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ICE threatened to expose asylum-seekers to COVID-19 if they did not accept deportation
Feb 10, 2021 17:07Three Cameroonian asylum-seekers locked up at the Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center in Louisiana say that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement guard threatened to expose them to Covid-19 if they failed to obey his orders and submit to a transfer.
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Biden continues policies which put kids in cages, in Syria
Feb 10, 2021 16:54US President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, backed policies towards Syria which saw innocent children separated from their families and placed in cages. But the worst part of it, is that they have no quarrels with doing it again.
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Biden is rejecting Trump’s Border Wall — but favors his own technological wall
Feb 05, 2021 16:47President Joe Biden will sign a number of immigration-related executive actions continuing his reversals of former President Donald Trump’s harsh policies toward undocumented immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees as part the new administration’s effort to pursue a more humanitarian approach to immigration and border enforcement.
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Citing the pandemic, CBP has expelled newborn U.S. citizens with their migrant mothers
Jan 08, 2021 07:01U.S. Customs and Border Protection has used a controversial Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order authorizing the expulsion of asylum-seekers on supposed public health grounds to send multiple U.S.-born infants — who are by law U.S. citizens — and their migrant families across the southern border to Mexico.
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Hundreds of migrants stranded in freezing weather in Bosnia
Jan 05, 2021 06:52According to humanitarian groups, hundreds of migrants stranded at an abandoned camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina were spending New Year’s Eve in freezing temperatures.
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'This lack of humanity can't go on': Canary Islands struggle with huge rise in migration’
Dec 06, 2020 06:06Over the past 11 months, about 20,000 people have braved the Atlantic route from Africa to Europe, with more than 8,000 arriving in the Canaries in November alone. Last year, 2,557 migrants arrived in the archipelago, up from 1,307 in 2018. Nowhere is the strain and chaos more evident than on the dock at Arguineguín.
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EU’s ‘New Pact on Migration and Asylum’ missing a true foundation
Nov 11, 2020 11:07On September 23, the European Commission launched the “New Pact on Migration and Asylum,” proposing to overhaul the European Union’s long ailing policies in this area. European Union Vice President Margaritis Schinas likened the pact to a building with three floors, comprised of: An external dimension (“centered around strengthened partnerships with countries of origin and transit”), “robust management” of external borders, and “firm but fair internal rules.”
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Reckless incompetence and intentional cruelty: House issues scathing report on Trump migrant family separation policy
Nov 01, 2020 17:37The Trump administration knew it would not be able to reunite refugee and other migrant families as it ripped children—including infants—from the arms of their parents but did so anyway, according to a congressional report released on the U.S. government's family separation policy.
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Lawyers can’t find parents of 545 kids separated by Trump’s immigration policies
Oct 26, 2020 12:43Lawyers appointed to represent the interests of migrant children and parents who were separated from one another as a result of a program established by the Trump administration, say that the whereabouts of hundreds of parents affected by that policy remain unknown.
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Jailed asylum seekers in Louisiana report unlivable conditions in wake of Hurricane Laura
Sep 04, 2020 02:55Incarcerated immigrants and their families and advocates have reported dangerous, unlivable conditions and haphazard evacuations at remote immigration jails in Louisiana, where Hurricane Laura caused widespread damage and power outages as it rampaged across the state recently.