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       Re: Refugees Welcome
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 27, 2022, 10:35 pm
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       Ethnonepotism is not to be tolerated! Our enemies report:
  HTML https://barenakedislam.com/2022/07/27/paris-illegal-alien-muslim-invaders-from-africa-and-afghanistan-storm-asylum-center-for-ukrainian-refugees/
       --- Quote ---
       > On Sunday, hundreds of Muslim freeloader-wannabes from camps
       in and around Paris, and their bleeding heart leftist
       supporters, took over the reception center at Portede Versailles
       reserved for Ukrainian citizens exclusively. They demanded to be
       given same treatment as the Ukrainians, accusing center
       officials of being “racist” and “apartheid.”
       --- End Quote ---
       This needs to happen every day in all countries which have
       prioritized Ukrainians until the ethnonepotism ends.
       See also:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/msg11646/#msg11646
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/msg12152/#msg12152
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/msg12164/#msg12164
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/msg12189/#msg12189
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/msg12620/#msg12620
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/msg12941/#msg12941
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/msg13105/#msg13105
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/msg13395/#msg13395
       etc.
       #Post#: 14914--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Refugees Welcome
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 30, 2022, 3:19 am
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  HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/western-countries-shipping-refugees-poorer-122513064.html
       --- Quote ---
       > Western countries are shipping refugees to poorer nations in
       exchange for cash
       > ...
       > The U.K. government was due to begin its first deportation
       flight to remove asylum-seekers to the East African country of
       Rwanda on June 14, 2022, exactly two months after signing the
       U.K.-Rwanda agreement. The asylum-seekers were from several
       war-torn and politically unstable countries, including Syria,
       Sudan and Iran.
       > ...
       > The European Court of Human Rights, the regional judicial
       human rights body in Europe, issued what are called interim
       urgent measures to stop the scheduled flights.
       >
       > Such measures are most often issued in cases where there is
       imminent risk of death or torture.
       >
       > Member states are bound by the decisions of the Court, and its
       rulings are enforced by the Committee of Ministers of the
       Council of Europe – Europe’s leading human rights organization.
       >
       > But instead of abiding by the decision, the U.K. government
       not only stressed its commitment to deportation flights, it also
       signaled its intention to pull out of the European Court of
       Human Rights.
       >
       > As a scholar of refugees and postwar reconstruction, I see the
       deportation flights to Rwanda as part of a growing list of what
       are euphemistically known as migrant deterrence practices. These
       practices are used by Western countries to deter future
       migration of mainly people of color from countries in Latin
       America, Asia, Africa and Oceania, collectively known as the
       Global South.
       >
       > In exchange for money paid to the receiving country,
       asylum-seekers are sent to those poorer countries to enable
       wealthier nations to circumvent international legal obligations
       to those seeking asylum.
       >
       > Beyond Rwanda
       >
       > The use of countries like Rwanda by Western states is on the
       rise.
       >
       > The recent U.S.-Mexico Migrant Protection Protocol and the
       U.S.-Guatemala “third country safe” agreement follow a similar
       principle.
       >
       > Since 1992, Australia has had a mandatory detention policy for
       “unauthorized” arrivals, which have included asylum-seekers.
       >
       > Since 2001, it has also been removing asylum-seekers to Manus
       Island in Papua New Guinea and Nauru – a poor island country in
       the Pacific Ocean – for processing.
       >
       > This has been the case even if arrivals applied for asylum in
       mainland Australia immediately upon arrival.
       >
       > According to the United Nations High Commissioner for
       Refugees, “externalization of Australia’s asylum obligations has
       undermined the rights of those seeking safety and protection and
       significantly harmed their physical and mental health.”
       --- End Quote ---
       Hence:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/australia/
       Continuing:
       --- Quote ---
       > European countries have also been pursuing similar programs
       with Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia and West African nations
       such as Nigeria.
       >
       > They each provide financial aid packages to the respective
       low-income countries in exchange for preventing migrant mobility
       and absorbing deported asylum-seekers.
       >
       > Thus far, Austria, Denmark and the Flemish far-right in
       Belgium have welcomed the U.K.-Rwanda agreement with the hope
       that more European states will seek partnerships with countries
       outside the continent to address irregular immigration.
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/denmark/
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/hungary-v4/
       (includes
       Austria)
       Continuing:
       --- Quote ---
       > Johnson’s resignation on July 7, 2022, is not expected to halt
       the U.K. government’s plans to continue deportations to Rwanda.
