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       Re: Refugees Welcome
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: December 20, 2022, 6:08 pm
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       Our enemies report:
  HTML https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/19/sanctuary-counties-making-private-deals-abolish-ice-groups-protect-criminal-illegal-aliens/
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       > Officials in Arlington, Virginia, are working behind the
       scenes with left-wing non-governmental organizations (NGOs), who
       support abolishing federal immigration enforcement, to shape
       county policy that shields criminal illegal aliens from arrest
       and deportation.
       >
       > An investigation from the Immigration Reform Law Institute
       (IRLI) reveals the extent to which Arlington County board
       members are working hand-in-hand with activists from the Legal
       Aid Justice Center (LAJC) to protect illegal aliens arrested for
       crimes from being turned over to the Immigration and Customs
       Enforcement (ICE) agents.
       >
       > In July, the Arlington County board unanimously approved a
       quasi-sanctuary policy that bans local police from inquiring
       about a suspect’s immigration status and requires officers to
       ask their supervisor’s permission before notifying ICE agents
       about an illegal alien in their custody.
       > ...
       > LAJC has advocated for abolishing ICE altogether, posting
       earlier this year:
       >
       > [quote]Yesterday we were proud to attend the
       #CommunitiesNotCages rally in front of #ICE HQ as part of the
       National Day of Action calling on the Biden administration take
       immediate action to shut down immigration detention centers,
       #FreeThemAll, defund ICE and CBP and stop deportations!
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       [/quote]
       Of course all this will merely slow down ICE/CBP, not stop them.
       The only way to truly stop them is with ruthless firepower. I
       repeat: every refugee needs to own an assault rifle and at least
       1000 rounds of ammunition. Instead of donating money to groups
       such as LAJC, it would be more effective to use that money to
       buy assault rifles and ammo in bulk and hand them out to
       refugees whichever side of the border they are on.
       #Post#: 17240--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Refugees Welcome
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: December 26, 2022, 6:16 pm
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       Authentic Christmas spirit:
  HTML https://wjla.com/news/local/migrant-buses-dc-texas-vice-president-kamala-harris-home-naval-observatory-christmas-eve-cold-weather-18-degrees-illegal-immigration-border-security-crossing-undocumented-greg-abbott
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       > WASHINGTON (7News) — A group of migrants was dropped off
       outside Vice President Kamala Harris' D.C. home on Christmas
       Eve, as temperatures dropped into the teens and some people were
       seen without adequate winter clothes.
       > ...
       > The Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network was there to take
       all three busloads of people to a church to help provide them
       with necessary resources and welcome them to our area.
       >
       > "This is a welcome effort that we've been doing since the
       first bus arrived," said Amy Fischer, a core organizer with the
       Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network. "D.C. just continues to
       show up as a welcoming city that is always ready and willing to
       open their arms to welcome people, whether it's Christmas Eve,
       whether it's 9 degrees outside or 90 degrees outside."
       >
       > To protect the migrants, Fischer did not disclose which church
       they were taking the migrants to, however, she said they
       provided warm food and clothes to them.
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAfDgntyWs8
       #Post#: 17323--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Refugees Welcome
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: December 31, 2022, 5:05 pm
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       Thank you!
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ql7hn4mZvA
       #Post#: 17373--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Refugees Welcome
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: January 5, 2023, 7:24 pm
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       Our enemies complain about ships following the law:
  HTML https://vdare.com/posts/great-replacement-update-cruise-ship-picks-up-illegals-for-free-ride-to-florida
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       > “Crews aboard two Carnival and Celebrity cruise ships rescued
       about two dozen migrants drifting at sea in small boats off the
       coast of Florida just days after hundreds of other migrants
       arrived at boat landings in the Florida Keys,” says a report
       from Fox News [Carnival, Celebrity cruise crews rescue dozens of
       migrants drifting in small boats off Florida, videos show, by
       Stephen Sorace, January 4, 2023].
       > ...
       > The Celebrity Beyond rescued 19 migrants from a crowded boat.
       Capt. Kate McCue said in a video she posted to social media that
       she turned the ship around after her chief officer noticed a
       glimmer on the horizon. The glimmer turned out to be the
       migrants.
       >
       > After the migrants were aboard the ship, crew members provided
       them with blankets, a change of clothes, food, and a medical
       evaluation, McCue said. The U.S. Coast Guard was also contacted.
       > ...
