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/