       But in a new turn of events, Rwanda said on July 22 that it can
       only accommodate 200 deported asylum-seekers and will not be
       able to stop their efforts to cross the English Channel again.
       --- End Quote ---
       All it would take to stop this is the poor countries themselves
       refusing to accept deportees. All they need to do is not be
       tempted by the offers of money. Is this really so difficult?
       But if it must be about money, left-leaning wealthier countries
       should offer these same poor countries the same amount of money
       to not accept deportees. Then there would be no incentive for
       the poor countries to accept the deportees, since they get the
       money either way.
       --- Quote ---
       > Deportations to Rwanda are part of the U.K.‘s 2022 Nationality
       and Borders Act, a law that drastically changed citizenship and
       asylum rules in the U.K.
       >
       > In addition to deportations, the act allows the government to
       strip citizenship from British people without notice for reasons
       related to, among other things, national security or
       counterterrorism.
       >
       > In the U.K., the reasons to strip citizenship can be defined
       broadly and may affect about 6 million Britons from immigrant
       backgrounds.
       >
       > The 2022 Nationality and Borders Act also allows for the
       criminal prosecution of those who cross the English Channel on
       small boats to seek asylum.
       >
       > The U.N. Refugee Agency has criticized the legislation on
       which the act is based for being at “odds with the United
       Kingdom’s international obligations under the Refugee
       Convention.”
       > ...
       > Deportations under such conditions are controversial because
       they are violations of the principle of non-refoulement in
       international refugee law.
       > ...
       > Despite this, the U.K. and other European countries have
       continued to deport asylum-seekers to such places.
       --- End Quote ---
       Because the first countries to deport refugees were not nuked,
       now more and more countries are doing it. This is exactly what I
       warned would happen. You cannot expect countries to care about
       rules when they have seen that there are no consequences for
       ignoring the rules. Lest we forget:
       --- Quote ---
       > Israel paid $5,000 for every African migrant deported to
       Rwanda under a “voluntary” migration agreement.
       >
       > Israel made a similar arrangement with Uganda. Under the terms
       of the controversial arrangement, several thousand Sudanese and
       Eritrean asylum-seekers had to choose between immigration
       detention in Israel or to “voluntarily” agree to be deported to
       Rwanda and Uganda.
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/israel/
       #Post#: 15009--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Refugees Welcome
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: August 5, 2022, 7:56 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/u-deports-children-documented-immigrants-153615822.html
       --- Quote ---
       > In 2016, I was meeting with my international student advisor
       at the University of California in San Diego, and they explained
       that my sister and I could soon be deported. I was flummoxed. We
       were—and had always been—documented immigrants. But as I learned
       that day, if our parents couldn't get green cards before we
       turned 21—a mere 10 months away—then our legal status expired
       and we'd be forced to self-deport. As it turns out, we are among
       250,000 "documented Dreamers" currently stuck in the same
       terrible situation.
       > ...
       > my parents had applied for green cards. They'd done exactly
       what so many immigrant friends had done before them: they
       submitted their paperwork and expected their permanent residency
       status to become official in a matter of four or five years. But
       nobody, not even our lawyers, predicted green card wait times
       would skyrocket, particularly for Indian nationals. That's
       because green cards are allocated evenly across countries, so
       the wait times for receiving permanent residency among people
       from highly populated countries have become many decades long.
       My parents' initial green card applications were approved years
       ago, but they had to wait in line for an actual green card to
       become available. With each passing year, their lawyer reassured
       them that they would receive their green card "any day now." But
       then my sister and I turned 21 and got kicked out of that line
       completely.
       > ...
       > this country's immigration system has upended our lives in
       another tragic way. After years of not visiting India, my family
       took a trip in late 2019 to attend a family wedding. But on the
       way home, my dad's return visa stamp was delayed without
       explanation. That was two years ago. He's been denied reentry to
       the U.S. this entire time.
       > ...
       > And then, as if things couldn't get any more absurd, they did.
       In October 2020, my parents' green card applications became
       current. They'd reached the front of the line. Only one last
       round of paperwork, a biometrics appointment, and a final
       interview were required. My mom can complete these final steps,
       but my dad can't. He must be physically in the United States—but
       the United States won't let him back in.
