Migrants and asylum seekers reach through a border wall for clothing handed out by volunteers as they wait between two border walls to apply for asylum in San Diego. Hundreds of people remain waiting between the two walls, many for days
Migrants walk in water as they attempt to board a smuggler’s boat to cross the Channel from the beach in Gravelines. UK ministers this week acknowledged for the first time that they are detaining asylum seekers to be removed to Rwanda, prompting demonstrations outside Home Office buildings
"From this graphic, we can see that Asia and Latin America emerge as the primary sources of immigration, collectively accounting for 81% of America’s 46.2 million immigrants."
An asylum seeker walks past tents beside the International Protection Office (IPO), where hundreds of migrants in search of accommodation have been sleeping on the streets for several months with more arriving every day, Dublin, Ireland. Ireland's government has said it plans to introduce emergency legislation to resume sending migrants back to Britain REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
One(!) voluntary failed asylum seeker departed for Rwanda yesterday ... as Yvette Cooper observes
The 'Tories are so desperate to get any flight off to Rwanda before the local elections that they have now just paid someone to go...
British taxpayers aren’t just forking out £3,000 for a volunteer to board a plane, they are also paying Rwanda to provide him with free board & lodgings for the next five years... [and] is likely to be costing on average £2mn per person.”
Tomorrow morning the Home Office starts to round up the migrants they expect to try to send to Rwanda... I saw round up, but actually they're expecting to pick up (some of) their victims when they attend regular/scheduled meetings with officials.
These currently 'free' migrants will then be detained ahead of flights to Rwanda.
(again) if the money spent on this viscous & inhumane policy was spent on integrating migrants into British society, it would be much more cost effective!
Army National Guard soldiers stand in the background as Michel, 26, of Venezuela, protects her seven-year-old daughter Aranza from Mexican immigration authorities patrolling near the dry riverbed of the Rio Grande as the migrants search for entry into the United States from the international boundary between Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas April 24. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
"The British parliament passed a law late Monday that will mean asylum seekers arriving on British shores without prior permission can be sent to Rwanda and forbidden from ever returning to the U.K. The British government says the law will act as deterrent to anyone trying to enter the U.K. 'illegally.'"
A drone view shows the renovated burial ground for refugees and migrants during its inauguration in the village of Kato Tritos, on the island of Lesbos, Greece. REUTERS/Elias Marcou
El Paso, Texas, US
The shadow of razor wire falls on the face of Alejandra, 32, of Venezuela, as she and others prepare to breach a fence into the US from the bank of the Rio Grande in El Paso
"Watching Trump sell his swindle about migrants, it occurred to me that those suckered by the Trump Media IPO got a better deal, relatively speaking. Those who bought “DJT” shares lost only their shirts. But those who have been snookered into seeing migrants as diseased animals have lost part of their souls." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/05/trump-swindle-crowd-green-bay-rally/
Why Donald Trump’s alarmist message on immigration may be resonating beyond his base.
AP reports: "Trump has ramped up anti-immigrant rhetoric as he seeks the White House a third time, casting migrants as dangerous criminals 'poisoning the blood' of America."
A Red Cross nurse helps a minor migrant to disembark from a Spanish coast guard vessel at the port of Arguineguin, on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, March 28. REUTERS/Borja Suarez
Many Americans say immigrants contribute to economy but there’s worry over risks, new poll finds.
AP reports: "Overall, Republicans are more likely to see major risks — and fewer benefits — from immigrants who enter the country legally and illegally, although they tend to be most concerned about people who come to the country illegally."
Eliana, 22, a migrant from Venezuela, holds her three-year-old daughter Chrismarlees as she shouts towards an Army National Guard soldier after he halts her from breaching a razor wire-laden fence along the bank of the Rio Grande river in El Paso, Texas. Eliana's six-year-old daughter Ariana was carried past the fence by other migrants, who had used wire cutters to breach the razor wire. REUTERS/Adrees Latif Read less
Jolimar, an 18-year-old migrant from Venezuela, shelters her two-year-old son Gail from the cold and blustery weather as they search for an entry point into the U.S. past a fortified fence laden with razor wire along the bank of the Rio Grande river in El Paso, #Texas REUTERS/Adrees Latif
In a confusing turn of events, the controversial Texas immigration law has once again been put on hold. After the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the strict immigration law yesterday, a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel temporarily suspended it — again.