borjas, a Harvard economist, calculated the value of the tax at $500 billion a year. This $500 billion immigration tax is not paid to the government — it is paid by employees to employers and investors who gain whenever wages are lowered by the increased supply of workers jostling and competing for wages. That’s a political boon for Democrats because economic pressure tends to push Americans to vote for the big-spending party. The immigration tax of $500 billion is a huge loss for the many American families who are already hurt by automation and globalization, by the rising cost of education, housing, childcare and healthcare, and by Wall Street’s constant pressure for spending cuts and payroll curbs. Small wonder that many Americans feel under intense economic pressure to vote for the big-spending giveaway Democrat Party. On page 242, the NAS report also showed 18 studies which describe the wage losses caused by the government’s policy of importing labor: “The evidence suggests that groups comparable to the immigrants in terms of their skill may experience a wage reduction as a result of immigration-induced increases in labor supply, although there are still a number of studies that suggest small to zero effects,” the report said on page 248. The NAS report also hides the impact of immigration on wages by arguing that wages will rise once the economy expands to provide jobs for all the immigrants, so forcing employers to start paying fair market wages. The summary said, “When measured over a period of ten years or more, the impact of immigration on the wages of natives overall is very small.” But the problem with NAS ten-year claim is that the long-run never arrives because the government keeps providing roughly 1 million more new legal immigrants each year, plus a population of roughly 1.5 million visa-workers, at least 2 million people with work permits, plus at least 8 million working illegals. When asked, many economists and even business groups quickly — but reluctantly — admit that wages are cut by the government’s policy of boosting the labor supply with migrants. Breitbart News has extensively covered those admissions. The Senate’s 2013 “Gang of Eight” immigration bill would have shifted more of the nation’s new wealth from employees over to investors, according to the 2013 study of the bill by the Congressional Budget Office. “The rate of return on capital would be higher [than on labor] under the legislation than under current law throughout the next two decades,” says the report, titled “The Economic Impact of S. 744.” The CBO report also repeated the NAS claim that wages would rise once the economy eventually provides jobs for all the new immigrants. “Average wages would be slightly lower than under current law through 2024, primarily because the amount of capital available to workers would not increase as rapidly as the number of workers and because the new workers would be less skilled and have lower wages, on average, than the labor force under current law,” the CBO said. But the promise of a future rise in wages would be dashed if the government again expanded immigration. In 2016, many establishment media out and staffers for Hillary Clinton’s campaign touted a study by the Wall Street advisory firm Moody’s Analytics. The study said that candidate Donald Trump’s promise to deport migrant labor would raise Americans’ salaries: “As the immigrants leave, the already-tight labor market will get tighter, pushing up labor costs as employers struggle to fill the open job positions. … Mr. Trump’s immigration policies will thus result in… potentially severe labor shortages, and higher labor costs.” In 2016, Moody’s reported that the deportation of illegals in Arizona spiked Americans’ wages: The business school at the University of Pennsylvania has issued several reports say that less immigration will slow the expansion of the economy. When pressed by Breitbart News, the group’s leader, economic professor Kent Smetters, admitted that Trump’s 2017 immigration reduction plan would raise Americans’ wages for the next 33 years: “By 2027, wages increase a small amount (0.231%) relative to baseline; by 2040, wages increase by an even smaller amount (0.158%).” The school is backed by several investors who stand to gain from an increased inflow of consumers and cheap workers. In February 2018, former treasury secretary Robert Rubin told a D.C. meeting at his Hamilton Project that wages rose in the 1990s because there was a shortage of workers. “First in the mid-90s, earlyish, and then rest of the 1990s, as we all know, wages increased at a robust level at all quintiles, and that was in some fair measure, due to tight labor markets, which in turn, at least in my, view, were a function in some fair measure, of good policy.” Rubin’s resume includes 26 years at Goldman Sachs, four years as President Bill Clinton’s Treasury secretary and ten years running the Citigroup banking firm, during a decades-long period when Americans’ wages were mostly flat. Foreign economists admit the obvious. The Central Bank of Ireland recently reported that “an increase in inward migration can help to mitigate overheating dynamics in the labour market … Typically, employment growth at or above the “full employment” level is accompanied by strong growth in wages and prices. As the supply of labour is scarce relative to demand, workers’ bargaining power increases and the price of labour increases.” Business advocates commonly say immigration has little impact on wages — but also that higher immigration can prevent wage raises. For example, the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal wrote in August 2017: President Barack Obama admitted the obvious several times. For instance, in his January 2016 State of the Union Address, he said: “immigrants aren’t the principal reason wages haven’t gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.” In his 2006 autobiography, Obama wrote “this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers provides some benefits to the economy as a whole… [but] it also threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans.” White-collar graduates also lose salaries and careers to immigration, according to a 2013 report by left-of-center academics: Mass immigration also reduces employees’ income by forcing them to pay more for housing. The impacts include a claimed $3.7 trillion jump in real estate values, and the increased pressure by elites on other Americans to reduce the “single-family zoning” rules which created suburbia. The same supply and demand factor operates in Ireland, where the Central Bank reported that “Higher migration, however, also increases the demand for housing putting upward pressure on house prices But the impact is especially clear outside the New York Times‘ front door, where local residents blocked the arrival of Amazon because it would spike rental costs: “An analysis conducted in April by Zillow found that renters’ costs could increase by more than $200 annually in the two cities relative to the real-estate site’s base cases if Amazon were to set up in them,” Business Insider reported November 2018. In August 2019, the Daily Mail showed how one New York landlord split one apartment lengthwise into nine spaces of five-foot-high rooms, each renting for $600 per month. The immigration-fueled real-estate growth along the costs is also helping to slow economic growth in America’s heartland. Coastal investors have little need to hire young workers in distant Kansas, Oklahoma or Kentucky because the government keeps flying new foreign workers into Los Angeles, New York, North Carolina, New Jersey, Florida, and Seattle. This huge shift in population, and the resulting drop in wages has pushed the coastal states further and further into the Democrat columns on election day. In contrast, the GOP does well with young people who can afford homes and families in states with fewer migrants and small wealth gaps. But DeParle’s effort to dismiss the impact of the economic impact of mass migration complies with his newspaper’s new race-before-money editorial policy. The policy was described August 12 by executive editor Dean Baquet in a closed-door meeting with reporters and editors, when he said the newspaper is going to focus on the impact of slavery and racism throughout American politics during the runup to the 2020 elections. The public’s worries about migration’s impact wages are to be treated in the same fashion as articles about Fox News, on “anti-immigrant conspiracies,” or religious opposition to abortion, he said: Even if immigration has no impact on wages and rents, the New York Times article collides with the reality that Trump has repeatedly said he wants to welcome immigrants to the new jobs in his go-go economy. “We want to allow millions of people to come in . . . We have to have legal immigration, not illegal immigration,” Trump said August 7: The NYT article is not entirely off-base. For example, it does admit that Breitbart’s follow-the-money coverage of the immigration issue has had an impact on Americans’ politics, saying “right-wing populism had long flourished on talk radio, but Breitbart, with few restrictions on space, could cover the issue in greater depth, bringing intense scrutiny to hot-button issues.” Each year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after graduating from high school or university. This total includes about 800,000 Americans who graduate with skilled degrees in business or health care, engineering or science, software, or statistics. But the federal government then imports about 1.1 million legal immigrants and refreshes a resident population of roughly 1.5 million white-collar visa workers — including approximately 1 million H-1B workers and spouses — and about 500,000 blue-collar visa workers. The government also prints out more than one million work permits for foreigners, tolerates about eight million illegal workers, and does not punish companies for employing the hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants who sneak across the border or overstay their legal visas each year. This policy of inflating the labor supply boosts economic growth for investors because it transfers wages to investors and ensures that employers do not have to compete for American workers by offering higher wages and better working conditions. This policy of flooding the market with cheap, foreign, white-collar graduates and blue-collar labor also shifts enormous wealth from young employees towards older investors, even as it also widens wealth gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, and hurts children’s schools and college educations. The cheap-labor economic strategy also pushes Americans away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions. The labor policy also moves business investment and wealth from the Heartland to the coastal cities, explodes rents and housing costs, undermines suburbia, shrivels real estate values in the Midwest, and rewards investors for creating low-tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
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2019-08-20 13:18:07+00:00
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breitbart--2019-08-26--Bezos WaPo Business Needs Welfare-Dependent Immigrants to Take US Jobs
| 2019-08-26T00:00:00 |
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Bezos' WaPo: Business Needs Welfare-Dependent Immigrants to Take U.S. Jobs
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Despite rising wages for America’s blue-collar and working-class thanks to a tightened labor market, the Post editors write that importing low-income foreign workers is “the obvious antidote to chronic and predictable labor deficits.” To date, there remains about 12 million Americans out of the labor market who are unemployed, under-employed, or discouraged by their job prospects but all of whom want full-time jobs. A rational immigration system, one that meets the labor market’s demands for workers in an array of skill categories and income levels, is the obvious antidote to chronic and predictable labor deficits. Unfortunately, the Trump administration, heedless of the pleas of employers, has implemented and proposed measures whose effect will deepen existing and future shortages. And it has done so even as the unemployment rate, now 3.7 percent, continues to bump along at near-historic lows. [Emphasis added] A policy announced by the administration this month would impede large numbers of low-income legal immigrants from remaining in the United States, or coming in the first place, if they are judged likely to use public benefits to which they are entitled, including noncash ones such as housing subsidies and health care. The impact would be a dramatic reduction in newcomers, and in existing immigrants eligible to become legal permanent residents, or green-card holders, the final step before full citizenship. By targeting low-income and low-skilled migrants, the rule would perpetuate severe worker shortages in a variety of sectors. [Emphasis added] President Trump has leveraged nativist policies to his political advantage. He has been indifferent to their corrosive long-term economic impact. Far from making America great again, the president’s policies are likely to transform the United States into a second Japan, where an aging population and barriers to immigration have sapped the dynamism and prospects of what was once one of the world’s most dynamic economies. [Emphasis added] The editorial comes after the Trump administration announced that it would enforce a Clinton-era regulation which effectively prevents welfare-dependent legal immigrants from permanently resettling in the U.S. by obtaining a green card. The regulation will be a boon for American taxpayers in the form of an annual $57.4 billion tax cut — the amount taxpayers spend every year on paying for the welfare, crime, and schooling costs of the country’s mass importation of 1.5 million new, mostly low-skilled legal immigrants. Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” economic model has proven the strongest for blue-collar workers and their wages, which had previously stagnated for decades due to an annual inflow of more than a million low-skilled legal immigrants. In USA Today, contributor Gad Levanon recently noted how America’s working class is making large gains and helping to close the wage gap between the working-middle class and the wealthy. “At this point, the reversal in wage inequality is modest,” Levanon writes. “But it is real, and the trends underlying it look likely to last for at least another decade. A continuation would provide extended and welcome relief to America’s working class, after years of wage stagnation in sectors that were shedding jobs.” The Post publishes pro-mass immigration editorials almost annually. Last year, the Post editors wrote that Trump’s tight labor market for American workers was “reaching crisis proportions” after previously acknowledging that a labor shortage means higher wages and more job opportunities for Americans. A few months ago, the Wall Street Journal reported how the tightened labor market has given American workers power over corporations and businesses where they negotiate their terms of employment rather than the other way around. Extensive research by economists like George Borjas and analyst Steven Camarota reveals that the country’s current mass legal immigration system burdens U.S. taxpayers and America’s working and middle class while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth every year to major employers and newly arrived immigrants. Similarly, research has revealed how Americans’ wages are crushed by the country’s high immigration levels. For every one-percent increase in the immigrant portion of American workers’ occupations, their weekly wages are cut by about 0.5 percent, Camarota finds. This means the average native-born American worker today has his weekly wages reduced by perhaps 8.75 percent. Today, about 17.5 percent of the American workforce is made up of foreign-born workers. About 7.8 million of these foreign-born workers are illegal aliens living in the U.S., according to the latest analysis by Pew Research Center. John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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2019-08-26 22:57:32+00:00
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breitbart--2019-09-05--Poll Increasing Immigration Giving Illegals Right to Vote Most Unpopular 2020 Political Positions
| 2019-09-05T00:00:00 |
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Poll: Increasing Immigration, Giving Illegals Right to Vote Most Unpopular 2020 Political Positions
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The latest Harvard/Harris Poll finds that 2020 presidential candidates who want to increase overall immigration to the U.S. — while the country already admits 1.5 million foreign nationals every year — are the least likely to win over American voters. When all U.S. voters were asked which position would make them the most unlikely to vote for a 2020 presidential candidate, “opening our borders to many more immigrants” topped the list with 64 percent. Increasing immigration was the top most unpopular position among swing voters, with 66 percent saying they would be unlikely to vote for a 2020 presidential candidate who favors such a policy. Wanting more immigration to the U.S. was also the most unpopular position among Republican voters, conservatives, Trump supporters, voters who identify as “moderates,” white voters, American men, voters without a college degree, rural voters, and suburban voters. Even among Hispanic voters and black Americans, increasing immigration was the second most unpopular position a 2020 presidential candidate could take — just after increasing taxes to pay for social programs. Likewise, American voters are nearly unanimously opposed to giving illegal aliens the right to vote, as some left-wing communities have implemented. San Fransisco’s Department of Education, for example, started allowing non-citizens to vote in citywide school board elections last year. The vast majority of Americans, 85 percent, said they oppose such a policy, including 80 percent of Democrat voters, 86 percent of swing voters, 75 percent of self-described “liberals,” 77 percent of black Americans, and 73 percent of Hispanic voters. Only 15 percent of Americans said they support giving illegal aliens the right to vote in U.S. elections. At current legal immigration levels, the U.S. is on track to import about 15 million new foreign-born voters in the next two decades. About eight million of those 15 million new foreign-born voters will have arrived in the country through the process known as chain migration, in which newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country. John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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2019-09-05 00:10:33+00:00
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breitbart--2019-09-30--46 Illegal Immigrants from 10 Countries Arrested in Ohio Michigan ICE Operation
| 2019-09-30T00:00:00 |
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46 Illegal Immigrants from 10 Countries Arrested in Ohio, Michigan ICE Operation
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers in Michigan and Ohio carried out a five-day targeted enforcement action which ended on September 25. During the operation, ERO officers arrested 46 individuals, mostly criminals, from 10 different countries, according to information obtained from ICE officials. Officers arrested mostly criminals with either charges or convictions for serious crimes after illegally entering the United States. Some also had charges for immigration violations and final orders of removal. Samples of the offenses committed or alleged to have been committed include gross sexual imposition, attempted felonious sexual penetration, importuning, attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, criminal sexual conduct – second degree, driving under the influence of liquor, operating while intoxicated, operating a vehicle while impaired, child endangerment, burglary, controlled substance – delivery / manufacture of marijuana, controlled substance – delivery / manufacture of marijuana (conspiracy), marijuana possession, possession of drugs, negligent assault, illegal entry, aggravated burglary, receiving burglary tools, attempted receiving and concealing stolen property, criminal mischief, retail fraud, disorderly conduct, solicit prostitution, obstruct official business, reckless operation of a vehicle, operating a vehicle without a license, and driving while license suspended. As examples, ICE officials disclosed the following: Officials reported the arrested individuals, all men, came to the U.S. from Mexico, Senegal, El Salvador, Guatemala, Cameroon, Iraq, United Kingdom, South Korea, Tanzania, and Honduras. “ICE focuses its enforcement resources on individuals who pose a threat to national security, public safety, and border security. However, ICE does not exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement,” officials stated. “All of those in violation of the immigration laws may be subject to immigration arrest, detention and if found removable by final order, removal from the United States. ICE does not conduct sweeps.” “Upholding public safety by focusing on removing criminal aliens is at the heart of what ERO officers do every day,” Detroit ERO Field Office Director Rebecca Adducci said in a written statement. “These targeted enforcement actions highlight ICE’s vital role in keeping our communities safe.” The Detroit Area of Responsibility includes Michigan and Ohio. At the same time as this operation, ERO officers in Texas and Oklahoma arrested an additional 94, Breitbart Texas reported. ERO officers carried out other operations in multiple jurisdictions during this same time period. Some of the migrants arrested may face federal prosecution for illegal entry after removal. If charged and convicted, the migrant could face up to 2o years in federal prison prior to being removed from the U.S.
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breitbart--2019-10-06--E.U. Infighting over Illegal Immigration Grows as Hungary, Poland Cry 'Enough'
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E.U. Infighting over Illegal Immigration Grows as Hungary, Poland Cry 'Enough'
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As tens of thousands of illegal immigrants continue to enter Europe after crossing by boat from Turkey, Greece said it will call on the European Union to impose sanctions on member states that refuse to accept their share of new arrivals. A group of central and eastern E.U. nations including Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic have all opposed mandatory E.U. relocation quotas for refugees — an action Greece’s new conservative government says puts an unfair burden on border member states like Greece, Spain, and Italy. “I will say this clearly: I will raise the issue of specific sanctions for European countries that refuse to take part in a fair distribution of refugees on a European level,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday. “It is an act of hypocrisy,” he added. “You cannot enjoy the benefits of (border-free travel and trade) and not accept 1,000 or 2,000 refugees as part of EU management of the issue.” A summer spike in arrivals of migrants and refugees from Turkey has overwhelmed the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios, who already find their migrant reception centres becoming increasingly overcrowded. In just one month, Lesbos received 2,700 migrants, according to one local newspaper. Other islands, such as Samos, are in even worse situations with one migrant reception centre meant to house just 650 people currently home to over 4,000, as Breitbart News reported. E.U. migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos and German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer were in Turkey and then traveled on to Greece Friday, as European officials look to restart of deportations from Greece to Turkey of migrants whose asylum applications have been rejected or are not in need of international protection. “Irregular arrivals to Greece increased over the past weeks and months,” Avramopoulos said. “There is an urgent need to further strengthen the prevention and detection of irregular departures from Turkey.” Around 22,700 migrants are estimated to be living on the various Greek islands in the Aegean, with 42 percent coming from Afghanistan and just 11 percent from Syria.
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breitbart--2019-10-14--Trump-Mexico Immigration Deal Breaks Up Caravan of 2000 Migrants
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Trump-Mexico Immigration Deal Breaks Up Caravan of 2000 Migrants
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New immigration procedures implemented by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) effectively disbanded a group of 2,000 mostly Central American caravan migrants. Immigration policies put in place following an agreement between Mexico and the Trump Administration broke up a caravan consisting of approximately 2,000 people from Central America, Africa, and the Caribbean Islands, the Associated Press reported Saturday. The group began to move northward from Tapachula, Chiapas, early one morning last week after being held up for official travel documents. The group quickly encountered Mexican Federal Police and members of the newly formed National Guard. When the group came upon the police and soldiers, some scattered while others surrendered. The migrants are provided opportunities to request asylum in Mexico. Instead, the group chose to illegally attempt to move through Mexico to the U.S. border. “I want to pass through Mexico, I don’t want to live here,” Amado Ramirez expressed. Reportedly traveling with his wife and young children, he said he hoped to obtain documents allowing him to pass through Mexico. Hundreds of African migrants also attempted to make their way through Mexico but the government stalled their request for visas. “Almost all of them want to seek asylum in the United States, rather than stay in Mexico,” the AP reported. Stressful conditions turned violent as some of the migrants “engaged in scuffles” with police at the regional immigration office. Under the agreement between Mexico and the United States, Mexican immigration officials give the migrants two choices — stay in Mexico or leave via Mexico’s southern border. Many are flown back to their countries of origin. African migrants have a more difficult path as their home countries often lack the infrastructure to handle mass repatriations, the AP stated. Migrant support groups reported that the presence of the National Guard and other law enforcement officials in southern Mexico made the process for moving north very difficult. Large group migration through Mexico to the U.S. southern border hit a 12-year high during Fiscal Year 2019. However, changes in Mexican policies negotiated by the Trump Administration effectively dropped the numbers from a high mark of nearly 133,000 in May to about 40,000 in September, Breitbart Texas reported. By the end of the fiscal year, U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended an estimated 850,000. Migrant families and unaccompanied minors made up for nearly two-thirds of the apprehensions in the U.S.