       >
       > Of course, even if my mom does get her green card, it won't
       extend to me or my sister, her daughters. We lost our place in
       line the moment we turned 21. If I'm lucky, after graduating
       with my Ph.D., I may be able to secure sponsorship for a visa,
       but I will be at the back of the same line that my parents are
       still waiting in for 11 years and counting. That line has only
       gotten longer—we're talking multiple decades, up to 150 years by
       some estimates—if I were to join it tomorrow.
       >
       > There's no logic to this system, and it benefits nobody. It
       has strained our family in ways we never could have imagined.
       Throughout our time in America, we've heard the refrain
       delivered to immigrants, "Follow the rules. Wait your turn in
       line." We did all of these things, and yet here we are.
       > ...
       > In 2021, I joined Improve the Dream, a nationwide organization
       of documented Dreamers. We've been telling Congress about our
       plight, and there have been two positive developments. The House
       of Representatives recently passed the America Competes Act,
       which would allow foreign-born STEM Ph.D.s to more easily secure
       a green card. Ultimately, though, we need a bill like the
       America's Children Act, which creates a pathway to permanent
       residency for documented children who are raised and educated in
       the United States. Until these bills become law, we will live in
       limbo. Many of us will be ejected from the country we call home.
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.improvethedream.org/
       By the way, I want to highlight the next-level bad faith
       attitude that rightists are taking these days. From the
       comments:
       --- Quote ---
       > 8 hours ago
       > Boo hoo, you're parents obviously didn't abide by the rules
       >
       > 7 hours ago
       > Did you even read the article? They did everything according
       to the rules.
       >
       > 7 hours ago
       > Obviously they didn't
       >
       > 6 hours ago
       > obviously you didnt read
       >
       > 5 hours ago
       > I did read it, they still aren't doing what they are suppose
       to do, send them back!
       --- End Quote ---
       --- Quote ---
       > 8 hours ago
       > Our nation’s laws are our laws no matter how you try to twist
       it. If someone is caught here illegally, they should lose any
       future legal attempts to gain legal entry for life.
       >
       > 4 hours ago
       > Did you read the article?
       --- End Quote ---
       --- Quote ---
       > 4 hours ago
       > Follow the rules and stay. Don't follow the rules- leave. It's
       not hard to understand.
       >
       > 3 hours ago
       > Did you even read the article?
       --- End Quote ---
       --- Quote ---
       > 8 hours ago
       > Not sorry for what they've done only sorry they've  been
       caught.
       >
       > 5 hours ago
       > Did you even read the article. Bigger question is CAN you
       read?
       --- End Quote ---
       --- Quote ---
       > 4 hours ago
       > Why didn’t they apply for citizenship and made them legal? Too
       bad so sad
       >
       > reapply again then
       >
       > 3 hours ago
       > Did you even read the article? THEY DID, IT TOOK 20 YEARS FOR
       THEIR PARENTS, BUT BY THEN THE DAUGTHERS WERE 21 AND COULD NOT
       GET THE GREEN CARDS WITH THE PARENTS. SO THEY HAVE TO GO BACK IN
       LINE 20 YEARS! THE DAD IS STUCK OUTSIDE THE US FOR 2 YEARS
       BECAUSE THE EMBASSY WONT ISSUE A RETURN VISA IN TIME.
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/superiority-cannot-be-taught/
       The only effective way to deal with rightists is extermination.
       #Post#: 15445--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Refugees Welcome
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: September 1, 2022, 6:32 pm
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       Our enemies explain their dislike of public transport:
  HTML https://vdare.com/posts/great-replacement-update-will-amtrak-be-the-biden-regime-s-next-mode-of-transportation-to-brown-the-country
       --- Quote ---
       > GOP Lawmakers Concerned ‘Amtrak Joe’ Is Using Taxpayer-Funded
       Trains to Transport Illegal Aliens into the US
       > ...
       > “We are deeply concerned that Amtrak’s resources—especially
       those supporting the Sunset Limited route—will be used to
       transport these undocumented persons,” the congressmen wrote
       --- End Quote ---
       thereby proving our enemies are anti-American. Recall:
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad
       #Post#: 15495--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Refugees Welcome
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: September 5, 2022, 9:51 pm
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       Thank you, Mayor Lightfoot!
