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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: guest5
Date: May 15, 2021, 11:53 pm
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Was just going to post this. Too bad more people on this planet
aren't Scottish aye....
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 2, 2021, 10:30 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-administration-officially-ends-trumps-211414249.html
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> Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
issued a memo Tuesday officially terminating the Trump
administration's "Remain in Mexico" program.
>
> Why it matters: The program, known formally as Migrant
Protection Protocols (MPP), forced tens of thousands of asylum
seekers to await their immigration court proceedings in often
dangerous and squalid conditions in Mexico.
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Better than Trump, but not good enough. Biden needs to pass a
full amnesty before 2022 or there may not be a chance to do so.
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 4, 2021, 4:06 am
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How much must change just to get back to the pre-Trump normal:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-expelled-refugees-against-cdc-080024432.html
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> As cities and states nationwide begin to ease up on COVID-19
restrictions, the southwest border remains closed to
asylum-seekers. While families across the United States are
reuniting with loved ones for the first time in more than a
year, refugees fleeing violence and danger are being expelled at
the border, with COVID-19 as a pretext. These illegal border
expulsions endanger children and families, and fly in the face
of scientific evidence. Both should be cause for serious
concern.
>
> While the Biden administration has made some key changes to
rebuild our asylum system, decimated by four years of relentless
attacks under former President Donald Trump, the most sweeping
anti-asylum policy has yet to be rescinded. Known as Title 42
for where it falls in the Public Health Service Act, it was put
into place in March 2020 under the auspices of protecting
Americans from COVID-19. Simply put, noncitizens who arrive at
the Southern border are expelled and sent to Mexico, regardless
of their country of citizenship.
>
> Cruelty doesn't improve public health
>
> The expulsions are swift and uncompromising. Indeed, only
through litigation has a small exception been carved out for
unaccompanied minors, leaving vulnerable and desperate families
with the terrifying choice of sending an 8-year-old alone to the
border to live in refugee camps for children within the United
States. Under Title 42, about 537,000 immigrants and refugees
have been expelled from the United States in the past year.
>
> From the beginning, public health experts have decried the
policy, a brainchild of Trump senior White House official
Stephen Miller, as unnecessary, cruel and counterproductive. The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, coerced into
implementing the expulsions under the Trump administration, told
advocates in April that it is still examining them under
President Joe Biden’s Feb. 2 order to reassess immigration
policy.
>
> Last month, the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, called
on the United States to end the asylum restrictions.
>
> However, despite advice from public health experts and
condemnation by UNHCR, expulsions under Title 42 continue and
the human cost has been devastating. Though refugees come from
countries all over the world, the Department of Homeland
Security expels them to Mexico, just on the other side of the
border.
> ...
> Expulsions don’t just impact migrants from Mexico and Central
America. Despite the recent designation of temporary protected
status for Haitian migrants within the United States, the Biden
administration has sent plane after plane of asylum-seeking
families back to Haiti, with some Haitians being expelled to
Mexico.
> ...
> Public health has often been used as a pretext for
restrictionist immigration policies. Beginning as early as 1793,
when Haitians were blamed for bringing yellow fever to
Philadelphia, nativism and xenophobia have long merged with
concerns about public health to exclude immigrants and refugees.
These concerns were not justified by science then, and they
certainly are not justified now.
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By inaction, Miller's policy would become the new normal, which
is unacceptable.
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 17, 2021, 10:26 pm
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HTML https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/17/doj-citizenship-foreign-victims-crime-abuse/
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> President Joe Biden’s radical appointee to the Justice
Department’s civil rights division is smashing another legal
hole in the nation’s immigration law with a June 16 decision
offering citizenship to migrants who claim they are fleeing
spousal abuse or local crime.
>
> The decision was announced by the radical chief of the civil
regulation division, Vanita Gupta, and it revives discarded
asylum-expanding rulings by President Barack Obama’s appointees
to the department-run immigration courts.
> ...
> Gupta’s decision, approved by Attorney General Merrick
Garland, was praised by pro-migration groups.
> ...
> Under Trump, the statement said, “asylum approval rates
plummeted for people escaping persecution perpetrated by members
of their families and communities, with a disproportionate
impact on women, children, and LGBTQ+ people. Many were ordered
deported to their home countries to face the very violence they
had fled.”
