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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 21, 2021, 12:03 am
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Guatemalan security forces block Honduran migrant caravan
heading to US
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> Guatemalan security forces blocked hundreds of migrants
advancing towards the US on Monday. The government said the road
in eastern Guatemala reopened to traffic on Monday after troops
and police officers launched teargas and pushed them back down
the highway.
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> The removal of the group was the latest effort by Guatemalan
authorities to break up the caravan, which authorities said
numbered close to 8,000 people within hours of its departure for
the US last week.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYCSBDq_Giw
Had Native Americans stopped Western colonialists from
colonizing the Americas none of this would be happening and we
probably wouldn't have nuclear weapons on the planet and an
ocean filled with plastic either.
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 23, 2021, 11:38 pm
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Refugees stuck in winter shelters at EU border in Bosnia | DW
News
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> European lawmakers are set to discuss the fate of migrants
stranded along the EU's external borders. The situation is
especially acute in Bosnia, where thousands of mostly Middle
Eastern migrants remain in limbo. Bosnia is not an EU member,
but it borders Croatia, which is part of the union. Human rights
groups say migrants have frequently reported rough encounters
with Croatian police, including beatings and being forcefully
sent back into Bosnia. Croatian authorities deny the
allegations. Currently nearly 9,000 migrants are estimated to be
in Bosnia. Many are from Afghanistan, Pakistan or Syria. The
UN's migration agency says more than a third are living without
any shelter. Many were left homeless when a camp in Lipa was
evacuated in December, after Bosnian authorities failed to
prepare the camp for winter. The empty camp was later set on
fire. The Bosnian army has set up new tents, but NGOs say more
permanent shelter is sorely needed.
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 24, 2021, 3:10 pm
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Guatemala forces forcibly disperse Honduran migrant caravan
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> Guatemalan security forces have forcibly turned back thousands
of Central American migrants, mainly from Honduras. who are
trying to reach the United States. Their move comes as US
President-elect Joe Biden has said he will adopt a more humane
approach than his outgoing predecessor Donald Trump. The
migrants say that they are fleeing lawlessness and chronic
unemployment.
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Re: Cancel Culture
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 25, 2021, 10:45 am
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Lebanese journalist's racist remarks against refugees cause
outrage
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> Nidal al Ahmadieh, a Lebanese journalist and founder of Al
Jaras Magazine, sparked outrage after this racist rant targeting
refugees in Lebanon. #Refugee​ #Lebanon​
#Syrians​
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> Abd Ever
> 1 hour ago
> She hates herself too, that's why she had so many plastic
surgeries.
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: January 27, 2021, 2:47 am
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Common sense returns to the US government:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/democrats-legislation-decriminalize-immigration-233300380.html
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> On Tuesday, Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.) and co-sponsors
Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.)
held a virtual press conference discussing their New Way Forward
Act — originally introduced in 2019, alongside Rep. Karen Bass
(D-Calif.). It would ban for-profit immigration detention
facilities, end the use of local police for immigration
enforcement and decriminalize border crossings.
> ...
> “Decriminalizing immigration is not a radical concept at all,”
García said. “What is radical is caging school-aged children.
What is radical is detaining thousands of refugees in dangerous
conditions of squalor. We’re simply asking for fair treatment.”
> ...
> Pressley hopes the legislation will end the
“prison-to-deportation” pipeline, in which immigrants of color,
who are stopped and arrested more often by police and given
harsher sentences than their white peers, can end up in ICE
detention and at times deported back to their home countries.
>
> “For too long our immigration and criminal legal systems have
been deeply and fundamentally intertwined,” Pressley said,
adding that this bill package aims to create an immigration
system that “finally centers the humanity of our immigrant
neighbors.”
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: January 30, 2021, 11:40 pm
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There must be accountability for all who have initiated violence
against refugees:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/syria-rights-group-urges-intl-142956093.html
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> BEIRUT (AP) — A Washington-based Syrian rights group filed a
case with the International Criminal Court on Thursday, calling
for an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity by
Greece for its mistreatment of refugees.
>
> The Syria Justice and Accountability Center said witness
testimony and video evidence back its claims of mistreatment and
abuse of refugees at Greece's borders and inside overcrowded
camps. It cites instances of security guards using tear gas to
disperse refugee protests, and shabby and unhealthy conditions
at the sprawling camps.
>
> Mohammad Al-Abdallah, the group's executive director, said
this was the first legal challenge to the European Union over
its treatment of refugees.
> ...
> The mistreatment documented since March 2016, the Syrian group
argues, extends to Greece’s territorial waters where it has
documented sabotaging of migrant boats, leaving them to drift
back to sea — even pushing them back into water.
>
> Such “pushback" incidents are considered contrary to
international refugee protection agreements, which say people
shouldn’t be expelled or returned to a country where their life
and safety may be in danger.
>
> The Syria Justice and Accountability Center said there is
evidence that personnel from Frontex, the agency that monitors
and polices migrant movements around Europe’s borders,
participated in or were complicit in these abuses, which it says
could amount to crimes against humanity.
>
> Frontex is already under fire after an October investigation
by media outlets said evidence in video and other public data
suggests its members were “actively involved in one pushback
incident at the Greek-Turkish maritime border in the Aegean
Sea.”
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But let us not delude ourselves that mere accusation is enough:
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> “We are hoping this would also influence the policy and
discourse on refugees within the EU, not only in Greece,”
Al-Abdallah said. “No EU country wants an accusation of crimes
against humanity."
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Being accused of crimes against humanity is meaningless unless
followed by punishment. The harsh truth is that no EU country is
afraid of an accusation of crimes against humanity unless the
accuser is willing to follow up the accusation with devastating
military action.
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 31, 2021, 3:22 pm
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What migrants face as they journey through the deadly Darien Gap
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> Whether fleeing war, persecution, poverty or the effects of
climate change, migrants and refugees worldwide routinely find
themselves in great danger. Perhaps the most hazardous migrant
trail of all is the Darien Gap, a wild, lawless stretch
straddling Colombia and Panama. Before the pandemic, special
correspondent Nadja Drost and videographer Bruno Federico
reported from this perilous path.
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 12, 2021, 10:50 pm
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> Updated: President Joe Biden's administration announced
Thursday that it will start allowing thousands of migrants to
enter the U.S. while their asylum claims are being processed.
The asylum seekers were previously forced to remain in Mexico
under the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols.
Many migrants affected by that Trump policy have struggled to
find permanent shelter or safety in Mexico while waiting months,
or more than a year, for their days in court. The Biden admin
says it will start slow, processing approx 300 individuals
daily, but it's estimated the total number of people affected by
this policy change could be 25,000. In a statement, DHS
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that 'the U.S. government is
committed to rebuilding a safe, orderly, and humane immigration
system,' but the agency added that this news 'should not be
interpreted as an opening for people to migrate irregularly to
the United States.'
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 26, 2021, 9:12 pm
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Shelters for migrant children near capacity along the border
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> U.S. Border Patrol is now allowing asylum seekers to begin
crossing into the country to have their requests processed, a
reversal of Trump administration policy. But there are concerns
as more migrant children are crossing alone. CBS News
correspondent Mireya Villarreal has the latest from the border,
and CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez joins
CBSN AM to discuss how the Biden administration is handling the
influx.
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: rp
Date: March 16, 2021, 2:05 am
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