Marco Rubio did this today.

El Salvador offers to house violent US criminals and deportees of any nationality in unprecedented deal

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/americas/el-salvador-migrant-deal-marco-rubio-intl-hnk/index.html

In addition, Bukele “has offered to house in his jails dangerous American criminals in custody in our country, including those of US citizenship and legal residents,” Rubio said.

VIA @DeniseG

#MIGRANTS #ELSALVADOR #PRISONS #RUBIO #PRESS

US military flight deporting migrants to India, official says

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-military-flight-deporting-migrants-india-official-says-2025-02-03/

A U.S. military plane is deporting migrants to India, a U.S. official said on Monday, the farthest destination of the Trump administration's military transport flights for migrants.

#MIGRANTS #DEPORTATIONS #INDIA #TRUMP #PRESS

Marchers protesting planned deportations block major freeway in Los Angeles

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-ice-protests-los-angeles-california-dallas-ecf1afef642ffff40117f88641c8605f

Thousands of people protesting mass deportations planned by President Donald Trump marched in Southern California on Sunday, including in downtown Los Angeles where demonstrators blocked a major freeway for several hours.

Protesters gathered in the morning on LA’s historic Olvera Street, which dates to Spanish and Mexican rule, before marching to City Hall.

#CA #migrants #deportations #press

German Parliament Rejects Migration Bill Backed by Far-Right AfD

https://ground.news/daily-briefing/german-bill-calling-for-tougher-rules-on-migration-narrowly-defeated_16e4a6

#GERMANY #AFD #MIGRANTS #XENOPHOBIA #PRESS

Migrants in shackles. Today's cartoon by Kenny Tosh. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/search?query=&sort=created&order=desc

#migrants #deportation #USA

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #hamas / #truce / #agreement / #hostages / #migrants

„Hamas will release eight hostages on Thursday — three Israelis and five Thai nationals — after more than a year of captivity in Gaza, the Israeli government said Wednesday night, as the fragile cease-fire between the two sides held through its second week.“

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-hostages.html

Trump administration revokes extended deportation protections for Venezuelans

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/01/29/temporary-protected-status-extension-revoked-venezuela/5751738184700/

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem ends Biden administration order, giving 600K migrants Sept. 10 deadline

#VENEZUELA #MIGRANTS #DEPORTATIONS #IMMIGRATION #PRESS

"You simply cannot cover Trump’s second term accurately and responsibly if you are not willing to situate his acts as part of a terrifying descent into authoritarianism, racism, and cruelty.

And the mainstream political media – for a variety of reasons -- is not willing to do anything of the kind."

~ Dan Froomkin

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #cruelty #immigrants #migrants #corruption #crime #grift #media
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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/why-is-trump-coverage-so-feeble

A song for our times:
https://youtu.be/OV5_LQArLa0?si=MLGdhRdU1PuL3sBD

Hold your heads up high and keep on keepin' on, now more than ever...

#LGBTQ #Trans #Migrants #Seniors #Women #WomensRights #CivilRights #Democracy #Healthcare #K12 #PublicSchools #Libraries #Education #FreeSpeech #Media #Journalism

ICE agents have been arresting and detaining thousands of immigrants in Northeastern cities. But where is CNN? The New York Times? Crickets on this. Meanwhile, local news is reporting all this, bless them. But let's make no mistake. Mass deportation and xenophobia is a NATIONAL issue. And the complicity of corporate media sycophants is not only shameful, but unethical and irresponsible.

#ICE #massdeportation #media #migrants

Jeremy Vine: "Isn't this what Americans want?"

My answer: "Question is specifics of
#Trump proposal w threatening of deportation of all 12 to 13 million undocumented #migrants &
#AsylumSeekers in US, many of whom have lived in country for years.

Not only is #Trump threatening deportations, he suspended refugee resettlement, cut ability of asylum seekers to come in fm certain Latin American countries, & shut down app thru which migrants & asylum seekers on Mexican border sought legal entry"

Syrian Migrant Dies Trying To Cross Channel: French Authorities https://www.byteseu.com/642295/ #Britain #Conflicts #France #migrants #SYND #Syria

I am back out at the migrant aid camp at the end of the border wall, 20 miles east of Sasabe, Arizona.
I got here a little bit ago but there is no one here. Kindled up the fire to heat a burrito I brought.

Border Patrol just drove out here to do their 8 PM pick up, but no asylum-seekers in camp. They'll come back at about 2 AM. They said it's been busier than normal lately, so I'll probably stay up a while and see if anyone shows up.

There has been a lot of talk of the Forest Service shutting down this camp and the border patrol closing the road to public access, so I want to take advantage of the next couple weeks and get as many photos and interviews with asylum-seekers as I can.

