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Rich Countries Cannot Outsource Their Migration Dilemmas
Few problems trouble wealthy democracies today as much as uncontrolled migration. Public concerns about incoming migrants drove the British vote in favor of leaving the European Union and facilitated the ascent of former U.S. President Donald Trump. Today, a rise in migrant arrivals at the U.S.-Mexican border is creating political turmoil for U.S. President Joe Biden. Whether they are fleeing persecution, driven away by natural disasters, or searching for economic opportunities, migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees all find themselves unwelcome in the global North.
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Germany: Post-Merkel government set to ease migration, citizenship rules | DW | 25.11.2021
Dual citizenship, family reunions for refugees and more visa opportunities are a few of the pledges made by the parties of the new coalition. Activists and state integration ministers alike had long backed such changes.
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Opinion: Poland-Belarus border crisis points to cynicism and hypocrisy | DW | 10.11.2021
As the crisis on the border between Poland and Belarus deepens, the EU is helpless as Minsk and Warsaw engage in cynical power politics. The migrants caught inbetween are paying a heavy price, DW’s Barbara Wesel says.
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A Vietnamese refugee served as one of California's inmate firefighters. Then the state gave him to ICE
Despite California’s landmark sanctuary laws, state prisons are still cooperating with...
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Children stopped at border likely hit record-high in July
The number of children traveling alone who were picked up at the Mexican border by U.S. immigration authorities likely hit an all-time high in July, and the number of people who came in families likely reached its second-highest total on record, a U.S. official said Monday, citing preliminary government figures.
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Biden Team Unveils New Asylum System To Replace Trump's 'Remain In Mexico'
The Biden administration will begin phasing in a new asylum process on Feb. 19 for the backlog of people seeking asylum on the southern U.S. border, but Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told NPR that migrants must avoid traveling to the U.S. border while the new system gets up and running.
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The US has turned its back on skilled migrants, giving Australia an opening
The outgoing Trump administration presided over one of the most dramatic tightenings in US immigration policy since the 1930s. Along with declining fertility, this saw US population growth fall to its lowest rate in a century, even before the onset of the pandemic.
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The Victims of Trump’s Family Separation Policy Will Not Be Fine
A study of Jewish children split from their families during the Holocaust suggests that separation’s damage is deep and long-lasting.
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ICE just signed a contract with Clearview AI, the controversial facial-recognition company that scrapes photos from social media
ICE is known to use facial-recognition technology to identify people and subsequently carry out raids that lead to deportations.
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‘After the Last Border’ Reveals the Human Cost of Trump’s Draconian Immigration Policies
After the Last Border is a corrective to the fiction that refugees and immigrants are economically and culturally burdensome to the American way of life.
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A Judge Ordered ICE To Release Immigrant Children Over Coronavirus Concerns
Citing COVID-19 concerns, a federal judge ordered US officials on Friday to release immigrant children detained at facilities for families by July 17. "The [family residential centers] are 'on fire' and there is no more time for half measures," US District Judge Dolly Gee wrote.
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"Without these workers, everything ceases to exist": How coronavirus is coming for your produce
Every year in mid-March, thousands of men from all over Mexico show up in downtown Monterrey, the country’s third-biggest city, with big, rolling suitcases and folders full of documents. They huddle in groups outside of cheap hotels, waiting on their appointments at the US consulate so they can get the stamp on their passport that allows them to head north to work on farms across the United States.
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Searching for the missing girl
A powerful and unsettling journey into the dark heart of the migrant crisis
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Trump Administration Poised To Start Collecting DNA From Immigration Detainees
Starting in April, immigration authorities will start taking cheek swabs to collect DNA from hundreds of thousands of immigration detainees in federal custody each year. The Trump Administration says the policy change will help law enforcement apprehend criminal suspects. The data collected will be transferred to an FBI database, so that in the future, law enforcement officials could check if these samples matched any DNA recovered from a crime scene.
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Canada Wins, U.S. Loses In Global Fight For High-Tech Workers
If there is a global war for tech talent, right now Canada is winning. And U.S. immigration policies are part of the reason.
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He fled Honduras, and its gangs, for safety in the US. After his death, who was to blame?
Asylum seekers face competing miseries: violence at home, and a punitive detention system with a shard of hope for relief abroad.
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Congolese Asylum-Seeker Dies Christmas Day in U.S. Custody at the Border
A Congolese woman seeking asylum died on Christmas Day in U.S. government custody after entering a south Texas border station, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday. The agency did not disclose the identity of the 41-year-old who arrived with her husband and two children at an official port of entry the day before her death.
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Colorado governor pardons woman who sought sanctuary in churches to avoid deportation
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) granted pardons on Friday to five individuals, including a woman who has sought sanctuary in various Colorado churches to evade immigration officials seeking to deport her.
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Trump suspends entry for migrants who will 'financially burden the United States healthcare system'
The White House on Friday issued a proclamation that would halt migrant entry into the U.S. if the person is pursuing a visa and "will financially burden the United States healthcare system." Migrants will be considered people who will burden the system if they are not covered by approved health insurance within 30 days of entering the country unless they have enough money to "pay for reasonably foreseeable medical costs."
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Homeland Security to collect social media usernames on immigration and visitor applications
The Department of Homeland Security plans to begin requesting social media information on applications for immigration benefits and foreign travel to the US, an expansion of data collection already taking place.
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