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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 6, 2022, 8:04 pm
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As I have been saying all along, helping refugees get where they
want to be is a good thing:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrat-led-texas-city-steps-100241178.html'
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> Democrat-led Texas city steps up migrant busing to New York,
outpacing Republican effort
> ...
> El Paso, which sits across the border from Juarez, Mexico, has
bused roughly 7,000 migrants to New York City since late August
and sent more than 1,800 to Chicago, a city-run effort that far
exceeds the more ad-hoc transportation of the past.
> ...
> El Paso's Democratic leaders say they are coordinating with
receiving cities and that migrants take their chartered buses
voluntarily. City officials say their buses were needed because
up to 2,000 migrants were arriving daily, including impoverished
Venezuelans without family in the United States to pay for
onward travel.
> ...
> The buses now depart from a converted warehouse in northeast
El Paso that serves as a migrant processing center. On Monday,
several hundred migrants waited for buses to New York City and
Chicago, among them Frederick Pinango, 28, and his wife and
3-year-old daughter.
>
> The Venezuelan family trekked through the Darien Gap, an often
dangerous passage through a jungle separating Colombia and
Panama. They worked their way through Central America and Mexico
by cleaning bathrooms, emptying trash and begging, according to
Pinango.
>
> They took a bus to New York because they had no contacts in
the United States and it was free.
>
> "I have faith that they will help us with some shelter, so I
can start to work," he said.
>
> Edwin Rico, a 28-year-old Venezuelan who boarded a bus to
Chicago on Monday, said the food that El Paso officials provided
for the trip was not enough, but he rationed it.
>
> "I don’t have money, so I’m grateful for the help," he said.
> ...
> New York City officials traveled to El Paso last month to
watch the process firsthand. During the visit, they discussed
adding drop-off points in cities on the way to New York, Leeser
said.
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0bBZ81E9EY
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 13, 2022, 2:46 am
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This is more like the America I remember!
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/nyc-mayor-says-boroughs-host-192305647.html
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> NYC mayor says all boroughs will host migrants: 'No one gets a
pass'
>
> New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that every New
York City community would see asylum seekers in the coming days.
>
> "Staten Island and other communities, they are going to –
everyone is going to see asylum seekers. So, all the calls that
I'm getting from elected officials, all the calls that I'm
hearing from people of saying, you know, 'Please, not here…'
That just can't happen. This is a citywide crisis and all of us
are going to be impacted. Staten Island is going to be impacted
like the other four boroughs."
> ...
> "No, you can't have it both ways. Either we're in this
together, or we're not. And, I'm not listening to that. No one
gets a pass during an emergency. Everyone must do their share.
--- End Quote ---
This should be applied not just to the boroughs of NYC, but to
every county of every state. But it has to start somewhere.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqe5NP86OCc
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 15, 2022, 4:14 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/ron-desantis-flying-migrants-marthas-063604177.html
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> Ron DeSantis flying migrants to Martha's Vineyard may have
unintentionally opened the door for them to remain in the US
permanently
> ...
> A Texas sheriff on Thursday certified that the nearly 50
migrants, who flew from San Antonio to Massachusetts in
September, were the victims of a crime, The Texas Tribune
reported.
>
> "Based upon the claims of migrants being transported from
Bexar County under false pretenses, we are investigating this
case as possible Unlawful Restraint,"
> ...
> Victims of certain crimes can apply for a "U visa." If
approved, the U visa can provide the victims and their families
with temporary immigration status, including the ability to
work, and the possibility of lawful permanent resident status,
or a green card, according to the Department of Homeland
Security.
--- End Quote ---
;D
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 18, 2022, 5:11 am
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What our enemies are complaining about is actually how, in a
sane world, every EU country should be behaving:
HTML https://gatesofvienna.net/2022/10/let-em-in/
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> After lengthy negotiations, the federal government has
launched an admission program for “particularly endangered”
Afghans. Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) and
Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) announced on
Monday in Berlin that the plan is to take in around 1,000
Afghans and their family members each month.
--- End Quote ---
1000/month is not many, but at least it is a start. Hopefully
this sets a precedent for taking in 1000/month from each country
from which refugees are fleeing.
Better still, the Greens are being compared to the NSDAP:
HTML https://gatesofvienna.net/2022/10/the-greens-embrace-bans-on-speaking/
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> a German “Sonderweg” is the language of the National
Socialists. Adolf Hitler, as the influential Bielefeld social
historian Hans-Ulrich Wehler explained, sought for the Germans’
a “special path” that then led to the abyss.
> ...