  HTML https://www.marketwatch.com/story/were-a-welcoming-city-says-chicagos-lightfoot-as-texas-gov-abbotts-second-busload-of-immigrants-arrives-01662398532
       --- Quote ---
       > CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago officials have asked the public for
       volunteers and donations to help immigrants being bused to the
       city from Texas amid the Republican-led state’s political battle
       over the immigration policies of President Joe Biden’s
       administration.
       >
       > A busload of about 50 immigrants arrived Sunday in Chicago,
       days after the arrival of the first busload of about 75.
       > ...
       > The city of Chicago set up a website for members of the public
       who want to volunteer to help the migrants or donate to the
       cause, requesting such items as children’s books, backpacks,
       diapers, hygiene kits and sporting footwear.
       >
       > Lightfoot said several organizations were already providing
       assistance.
       >
       > “We’re a welcoming city, so we’re always going to step up and
       do the right thing to make sure that migrants who are coming
       here to our city are well-received.” Lightfoot said.
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/texas-new-arrivals/home.html
       While there is much else to dislike about Abbott, his policy of
       transporting refugees forward is infinitely preferable to the EU
       rightist (illegal) approach of pushing them back. Imagine how
       much better it would be if refugees crossing the Mediterranean
       to Greece/Italy/Spain were all transported to France/Germany
       instead of being drowned!
       #Post#: 15663--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Refugees Welcome
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: September 15, 2022, 5:10 pm
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       More Red states voluntarily highlighting Blue state superiority:
  HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/us/desantis-florida-migrants-marthas-vineyard.html
       --- Quote ---
       > Florida Flies 2 Planeloads of Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard
       > ...
       > The migrant group, which included children, arrived on two
       planes around 3 p.m. without any warning, said State Senator
       Julian Cyr, a Massachusetts Democrat representing Cape Cod,
       Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. Officials and volunteers from
       the island’s six towns “really moved heaven and earth to
       essentially set up the response that we would do in the event of
       a hurricane,” he said.
       > ...
       > One of the migrants, who asked to be identified only as
       Leonel, said in Spanish that the people of Martha’s Vineyard
       were generous and that he “had never seen anything like it.”
       They gave him a pair of shoes.
       >
       > “I haven’t slept well in three months,” said Leonel, who does
       not have any relatives or friends in the United States. “It’s
       been three months since I put on a new pair of pants. Or shoes.”
       > ...
       > The Rev. Chip Seadale said St. Andrew’s had decided to take in
       the migrants for the night after learning that they had nowhere
       to go. A parishioner had reached out to him, knowing that the
       church helps house homeless people in the winter.
       >
       > The island’s sole homeless shelter does not operate during the
       summer and has room for 10 people, with one bathroom, said
       Barbara Rush, the warden at St. Andrew’s. “Fifty people with no
       homes is an overwhelming number for the size of the community,”
       she said. “But this is a strong and capable community.”
       > ...
       > She said local community groups, churches and restaurants were
       all pitching in. Among the volunteers was Sergio Racig, a
       property manager who went to the church to help translate.
       --- End Quote ---
       Thank you, Martha's Vineyard! This is what America should be
       about!
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       #Post#: 15701--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Refugees Welcome
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: September 17, 2022, 5:57 pm
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       Blue politicians just don't get it:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/aoc-says-gop-lawmakers-flew-135232343.html
       --- Quote ---
       > AOC says GOP lawmakers who flew migrants to Martha's Vineyard
       committed 'crimes against humanity'
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-biden-finally-spoke-buses-155708582.html
       --- Quote ---
       > “Republicans are playing politics with human beings ―
       using them as props,” Biden declared during remarks at the
       Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute gala in Washington, D.C.
       “What they’re doing is simply wrong. It’s un-American. It’s
       reckless.”
       --- End Quote ---
       Actually:
       --- Quote ---
       > The idea of providing asylum seekers transportation to the
       interior of the United States – albeit, usually by plane – to
       “decompress” communities at the border is not inherently
       troubling to immigrant rights groups.
       > ...
       > Citing the United States’ history of welcoming immigrants and
       benefiting from their contributions to society, Rapaport added,
       “This is not a burden on us – it’s a help.”
       --- End Quote ---
       Exactly!
       --- Quote ---
       > Elier, 28, a native of Barcelona, Venezuela, who declined to
       provide his last name, said he had been told he could get a bus
       to New York City or Washington, D.C. If he refused, he was told
       he would be sent back across the border to Mexico.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Being given a choice is better than not being given a choice.
