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For immigrants, Trump is making America crueler again (1)
Oct 27, 2019 21:45US President Donald Trump’s policies damage the international response to the growing global refugee crisis. In sharp contradiction to the spirit of the 1980 Refugee Act, which states that “it is the policy of the United States to encourage all nations to provide assistance and resettlement opportunities to refugees to the fullest extent possible,” American influence under Trump has moved in exactly the opposite direction.
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Trump wants to slam the door on all refugees
Aug 04, 2019 10:24Since US President Donald Trump came into power, the numbers of refugees admitted have declined egregiously by 71 percent – despite the fact that three years ago, the U.N.
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Who killed Oscar and Valeria: The inconvenient history of the US refugee crisis
Jul 22, 2019 12:42Donald Trump’s anti-immigration cruel policies that snatch away children from the arms of their parents and put them in prisons with inhospitable conditions, including abuse by the jailors, are taking a steady toll of innocent life.
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As Trump launches immigration raids Democrats back mass deportations
Jul 18, 2019 09:45Popular revulsion and anger mounted this weekend ahead of nationwide immigration raids announced by President Trump. Social activist and writer, Eric London, has more on this in an article titled “As Trump launches immigration raids Democrats back mass deportations.”
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U.S. prisons are concentration camps
Jul 13, 2019 09:19There were already thousands of concentration camps in the United States before Donald Trump began his reign of terror over asylum seekers. They are called prisons.
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Artists' view on migration (4)
Jun 21, 2019 23:40Perhaps you've seen a picture of a wall painting in Aleppo, which has become very popular in cyberspace and attracted a lot of attention. The painting means to say, "Homeland is not hotel to leave it when the service is not good. We'll stay here." Sure, this was the belief of many Syrians who stayed and defended their country, but we may find a trace of this belief in the hearts of those who do not think of migration in spite of their country's dire conditions.
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Artists' view on migration (3)
Jun 21, 2019 23:33The films on migrants deal with the lives of people who have to leave their countries to find a better life in the destination they are heading. It is a desperate and compulsory departure that can have positive or negative consequences for migrants and the country they go to.
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Artists' view on migration (2)
Jun 21, 2019 23:17American politicians and people like to call themselves "the nation of migrants" as every person's family in one way or another seeks freedom or a better life. But the current situation in the US cannot be understood without knowing who had invaded and usurped the land and who was expelled, and that, with so much brutality.
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Artists' view on migration (1)
Jun 18, 2019 08:48Although the phenomenon of migration has persisted through the 20th century and laws had been ratified for refugees after WWII, it had not been paid due attention in the cinema.
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Amid global crackdown on refugees
Jan 04, 2019 18:57The world is pulsing with hundreds of millions of people desperate to flee their homes under the weight of the crisis of world capitalism. According to a recent Gallup study, a sixth of the world’s adult population—some 750 million people, not including children—want to flee their home countries to escape war, poverty, conflict and disease.