> The Union chalked up a German “Sonderweg” to the traffic light
government in the Bundestag today, because all other countries
in Europe are closing their borders, while Germany is the only
country that wants to open them further.
--- End Quote ---
Whereas the Greens are accusing the CDU of being pro-Russian:
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> Katrin Göring-Eckard is Vice President of the German Bundestag
and a Protestant Christian. The Greens have been discussing
asylum issues for years. She says that anyone who, like
Friedrich Merz (CDU), talks about “social tourism” is doing
Vladimir Putin’s bidding. “Push and pull” are “imaginary
factors”. This “is like an imaginary illness; that’s nonsense.”
Göring-Eckard refers to Angela Merkel’s refugee policy,
including her “We can do it”. She says: It is “completely normal
politics that you create things.”
--- End Quote ---
Most importantly:
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> Annalena Baerbock: “We have to be prepared, there will not be
one, ten, hundred, but thousands of flights, there will be eight
to ten million refugees, and we will take them all in.”
--- End Quote ---
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 7, 2022, 8:57 pm
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Continuing from:
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now:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/charity-group-challenges-italy-over-142627004.html
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> ROME (Reuters) -A German charity operating a migrant rescue
ship said on Monday it would go to court to try to overturn
efforts by Italy's new right-wing government to prevent some of
the people it had saved from the sea coming to land.
> ...
> German charity SOS Humanity has said it will shortly present a
suit to a Rome court appealing a government decree that refused
to a designate a safe port to the rescue boats. It is also
appealing in a Sicilian court so that those migrants left aboard
should be allowed to enter Italy and seek asylum.
--- End Quote ---
Do you think this approach will work?
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> Meloni's government has accused the charity ships of acting as
a de-facto taxi service for migrants seeking a better life in
Europe.
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How is this a bad thing?! The charity ships are only doing what
the Italian navy should be doing (but aren't)!
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> The charities, including France's Doctors without Borders
(MSF), which operates the Geo Barents, say they play a vital
role saving lives in one of the world's most deadly migration
routes and accuse Italy of breaking international law.
>
> "The partial and selective disembarkation, such as suggested
in the Italian government's decree, is heinous and can't be
considered lawful according to maritime conventions," MSF said
on Monday.
--- End Quote ---
Exactly.
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> The United Nations agencies for migration and refugees,
respectively the IOM and the UNHCR, said the stranded migrants
"need to be disembarked swiftly without any further delay."
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And yet the time it will take for the case to go through the
court is itself a delay.....
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> France, Germany and Norway have all called on Italy to take in
the migrants, however Hungary's right-wing prime minister,
Viktor Orban, has praised Rome's hardline approach.
>
> "Finally! We owe a big thank you to Giorgia Meloni and the new
Italian government for protecting the borders of Europe," Orban
wrote on Twitter at the weekend.
--- End Quote ---
Hungary should have been nuked in 2015.
--- Quote ---
> European Commission spokesperson Anita Hipper said member
states had a "legal and moral duty" to save lives of people,
regardless of the circumstances that led them to sea.
--- End Quote ---
Successfully doing this duty requires killing other people,
specifically those who actively make it impossible for us to do
this duty. There is no avoiding this straightforward conclusion.
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 8, 2022, 5:37 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/explainer-whats-behind-italys-migrant-131305468.html
--- Quote ---
> The new government’s confrontational posture is reminiscent of
the standoffs orchestrated by Matteo Salvini when he was briefly
interior minister from 2018-19.
>
> Salvini's refusal to open ports resulted in ships having to
travel to France or Spain to disembark migrants, adding up to
three days to the migrants’ journeys. A German captain, Carola
Rackete, famously defied Salvini and entered an Italian port
despite orders not to, citing an emergency situation on board.
>
> Salvini, who is infrastructure minister in charge of ports in
the new government, is facing trial on charges of kidnapping for
refusing to let the Spanish migrant rescue ship Open Arms dock
in an Italian port in 2019. Another case against him has been
dismissed.
--- End Quote ---
Salvini is still awaiting trial for his 2019 crime! This is how
slow it is for a case to get through the courts! How many more
refugees will die while we wait? The only refugees saved for
sure were the ones which Rackete brought to land by not asking
permission from rightists.
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> WHAT DOES INTERNATIONAL LAW SAY?
>
> Article 98 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the
Sea requires every shipmaster “to render assistance to any
person found at sea in danger of being lost.” Charity ships say
rescuing migrants from flimsy, unseaworthy smuggling boats, or
in many cases straight from the water, is their legal
obligation.
