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       Re: Refugees Welcome
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 13, 2020, 12:50 am
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       Is change on the horizon?
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       [quote]Biden plans sweeping reversal of Trump's immigration
       agenda
       ...
       After Mr. Biden is sworn-in in January, his administration will
       move to fully restore an Obama-era program that shields 640,000
       undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children
       from deportation, halting Mr. Trump's unsuccessful efforts to
       end it, people familiar with the plans told CBS News. The
       incoming administration also intends to rescind Mr. Trump's
       travel and immigration restrictions on 13 mostly African or
       predominantly Muslim countries.
       ...
       A source familiar with Mr. Biden's plans said new guidance would
       be designed to curb so-called "collateral arrests," which are
       apprehensions of immigrants who are not the target of U.S.
       Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations but are
       nevertheless taken into custody because they are in the country
       without legal status.
       ...
       "All that stuff was done administratively through the
       [president's] executive authority, and so a new executive can
       basically reject those and start from scratch," a source
       familiar with the Biden team's plans told CBS News.
       At the southern border, Mr. Biden has pledged to discontinue the
       Trump administration's policy of requiring non-Mexican migrants
       to wait in Mexico for the duration of their U.S asylum cases. It
       is unclear, however, how the cases of thousands of
       asylum-seekers currently waiting in northern Mexico will be
       adjudicated and whether any of them will be paroled and allowed
       to continue their proceedings in the U.S.
       A source familiar with the Biden team's planning said the
       incoming administration will withdraw from the three bilateral
       agreements Mr. Trump brokered with Guatemala, El Salvador and
       Honduras that allow the U.S. to send rejected asylum-seekers to
       those countries and have them seek refuge there.
       The incoming administration will also look at reinstating an
       Obama administration initiative that allowed certain at-risk
       children in Central America to request refugee or parole status
       and reunite with their families in the U.S. if their parents
       were authorized to be in the country, the source said. The Obama
       administration created the Central American Minors program in
       2014 in response to a rise in border crossings by unaccompanied
       migrant children but Mr. Trump ended it in 2017.
       The potential revival of the program, coupled with increased
       foreign aid to Central America, would be part of a broader Biden
       administration approach to address unauthorized migration from
       the region — a diplomatic task Mr. Biden was charged with
       overseeing during President Obama's tenure.
       Mr. Biden's team is also planning to begin the process of
       terminating the "public charge" rules the Trump administration
       implemented to deny green cards and immigrant visas to
       applicants who U.S. officials determine rely — or could rely in
       the future — on government benefits like Medicaid, food stamps
       and Section 8 housing vouchers. Because the 2019 rules were
       instituted through the regulatory process, experts expect their
       rescission to take longer than that of presidential directives.
       Citing the coronavirus-induced economic downturn, Mr. Trump
       invoked his executive authority this spring to limit legal
       immigration and the issuance of temporary work visas — and those
       restrictions have yet to be lifted.
       The Trump administration has also expelled tens of thousands of
       unauthorized border-crossers, including unaccompanied children,
       without court hearings or asylum screenings through an order
       issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
       While the Trump administration has defended the policy as one
       based on public health, former officials have said they were
       pressured into authorizing it.
       Mr. Biden has yet to say whether his administration will
       continue, alter or completely scrap Mr. Trump's pandemic-era
       limits on immigrant and work visas. Mr. Biden's campaign
       promised that the former vice president will direct the CDC to
       review the expulsions policy "to ensure that people have the
       ability to submit their asylum claims while ensuring that we are
       taking the appropriate COVID-19 safety precautions."
       The president-elect has promised to dramatically increase
       refugees admissions, moving away from the record-low 15,000
       spots set by Mr. Trump and raising the cap to 125,000. Mr. Biden
       has also pledged to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to
       certain Venezuelan exiles in the U.S. to shield them from
       deportation.
       León Rodríguez, who led U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
       Services (USCIS) during the Obama presidency, said a Biden
       administration should prioritize reviewing Mr. Trump's efforts
       to end TPS protections for approximately 300,000 immigrants from
       El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan, Nepal and Honduras. In
       September, a federal appellate court allowed the Trump
       administration to terminate the programs, but TPS beneficiaries
       are not set to lose their protections until March 2021.
       Jennifer Molina, a spokeswoman for the Biden campaign, said the
       incoming administration will also create a task force to help
       locate hundreds of migrant parents who were separated from their
       children at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2017 and 2018 and remain
       unreachable. "President-elect Joe Biden will restore order,
       dignity and fairness to our immigration system. At its core, his
       immigration policy will be driven by the need to keep families
       together," Molina said in a statement.
       ...
       Mr. Biden has vowed to introduce legislation that would allow
       the nation's estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants to
       legalize their status, but such an effort — which has proved
       elusive for two decades — would need to be approved by a divided
       Congress. Several House Democrats lost their seats last week and
       while control of the Senate will hinge on the outcome of two
       Georgia races in January, any potential Democratic majority
       would be razor-thin.
       ...
       Marielena Hincapié, a member of a task force of Biden and Bernie
       Sanders supporters who created a unified immigration platform,
       said the incoming administration should use "all the levers of
       government" to protect certain undocumented immigrants,
       including COVID-19 essential workers, from deportation.
       "We can't at the same keep applauding all these essential
       workers who we are relying on and not recognize them legally,"
       Hincapié, who is also the executive director of the National
       Immigration Law Center, told CBS News. "And so, providing them
       with some kind of protection and work authorization so that they
       can do the work without the fear of detention or deportation,
       and to actually be able to work within the law, is also really
       critical."[/quote]
       If Biden does not keep his promises, he too is our enemy.