       > "The IMO explicitly states this requirement in its
       International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea: ‘A
       master of a ship at sea, which is in a position to be able to
       provide assistance on receiving a signal from any source that
       persons are in distress at sea, is bound to proceed with all
       speed to their assistance,’” according to SeaLaw.com.
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndY9yaSwnxM
       #Post#: 17375--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Refugees Welcome
   DIR By: SirGalahad
       Date: January 5, 2023, 7:38 pm
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       This is actually a funny story. Not what I expected to read when
       I came on here. Cruises are kind of a sleazy business,
       especially the ones operated by Carnival and other such
       companies, so I would have expected at least some misconduct
       with the refugees, considering your average clientele. Maybe
       this proves that while people tend to treat migrants like
       garbage from afar in their voting booths, kindness is more
       common when they have to look at the victims in the eye?
       #Post#: 17735--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Refugees Welcome
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: January 31, 2023, 2:31 am
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       Those who have already made it in have a duty to help those
       trying to make it in behind them:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/haitians-u-feel-pressure-sponsor-194436270.html
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       > (Reuters) - Haitians in the United States are facing enormous
       pressure to help family and friends under a U.S. migration
       program announced this month that may help some people escape
       Haiti's escalating violence but is also putting strain on the
       nation's diaspora.
       >
       > Giubert St Fort, a South Florida resident from Haiti said he
       was inundated with calls almost immediately after the Biden
       administration said on Jan. 5 it was opening a new legal pathway
       for migrants from four countries, including Haiti who had U.S.
       sponsors.
       > ...
       > Guerline Jozef, executive director of non-profit immigration
       advocacy group Haitian Bridge Alliance, which is helping
       Haitians find sponsors, described the dilemma.
       >
       > "People will say 'I have more than one cousin I would like to
       sponsor, I'm only able to sponsor one of them,'" Jozef said.
       "And that creates a major issue because how do you choose which
       one to sponsor?" She is also opposed to the expulsions of
       Haitians and other migrants arriving at the southwest border,
       many who are seeking U.S. asylum.
       >
       > Jozef said immigrant advocates have long fought for measures
       such as humanitarian parole, but said the program should not be
       attached to systematic deportation or expulsion of immigrants
       seeking asylum.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Chain migration is deliberate cruelty. If one person can sponsor
       only one other person, we have to wait for that new person to
       acquire citizenship before they can then sponsor the next
       person. It is far too slow, as the pace is stuck at
       1+1+1+1+1+1+1+..... Even increasing the number of people who can
       be sponsored from 1 to 2 would already be a considerable
       improvement, because then the pace would become
       1+2+4+8+16+32+64+..... See how much quicker that would be?
       Of course if we were in charge, we would not even require
       sponsors, and just let everyone in first. (Oh wait, that was
       what they actually did, but only for Ukrainians!
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/
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       #Post#: 17774--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Operation Gaddafi
   DIR By: guest98
       Date: February 2, 2023, 2:00 pm
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  HTML https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadian-lawmakers-back-resettlement-10000-uyghur-muslims-2023-02-01/
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       > Canadian lawmakers back resettlement of 10,000 Uyghur Muslims
       >
       > The Canadian parliament on Wednesday unanimously voted in
       favor of a non-binding proposal for the resettlement of 10,000
       Uyghur Muslim refugees from China's Xinjiang region into Canada
       over two years.
       >
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       #Post#: 17879--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Refugees Welcome
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: February 10, 2023, 5:06 pm
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       We were ahead of the curve as usual:
  HTML https://www.npr.org/2023/02/06/1154412106/busing-migrants-asylum-border-republicans-democrats
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       > Busing migrants was a partisan lightning rod. Here's why
       Democrats have embraced it
       > ...
       > "If we're spending money to bus people, why just not get them
       to their final destination?" Hobbs told reporters at a recent
       press conference.
       > ...
       > Buses operated by the state are "incredibly useful," says
       Burrow.
       > ...
       > Some bus passengers also appreciate the free ride.
       >
       > "I didn't know that the ticket to get here cost $500 dollars,"
       says Selina, a migrant traveling from Chile who caught a
       state-run bus from Texas to Philadelphia. NPR is not using her
       name because her immigration case is pending.
       >
       > Selina, who wants to meet up with her brother-in-law in New
       Jersey, tells NPR in Spanish that when she got into the United
       States, a guard told her about the free buses and showed her
       where to get in line for one. Otherwise, "I couldn't pay," she
       says.
