-
+13 +1
Debunking the Myth of the Job-Stealing Immigrant
When I was growing up in the 1980s, I watched my grandfather — my dad’s stepdad — struggle with his own prejudice. He was a blue-collar World War II veteran who loved his family above all things and was constantly afraid for them. He carried a gun and, like many men of his generation, saw threats in people he didn’t understand: African-Americans, independent women, gays. By the time he died, 10 years ago, he had softened. He stopped using racist and homophobic...
-
+16 +1
Germany’s Small Towns Feel the Cost of Europe’s Migrant Crisis
VORRA, Germany — Even as European officials struggle with an unrelenting tide of migrants trying to enter the Continent, tranquil villages like this one in a picture-book valley in northern Bavaria are coping with the legions who have already arrived.
-
+17 +1
Fury rises at Disney over use of foreign workers
At the end of last October, IT employees at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts were called, one-by-one, into conference rooms to receive notice of their layoffs.
-
+9 +1
US will take Rohingya migrants
The United States is willing to take in Rohingya refugees as part of international efforts to cope with Southeast Asia's stranded boat people, the State Department said Wednesday.
-
+2 +1
Myanmar's Persecuted Rohingya Muslims Remain Stateless And Vulnerable After Risking Lives At Sea
"" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;">
-
+1 +1
Immigration judges make life-altering decisions in overbooked courts | Al Jazeera America
The surge of Central American migrants has swelled the immigration court system, pressuring judges and defendants alike
-
+26 +1
The millionaire who rescues migrants at sea
Appalled by migrant deaths in the Mediterranean, Chris Catrambone bought a boat and launched his own rescue mission. But as he discovered, there are pitfalls to going it alone.
-
+13 +1
16 Unfortunate Times Immigrants Were Caught Trying To Sneak Into The Country
There are desperate people who come up with some imaginative schemes to cross the national borders.They violate the immigration laws of the destination country. The number of the illegal immigrant population in the United States is uncertain, and that's the reason there is a strict inspection. There are people who deliberately hide in cars and try to reach there, but they are caught by inspectors. These photographs involve the illegal immigrants who got caught trying to sneak into the Country in weird condition.
-
+27 +1
Croatia Offers to Take in 550 Refugees
Croatia on Thursday offered to take in 550 refugees from outside Europe, implementing an EU Council decision to help 60,000 refugees and asylum seekers, mainly from Syria and Eritrea.
-
+1 +1
Desperate migrants try to swim to Britain from France
The BBC's Paddy O'Connell says that migrants in France are so desperate to get to Britain that they are now trying to swim across the English Channel.
-
+12 +1
'2,000 migrants' tried to enter Channel Tunnel overnight
About 2,000 migrants tried to enter the Channel Tunnel in the French port of Calais on Monday night in a bid to reach the UK, a spokesman for the company said.
-
+2 +1
Interactive: The world’s changing pattern of refugees and asylum-seekers
Syria became the largest nation of origin for refugees in 2014, with 3.88 million Syrian refugees now residing in other countries. Previously Afghanistan was the largest source and neighbouring Pakistan was the world's largest host of refugees. The Syrian conflict has made Turkey the largest host nation of refugees in the world. War, conflict and persecution continued to displace people across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central America and Eastern Europe, the latest figures from 2014 show.
-
+19 +1
Immigration is the biggest concern for Europeans, according to an EU poll
Immigration is now the biggest concern for European citizens, meaning it’s more of a concern than economic issues and unemployment. This is according to a poll done within the EU member states and candidate states at the end of May. The European Commission made the poll public at the end of July. The poll shows immigration is also the biggest concern for Belgians.
-
+17 +1
Mediterranean migrant deaths in 2015 pass 2,000
More than 2,000 people have died so far this year trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea, according to the International Organization for Migration. The death toll is 20 percent higher than in the same period last year.
-
+21 +1
Why FWD.us is wrong about Bernie Sanders
At the very least know a bit of your history before you pile on. By Mark Ames.
-
+20 +1
How smuggled workers power ‘Made in China’
On a quiet river bend on the China-Vietnam border, a group of people clambered up a muddy bank. They had just glided across the river from the Vietnamese side in a longboat, guided by men on both banks signaling with flashlights... By James Pomfret.
-
+14 +1
The Jungle Calais - awful reality for migrants
WHEN 26-year-old political science graduate Adnan talks to his family on Skype, he tells them life in France couldn’t be better. "We say we are living in Paris".
-
+28 +1
On Immigration, Bernie Sanders is Correct
The reality is that what Sanders supports on immigration is careful and nuanced, and it’s the correct path forward for American immigration policy. In a nutshell, Sanders is strongly in favor of legalization and citizenship for the current unauthorized immigrant population, which will raise wages and lift labor standards for all workers, and he’s against expanding U.S. temporary foreign worker programs, which allow employers to exploit and underpay so-called guestworkers.
-
+2 +1
A North Korean Defector's Regret
SEOUL, South Korea — Since the late 1990s, some 28,000 North Koreans have fled to South Korea. Only one, as far as anyone knows, has ever asked to go back.
-
+2 +1
Discovery of up to 50 bodies in truck highlights European migrant crisis
Austrian authorities launched an international probe into the deaths, as they struggled to count the corpses.
Submit a link
Start a discussion