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breitbart--2019-11-05--NY Times Poll: Conservative Biden Voters Want Less Legal Immigration
| 2019-11-05T00:00:00 |
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NY Times Poll: Conservative Biden Voters Want Less Legal Immigration
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Former Vice President Joe Biden’s most conservative supporters say by a majority that they want fewer legal immigrants admitted to the United States every year to reduce foreign competition in the workforce. A comprehensive survey by the New York Times and Siena College reveals how Biden’s most conservative supporters want less legal immigration to the U.S. — a potential inroad for President Trump and his “America First” agenda. The survey finds that 41 percent of Biden voters who do not support Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) say women running for president “just aren’t that likable.” These Biden voters, the survey finds, are mostly men and working class who align with Trump on a series of cultural and political issues. For example, of these Biden voters, a majority of 54 percent said they want to reduce legal immigration levels wherein currently the U.S. admits about 1.2 million mostly low-skilled legal immigrants every year who compete for jobs against working and middle class Americans. About 55 percent of these conservative Biden voters said discrimination against white Americans is now as big of a problem as discrimination against minorities, and 79 percent said political correctness has “gone too far.” For years, Trump has pushed to decrease legal immigration levels to boost wages for American workers, open job markets for American graduates, and raise the quality of life for the working class. In his 2015 promise, Trump demanded a halt to all immigration in order to allow businesses to hire from the existing labor pool. Since then, Trump has endorsed the RAISE Act to cut legal immigration down to 500,000 admissions a year to raise wages and employment. While the big business lobby, corporate interests, and 2020 Democrats advocate for more legal immigration to the U.S. to increase foreign competition against Americans, about 11.5 million Americans remain either unemployed, underemployed, or out of the labor market – all of whom want full-time jobs. At the expense of working and middle class Americans, the nation’s legal immigration system has driven the foreign-born workforce to the highest level in decades. Today, 17.5 percent of workers — or 3-in-17 — in the U.S. are immigrants. In 2018, foreign-born workers were cheaper to hire for employers, earning a median weekly salary of less than $760. At the same time, native- born American workers’ median weekly salary was $910. The data, though, found that while native-born Americans’ wages have been largely stagnant, foreign-born workers have seen their wages rise. Extensive research by economists like George Borjas and analyst Steven Camarota reveals that the country’s current mass legal immigration system burdens U.S. taxpayers and America’s working and middle class while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth every year to major employers and newly arrived immigrants. Similarly, research has revealed how Americans’ wages are crushed by the country’s high immigration levels. For every one-percent increase in the immigrant portion of American workers’ occupations, their weekly wages are cut by about 0.5 percent, Camarota finds. This means the average native-born American worker today has his weekly wages reduced by perhaps 8.75 percent. John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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breitbart--2019-11-07--Minnesota Town Hikes Taxes to Deal with Mass Immigration Overwhelming Local Schools
| 2019-11-07T00:00:00 |
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Minnesota Town Hikes Taxes to Deal with Mass Immigration Overwhelming Local Schools
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Taxpayers in the small town of Worthington, Minnesota hiked taxes to fund an expansion of their school district, since mass immigration has overwhelmed teachers, resources, and classrooms. This week, Worthington taxpayers voted to approve an additional nearly $34 million in funds to expand the local school district, which has ballooned in class enrollment due to a massive influx of unchecked migration. For years, Worthington taxpayers had repeatedly rejected providing more tax dollars to the school district — voting down the initiative five times. This time around, there was a major push from immigrant rights organizations to turn out the vote to get more funding. The story of this small 13,000-resident community in middle America is the latest example of mass immigration’s direct impact on school districts, quality of life issues, and the rights of residents to have a say over the issue. As Breitbart News reported, mass immigration to Worthington has driven the school district to the brink with a constant flow of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) arriving in the region and newly arrived immigrants sending their children to the region’s schools as they take jobs at the nearby JBS Pork slaughterhouse. Over the last six years, Worthington has had to absorb more than 400 UACs, who arrived at the nation’s borders primarily from Central America and were resettled in the area. Projections from an April report by analyst Steven Kopits revealed that by the November 2020 presidential election, nearly one million migrant children may arrive in the U.S. — roughly 800,000 of whom would need to be accommodated by local school districts. John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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Thu, 07 Nov 2019 22:56:36 +0000
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breitbart--2019-12-07--House Passes Bill Opening Backdoor Immigration Route for Wealthy Chinese
| 2019-12-07T00:00:00 |
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House Passes Bill Opening Backdoor Immigration Route for Wealthy Chinese
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The House quietly passed a bill on December 3 to crack open a backdoor route for wealthy Chinese to buy their way into U.S. citizenship by lending money to the U.S. real estate industry. Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) portrayed the bill as a boost to trade between the United States and Portugal. But the bill allows wealthy Chinese to get into the United States after first buying Portuguese citizenship. “Congress is getting duped. … [The bill is] creating a new path for Chinese people,” said one Capitol Hill source. Wealthy Chinese can buy “golden visa” citizenship from Portugal’s government in as little as 35 days. If House bill H.R. 565 is approved by the Senate and becomes law, then the new Chinese citizens of Portugal will be able to move into the U.S. by getting E-1 Treaty Trader or E-2 Treaty Investor renewable visas. The bill may have a lot of hidden support in the Senate because it could provide a band-aid fix for the backlogged EB-5 program. The EB-5 program allows wealthy foreigners to buy green cards by lending money to U.S. businesses, mostly to real estate investors. But the money inflow has shrunk because immigration law seeks to promote diversity among immigrants by capping the annual share of EB-5 green cards that can be bought by people from each country, such as China or India. This “country cap” rule means that new Chinese EB-5 buyers must wait more than ten years to get delivery of their backlogged green cards. This delay is making it difficult for real estate groups to sell the EB-5 visa to Chinese lenders. The same backlog problem is also hindering the sale of green cards to wealthy Indians. Lobbyists for the EB-5 “Regional Centers” and the real estate industry are trying to kill off the country caps by lobbying for passage of Sen. Mike Lee’s S.386 bill, as well as for passage of EB-5 rewrite which is sponsored by three GOP Senators. But the Portugal bill could allow Chinese EB-5 buyers to quickly migrate into the United States, where they can live and work while waiting a decade for the delivery of the EB-5 green cards. David North, an expert at the Center for Immigration Studies, reported: It was one of those furtive moves by which the open-borders types expand migration to the United States a little bit at a time, while drawing a minimal amount of attention, and certainly no public policy debates. I saw it reported only in a Law360 article that is behind a partial paywall. Now the Treaty Traders (E-1) and Treaty Investor (E-2) program is not the largest of our nonimmigrant worker/investor programs — there were 60,438 admissions in 2018 according to the Department of State — but it operates, with a single exception, without much regulation. The visas are handed out by diplomats overseas, and there is no States-side operation to monitor the program. One of the legal services writing about the program says that one can get the visa with an investment as small as $25,000. In years past I have heard that the sum could be as low as $10,000. It is said to be a system often used by people from Korea to open a dry cleaning business here. The one restraint to the program is that it is limited to nations with whom we have a certain kind of treaty, and those nations do not include the big sending nations such as China, India, and Mexico. The Portugal bill was slipped through the House, without a recorded vote, by Cicilline, with brief aid from Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA). “Foreign direct investment plays a significant role in the U.S. economy,” Cicilline said, adding: One of the most important factors and encouraging investments United States is the availability of business related visas, like non immigrant one and E two visas. Allowing Portuguese citizens access to conduct substantial trade between the United States and Portugal, or invest a substantial amount of capital in the United States to qualify for non-immigrant E-1 and E-2 visas will help strengthen U.S.-Portugal ties and promote an increase in Portugal’s investments in the United States. Extending visas to Portugal not only gives Portuguese businesses an opportunity to invest in United States, but it’s a mutually beneficial relationship that promotes jobs in both countries and growth in the United States’ businesses and in our economy. The bill was also backed by Democrat leaders, including Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. In a statement, he said: Cline briefly endorsed the bill, saying: In the Senate, three GOP senators are pushing a new EB-5 bill that would a reform regulation set in place by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Agency. The bill would also steer the foreign EB-5 money away from rural areas and back towards real-estate projects in wealthy cities. The bill is supported by Sens. Mike Rounds (R-SD), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC). The bill does not yet have enough support to pass the Senate, but Graham may try to include it in the 2021 funding bills. The EB-5 bill is just one small part of Washington’s immigration policies which widen the wealth gap between coastal and heartland states. For roughly 30 years, immigration has supercharged the economic growth in the coastal states. The vast supply of visa workers and legal immigrants arriving at Los Angeles International Airport, for example, means that California investors can ignore the pool of American labor in heartland states. The coastal investors can fund new job creation centers close to their neighborhoods, and fill those jobs with the legal immigrants who arrive daily from India, Africa, South America, and Asia. The flow of government-supplied labor denies jobs, investments, opportunities, and wealth to many Americans in slower-growing, lower-priced, interior towns. States, communities, and families expend a massive effort to birth, rear, and educate millions of young Americans — but coastal investors can ignore them and simply hire workers imported from around the world. The shift in power from families to investors — and the resulting regional wealth gap — is spotlighted by a 2018 report from the Economic Innovation Group, “From Great Recession to Great Reshuffling”:
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breitbart--2019-12-23--Study: Immigration to Redistribute 26 Congressional Seats to Blue States for 2022 Election
| 2019-12-23T00:00:00 |
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Study: Immigration to Redistribute 26 Congressional Seats to Blue States for 2022 Election
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The nation’s illegal and legal immigration system will help shift 26 congressional seats, primarily from red states, and redistribute them to mostly blue states next year, according to new analysis. Every year, the United States imports about 1.2 million legal immigrants who largely arrive to reunite with foreign relatives already in the country. This level of annual legal immigration is in addition to the hundreds of thousands of foreign workers who arrive on work visas every year and nearly a million illegal aliens who successfully enter the U.S. Research by the Center for Immigration Studies’ Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler finds that annual illegal and legal immigration to the U.S. will redistribute political power in the form of 26 House seats away from a number of red states and towards massively populated blue states like California and New York. “To put this number in perspective, changing the party of 21 members of the current Congress would flip the majority in the U.S. House,” Camarota and Zeigler note. Ohio, a swing state that voted for President Trump in 2016, will get three fewer congressional seats in 2020 due to mass immigration in other states. Michigan and Pennsylvania, also states that voted for Trump in 2016, will each have two fewer congressional seats. Wisconsin, a Trump-supporting swing state, will have its congressional seats cut by at least one. Red states such as Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia, Camarota and Zeigler predict, will all get one less congressional seat in 2020. Smaller blue states such as Minnesota and Rhode Island will each receive one less congressional seat. Those seats cut from mostly red states will be redistributed to California, the most immigration-inundated state in the country. California, by 2020, is set to gain 11 congressional seats solely due to the fact that noncitizens, rather than just American citizens, are counted in congressional apportionment. Likewise, New York — where nearly 40 percent of residents are foreign-born — is set to gain four more congressional seats and New Jersey, with a more than 22 percent foreign-born population, will also take an additional two congressional seats. Texas, which has become increasingly blue due to immigration and out-of-state young people, will gain another four congressional seats, as will the swing state of Florida with its foreign-born population of 4.1 million. The deeply blue states of Illinois and Massachusetts, both of which went 55 to 60 percent for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, will each gain one congressional seat. As Breitbart News has chronicled for years, the counting of only American citizens to divide up congressional districts and electoral college votes would shift power away from the affluent, metropolitan coastal cities of the U.S. and towards middle America. If congressional districts were set by the number of citizens, the overall average population needed per congressional seat could decrease to about 670,000 citizens per district. This would give a stronger advantage for states with small illegal alien populations to gain and keep their current number of congressional seats. Camarota and Zeigler’s research is one component of how overall immigration is aiding in shifting power to Democrats and metropolitan cities such as Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco. In the upcoming 2020 election, about 1-in-10 U.S. voters will have been born outside the country. Ronald Brownstein, senior editor for The Atlantic, noted this year that nearly 90 percent of House congressional districts with a foreign-born population above the national average were won by Democrats. This means that every congressional district with a foreign-born population exceeding roughly 14 percent had a 90 percent chance of being controlled by Democrats and only a ten percent chance of electing a Republican. The New York Times and Axios admit that legal immigration at its current rate will continue shifting the American electorate more towards Democrat control, as discovered in the 2016 presidential election between then-candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Among native-born Americans, Trump won 49 percent to Clinton’s 45 percent, according to exit polling data. Among foreign-born residents, Clinton dominated Trump, garnering 64 percent of the immigrant population’s vote compared to Trump’s mere 31 percent. John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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cbsnews--2019-01-14--Shutdown could cancel thousands more immigration hearings
| 2019-01-14T00:00:00 |
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Shutdown could cancel thousands more immigration hearings
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Nearly 43,000 immigration hearings have already been canceled due to the government shutdown, bumping immigrants out of court dates that took years to secure, according to a new report. And tens of thousands more hearings will soon be in jeopardy if the shutdown continues. Attorneys say migrants may have to wait up to four years in some areas to have their hearings rescheduled after the government reopens. The partial government shutdown has closed most immigration courts, effectively cancelling 42,729 hearings from December 24 through January 11, according to the report from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). Each additional week the government is shut down will cancel another 20,000 hearings. If the shutdown continues through all of January, that means more than 100,000 individuals will have had their hearings postponed, according to TRAC. "The longer this continues the impact will be disastrous to an already overworked and understaffed Immigration Court system," said Alan Pollock, a New Jersey-based immigration attorney, in an interview with CBS News. After tomorrow, Pollock will have had 12 hearings canceled. Once the government reopens, those court appearances will get added to the immigration court's record-high 800,000-case backlog, which has grown by 49 percent since President Trump took office in January 2017, according to TRAC. Several Trump administration immigration policies have dumped previously inactive cases onto the court's docket, making it difficult to process regular immigration hearings. Between the shutdown and those policies, immigration professionals estimate the backlog could climb to 1.1 million cases. "The irony is that if they don't have their day in court they can't get deported, so if you want to deport people quickly, this is the exact opposite way to do it," said Jeremy McKinney, a North Carolina-based immigration attorney, who referred to the immigration courts as a "deporting machine." Most people in the immigration court system have been waiting years for their hearings to take place, said Sui Chung, a Miami-based immigration attorney, in an interview with CBS News. While most have waited between one and three years, some with canceled hearings due to the shutdown have waited up to 13 years, according to Chung, who conducted a survey last week among thousands of immigration attorneys to determine the impact of the shutdown. Because of the backlog, it could be years before their cases are rescheduled, immigration attorneys said. In North Carolina, new dates for immigration hearings aren't available until late 2020 and early 2021, according to McKinney. In previous shutdowns, he was able to reschedule canceled hearings within three months. In Houston, hearings aren't being scheduled until as late as 2022, Ruby Powers, an immigration attorney, told CBS News. The Executive Office for Immigration Review, an arm of the Department of Justice that oversees all immigration courts, did not respond to calls requesting comment. Calls to the office were sent to voicemail, where a recording said it would not be handling press inquiries due to the government shutdown.
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cbsnews--2019-01-22--Immigration by the numbers
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Immigration by the numbers
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On this week's episode of the "Where Did You Get This Number?" podcast, host Anthony Salvanto explores U.S. immigration statistics, how they're derived, and what they mean for the country. Public opinion on whether immigrants are a burden or strength to the country have changed significantly during the past 20 years, according to Mark Hugo Lopez, director of global migration and demography research at the Pew Research Center. "So for example, back in the '90s, two-thirds of Americans would have seen immigrants, or said immigrants were a burden to the country because they take jobs, health care, etc." said Lopez. "Today on the other hand though, about two-thirds of Americans will say, or more than half I should say, that immigrants are actually a strength for the United States because of the talents that they bring." Pew surveys have also found that there seems to be some sort of connection between knowing or living close to immigrants and having a more positive view of immigrants. "So these results that we found about Republicans living near the border having a somewhat different point of view does reflect as a general finding that the closer you are to immigrants or immigrant communities, the more likely you are to have a different view of immigrants than somebody who lives farther away," Lopez said. About one-quarter of the over 40 million immigrants in the United States are unauthorized, and one of the main ways that figure has been calculated is with birth and census records from other countries, according to Randy Capps, director of research at the Migration Policy Institute. Capps referred to the years when most of the unauthorized immigrants coming into the country were from Mexico. "We have good birth records [from Mexico] and we can add up that and compare it to the Mexican census, and that could tell us how many Mexicans could potentially have left the country and come to the U.S.," Capps said. "And the other benchmark is how many people might have entered the country illegally across the border with Mexico or might have come in legally, but then decided to overstay their visa." Capps also said that there is a misconception that Mexico is sending the most unauthorized immigrants now. "The big Asian countries of China and India are sending more people to the U.S. each year now than Mexico," Capps said. "Also, it's not just a matter of the border. Probably 60, 70 percent now of the unauthorized immigrants in the country are coming in by overstaying their visa, not by crossing the border." To hear more of our discussions on immigration in the United States, download the "Where Did You Get This Number?" podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or Spotify. New episodes are available every other Monday.
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cbsnews--2019-02-05--9 immigration facts What you need to know
| 2019-02-05T00:00:00 |
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9 immigration facts: What you need to know
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There's little doubt that immigration will be on the agenda at President Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday night. After shutting down the government for more than a month, Mr. Trump remains without his campaign's hallmark promise: a Mexican-funded southern border wall. D.C. politicians have until February 15 before temporary funding runs out and the government shuts down for the second time this year. Regardless of what the president says Tuesday night, here are seven facts that describe the state of immigration in 2019. Fact: Two-thirds of the recent unauthorized immigrant population entered the U.S. on valid visas, then stayed in the country after that visa expired. Source: Center for Migration Studies Only about one-third of the recently unauthorized immigration population got to the U.S. by sneaking across the southern border, according to Randy Capps, director of research for U.S. Programs at the Migration Policy Institute. That means a wall would not have prevented two-thirds of the country's recently undocumented immigrants from illegally entering the U.S. Fact: Between 10.7 and 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the U.S. as of 2016, the most recent year for which data is available. Source: Pew Research Center and the Migration Policy Institute According to Pew, the number of unauthorized immigrants living in the United States hit a 12-year low in 2016, a decline that researchers attribute to stepped-up enforcement at the country's southern border and shifting economic trends. The Migration Policy Institute estimates there were 11.3 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. in 2016. Fact: 396,579 people were caught illegally crossing the border in the year ending September 30, 2018. Source: U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Illegal border crossings began to fall significantly in the mid-2000s after hitting record-highs through the 1980s and 1990s. In 2005, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents apprehended just over 1.17 million migrants. Since then, arrests for illegal border crossings have fallen nearly every year. Fact: No. "If you are eligible for asylum you may be permitted to remain in the United States." Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Asylum is a special type immigration process reserved for people who have "suffered persecution or fear that they will suffer persecution due to race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion," according to USCIS. Being granted asylum is not an easy feat. It's a multi-year process that involves likely detainment, multiple interviews, extensive documentation of an immigrant's prior suffering, and less than stellar odds. Last year, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services processed about 100,000 "credible fear" claims, the first step in an immigrant's asylum proceedings. Judges decided about 42,000 asylum cases during the same time period, more than any other year since 2001, according to Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. But asylum denials also hit a record high last year. Immigration judges rejected 65 percent of the asylum claims they ruled on in 2018, according to TRAC. Fact: Asylum seekers showed up to their court dates 89 percent of the time in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, the most recent year for which data is available. Source: The Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review The Trump Administration has based a handful of its new immigration policies, like the recently implemented "Remain in Mexico" policy, based on the assertion that immigrants don't show up to their court hearings, an idea the White House views as a "loophole." Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen said during a Congressional testimony late last year that asylum seekers "more than not" fail to appear for their hearings. And in January, President Trump said only two percent of asylum seekers make their court dates. Fact: The vast majority of illegal drugs — like heroin, cocaine and fentanyl — entered the country through legal entry points, known officially as ports of entry. Source: The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration Only a "small percentage" of the heroin seized by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents was found "along the land border between Ports of Entry," according to the 2018 National Drug Threat Assessment report, published by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in October. As for cocaine, the DEA said it was "uncommon to see very large shipments of cocaine headed toward to U.S.-Mexico border," and that instead the drug is transported on boats and "amongst legitimate cargo of commercial trucks or within secret compartments build within passenger vehicles." The DEA added that "traffickers are also increasingly targeting seaports along the East Coast." Fentanyl enters the country from China via mail and by way of the southern border, according to the DEA. Though it noted that "most [Customs and Border Patrol] fentanyl seizures occur at [ports of entry] in Southern California." U.S Customs and Border Protection officials announced the agency's biggest fentanyl bust ever late last month. On a tractor trailer legally crossing the border in Arizona, the agency captured 254 pounds of the synthetic opioid, according to the Associated Press. Fact: Studies say that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit violent crimes than American-born citizens. Source: The Cato Institute and The University of Wisconsin According to a June 2018 research report from the Cato Institute, "illegal immigrants are 47 percent less likely to be incarcerated by natives" and "legal immigrants are 78 percent less likely to be incarcerated than natives." Undocumented immigrants are also less likely to commit serious criminal offenses, according to research conducted by Cato. Using government-supplied data from the Texas Department of Safety, the libertarian think tank concluded that in Texas the murder arrest rate for native-born Americans was "about 46 percent higher than the illegal immigrant homicide rate," according to a June 2018 research note. Another study, performed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin, found that "increased concentrations of undocumented immigrants are associated with statistically significant decreases in violent crime." Fact: Undocumented immigrated are ineligible for government welfare benefits and legal immigrants only qualify for federal benefits once they've resided in the U.S. for five years. Source: National Immigration Law Center Undocumented immigrants are barred from most public benefits, like food stamps, regular Medicaid and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), according to the National Immigration Law Center. However, some exceptions are granted in order to "protect life or guarantee safety in dire situations," the National Immigration Forum wrote in August 2018. Legal immigrants — including green card holders, people granted asylum and refugees — qualify for federal benefits, but only after they have resided in the U.S. as a legal resident for five years, according to the NILC.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-on-immigration-topics-likely-2019-state-of-the-union-fact-check/
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2019-02-05 01:29:41+00:00
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cbsnews--2019-02-20--Shutdown canceled up to 95000 immigration hearings
| 2019-02-20T00:00:00 |
cbsnews
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Shutdown canceled up to 95,000 immigration hearings
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Between 80,051 and 94,115 immigration hearings were canceled during the five-week government shutdown, according to a new report. Those cases will be added to the system's record-high backlog, which as of Feb. 1 was reported to be 829,608. Immigration experts warn that's only the beginning. Relatively few new immigrations cases were recorded during the government shutdown, according to Tuesday's report from Syracuse University's TRAC. It added that "until new filings are recorded, any new [Department of Homeland Security] actions seeking removal orders aren't reflected in this backlog count." According to the report, in 2018, between 20,000 and 25,000 new immigration cases were filed every month. But during the shutdown in January, that figure dropped to just under 5,600. In other words, the immigration court backlog will be much higher once court officials are caught up. "Unless there was a dramatic drop in arrests and removal actions initiated by immigration authorities during the shutdown period, there appear to be a sizable number of new filings yet to be recorded and reflected in the court's workload," according to the report. The Department of Justice, which oversees the immigration court system, disputes TRAC's estimate of cancellations during the shutdown. An official at the agency told CBS News "our best estimate is that approximately 60,000 hearings were rescheduled because of the partial government shutdown." Courts around the country are still catching up on the work they missed during the government shutdown. Hundreds of thousands of documents didn't get filed during the closure, leaving a mountain of work for court administrators to wade through. Even though the government reopened over three weeks ago, the Newark immigration court still hasn't caught up on filings, according to Alan Pollack, a Newark-based immigration attorney, who said that, "hundreds more cases have been rescheduled because the government did not have the time and resources to prepare." In Los Angeles, the court had to authorize overtime pay for clerks who, as of Tuesday, were still wading through mail-in filings, said Ashley Tabaddor, the president of the National Association of Immigration Judges and a Los Angeles-based immigration judge herself. "The administration failed to realize what a huge mess the shutdown was going to be for us," Tabaddor said in a telephone interview with CBS News on Tuesday. "They basically threw us into the water and said, 'sink or swim.'" The vast majority of immigration cases have not yet been rescheduled, immigration attorneys told CBS News. None of Pollack's 12 cases that were canceled due to the shutdown have been put back on the calendar. Because of the backlog, he doesn't expect those cases to be rescheduled until 2020. "The shutdown put a strain on an already overloaded system," Pollack said.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-law-government-shutdown-pushes-case-backlog-up-2019-02-19/
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2019-02-20 01:10:29+00:00
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coloradopeakpolitics--2019-07-01--BENNET Taxpayers Should Cover Health Insurance for Illegal Immigrants
| 2019-07-01T00:00:00 |
coloradopeakpolitics
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BENNET: Taxpayers Should Cover Health Insurance for Illegal Immigrants
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Now that everyone has affordable or free insurance, it’s time Americans start paying even more taxes to buy coverage for the 11 million illegal immigrants in this country. That must be the reasoning behind half of the Democratic candidates running for president declaring their agreement for the proposal during last week’s debate. Keep in mind, PeakNation, Colorado’s own U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet as well as former Gov. John Hickenlooper were two of those candidates waving their hands in the air for support when asked the question by moderators. Why else would they agree to it, unless they thought the insurance Coloradans and the rest of the nation have is satisfactory, and apparently cheap enough for us to pay even more. Keep in mind, we’re already paying health care costs of America’s poor out of our own pockets, while we can’t even afford our own health insurance with outrageously high deductibles. And now, Bennet and Hick want us to literally cough up even more money to buy this lousy insurance for people who overstayed their visas or overran the border? Remember this, PeakNation, when Bennet drops out of the presidential race and runs for reelection for his Colorado Senate seat in 2022. If Hick was planning to run against U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner when he drops out as well, this pledge will haunt him until the end of days.
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ColoradoPeakPolitics
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https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2019/07/01/bennet-taxpayers-should-cover-health-insurance-for-illegal-immigrants/
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2019-07-01 13:20:27+00:00
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conservativehome--2019-11-17--WATCH: Labour on Immigration 1) Ashworth won’t say if they want numbers up or down
| 2019-11-17T00:00:00 |
conservativehome
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WATCH: Labour on Immigration 1) Ashworth won’t say if they want numbers up or down
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Labour’s @JonAshworth refuses to say whether the party wants immigration to go up or down. He says Labour wants a “balanced, fair approach” and will not set an “arbitrary target” like the Conservatives. #GE2019
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Conservative Home
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https://www.conservativehome.com/video/2019/11/watch-labour-on-immigration-1-ashworth-wont-say-if-they-want-numbers-up-or-down.html
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Sun, 17 Nov 2019 10:00:02 +0000
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fusion--2019-02-13--America First The Legacy of an Immigration Raid
| 2019-02-13T00:00:00 |
fusion
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America First: The Legacy of an Immigration Raid
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It’s been a decade since Postville, a small town in Iowa, suffered the largest immigration raid at a worksite in U.S. history: 389 immigrants were arrested in the biggest kosher meatpacking plant in the country.
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Fusion
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https://fusion.tv/video/591981/america-first-the-legacy-of-an-immigration-raid/
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2019-02-13 18:00:53+00:00
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msnbc--2019-08-12--Meat processing plant to hold job fair after hundreds arrested in Mississippi immigration raid
| 2019-08-12T00:00:00 |
msnbc
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Meat processing plant to hold job fair after hundreds arrested in Mississippi immigration raid
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Hundreds of people are in custody after ICE raids targeting undocumented immigrants. Now the head of the Department of Homeland Security says, 'The timing was unfortunate', after a massacre in El Paso, Texas, targeting Mexicans.Aug. 12, 2019
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http://www.msnbc.com/kasie-dc/watch/meat-processing-plant-to-hold-job-fair-after-hundreds-arrested-in-mississippi-immigration-raid-65896005692
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2019-08-12 01:56:50+00:00
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npr--2019-04-03--ICE Raids Texas Technology Company Arrests 280 On Immigration Violations
| 2019-04-03T00:00:00 |
npr
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ICE Raids Texas Technology Company, Arrests 280 On Immigration Violations
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 280 employees at a technology repair company in Collin County, Texas, on charges of working in the United States illegally. It's the largest work site raid in the country in more than a decade, according to a Homeland Security Investigations official. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations division received tips that the company — CVE Technology Group — may have knowingly hired undocumented immigrants and that several workers were using fraudulent identification documents, said Katrina Berger, special agent in charge in HSI's Dallas office. Hiring irregularities found during an audit of the company's I-9 forms confirmed those tips. CVE hasn't responded to media requests for comment. Federal hiring laws require that employers have new hires fill out I-9 forms. The laws perform "necessary and common sense functions," Berger said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon. "They ensure U.S. citizens and legal U.S. residents are hired for jobs in the U.S.," Berger said. "They also ensure that illegal workers are not preyed upon or paid less than the going wage or otherwise coerced or cheated or subjected to unsafe working conditions without any means of complaint." Businesses that knowingly hire undocumented workers "create an atmosphere poised for exploiting an illegal workforce," Berger said. CVE employee Yessenia Ponce was inside the building in Allen, Texas, when agents arrived. "Man, it was crazy," she said. "We were working like a normal day. ... We just heard screaming, you know, people screaming and stuff. We went out and an officer just said 'follow my voice, follow my voice.' " In the past year, North Texas has been the site of the two largest single-site workplace raids in the U.S. in the past decade. Prior to Wednesday's raid in Allen, 159 undocumented workers were arrested in the small northeast Texas town of Sumner at a trailer manufacturer. The largest workplace raid to ever take place in the U.S. was in Postville, Iowa, in May of 2008, where almost 400 undocumented workers were arrested. What's next for the arrested employees The workers arrested on Wednesday will first be interviewed by ICE, which will make note of "humanitarian situations" such as medical needs or whether a worker is the sole caretaker of another person such as a child. Based on those interviews, ICE will decide who remains in immediate custody and who can be considered for temporary humanitarian release. Either way, ICE said in a statement that "in all cases, all illegal aliens encountered will be fingerprinted and processed for removal from the United States." Families wait outside during the raid Late Wednesday morning, workers inside the repair plant began texting and calling family members, who arrived and waited outside the building for information. One got a text from his wife, who asked him to call an attorney. Maria Soria waited in tears outside the repair plant. Her mother, Socorro Lechuga, 46, is an employee there and was eventually released by ICE agents. Soria, 24, said her mother already had a petition for legalization in place before the raid. Lechuga is originally from Guerrero, Mexico. Around 10 a.m., Soria received a voicemail from her mother saying that ICE agents had arrived at the company and that she didn't know what was going to happen. "I was worried at first, because you hear 'ICE' and everything goes downhill," Soria said. "I got myself together," she said, and left work at a health care insurance company to drive to Allen. She called her mother's lawyer, who told her not to worry because, he said, "they'll either release her or set a bond to be released within 48 hours" and that "they can't do anything to her, pretty much, because she does have a petition in place." "So that gave me peace of mind, that at least I know my mom will be OK," Soria said. "As for anyone else here, I really don't know their status or their situation, so that's a whole different story." Mathew Varughese, who says he repairs cellphones at CVE, described the scene inside the company. Agents arrived about 10 a.m. Wednesday, he said, and some employees began running. Agents instructed workers to group together by legal status. Employees who work at the company with legal immigration papers were given green wristbands to wear. By then, the reactions from employees were mixed — "Standing, no talking. Ladies crying," Varughese said. He estimates that 60 percent of CVE Technology employees are women. One woman was in the building applying for a job when ICE agents arrived. She says there were hundreds of people inside. Buses, at least one of which said LaSalle Corrections Transport on the side, left CVE a few hours after the raid began, presumably with workers inside. Some demonstrators yelled toward one of the buses, "We see you; we love you." According to the Allen Economic Development Corp. website, CVE has 2,100 employees, making it the third-largest employer in the city. CVE already had an office in Plano when it moved its headquarters from New Jersey to Allen in 2014. The company was founded by Howard Cho in 1986 and is now headed by his son Edward Cho. In 2014, Samsung accounted for 75 percent of the company's business, but CVE planned to reduce that significantly as it expanded, according to North Jersey Media Group. The company was honored in 2017 by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Minority Business Development Agency with a national award. KERA has reached out to CVE Technology for comment.
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Stella M. Chavez
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https://www.npr.org/2019/04/03/709680162/ice-raids-texas-technology-company-arrests-280-on-immigration-violations?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
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2019-04-03 23:56:16+00:00
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npr--2019-08-08--Mississippi Immigration Raids Lead To Arrests Of Hundreds Of Workers
| 2019-08-08T00:00:00 |
npr
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Mississippi Immigration Raids Lead To Arrests Of Hundreds Of Workers
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Mississippi Immigration Raids Lead To Arrests Of Hundreds Of Workers Federal immigration officials raided several food-processing plants in Mississippi on Wednesday and arrested approximately 680 people believed to be working in the U.S. without authorization. The coordinated raids were conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations "at seven agricultural processing plants across Mississippi," according to an ICE statement. In addition to the arrests, agents seized company business records. More than 600 ICE agents were involved in the raids, surrounding the perimeters of the targeted plants to prevent workers, mainly Latino immigrants, from escaping. The actions were centered on plants near Jackson owned by five companies, according to The Associated Press. One of the plants is owned by Koch Foods Inc., which bills itself as one of the largest poultry processors in the U.S. with more than 13,000 employees. Forbes ranks it as the 135th largest privately held company in the country, with an estimated $3.2 billion in annual revenue, according to Fortune. Another plant raided Wednesday is in Canton, Miss., and is owned by Peco Foods Inc., based in Tuscaloosa, Ala. It is the eighth-largest poultry producer in the U.S., according to the company's website. No representatives for either company responded to an email request or telephone call for comment. The arrested workers were bused to a local Mississippi National Guard hangar, where they were interviewed about their immigration status, including whether they already had deportation orders. "Today's raids are part of the ongoing war against immigrant families and the communities in which they live," Julia Solórzano, an attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center, said in an emailed statement. "It is especially sickening that days after immigrants were targeted by a gunman in El Paso, Texas, workers at plants across Mississippi witnessed armed agents descending on their workplace. "It's also worth noting that immigration agencies that have repeatedly blamed 'over capacity' detention facilities for the horrific treatment of those imprisoned nevertheless detained more than 600 people today," she said. The size of the raid operation harks back to 2008 when, under the George W. Bush administration, more than 400 unauthorized workers were arrested in a meatpacking facility in Iowa.
