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This American Life
Twenty years ago, a brown-skinned boy was shot to death near the Rio Grande. What fate awaits my own son? By Sterry Butcher.
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The cruel but usual conditions inside two Georgia immigration detention centers
With existing immigration detention quotas and Trump’s mass deportation plans, immigrants will be unnecessarily detained in deplorable conditions. By Azadeh Shahshahani and Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia.
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Slavery Now: Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia
Slavery still exists today. And it exists in the Gulf states and in Saudi Arabia. By Christiane Saliba.
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Kushners tap China’s $24B ‘golden visa’ market
When the sister of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner promoted investment in her family’s new skyscraper from a Beijing hotel ballroom stage earlier this month, she was pitching a controversial American visa program that’s proven irresistible to tens of thousands of Chinese. By Nomaan Merchant.
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“Corruption, Plain and Simple”: Kushner Visa Scandal Snowballs
While the White House hides behind more alternative facts, the outrage has seemingly multiplied. By Lauren McCauley.
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New anti-immigrant law in Texas is so bad the ACLU issues a travel advisory
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott stealth signs a new anti-immigrant bill so harsh that sheriffs and police chiefs oppose it. By Amanda Marcotte.
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Private Prison Corporation Wrote Texas Bill Extending How Long Immigrant Children Can Be Detained
GOP state Rep. John Raney admitted that the $4 billion company Geo Group wrote the legislation. By David Dayen.
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Case Farms Took Advantage of Immigrant Workers, Then Used U.S. Immigration and Labor Law Against Them When They Got Hurt or Fought Back
One of the most dangerous companies in the U.S. took advantage of immigrant workers. Then, when they got hurt or fought back, it used America’s laws against them. By Michael Grabell.
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The Fight For The $400 Billion Business Of Immigrants Sending Money Home
A new class of startups is using bitcoin and the blockchain to drastically lower fees as they try to grab a share of the remittance market from old competitors like Western Union. By Ben Schiller.
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A desperate escape
A closer look at the violent persecution of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar, and their exodus to Bangladesh. By Simon Scarr, Weiyi Cai, Wen Foo and Jin Wu.
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Fearing a worker shortage, [U.S.] farmers push back on immigration
The head of Bethel Heights Vineyard looked out over the 100 acres of vines her crew of 20 Mexicans had just finished pruning, worried about what will happen if the Trump administration presses ahead with its crackdown on immigrants… By Andrew Selsky.
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A Father Describes Saving His Daughter From U.S. Bombardment of Mosul
Four-year-old Awra Ali was nearly blinded in a U.S.-led coalition strike in Mosul. She’s among the unprecedented number of civilians harmed in strikes in March. By Anna Lekas Miller. (Apr. 16 2017)
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German anti-immigrant party set to go further right after leader suffers defeat
The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) looks set to turn further right after its co-leader, who has struck a more moderate tone of late, suffered a defeat when delegates refused to discuss her motion to shift the party into the “mainstream”. By Michelle Martin.
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102 villagers, 750 refugees, one grand experiment
There is no cinema in Sumte. There are no general stores, no pubs, gyms, cafes, markets, schools, doctors, florists, auto shops or libraries. There are no playgrounds. Some roads are paved, but others scarcely distinguish themselves from the scrub grass and swampy tractor trails surrounding each house – modest plots that grade into the farmland and medieval forests of Lower Saxony. There is no meeting hall. All is private and premodern.
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The Useful Village
In the fall of 2015, Germany designated Sumte, population 102, as a sanctuary for nearly 800 refugees. What followed was a living experiment in the country’s principles. By Ben Mauk.
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People Will Hate Us Again
Towards the end of the first year of Anita Brookner’s deathtime, I was remembering my meetings and conversations with her. What we talked about: art, books, the literary world, France, friends in common. What we didn’t talk about: her early years, her personal life, politics... By Julian Barnes.
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1m African migrants may be en route to Europe, says former UK envoy
As many as one million migrants are already on the way to Libya and Europe from countries across Africa, the former head of the British embassy in Benghazi has warned. The warning by Joe Walker-Cousins, head of the UK’s Libya mission between 2012 and 2014 comes as European governments struggle to find a response to the flow of migrants from the Mediterranean, and the appalling conditions in detention camps run by traffickers or the Libyan government.
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How labeling my organization a hate group shuts down public debate
By Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
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This Stunningly Racist French Novel Is How Steve Bannon Explains The World
“The Camp of the Saints” tells a grotesque tale about a migrant invasion to destroy Western civilization. By Paul Blumenthal, JM Rieger.
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Leaving Aleppo
My grandfather had a poet’s eye for beauty. Cut off from any means of publication, surrounded by a new culture, what hope did he have? By Pauls Toutonghi.
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