       (Orban, who does not give refugees a choice, is the one
       committing crimes against humanity. Is AOC paying attention?)
       --- Quote ---
       > Fernando Luna, 30, from Managua, Nicaragua, said he was told
       that he could go anywhere in the United States as long as he
       left Texas. He chose the free bus ride to New York City and is
       hoping to pull together enough money for a bus ticket to Los
       Angeles, California, where his sister already lives.
       >
       > Luna and his friends have their complaints about conditions in
       the homeless shelter. For example, they don’t appreciate that
       other residents smoke marijuana in the building. But he said it
       was still significantly better than the “freezing-cold” border
       patrol facility in Texas where Luna found it very difficult to
       sleep.
       --- End Quote ---
       Yes, Abbott is a bad guy. So why would we trust a bad guy to
       provide adequate care for refugees? Would we not prefer the bad
       guy to send the refugees onward ASAP to people more likely to
       provide adequate care for them? Why are Blue politicians
       complaining?
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-governors-sending-thousands-immigrants-012347404.html
       --- Quote ---
       > Abel Nuńez, executive director of the Central American
       Resource Center, one of the organizations helping immigrants who
       were dropped off at DC's Union Station, said Abbott might
       actually be having unintended consequences.
       >
       > "Most immigrants on the buses are really happy and thankful
       for the governor's free bus ride," Nuńez said in a recent
       interview. "It's counterintuitive. Yes, Abbott is making a
       point, sure, but this will encourage people on the buses to tell
       their networks back home, 'Hey, go to Texas.'"
       --- End Quote ---
       It is because Orban understands what Nunez understands that
       Orban does not behave like Abbott behaves. Orban, unlike Abbott,
       calculates his response with the sole aim of causing misery for
       the refugees themselves. This is why Hungary must be nuked
       whereas Texas need not be.
       #Post#: 15719--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Refugees Welcome
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: September 18, 2022, 10:41 pm
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  HTML https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/17/us/marthas-vineyard-migrants-journey-desantis/index.html
       --- Quote ---
       > A familiar quiet had descended by Friday afternoon on the
       tree-lined downtown block on Martha's Vineyard, where Jackie
       Stallings, 56, could not stop thinking about a young Venezuelan
       -- she was 23 but looked 15 -- who sat with her in the St.
       Andrew's Parish House the night before.
       >
       > The asylum seeker showed Stallings cell phone video taken
       during the journey across a remote Central American jungle,
       pointing out migrants who died along the way.
       >
       > "It was like she was showing me cat videos but it was actually
       their journey and what they endured to get here," said
       Stallings, a member of the Martha's Vineyard Community Services
       nonprofit. "There were bodies and moms with babies trying to get
       through mud that was like clay."
       >
       > "The heartbreaking part is seeing these beautiful young ladies
       become desensitized," said her husband, Larkin Stallings, 66, an
       Oak Bluffs bar owner who sits on the nonprofit's board. "For
       them, they just flip and show you a picture."
       >
       > Stallings cut him off.
       >
       > "She was like, look, this one died, part of their original
       party. And he died and this one died. The mud is like to up to
       here to them," she said Friday in the shade of the parish house
       porch, pointing to her thigh. "And you see them, they literally
       have to lift their legs out the mud. They die because they get
       stuck."
       > ...
       > "I want them to have a good life," she said. "I want the
       journey they experienced and the hardships they experienced to
       have been worth it for them and their families. I want them to
       come to America and be embraced. They all want to work. And I
       just I want their journey to have a happy ending."
       --- End Quote ---
       I agree. But are you ready to shoot 75 million Trumpists in
       order to get this happy ending?
       --- Quote ---
       > "The year round community is very strong because you are kind
       of isolated here -- whether it's the ferry or the bad weather,
       you're stuck here," he said. "We're used to helping each other.
       We're used to dealing with people in need and we're super happy
       -- like they enriched us, we're happy to help them on their
       journey."
       --- End Quote ---
       I agree. But are you super happy about shooting 75 million
       Trumpists?
       --- Quote ---
       > "The governor of Florida got it wrong," he said. "I think he
       thought we wouldn't know what to do. And actually people here
       really give a damn. They really care."
       --- End Quote ---
       I agree. But do you care enough to shoot 75 million Trumpists?
