I'm down at the Lukeville, Arizona border crossing observing the situation with the migrants. It's raining lightly, with occasional storm cells drenching the area.
I drove west along the border fence and encountered a young Guatemalan man who told me about a group of women and children about 5 km further west, so I returned to make sure the Border Patrol was aware.
These are people who want to turn themselves in. BP has some more people with vans arriving who will go pick the migrants up shortly and get them out of the rain.
I'll post photos and more about it later when I get back home.
The Lukeville, AZ port of entry is closed, so the Border Patrol brought the 500+ asylum-seekers who crossed the fence today here for processing, instead of the makeshift camp they have in the desert about a mile away. This way people could be kept out of the pouring rain that swept across the desert last night and today.
Several hundred had already been bussed out of here today, with 200-300 remaining. A trickle of people were either making their way here on their own or being picked up in Border Patrol trucks along the fence.
(I will post another pic or two and then I'm going to work on a blog post with better photos and more explanation.)
The deal will attempt to distribute migrants more evenly across the bloc, providing enhanced support and coordination for processing claims away from frontier states such as #Italy and #Greece, through a so-called “solidarity mechanism”. »
For those interested in celebrities: Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Madeleine Albright, Gloria Estefan, and innumerable others were once #refugees too
— #immigration#asylum#GOP
The #GOP has said it won’t provide further aid for #Ukraine unless it’s in exchange for a set of policies aimed at harming immigrants and asylum-seekers.
They euphemistically call it “border security,” but it’s more #xenophobia, white nationalism, and anti-immigrant demagoguery. Any reasonable idea at #immigration reform is buried in hate.
So what are they pushing for, and what’s the state of “debate”? A chronological thread of highlights from AP stories:
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This is what Australia does in processing asylum seekers, and it is absolutely horrific. Germany should absolutely stand against the CDU's proposal of implementing this in Europe.
The abuses and crimes committed by operators of "detention" camps by Australia are really well documented.
This is the inhumane approach to asylum seeker processing, asylum seekers that actions by western countries have often created.
An #asylum seeker is believed to have committed suicide on the Bibby Stockholm barge: “Several sources have told the BBC that the man who died is thought to have taken his own life “ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67692099
“When it was introduced, the permanent secretary required a ministerial direction – a mechanism in which ministers give their department a formal instruction to proceed with a spending proposal. This was needed because there was no evidence to suggest that the outcome envisaged – reducing the number of people seeking asylum – would be delivered.”
Human rights organisations: “Days left” for #EU legislators to save the right to #asylum ⬇️
Nineteen human rights organisations across Europe, alongside aid workers and survivors of human rights abuses, say that a crunch summit in Brussels on December 7th risks “opening the door to abuses across Europe” including racial profiling and pushbacks, in a “potentially irreversible attack” on the international system of refugee protection and the rule of law.
#Senate lawmakers careen toward failed vote on #Ukraine
Billions in additional #aid stuck as #Republicans push #border security, walk out of classified briefing Senators began blaming each other Tues for the looming potential failure to provide additional aid to Ukraine as fragile negotiations over a #NationalSecurity package continued to break down amid #Republican demands for far-reaching #immigration restrictions.
ABC News once again fear mongering about the release of illegally detained asylum seekers. Talking to the horrid Angus Taylor (opposition) to comment on government policy and mislead on how safe or unsafe the decisions made by various governments are.
The number of asylum seekers at the country's eastern border has suddenly surged. Helsinki denounced the increase as a destabilization operation by Moscow in retaliation for its NATO membership.
#Denmark should:
🔹refocus on protection and integration of refugees, #asylum seekers and migrants
🔹step-up measures to improve the situation of persons with #disabilities
United Kingdom Supreme Court rules Rwanda asylum policy unlawful (www.bbc.com)
The UK's highest court says the plan leaves people at risk of being sent back to unsafe countries.