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No water, no toilet paper, no tampons: how the US treats border detainees
A new lawsuit reveals the awful conditions migrants face in Customs and Border Protection custody.
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Disturbing Photos Allegedly Show Texas Border Patrol Facility Packed With Immigrant Children
Photos obtained by the conservative website Breitbart are said to show dozens, perhaps hundreds, of young children packed side by side in a large concrete warehouse identified by the San Antonio Express-News as a U.S. Border Patrol holding station in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. The children are presumably part of the wave of unaccompanied minors now coming to the U.S. in unprecedented numbers as they flee violence and poverty in Central America.
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Feds dumping hundreds of undocumented immigrants at Arizona bus stops (+video)
The immigrants, mostly from Central America, are crossing the border in Texas, which can't cope with them. So they're being sent to Arizona, which has more processing capacity. It's unclear whether the transfers will continue, but the Arizona governor is furious.
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What happens to migrants found at sea?
The BBC's Matthew Price has been behind-the scenes on the Bergamini, part of the Italian navy's Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) operation, which patrols the seas in the search for migrant boats. The frigate is under orders to save lives - whether boats are in trouble or not, they will try to intercept them and pick up the passengers.
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A child migrant's journey
Tracking the paths of children who illegally migrate from Central America to the United States.
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Italy finds bodies in migrant boat
The Italian navy has found about 30 bodies in a fishing boat carrying hundreds of migrants between Sicily and the North African coast. The migrants who died appeared to have been asphyxiated. The discovery was made when rescuers boarded the vessel to evacuate a number of people said to be in distress, two of them pregnant women.
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Deportation: How an American life unravels after 20 years
Madina Salaty documented her husband's final months in the U.S. after he was ordered deported — the heartbreaking deconstruction of a once-idyllic life.
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Italy shipwreck 'leaves 70 missing'
At least 70 migrants have been lost at sea after their boat capsized off Sicily, survivors have said. The latest disaster to hit migrants trying to reach Italy emerged from a group rescued by the Italian navy who spoke to UN workers. Thousands of migrants have tried to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa in recent days.
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I escaped Venezuela for North America. Here’s how.
At the Simón Bolívar International Airport in Caracas, my wife, 8-month-old daughter and I stopped to take photos of our feet. We were standing over a colorful, geometric mosaic made by the famous artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, a symbol of the modern and cosmopolitan Venezuela we loved and the Venezuela that Hugo Chávez and his followers have tried to destroy.
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5 things you need to know about the immigration crisis
Partisan hyperbole has ratcheted up as the Obama administration grapples with thousands of young undocumented immigrants surging the U.S.-Mexico border and facing angry protesters on the way to overcrowded detention centers.
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40 Central American immigrants deported
About 40 Central American immigrants detained briefly in New Mexico were deported Monday, officials confirmed. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the immigrants were placed on a plane in Roswell and flown to Honduras, but the agency did not say when they arrived. The adults and their children previously were housed at temporary detention center in Artesia, the agency said.
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The KKK Is Using Candy to Lure New Recruits
The Ku Klux Klan is having some trouble with recruitment. After all, competition is getting pretty fierce among the various right-wing militias and bunker-dwellers looking to build up armies to fight the fast-approaching Race War Apocalypse. Last weekend, Klansmen in South Carolina tried to sweeten their pitch by dropping off goody bags stuffed with candy and nativist propaganda in the driveways of unsuspecting exurbanites.
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RCMP hits Immigration Canada employee with 97 charges for allegedly selling passports
The RCMP is searching the around world for 18 people who allegedly obtained passports under false identities from a CIC employee now facing dozens of charges
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How Not to Design a World Without Borders
Hitler was behind the wheel, racing through a blur of jungle toward Ecuador’s border with Colombia. Only when an immigration officer in green fatigues hurried out from a checkpoint, yelling, did Hitler pump the brakes. The policeman asked if we wanted our passports stamped, and all four of us in the truck—an American, a Dane, a Colombian, and an Ecuadorian—declined. With that, the official waved goodbye and we lurched onward to Colombia.
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Texas Attorney General: Immigrants Crossing Border Illegally Are Raping, Killing In Texas
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says up to 1,000 National Guard troops will be deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border to stop the immigrants who are crossing the border illegally for criminal purposes.
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Migrants arriving in Europe by boat this year will top 100,000 by mid-August
Migrants flowing into Europe by boat from Africa this year are expected to exceed 100,000 by mid-August, officials have said. Nearly 91,000 people have reached Italy by sea since the start of the year, already close to the record-high of 92,000 arrivals in 2011. It came as another 2,500 arrived in Italy in the last 24 hours after being rescued by the navy and coastguard while crossing the Mediterranean.
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Rand Paul: I Won't Eat A Burger Made By an Immigrant
While at a fundraiser, Rand Paul started to eat a hamburger. He then drops it abruptly and scampers off when Erika identifies herself to both lawmakers as a DREAMer. King’s exchange with Ms. Andiola is pretty awful. “You’re very good at English. You understand the English language.” King said according to the Washington Post.
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One in Ten Russians Want to Leave Their Country
About one in every 10 Russians wants to emigrate from the country, a recent poll has shown, and while few seem to be actively pursuing their wish, the number is significant because it represents mostly young and educated professionals.
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At Least 5 Children Murdered After Deported Back to Honduras
As the Central American child migrant crisis intensifies, reports have surfaced that a least five to 10 migrant children have been killed since February when the United States deported them back to Honduras, Think Progress reported.
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Over a hundred migrants missing after boat sinks off Libyan coast
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A wooden boat carrying up to 200 migrants has sunk just one kilometer (half a mile) off the Libyan coast, the coast guard said on Saturday, and most passengers were feared drowned.The
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