       --- Quote ---
       > The migrants "will be housed in dormitory-style spaces . . .
       with separate spaces accommodating both individuals and
       families," and families will not be separated, Massachusetts
       Gov. Charlie Baker's office said in a news release. They will
       have access to services including legal, health care, food,
       hygiene kits, and crisis counseling.
       >
       > "I kept telling them it was like a dormitory. I didn't want to
       say you're going to a military base," she said. "We want to go
       make sure they're OK."
       --- End Quote ---
       Actually, arguably the single best thing that can be done for
       refugees is to give them military training and weaponry so they
       can defend themselves against the 75 million Trumpists.
       #Post#: 15727--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Refugees Welcome
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: September 19, 2022, 5:38 pm
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       What I have been saying:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-sent-him-washington-one-183737372.html
       --- Quote ---
       > When Lever Alejos of Venezuela arrived at the southern border
       penniless in July, he gladly accepted a free bus ride to
       Washington, D.C., courtesy of the state of Texas. He had no
       family or friends to receive him, and spent one night in the
       plaza across from Union Station. He soon settled into a homeless
       shelter.
       >
       > “I have nothing,” Alejos, 29, said on his third day in the
       city, “but I have the will to work and succeed.”
       > ...
       > Democrats have called the stunts cruel, and many migrants have
       been left at least temporarily homeless as their new host cities
       scramble to help them.
       >
       > But others, like Alejos, have called the free transportation a
       blessing. They are already employed and achieving some measure
       of stability. They have found jobs in construction, hospitality,
       retail, trucking and other sectors facing worker shortages in an
       economy still recovering from the impact of the pandemic.
       >
       > “In most big cities, including the ones where governors are
       shipping migrants, employers are scrambling to find workers,”
       said Chris Tilly, a labor economist at UCLA. “They are meeting a
       need.”
       >
       > Michelle Rumbaut, a hospital administrator who assists
       migrants in San Antonio, recalled a recent group of young
       Venezuelans she encountered who were determined to reach New
       York, where jobs awaited them.
       > ...
       > After spending a night in the street and another in a shelter
       where he felt unsafe, Alejos has been staying at a different
       shelter that he described as tidy, comfortable and orderly.
       “Each person has a locker; the sheets are clean; showers have
       hot water and there’s Wi-Fi — all the services,” he said.
       >
       > “I feel fortunate the governor put me on a bus to Washington,”
       Alejos said. “It opened up doors for me.”
       --- End Quote ---
       The same could be happening in the EU if not for Orban & Co.:
       [img]
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       This is what Blue politicians should be angry about, not free
       bus rides!
       #Post#: 15799--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Refugees Welcome
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: September 24, 2022, 7:53 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/swapping-hong-kong-crewe-wont-231836988.html
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       > Swapping Hong Kong for Crewe: 'We won't go back'
       --- End Quote ---
       Good!
       --- Quote ---
       > Yowin keeps a book of photographs of the 2019 protests called
       Defiance, including several showing violent clashes between
       protesters and police. When Hayley is a bit older, Yowin hopes
       the photos will help explain why they felt they had to leave.
       >
       > "When two million people are marching on the street and the
       government still ignores these voices, you will find the city is
       hopeless," says Yowin. "Every time I talk about it, I cry."
       --- End Quote ---
       All those 2 million should migrate to the UK! You should
       encourage and help them to do this.
       --- Quote ---
       > They're far from alone in wanting to make the life-changing
       move. Government statistics suggest 140,000 Hongkongers have
       applied to live in the UK under a new visa route. It was brought
       in last year in response to China imposing a controversial new
       security law in Hong Kong, which the UK said was an erosion of
       freedoms and rights.
       --- End Quote ---
       140000 is not even 10% of 2 million! Why is it so low?
       --- Quote ---
       > The North of England is a popular destination, with many
       families settling in places like Crewe, Stoke, and Warrington.
       And businesses are springing up to service this flurry of
       migrants.
       >
       > One recruitment company has taken on two Cantonese speakers to
       tap into the new labour force. "We realised there was quite a
       big opportunity in terms of people coming over from Hong Kong,"
       says Charlotte Shaw from KPI Recruiting in Stoke.
       >
       > The agency hopes Hongkongers might offer a solution to the
       labour shortages, driven both by Covid and Brexit, says
       Charlotte. "We found that a lot of Eastern Europeans decided to
       leave the UK and have gone back home."
       --- End Quote ---
       De-Turanize the UK gene pool!
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