>
> “Today’s announcement will help undo some of the damage caused
by the Trump administration’s attacks on asylum,” said a
statement from the ACLU.
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Well done Gupta! Note:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanita_Gupta
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> Gupta was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Indian
immigrant parents.[8]
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The moral of the story is that:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/demographic-blueshift/
really works.
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 25, 2021, 10:25 pm
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HTML https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009958117/the-u-s-will-relocate-thousands-of-afghan-citizens-who-worked-with-u-s-troops
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> The United States will relocate thousands of Afghan citizens
who worked for the American government before U.S. troops exit
the country in the next few months.
>
> The plan is to relocate between 20,000 and 100,000 Afghan
citizens, a senior White House official tells NPR. The White
House is in the process of informing both the U.S. Congress and
the Afghan government, the official said.
>
> Most of the Afghan applicants for Special Immigrant Visas, or
SIVs, are translators and interpreters. Their family members
will also be relocated.
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Better than nothing, but really the US should accept all Afghans
who dislike the Taliban.
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 7, 2021, 10:05 pm
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What I always say:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/uk-create-asylum-fast-track-170641115.html
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> UK should create asylum fast-track for Uyghurs, say MPs
> ...
> the UK should implement an asylum fast-track for Uyghurs and
members of other minority ethnic groups who are fleeing from
persecution in China. It called on the UK to form a coalition of
“sanctuary states” that will publicly recommit to the principle
of non-refoulement.
> ...
> China denies mistreating the Uyghurs, insisting it is simply
running vocational training centres designed to counter
extremism.
>
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The best solution is always to let people as individuals choose
for themselves where to live, since no one chooses where they
are born. Uyghurs who dislike China can leave. Uyghurs who like
China can stay. So long as there is freedom of movement,
everyone will find the country that best suits themselves.
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 31, 2021, 11:19 pm
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Folkism is real:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VOs4n2YzsM
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 16, 2021, 1:35 am
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HTML https://www.reuters.com/world/canada-accept-20000-vulnerable-afghans-such-women-leaders-human-rights-workers-2021-08-13/
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> OTTAWA, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Canada plans to resettle more than
20,000 vulnerable Afghans including women leaders, human rights
workers and reporters to protect them from Taliban reprisals,
Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said on Friday.
>
> The effort is in addition to an earlier initiative to welcome
thousands of Afghans who worked for the Canadian government,
such as interpreters, embassy workers and their families, he
told a news conference.
> ...
> It covers both people who want to leave Afghanistan and those
already in neighboring countries.
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Good, but 20000 is a tiny number. Hopefully other NATO countries
can take many more. Millions will be wanting to leave
Ahghanistan:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2OZCanm6Lo
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbxxi8UGN6E
HTML https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2021/08/15/america-must-save-afghan-refugees-from-the-taliban/
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> The closest analogy to the situation in Afghanistan is the end
of the Vietnam War. “After the fall of Saigon, nearly a million
South Vietnamese fled across the sea as so-called boat people,”
said Schwartz. “The United States resettled many hundreds of
thousands in the United States, and more through an ‘Orderly
Departure Program.’ We owe Afghans the same degree of decency.”
>
> As detailed in the book Honorable Exit by Thurston Clarke, the
United States was also unprepared to help refugees when the
Vietnam’s government fell. However, in the first year of its
resettlement plan, the United States resettled 120,000 refugees
from Vietnam and the region. “During the next 25 years, they
were joined by another 1.3 million Vietnamese,” writes Clarke.
> ...
> Having made the decision to withdraw, the Biden administration
must fulfill an obligation to those abandoned to the Taliban
and, together with our allies and those in the region, offer a
place for Afghan refugees to live their lives in safety.
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 16, 2021, 9:42 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/20-years-destruction-us-moral-162251267.html
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> Those now in flight, as well as nearly 6 million forced to
flee their homes since 2001, are part of what the US's 20-year
war has brought Afghans. With lives hanging in the balance, the
question now is what the United States owes the Afghan people.
While some want to debate the US withdrawal, we must focus
instead on making every effort to aid those whose lives have
been so damaged and endangered by our war. One important place
to start is for the Biden administration to welcome one million
Afghan refugees to the United States.
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1 million sounds much better than 20000. But why stop at that?
