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Europe shouldn’t worry about migrants. It should worry about creeping fascism
The greatest threat to our “way of life” is not migration. It is that we will swallow the lie that some human lives matter less than others. By Laurie Penny. (August 14)
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Surprising Truth About Where US Immigrants Are Coming From
More than one in 10 people living in the United States right now was born in another country. Of the 41 million immigrants in the U.S., most come from Mexico, our neighbor to the south. However, when you take out Mexico out of the equation, a more diverse picture emerges.
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The Journey: A refugee’s odyssey from Syria to Sweden
Hashem Alsouki risks his life crossing the Mediterranean, his heart set on Sweden – and freedom for his family. By Patrick Kingsley.
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Report: More than half of immigrants on welfare
More than half of the nation's immigrants receive some kind of government welfare, a figure that's far higher than the native-born population's, according to a report to be released Wednesday. About 51% of immigrant-led households receive at least one kind of welfare benefit, including Medicaid, food stamps, school lunches and housing assistance, compared to 30% for native-led households, according to the report from the Center...
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The Arab world’s wealthiest nations are doing next to nothing for Syria’s refugees
The world has been transfixed in recent weeks by the unfolding refugee crisis in Europe, an influx of migrants unprecedented since World War II. Their plight was chillingly highlighted on Wednesday in the image of a drowned Syrian toddler, his lifeless body lying alone on a Turkish beach. A fair amount of attention has fallen on the failure of many Western governments to adequately address the burden on Syria's neighboring countries, which are struggling to...
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A life in limbo: the refugees who fled torture only to end up trapped indefinitely on Manus
It’s 766 days since Papua New Guinea agreed to resettle refugees from Australia’s detention centre. So far 41 have been moved to quasi-detention in a halfway house. They have no idea if they will leave it
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“Mama Merkel” Opens the Door to Syrian Refugees as Most Germans Cheer
MUNICH — A stout Bavarian music teacher brought homemade blueberry crumble because she thought “the refugees must be hungry.” A young German mother coaxed smiles out of terrified children with balloons.
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Swedish PM: 'My Europe takes in refugees'
Thousands of umbrella-holding Stockholmers braved heavy rain on Sunday afternoon to take part in a rally in support of refugees, an idea inspired by similar demonstrations in Germany and Austria last month. Prime Minister Stefan Löfven gave a rousing speech in which he urged Swedes and Europeans to do their part to help out.
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Angela Merkel: plan to share 160,000 refugees across EU may not be enough
Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, has said a controversial plan due to be unveiled by the European commission (EC) to share out 160,000 refugees among European Union states might not be enough, and warned that Europe may have to accept even bigger numbers. Jean-Claude Juncker, the EC president, will give details on Wednesday of his blueprint to tackle Europe’s largest refugee crisis since the second world war.
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One in Five Voters Say Immigration Stance Critical to Vote
One in five U.S. voters say they will only vote for a candidate who shares their views on immigration, with Republicans and immigrants among the groups most likely to take this stance.
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How to Make Yogurt in Manila
“Tita,” my eleven-year-old niece says. “Why are you always talking about yogurt?” ... By Grace Tatalusan.
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Returning to the site of protest
Originally named American Flag, the town of Oracle, AZ is a microcosm of an America polarized by partisan immigration politics. Artist Yoshua Okón discusses the pitfalls of nationalism with Matthew Grumbach.
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Germany extends controls to Czech border to stop human traffickers
Germany has extended its controls to the border with the Czech Republic to stop human traffickers and better cope with the increased influx of asylum seekers, a federal police spokesman said on Thursday. Police started the border controls late on Wednesday on the A17 motorway connecting the east German state of Saxony with the Czech Republic, spokesman Christian Meinhold said, adding that four traffickers had been arrested since then.
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'Finland's no good': Disappointed migrants turn back
Hundreds of predominantly Iraqi migrants who have travelled through Europe to reach Finland are turning back, saying they don't want to stay in the sparsely-populated country on Europe's northern frontier because it's too cold and boring. Migrants have in recent weeks been crossing back into Sweden at the Haparanda-Tornio border just an hour's drive south of the Arctic Circle, and Finnish authorities have...
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We're doomed: EU chief fears union will COLLAPSE over migrant crisis
Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, warned the EU was now facing a "critical point" and that the migrant crisis hadn't even reached its peak. As he chaired an emergency meeting of EU leaders in Brussels last night Mr Tusk painted a bleak picture of the EU's future, saying the 28-member bloc was on the verge of breakdown with "recriminations and misunderstanding" pitting nations against one another.
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A small town in Slovakia held a vote on accepting refugees; 97 percent said no.
The next act of the European refugee crisis will unfold in little places like this one, where hundreds of Syrian war refugees are coming to live in a town that just voted by overwhelming numbers to oppose their stay. Over the past few days, the first of 500 Syrian asylum seekers arrived to take up three-month residency at a state-run dormitory in the center of town.
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How the Immigration Act of 1965 Inadvertently Changed America
The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, whose 50th anniversary comes on October 3, officially committed the United States, for the first time, to accepting immigrants of all nationalities on a roughly equal basis. The law eliminated the use of national-origin quotas, under which the overwhelming majority of immigrant visas were set aside for people coming from northern and western Europe.
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Migrants 'torch tents' in Slovenia camp
Tents have been torched at a transit camp in Slovenia, allegedly by migrants angry at how they are being treated. They torched the tents at the camp in Brezice to protest at the slow process of registering them and moving them to the Austrian border, witnesses said. They have also complained of a lack of food, water and blankets in the camp. Meanwhile the Greek coastguard is searching for a migrant boat believed to...
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So many Brits now live abroad that they're causing immigration debates. Oh, the irony.
Why are so many of us leaving Britain? Is it the crap weather? The lack of affordable housing? The far-reaching ramifications of colonialism smoothing our way as we migrate around the world? A combination of the above? Whatever the reason, according to a new report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Britain has a greater proportion of its citizens living overseas than any other European country.
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What Americans Thought of Jewish Refugees Fleeing Nazi Europe
A sobering history lesson we should consider today.
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