>
> International Maritime Law also requires coastal states to run
adequate search and rescue services, including by cooperating
with other nations in the same region during rescues.
>
> Rescues are only considered complete after survivors are
disembarked to the nearest place of safety, to be assigned by
the maritime authority in charge of search-and-rescue
coordination. But NGOs say their requests for a place of safety
in the Mediterranean Sea are increasingly delayed, ignored or
denied by both Italy and Malta.
--- End Quote ---
The law is clearly on our side. So instead of forcing the
refugees to wait while a court case is filed against the
rightists, just disembark the refugees without rightist
permission, and let rightists file a court case against us if
they want to! Follow Rackete's example!
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/refugees-welcome/msg2174/?topicseen#msg2174
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> Salvini and Rackete squared off in June 2019, when she ignored
Italian military orders prohibiting her from docking her George
Soros-backed NGO ship trafficking illegals at a port in
Lampedusa. Rackete instead crushed a patrol boat putting the
lives of soldiers at risk, and illegally entered the Italian
port.
--- End Quote ---
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 16, 2022, 10:52 pm
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Thank you!
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-judge-blocks-title-42-184641858.html
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> A federal judge on Tuesday barred U.S. border officials from
rapidly expelling migrants under Title 42, a pandemic health
policy that has been used to expel more than a million people.
>
> U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington, D.C.,
vacated the Trump-era policy instituted in March 2020 to
mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Sullivan described Title 42 as
"arbitrary and capricious" in violation of federal law in his
ruling.
>
> The ruling takes effect immediately and applies to all
migrants, including families and adults traveling without
children, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, the
organization that filed the lawsuit resulting in the decision.
>
> "This ruling is proof that Title 42 was never about public
health — it was a thinly veiled racist smokescreen put in place
by the previous administration and continued by the current
administration," Donna De La Cruz, director of communications
for the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, said in a written
statement.
>
> "President (Joe) Biden must once and for all eliminate the use
of Title 42 for asylum seekers."
> ...
> "The only way to reform what's happening at the border is to
create a system where there truly are legal pathways, and only
Congress can do that," she said.
> ...
> El Paso may consider reopening its Migrant Welcome Center,
should the need arise, city spokeswoman Laura Cruz Acosta said
in a statement. The city is seeking advance funding from FEMA to
help support efforts to manage the needs of asylum seekers
released in the city, she said.
--- End Quote ---
In other news, more refugees are finally taking my advice, as
our enemies report with chagrin:
HTML https://gatesofvienna.net/2022/11/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-passports/
--- Quote ---
> Asylum trick at the border: Heute reader Michael found
passports, torn money and plane tickets from refugees in a
meadow.
> ...
> These were five Turkish passports, banknotes and plane tickets
from Istanbul to Sarajevo.
>
> The documents are likely to have been deliberately disposed of
by migrants before they were apprehended, in order that they
might hide their real place of origin and actual citizenship
from the authorities.
--- End Quote ---
If you are a refugee in an EU country and someone who wants to
deport you asks you where you came from, always tell them you
came from another EU country. They will probably not believe
you, but they will have to do the work themselves to get the
answer they want.
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 17, 2022, 7:55 pm
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Well done Philadelphia!
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/asylum-seekers-bused-texas-arrive-054236414.html
--- Quote ---
> Asylum-seekers bused from Texas arrive in Philadelphia to warm
welcome
> ...
> Peter Pedemonti, a co-director of Philadelphia-based community
organization New Sanctuary Movement, was busy getting his young
children ready for school last week when he got a call from a
colleague in Texas: Gov. Greg Abbott was sending a bus of
asylum-seekers to Pennsylvania.
>
> The colleague didn't know when the bus would leave, nor when
it would arrive.
>
> Pedemonti jumped into action, activating a network of more
than a dozen advocacy organizations and Philadelphia city
departments that had been preparing for this moment since the
summer, when Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis began sending
migrants to so-called sanctuary cities like Chicago, New York
and Washington, D.C.
>
> “We always knew Philadelphia would be a destination,” he said.
>
> If Abbott was hoping for a public backlash to asylum-seekers’
arriving in Philadelphia, he didn’t achieve his goal, said
Pedemonti, who, along with other community organizers, greeted
the newcomers Wednesday morning with warm drinks and clothing.
>
> "We chose to welcome people with dignity, with love and with
support and solidarity," he said. "I’m really proud of the city
today."
> ...
> The outpouring of support for the arrivals appeared to be a
moment of pride for Mayor Jim Kenney, who pushed the city to
become a sanctuary for immigrants in 2018. He famously broke
into song and dance when a federal judge ruled that the Trump
administration couldn’t cut off grants to Philadelphia over how
it deals with immigrants in the country illegally.