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       Re: Refugees Welcome
       By: guest5 Date: November 14, 2020, 5:04 pm
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       Biden Corrects Obama Wrongs With Immigration Reform
       [quote]Joe Biden's immigration policy plans to not only undo the
       wrongs of the Trump administration but Obama's as well. [/quote]
       [quote]"From ending prolonged detention to a 100-day moratorium
       on deportations, president-elect Joe Biden’s vision for a new
       chapter in US immigration policy departs dramatically from the
       border wall construction, family separations and kids in cages
       that marked the Trump era.
       But fixing chronically broken statutes while reversing more than
       400 of Donald Trump’s immigration-related executive actions
       requires time, resources and in many cases bipartisan support, a
       tall order for the incoming administration."[/quote]
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       Excellent news for once!
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       Re: Refugees Welcome
       By: guest5 Date: November 18, 2020, 12:12 pm
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       Is a migrant crisis unfolding off West Africa's Atlantic coast?
       | Inside Story
       [quote]A sea journey to Europe once shunned by many migrants for
       being too dangerous is busy again. Hundreds have drowned this
       year in the Atlantic Ocean off Senegal on their way to the
       Canary Islands, a Spanish territory. More than 16,000 migrants
       have made the journey this year, 10 times last year's total.
       Hotels have been turned into reception centres. So why are
       people risking their lives to take this risky route?[/quote]
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       Re: Refugees Welcome
       By: guest5 Date: November 19, 2020, 11:55 am
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       [quote]A district judge has granted a preliminary injunction to
       block the Trump administration’s use of a pandemic policy to
       turn away thousands of unaccompanied migrant children without
       due process.
       Since March, the Trump administration has been using an
       emergency regulation issued by the Centers for Disease Control
       to expedite the removal of migrants, including unaccompanied
       children, who present themselves at the U.S. border. The
       regulation allowed for a suspension of ‘the introduction of
       persons from designated countries or places, if required, in the
       interest of public health’ amid the coronavirus pandemic.
       Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, a federal judge on the U.S. District
       Court for the District of Columbia, ruled against the Trump
       administration’s justification of the policy that denied these
       children the right to apply for asylum and resulted in their
       removal without deportation proceedings. The opinion held that
       the children denied their right to petition for asylum were
       ‘likely to suffer irreparable harm because they could be subject
       to “sexual and other violence and face the possibility of
       torture and death.“’
       At the heart of the case is the story of an unnamed 16-year-old
       Guatemalan boy from an Indigenous Mayan family who entered the
       U.S. in August 2020, claiming he ‘experienced severe persecution
       in Guatemala’ as a result of his father’s political opinions.
       Instead of being placed in the custody of his father, who lives
       in the United States and has a pending immigration case, or
       being placed in the custody of the Office of Refugee
       Resettlement, the boy was ordered to be expelled. The case was
       filed as a class-action suit to represent others that have faced
       similar situations at the border. Roughly 13,000 unaccompanied
       migrant children were turned away as a result of the policy, the
       ACLU says.[/quote]
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       Re: Refugees Welcome
       By: guest5 Date: November 23, 2020, 4:00 pm
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       LIVE: Hundreds camp in the heart of Paris following evacuation
       of Saint-Denis refugee camp
       [quote]Ruptly is live from Place de la Republique in Paris on
       Monday, November 23, as hundreds set camp to protest the
       country's refugee situation following last week's evacuation of
       the Saint-Denis migrant camp.
       On Tuesday, November 17, a police operation dislodged some 2,500
       from the camp located in the north of Paris. Around 800 of them
       remain without a lodging solution, according to the pro-migrant
       activist group Utopia 56.[/quote]
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       Re: Refugees Welcome
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 25, 2020, 3:56 am
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       But how many firearms among them? Protesting is useless. Only
       firearms can protect refugees.
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       Re: Refugees Welcome
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 28, 2020, 11:31 pm
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  HTML https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/23/spain-deploys-police-west-africa-migrant-influx-increases-1000-per-cent/
       [quote]Spain will send law enforcement personnel into Senegal,
       Africa, to tackle people-smugglers after illegal migration from
       West Africa to the Canary Islands increased by 1,000 per cent on
       2019.[/quote]
       Can Senegal send its police into Spain? If not, why should it
       allow Spain to send its police into Senegal?
       See also:
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       Re: Refugees Welcome
       By: guest5 Date: November 30, 2020, 1:53 pm
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       Live: Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Plan to Exclude
       Undocumented Immigrants From Census
       [quote]Listen live as the Supreme Court hears arguments over the
       Trump administration's challenge to the 2020 census to not
       include undocumented immigrants living in the country. [/quote]
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       Re: Refugees Welcome
       By: guest5 Date: December 3, 2020, 10:58 am
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       Syria: UN says urgent aid needed for three million displaced
       [quote]The United Nations says urgent aid is needed for three
       million Syrians living in refugee camps.
       Winter can be harsh, so they desperately require essentials and
       shelter to keep warm.
       And as Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports, many more people could
       soon become homeless. [/quote]
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       Re: Refugees Welcome
       By: guest5 Date: December 4, 2020, 10:29 pm
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       [quote]On Friday, U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis
       issued an order requiring the U.S. Department of Homeland
       Security to post a public notice saying it will begin accepting
       DACA applications again. First-time DACA requests, renewal
       requests, and advance parole requests must be accepted under the
       new court order. The move will affect the approx 1.1M
       undocumented minors in the U.S. who are eligible to apply for
       DACA.
       The Obama-era program, which launched in 2012, protects
       immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children from
       deportation. The Trump admin worked to end DACA for a number of
       years beginning in 2017, but the Supreme Court blocked that
       attempt in June 2020.[/quote]
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