There is a solar powered satellite Internet set up here for everyone to use, which is why I can post from way out here.

#Border #Border #Immigration #AsylumSeekers #Migrants

[Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin] notes how the language used about slaves has transferred to asylum seekers.

“This thing that we hear often, ‘oh, they’re just economic migrants, they’re not real asylum seekers.’ Yeah, I remind the British that they were economic migrants when they went all over the world [with the empire]’”.
Spot on.

#AsylumSeekers #Immigration #Migrants #SmallBoats #Calais

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dover-bishop-immigration-small-boats-france-b2674015.html

allo-allo!

New Blog Post:
https://tatoaway.bearblog.dev/i-have-no-choice/

😊

#Blog #Writing #BearBlog #Slavery #HumanRights #Migrants #Kafala #Gulf #Colonialism #Neocolonialism #Imperialism #Corruption #StateViolence #Kenya #RutoMustGo

Excellent podcast breaking down the overwhelmingly positive economic impact of immigrants on countries clever enough to not keep them out or deport them:

https://overcast.fm/+YsPQ5tRa0

Key takeaways:

-Remember the Chinese Exclusion Act? This 1882 law was America's 1st shot at restricting immigration. It was an economic disaster. The number Chinese workers in the US dropped by 65%, which led to businesses - especially in small towns in the West, where the Chinese Exclusion Act was the most popular - shutting down due to the sudden drop in (Chinese) patrons. This, in turn, threw non-Chinese workers out of work. The negative impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the US economy lasted 58 years!

-Over 20 years of research on the economic impact of immigration found that countries that welcome immigrants reap massive economic benefits from doing so. Five reasons for this:

1) Talent: immigrants typically fill jobs that non-immigrants can't or won't do, or when there's simply not enough workers available to do those jobs.

2) Consumption: Immigrants increase the demand for goods and services, not leaste because they have to replace everything they left behind when they immigrated! But they also introduce new categories of products, services, and brands from their old lives to their new countries.

3) Taxes: Immigrants - even undocumented immigrants - pay sales taxes, payroll taxes, road tolls, etc. So much so that the taxes they pay in their new countries exceeds the amount of government services they use, which means that they actually subsidize government services for non-immgrants! How much? Each immigrant to the US pays out $250,000 more in taxes than they use in services, on-average, over their lifetimes.

4) Investment: For every 1% increase in the number of immigrants in a particular US state, that state is 50% more likely to receive foreign investment from the country those immigrants came from (what, did you think it was a coincidence that California has 72 Jollibee locations?). Also, immigrants are 80% more likely than non-immigrants to start their own businesses in their new countries.

5) Innovation: One out of every three patents in the US are filed by immigrants. Almost half of all Fortune 500 companies are headed by an immigrant or the child of immigrants.

Kiss all of that goodbye in 2025, America!

#immigration, #deportation, #trump, #migrants, #illegalimmigration

Contre-Attaque
Le pape est-il un dangereux gauchiste ?
Samedi 7 décembre, le Pape inaugurait au Vatican une crèche fabriquée à Bethléem, ville palestinienne de naissance du Christ, avec une représentation de l’enfant Jésus enveloppée dans un keffieh. Ce foulard palestinien noir et blanc est un symbole mondialement connu de la résistance contre le colonialisme israélien.
https://mcinformactions.net/le-pape-est-il-un-dangereux-gauchiste
#papeFrançois #Israel #Palestine #migrants #capitalisme #extremedroite

Refugees - Come Home

#Refugees #Youth #Christmas #HolidaySeason #Justice #Ukraine #Gaza #Rohingya #Africa #Migrants

Infomigrants
En Guyane, des Haïtiens en quête de protection doivent attendre 2027 pour que leur demande d’asile soit enregistrée
https://mcinformactions.net/en-guyane-des-haitiens-en-quete-de-protection-doivent-attendre-2027-pour-que
#Guyane #migrants #immigration #asile #Haïti #Guadeloupe

'They threw her body into the ocean' - woman dies on boat headed for French island

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8d5334vmyo
#migration #migrants #refugees

Six & half million people moved to OECD countries last year (about 10% up on the previous year).... some, of course, moving between OECD members.

The small numbers of 'illegal migrants' (that's REFUGEES!!!!) are actually dwarfed by the numbers migrating through standard channels.

Certainly migration is up, but can we be surprised with the chaos from political upheavals & climate change, as well as economic necessity.... read my lips:

MIGRATION IS & HAS BEEN NORMAL!

#migrants #politics

Trump may deport hundreds of thousands of migrants whom Biden allowed to legally enter U.S.