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Richard Gonzales
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https://www.npr.org/2019/08/07/749243985/mississippi-immigration-raids-net-hundreds-of-workers?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
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2019-08-08 01:25:24+00:00
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slate--2019-08-08--ICE Releases 300 People Detained in Major Mississippi Immigration Raid
| 2019-08-08T00:00:00 |
slate
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ICE Releases 300 People Detained in Major Mississippi Immigration Raid
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A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that it had released nearly half of the 680 people detained in Wednesday’s massive raid of seven food processing plants in Mississippi. ICE said that 300 people captured in what it called the largest ever raid in a single state had been released that same day, according to a press release issued Thursday. Thirty of those released were let go on “humanitarian grounds,” according to the press release issued by ICE and Mike Hurst, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi. That appears to include single parents or one of a set of parents if both were captured in the raid. “Based on these procedures, it is believed that all children were with at least one of their parents as of last night,” the release stated. Bryan Cox, the ICE spokesman, said all people detained Wednesday were asked if they had children, and those who did were allowed to make calls to ensure their children were picked up from school or otherwise placed in appropriate care for the day. But according to reports from families and friends of those detained, many children said goodbye to their parents without knowing when they would see them again. Some children without any other family were left without places to go after school. In some cases, neighbors and other community members took children to volunteer-run makeshift shelters. And according to the Mississippi Clarion Ledger, the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services was not alerted to the raids ahead of time and struggled to locate the children and determine their needs. The remaining 270 people who were released were returned to their workplaces after being processed by Homeland Security. According to the Associated Press, ICE officials had said earlier Wednesday they would release pregnant women or those who had not already faced immigration proceedings.
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Molly Olmstead
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/mississippi-ice-raid-immigration-release.html?via=rss
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2019-08-08 22:27:44+00:00
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theblaze--2019-03-19--Sacramento Immigration Coalition releases comic book teaching children to know their rights during I
| 2019-03-19T00:00:00 |
theblaze
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Sacramento Immigration Coalition releases comic book teaching children to know their rights during ICE raids
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Sacramento Immigration Coalition releases comic book teaching children to know their rights during ICE raids
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Sarah Taylor
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https://www.theblaze.com/news/comic-book-helps-illegal-immigrants-avoid-detention
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2019-03-19 15:08:42+00:00
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theblaze--2019-04-04--ICE arrests hundreds of illegal immigrant workers in massive raid of north Texas company
| 2019-04-04T00:00:00 |
theblaze
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ICE arrests hundreds of illegal immigrant workers in massive raid of north Texas company
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ICE arrests hundreds of illegal immigrant workers in massive raid of north Texas company
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Aaron Colen
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https://www.theblaze.com/news/ice-arrests-hundreds-of-illegal-immigrant-workers-in-massive-raid-of-north-texas-company
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2019-04-04 02:21:42+00:00
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theblaze--2019-08-09--ICE grants humanitarian releases to nearly half of illegal immigrants arrested in Mississippi raid
| 2019-08-09T00:00:00 |
theblaze
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ICE grants 'humanitarian' releases to nearly half of illegal immigrants arrested in Mississippi raid
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ICE grants 'humanitarian' releases to nearly half of illegal immigrants arrested in Mississippi raid They believe no child is without at least one parent
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Aaron Colen
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https://www.theblaze.com/news/ice-grants-humanitarian-releases-to-nearly-half-of-immigrants-arrested-in-mississippi-raid
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2019-08-09 15:46:59+00:00
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theblaze--2019-11-08--Stolen identities of 400 Americans used by illegal immigrants arrested in Mississippi ICE raids
| 2019-11-08T00:00:00 |
theblaze
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Stolen identities of 400 Americans used by illegal immigrants arrested in Mississippi ICE raids
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Stolen identities of 400 Americans used by illegal immigrants arrested in Mississippi ICE raids
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Breck Dumas
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https://www.theblaze.com/news/identities-of-400-americans-stolen-and-used-by-illegal-immigrants-arrested-in-mississippi-ice-raids
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Fri, 08 Nov 2019 23:52:05 +0000
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thetorontostar--2019-08-08--The Latest Mississippi immigration raids net 680 arrests
| 2019-08-08T00:00:00 |
thetorontostar
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The Latest: Mississippi immigration raids net 680 arrests
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MORTON, Miss. - The Latest on immigration raids at Mississippi food processing plants (all times local): U.S. immigration officials say raids at seven food processing plants in Mississippi resulted in 680 arrests. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Matthew Albence told The Associated Press that the arrest count from Wednesday’s raids may make it the largest workplace sting in more than a decade and probably the largest ever for a single state. Authorities say about 600 agents fanned out across the plants, surrounding the perimeters to prevent workers from fleeing. They targeted several companies. The raids happened in small towns near Jackson with a workforce made up largely of Latino immigrants. The towns hit include Bay Springs, Carthage, Canton, Morton, Pelahatchie and Sebastapol. U.S. immigration officials have launched raids at several Mississippi food processing plants. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said Wednesday that search warrants were executed at seven locations across the state targeting several companies. They include the Morton plant of poultry producer Koch Foods Inc., which has no relation to Charles and David Koch. The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because details of the operation were not intended for publication. The official says owners as well as employees are targeted in a federal criminal investigation. The AP witnessed dozens of agents ready to process the workers inside a military facility in Flowood, Miss., with seven lines, one for each location. Get more of the Star in your inbox Never miss the latest news from the Star. Sign up for our newsletters to get today's top stories, your favourite columnists and lots more in your inbox Sign Up Now
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The Associated Press
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https://www.thestar.com/news/world/us/2019/08/07/the-latest-mississippi-immigration-raids-net-680-arrests.html
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2019-08-08 05:02:33+00:00
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thetorontostar--2019-08-09--Immigration raids to have long-term effects on poultry towns
| 2019-08-09T00:00:00 |
thetorontostar
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Immigration raids to have long-term effects on poultry towns
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MORTON, Miss. - Effects of the largest immigration raid in at least a decade are likely to ripple for years through six Mississippi small towns that host poultry plants. A store owner who caters to Latino poultry plant workers fears he will have to close. A school superintendent is trying to rebuild trust with the Spanish-speaking community. And the CEO of a local bank says the effects are likely to touch every business in her town. More than 100 civil rights activists, union organizers and clergy members in Mississippi denounced the raid, but the state’s Republican Gov. Phil Bryant commended federal immigration authorities for the arrests, tweeting that anyone in the country illegally has to “bear the responsibility of that federal violation.” Officials said 680 people were initially detained during Wednesday’s operation. U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement sent more than 300 of those people home by dawn Thursday, with notices to appear before immigration judges, said ICE spokesman Bryan Cox. In the coming months, as those people await hearings, they’re unlikely to be able to work, and local churches are gathering food and money to provide aid. Juan Garcia and his wife own Hondumex, a grocery store and restaurant catering to Latinos in downtown Morton, a small town of roughly 3,000 people about 40 miles (65 kilometres) east of the capital of Jackson. Sales have been terrible since the raid, Garcia said Thursday, surrounded by plantains, pastries and specially butchered meat. Garcia said even those who have been released will have trouble before they go to court. “All the workers, the people that have been taken, they’re not going to be able to spend money,” Garcia said. “They’re not going to be able to work in the plant.” Garcia said many workers at the two raided poultry plants — Koch Foods and PH Foods — have bought houses. He questions whether they will be able to keep up their mortgage payments. Garcia said he and his wife also own a restaurant in nearby Philadelphia, Mississippi, and he may close the Morton store. “I was thinking about shutting down my business,” Garcia said. “I don’t think we’re going to be able to stay here.” Martha Rogers, the chairman and CEO of the Bank of Morton, also expressed concern for the local economy. Rogers said many Spanish-speaking residents have become customers of the bank. “Every business in town will be affected,” said Rogers, whose family has owned a controlling interest in the small bank since the 1950s. Scott County Superintendent Tony McGee said more than 150 students were absent Thursday from the 4,100-student district, including a number of students in Morton, where the enrolment is about 30% Latino. Parents are saying they’re afraid for their children to come back to class, McGee said. School officials have been making phone calls and visiting homes to try to coax the parents to let the students return. “We’re just trying to reassure them that if those kids come to school, we’re going to do everything possible to make sure they come back to you,” McGee said. “We want those children at school.” McGee said some longtime teachers told him that Wednesday “was by far the worst day they have ever spent as educators.” ICE didn’t have much space to detain workers, even overnight, because the number of people in custody is hovering near all-time highs. The agency has been housing thousands more than its budgeted capacity of 45,274 people, largely because of an unprecedented surge of Central American families arriving at the Mexican border. Those released included 18 juveniles, with the youngest being 14 years old, said Jere Miles, special agent in charge of ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations unit in New Orleans. Workers were assessed before they were released, including for whether they had any young children at home. The companies involved could be charged with knowingly hiring workers who are in the county illegally and will be scrutinized for tax, document and wage fraud, said Matthew Albence, ICE’s acting director. Koch Foods, one of the country’s largest poultry producers based in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, said in a statement Thursday that it follows strict procedures to make sure full-time employees are eligible to work in the country. Gabriela Rosales, a six-year resident of Morton who knows some of those detained, said she understands that “there’s a process and a law” for those living in the country illegally. “But the thing that they (ICE) did is devastating,” she said. “It was very devastating to see all those kids crying, having seen their parents for the last time.” The Rev. Mike O’Brien, pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church in Canton, said he waited outside the Peco Foods plant in the city until 4 a.m. Thursday for workers returning by bus. O’Brien said he visited parishioners whose relatives had been arrested. He said he also drove home someone who had hidden from authorities inside the plant. “The people are all afraid,” he said. “Their doors are locked, and they won’t answer their doors.” Children whose parents were detained were being cared for by other family members and friends, O’Brien said. “They’re circling the wagons that way and taking care of each other,” he said. Associated Press Elliot Spagat in San Diego and Emily Wagster Pettus in Jackson, Mississippi, contributed to this report.
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Jeff Amy And Rogelio V. Solis - The Associated Press
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https://www.thestar.com/news/world/us/2019/08/08/immigrant-community-rallies-around-families-of-detained.html
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2019-08-09 05:06:18+00:00
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thinkprogress--2019-08-09--Immigrants detained during mass ICE raids could be held in abusive Louisiana facility
| 2019-08-09T00:00:00 |
thinkprogress
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Immigrants detained during mass ICE raids could be held in abusive Louisiana facility
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Of the over 600 undocumented immigrants who were arrested in mass workplace raids across Mississippi this week, approximately 400 could be detained at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities in Louisiana, BuzzFeed News reported. One of the facilities where a number of the immigrants reportedly will be detained is the ICE Processing Center in Pine Prairie where the outlet reported earlier this month that 100 immigrants were pepper-sprayed following a peaceful demonstration in the facility’s courtyard. ICE officials did not immediately respond to requests for confirmation of the plans. In a statement to BuzzFeed News this week, Bryan Cox, an ICE spokesman, described the pepper spray incident as “brief” and “calculated.” The incident occurred just one day after 30 immigrants were pepper-sprayed at an ICE facility in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, to “deescalate” a “small disturbance around lunchtime.” According to lawyers for several migrants at the facilities, however, the conditions in the detention centers are far worse than has been reported: The total number of immigrants pepper-sprayed at the Pine Prairie facility was in fact over 100, a legal representative with the Southern Poverty Law Center told The Independent. And a prior NBC News report revealed officers had allegedly detained at least one transgender migrant in isolation for four months, “because of the way [she] looked.” The SPLC reported in April that, in addition to arbitrary solitary confinement, migrants at Pine Prairie were allegedly being held in “deplorable” conditions. Among other things, detainees were forced to consume “barely edible food,” and were kept in “foul” smelling, moldy rooms. Some have been held in the barbed-wire-encircled processing facility for months. At the Bossier Parish facility, things are no better, migrants say. “There are lots of cops who came from another prison, they beat up the Cubans, they pepper spray them and handcuff them,” one man told attorney Lara Nochomovitz — who represents detained immigrants at the facility — in a text message obtained by Mother Jones earlier this month. “There’s even an ambulance here. Help us please this is ugly,” he added. Both incidents seem to have stemmed from hunger strikes by migrants at the facilities, Mother Jones reported. Currently, there are multiple active hunger strikes across the county in a number of ICE detention facilities, signaling to watchdogs that conditions in ICE facilities are worsening. Louisiana is becoming ground zero for the expansion of U.S. immigration detention. ICE is continuing to spend money that has not been allocated to them in order to open up more detention facilities there. This year alone, three for-profit detention facilities began operating in Louisiana. Those facilities have the capacity to hold about 4,000 people, expanding ICE’s presence in the Deep South by 50%. This story has been updated with new details and sourcing.
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Rebekah Entralg
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https://thinkprogress.org/hundreds-of-immigrants-arrested-in-mississippi-ice-raid-could-be-detained-at-an-abusive-facility-f52f32e4c692/
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2019-08-09 17:13:23+00:00
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truepundit--2019-11-10--Stolen identities of 400 Americans used by illegal immigrants arrested in Mississippi ICE raids
| 2019-11-10T00:00:00 |
truepundit
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Stolen identities of 400 Americans used by illegal immigrants arrested in Mississippi ICE raids
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Department of Homeland Security investigators discovered that the identities of 400 American citizens were stolen and used by illegal immigrants who were arrested this summer during immigration raids on Mississippi poultry plants, an official disclosed Thursday. In August, 680 “removable aliens” working in Mississippi processing plants were arrested in a sting operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in what one official said could be “the largest single-state immigration enforcement operation in our nation’s history.” Days later, nearly half of the individuals detained were released on humanitarian grounds, amid criticism that the arrests had left children without a parent to care for them. CBS reported that the Homeland Security special agent in charge of the operations, Jere Miles, was grilled by the lawmakers, who criticized him for allegedly not giving local stakeholders a heads up and for separating children from their parents as part of the law enforcement initiative. According to The Washington Times, Miles pushed back against lawmakers’ claims that the arrested workers did no harm, telling the panel, “They stole the IDs of 400 U.S. citizens. Where’s their voice?” – READ MORE
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admin
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https://truepundit.com/stolen-identities-of-400-americans-used-by-illegal-immigrants-arrested-in-mississippi-ice-raids/
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Sun, 10 Nov 2019 12:30:57 +0000
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usatoday--2019-08-10--ICE used ankle monitors informants to plan immigration raids where 680 people were arrested
| 2019-08-10T00:00:00 |
usatoday
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ICE used ankle monitors, informants to plan immigration raids where 680 people were arrested
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Over more than a decade, hundreds of undocumented workers across the country told federal officials they worked at food processing plants in Mississippi. In some instances, immigrants were released from detention and outfitted with ankle monitors while awaiting deportation proceedings. Authorities tracking their GPS coordinates were able to see they were coming and going from Mississippi food processing plants. On Wednesday, hundreds of immigration officials descended on seven Mississippi plants owned by four companies — Peco Foods, Koch Foods, PH Food and Pearl River Foods. They are suspected of "willfully and unlawfully employing" undocumented workers, recently unsealed search warrants say. Workers reported hearing the roar of helicopters and seeing agents round up mostly Latino workers for questioning. Many wept as they waved goodbye to their family and friends being carted away on buses for processing. It was the largest immigration sting of its kind in more than a decade. A total of 680 people were arrested. Of those, about 300 were released the same day, officials said. Those who remain in detention are being held in a ICE facility in Louisiana. 'They're going to lose everything': Families are devastated after Mississippi ICE raids As for the companies, no fines or arrests have taken place, though federal officials say investigations into the companies are ongoing. Unsealed court records provide the first look into how federal authorities planned what officials have described as the largest single-state workplace enforcement action in the country, ever. ICE filed for search warrants Monday at the seven plants. The records had been sealed until U.S. Magistrate Judge Linda Anderson approved a motion Thursday to open them. Affidavits by ICE Special Agent Anthony Williams Jr. revealed that, for years, temporarily detained undocumented workers — from as far as El Paso, Texas, and Yuma, Arizona — had employment cards from plants in Mississippi. He also said electronic ankle monitoring, surveillance and a confidential informant played a part in where raids would be targeted. In an affidavit about Peco Foods, Williams notes that historical data dating back 17 years, from Nov. 18, 2002, to June 13, 2019, showed that approximately 222 undocumented workers processed by federal officials indicated they worked at Peco Foods and presented agents with Peco Foods personnel identification cards with their photographs and assumed identities. Similarly for Koch Foods, between Sept. 10, 2002 to April 13, 2019, about 144 undocumented workers told authorities during processing that they worked at Koch Foods in Morton, Mississippi or Forest, Mississippi an affidavit said. At Pearl River Foods in Carthage, agents analyzed employee rolls and found that numerous workers were using stolen identities, Social Security cards that didn't match their names, or using Social Security cards reported to belong to dead people. Immigration official: Those arrested in Mississippi shouldn't have been hired by company In at least two cases at Pearl River Foods, the allegedly stolen personal information came from people who discovered that someone else had applied for work under their names when they tried to apply for food assistance or unemployment benefits. For PH Food in Morton, an employee served as a confidential informant. He told authorities the vast majority of the immigrants employed at the plant are undocumented and using fake biographical information. He also gave investigators information about the inner workings of the plant and identified people he believed to be undocumented workers. Williams' affidavits, making a case for why a judge should approve the raids, detailed dozens of cases that linked known undocumented immigrants to the plants that were raided on Wednesday. The following are just a few cases that illustrate the different ways law enforcement was able to trace undocumented workers to Mississippi plants. ► On June 15, 2018, Magdalena Alonzo-Martin of Guatemala was detained near the San Luis, Arizona, port of entry. She didn't have legal documents to work or live in the U.S. Later Alonzo Martin provided ICE with an address in Forest and was was outfitted with an ankle monitor. Alonzo-Martin told officials she was employed with Koch Foods. GPS coordinates show that she worked at the Koch Foods plant in Morton for eight to 10 hours a day on a regular basis. ► On May, 27, 2014, Camelina Cash-Ramirez of Guatemala had an encounter with agents near San Miguel, Arizona. She had unlawfully entered the U.S. and did not have legal documentation to live or work in the country. She provided ICE with a Morton address. GPS monitoring showed she visited the PH Food processing plant multiple times a week, staying for six to eight hours at a time. ► On May 6, agents interviewed Ana Alonzo-Alonzo in Jackson, Mississippi. She provided the agents with information on her employment at Peco Foods. She said she entered the U.S. illegally in 2015 and had been working at Peco for five months. She told agents she was working under the assumed identity of Isabel Perez and was on the night shift. Her unit is responsible for processing chicken tenders. The Mississippi Department of Employment Security Employer’s Quarterly Wage Report showed the Social Security number for Isabel Perez was paid a total of $6,710.96 by Peco Foods in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to court documents. She told agents she bought the assumed identity from a man at a laundromat in Forest and paid $200 for a counterfeit identification card and a Social Security card. ► On Feb. 13, 2019, immigration officials executed an arrest and search warrant in Carthage, Mississippi for Silvia Custodio-Morales, who was an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. They found a Tennessee ID card and Social Security card in the name of another woman. The fake ID card had Custodio-Morales' face on it. Custodio-Morales told agents she was currently employed at Pearl River Foods and had worked there for about three weeks under the other woman's name. She said there were numerous undocumented workers at plant, including a shift supervisor. Southern District U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst wouldn't provide many details of the ongoing investigation or what companies might face if they were knowingly hiring undocumented workers. Federal law says the maximum penalty for intentionally hiring a undocumented workers is six months in jail and/or a $3,000 fine for each undocumented worker. “I would direct you to the history of this office and our prosecutions in the past of business owners who hire illegal workers,” Hurst said, noting that in his years as an assistant U.S. attorney, he personally prosecuted numerous such cases. “I can tell you that when I was assistant U.S. attorney, I raided the Country Club of Jackson,” Hurst said. “At a press conference, the U.S. attorney at the time said this was the first action against an employer for immigration violations in our district’s history." Hurst said there were a number of other employers he dealt with, including Love Irrigation, China Buffet "and the big one was Howard Industries.” “We will follow the evidence where it leads, and if there is evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, we will prosecute the case,” Hurst said. Hurst said the unsealed affidavits from the federal raid warrants “speak for themselves,” and he would not elaborate on the cases at this point. In an emailed statement sent Wednesday, Peco Foods said the company adheres "strongly to all local, state and federal laws, including utilizing the government-based E-Verify program which screens new hires through the Social Security Administration as well as the Department of Homeland Security." Koch Foods said in a statement Thursday that it screens employees through E-Verify. Jim Gilliland, company spokesman, also said the company relies on temporary workers vetted through a third-party service. A man at PH Food, who identified himself as Jun Lian, receiving and shipping manager, told the Clarion Ledger the company uses a different company to recruit workers. A message left with a representative at Pearl River Foods was not immediately returned.
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Jimmie E. Gates and Alissa Zhu, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
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http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~/605470574/0/usatodaycomwashington-topstories~ICE-used-ankle-monitors-informants-to-plan-immigration-raids-where-people-were-arrested/
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2019-08-10 19:16:33+00:00
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cnsnews--2019-01-31--Pelosi on Border Deal There Will be Sizable Funding for Food Clothing Medical Care for Immigrant
| 2019-01-31T00:00:00 |
cnsnews
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Pelosi on Border Deal: 'There Will be Sizable Funding for Food, Clothing, Medical Care for Immigrants'
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(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that congressional conferees working on a border security deal agree that there should be “sizable funding for food, clothing, medical care for immigrants,” as well as funding for more judges to adjudicate immigration cases, and sending taxpayer money to countries in the northern triangle to “alleviate” the conditions there that made them flee. “We’re hoping that we can find common ground as soon as possible so that we can not only meet our responsibility to protect our border, to treat people coming here with dignity and respect but also to keep government open. Some of the things that we have in there I think will be very acceptable, goes on both sides of the ledger,” she said in a speech to the annual president’s conference of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. “We both care, all of us on either side of the wall question -- but all care about treating the people who come, so there will be sizable funding for food, clothing, medical care for immigrants coming across the border so we don’t have people dying in our custody - children. There’ll be sizable funding for additional judges to more quickly adjudicate these cases so that it doesn’t become, well, they’re here such a long time. Well, it’s because we have such a backlog too, so we’ll have that,” she said. “There’ll be funding to send money to the countries where most of these people are coming from - the northern triangle - to try to alleviate some of the conditions that have exacerbated the situation there, to mitigate for the horror that some of them face,” Pelosi said. She said if they can solve some of the problems illegal immigrants are having at home, “then people can stay home.” “They come here, because they have no choice. It’s just a matter of life or death or danger for their families,” Pelosi said. She added that “there are other areas where we can find common ground, but those three are very personal in terms of the adjudication of the case, the care and feeding of them coming, and trying to help them stay at home.” Pelosi said everyone has the obligation to treat people with respect. She quoted the Bible, saying, “When people talk about and the gospel of Matthew as being an inspiration to so many of us - ‘when I was hungry, you fed me. When I was naked, you clothed me. When I was homeless, you sheltered me. When I was in prison, you visited me.’ I always want to remind them that the rest of that gospel is the converse. “ ‘When I was hungry, you didn’t feed me.’ See because at that date, God separates the people - when I was hungry, you fed me. When I was hungry, you didn’t feed me. When I was homeless, you didn’t shelter me.’ And that second part of it I think is very important for us all to remember, because the responsibility challenge is there both to respond positively, but not to respond negatively,” the speaker said. “And I can’t find it in the Bible, but I quote it all the time, and I keep reading and reading the Bible. I know it’s there some place. It’s supposed to be in Isaiah, but I heard bishop say, ‘to minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.’ It’s there somewhere in some words or another, but certainly, the spirit of it is there and that we all have a responsibility to act upon our beliefs and the dignity and worth of every person,” she added.
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Melanie Arter
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https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-arter/pelosi-conferees-agree-taxpayers-should-pay-food-clothing-medical-care
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2019-01-31 01:29:07+00:00
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politicalite--2019-11-17--BORIS BORDER FORCE: Immigrants Will Need Job Offer To Enter Britain, says PM
| 2019-11-17T00:00:00 |
politicalite
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BORIS BORDER FORCE: Immigrants Will Need Job Offer To Enter Britain, says PM
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IMMIGRANTS who try to enter Britain will need a job offer regardless of where they are from in the world, Boris Johnson has announced. The Prime Minister said that if the Tories are elected on December 12th the party will toughen up Britain’s immigration laws. “A majority Conservative government will ensure that people who come to our great country from anywhere in the world have both a job to come to, and make a contribution to our NHS – so that we can protect and improve the public services we all benefit from.” said Boris. “We will make our immigration system equal – whilst at the same time ensuring our fantastic public services, like the NHS, are all properly funded. Ms Patel said: “One of the benefits of Brexit is that we get to take back control and make our system fairer. A majority Conservative government will ensure that people who come to our great country from anywhere in the world will contribute on day one. “A Labour government would see immigration surge, placing huge strain on public services like our NHS and prisons. “(Jeremy) Corbyn would also subject the UK to the chaos of two more referendums, with no time to focus on the people’s priorities. “Only a Conservative majority can get Parliament working again and get Brexit done so that we can end freedom of movement once and for all.” Home Secretary Priti Patel said: “Immigration will finally be subject to democratic control, allowing us to get overall numbers down.” Announcing immigration plans, the party said access to benefits will be equalised between EU nationals and those from the rest of the world, meaning non-UK citizens will typically need to wait five years before they are able to claim benefits. The party pointed out that under current rules, EU migrants can access welfare and services after being in the UK for three months. A Tory government would also vow to put an end to the practice of child benefit being sent abroad to support children who do not live in the UK. The party claims these two measures could save an estimated £800 million a year by 2024-25. Another measure to be introduced by the Tories would be an increase to the immigration health surcharge from £400 to £625. The party said that under the current system, people on a work, study or family visa incur average NHS costs of £625 per year but only pay £400, and it said the change will raise more than £500 million a year. The surcharge was originally brought in by the Government in 2015 in a clampdown on so-called “health tourism”, and has previously been doubled from £200 to £400. The party said there will be an “immediate cash injection of £20 million this year” to strengthen borders and reduce illegal immigration, including new equipment to better detect illicit goods such as firearms and drugs.
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Jordan James
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https://www.politicalite.com/latest/boris-border-force-immigrants-will-need-job-offer-to-enter-britain-says-pm/
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Sun, 17 Nov 2019 06:22:16 +0000
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sottnet--2019-05-07--Border Patrol chief says officers have arrested over 30000 illegal immigrants in last 10 days
| 2019-05-07T00:00:00 |
sottnet
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Border Patrol chief says officers have arrested over 30,000 illegal immigrants in last 10 days
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A U.S. Border Patrol official said his agency has apprehended more than 30,000 illegal immigrants on the southern border in the past 10 days."This is a challenge unlike any we've ever faced before," Chief of Law Enforcement Operations Brian Hastings said Monday on "Fox & Friends.""We're up to 474,000 arrests so far this fiscal year, and just the last 10 days alone, 33,000 arrests for us," he added. "So, our facilities were not designed to handle this type of flow or more importantly, this demographic - about 63 percent being family units and UACs, or unaccompanied alien children." U.S. officials announced in March they had released 84,500 migrant family members since Dec. 21, The Arizona Republic reported . The government released 14,500 migrants into the Phoenix area, while 37,500 were set free into south Texas. Immigration officials also sent 24,000 illegal immigrants to El Paso, Texas, and 8,500 to San Diego.He also criticized current immigration law and said there must be a consequence for entering the U.S. illegally."And so with that, we have had to look at for the safety of our agents and for those that we detained, releasing process non-criminal family units, which we don't want to do.
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https://www.sott.net/article/412527-Border-Patrol-chief-says-officers-have-arrested-over-30000-illegal-immigrants-in-last-10-days
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2019-05-07 16:49:22+00:00
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theblaze--2019-02-21--Illegal immigrants needed help from Border Patrol after getting lost trying to enter US
| 2019-02-21T00:00:00 |
theblaze
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Illegal immigrants needed help from Border Patrol after getting lost trying to enter US
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Illegal immigrants needed help from Border Patrol after getting lost trying to enter US 'You can bet THEY know who the good guys are!'