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> Before turning to the solutions, consider what we would ask
for if another country invaded ours and waged a war that killed,
injured, and displaced millions. I've been tracking the damage
that our war has inflicted on Afghanistan as part of Brown
University's Costs of War Project. The project has spent more
than a decade documenting the human and financial costs of US
wars waged since 2001.
>
> Last year we worked with a team from American University to
calculate the number of people displaced by the war in
Afghanistan, as well as the US wars in Iraq and six other
countries. We found the Afghanistan war has displaced at least
2.1 million Afghans as refugees and 3.9 million internally.
That's about 15% of Afghanistan's total population today and
nearly 30% of its pre-war population.
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2.1 million + 3.9 million = 6 million. This would be a better
number to take in.
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> Try to imagine just 15% of the United States forced from their
homes. We're talking 50 million people - or everyone in Florida
and Texas combined.
>
> Our war has also killed around 150,000 Afghan civilians and
combatants through combat alone; factoring in deaths from
disease, hunger, and the destruction of health and other
infrastructure, the death toll is likely at least
600,000-750,000. Millions have been injured and traumatized.
>
> What would justice look like if another country invaded the
United States and waged a war that displaced 50 million and
killed and injured millions more?
> ...
> To start, the Biden administration and Congress must admit far
more Afghans to the United States. Compared to the 5.9 million
displaced, granting Special Immigrant Visas to only 71,000
translators and other former US government employees and their
family members represents a tiny step. We must resettle no fewer
than one million Afghan refugees over the next ten years. In the
wake of our wars in Southeast Asia, we admitted more than
800,000 refugees fleeing Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. We owe a
similar debt to Afghans.
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So why not 5.9 million?
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> And it is feasible: In one year, 1980, the United States
admitted more than 350,000 refugees, including 125,000 Cubans.
Given population and economic growth, we can absorb larger
numbers today. In 2015 and 2016, Germany admitted more than one
million refugees, and their population is a quarter that of the
US population.
> ...
> Unfortunately, President Biden set a cap of 62,500 total
refugee admissions for 2021 and 125,000 for 2022. The latter
number sounds good but is misleading given that Biden
acknowledged his administration wouldn't reach either year's
resettlement goals. More than 80,000 refugees and asylees
entered the United States during former President Trump's first
fiscal year in office. Given that our Costs of War team found
that US wars since 2001 have displaced at least 38 million
people, Biden should set a global target of admitting at least
300,000 refugees annually.
--- End Quote ---
Too low.
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> The costs of such efforts may seem overwhelming, but they pale
compared to the $2.3 trillion spent on 20 years of war in
Afghanistan and the obscenely bloated US military budget, which
tops $700 billion annually and exceeds that of the next 11
countries combined. Congress should use money saved by
withdrawing bases and troops from Afghanistan to resettle
Afghans and provide additional aid.
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Exactly. The US could accept hundreds of millions of refugees
with ease just by scaling back its military budget (or by
ceasing to give tax breaks to the rich!). Awareness of this
simple fact must be spread as widely as possible before the
climate refugees start arriving:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/climate-refugees/
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> More than anyone, the US government and citizens like you and
me have an obligation to repair the damage we have inflicted.
Our leaders chose to wage 20 years of war. Our taxes funded it.
Given the dead and injured, the 5.9 million displaced, and the
30,000 now being displaced each week, welcoming one million
Afghans to our country is just the start of making good on what
we owe. If war forced us to flee, wouldn't we expect the same
welcome?
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So why only 1 million?
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 17, 2021, 10:28 pm
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As usual, only Scotland responds as every NATO country ought to:
HTML https://news.yahoo.com/sturgeon-says-scotland-ready-help-143052154.html
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> Nicola Sturgeon has said Scotland is ready to do all it can to
help refugees fleeing Afghanistan amid the Taliban’s rapid
offensive in the country.
> ...
> “I hope UK government does similar and offers as much refuge
for vulnerable Afghans as possible,” Ms Sturgeon tweeted.
>
> She said the Scottish government was “willing to play our full
part and do all we can to help those in peril as a result of the
horrifying situation currently unfolding”, in the same way it
did with refugees from Syria.
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Meanwhile, it has become fashionable in many other NATO
countries to talk as though accepting Syrian refugees was
somehow a mistake to not be repeated. All who talk like that
deserve to be hit with WMDs.
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