       >
       > That reality has helped shift the politics of transporting
       immigrants. "Something that looked like a punitive thing towards
       immigrants done for political gains suddenly turned itself on
       the head because migrants are rational people," says Muzaffar
       Chishti, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute.
       >
       > Not only could they get a free ticket to a family or a
       shelter, but "they found these cities were actually quite
       hospitable to immigrants," says Chishti.
       >
       > Government agencies and nonprofits in Philadelphia,
       Washington, D.C., Chicago and New York have welcomed tens of
       thousands of immigrants bussed from the border. In many cases,
       they provide food, shelter, legal services and help with
       transportation.
       > ...
       > Democrats have started to adopt the process
       >
       > Cities and states led by Democrats started busing immigrants
       last year – with some tweaks.
       > ...
       > Murphy Hebert, communications director for the Arizona
       Governor's Office, says the new administration has an obligation
       to use the $15 million appropriated by the legislature to
       transport immigrants away from border areas.
       >
       > "We are reallocating those funds to a program that is more
       effective and more humanitarian," she says.
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       I was saying this all the way back here:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/refugees-welcome/msg15495/#msg15495
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       > 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!
       --- End Quote ---
       back when AOC was behaving like an idiot:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/refugees-welcome/msg15701/#msg15701
       See also:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/refugees-welcome/msg15727/#msg15727
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/refugees-welcome/msg16070/#msg16070
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/refugees-welcome/msg16540/#msg16540
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       Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
   DIR By: guest98
       Date: March 18, 2023, 1:54 pm
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  HTML https://financialpost.com/globe-newswire/repeat-thousands-to-mark-anti-racism-day-across-canada-calling-for-equal-rights-and-permanent-resident-status-for-migrants-and-refugees
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       > REPEAT – Thousands to mark Anti-Racism day across Canada
       calling for equal rights and permanent resident status for
       migrants and refugees
       >
       > Thousands of migrants and supporters will mark International
       Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Edmonton,
       Montreal, Sudbury, Toronto, Vancouver and Niagara Falls on March
       18 and 19 to call on Prime Minister Trudeau to ensure permanent
       resident status for all migrants and refugees, including
       undocumented people, as he promised in December 2021.
       >
       > Over 1.7 million migrants grow food, take care of children,
       the sick and the elderly, and are essential to our communities
       but are denied rights available to everyone else because they
       don’t have permanent resident status. Mostly in low wage
       essential jobs, migrants are also the hardest-hit by the
       affordability crisis.
       >
       > An uncapped regularization program that grants permanent
       resident status (not temporary permits) to all undocumented
       people could lift half a million people out of poverty; give
       them the tools to protect themselves against abuse; ensure
       gender justice; unite families and correct a historic wrong.
       >
       >
       >
       >
       >
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       #Post#: 18490--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Refugees Welcome
   DIR By: guest98
       Date: March 19, 2023, 1:13 pm
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  HTML https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/03/18/ottawa-to-introduce-measures-to-support-turkish-and-syrian-nationals-affected-by-devastating-earthquakes.html
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       >
       > Ottawa eases the way for Turkish, Syrian nationals affected by
       devastating earthquakes to stay in Canada
       >
       >
       > The federal government is making it easier for Turkish and
       Syrian nationals in Canada, whose homeland was devastated last
       month by earthquakes, to obtain open work permits allowing them
       to remain here for up to three years.
       >
       > “People who have been impacted (from the earthquakes) will
       benefit from special treatment in their application to come and
       receive temporary protection in Canada, including the family
       members of people who are here,” said Fraser, speaking in
       Mississauga.
       >
       > As part of the new measures, a Turkish or Syrian national who
       has temporary Canadian residency — such as a visitor, a student
       or a worker — will also be able to move between temporary
       residency streams to extend their stay in Canada. This will give
       them the opportunity to continue studying, working, or visiting
       family.
       >
       > Normally, an individual with a temporary visa or residency in
       Canada would have to leave the country to obtain a work or study
       permit, once their existing permit expires. But the new measures
       will now allow them to remain in Canada while they apply for any
       permit until they are approved.
       >
       > Fraser said it’s essential that Canada continues to treat this
       as a priority, and shared his hope the “new measures will give
       them peace of mind that they don’t need to return home to an
       uncertain future.”
       >
       >
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