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Aaron Colen
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https://www.theblaze.com/news/illegal-immigrants-needed-help-from-border-patrol-after-getting-lost-trying-to-enter-us
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2019-02-21 23:50:09+00:00
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theblaze--2019-03-20--It took just 5 minutes for Texas border agents to grab more than 400 illegal immigrants on Tuesday
| 2019-03-20T00:00:00 |
theblaze
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It took just 5 minutes for Texas border agents to grab more than 400 illegal immigrants on Tuesday
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It took just 5 minutes for Texas border agents to grab more than 400 illegal immigrants on Tuesday
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Sarah Taylor
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https://www.theblaze.com/news/texas-border-agents-grab-400-illegals-in-5-minutes
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2019-03-20 13:35:01+00:00
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theblaze--2019-04-03--Flood of illegal immigrants lack of action from Congress forces Border Patrol agents to expand cat
| 2019-04-03T00:00:00 |
theblaze
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Flood of illegal immigrants, lack of action from Congress forces Border Patrol agents to expand 'catch and release' practice
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Flood of illegal immigrants, lack of action from Congress forces Border Patrol agents to expand 'catch and release' practice 'Law enforcement doesn't have the resources to process and detain the crushing influx of migrants arriving at the border'
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Jana J. Pruet
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https://www.theblaze.com/news/flood-of-illegal-immigrants-lack-of-action-from-congress-forces-border-agents-to-impose-catch-and-release-practice
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2019-04-03 17:19:25+00:00
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theblaze--2019-04-19--Watch Armed militia detains more than 300 illegal immigrants who crossed border into New Mexico
| 2019-04-19T00:00:00 |
theblaze
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Watch: Armed militia detains more than 300 illegal immigrants who crossed border into New Mexico
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Watch: Armed militia detains more than 300 illegal immigrants who crossed border into New Mexico The United Constitutional Patriots say they are helping Border Patrol agents
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Jana J. Pruet
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https://www.theblaze.com/news/armed-militia-new-mexico-migrants
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2019-04-19 15:08:08+00:00
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theblaze--2019-06-25--Glenn Beck Number of immigrants flooding the southern border hits highest level seen in over a dec
| 2019-06-25T00:00:00 |
theblaze
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Glenn Beck: Number of immigrants flooding the southern border hits 'highest level seen in over a decade'
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Glenn Beck: Number of immigrants flooding the southern border hits 'highest level seen in over a decade'
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TheBlaze Staff
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https://www.theblaze.com/glenn-tv/record-number-immigrants
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2019-06-25 20:30:47+00:00
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theepochtimes--2019-09-23--Border Agents Find 53 Illegal Immigrants Hidden Inside 105-Degree Tractor-Trailer
| 2019-09-23T00:00:00 |
theepochtimes
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Border Agents Find 53 Illegal Immigrants Hidden Inside 105-Degree Tractor-Trailer
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A United States Border Patrol car drives near the Rio Grande in Laredo, Texas, on Jan. 14, 2019. (Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Border Patrol agents discovered 53 illegal immigrants from Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras hidden inside a tractor-trailer in Laredo, Texas, on Sept. 17. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement that all 53 illegal aliens and their driver, who is a United States citizen, were arrested and their vehicle was seized. Authorities said the temperature inside the tractor-trailer was 105 degrees when the illegal aliens were intercepted on Interstate Highway 35 north of Laredo. They were evacuated but no one needed any medical attention. “Agents encountered a tractor-trailer with only one visible occupant at the IH-35 checkpoint. During primary inspection, a service canine alerted to the odors of concealed humans and/or narcotics, inside the trailer,” said the border agency. Homeland Security is currently investigating the incident. In another case of law enforcement at the border, border patrol agents arrested two men attempting to smuggle methamphetamine in Salton City in California on Thursday. The law enforcement agency said in a statement that “agents discovered 30 sealed packages concealed behind the auxiliary tank located in the bed of the truck” when they intercepted a white Ford F-250 at a checkpoint on Highway 86 in El Centro Sector at about 2.45 a.m. A border patrol canine investigation team discovered the narcotics during a secondary investigation and alerted the agents. The packages weighed 31.53 pounds and are worth around $78,825. Both the men including the driver of the vehicle are citizens of the United States. Their vehicle and narcotics were handed over to the Drug Enforcement Administration for investigation. The CBP said that between Oct. 1, 2018 and Aug. 31, 2019, it had apprehended 818,361 illegal aliens. With the number of individuals who are seeking lawful admission into the country but are found to be inadmissible at 263,945, the total enforcement actions is at 1,082,306. The CBP has asked the public to download the “USBP Laredo Sector” app or contact the Laredo Sector Border Patrol toll-free at 1-800-343-1994 “to report suspicious activity such as alien and/or drug smuggling.”
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Venus Upadhayaya
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/border-agents-find-53-illegal-immigrants-hidden-inside-105-degree-tractor-trailer_3091960.html
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2019-09-23 15:28:49+00:00
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truepundit--2019-05-01--Border Patrol Arrests 424 Illegal Immigrants At Once In The Largest Arrest Its Ever Made
| 2019-05-01T00:00:00 |
truepundit
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Border Patrol Arrests 424 Illegal Immigrants At Once In The ‘Largest’ Arrest It’s Ever Made
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Border Patrol agents nabbed 424 illegal aliens attempting to cross the border in a single group, marking the largest apprehension in the agency’s history. In the early hours of Tuesday morning, agents encountered a large group of “what seemed to be over 400 illegal aliens” near the border town of Sunland Park, New Mexico, according to a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) press release. The group of mostly Central American families and unaccompanied minors reached the border shortly after midnight. Hours after their apprehension, Border Patrol was able to count every individual and determine the group was a record-setting size. “This is an ongoing situation that U.S Border Patrol agents are facing in southern New Mexico: hundreds of parents and children being encountered by agents after having faced a dangerous journey in the hands of unscrupulous smugglers,” CBP wrote in its press release, revealing the massive group traveled with the help of human smugglers. Border Patrol agents in New Mexico apprehended another large group of illegal migrants shortly afterward. Officials working in the Antelope Wells Port of Entry, about 160 miles west of Sunland Park, encountered 230 illegal aliens around 2 a.m., bringing New Mexico’s Tuesday morning haul to more than 600. News of the recording-setting apprehension comes as more Americans believed that the situation at the border constitutes a “crisis.” A survey conducted earlier in April found 56 percent of Republicans calling it a crisis, and 35 percent of Democrats agreeing. The results were a steady rise from January, where only 49 percent of Republicans and 7 percent of Democrats had said the same thing. The highest number of apprehensions in over a decade took place in March, and experts believe the numbers will continue to climb as the summer months approach. Fiscal year 2019 has already surpassed the previous fiscal year’s total apprehensions. “Criminal organizations continue to exploit innocent human lives in order to enhance their illicit activities without due regard to the risks of human life. In most cases these smugglers never cross the border themselves in order to avoid apprehension,” CBP continued in its statement. Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected]
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admin
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https://truepundit.com/border-patrol-arrests-424-illegal-immigrants-at-once-in-the-largest-arrest-its-ever-made/
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2019-05-01 20:27:50+00:00
| 1,556,756,870 | 1,567,541,554 |
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truepundit--2019-08-20--Border Patrol Nabs Nearly 200 Illegal Immigrants Near New Mexico
| 2019-08-20T00:00:00 |
truepundit
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Border Patrol Nabs Nearly 200 Illegal Immigrants Near New Mexico
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U.S. Border Patrol on Monday said that its agents apprehended a group of nearly 200 illegal aliens. This occurred near a base at a New Mexico port of entry over the weekend, as Fox Newsreported. The agency said 194 illegal immigrants were taken in by authorities after 3 a.m. on Sunday. The individuals were trying to cross the border near Camp Bounds Forward Operating Base, which is located near the Antelope Wells Port of Entry in New Mexico, a statement read. The group consisted mostly of families and unaccompanied minors from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Medical screenings done initially showed that some of the migrants had lice and scabies. – READ MORE
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admin
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https://truepundit.com/border-patrol-nabs-nearly-200-illegal-immigrants-near-new-mexico/
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2019-08-20 19:23:44+00:00
| 1,566,343,424 | 1,567,533,967 |
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immigration
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179,638 |
eveningstandard--2019-07-07--Boat carrying more than 20 suspected illegal immigrants detained after Channel crossing
| 2019-07-07T00:00:00 |
eveningstandard
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Boat carrying more than 20 suspected illegal immigrants detained after Channel crossing
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More than 20 suspected illegal immigrants have been detained after crossing the English Channel, the Home Office said today. The Border Force intercepted a small boat as it crossed the Channel on Saturday, while another group of suspected migrants was found in the Kingsdown area of Kent. In the first incident, 11 men on board an inflatable boat were detained by coastal patrol and Border Force agents and brought to Dover, Kent. A Home Office spokesman said: "All individuals were brought to Dover, where they were medically assessed before being transferred to immigration officials for their cases to be dealt with. Their nationalities have not yet been confirmed. "The 11 migrants are now onshore in Dover and will be transferred to Kent Intake Unit for screening." In the second incident, also on Saturday, Kent Police and Border Force officials responded to reports of a group of suspected Iranian migrants in Kingsdown. The spokesman said: "A group of 10 people, who have presented themselves as Iranian, have been medically assessed and believed to be well, before being transferred to immigration officials for interview. "Their nationalities have not yet been confirmed." He added: "Anyone crossing the Channel in a small boat is taking a huge risk with their life and the lives of their children. "Since the Home Secretary declared a major incident in December, two cutters have returned to UK waters from overseas operations, we have agreed a joint action plan with France and increased activity out of the Joint Co-ordination and Information Centre in Calais. "In June, the Home Secretary and the French interior minister, Christophe Castaner, agreed to continue to explore options to reinforce the efforts already being made to cut down on illegal immigrants attempting the crossing. "It is an established principle that those in need of protection should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach and since January more than 40 people who arrived illegally in the UK in small boats have been returned to Europe.
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Harriet Brewis
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/boat-carrying-more-than-20-suspected-illegal-immigrants-detained-after-channel-crossing-a4184161.html
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2019-07-07 12:49:34+00:00
| 1,562,518,174 | 1,567,536,554 |
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273,580 |
intellihub--2019-01-05--DHS releases more than 2000 immigrants citing lack of detention space
| 2019-01-05T00:00:00 |
intellihub
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DHS releases more than 2000 immigrants citing lack of detention space
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Border-crossers will be given ankle monitors and will be released into the general population until they appear before a judge at an immigration hearing in the near future. The Department of Homeland Security will be releasing over 2000 migrants over the course of the next few weeks after facilities became packed full with border-crossing men, women, and children who seek refuge in the United States. A DHS official confirmed to Breitbart News that the U.S. Border Patrol and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is releasing more than 2,000 family units caught at the U.S.-Mexico border, citing a lack of detention space. The border-crossing adults and the children they arrived at the border with will be released and given a court date for an immigration hearing. The adults will be given ankle monitors, though the DHS official says the process of keeping track of border-crossers via ankle monitors is not effective. According to the report at least four major border crossing locations have been inundated with migrants. Please comment below and share this post on Facebook and Twiter.
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Intellihub.com
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https://www.intellihub.com/dhs-releases-more-than-2000-immigrants-citing-lack-of-detention-space/
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2019-01-05 13:02:42+00:00
| 1,546,711,362 | 1,567,553,779 |
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theindependent--2019-12-24--More than 1,800 people spending Christmas in immigration detention centres
| 2019-12-24T00:00:00 |
theindependent
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More than 1,800 people spending Christmas in immigration detention centres
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More than 1,800 people in the UK are set to spend Christmas locked in immigration detention centres, according to government figures. The finding prompted the Liberal Democrats to brand the government “cruel and callous” and call for a 28-day limit to be introduced on keeping people in detention centres. According to the latest official statistics, there are currently 1,826 people being held in detention centres. Of these, almost two thirds (1,152) are people seeking asylum in the UK. Last year, 1,784 people were in immigration detention centres at Christmas. The vast majority (1,506) of the 1,800 people in detention are being held in Home Office immigration removal centres – while 300 are being detained in prison. Twenty-seven people have been kept in detention for more than a year, and three people for more than two years. Almost one in 10 have been held for at least six months. The government has come under fire over its treatment of asylum seekers and other immigrants at detention centres, particularly since the Windrush scandal. Last year, women at one of the main detention centres, Yarl’s Wood in Bedfordshire, went on hunger strike in protest at the conditions. Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that the government’s detention of many asylum seekers was unlawful, paving the way for a slew of new compensation claims against the Home Office that could run to millions of pounds. Keeping people in immigration detention centres costs the taxpayer £89m a year, and last year the Home Office was forced to pay £8.2m in compensation for 312 cases of wrongful detention. The overall number of people in immigration detention centres has decreased in recent years, and has more than halved since the end of 2014, when 3,439 people were being held. The Liberal Democrats called for a 28-day limit to be imposed on the length of time people can be held in immigration detention centres. Christine Jardine, the party’s home affairs spokesperson, said: “If we needed any reminder of the cruel and callous nature of the Conservatives, then this is it. Almost two thousand people will spend Christmas separated from their loved ones, as they remain indefinitely imprisoned in a detention centre. “Locking vulnerable people up with no idea of when they will be released is yet another part of the Conservative government’s toxic and hostile approach to immigration. It is time the Tories gained some humanity and stopped wasting tax payers money on ensuring people spend their Christmas languishing in cells. “The Liberal Democrats believe detention centres should only ever be a last resort. It’s time the Tories listened, introduced a 28-day limit on detention, and shut the majority of the UK’s detention centres.”
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Benjamin Kentish
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/christmas-immigration-detention-asylum-seekers-government-tories-home-office-liberal-democrats-a9259761.html
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Tue, 24 Dec 2019 18:43:00 GMT
| 1,577,230,980 | 1,577,234,263 |
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politicalwire--2019-05-30--Over 1000 Immigrants Apprehended In One Day
| 2019-05-30T00:00:00 |
politicalwire
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Over 1,000 Immigrants Apprehended In One Day
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“More than 1,000 immigrants were apprehended after illegally crossing the border near El Paso, Texas early Wednesday morning,” NBC News reports. “The group of 1,036 is the largest ever encountered by the Border Patrol; the previous record of 424 was set last month.” “Customs and Border Protection has noticed a trend in the number of large groups crossing the border together. In fiscal year 2018, border agents encountered 13 groups of more than 100 immigrants. Now, they have seen that same number in a single day.”
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Taegan Goddard
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https://politicalwire.com/2019/05/30/border-agents-apprehended-over-1000-immigrants-in-one-day/
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2019-05-30 16:36:44+00:00
| 1,559,248,604 | 1,567,539,773 |
society
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immigration
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430,136 |
prisonplanet--2019-04-23--Most illegal immigrants in US receive government benefits costing taxpayers billions experts
| 2019-04-23T00:00:00 |
prisonplanet
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Most illegal immigrants in US receive government benefits, costing taxpayers billions: experts
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This week, the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether to count self-identified illegal immigrants in the 2020 census. Cities worry adding the citizenship question could undercount 6.5 million people. Their argument, however, isn’t just about political power but billions of dollars in federal funds states expect. The case underscores what experts say is a growing cost to taxpayers from the surge of Central American families and unaccompanied minors. “We’re talking about billions of dollars in taxpayer benefits over the next few years,” said Dan Stein, director of the right-leaning think tank, Federation for American Immigration Reform. “The payout for the taxpayer is enormous and income to the Treasury is miniscule.” A FAIR study in 2017 found illegal immigrants are a net consumer of taxpayer benefits worth more than $100 billion a year, not including the cost of enforcing the border. While federal benefits are supposed to be off limits, in practice many are not. More than 25,000 undocumented workers receive subsidized housing, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Children receive free education and most qualify for English lessons and free school breakfast and lunch. This article was posted: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 at 7:42 am
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admin
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https://www.prisonplanet.com/most-illegal-immigrants-in-us-receive-government-benefits-costing-taxpayers-billions-experts.html
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2019-04-23 12:42:44+00:00
| 1,556,037,764 | 1,567,542,090 |
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sottnet--2019-11-08--15 'illegal immigrants' discovered in back of lorry near Chippenham, Irishman, 50s arrested
| 2019-11-08T00:00:00 |
sottnet
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15 'illegal immigrants' discovered in back of lorry near Chippenham, Irishman, 50s arrested
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Fifteen migrants who were found in the back of a lorry in Chippenham last night have been arrested on suspicion of entering the UK illegally.Police were called at 8.30pm to check out an HGV which was involved in 'suspicious activity' on the A350 near the town. Officers checked the lorry and discovered the 15 people in the back, one of which was treated in Swindon Great Western Hospital.The driver of the vehicle, an Irishman in his 50s, was arrested on suspicion of assisting illegal entry into the country. He also remains in custody for further questioning.Police have confirmed all of the suspected illegal migrants are men over the age of 16.Duty Superintendent Steve Cox said: "Members of the public would have noticed a large number of emergency services in the vicinity of the A350 last night while we dealt with this incident and the road was closed for approximately four hours while we carried out enquiries at the scene and recovery was arranged for the lorry, which was a hard-sided large goods vehicle."We are working closely with partner agencies as we conduct further enquiries - I fully understand that recent tragic events elsewhere in the country will mean there will be increased interest and heightened concern regarding this incident."I'd like to thank all emergency services who responded last night - as with all incidents, we didn't know the scale of what we would potentially be dealing with and all first responders showed true professionalism at the scene."I would also like to extend my thanks to the vigilant member of the public who initially reported this incident to us - it is thanks to them that this incident was resolved swiftly and safely with no serious casualties."A road closure was put in place on the A350 at the Kington Langley crossroads while the lorry was recovered.Robert Burton, 31, from Chippenham, was driving down the A350 when he saw the incident unfold."Two ambulances passed us. We saw another five or six police cars then another three or four ambulances," he said."We saw immigrants being pulled out of the lorry."One man had a jacket with the hood up. There was another man being treated."It was shocking. You expect it in the city. You don't expect it in a small market town."
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https://www.sott.net/article/423518-15-illegal-immigrants-discovered-in-back-of-lorry-near-Chippenham-Irishman-50s-arrested
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Fri, 08 Nov 2019 18:45:51 +0000
| 1,573,256,751 | 1,573,260,082 |
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immigration
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404,402 |
pamelagellerreport--2019-11-12--Yale University shocker: 29.5 million illegal immigrants, 3X higher than Census number
| 2019-11-12T00:00:00 |
pamelagellerreport
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Yale University shocker: 29.5 million illegal immigrants, 3X higher than Census number
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This dwarfs every major immigration wave in US history. But the Democrats must have their slaves/voters and that it was they are so violent and militant about keeping the floodgates open. These numbers were released last year. The illegal immigrant population is as high as 29.5 million, far more than the 11 million accepted by experts and the government, according to an explosive new report from three Yale University experts. “Our results lead us to the conclusion that the widely accepted estimate of 11.3 million undocumented immigrants in the United States is too small. Our model estimates indicate that the true number is likely to be larger, with an estimated 95 percent probability interval ranging from 16.2 to 29.5 million undocumented immigrants,” said their report published by PLOS One, an academic journal. The authors from Yale School of Management, Mohammad M. Fazel-Zarandi, Jonathan S. Feinstein, Edward H. Kaplan, said the average in their new model is about 22 million, exactly twice the number accepted by the Census Bureau and other experts. “The mean estimate based on our simulation analysis is 22.1 million, essentially double the current widely accepted estimate,” they wrote. The estimate considers the flow of illegals differently than other models. The report, however, was assailed by the Center for Immigration Studies that has long surveyed the population of illegal immigrants and is a proponent of curbing it. Steven Camarota, the Center’s director of research, issued a statement rejecting the Yale numbers. The Truth Must be Told Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more. Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible. Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too. Please contribute to our ground-breaking work here. Make a monthly commitment to support The Geller Report – choose the option that suits you best.
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Pamela Geller
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https://gellerreport.com/2019/11/yale-university-shocker-29-5-million-illegal-immigrants-3x-higher-than-census-number.html/
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Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:00:51 +0000
| 1,573,603,251 | 1,573,603,639 |
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immigration
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580,826 |
theblaze--2019-01-26--Texas official reveals stunning number of illegal immigrants voted in recent elections
| 2019-01-26T00:00:00 |
theblaze
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Texas official reveals stunning number of illegal immigrants voted in recent elections
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Texas official reveals stunning number of illegal immigrants voted in recent elections
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Chris Enloe
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https://www.theblaze.com/news/texas-illegal-immigrant-election-fraud
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2019-01-26 21:15:55+00:00
| 1,548,555,355 | 1,567,550,792 |
society
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immigration
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933,876 |
thesun--2019-02-01--Number of immigrants attempting to cross the Channel in small boats jumps from 13 in 2017 to 583 las
| 2019-02-01T00:00:00 |
thesun
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Number of immigrants attempting to cross the Channel in small boats jumps from 13 in 2017 to 583 last year
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FRENCH officials revealed they intercepted 583 illegal immigrants last year who were trying to cross the Channel in boats. The figure is up from just 13 in 2017, as they sailed towards Britain in dinghies and stolen boats. The numbers have spiked in the last two months and The Sun can also reveal that a Border Force boat ordered back to the Channel to help deal with the crisis is still weeks away. HMC Protector is one of two vessels Home Secretary Sajid Javid back to the Channel last month. But the ship is still in the Med and was yesterday sailing between Sardinia and Gibraltar where it is expected to refuel and take on supplies. It is unlikely to reach Britain until mid-February – more than six weeks after Mr Javid ordered the Protector back. Meanwhile vice admiral Philippe Dutrieux, of the French Coastguard, said: ''There has been a marked acceleration in numbers attempting to cross the Channel in boats. ''November and December were particularly high and we saw 75% of rescues taking place during this period. “In total last year there were 78 attempts to cross the Channel and 583 migrants rescued.” Officials in France say increase was due to gangs fuelling fears Brexit would make it harder to reach Britain. Mr Dutrieux added:'' The Channel around Calais is a very busy maritime area with strong winds and currents and very low sea temperatures which make the chance of survival of anyone falling onto the water very slim. The gangs that move these people have no idea of the real dangers faced and which my teams also face when they have to rescue them.'' Last month The Sun revealed how one Border Force boat HMC Valiant was in a Greek shipyard undergoing repairs and unlikely to be seaworthy for another month at least. It left Mr Javid red faced as he had to call in the Navy to help out with patrols with the Home Office agreeing to pay for the use of HMS Mersey. He and Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson had a blistering row over who should foot the vessel's £20,000 a day bill for helping the Border Force patrol the English Channel for migrant boats. Last week Mr Javid also announced new measures to deter future crossings including CCTV, night vision goggles and additional surveillance at French ports to catch would-be migrants. The Home Office has confirmed that a number of the 300 migrants who reached Britain after sailing from Calais late last year in a series of landings have been returned to France.
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pbarden
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8328219/channel-immigrants-up-from-13-to-583/
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2019-02-01 02:11:01+00:00
| 1,549,005,061 | 1,567,549,971 |
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immigration
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808,524 |
themoscowtimes--2019-02-04--Share of Russians Unwilling to Emigrate Hits 7-Year-High Poll Says
| 2019-02-04T00:00:00 |
themoscowtimes
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Share of Russians Unwilling to Emigrate Hits 7-Year-High, Poll Says
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According to official data, 377,000 Russians left the country in 2017, the latest period for which figures are available and a six-year record. However, Russian investigative media reported last month that the real number of citizens who emigrated could be six times higher than official figures suggest. The percentage of Russians who say they are not willing to leave the country on a permanent basis has hit a 7-year record, according to a new survey published by the independent Levada Center. The share of Russians who say they would “absolutely” not want to emigrate has reached a seven-year high of 61 percent, according to Levada’s latest poll published Monday. Another 21 percent said they would “rather not” want to emigrate. “This can be explained both by the scale of the country, as well as the fact that many continue to feel that they are part of a great power and are not in need of anything foreign,” says Levada sociologist Denis Volkov. Overall, 17 percent of all Russians said they were willing to migrate, a share that is within the 20 percent range that has expressed that wish in recent years. Meanwhile, young people aged 18 to 24 were more than twice as likely (41 percent) to want to move abroad as the general population. Conversely, only 5 percent of those aged 55 and over entertained the idea of leaving Russia. The age gap was also consistent in the perception of Russian expats abroad: almost half of younger respondents said they view emigres positively, versus almost 20 percent of older respondents. Levada conducted the survey among 1,600 respondents in 52 Russian regions between Dec. 13 and Dec. 19.
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http://themoscowtimes.com/news/share-of-russians-unwilling-to-emigrate-hits-7-year-high-poll-says-64382
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2019-02-04 08:58:43+00:00
| 1,549,288,723 | 1,567,549,718 |
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emigration
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808,993 |
themoscowtimes--2019-04-04--Record Number of Russians Want to Emigrate Gallup
| 2019-04-04T00:00:00 |
themoscowtimes
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Record Number of Russians Want to Emigrate – Gallup
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Public polling inside Russia has indicated in recent years that between 17 and 20 percent of Russians were willing to migrate. Official data, which has been criticized for downplaying immigration figures, says Russia’s emigration numbers have reached a six-year record. A record one-fifth of Russians would like to leave the country if they could, a threefold increase from five years ago, the Gallup pollster said Thursday. In Gallup's 2018 poll, 20 percent of Russian respondents said they would like to leave Russia if they could. The share of Russians seeking to move permanently to another country had never passed Gallup’s 17-percent high in 2007, the U.S. pollster’s results say. However, this number has grown steadily over the past five years, tripling from 7 percent in 2014 to 20 percent in 2018. An “unprecedented” 44 percent of young Russians between ages 15 and 29 voiced the desire to leave. Gallup tracked a direct correlation between changes in Russians’ migratory mood and President Vladimir Putin’s approval ratings, noting that “he may be at least partly to blame” for the latest record. Russian respondents named Germany or the United States as their most-desired destinations at 15 and 12 percent respectively. Japan, Canada and Spain shared the third spot, with 5 percent of hopeful immigrants each. Gallup conducted the survey among 2,000 Russian respondents between June and October 2018.
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https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/04/04/record-number-of-russians-want-to-emigrate-gallup-a65092
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2019-04-04 12:34:00+00:00
| 1,554,395,640 | 1,567,544,088 |
society
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emigration
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1,107,125 |
windowoneurasiablog--2019-01-17--Moscow Dramatically Understating Number of Russians Emigrating New Study Says
| 2019-01-17T00:00:00 |
windowoneurasiablog
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Moscow Dramatically Understating Number of Russians Emigrating, New Study Says
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Staunton, January 16 – Moscow’s Project Research Center says that the Russian government is understating the number of Russians emigrating from the country by a factor of six times, a conclusion it has reached by comparing the numbers Rosstat says are leaving the country with the numbers of Russians other countries say are arriving. Indeed, if the Project Center’s figures are correct, more than two million Russians are emigrating each year now and not the slightly less than 400,000 Rosstat has reported, a figure that would drive down the Russian population still further now and by taking away many in prime child-bearing cohorts drive it down still further in the future. There are several reasons why the figures diverge besides the obvious one that Moscow doesn’t want to acknowledge the number is so large -- especially since a very large share of them is younger and far more educated, a pattern that doesn’t hurt the Kremlin’s resource-export economic agenda but is an embarrassment and further reduces the size of the Russian population. First of all, various countries count emigres in various ways, with some including those who may simply be long-term students or visitors and who may eventually return to their own country. Russia doesn’t count such people, but others do. Consequently, Russian figures would be lower. Second, Russia is not the only country that manipulates figures in this area. Some countries like to present themselves as magnets which attract people from other places, while others want to minimize the inflow or alternatively seek more resources for dealing with immigrants. And third, in today’s globalized and interconnected world, emigration has changed its meaning: A century ago, it was almost always unidirectional. Once someone left a country, he or she almost certainly would never return. Now, the flow often is reversed in response to economic and political change. But even allowing for those factors, the Project numbers are significant both as an indictment of the Putin regime’s failure to make Russia an attractive place to live even for Russians and as an indication that the problems with Russian statistics are deeper than even recent criticism has suggested.
