#Israel 's government is considering the #deportation of #Eritrean#asylum seekers involved in clashes in Tel Aviv on Saturday. About 160 people were injured as #Israeli police used live fire and tear gas. They said they were trying to break up rival groups for and against the Eritrean government. Israel’s prime minister Benjamin #Netanyahu said Saturday’s chaotic scenes had crossed a red line. (cont.)
Yesterday morning I lucked onto a Border Patrol repair crew welding up cuts in the border fence. This crew does 5-10 quick fixes/day, then a contractor comes back and does more "permanent" fixes. If a fix is too good, the human traffickers who cut the fence will just cut the bollard next to it.
Isn’t it odd that politicians in office can break the law and not have to resign, be fined, get a criminal record or go to jail if they are caught doing something illegal as part of their jobs?
'Most of the #asylum seekers so far housed on the government’s controversial #barge are not small boat #migrants and arrived in the UK legally, The Independent can reveal.
At first I thought this was old news. When it comes to the southern border, the main difference between the parties and their policies is that one is loud and belligerent and the other is sneaky and gaslighty.
After protesters' experience successfully stopping the "shipping container wall" through the San Rafael Valley in Arizona last year, it's likely that any attempts by the Biden administration to build that wall will be met with direct action protests. Hopefully Texans will feel the same way about this gross violation. #Border#BorderWall#FuckTheBorderWall#Immigration#Asylum
The colonial biometric legacy at heart of new #EU#asylum system
"On Wednesday (10 April), the EU is set to vote on a new set of asylum and migration reforms. Among the many controversial changes proposed in the new migration pact, one went almost unnoticed — a seemingly innocent reform of the EU's asylum database, #EURODAC.
Although framed as purely technical adjustments, the reality is far more malicious. The changes to EURODAC will massively exacerbate violence against people on the move.
Reform of this 20 year-old database will make it the technological sword of EU's hostile asylum and border policies. It will harness the most nefarious surveillance #technologies that exist to date — namely the capture, processing and analysis of biometric data — and enable EU states to have full control over #migrants' body and movements....."
On Christmas morning, I went to the U.S.-Mexico border fence before dawn to take some photos and write a story about the asylum seekers just south of me at the Lukeville, AZ crossing. I hope you like it. I have several more in the works.
At one point in the 68-min long speech, Biden said: “In Nov, my team began serious negotiations w/a #bipartisan group of senators. The result was a bipartisan bill w/the toughest set of border #security reforms we've ever seen.”
Dear #anthropologists - @anthropology
I'm seeking for help!
I'm doing my #PhD to #socialAnthropology. It is an #ethnographicresearch with #children and #families that are seeking #asylum in Finland.
I want to use #newMaterialist theories,but my supervisor is worried that I wont find anthropological discussions with this theme & theoretical approach.
If you are or you know someone who is an anthro, working with migration issues and using am. theoretical approaches, please let me know!
Prof Michael Collyer
and I have an article in Social Sciences
'Offshoring Refugees: Colonial Echoes of the #UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership' https://mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/8/451
part of the special issue The #Colonial Legacies in #Asylum and Welfare in Europe.
The UK-Rwanda proposals differ from official practices of #deportation as they have developed in liberal democracies since the 1970s.
Hundreds of asylum seekers have been coming across the border in a remote part of Arizona. When I was last there a couple weeks ago, border patrol was picking people up, bringing them to the station and processing them fairly quickly.
Now, with rain, snow, cold and the serious risk of hypothermia for hundreds of people, Border Patrol has left humanitarian aid to volunteers. The group No More Deaths has been out there day after day for months and months providing life-saving aid to people. Their number is in the press release. If you're looking for a good group to donate to. #Border#Asylum#AsylumSeekers#HumanitarianAid#Immigration
#POTUS#Biden is considering executive action that could prevent people who cross illegally into the #UnitedStates from claiming #asylum, several people w/knowledge of the proposal said Wed. The move would suspend longtime guarantees that give anyone who steps onto US soil the right to ask for #SafeHaven.
The WhiteHouse says it is far from a decision on the matter.
'It has resulted in mass displacement, #violence and potential #genocide, jeopardising millions of lives. While the United States (US) and other European nations have publicly expressed concern at the United Nations Security Council, Britain’s silence speaks volumes.'