The migrants participated in two Biden programs that created legal pathways to enter the U.S. and punished those who crossed the border illegally.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #immigration #migrants

https://news.google.com/read/CBMixAFBVV95cUxPUkhaamp1ZEJNSmxSZXdTazJnUmRib29fYU02TDlMNzZJR1lBR21NSUVYUEcyY0J2MWtjbkRBLVc0UlJfV1pDbE8zeFdrQnVubWRYYnU5V0VlcWx0aFltYWRvVzhnb3ZCNHVSUnFVTDBtbnVrQmpYbXhzeXg3U29za0ZFOHdhQTQyZjR2czdjcjhyX0g5VzBPRTBmdG5xWGJ3U0RnZTFYcEIxcFNtV05QZnRnOUR3dkZnSFhvY3B6bXB0RVZ50gFWQVVfeXFMTjN6RVlsMFFJamx2Wjlicmg5UVFWQ20tenVydDdYNjd4WWdXWTR3ek05Ti1FZk1Yc1B3dmlkaXA5VlJwUDNmeFlkdTkzVUFSbjBIZ1pZM3c?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

NEW: Held for Ransom in Animal Pens, #Migrants Face Mass Kidnappings as U.S. and #Mexico Ramp Up Enforcement

Cartel-affiliated gangs have created an industrial-scale extortion racket that involves kidnapping large numbers of migrants in southern Mexico as the U.S. pressures Mexican authorities to stop people from reaching the U.S. #border.

#News #Immigration #Government #Politics

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-mexico-us-migrants-mass-kidnappings-cartels-border

#thailand #israel #lebanon : #war / #hezbollah / #migrants / #killings / #civilianwarvictims

„Following the death of 4 Thai citizens in rocket attacks on northern Israel, the government in Bangkok has called for better protection for agricultural workers. (…) Thailand called on the parties to the conflict to immediately cease all retaliatory measures & restore regional peace. The workers were killed yesterday in an attack by … Hezbollah…“

(Source; german only:)

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/thailand-fordert-von-israel-besseren-schutz-von-landarbeitern-100.html

#Thailand ’s labor minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn said he had ordered the evacuation of all Thai #workers from the north of #Israel to the south, after four Thais were killed by rocket fire while working on farms near Israel’s border with Lebanon.

Maris Sangiampongsa, Thailand’s foreign minister, confirmed the deaths of four workers, and said another had been injured close to the town of Metula near the Israeli-Lebanese border.

Three Israelis were also killed in what was the deadliest cross-border strikes from #Lebanon since Israel launched its ground invasion.

The deaths, which follow the killing of another Thai worker in a mortar strike in October near the border with Lebanon, have prompted questions over why workers are being deployed to areas so close to the conflict.

The Hotline for #Refugees and #Migrants, an Israeli organisation that supports migrant workers, said authorities had put them in danger by allowing them to work along the border without proper protection.

Thai workers have been among the foreign nationals worst affected by the conflict. Before the war, about 30,000 Thai nationals were working in Israel, mostly in agricultural jobs, where the salaries offered are much higher than back home. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/nov/01/middle-east-crisis-live-netanyahu-says-ability-to-counter-threats-from-lebanon-key-to-any-ceasefire-deal?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-672466928f086f851f570906#block-672466928f086f851f570906

You may say we have a new Govt. but if there is to be a change in the level of humanity in how we deal with migrants, its doesn't seem to ave reached either the Home Office or Border Force....

#Migrants #HomeOffice

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/31/eu-citizen-who-applied-for-pre-settled-status-set-to-be-deported-from-scotland

#israel #lebanon : #war / #hezbollah / #migrants / #civilianwarvictims

„Two separate Hezbollah rocket attacks have killed seven people in northern Israel, authorities say - the deadliest such strikes in months.

An Israeli farmer and four foreign agricultural workers were killed when rockets landed near Metula, a town on the border with Lebanon, Foreign Minister Israel Katz said.

Later, a woman in her 60s and a man around 30 were killed near Kibbutz Afek (…).“

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8yjr3zyz8o

“A few years ago when they were coming in en masse, we had to let family units in. People kept coming in and after a while we noticed the kids were the same, but the parents were different. They were recycling the kids,” one Border Patrol source told The Post.

“I hate thinking about it because there were thousands of kids and who knows where they all ended up,” the source explained.

Authorities say it’s not clear what is happening to the children once they are smuggled into the US — but many are vulnerable to being exploited for child labor and child sex trafficking.

#USA #US #american #migrants #slavery #children #trafficking #capitalism

Changes in the UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill will exacerbate the existing power imbalances that migrants, refugees and asylum seekers have over their data.

This will lead to significant harms and an expansion of the #DigitalHostileEnvironment.

Read our briefing for more ⬇️

#dataprotection #DPDIBill #privacy #migrants #GDPR #ukpolitics

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-how-the-dpdi-bill-harms-migrants-data-rights/