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paul goble ([email protected])
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http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2019/01/moscow-dramatically-understating-number.html
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2019-01-17 09:31:00.002000+00:00
| 1,547,735,460 | 1,567,552,043 |
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emigration
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1,107,256 |
windowoneurasiablog--2019-02-05--Increasing Desire of Politically Active Young to Emigrate May Save Putin but Destroy Russia
| 2019-02-05T00:00:00 |
windowoneurasiablog
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Increasing Desire of Politically Active Young to Emigrate May Save Putin but Destroy Russia
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Staunton, February 4 – The Russian media are focusing on the findings of a new Levada Center poll showing that 41 percent of Russians between 18 and 24 are ready to emigrate because they have lost hope in the future of their country and that almost one in five of all Russians know someone who has left in the last two years. When such people depart, she argues, the regime faces ever less pressure to change because those who might have gone into the streets to oppose it are now living abroad where any protests they make will matter less. Schulmann was speaking about Maduro’s Venezuela. The new Levada poll suggests that she could very well have been speaking about Putin’s Russia. But if Putin benefits, Russia does not. When a country deprives its young of hope for the future and hope of any prospect that they will be able to change an unfortunate present for a better future either personally or the country as a whole, that country may not experience turmoil but it will not experience progress either.
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paul goble ([email protected])
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http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2019/02/increasing-desire-of-politically-active.html
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2019-02-05 09:50:00.001000+00:00
| 1,549,378,200 | 1,567,549,562 |
society
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emigration
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1,107,391 |
windowoneurasiablog--2019-02-23--Putin has Provoked an Emigration Equal in Size and Importance to the One the Bolsheviks Did
| 2019-02-23T00:00:00 |
windowoneurasiablog
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Putin has Provoked an Emigration Equal in Size and Importance to the One the Bolsheviks Did
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The report describes the ways in which highly educated Russians who are often doing relatively well professionally in Russia nonetheless seek to live abroad rather than under Putin and suggests that many of them might return once the Kremlin leader passes from the scene and Russia may become more free. All that is true and the documentation Herbst and Yerofeyev provide is welcome. But in three important respects, it understates the significance of the Russian emigration at present. First, by fitting the Russian flow into the general literature on brain drains in general, it understates the political nature of those who are fleeing Putin’s rule. Second, it does not focus on the enormous diversity, professional, social and ethnic, of this diaspora. The two million include not only Russians but the nations of the North Caucasus who have been repressed even more than the dominant nation and who remain in close touch with their communities at home via Internet. And third, it does not focus on the political organizations of the emigres ranging from Russian nationalists to liberal democrats to ethnic activists of all kinds. This variety resembles more the flight of some two million people from Bolshevik rule in the years of the Russian Civil War. All three of these things call out for more attention than they have received so far not only because this emigration in its diversity may be the future of Russian but also because its members provide important sources of insight into what is going on outside of the usual circles Western diplomats and scholars focus on. One could give dozens of examples of this from Chechens in Europe to Jews in Israel to Russians of various kinds in places across the planet. To give just one example of how diverse and interesting this emigration (and not just brain drain) is, consider the following Facebook post today by Vadim Shtepa, the Karelian regionalist who now lives in Tallinn. “In Latvia,” Shtepa continues, “lives Russian nationalist Dimitry Savvin who wants to replace the Russian empire with ‘a Russian nation state … “And only in Estonia lives two rock-and-roll scoundrels – Artemy Troitsky and Vadim Shtepa. They want to destroy this empire down to its foundations.” This emigration awaits its historians. In the meantime, all who follow what goes on in Russia need also to focus on what goes in in these various émigré centers just as Western scholars two and three generations ago learned much of what they knew about Russia under the Bolsheviks by reading and studying under those who fled that tyranny. The time to do so has come again, and the two million people from within the current borders of the Russian Federation can provide insights every bit as important as those who fled communism in the past.
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paul goble ([email protected])
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http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2019/02/putin-has-provoked-emigration-equal-in.html
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2019-02-23 00:41:00.001000+00:00
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windowoneurasiablog--2019-04-04--One in Five Russians Wants to Emigrate ASAP and Seven Other Putin Achievements
| 2019-04-04T00:00:00 |
windowoneurasiablog
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One in Five Russians Wants to Emigrate ASAP – and Seven Other Putin ‘Achievements’
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Putin has “breathed new life” into NATO, the Western alliance that before the Kremlin leader appeared has been on a course of “slow degradation.” “Putin has revived the Ukrainian nation and its self-consciousness.” A few years ago, Ukrainians protested against the presence of NATO vessels in the black sea. Now they want them there “on a permanent basis. “As a result of Putin’s efforts, Russia has thrown off the mask of a civilized state and shown the world the bestial grin of a political impotent suffering from resentment.” Putin together with the Moscow patriarch have managed to alienate a “significant” share of the population by their “propaganda” of obscurantism and medieval ignorance. “Putin has led the advanced Russian economy to such a point of development that it has to fight off the overproduction of goods with the help of bulldozers,” a reference to the destruction of Western foodstuffs banned by his counter-sanctions regime. “Putin has liquidated all unnecessary state institutions leaving only the department for stealing and the handing out of loot.’‘ But when Putin destroys the Russian Empire, Mayvin says, then “no one will be interested in why I despise him.”
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paul goble ([email protected])
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http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2019/04/one-in-five-russians-wants-to-emigrate.html
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2019-04-04 20:07:00.001000+00:00
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emigration
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87,928 |
channel4uk--2019-02-08--British expats in Spain face uncertain future under no-deal Brexit
| 2019-02-08T00:00:00 |
channel4uk
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British expats in Spain face uncertain future under no-deal Brexit
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British expats living in Spain have been urged to register before the 29th of March to make sure the Spanish authorities recognise their residency after the UK leaves the EU. But in the event of a no-deal Brexit, what then? Many of those who’ve retired abroad are facing unanswered questions about their rights to healthcare, freedom of movement and even their ability to keep pets. We have been to Spain to speak to the Brits facing an uncertain future.
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Ciaran Jenkins
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https://www.channel4.com/news/british-expats-in-spain-face-uncertain-future-under-no-deal-brexit
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2019-02-08 20:30:09+00:00
| 1,549,675,809 | 1,567,549,210 |
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emigration
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602,833 |
thedailycaller--2019-05-03--Venezuelan Expat Reacts To The Unrest In His Home Country
| 2019-05-03T00:00:00 |
thedailycaller
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Venezuelan Expat Reacts To The Unrest In His Home Country
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Venezuelan expatriate Daniel Di Martino talks about the unrest in his home country and warns of the dangers of socialism, in an interview with The Daily Caller. “Progressively the government became more and more aggressive, kidnapping people, I have friends who were in the protests who were shot at by police,” said Martino. Martino also responded to a reporter’s claims that the media’s coverage of Venezuela was false, as well as MSNBC inadvertently making the case for the Second Amendment during a live news report. (RELATED: Journalist Claims Media, Government Are Lying About Venezuela) The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of The Daily Caller.
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Stephanie Hamill
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https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/02/venezuela-expat-unrest-home/
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2019-05-03 00:18:25+00:00
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theindependent--2019-01-09--Singapore is best country for expats study finds
| 2019-01-09T00:00:00 |
theindependent
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Singapore is best country for expats, study finds
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Singapore is the best country for expats, according to an HSBC study. The Asian country has topped the bank’s annual Expat Explorer survey, which analyses data from more than 22,000 respondents, for the fourth year running. It offers the best overall package according to those surveyed, who were asked to rate countries on a range of factors including career progression, work/life balance, healthcare, tolerance and the ability to make new friends. “Combining high scores across our key measures, the territory ticks many of the boxes on the expat wish list,” says the report. “They’re certainly drawn to this global financial hub with its strong and stable economy. Almost half of all expats in Singapore moved to progress their careers (45 per cent). And though more than quarter simply wanted a challenge, many more (38 per cent) wanted to improve their earnings.” Expats in Singapore earn an average annual salary of $162,000 (£127,350) – $56,000 (£44,000) more than the global average, according to HSBC. Nearly half (47 per cent) of those who had moved there for work also said they had stayed due to the quality of life it offered them and their families. Some 60 per cent of expat parents in Singapore said their children’s health and wellbeing was better there than at home. Singapore was followed by New Zealand, which also came in second last year, ranked number one for the “experience” category – factors include quality of life, culture, integration, safety and healthcare. Germany came in third place, performing well for “economics” factors, followed by Canada and Bahrain, the latter having risen four places in the rankings since 2017. The Middle Eastern country came top for wage growth in this year’s survey. One of the highest leaps on the list was Ireland, which rose 10 places from 28th to 18th between 2017 and 2018. The UK places 22nd in the rankings, five places up from last year’s report and one higher than the US. It scored well for career progression, job security and tolerance, but performed poorly for “health”, “closeness with partner”, “integration” and “property”.
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Helen Coffey
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http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/singapore-expats-working-abroad-best-country-hsbc-new-zealand-germany-a8719016.html
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2019-01-09 13:18:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-12-05--The best cities to be an expat, ranked
| 2019-12-05T00:00:00 |
theindependent
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The best cities to be an expat, ranked
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Asian cities are the best places to be an expat, according to a new ranking. Taipei in Taiwan topped Internations’ 2019 Expat City Ranking, which analysed 82 cities worldwide on factors such as quality of life, ease of getting settled, work life, finance and housing and cost of living. The Taiwanese capital came in first place for the second year running as the best place to move to for work, followed by Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Rounding out the top five were Singapore and Montreal in Canada. The rest of the top 10 cities were in Europe: Lisbon, Portugal; Barcelona, Spain; Zug, Switzerland; The Hague, the Netherlands; and Basel, Switzerland. Expats in Taipei rated the city highly for quality of life and local transport, plus most are happy with the availability of healthcare in the city, according to expat network Internations. Additionally, 96 per cent of expats said they felt safe in Taipei. The other Asian cities in the ranking include Bangkok in 20th place, Tokyo in 26th place and Jakarta in 33rd place. In terms of the worst cities to move to as an expat, Kuwait City came bottom at 82nd place. Rome, Milan, Lagos, Paris, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Lima, New York City and Yangon were also ranked poorly. Top 10 cities to move to as an expat
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Cathy Adams
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https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/expat-asian-cities-taipei-ho-chi-minh-city-kuala-lumpur-internations-a9233856.html
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Thu, 05 Dec 2019 11:51:50 GMT
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themoscowtimes--2019-06-26--Moscow St Petersburg Become Cheaper for Expats Ranking Says
| 2019-06-26T00:00:00 |
themoscowtimes
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Moscow, St. Petersburg Become Cheaper for Expats, Ranking Says
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Moscow placed 27th and St. Petersburg 75th out of 209 cities worldwide for the most expensive locations to work abroad in Mercer’s 2019 ranking , dropping by 10 and 26 spots from last year respectively. Moscow and St. Petersburg are becoming more affordable for expats, according to new rankings from a global consulting firm. “Despite moderate price increases in most of the European cities, European currencies have weakened against the U.S. dollar, which pushed most cities down in the ranking,” said Yvonne Traber, Mercer’s global mobility product solutions leader. “Additionally, other factors like recent security issues and concern about the economic outlook have impacted the region,” she said. Mercer creates its rankings by comparing the costs of more than 200 items including housing, transportation, food, clothing, household goods and entertainment. New York City is used as the base for all comparisons, and currency movements are measured against the U.S. dollar. Hong Kong remained the most expensive city for expats, according to Mercer’s ranking, followed by Tokyo and Singapore. Karachi, Tashkent and Tunis were named the cheapest, while Ashgabat catapulted 36 spots to rank the world’s seventh-most expensive city for expats. At fifth place, Zurich was the only European city to crack the consultancy firm’s top 10 in prices for expats. Mercer named Moscow and St. Petersburg among the world’s most dangerous and least livable cities earlier this year.
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https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/06/26/moscow-st-petersburg-become-cheaper-for-expats-ranking-says-a66172
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2019-06-26 14:30:00+00:00
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thesun--2019-04-01--Germany reveals plans to allow 100000 British expats to stay even if theres No Deal Brexit
| 2019-04-01T00:00:00 |
thesun
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Germany reveals plans to allow 100,000 British expats to stay even if there’s No Deal Brexit
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BERLIN has announced emergency plans to allow all Brits living in the country to stay even if there’s a no deal Brexit. Germany’s interior ministry has called on regional authorities to guarantee the rights of 100,000 expats and their families. Officials have asked local parliaments to provide immigration services with the “necessary resources” to process Brits’ applications. Their advice includes setting up new hotlines that UK citizens can call to ask for advice on how to gain permanent residency. Under the plan UK citizens in Germany on our exit day will be granted a transition period during which they can apply for full citizenship. The new law will also make it easier for British pensioners and low earners living in the country to meet the requirements for a residency permit. German MP Franziska Brantner, said: “British citizens who already live in Germany, above all, need legal certainty. “You cannot be held responsible for the harakiri of your Government.” Berlin also wants to allow Brits to carry on travelling to the country without visas even if there’s No Deal. But that will require a decision at EU level to add the UK to the bloc’s visa free travel list. Internal Brussels talks over the issue have stalled amid a row over Spain’s attempts to use the legislation to brand Gibraltar a colony. Other major EU countries including France, Spain and the Netherlands have also announced plans to ensure Brits are protected if there’s No Deal.
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Andrew Whiteford
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/brexit/8769936/no-deal-brexit-germany-british-expats/
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2019-04-01 22:45:01+00:00
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dailybeast--2019-11-10--The Russians Who Went West: A Lost Generation of Emigres
| 2019-11-10T00:00:00 |
dailybeast
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The Russians Who Went West: A Lost Generation of Emigres
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The Compatriots explores the tricky relationship between the Kremlin and the Russians abroad—how the political regime in Moscow got obsessed with the threat posed by political exiles and how it has been trying to use them—from espionage to assassinations, a practice that is very much alive today. In Russia, legendary Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who died October 27, is mostly remembered for exposing the use of psychiatry against political opponents of the Kremlin and as someone who was famously swapped for the Chilean Communist leader Louis Corvalan. But once in the West, Bukovsky, always a man of action, launched a political exiles umbrella organization called Resistance International. Supported and funded by the Americans, it was the most spectacular attempt to target the Soviet regime from abroad—right before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Yuri Andropov’s KGB had been throwing Soviet dissidents out of the country for so many years that by the beginning of the ’80s, there was a substantial community of third-generation Russian political exiles in the West. This group was very different from their predecessors. Unlike the first wave of White Russians, who understood close to nothing about the political circumstances in Soviet Russia, the third generation knew the Soviet regime inside out. They also differed from the second wave of postwar emigrants—who stayed in the West out of fear of repressions—in that they had emigrated largely because of their political convictions. The new wave of Soviet emigrants included a lot of people who had protested the regime while they were in the Soviet Union. That was the reason they were thrown out of the country or escaped to the West (sometimes via very unorthodox methods, like the hijacking of planes). Now the most prominent among them set out to build organizations in the West with the goal of changing the political regime in their home country. Here, finally, was the generation George Kennan had long hoped to see. No matter how brave they were, this generation of emigrants faced a formidable challenge: their underground experience in the highly restricted climate of the Soviet Union hindered rather than helped them when it came to building effective political organizations in the open society of the West. In May 1984, journalist Masha Slonim got a phone call at her studio in Bush House, the time-honored London headquarters of the BBC. Lord Nicolas Bethell, an old friend of hers, had a tantalizing offer: Did she want to fly to Pakistan and bring back two Soviet soldiers who had recently defected from the Soviet army barracks in Afghanistan? Bethell, who had opposed the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan from the very beginning, was involved with many projects providing help to Afghan mujahedeen. As a result, he knew a lot of people on the other side of the Afghan border. Masha couldn’t resist the temptation. The idea was, above all, interesting. And it touched a personal chord: Masha was part of a remarkable family, from the highest echelons of Soviet elite-turned-dissident. Her grandfather had been Stalin’s foreign minister Maxim Litvinov, and her cousin Pavel Litvinov was one of the eight people who had gone to Red Square to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Masha herself had left the Soviet Union for good a few years earlier. In London, she stayed in touch with Soviet dissidents in exile who tried to organize a resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan—an effort of which Lord Bethell was a part. Masha took three days off and flew to Islamabad. She didn’t say anything about her trip to her BBC bosses. When she arrived, she spent a night at the British ambassador’s residence before her meeting with the soldiers. A fragile, delicate young woman, Masha was nervous. Bethell had explained that the soldiers were junkies, and she wasn’t quite sure how she should talk to them. The ambassador gave her a bottle of vodka, saying, “These guys haven’t seen it for months; they’ll love that!” Then she was driven to the airport where the meeting was to take place. Finally, a minibus dropped off two skinny boys whose names were Oleg Khlan and Igor Rykov. Masha had never seen withdrawal symptoms before, but on the plane back to London she could hardly fail to recognize them. The boys moaned continuously and wandered aimlessly around the plane. A steward threatened to kick them off at a layover in Damascus. Masha gave them the ambassador's bottle of vodka; they drank it immediately, but it didn't quite do the job. When the plane landed in London, the boys could hardly stand. In London, Bethell arranged for them to stay in a safe house, but the withdrawal symptoms got worse. Oleg and Igor demanded that they be brought back to Peshawar or to the Soviet embassy—at least there must be some vodka there. They drank all the aftershave they found in the house. Frightened, Masha called a psychiatrist. He forbade her to give them any alcohol. At dawn, Masha packed the boys in a car and brought them to a private clinic. There, every night, flying severed heads haunted Oleg in his room, and he hid from them under his bed. The two boys spent almost a month in the clinic. When they were discharged, only a bit better off, nobody knew what to do with them. Masha put them up at her house while they waited for their big moment. It came in late June. On June 27, a press conference titled "Soviet defectors to the West tell their story" was organized in London. Lord Nicolas Bethell hosted the event, where the surprise guests were Rykov and Khlan. Thin and pale, both dressed in blue jeans and seersucker jackets, the two told the journalists of atrocities committed by Soviet troops in Afghanistan, including a mass killing of civilians in an Afghan village. Although it was no more than hearsay—neither of them had been present in the village—journalists were impressed. It was the very first time Soviet army deserters appeared in person in the West, and the press conference was reported by the world press, including the International Herald Tribune. Masha was not there. Her BBC bosses knew nothing about her role, and she wanted to keep it that way. For Bethell, the event was deeply emotional. He was a fierce critic of the Western powers’ treatment of Soviet prisoners of war after World War II, and he wanted to help a new generation of Soviet army deserters. He was not alone in his beliefs. When hosting the press conference, Bethell identified himself as a representative of an organization called Resistance International. The day after the press conference, an American diamond trader based in Paris picked up his copy of the Tribune. The front-page story about two Soviet defectors caught his eye. When Bert Jolis read that the conference was “arranged by Lord Bethell and Resistance International, a group that supports the Afghan insurgents,” it piqued his curiosity. Who was behind it? He asked friends in Paris, who replied, “Oh, don’t you know? It’s Vladimir Bukovsky, the Soviet dissident.” Jolis smiled. He had been waiting to hear something like this for a very long time. The diamond trader knew Bukovsky by reputation and believed he was just the kind of man of action needed. Jolis was a successful if not very scrupulous diamond dealer active in Africa (where he was trading with the Central African dictator Bokassa). But he was also a veteran of OSS—the Office of Strategic Service, the predecessor of the CIA. Jolis had learned to hate communism when, as an American officer fighting in France during World War II, he witnessed the desperation with which Soviet soldiers tried to escape forcible repatriation. After the war, Jolis stayed in touch with his former colleagues at OSS, who were now serving in the CIA. He also kept thinking of the Russian deserters he had known. Jolis considered himself an expert in this field and remembered how in 1951, the CIA’s legendary director Allen Dulles had asked him to write a report about how to encourage Soviet bloc defections. The topic was close to Jolis's heart, and he was happy to oblige. In his opinion, the U.S. government should take a more active stance. He envisaged the defectors' program in place at the time evolving from a small-scale covert exercise in psychological warfare into a "major weapon in our hands." Jolis had carefully saved Dulles's thank-you note. Jolis set out to meet Bukovsky. “Right now,” Jolis was told, “he is in Palo Alto, doing scientific research.” Bukovsky was on a fellowship at Stanford University finishing his master's degree in neurophysiology; in the Soviet Union, he had never had a chance to complete his education, since he was in and out of jail constantly from the age of 20. At the first opportunity, Jolis flew to the West Coast and met Bukovsky, “a pleasant, stocky man with a broad Slavic face, in his early 40s, with an air of the street-smart intellectual about him.” Walking across the Stanford quad, in the Californian sunshine, Bukovsky told Jolie that Resistance International had started in Paris a year earlier when he and a group of former political prisoners and exiled dissidents formed L'Internationale de la Resistance. An umbrella organization, it embraced a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social movements around the world, united by a common commitment to fighting Communist oppression. Bukovsky was president, and Armando Valladares, a Cuban poet who had spent 22 years in prison, was vice president. Bukovsky told Jolis about some of the activities they carried out—for instance, how they printed a dummy mock-up special edition of the Soviet army newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star), in January 1984 urging Soviet troops to “Stop the War and Go Home.” At first glance, he said, it looked like the genuine issue of Krasnaya Zvezda. Afghans posted the paper on public walls in the streets of Kabul. The new organization also cooperated with Radio Free Kabul, launched by Lord Nicolas Bethell. Among other things, they broadcast 10-minute prerecorded tapes in Russian by prominent dissidents aimed at provoking opposition among the Soviet troops. “I’d like to help,” Jolis said. “There is only one thing we need,” Bukovsky told him. “Money!” “I’m sorry,” Jolis answered. “I’m not rich enough for that. But maybe I can help you raise some. I’m not a professional fundraiser, but one can always try. Give me a little time to think this over. I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.” Indeed, Jolis got back to Bukovsky very quickly. A month after Bethell’s press conference, the American Foundation for Resistance International was incorporated. Vladimir Bukovsky was president, and Albert Jolis served as executive director. Bukovsky was already well connected in Reagan’s Washington; he was in touch with the senior Soviet specialist at the State Department and the director of European and Soviet affairs at the National Security Council, among others. George Kennan, however, who was now in academia, was a disappointment: “He was getting more and more pro-Kremlin, promoting the improving of relations with the Soviet Union,” Bukovsky told us. Bukovsky wanted something else from Jolis: “I needed a treasurer,” he recalled in an interview with us. “For this sort of organization, it’s essential to have a rich treasurer, from a rich family… For any of us, it would be uncomfortable to ask for money. We are émigrés; we don’t have our own money. But Jolis was already very rich.” Jolis was, indeed, ideal: he was well connected and turned out to be very good at raising money, eventually raising several million dollars for Resistance International from politically conservative American foundations. The war in Afghanistan was the top topic in the world. It had already done the Soviets a good deal of political damage, not the least of which was the Western boycott of Moscow’s Olympic Games. What’s more, the Soviet army was not winning. With every year that passed, the situation in Afghanistan looked more and more like the one the Americans had gotten themselves into in Vietnam. And as had been the case with Vietnam, a military disaster in Afghanistan ran the risk of huge political consequences at home. Bukovsky had a specific goal in mind: "We argued with the Americans that if we can make defections in masses—we thought of several hundred—it would force the Kremlin to limit the Soviet army's involvement in combat missions, leaving the fighting to the Afghan army, which was already unreliable. And that would be a big help." Thanks to Jolis's intervention, Resistance International—seven people in a three-room apartment on the third floor of a Belle Epoque building on the fashionable Champs-Elysees in Paris—was soon thriving. At its peak, it coordinated the efforts of 49 anti-communist organizations, from Poland's Solidarnost to Czechoslovakia’s Charter 77. But how effective was it? January’s mock-up Red Star issue turned out to be a one-time adventure. It was an odd bit of propaganda. On the front page it featured such a nasty cartoon of a Soviet soldier that no soldier would associate himself with it. It also had a language problem. Using outdated slang gave the impression that the paper had been printed during World War II. Mock-up newspapers and radio broadcasts all had a whiff of the CIA's ’50s-era tool kit. The Radio Free Kabul stunt was also useless. The station was used as a communications tool by Afghans, but it was not at all popular among Soviet troops, who preferred to use the Japanese cassette recorders they bought at Afghan markets to record and play songs by popular Russian bards. It is perhaps not surprising that Resistance International failed to become an organization with significant influence in the propaganda war in Afghanistan. It also failed Russian political emigres in the West. Bukovsky, an inspiring figure but hardly a good manager, soon busied himself with other projects, and clashes began in the three rooms of the Belle Époque apartment on the Champs-Élysées. Like many another Russian émigré organization, this one was also falling apart. The restricted character of Soviet society affected those opposing the regime. With the government having effectively banned any kind of independent organization, and with no room for political debate outside of people’s kitchens, Soviet dissidents simply didn’t have the experience needed to build effective political organizations. This was the curse that had haunted the second wave of the Russian emigration, and now it haunted the third. As the summer of 1984 progressed, Oleg Khlan and Igor Rykov were growing more and more desperate in London. Lord Bethell had housed them with a Ukrainian woman (both boys were born in Ukraine) and arranged for them to apply for Canadian visas so they could join the large Ukrainian diaspora there. But they couldn’t give up narcotics. One of them sent a letter home to his mother and revealed his address in London. They started frequenting a Russian restaurant called Balalaika in Richmond, a suburb in southwest London, and there they met Boris. He said he was from a Soviet trade mission. Meanwhile, the Canadians set out conditions for issuing them visas—Oleg and Igor had to agree to surprise drug tests. The first test showed signs of LSD. Two weeks later the second test showed the same result. The Canadians refused to grant them asylum. In November, Igor got a letter from his mother with a photo of a three-year-old girl in it, signed by his former fiancée (she had broken up with him while he was in the army). “Your daughter and I are waiting for you at home!” it read. The next day, Oleg and Igor went to the Soviet embassy. On November 11, the two maverick Soviet soldiers, Oleg Khlan and Igor Rykov, were driven to Heathrow Airport in a Soviet embassy car. “Both soldiers could be seen smiling through the car's rear window," reported the Associated Press. Soviet officials put them on a Leningrad-bound flight. "The return of the two soldiers came a week after Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's daughter, secretly returned to Moscow from Britain after 17 years in the West," the agency added. In the Soviet Union, Alliluyeva was granted Soviet citizenship, but Oleg and Igor were at once sent to camps. They fell victim to a typical KGB ploy: they were lured back and then punished mercilessly. Dissidents' propaganda completely failed to affect the mindset of Soviet soldiers and officers in Afghanistan. But books found their way to soldiers, and they worked. In June 1985, Valeri Shiryaev, a military interpreter stationed on the outskirts of Kabul, headed to a local market. He wanted to buy something that was impossible to find in the Soviet Union: a Penthouse magazine. He’d heard it was even better than Playboy. He located a shop with stacks of old magazines, picked out an issue of Penthouse, and started the long but necessary bargaining process with the tradesman. When they finally came to an agreement, the tradesman gave him something that looked like a thick pack of Marlboro cigarettes along with his dirty magazine, as a gift. Shiryaev took it and saw it was a book, The Gulag Archipelago, printed in very small font, with no margins at all. On the first page, there was a description: "a novel." Well, so be it, thought Shiryaev, and he brought the book with him to the dormitory in the fourth district of Kabul where all the military interpreters lived. In the next few weeks, he read it under his blanket at night, thankful for his very good eyesight. He soon understood it was not a proper novel, but he read the book to the end. The copy Shiryaev picked up by accident had traveled a long way to Afghanistan. It had originally been shipped from a warehouse in Paris, near the Opéra, from a tiny apartment filled with thousands of copies of The Gulag Archipelago and Orwell’s 1984. The warehouse was run by a couple who were both veterans of the Russian émigré organization NTS—that old enemy of the