>
> Since then, Philadelphia has expanded its services and made
the office of immigrant affairs permanent.
>
> “I’m very pleased with the high level of coordination
occurring to best welcome individuals seeking asylum to
Philadelphia, where they are and will always be welcomed,"
Kenney said in a statement Wednesday. "We are proud to protect
the rights and dignity of our newly arrived neighbors."
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This is what all of America should be like!
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> "Eventually we will need a state-coordinated plan, and we
really need the U.S. and federal government to shift to a
long-term plan," said Andy Kang, the executive director of the
Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition. "Our hope is
that, at some point, asylum-seekers are treated more like
refugees."
--- End Quote ---
Finally, keep exposing the rightist lies every single time:
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> Abbott warned President Joe Biden in a letter Wednesday that
Texas would ramp up its efforts to deal with the influx of
migrants. He said Biden must implement or reinstate policies
that enforce federal immigration laws “and protect the states
against invasion.”
>
> “Two years of inaction on your part now leave Texas with no
choice but to escalate our efforts to secure our State,” the
letter said. “Your open-border policies, which have catalyzed an
unprecedented crisis of illegal immigration, are the sole cause
of Texas having to invoke our constitutional authority to defend
ourselves.”
>
> But advocates are quick to point out that the people who
arrived in Philadelphia aren’t in the country illegally, having
been paroled into the U.S. after they declared asylum.
--- End Quote ---
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 20, 2022, 1:23 am
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/advocates-launch-campaign-welcome-migrants-151554360.html
--- Quote ---
> Advocates launch campaign to welcome migrants relocated north
>
> An alliance of advocacy groups on Friday launched a campaign
to counter the migrant busing policies of GOP officials like
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by
highlighting the massive civil society response to welcome
migrants throughout the country.
> ...
> The campaign website features a map highlighting individuals,
organizations and elected officials who have in some way
contributed to welcoming migrants bused or flown north by
Republican governors.
>
> For instance, the map shows a blue dot — representing an
elected official — over Syracuse, N.Y.
>
> Clicking on the dot leads to a local news story about Syracuse
Mayor Ben Walsh speaking out in favor of welcoming migrants, and
Syracuse’s sanctuary policies.
>
> “Anytime we have refugees coming into this country, we want to
make sure the federal government knows that Syracuse is a
welcoming place and will work hand and hand with them to make
sure that we are helping these humans that are in crisis,” Walsh
told Spectrum News 1 in September.
>
> The campaign also helps highlight individuals and
organizations that have rendered aid, both short and long term,
to migrants arriving in their cities and towns.
> ...
> While civil society and local government assistance has been
consistently available to migrants relocated north, the Choose
Welcome campaign is also seeking to institutionalize some of
that aid.
>
> To that end, the campaign has three public demands: to grant
immediate access to basic services and work permits for asylum
applicants, federal funding to help civil society welcome
migrants and a full restoration of asylum rights at the border.
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://choosewelcome.org/
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 2, 2022, 6:54 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/niger-president-calls-job-based-170149387.html
--- Quote ---
> MILAN (Reuters) - Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum said in an
interview with an Italian newspaper on Friday that African and
European states should agree quotas for African immigrants
tailored to employment needs.
> ...
> "In France, Spain and Italy you have many jobs in sectors of
employment where Africans can work," Bazoum said.
> ...
> Bazoum spoke on a trip to Italy where he met Italian President
Sergio Mattarella and attended a conference in Rome with other
African heads of state.
>
> Italy was on the frontline of a European migration crisis in
2015 and 2016, when a million refugees fled war and poverty in
Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, adding to existing migration.
>
> Niger is both a source country and a transit point for
migrants who continue to trek to north Africa and travel across
the Mediterranean to Europe's southern coastline.
> ...
> He also noted the limits of funding development projects to
stem economic migration - a widespread approach in Europe -
pointing out that "Africa's development is something far more
complex".
>
> "The idea that European investments in Africa can be enough to
bring about development and stop migrants in their countries of
origin is unrealistic," he said
--- End Quote ---
This is what I have been saying all along! Keep the money in the
EU; just let the refugees into the EU where they will
spontaneously join the circulation of money already in operation
by filling the labour shortage! It is the elementary economics!
In contrast, "investments in Africa" means spending money to try
to deliberately create another labour shortage nearer to the
labour excess so that the labour excess can fill this new,
artificial shortage instead of the already-existing, organic
shortage in the EU. WTF?!
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