Soviet regime that the CIA had supported since the ’50s. But the war could have lasted for another ten years if not for the arrival of a new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev had taken over the top position in the Communist Party in March, two months before Shiryaev picked up his copy of The Gulag Archipelago. Gorbachev started slowly opening Soviet borders, and the number of Soviet émigrés, especially to the United States, kept growing. And the next year, in February 1986, Gorbachev made a statement at the party congress: the Soviet Union was planning to pull its troops out of Afghanistan. Resistance International was quietly disbanded. “Our funding just stopped. Probably our American sponsors decided that there was no longer any need to undermine the Soviet Union; it undermined itself,” said Galina Ackerman, who was a member. “At the end of the day, our joint efforts helped to move 16 defectors from Afghanistan to the West,” said Bukovsky. The country was falling apart. While Gorbachev’s policy of perestroika—a set of political and economic democratizing reforms in the Soviet Union—was gaining momentum, all kinds of disasters hit the Soviet Union, including the nuclear catastrophe in Chernobyl. It looked like everything the Soviet government was involved in had started to collapse. And in May 1987 it became clear that this included the performance of the army and air forces: a single-engine Cessna aircraft rented by an 18-year-old amateur German pilot flew from Helsinki to Moscow and landed right on Red Square. Nobody stopped him. Four months later, in the United States, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs called on the director of the National Security Agency (NSA), William E. Odom, to testify on the topic of Soviet emigres. That the director of the NSA, essentially an electronic intelligence agency, would be addressing the subject of Russian emigres might sound odd, but Odom was known as an intellectual who was deeply knowledgeable about Russian culture. He had made his own contribution to the Cold War effort: While serving at the U.S. embassy in Moscow in the ’70s, he smuggled out a large portion of Solzhenitsyn’s archive. Odom started his testimony by evoking the tradition that had begun with Alexander Herzen and Mikhail Bakunin, Lenin and Trotsky. "A very large community of Russian intelligentsia... found it necessary to come to the West, if they were going to carry on the intellectual and political activities they desired," he said. Odom went on, describing the difference between the three generations of emigres to the United States and focused on the third wave, "which includes very sophisticated and well-educated people": They are not victims of war and upheaval, but people who have tried to change the USSR from within, people who have begun to rethink the basic and age-old questions facing their former country: What is Russia's purpose? Whither the USSR? Can a totalitarian regime evolve toward a liberal and humane regime? They have come West not merely to survive Stalin and the fate of war, as did the second wave; they have come from relative privilege in many cases, from positions of status, with keen and energetic minds. They have come with basically different aims, hopes and purposes than did their predecessors. They are more akin to their 19th-century predecessors than to the first and second waves. It looked like emigration had come full circle. Among the people Odom mentioned as the most prominent voices of Russian dissent was Alexander Solzhenitsyn—“I listen to him for what he knows about the Soviet Union, not the U.S.,” he said. Books still worked. The next year, Gorbachev granted amnesty to Soviet soldiers who had defected in Afghanistan. He also signed a decree that returned Soviet citizenship to 23 people who had been stripped of it by previous Soviet authorities. Three years later, by December 1991, the Soviet Union would officially be no more: all Soviet republics proclaimed themselves independent of Moscow’s control. And the year after that, Boris Yeltsin’s government would invite Bukovsky to testify at the trial of the Communist Party. This trial was held in the Constitutional Court of Russia—a country born out of the ashes of the Soviet Union. To prepare for his testimony, Bukovsky requested and was granted access to the Soviet archives. He brought a small handheld scanner and a laptop computer with him to Moscow, and he managed to secretly scan many documents—including highly sensitive KGB reports to the Central Committee and transcripts of Politburo sessions. (This is how we know about the heated argument between Brezhnev and Andropov over the fate of Soviet Jews.) As Bukovsky later told us, he managed to scan these documents only because archive officials didn’t know what the scanner was. Bukovsky’s efforts resulted in his 1993 book Judgment in Moscow, which documented extensive behind-the-scenes cooperation between Western politicians and the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. But this book, unlike Bukovsky’s other books, was never published in English. Bukovsky believed that he was subjected to Western censorship. Bukovsky himself, a man of action and the most familiar name among dissidents to the Russian populace, would not return to Moscow. Many believed he could have been a strong competitor to Yeltsin in the presidential election—many, but not Bukovsky. He chose to stay in Cambridge in the United Kingdom. In fact, nobody from the resistance decided to move back after the fall of the Soviet Union. The once-legendary organizations from the first generation of Russian political emigration—the NTS, the ROVS—tried to find a foothold in the rapidly changing country. They opened offices in Russia, but they failed to win popular support. The dream George Kennan articulated in 1948 in the National Security Council's memo, "US Objectives with Respect to Russia," was that when the time came, he hoped to get "all the exiled elements to return to Russia as rapidly as possible and to see to it, in so far as this depends on us, that they are all given roughly equal opportunity to establish their bids for power." The time had come, and the dream went unfulfilled. The U.S. government, foreign policymakers, and the intelligence community quietly forgot about the Russian emigre community. William E. Odom was the last U.S. top-level official to address the subject of the Russian Americans. The next time Congress would address the issue would be in the mid ’90s, and then the topic would be the Russian mafia. "The Russians in the U.S. fall in the category of lessened interest," Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, who served in Moscow's CIA station in the ’80s and ’90s, told us. Excerpted from The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan. Copyright © 2019. Available from PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
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Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thedailybeast/articles/~3/aOjxpX9yb3E/the-russians-who-went-west-a-lost-generation-of-emigres
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Sun, 10 Nov 2019 10:04:42 GMT
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pamelagellerreport--2019-12-23--French Jewish principals urge their students to leave France
| 2019-12-23T00:00:00 |
pamelagellerreport
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French Jewish principals urge their students to leave France
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France has gone down a dark road and Democrats are working to take us down that same evil path. “One cannot – even if there are decades between them – kill millions of Jews so you can bring millions of their worst enemies in their place,” Creative genius and late Chanel director Karl Lagerfeld. France has made its terrible choice and Jews must do the same. ‘France is not our place anymore. My project is to make sure that all my students emigrate to Israel.’ Principals of Jewish schools in France are urging their students to move to Israel due to the increasing amount of anti-Semitic attacks in the country, Ynet reported on Sunday. “I think all Jews should move to Israel,” Paul Fittousi, the director of Yavne School in Marseille said. “France is not our place anymore. The younger generation must do this. Two of my daughters have already moved and are learning in Be’er Sheva, and I’m encouraging my third to do the same.” It’s not just the principals who feel that France isn’t safe for Jews anymore – the students feel it too. Yoav Zanuv, a student at Akiva School in Strasbourg, an area that has been particularly plagued with multiple anti-Semitic attacks lately, said that he doesn’t always feel safe in France. “Because of the Muslims, there are neighborhoods you can’t enter with a kippah [skullcap],” he said. Lena Salem, a 17-year-old from Marseille, says she “hides her star of David necklace and other Jewish markers. I don’t want to be the religious Jewish girl who gets attacked on the Metro or in one of bad neighborhoods. I always carry a can of pepper spray with me.” “When I saw the desecration of the Jewish cemetery, I thought I have no place to call my own other than Israel,” Salem added. Fitoussi said that he doesn’t allow his students to “eat or have gym lessons outside of the school. More than once someone has thrown stones at students or called them ‘dirty Jews’. Nowadays, France’s Jewish community lives in a ghetto. If you’re in the Jewish area of town, you’re all good. But if you walk out a little bit – you might get it.” “Although it might sound strange, to us the fact that we are encouraging people to move to Israel is completely natural,” said Yoni Elimelech, deputy headmaster of Otzar Ha’Torah school in Paris’ 13th arrondissement. “I think any 18-year-old boy or girl living in France should move to Israel.” Moshe Twito, another principal of a Jewish school, said that a few of his students were attacked outside during a gym class. “Several young people walked up to them, one them holding a knife and stabbed a student who has since migrated to Israel. There are many students who transferred to us from other public schools because of anti-Semitism. My project is to make sure that all my students emigrate to Israel.” Fitoussi, Twito and Elimelech are currently on a trip to Israel as part of the “Bac Bleu Blanc” program in which hundreds of Jewish high school seniors from France visit Israel. In the course of their visit, they are exposed to the academic settings available in Israel to encourage them to move. Past trips have resulted in 40% of the students moving to Israel. The students are visiting universities such as the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and will meet with French immigrants who work in high-tech in Israel.
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Pamela Geller
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https://gellerreport.com/2019/12/french-jewish-principals-urge-their-students-to-leave-france.html/
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Mon, 23 Dec 2019 22:00:19 +0000
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thedailycaller--2019-05-03--Nearly 40 Percent Of Guatemalans Want To Leave The Country Poll Finds
| 2019-05-03T00:00:00 |
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Nearly 40 Percent Of Guatemalans Want To Leave The Country, Poll Finds
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A poll by one of Guatemala’s largest newspapers found a startling number of its citizens expressed a desire to leave the country, with the U.S. being the destination of choice for most of them. A survey by Prensa Libre published on Thursday found that 39 percent of Guatemalans intend to leave the country. Of those who said they wanted to leave, 85 percent picked the U.S. as the country they hoped to land in. Results also showed how emigration to the U.S. has become such an integral part of their lives, with 57 percent of respondents saying they have friends or relatives already living in America. Prensa Libre, which is one of the most circulated newspapers in the country, polled 1,596 people between Jan. 22 and March 20 using electronic devices. The survey was done in conjunction with the Association for Research and Social Studies and Barometro de las Americas. Poll results found other eyebrow-raising answers from everyday Guatemalans. Despite the dire situation in the country, 75 percent of respondents expressed “little interest” in politics. Nearly 90 percent did not align themselves with any political party, and one-in-five Guatemalans said they would not be participating in the upcoming election on June 16. The survey follows months of record-breaking apprehensions at the U.S. southern border, with many of the illegal migrants originating from the Northern Triangle region of Central America. A total of 103, 492 migrants were either turned back or apprehended in March — the highest month in over a decade. More than 418,000 apprehensions have taken place this fiscal year so far. “We don’t have room to hold [detainees], we don’t have the authority to remove them, and they are not likely to be able to be allowed to remain in the country at the end of their immigration proceedings,” acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said during an April press conference at the U.S.-Mexico border. (RELATED: Report: Border Agents Will Soon Have Authority To Decide Asylum Claims On The Spot) “Without action from Congress, criminals will continue to profit from human misery along our border,” he continued. “It’s clear that all of our resources are being stretched thin. The system is full and we are beyond capacity.” Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].
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Jason Hopkins
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https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/03/guatemalans-leave-the-country-us/
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2019-05-03 20:40:54+00:00
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theindependent--2019-12-13--How to leave the United Kingdom
| 2019-12-13T00:00:00 |
theindependent
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How to leave the United Kingdom
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Boris Johnson’s Conservatives have achieved their best election result since Margaret Thatcher’s government. It was reported in the run-up to the general election that some people of colour were considering leaving the UK if the Tories retained power as a result of the PM’s history of racist comments. There were also reports of Jewish people planning to do the same if Jeremy Corbyn won the keys to Number 10, due to antisemitism within the Labour Party. And after the 10pm exit poll forecast the Tories could win a commanding majority of 86 seats, fresh statements of intent to leave the country began to flood social media. But other than packing possessions, kissing loved ones goodbye and boarding international transport, how do you actually leave the country? UK residents are obliged to tell the relevant government offices dealing with your benefits, pension and taxes before moving abroad, according to the government’s website. In order to move country, you need to inform HMRC, to make sure you either pay the right amount of tax and avoid paying in both countries at the same time, while those with a student loan should also advise the Student Loans Company. If you receive a pension, you must contact the International Pension Centre. You can still claim a state pension while based abroad “if you’ve paid enough UK national insurance contributions to qualify”, the government’s website states. For those claiming benefits, you must inform your local Jobcentre Plus, and you may be able to continue claiming UK-based benefits if you’re moving to one with a special arrangement with the UK, or in the European Economic Area. However you could be committing benefit fraud by failing to report a change in circumstances, such as working, buying a property, or claiming benefits in another country. While the UK remains part of the European Union – which could be only until 31 January – there will be no change to the rights and standards of UK nationals living in EU countries, according to the government’s website. Those looking to emigrate to a non-EU country will need to apply for a visa, for which you will need to qualify and in many countries can take months to process. But as the statements of intent to leave Britain emerged on social media after the exit poll, voices emerged in response, urging people to put the interests of those without the means to move country before their own. Others suggested getting involved with local politics and joining a party, volunteering and donating to charity as ways to affect tangible change.
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Andy Gregory
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/general-election-result-leave-uk-how-boris-johnson-tory-majority-labour-a9244701.html
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Fri, 13 Dec 2019 01:23:00 GMT
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cnsnews--2019-02-08--US Envoy Maduro Should Leave Venezuela He Has Friends in Places Like Cuba and Russia
| 2019-02-08T00:00:00 |
cnsnews
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US Envoy: Maduro Should Leave Venezuela; He Has ‘Friends in Places Like Cuba and Russia’
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(CNSNews.com) – The United States would like to see Venezuela’s leftist dictator leave the country to help facilitate the transition to democracy there, U.S. special representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams said Thursday, noting that Nicolás Maduro has “friends in places like Cuba and Russia.” Briefing reporters at the State Department, Abrams also disclosed that several other countries have informed the U.S. quietly that they would be willing to take regime members, although he declined to name them. National Security Advisor John Bolton tweeted recently, “I wish Nicolas Maduro and his top advisors a long, quiet retirement, living on a nice beach somewhere far from Venezuela.” “They should take advantage of President Guaido’s amnesty and move on. The sooner the better,” he added, referring to National Assembly leader Juan Guaido who the U.S. and dozens of other countries have now recognized as interim president, in line with Venezuela’s constitution. Asked Thursday what the U.S. has in mind for Maduro, Abrams replied, “The endgame for him should be to leave power, and the sooner the better. Because his own situation is only going to decline the longer he clings to power and the more misery there is in Venezuela.” As to whether or not he should remain in the country, Abrams said, “I think it is better for the transition to democracy in Venezuela that he be outside the country. And there are a number of countries that I think would be willing to accept him.” Asked to identify them, he noted, “he’s got friends in places like Cuba and Russia, and there are some other countries actually that have come to us privately and said they’d be willing to take members of the current illegitimate regime if it would help the transition.” Abrams took issue with accusations by Maduro allies like China that the U.S. is interfering in Venezuela’s domestic affairs. “If you look around at the now nearly 50 democracies that are supporting interim-president Guaido and the National Assembly, it’s hard really to say that all of those countries are engaged in some kind of joint effort to interfere,” he argued. Abrams said there has been outside interference in Venezuela’s internal politics for a long time, but that it had come primarily from Cuba, “which has a very large presence in Venezuela.” The communist regime in Havana has been a longstanding close ally of the administration ruling Venezuela since the late President Hugo Chavez took the helm in 1999 and introduced his “21st century socialism” project. Chavez held power for 14 years until he died of cancer in 2013, after handpicking as his successor Maduro, a former bus driver and Cuban-trained activist who served as Chavez’ foreign minister from 2006-2013. Under Chavez and Maduro, Caracas drew closer not just to Cuba and fellow leftist regimes in the region like Nicaragua, Ecuador and Bolivia, but also to Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya, Iran, Turkey and Russia. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo drew attention to some of Maduro’s alliances. “The Cubans have been controlling the security apparatus, protecting Maduro, and destroying the way of life for the Venezuelan people for an awfully long time,” he said in an interview with Fox Business’ Trish Regan. He noted that both the Cubans and Russians were in Venezuela today, and voiced the hope that, post-transition, “the Venezuelan people will want to be sovereign and independent, not rely on Cubans and Russians for their security or their wellbeing.” In response to a question, Pompeo alluded to longstanding concerns about the involvement of Iran and its Lebanese terrorist proxy Hezbollah in Latin America. “People don’t recognize that Hezbollah has active cells,” he said. “The Iranians are impacting the people of Venezuela and throughout South America.”
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Patrick Goodenough
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https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/us-envoy-maduro-should-leave-venezuela-he-has-friends-places-cuba
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2019-02-08 09:23:12+00:00
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activistpost--2019-12-28--Venezuela Is Fast Becoming World’s Biggest Refugee Crisis
| 2019-12-28T00:00:00 |
activistpost
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Venezuela Is Fast Becoming World’s Biggest Refugee Crisis
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According to UN data, Venezuela is fast becoming the world’s biggest refugee crisis. By the end of 2020, 6.5 million Venezuelans are expected to have been forcibly displaced outside of their home country. You will find more infographics at Statista This is up from just 300,000 in 2017. Syria, the biggest global refugee crisis to date, reached its height in 2018 with 6.7 million displaced people. With resettlement programs ongoing, that number is expected to have been reduced to 5.6 by the end of 2019 and might further fall in 2020. While the number of Syrian refugees and those in a refugee-like situation had been rising since 2011, Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes that Venezuelan refugee numbers jumped up quickly, testing the preparedness of humanitarian organizations in the region. You will find more infographics at Statista Brookings Institution, which analyzed the data, notes that compared to the Syrian crisis, the Venezuela refugee situation is severely underfunded, putting the lives of hundred thousands of people at risk because of the lack of food and medical assistance. This article was sourced from Zerohedge.com Subscribe to Activist Post for truth, peace, and freedom news. Become an Activist Post Patron for as little as $1 per month at Patreon. Follow us on SoMee, Flote, Minds, Twitter, and Steemit. Provide, Protect and Profit from what’s coming! Get a free issue of Counter Markets today.
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Activist Post
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https://www.activistpost.com/2019/12/venezuela-is-fast-becoming-worlds-biggest-refugee-crisis.html
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Sat, 28 Dec 2019 16:16:16 +0000
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democracynow--2019-12-13--Climate Refugees: Climate-Fueled Drought, Sea Level Rise, Storms & Fires Displace Millions Worldwide
| 2019-12-13T00:00:00 |
democracynow
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Climate Refugees: Climate-Fueled Drought, Sea Level Rise, Storms & Fires Displace Millions Worldwide
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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. We’re broadcasting from inside the U.N. climate summit here in Madrid, Spain, in the last few days of this climate summit that people are calling a cop-out, that we inside the climate summit have seen mass protests here, and yet still it limps along, and outside, the number of people who are so affected by the climate catastrophe. NERMEEN SHAIKH: A new study finds that the climate crisis is already leading to a massive increase in the number of refugees being displaced around the world. In Berkeley, California, we are joined by Hossein Ayazi, policy analyst with the Global Justice Program at the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. He’s the co-author of the new report, “Climate Refugees: The Climate Crisis and Rights Denied.” And still with us here in Madrid is Saleemul Huq, climate scientist and the director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development in Bangladesh. He’s advising the bloc of Least Developed Countries here in the climate negotiations. So, Hossein Ayazi, could you lay out what you found in this report on climate refugees? How many are there? What countries are the worst affected? HOSSEIN AYAZI: Yes. So, we’re finding in the report that permanent and short-term displacement due to the climate crisis is only increasing. In 2018, for example, of the 28 million new displaced persons, over 17 million were displaced due to weather-related natural disasters. And these displacements are, by and large, across the Global South. One need only look to the drought in Pakistan, the floods in India, in Nigeria, the crop failures and droughts in the Central American Dry Corridor that was behind the Central American migration caravan, the migrant caravan, that dominated news cycles last year. And the second finding in the report is that although we generally refer to climate-induced displaced persons as “climate refugees,” this is actually not a legally recognized term, as in this is not a term within international refugee protections. And in fact, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees does not officially endorse the term “climate refugees.” And this is really emblematic of the issue at large, in that across international refugee law, international human rights law, international humanitarian law and other bodies of law, protections for climate refugees are limited, piecemeal and, by and large, not legally binding. AMY GOODMAN: So, you were here. Is that right, Hossein Ayazi? HOSSEIN AYAZI: No, I was not at COP. AMY GOODMAN: Ah, but some of your colleagues were. This issue of climate refugees right now, how does what’s happening inside the U.N. climate summit affect what’s happening outside, this discussion we’re having with you about climate refugees? And if you can talk more about, for example, what you mean by “petro-persecution”? HOSSEIN AYAZI: Sure. So, I’ll start with your second question, in that petro-persecution is the main notion that we’re advancing within the report. And it’s a term — basically, we’ve identified a major barrier in negotiations toward refugee protections for climate refugees. In order to obtain refugee status, one need cross international borders due to a real risk of persecution on the basis of one’s race, ethnicity, religion, other circumstances. But this notion of persecution within refugee law assumes that the source of persecution, the actor, the persecutor, is either one’s country of origin, the government, or internal to one’s country of origin. And this is not how forced migration under the climate crisis works. In fact, when we think of forced migration under the climate crisis, it’s fundamentally impossible to tie a specific climate-related natural disaster to a specific actor of persecution, whether it’s corporation — fossil fuel corporations or fossil fuel-dependent industrial processes. Additionally, many of the countries that are at greatest risk of the effects of the climate crisis are in fact working hard to protect their own populations, to keep them in place, to ensure that they have the livelihoods to remain in place. And so, what we’re trying to do with this notion of petro-persecution is, one, delink the notion of persecution from territory. By that, I mean the climate crisis is a global phenomenon, and so we need to recognize it as such within international refugee law. And the second thing that we want to advance within this notion of petro-persecution is that the actor of persecution is actually our global dependence upon fossil fuels and the global investment patterns behind this dependence. NERMEEN SHAIKH: And, Hossein, your report doesn’t just look at climate refugees in the sense of people who are forced to flee across borders, but also at people who have been forced to flee their homes within countries, internally displaced people. Could you talk about that? What did you find? How many people are affected, and where? HOSSEIN AYAZI: Yes. So, by and large, most migration due to the climate crisis and most migration — most forced migration, in general, is internal. And this is something that we state clearly in the report. And that is actually — people displaced internally do have the legally recognized ability to gain — ability to resettle within their country of origin and stay put. And the issue that we found in the report is that while internally displaced peoples do have the means for recourse and redress in some way or another, that this is not at all the case for peoples forced to cross international borders. So, when we discuss refugees, whether climate refugees or not, we’re really talking about movement across international borders and how — as a certain island nations, for example, are at risk of complete inundation, or desertification makes entire countries potentially uninhabitable, that people are forced to flee their country and that there’s no place for them to resettle at home. And this is the major gap in international refugee law that we are shining the light on. HOSSEIN AYAZI: Yeah. So, this notion of food refugees is one that we are using to define people or communities displaced due to growing food insecurity. And this can be due to a number of dynamics. This could be due to land grabs or natural resource grabs, seed monopolies, international free trade agreements — basically, what people might describe as the corporate food regime or corporate food system. And this structural vulnerability that communities face as a result of this larger system actually intersects with the climate crisis, in the sense that natural disasters exacerbated by the climate crisis force people to already — force already vulnerable peoples to search elsewhere for sustainable livelihoods. And so, while we recognize that the term “climate refugee” is different from “food refugee,” the two are really interrelated and need be recognized as both distinct categories yet fundamentally inseparable. AMY GOODMAN: Very quickly, before we end, Saleemul Huq, this year we’re in Madrid, Spain; next year, Glasgow. What do you expect to happen in this time? Or does it even matter what happens here? Is it the action in the streets the only thing that makes a difference, like the young climate activists, by the millions, going on school climate strike, demanding that their leaders pay attention and take action? SALEEMUL HUQ: I think it still matters. I think it does matter, because this is where the leaders are. This is where the leaders are negotiating. They have to listen to their own kids who are out on the streets shouting at them and telling them that they’re ruining their own kids’ future. So we are still hopeful that they will listen between now and Glasgow. We hope we’ll get a result in Madrid that will, on the particular issue that I’m concerned about, get a funding mechanism for loss and damage opened up for discussion, which we can come back to in Glasgow and see whether or not we can actually make it happen. We not asking for it to happen here. We’re asking for it to be allowed to happen next year in Glasgow. We’re hopeful that we might get that. AMY GOODMAN: Well, we want to thank you both so much for being with us, Saleemul Huq, climate scientist, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development in Bangladesh, and Hossein Ayazi, policy analyst and co-author of the new report, “Climate Refugees: The Climate Crisis and Rights Denied.” We’ll link to that report at democracynow.org. That does it for our coverage right here on site at the 25th United Nations climate change summit. We want to say special thanks to our crew right here in Madrid, but we’ll let them speak their own names in their own words. AMY GOODMAN: And thank you also to the crew who helped us with our live crew last Friday from El Cumbre Social on Climate: Ana Galatea, Marina Peñuelas and Daniel Vasquez. And to the Democracy Now! crew here on the ground in Madrid: Libby Rainey, Carla Wills, Nermeen Shaikh, John Hamilton, Hany Massoud, Charina Nadura, Laura Gottesdiener, María Taracena, Julia Thomas, Adriano Contreras, Denis Moynihan and María Carrión. Special thanks to Julie Crosby — welcome back — and to Miriam Barnard. And a very welcome to the world to Malachy. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh.
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[email protected] (Democracy Now!)
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http://www.democracynow.org/2019/12/13/climate_refugees_climate_fueled_drought_sea
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Fri, 13 Dec 2019 08:48:16 -0500
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france24--2019-09-30--Rioting breaks out at Greek refugee camp after two migrants die in fire
| 2019-09-30T00:00:00 |
france24
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Rioting breaks out at Greek refugee camp after two migrants die in fire
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Angelos Tzortzinis, AFP | A migrant carries a woman during clashes with police outside the refugee camp of Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos, on September 29, 2019. At least two migrants died on Sunday in a fire at a Greek island refugee camp, with the blaze triggering rioting by angry residents. Athens News Agency, quoting police sources, reported that a woman and a child had died in the blaze at the overcrowded Moria camp on the island of Lesbos. The body of the woman was taken to the island's general hospital while the body of the child was handed over to authorities by migrants. The fire inside the camp was extinguished by plane. But police later fired tear gas to control an angry crowd who said authorities took too long to respond to the incident, according to an AFP correspondent. The death toll, however, was unclear with an Afghan migrant eyewitness saying three people died as a result of the fire that spread to six or seven containers used to house residents. "We found two children completely charred and a woman dead. We gave the children covered in blankets to the fire brigade," Fedouz, 15, told AFP. The AFP correspondent saw two bodies, one surrounded by weeping family members. In a statement, police said the riots occurred after two separate fires broke out, firstly outside and then inside Moria camp with a time gap of twenty minutes. Additional officers were sent from Athens in C-130 army planes in a bid to contain the situation, although local police sources said calm had returned to the camp by 2300 GMT. The Deputy Minister of Citizen Protection Lefteris Economou, along with the Chief of Police and the Secretary General for Migration Policy, are due to visit. Moria camp hosts around 13,000 people but has facilities for just 3,000. It has become like a small town with UN refugee agency tents for around 8,000 people sprawling into the olive fields of nearby Moria village. Others are housed in containers. Greece is hosting some 70,000 mostly Syrian refugees and migrants who have fled their countries since 2015, and crossed over from neighbouring Turkey. Under an agreement reached with the European Union in 2016, Turkey has made greater efforts to limit departures towards the five Greek islands closest to its shores. But the number of arrivals has been steadily climbing in recent months causing a dangerous burden in the camps of the islands that are in the forefront of the migrant influx. The Greek government said on Sunday it planned to discuss a new asylum draft law to deal with the fresh migrant crisis. "In the cabinet meeting on Monday, we are going to discuss a draft law proposed by the Citizen's Protection Ministry which will update, in accordance with European standards, the asylum procedure", Minister of State, George Gerapetritis said in an interview with Skai Tv on Sunday. He stressed that migrants should be sent to camps with humane conditions, admitting that existing ones were not able to deal with the increase in migrants. On Friday, Citizen's Protection Minister, Michalis Chrysochoidis, asked for the cooperation of regional governors, during an emergency meeting, in order to share the migrant burden of the overcrowded islands. He asked regional authorities of mainland Greece to expand existing camps or to revive some closed ones.
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NEWS WIRES
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https://www.france24.com/en/20190930-greece-refugee-camp-lesbos-fire-riots-migrants
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2019-09-30 03:10:15+00:00
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frontpagemagazine--2019-08-15--Turks Want Syrian Refugees Out of Their Country
| 2019-08-15T00:00:00 |
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Turks Want Syrian Refugees Out of Their Country
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Not all that long ago the media insisted on telling Americans that they were shirking their responsibility by not taking in Syrian migrants. "Look at how many millions of Syrian refugees the Turks and Jordanians have taken in," the media would insist. These were crazy lies. Jordan and Turkey were stuck with large numbers of Syrians, but neither was willing to take them in. Turkey wouldn't even classify them as refugees. They certainly weren't doing what the media wanted us to do, which was resettle them permanently in their countries. Fast forward to today and the populace wants them gone, as [Tom Gross c](http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/001865.html)ites. > In a poll conducted earlier this year, 68% of Turkish respondents expressed discontent with the Syrian presence, compared to 58% in 2016. > > Turks are sharply divided on many issues, with one bloc tending to oppose President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policies and an equal-size bloc ardently supporting him. Yet dissatisfaction with the decision to welcome Syrian refugees since 2011 is a rare exception to that rule, garnering majority criticism across party lines. Around 60% of those who back Erdogan’s governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) express discontent with the Syrian presence, together with 64% from the AKP-allied Nationalist Action Party (MHP); on the opposition side, the figures are 62% from the IYI Party, 71% from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), and 83% from the Republican People’s Party (CHP). The more secular Turkish political movements accuse Erdogan of wanting to resettle Syrian Sunni Islamists in Turkey. Even Erdogan doesn't seem that crazy, but illegal migration may be the issue that finally topples his Islamist regime. > Many citizens believe that Syrians are to blame for rising unemployment and low wages across all sectors. Unemployment was at 14% as of March, up from 9% in 2011. Put another way, the number of jobless Turks has nearly doubled to 4.5 million since the government first began admitting Syrian refugees. > > The Syrian presence is also being blamed for many of Turkey’s social troubles. Emerging opinion leaders with large online followings have been especially important in normalizing anti-Syrian attitudes. Dismissed MHP parliamentarian Sinan Ogan, who boasts over a million Twitter followers, attracted thousands of interactions with a July post claiming that Syrian and Afghan refugees rape women and boys, and that “chopping heads” is a part of Syrian culture. Similarly, a recent article by popular opposition journalist Yilmaz Ozdil alleged that Syrians are “invading” Istanbul “street by street,” causing disturbances and forcing Turks to move out of their neighborhoods. He also accused them of setting up illegal businesses, forming gangs, and stockpiling prescription drugs, claiming that “Syrians are free to commit crimes.” Funny how attitudes toward migrants are the same around the world, regardless of race, creed or culture.
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Daniel Greenfield
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https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/274637/turks-want-syrian-refugees-out-their-country-daniel-greenfield
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2019-08-15 06:31:06+00:00
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jerusalempost--2019-11-07--Erdogan: Turkey will let refugees into Europe if EU does not support it
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Erdogan: Turkey will let refugees into Europe if EU does not support it
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ANKARA - Turkey will have to open the doors to Europe for Syrian refugees unless the European Union provides Ankara with enough support, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, adding that Turkey could not carry that burden alone. Turkey aims to establish a "safe zone" in northeast Syria, where it says up to 2 million Syrian refugees can settle once the region is cleared of the Kurdish YPG militia. Ankara has repeatedly urged the EU to help Turkey in hosting more than 3.5 million refugees. "Whether we receive support or not, we will continue to aid the guests we are hosting. But, if this doesn't work out, then we will have to open the doors," Erdogan told a news conference alongside Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest. var cont = `Join Jerusalem Post Premium Plus now for just $5 and upgrade your experience with an ads-free website and exclusive content. Click here>> `; document.getElementById("linkPremium").innerHTML = cont; (function (v, i){ });
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By REUTERS
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https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Erdogan-Turkey-will-let-refugees-into-Europe-if-EU-does-not-support-it-607178
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Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:47:09 GMT
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jerusalempost--2019-12-17--Pakistan's Khan says millions of Muslim refugees could flee India
| 2019-12-17T00:00:00 |
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Pakistan's Khan says millions of Muslim refugees could flee India
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Khan, addressing the Global Forum on Refugees in Geneva, said: "We are worried there not only could be a refugee crisis, we are worried it could lead to a conflict between two nuclear-armed countries."
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By REUTERS
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https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Pakistans-Khan-says-millions-of-Muslim-refugees-could-flee-India-611182
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Tue, 17 Dec 2019 10:27:42 GMT
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jerusalempost--2019-12-24--Missing from India's citizenship law: 100,000 Sri Lankan refugees
| 2019-12-24T00:00:00 |
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Missing from India's citizenship law: 100,000 Sri Lankan refugees
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India's Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) aims to fast-track citizenship for persecuted Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who arrived in India before Dec. 31, 2014, from Muslim-majority Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The law excludes nearly 100,000 Sri Lankan Tamils, an ethnic minority, who live in India, including about 60,000 in camps in southern Tamil Nadu state, according to the home department. Most of these refugees are Hindu or Christian, whose forefathers were born in India, said S. Velayutham, an advocacy officer at the non-profit Organisation for Eelam Refugees Rehabilitation in the southern city of Chennai. "Many were sent by the British as indentured labourers on Sri Lankan tea plantations, and hoped for a better life in India when they came here during the war," he said. "Some 25,000 children were also born in the camps. They do not know any country but India, but now they may have no choice but to go to Sri Lanka," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. A Tamil Nadu government official who oversees Sri Lankan refugees in the state did not return calls seeking comment. Earlier, state government officials said Home Minister Amit Shah had promised Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami he would consider the issue of Tamil refugees excluded from CAA. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a rally on Sunday, said the government has introduced reforms without any religious bias. Thousands of people were killed in Sri Lanka's civil war, which ended in May 2009 after nearly three decades. Tens of thousands fled, or were forced from their homes in the country's north and east, and many sought refuge in neighbouring India, particularly in Tamil Nadu. While many of them would like to return to Sri Lanka, repatriation has been slow because there is scant assurance on homes and jobs, human rights groups said. Many had their properties seized during the war. In Tamil Nadu, the refugees get free education, healthcare, rations and a modest allowance but they have limited access to jobs and cannot get official documents. The decision to exclude some marginalised groups from the CAA is "extremely disturbing", said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at advocacy group Human Rights Watch, calling on the government to revoke the CAA.
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By REUTERS
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https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Missing-from-Indias-citizenship-law-100000-Sri-Lankan-refugees-611974
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Tue, 24 Dec 2019 12:38:27 GMT
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nationalreview--2019-10-10--Erdogan Threatens To ‘Open the Doors’ to Europe for Refugees if Criticisms Continue
| 2019-10-10T00:00:00 |
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Erdogan Threatens To ‘Open the Doors’ to Europe for Refugees if Criticisms Continue
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a warning to the European Union during a speech to his party on Thursday, threatening to flood the continent with millions of refugees in response to international criticism of Turkey’s recent military offensive in northern Syria. “Hey EU, wake up. I say it again: if you try to frame our operation there as an invasion, our task is simple: we will open the doors and send 3.6 million migrants to you,” Erdogan said in the speech. The public opinion over Erdogan’s actions has largely been negative. On Thursday, France’s foreign ministry requested the Turkish ambassador, Ismail Hakki Musa, speak in Paris about the recent attacks, according to sources. Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio also called for an immediate end to the fighting. “As a government we think that the Turkish offensive initiative is unacceptable. We condemn it … because military action in the past has always led to more terrorism,” he said. “We call for an immediate end to this offensive which is absolutely not acceptable given that the use of force continues to endanger the life of the Syrian people, who have already experienced tragedy in recent years.” Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement Thursday joining his European counterparts in calling for Turkey to end its attacks against the Kurds. “Israel strongly condemns the Turkish invasion of the Kurdish areas in Syria and warns against the ethnic cleansing of the Kurds by Turkey and its proxies. Israel is prepared to extend humanitarian assistance to the gallant Kurdish people,” he said. Iran, a close ally of the Syrian government, called for the Turks to halt their advance, while Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia would push for the necessity of dialogue between Turkey and Syria.” During the Thursday rally, an inflammatory Erdogan defended his government’s decision-making and accused other countries of being dishonest in their criticisms. “They are not honest, they just make up words,” he said. “We, however, create action and that is our difference.”
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Tobias Hoonhout
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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/erdogan-threatens-to-open-the-doors-to-europe-for-refugees-if-criticisms-continue/
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Thu, 10 Oct 2019 12:32:39 +0000
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naturalnews--2019-03-21--Muslim refugees bringing wave of tuberculosis to Minnesota CDC silent media refuses to accuratel
| 2019-03-21T00:00:00 |
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Muslim refugees bringing wave of tuberculosis to Minnesota... CDC silent, media refuses to accurately cover
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(Natural News) While parents of schoolchildren in California are being bullied into getting their kids vaccinated and shamed by the mainstream media, refugees are entering our country with highly contagious diseases and the media and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are barely batting an eye. In the span of five years, 296 cases of active tuberculosis were diagnosed among Somalian refuses in Minnesota alone. In fact, the 81 percent of TB cases that were diagnosed among foreign-born residents in Minnesota is much greater than the 66 percent of tuberculosis cases nationwide attributed to foreign-born residents. It’s also worth noting that the number of tuberculosis cases reported in the U.S. climbed for the first time in 23 years in 2015, and much of that rise is being pinned on the jump in foreign-born population compared to the total population during the same period. Many of these Somali-born migrants came to the country through the federal refugee resettlement program. More Somalis are living Minnesota than in any other state. Around 20 percent of Somalis aged five and older speak little or no English, most are Sunni Muslims, and eight out of ten of them live in poverty. Tax payers in Minnesota spent an estimated $5 million treating active TB cases among refugees, spending roughly $3 million on the Somalian refugees diagnosed with the disease and $2 million on refugees from other countries with the illness. If this is the first time you’re hearing about this tuberculosis wave, you’re not alone; although sites like Natural News and Breitbart reported on this back in 2016, it’s hardly getting the coverage it deserves. The mainstream media, despite being all too eager to devote countless hours of coverage to measles outbreaks, has been completely ignoring it, with coverage these days coming mostly from more obscure outlets like The Israel Wire. 100% organic essential oil sets now available for your home and personal care, including Rosemary, Oregano, Eucalyptus, Tea Tree, Clary Sage and more, all 100% organic and laboratory tested for safety. A multitude of uses, from stress reduction to topical first aid. See the complete listing here, and help support this news site. Although Minnesota’s TB problem isn’t being widely reported on, at least the statistics are being made available. States like Michigan, on the other hand, are doing their best to ensure that word doesn’t spread about the problem, with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services being accused of adopting a “culture of concealment” when it comes to hiding latent tuberculosis infection rates in refugees from the public. In fact, Michigan has not been collecting and keeping data on latent TB infection rates. County health departments and private refugee health screening services carrying out initial medical screenings are not sharing their screening data, even though the provision of such data is required by federal health statutes pertaining to refugee health screening. Identifying latent tuberculosis infections as refugees enter the country is essential as treatment must commence right away to prevent the disease from being spread. When latent TB activates into infectious TB, it becomes a public health risk. With 22 percent of the refugees who arrived in Minnesota testing positive for latent TB at their initial screening, it’s not a stretch to imagine a similarly high percentage being found in Michigan. It’s interesting that kids in California are being banned from school until they get measles vaccines despite no cases of the illness actually being reported at their school, yet no one talks about the fact that migrants are bringing highly contagious diseases into the country – in fact, the World Health Organization’s fact sheet says that latent TB is the top infectious disease killer on the planet. These people are also bringing in diseases like diphtheria, whooping cough, and yes, measles. For all the overblown drama about vaccinated kids going to school with kids who haven’t been vaccinated against measles, where is the concern among the CDC and the media about people who are demonstrably importing contagious diseases into our country? Is their fear of being labeled racist for calling attention to the problem really worth putting the population at risk?
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Isabelle Z.
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http://www.naturalnews.com/2019-03-21-muslim-refugees-bringing-wave-of-tuberculosis-to-minnesota.html
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2019-03-21 08:37:43+00:00
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newsweek--2019-01-24--The Venezuela Crisis Could Produce More Refugees than Syria Here is How the US Can Prepare Opin
| 2019-01-24T00:00:00 |
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The Venezuela Crisis Could Produce More Refugees than Syria. Here is How the U.S. Can Prepare | Opinion
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Venezuela used to be one of the richest economies not only in the region, but in the entire world. By now, however, more than 3 million have been reduced to leaving the country, as unparalleled economic crisis brings healthcare, education, and all other basic services to their knees. Living standards are so dramatically depressed those of the US Great Depression pale in comparison. All this has already happened—even with no armed conflict taking place. It’s difficult to imagine how much worse this socioeconomic disaster of unprecedented magnitude will get if the currently ongoing escalation erupts into civil strife. Here is where Venezuela stands as the calamitous political situation enters the most dramatic political spiral since the death of Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chavez. As many as 40,000 Venezuelans the Simon Bolivar bridge to Colombia every day, to access basic services and goods. Some 5,000 of them do not return - and already this number has jumped up with the renewed protests and increased political turmoil. Venezuelans who have already endured years of immiseration are beyond the breaking point. The forecasts for 2019 paint an even more worrying picture: as inflation in Venezuela is expected to reach an inconceivable 10 million percent, the UN has estimated that over 5 million refugees will be displaced, with 2 million expected in Colombia alone - eclipsing even the Syrian refugee crisis. It's time we take this seriously. While in Cucuta, Colombia, with the International Rescue Committee, I had a chance to hear these human stories first-hand. I expected to be moved by them, but to feel powerless to help. This trip changed that. After all, Venezuelans looking for a better life do not look the part of the desperate refugee fleeing a war-torn country. They look just like you and me. I was struck by how much of myself I saw in the stories of people like Desiree. Up to months ago, Desiree—a wife and mother of two children, like me—was working as a schoolteacher, providing for herself and her family. Today, after months and years of immiseration, she is unable to afford even one meal a day for her family in Venezuela. Her anguish was palpable at not being able to keep her family above water. Through her tears, she told me that she does not want charity but the possibility to provide for her family and give back to the society that received her. Her wish for 2019 is for her children, and those she used to teach, to have a future. I know I share the same wish for mine. Beyond the essential assistance the IRC is providing to children and their families for the short-term in neighboring countries like Colombia, it’s apparent that a long-term solution is needed now that allows these refugees a chance to access healthcare, send their children to school, be documented and to contribute. Unlike many rich countries, which have been closing their doors to migrants and refugees, Venezuela’s neighbors have shown welcome - but conditions are fragile. The Government of Colombia and other regional states must take concrete steps to ensure Venezuelans have access to documentation and basic services such as health and shelter of which they are in dire need. Countries like my native Brazil are threatening to leave the new UN Global Compact for Migration—a new and much-needed international approach for the 68 million people currently displaced around the world- just as more Venezuelan refugees seek safety there. Governments across South America as well as international donors must step up their support to prevent this crisis turning into a bigger catastrophe. The introduction of a bipartisan bill by US Senators Menendez and Rubio to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Venezuelans already in the United States (which already exists for Syrians, Yemenis and other populations at risk) is a promising recognition of our moral and humanitarian obligations. I witnessed an extraordinary welcome from Colombians, whether it be by opening their arms, their homes or their businesses to Venezuelans in need. One Colombian IRC staff member told me, "I am Colombian, but my heart is also Venezuelan." Standing with refugees is a test of our humanity, not just our policies. The refugees I met opened their hearts and souls to me. A Venezuelan mom told me, “Los suenos nunca se van a perder”—dreams are never lost. With some small steps, a little at a time—we can all help solve this crisis and ensure that all Venezuelans’ dreams are never lost indeed. Morena Baccarin is a Brazilian-American actress who has starred in Deadpool, Homeland, and currently stars in Gotham. She is an ambassador for the International Rescue Committee. The views expressed in this article are the author's own.
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2019-01-24 15:32:47+00:00
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npr--2019-03-12--Refugee Soccer Player Hakeem al-Araibi Granted Australian Citizenship
| 2019-03-12T00:00:00 |
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Refugee Soccer Player Hakeem al-Araibi Granted Australian Citizenship
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On Tuesday, a Bahraini refugee soccer player who was jailed and facing deportation arguably got his biggest goal — citizenship in a foreign country. Hakeem al-Araibi, 25, was one of about 200 people who became Australia citizens at a ceremony in Melbourne. Prime Minister Scott Morrison fastened his own Australia flag pin to Araibi's jacket. "I'll take the new one," he said. "But this is for you, which you can wear very proudly, as our newest Australian but as someone whose Australian values have always been deep in his heart." The developments in Araibi's life triggered outcry among human rights activists, sports enthusiasts and lawmakers across the globe. Araibi used to play on the national soccer team in the small Persian Gulf state of Bahrain. In 2012, authorities arrested him. In 2014, a court convicted him in absentia of torching a police station, handing him a prison sentence of 10 years. The professional soccer player fled Bahrain that year. He had been living in Australia as a refugee until last November, when he landed in Thailand during his honeymoon. Thai officials arrested him on an Interpol red notice. He spent two months in jail, facing extradition to Bahrain. "I could still remember the tone in Hakeem's voice," Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, the director of advocacy for the London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, tells NPR. "He was telling me about his sleepless nights, like it was a film running back in his head. Remembering everything in detail about how he was abused in Bahrain detention." Araibi was beaten, especially on his legs and feet just to remind him that he would not play soccer again, Alwadaei says. He says video footage showed that Araibi was playing in a televised soccer match when the alleged vandalism occurred. Inside Bangkok Remand Prison, Araibi told The Guardian that "Bahrain wants me back to punish me" for speaking publicly about human rights abuses and discrimination against Shia Muslims by Sunni leaders. Under international pressure, Thai prosecutors dropped the case in February and Araibi was released from a Bangkok prison cell. Bahrain withdrew its extradition request but on the same day, the minister of foreign affairs gave the ambassador of Australia to Bahrain a memorandum with the international arrest warrant issued against Araibi. On Tuesday, the soccer player announced that he finally felt safe. "No one can follow me now," he tweeted. In attendance at the ceremony was Craig Foster, an Australian sports analyst and retired soccer player who worked tirelessly to raise awareness of Araibi's case. "May we learn from the experience as a nation, treat every asylum seeker as supportively, with corresponding compassion as Hakeem. All deserve equal dignity, opportunity," he said. Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne told a crowd from the podium about the widespread concern for Araibi's welfare. Public support "played an enormous part in ensuring he was returned to Australia," she said. His soccer club, Pascoe Vale, described Tuesday's event as "a moment we all have been waiting for." It added that his example showed how soccer can break down barriers and unite people. Araibi is currently training and trying to regain the strength he lost while away from soccer, according to The Guardian. Alwadaei says Tuesday's joy only goes so far. "Although someone managed to escape the torture doesn't mean that their family members will be immune from consequences from the government," he says. Araibi's brother, who was imprisoned on the same charges, remains behind bars, Alwadaei says. He adds that many more political prisoners are languishing in Bahrain. "Although Hakeem got unprecedented support from the international community simply for his affiliation with [soccer]," he says, "there are thousands of other individuals who simply have no one to advocate on their behalf simply because they don't happen to be a famous athlete or to have the community behind them."
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https://www.npr.org/2019/03/12/702515258/refugee-soccer-player-hakeem-al-araibi-granted-australian-citizenship?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
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npr--2019-04-15--Bangladesh Struggles To Cope With Pressures Of Hosting 1 Million Rohingya Refugees
| 2019-04-15T00:00:00 |
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Bangladesh Struggles To Cope With Pressures Of Hosting 1 Million Rohingya Refugees
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Bangladesh Struggles To Cope With Pressures Of Hosting 1 Million Rohingya Refugees It's high tide in Cox's Bazar and there's a traffic jam right on the beach at Bangladesh's most prominent seaside resort. The lone road that leads south to the sprawling new camps sheltering hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees is closed for repairs. All the traffic has been diverted onto the gray sand beach, where people are taking selfies and strolling in the shallow surf. Little green rickshaws jostle with passenger vans and pickup trucks to get over a sand dune and back onto the paved roadway to head in the direction of the camps. At high tide, some of the vehicles get stuck in the wet sand, blocking those behind them. The sudden influx of 700,000 refugees in 2017 has had a huge negative impact on the local community, says Mohammad Abul Kalam, the head of Bangladesh's Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission in Cox's Bazar. "We're being outnumbered by the sheer number of the refugee population," he says. Beyond this, "The infrastructure has been under unbelievable pressure," Kalam says — not just from the refugees themselves, but also from the tremendous aid effort underway to keep so many people sheltered, fed and healthy. Kalam is the Bangladesh government's top local official regarding the Rohingya. He says the area's roads and bridges are being beaten up by convoys of aid vehicles shuttling from Cox's Bazar to the camps. "They were not meant for this much population," he says. Kalam points out that Ukhiya, the administrative district that includes the camps, has a population of 230,000 people. "Yet we now have more than 700,000 in the refugee population," he says. "So the entire demographic balance has been reversed." Late in 2017, Rohingya fled from Myanmar into Bangladesh to escape attacks by soldiers and pro-government militias. The U.N. and human rights groups condemned the attacks as a campaign of ethnic cleansing and an organized effort to drive the Rohingya out of Myanmar. Thousands of people were killed. The refugees who arrived in Bangladesh in 2017 joined other Rohingya who'd fled earlier waves of violence and pushed the total number of Rohingya refugees in the area up to nearly 1 million. Kalam notes that the refugees' activities have been detrimental to the environment. They've cut down all of the forests surrounding the camps for firewood in what is a nature preserve. They've diverted streams as they've terraced hillsides to build new shelters. He claims they are driving up some food prices — while, at the same time, food aid diverted to local markets is driving down demand for Bangladesh-grown rice. And, he says, the refugees are pushing down wages by accepting jobs at lower pay than Bangladeshis are willing to accept. Aid convoys beat up the local roads and further congest what was already heavy traffic. The refugees are not supposed to leave the camps. Nor are they allowed to work in Bangladesh. Kalam says they do both. He doesn't blame them. "You cannot really stop people from being engaged in work of one kind or another," he says. "It always happens." But he says the Rohingya are taking away jobs from Bangladeshis, particularly low-skilled jobs on farms and other manual labor. The presence of nearly a million refugees is in this part of Bangladesh, he says, is unsustainable. "It's very, very difficult for us," he says. "We are already an overpopulated country with more than 160 million population in very limited space. It would be really very difficult for Bangladesh to allow them to integrate within our own society." Given the trauma that the Rohingya experienced in 2017, it appears unlikely that many will want to return to Myanmar anytime soon. Late last year, there was an effort to repatriate any Rohingya who wanted to go back. The Bangladeshi government offered free transportation and moving benefits. No one signed up. So Bangladesh last year proposed another solution: move from the overcrowded camps outside Cox's Bazar to a camp with brand-new dormitories that can accommodate 100,000 refugees. The only problem: It's on an island in the Bay of Bengal, more than 15 miles from the mainland. The Bhasan Char island emerged 20 years ago, formed in the bay's shifting currents. It is uninhabited and was designated by the government as a forest reserve in 2013. Kamal says Bangladesh has spent $300 million building housing, concrete seawalls and cyclone shelters on the giant sandbar. "Very good quality shelters and other infrastructure are put in place there, including long barriers meant to secure the inhabitants from any cyclonic hit from the Bay of Bengal," he says. "The government is suspecting that the Rohingyas will have a better life there." But Meenakshi Ganguly, the South Asia director for Human Rights Watch, says it's a terrible idea. She warns the island will serve more as a detention facility than upgraded refugee housing. "The truth is these are people who are going to be locked on this island," she says. "Because they're not really allowed to leave." Most international aid groups have been skeptical of the plan to relocate refugees to Bhasan Char. Supplies, aid workers, even teachers would have to be ferried in by boat. The island is controlled by the Bangladesh navy and it's unclear if the Rohingya would have the same access to international aid that they currently do in the camps. Kalam insists refugees won't be forced to move to the island and any relocations will be voluntary. The government had planned to start sending them to the island April 15, but now it's unclear when it may begin. The government may find few takers. There's little enthusiasm among refugees in the sprawling Balukali camp. In his bamboo and tarp shelter, Hamid Hassin, 30, says he has no desire to move to the island. He doesn't want to be separated from other Rohingya in the camps and is worried the low-lying island could flood in a major storm. "We fled Myanmar to save our lives," he says. "I don't want to end up dying on that island."
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Jason Beaubien
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https://www.npr.org/2019/04/15/710256666/bangladesh-struggles-to-cope-with-pressures-of-hosting-1-million-rohingya-refuge?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
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2019-04-15 13:10:00+00:00
| 1,555,348,200 | 1,567,542,974 |
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emigration
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pinknewsuk--2019-06-20--Kenya sends LGBT refugees back to homophobic camp
| 2019-06-20T00:00:00 |
pinknewsuk
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Kenya sends LGBT refugees back to ‘homophobic’ camp
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Signup to receive a daily roundup of the top LGBT+ news stories from around the world Kenya has ordered a group of LGBT+ refugees to return to a camp where they faced homophobic violence. Kenya’s armed police reportedly escorted the group of 76 people back to the camp in Kakuma on Wednesday night (June 19). The refugees—including at least 20 children, according to the Thomson Reuters Foundation—were moved to safe houses in Nairobi by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) after a series of violent attacks. The first among them fled in December 2018, after a protest outside the UNHCR building saw several LGBT+ people attacked by fellow refugees and locals. At the time it was described as a “permanent relocation.” However on Thursday (June), the UNHCR told the BBC that the Kenyan government decided the refugees “should be living in camps and, if they reside outside of camps, it should be with appropriate documentation.” The announcement coincided with World Refugee Day, which seeks to highlight the plight of the 70 million people who have been displaced from their homes around the world. One refugee, originally from Burundi, told BBC Great Lakes he had been left with a facial scars after being violently attacked in the Kakuma camp. Frank (not his real name) said that the camp’s administration told the LGBT+ group at the end of 2018 that they were no longer able to protect them from violence. Some of the group fled immediately. In April, Frank joined them in Nairobi, where he said that they faced further attacks by neighbours. “Wherever we have lived we face homophobia because of our orientation, we don’t know where to flee to,” he said The UNHCR has said that it will protect the LGBT+ refugees while they are living in the camp. Gay sex remains illegal in Kenya after its High Court ruled against decriminalisation on May 24. Under the colonial-era sodomy law, sexual acts “against the order of nature” are punishable by up to 14 years imprisonment. The Thomson Reuters Foundation reports that most of the refugees come from the Congo, where according to UN figures, over 800,000 people have been forced to seek refuge in other African countries following widespread unrest. Others hail from Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and South Sudan.
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Reiss Smith
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https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/06/20/kenya-kakuma-refugee-camp-homophobic/
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2019-06-20 14:52:29+00:00
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prisonplanet--2019-06-20--UK Govt to Resettle Thousands More Refugees Starting Next Year for Years to Come
| 2019-06-20T00:00:00 |
prisonplanet
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UK Govt to ‘Resettle Thousands More Refugees Starting Next Year, for Years to Come’
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The British government has announced it will “resettle thousands more refugees starting from next year, and for years to come.” In an official video message uploaded to social media by the Home Office, Secretary of State Sajid Javid, a contender for Tory leader — and therefore Prime Minister — and former Remainer, boasted that, “Since 2016, Britain has resettled more refugees than any other EU state, something that we’re very proud of.” “Now, with the start of Refugee Week, we’ve made a renewed commitment to resettle thousands more refugees, starting from next year, and for years to come,” continued the Home Secretary, himself a son of Pakistani migrants. “It’s something that we’ll continue to do in conflict zones and danger zones and from dangerous countries around the world, especially the Middle East and Africa,” he concluded — although why the Middle East and Africa should receive priority over refugees from anywhere else was left unexplained. This article was posted: Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 5:31 am
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admin
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https://www.prisonplanet.com/uk-govt-to-resettle-thousands-more-refugees-starting-next-year-for-years-to-come.html
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2019-06-20 10:31:37+00:00
| 1,561,041,097 | 1,567,538,650 |
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renegadetribune--2019-10-03--62 Million Non-White Refugees Seeking Asylum in Europe Since 2011
| 2019-10-03T00:00:00 |
renegadetribune
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6.2 Million Non-White “Refugees” Seeking “Asylum” in Europe Since 2011
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According to official statistics from the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), at least 6.2 million non-Whites have claimed to be “refugees” and demanded “asylum” in Europe since 2011. From January to July of this year, 400,100 non-Whites have already sought “asylum” in the White countries of Europe, as the flood of invaders continues unabated. Here are the total number of “asylum” applications in Europe per year: When totaled together, there have been around 6.2 million “refugees” seeking the good life in Europe, where Whitey is forced to pay for their food, clothing, schooling, housing, and healthcare. “Asylum seekers” are able to have booming birthrates thanks to the White people of Europe, whose birthrates have been declining drastically. We are told that this is all part of our “inevitable brown future” and that we must embrace this change, or else we are bigoted racists who should be locked up. The New Observer reports on the fraudulent nature of the “asylum” claims: Just how blatantly fake these claims of “asylum” are is obvious from the countries of origin of the nonwhite invaders. According to the EASO’s figures, for example, the top “countries of origin” include Syrian, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Iraq, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey, Colombia, Iran, China, Nigeria, Somalia, the Congo, Peru, India, Sudan, Eritrea, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Salvador—among at least 100 others. None of these nationals qualify in any sense for “asylum” status, as even in places such as Syria and Afghanistan, large swathes of those states were always under government control and millions of people lived quite safely there—completely negating anybody else’s “need” to flee across several safe countries to get to Europe. Other state’s nationals—such as those from Nigeria—are clearly not in any danger at all, and are merely swooping on Europe because they want to live in a society set up by white people, as it offers them a higher standard of living, free welfare and shelter—and, in many cases, more profitable criminal opportunities than their own self-created chaos-ridden home nations. The 6.2 million figure is only the number of non-Whites who have sought asylum since 2011. There are many more non-Whites who were living in Europe previously and there are also a good number of non-Whites who illegally Europe and never sought “refugee” status. We are facing a similar crisis in the US, along with almost every other White (or formerly White) country in the world. This has all been orchestrated, not by the invading army of “refugees,” but by an international clique of jews who are dedicated to the destruction of the White race. Unless their agenda is stopped in its tracks, there will be no more Europe or even European people with a few generations.
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renegade
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http://www.renegadetribune.com/6-2-million-non-white-refugees-seeking-asylum-in-europe-since-2011/
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2019-10-03 14:31:05+00:00
| 1,570,127,465 | 1,570,221,732 |
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sottnet--2019-02-28--Contradiction Syrian refugees were fleeing US proxy war not Assad
| 2019-02-28T00:00:00 |
sottnet
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Contradiction: Syrian refugees were fleeing US proxy war, not 'Assad'
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A recent BBC segment titled, " The Syrians returning home after years of fleeing war ," contradicted 8 years of the British state media's narratives regarding the war in Syria.A synopsis of the short BBC video segment would read:The flood of returning refugees to government-held areas indicatesViewers and readers who invested trust in the BBC's narratives over the past 8 years will be shocked to hear thousands of Syrians crowding the Jordanian-Syrian border daily to return to the war-ravaged nation.The BBC has insisted for 8 years, millions of refugees had fled Syria to escape the nation's "brutal dictator" Syrian President Bashar Al Assad - accused of "gassing his own people," raining down "barrel bombs" that were both crude and "indiscriminate" but also paradoxically capable of pinpointing elementary schools and children's hospitals, and whose "Shabiha" death squads lurked around every corner.In 2016, a BBC article titled, " Syria conflict: Aleppo bombing shuts largest hospital ,"The BBC would eagerly report:The BBC - along with the rest of the Western media - have depicted bombs used by the Syrian military as "barrel bombs," claiming that because of their crude construction, they could not be aimed and therefore were "indiscriminate" in nature.A 2013 BBC article titled, " Syria conflict: Barrel bombs show brutality of war ," would claim:The article would also claim such "barrel bombs" were, "in no sense accurate," except of course - when they needed to be accurate for the sake of war propaganda - such as allegedly pinpointing US-funded "hospitals" in terrorist-held Aleppo.A 2017 BBC article titled, " Syria chemical 'attack': What we know ," would claim:The report - of course - was based entirely on "witness" accounts, with OPCW inspectors unable to investigate the site due to the fact Khan Sheikhoun was - and still is - under Al Qaeda occupation.In other words - the samples could have come from anywhere, including labs where they were likely fabricated.The BBC has faithfully repeated every claim made by militants regarding chemical weapons throughout the war. The BBC has gone as far as claiming - though failed categorically to explain how.Why would people - enjoying refugee status in neighboring countries and even in Europe, risk returning to Syria where "brutal dictator" Bashar Al Assad not only still remains in power - but has decisively defeated his opponents through the use of "barrel bombs," "chemical weapons," and other forms of indescribable brutality?The answer is simple -The vast majority of Syria's displaced remained inside Syria - and simply moved into areas under government protection. Now with many other areas of the country having security restored by government forces with Russian and Iranian backing -specifically because the specifics of the crisis clearly revealed who Syrians were really fleeing and why. Analysis of Syria's internally displaced refugees was intentionally and systematically omitted by the BBC and other Western media organizations in their reports over the years toand voluntarily returning once militants were pushed out of various regions across Syria.London-based security expert Charles Shoebridge in a short but insightful social media post would note:And of course - the BBC knows that any viewer or reader still investing trust in its daily and extensive propaganda efforts - will unlikely notice the sudden, dramatic shift in narrative regarding Syria.as a "madman" "gassing his own people" and raining "barrel bombs" on their headsA similar defense has been mounted since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq failed to turn up weapons of mass destruction after media organizations like the BBC assured the public of the necessity of that war.The very refugees it now reports are returning to Syria suffered the fate they have specifically because of theThe cost of the Syrian war helps remind the public why during the Nuremberg trials following World War 2, war propagandists were sent to the gallows alongside the trigger-pullers their lies helped enable.While the BBC still enjoys vast amounts of impunity with no likelihood in the foreseeable future of ever being held accountable for its actions -This fact should be kept in mind whether its correspondents are covering the Middle East, South America, or Southeast Asia.
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https://www.sott.net/article/408247-Contradiction-Syrian-refugees-were-fleeing-US-proxy-war-not-Assad
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2019-02-28 21:58:11+00:00
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sottnet--2019-04-06--Russian military Nearly 1000 refugees left Syrias Rukban Camp on 4 April
| 2019-04-06T00:00:00 |
sottnet
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Russian military: Nearly 1,000 refugees left Syria's Rukban Camp on 4 April
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"On 4 April, 985 civilians left the Rukban refugee camp through the Jeleb checkpoint. They were transported to temporary residence sites in the city of Homs", Kupchishin said at a daily briefing.The general stressed that the refugees were provided with all necessary assistance, including the provision of food and temporary accommodation.The Rukban refugee camp is part of the US-controlled zone around its base in Al-Tanf. The camp, which houses some 40,000 displaced people, is located in the south of Syria, not far from Jordan. The Russia-Syria coordination centre on refugee repatriation has repeatedly blamed the United States for blocking access to the camp.The Russian military also set up a humanitarian corridor and the Jleb mobile checkpoint in order to prevent a humanitarian disaster in the Rukban refugee camp.
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https://www.sott.net/article/410604-Russian-military-Nearly-1000-refugees-left-Syrias-Rukban-Camp-on-4-April
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2019-04-06 10:30:26+00:00
| 1,554,561,026 | 1,567,543,826 |
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500,290 |
sottnet--2019-04-15--Russian military Over 1300 refugees safely departed Syria Rukban camp in past 24 hours
| 2019-04-15T00:00:00 |
sottnet
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Russian military: Over 1,300 refugees safely departed Syria Rukban camp in past 24 hours
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More than 1,300 refugees have left the Rukban camp in Syria through the humanitarian corridor in the past 24 hours, according to Major General Viktor Kupchishin, the head of the Russian Centre for Syrian Reconciliation.Kupchishin said late on Sunday at a daily news briefing.Last week, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia said at a meeting of the UN Security Council that Moscow intends to continue negotiations with the United Nations, the United States and Jordan on the issue.and the vast majority of them wishes to leave the settlement and return to their places of origins.Nebenzia also noted that Russia had already opened up two humanitarian corridors to allow the passage of refugees from Rukban to chosen places of residence, including Latakia, Homs, Palmyra, suburban Damascus and Aleppo, among others.Russia and Syria have repeatedly tried to draw the attention of the international community to the deplorable conditions at the camp, which houses more than 40,000 internally displaced people, mostly women and children. Both Moscow and Damascus have criticized the United States over its reluctance to allow people to leave the camp.Since 2017, Russia has been one of the three guarantors of the ceasefire in Syria, which has been engulfed in a civil war for years. The Russian armed forces have been providing military assistance to Damascus throughout the conflict, while also carrying out regular humanitarian operations across the country.Russia is now assisting Syria in the post-war reconstruction and the return of refugees.
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https://www.sott.net/article/411182-Russian-military-Over-1300-refugees-safely-departed-Syria-Rukban-camp-in-past-24-hours
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2019-04-15 14:14:15+00:00
| 1,555,352,055 | 1,567,543,000 |
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emigration
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521,729 |
sputnik--2019-01-17--Outrage as Swedish TV Cuts Word Islam From Saudi Refugee Girl Story
| 2019-01-17T00:00:00 |
sputnik
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Outrage as Swedish TV Cuts Word 'Islam' From Saudi Refugee Girl Story
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In their piece on Rahaf Mohammad, the Saudi refugee girl who claimed to have suffered "abuse" back home due to her non-conformist behaviour, SVT omitted the reference to Islam, triggering many Swedes' ire. In the interview aired by SVT Aktuellt, Rahaf Mohammed said that she was kept locked up for six months after getting a short haircut and suffered abuse from her brother and her mother. The reason for it, she claimed, is that short haircuts for women are forbidden in Islam, because it makes women look like men. However, SVT's translation left out the Islam reference completely, with words "Islam" and "haram" ("forbidden" in Arabic) conspicuously absent from the subtitles, despite clearly being uttered by the teen. READ MORE: Swedish TV in a Pickle Over Celebrating 'Christmas Classics' With Muslim Cook This mismatch was first observed by Sweden Democrat politician Kent Ekeroth, who compared the Swedish translation with the original English subtitles and summed up his findings in a piece in the news outlet Samhällsnytt, raising suspicions about state-sponsored censorship. Ekeroth's revelations made his compatriots spew bile at SVT's coverage and vent their outrage over the obligatory "TV tax" all Swedes have had to pay since New Year, regardless of whether they own a TV or not. Blogger Hanna Lindholm, who identifies as "right-wing feminist", suggested that SVT has "gone nuclear" since their funding was guaranteed by the tax. Some compared SVT's "angled" coverage with that of the Communist era. To expand on this reference, one user posted an "updated" SVT logo with a hammer and sickle and corrupted Cyrillic letters, whereas another user mockingly spelled out SVT (originally "Sveriges Television") as "Stasi Vision TV". Others ventured that SVT's handling of the news content in accordance with its so-called "value base" was tantamount to "fake news". Yet another recurrent theme in the comments was that Sweden had allegedly "caved in" for Islam. Rahaf Mohammed was offered asylum in Canada after a week's limbo in Bangkok, which she spent barricaded in a hotel room. As a token of an irrevocable breakaway from her family, she renounced her surname, al-Qulun, and quit Islam. Since then, she reports that she's received threats on the Internet. SVT is the Swedish national public television broadcaster; it is funded by a public service tax on personal income and largely modelled after the BBC.
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https://sputniknews.com/viral/201901171071556490-sweden-svt-saudi-girl-islam/
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2019-01-17 11:23:00+00:00
| 1,547,742,180 | 1,567,552,102 |
society
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524,021 |
sputnik--2019-02-04--Angelina Jolie Arrives in Bangladesh to Meet Rohingya Refugees
| 2019-02-04T00:00:00 |
sputnik
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Angelina Jolie Arrives in Bangladesh to Meet Rohingya Refugees
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"Angelina Jolie is on a three-day mission in Cox's Bazar to assess the humanitarian needs of the Rohingya refugees and some of the more critical challenges facing Bangladesh as a host country," a statement released from UNHCR today read. She first visited the Rohingya refugees at the Chakmarkul camp and later went to the Nayapara camp and the Leda camp in Taknaf. READ MORE: Bangladesh Lodges Protest With Myanmar Over Racist Remark About Rohingyas The actress-envoy will meet Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister A. K. Abdul Momen to discuss how UNHCR can support the Bangladeshi government to work towards safe and sustainable solutions to the Rohingya refugee crisis. Rohingya Muslims are originally from Myanmar, which they fled amid an ethno-religious conflict in 2017. Currently, over 1.1 million Rohingya reside in Cox's Bazar's refugee camps. The pre-crisis 2011 population of the region was slightly less than 2.3 million.
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https://sputniknews.com/asia/201902041072112685-angelina-jolie-unhcr-rohingya/
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2019-02-04 14:16:00+00:00
| 1,549,307,760 | 1,567,549,714 |
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527,027 |
sputnik--2019-02-27--Russia Calls for Immediate Evacuation of Syrias Rukban Refugee Camp - Envoy
| 2019-02-27T00:00:00 |
sputnik
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Russia Calls for Immediate Evacuation of Syria's Rukban Refugee Camp - Envoy
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“We are suggesting a solution to the current situation and a lasting solution to the problem of Rukban: this is the evacuation of all those in the camp who express the wish to go wherever they want. All those who express that wish, of course, is the key word here", Nebenzia said, calling on all sides to "urgently start implementing this idea". The Russian ambassador criticized a plan floated by US Deputy Representative to the UN Jonathan Cohen, who earlier in the council's session called on Russia and Syria to allow another humanitarian aid convoy to access Rukban. Nebenzia urged all parties to stop wasting time and instead reach a long-term solution for Rukban, adding that Washington's calls for more aid convoys underscore its disregard for international law. Aid deliveries to Rukban have been severely limited in recent years because the camp is situated within the US-controlled zone surrounding its military base in At-Tanf. Nebenzia said the problems in Rukban stem from the illegal US occupation of Syrian territory, a situation that has left the camp completely closed off in a military zone. Russia Urges US, Militant Leaders in al-Tanf to Stop Holding Refugees in Rukban Camp - MoD He noted that refugees in Rukban have been prevented from leaving, and thereby forced to reside in squalid conditions, suffering from severe food and medicine shortages and dire, unsanitary conditions. "The United States is an occupying power and in accordance with the Geneva Convention bears full responsibility for the situation in Rukban", Nebenzia said. US envoy Cohen denied that the United States has impeded voluntary departures from the camp. "The United States insists that any process to arrange for departures be coordinated with the UN and reflect humanitarian principles", Cohen said. Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the United States and militants under its control had forbidden internally displaced persons from leaving the Rukban camp. Moscow Says Situation in Syrian Rukban Camp Reminds of WWII Death Camps On 19 February, Damascus, under a Russian initiative, opened two humanitarian corridors for internally displaced persons to leave the Rukban refugee camp if they choose to do so. On 15 February, the UN and Syrian Arab Red Crescent delivered aid to the Rukban refugee camp for the first time in months. The Russian and Syrian Joint Coordination Committees on repatriation of Syrian refugees said that most of the aid was likely to be diverted to US-backed militants in the area.
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https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201902271072776191-syria-rukban-refugee-camp-evacuation/
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2019-02-27 00:08:00+00:00
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sputnik--2019-03-10--Russia Syria Point Out Contradictory US Stance on Refugees From Rukban Camp
| 2019-03-10T00:00:00 |
sputnik
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Russia, Syria Point Out Contradictory US Stance on Refugees From Rukban Camp
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"A representative of the US-led international coalition against ISIS* in Syria Sean Ryan said there are no obstacles to the free movement of Rukban camp refugees. At the same time, the first Secretary of the US Embassy in Amman, Alex Hawke, authorised to discuss the problems of the Rukban camp, has outlined a number of conditions to allow residents of the camp to freely leave its territory", the statement said. The statement also pointed to the "hypocrisy" of the United States, which claims to be committed to humanitarian values, but at the same time does nothing to implement them. "Based on the principles of humanism, confirmed not by words, but by concrete actions, we once again call on the world community to open its eyes to the situation in the Rukban camp, not to succumb to US assurances about the care shown to ordinary Syrians, to believe only the facts and real deeds", the statement added. Russia and Syria have urged the United States to release Rukban's residents and ensure their unimpeded exit from the camp to the places of their permanent residence. *Daesh (also known as ISIS/ISIL/IS) is a terrorist group banned in Russia
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https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201903101073098410-russia-syria-rukban-camp/
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2019-03-10 08:15:00+00:00
| 1,552,220,100 | 1,567,546,797 |
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sputnik--2019-04-05--Almost 1000 Refugees Left Syrias Rukban Camp on 4 April - Russian Military
| 2019-04-05T00:00:00 |
sputnik
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Almost 1,000 Refugees Left Syria's Rukban Camp on 4 April - Russian Military
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"On 4 April, 985 civilians left the Rukban refugee camp through the Jeleb checkpoint. They were transported to temporary residence sites in the city of Homs", Kupchishin said at a daily briefing. The general stressed that the refugees were provided with all necessary assistance, including the provision of food and temporary accommodation. The Russian military also set up a humanitarian corridor and the Jleb mobile checkpoint in order to prevent a humanitarian disaster in the Rukban refugee camp, Kupchishin stated. The Russian military also set up a humanitarian corridor and the Jleb mobile checkpoint in order to prevent a humanitarian disaster in the Rukban refugee camp.
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https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201904051073868102-syrian-rukban-camp/
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2019-04-05 19:12:00+00:00
| 1,554,505,920 | 1,567,543,940 |
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sputnik--2019-06-23--Syrian Refugees in Idlib Receive Over 2 Tonnes of Humanitarian Aid From Russian Military
| 2019-06-23T00:00:00 |
sputnik
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Syrian Refugees in Idlib Receive Over 2 Tonnes of Humanitarian Aid From Russian Military
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"A decision to provide humanitarian assistance was made. More than 2 tonnes of food were delivered", Dzhembalayev said. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said last week that the refugee issue in northwestern Syria can be resolved after a Russian-Turkish memorandum on creating a demilitarized zone in the Syrian province of Idlib is fully implemented. During the September 2018 talks in the Russian resort city of Sochi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, agreed to set up a demilitarized zone in Idlib along the contact line between the armed opposition and government forces. The northwestern Idlib province is home to scores of various groups, including the Turkey-backed National Front for Liberation and the Jabhat al-Nusra terror group. Around 30,000 militants, including foreign mercenaries, are reportedly operating in the region. The UN regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis, Panos Moumtzis, has warned that up to 2 million refugees could flee to Turkey if fighting in northwestern Syria continues. As the Syrian government has regained control over most of the country's territories that were seized by terrorists, it is now focused on creating favorable conditions for repatriating refugees. Moscow is assisting Damascus in the process, along with providing humanitarian aid to civilians and being a guarantor of the ceasefire. *Nusra front is a terrorist group banned in Russia and many other countries.
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https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201906231076024557-syrian-refugees-in-idlib-receive-over-2-tonnes-of-humanitarian-aid-from-russian-military/
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2019-06-23 03:47:54+00:00
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sputnik--2019-12-12--Bolivia's Ex-President Morales Arrives in Argentina as Refugee - Argentine Foreign Minister
| 2019-12-12T00:00:00 |
sputnik
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Bolivia's Ex-President Morales Arrives in Argentina as Refugee - Argentine Foreign Minister
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Former Bolivian President Evo Morales has arrived in Argentina as a refugee, Argentine Foreign Minister Felipe Sola said. Sola added that Morales arrived in the country together with former Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera after the Argentine Foreign Ministry granted them asylum the day before. The Argentine Interior Ministry will process their refugee status in the next few hours, he said. According to Sola, once Morales' refugee status is confirmed, he will be prohibited from making political statements. Last week, Morales was in Mexico where he received asylum after his government collapsed in November following a disputed presidential election where he secured a fourth term. Mass protests broke out in Bolivia after the results of the election were announced. Opposition lawmaker Jeanine Anez took over as interim president, while Morales characterised the situation as a coup.
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https://sputniknews.com/latam/201912121077555337-bolivias-ex-president-morales-arrives-in-argentina-as-refugee---argentine-foreign-minister/
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Thu, 12 Dec 2019 17:01:27 +0300
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tass--2019-02-15--Temporary accommodation centers for refugees from Rukban camp to open on February 19
| 2019-02-15T00:00:00 |
tass
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Temporary accommodation centers for refugees from Rukban camp to open on February 19
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MOSCOW, February 15. /TASS/. The Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Sides in Syria and the Syrian government will set up temporary accommodation centers for refugees from the Rukban camp, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov told reporters on Friday. "In order to save refugees coming from Rukban camp, the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Sides and the Syrian government will open temporary accommodation centers in the Jleb and Jabal al-Ghurab areas on February 19," he said, adding that warm accommodation, hot meals, basic necessities and medical assistance would be available there. According to Konashenkov, motor vehicles will be allocated to safely take refugees to the places of their permanent residence in areas controlled by the Syrian government. The Rukban camp is located in the Al-Tanf security zone, where a US military base is stationed. Opposition militants do not allow the United Nations and the Syrian government to deliver humanitarian aid to the camp. According to the World Health Organization, the camp currently hosts about 40,000 refugees, mostly women and children. Konashenkov also said that US-backed militants forcibly prevent refugees from leaving the Rukban camp in Syria, where they live in inhuman conditions. According to him, what members of international humanitarian organizations saw in the Rukban refugee camp "can be described in only one word - horrible." Konashenkov noted that the amount of aid sent to the camp "pales in the shadow of the predicaments tens of thousands of Syrians are facing, as they are forced to live in inhuman conditions." "A poll conducted by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, showed that most refugees are being forcibly prevented from leaving the Rukban camp by US-backed militants and do not know that they can safely return to where they used to live," Konashenkov pointed out. In other media
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http://tass.com/society/1044986
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2019-02-15 17:47:40+00:00
| 1,550,270,860 | 1,567,548,397 |
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tass--2019-03-16--About 17 million Syrian refugees willing to return home - reconciliation center
| 2019-03-16T00:00:00 |
tass
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About 1.7 million Syrian refugees willing to return home - reconciliation center
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MOSCOW, March 16. /TASS/. About 1.7 Syrian refugees, officially registered in foreign countries, are willing to return to their homeland, the Russian center for reconciliation of conflicting sides and refugee migration monitoring in Syria said in a daily bulletin on Saturday. "It is estimated that 1,712,264 Syrian nationals in ten countries voiced their desire to come back home. Since September 30, 2015, in total 389,735 Syrians have returned to their homes from abroad," the bulletin said. According to the UN Refugee Agency, about 6.675 million registered Syrian refugees are temporarily living in 45 countries. Of those, Turkey hosts more than a half, or 3.6 million people, Lebanon - about one million Syrians and another 700,000 are staying in Jordan. "Syria’s government is making active efforts to increase the efficiency of the process for the return of Syrian refugees from foreign states," the center added. In other media
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http://tass.com/politics/1048978
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2019-03-16 17:12:58+00:00
| 1,552,770,778 | 1,567,545,980 |
society
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emigration
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564,380 |
tass--2019-04-16--Russian Lebanese top diplomats discuss Syrian refugee issue
| 2019-04-16T00:00:00 |
tass
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Russian, Lebanese top diplomats discuss Syrian refugee issue
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MOSCOW, April 15. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Lebanese counterpart Gebran Bassil have noted the importance of joint efforts aimed at returning Syrian refugees back home, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. "[The ministers] have stressed the importance of developing joint efforts on aiding the process of returning Syrian refugees that are currently in Libya, back home," the foreign ministry said. Lavrov had reaffirmed Russia’s support of Lebanon's territorial integrity. The top diplomats also discussed the key aspects of developing Russian-Lebanese relations, including the expansion of mutually beneficial trade-economic and humanitarian relations. Bassil is currently in Moscow for the fifth session of the Russian-Arab Cooperation Forum. In other media
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http://tass.com/politics/1053828
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2019-04-16 00:34:04+00:00
| 1,555,389,244 | 1,567,542,804 |
society
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emigration
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565,993 |
tass--2019-05-29--Number of refugees at Syrias Al-Hawl camp on the rise over past months
| 2019-05-29T00:00:00 |
tass
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Number of refugees at Syria’s Al-Hawl camp on the rise over past months
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MOSCOW, May 29. /TASS/. The number of refugees staying at Syria’s Al-Hawl camp in northern Syria has exceeded 73,000, growing seven-fold over the past four months, the heads of the Russian and Syrian inter-agency coordination headquarters, Mikhail Mizintsev and Hussein Makhlouf, said in a joint statement on Wednesday. According to the Russian and Syrian statement, people are forced to live in unsanitary conditions leading to the outbreaks of diseases. "The situation is worse at the Al-Hawl camp on the US-controlled territory in the Al-Hasaka Governorate, which has been affected by the seven-fold growth in the number of residents over the past four months," the document said. Earlier, the heads of the Russian and Syrian coordination headquarters noted that more than $27 mln was needed to provide assistance to the residents of the Al-Hawl camp. Head of the Russian Center of the Reconciliation of the Opposing Sides in Syria Viktor Kupchishin said that between 10 and 20 people die at this camp every day. In other media
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http://tass.com/world/1060572
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2019-05-29 08:10:10+00:00
| 1,559,131,810 | 1,567,539,826 |
society
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emigration
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