“They Owe Us Our Lives”: The UK Data Breach That Threatens 1000s of #Afghans (Deepa Parent)
(h/t The Guardian)
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From Jesús Jank Curbelo in 2024: "It got to the point where I feared leaving home, afraid I’d be followed by plainclothes state agents.
So I fled. Destination: #Dallas, where my father lives. I became a man without a country, and I was as terrified of setting foot in the United States as I was of not surviving the trip." https://www.texasobserver.org/cuba-journalism-border-immigration-asylum-texas/
#NorthTexas #border #immigration #politics #USpol #news #Cuba #refugees #immigration
Hopeful: “Judge sets up "framework" to enforce court order allowing some refugees in mid-process to enter US despite Trump bid to shut down program. Seattle-based judge Jamal Whitehead (Biden) also names magistrate to oversee process.”
-J Gerstein
#Refugees #Immigrants #Courts #Justice #DHS #ICE
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25997678-pacitoframework071425/
#BBCNews - UK to start processing Syrian asylum claims again
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4y2e8neywo
#refugees #migration
Trump's threatened 30% #tariff on #SouthAfrica exports is set to deal an economic blow to a community he has vocally & controversially championed: white farmers.
Citing false claims that #white South Africans are being persecuted, #Trump has cut aid to the country, publicly berated its president in the Oval Office & invited #Afrikaners - descendants of early European settlers - to come to the #US as *#refugees*.
#PerfomativePolitics #stunt #racism #idiocracy #geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-tariffs-south-africa-set-hit-white-farmers-trump-has-embraced-2025-07-09/
Featured story: Across the country, Afghan children—mostly boys—are diving into American sports. Wrestling is similar to traditional Afghan wrestling, which involves more upper-body throws but requires similar body control and mental toughness. https://www.texasobserver.org/afghan-refugees-san-antonio-high-school-wrestling/
#BBCNews - BBC on French beach as police slash migrant 'taxi-boat' heading to UK
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ygjjxjlplo
#migration #migrants #refugees
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#ngo #children #poverty #palestine #women #environment #refugees
From 2023: As the U.S. government continues to make it more difficult to enter America, urging asylum-seekers to apply from their home countries instead, refugees like these will continue braving ever-deadlier routes. As one traveler put it to me: “If your house is on fire, you don’t wait inside the house for the fire department to come.” https://www.texasobserver.org/la-bestia-photos-jordan-vonderhaar/
#photography #border #immigration #refugees #HumanRights #news #politics #USpol
https://www.europesays.com/uk/238046/ Berlin calls Europe’s immigration hard-liners to summit on asylum rules – POLITICO #Afghanistan #AlexanderDobrindt #Asylum #Austria #Borders #Cooperation #CzechRepublic #Denmark #DonaldTusk #EU #EUCommission #Europe #France #FriedrichMerz #Germany #HumanRights #Lithuania #MagnusBrunner #Migration #Parliament #Playbook #Poland #Refugees #Rights #SchengenArea
New today: Despite warnings from advocates like me about the dire consequences, Congressional #Republicans have sought to dismantle core legal protections for detained immigrant #children fund strip searches of children as young as 12 years old by law enforcement officers, allow indefinite detention, and impose new barriers to children’s release. https://www.texasobserver.org/republicans-immigrant-children-budget-court/
#immigration #politics #USpol #HumanRights #news #border #refugees
Featured story: Across the country, Afghan children—mostly boys—are diving into American sports. Wrestling is popular partly because it’s similar to traditional Afghan wrestling, which involves more upper-body throws but requires similar body control and mental toughness. https://www.texasobserver.org/afghan-refugees-san-antonio-high-school-wrestling/
#sports #photography #politics #USpol #culture #refugees #immigration #Texas #photography
- Italy to issue half million non-EU work visas over next three years
- But do not forget that Italy also finances a refugee detention camp in Albania
https://www.europesays.com/uk/228305/ Meet the first ‘scientific refugees’ fleeing the US for France – POLITICO #Asylum #Borders #DonaldTrump #Education #employment #EU #Europe #France #History #Refugees #Research #TransatlanticRelations #UnitedStates
How many of the world’s refugees are children?
As of 2024, children made up one-third of all refugees and others in need of international protection — 13.3 million out of a global total of 41 million.
The life of a child refugee is often likened to being discarded. Learn how they face immense challenges and uncertainties. #refugees #children #displacement
Read more: https://ndpost.org/politics-news/world-politics/child-refugees-a-discarded-existence-fleeing-homelands/
Germany's Bundestag lower house passed a bill on Friday to suspend family reunification for migrants who do not qualify for full refugee status, fulfilling a conservative election pledge to curb migration and ease pressure on integration systems.
As Canada Day approaches, this story of a Mom finding her Canadian identity through helping Syrian refugees settle here after 2015 is poignant.
"In 2025, being a Canadian woman to me means looking out for our neighbours, leaning into differences in culture, religious practices and learning how to help others in need. Because we are not different at all. We are all just looking for safety and peace. It's our Canadian values of equality, respect and freedom in action.
It is the singular privilege of my life to walk alongside these families from Cape Breton and those who are newcomers to Canada. It's changed how I live, and I intend to do this work as long as I am able. I learn from them grace, service, faith and hope. They taught me how to be a Canadian.”
#Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Refugees #Immigration #Syria #AlanKurdi
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/first-person-cape-breton-welcomes-syrian-refugees-1.7559341
Featured story: Across the country, Afghan children—mostly boys—are diving into American sports. Wrestling is popular partly because it’s similar to traditional Afghan wrestling, which involves more upper-body throws but requires similar body control and mental toughness. https://www.texasobserver.org/afghan-refugees-san-antonio-high-school-wrestling/
“He also said he was going to get all of his friends to join the team, and he did.”
Our top story: In our magazine, Brant DeBoer shares how a traditional Afghan pastime led to refugees finding a home on a San Antonio athletics team. https://www.texasobserver.org/afghan-refugees-san-antonio-high-school-wrestling/
#sports #SanAntonio #SouthTexas #refugees #culture #immigration #education
Traditional Afghan wrestling—known as Pehlwani—is a popular pastime for boys in the south-central Asian nation, so many Afghan refugees find a natural home on high school wrestling teams in America.
In #Texas, it’s pretty much happening in one place: San Antonio’s West Side, and thanks to one person: Faridullah “Ferrari” Samsor. https://www.texasobserver.org/afghan-refugees-san-antonio-high-school-wrestling/
#Refugees #immigration #culture #sports #HumanRights #SanAntonio #SouthTexas
"What stays with you when everything else is taken away?
For many #Palestine Refugees, it is the sound of a child’s laughter in a shelter. The smell of a warm meal shared between siblings. A teacher’s voice echoing in a crowded classroom. The memory of a home lost to war, and the hope of rebuilding it.
…on this #WorldRefugeeDay, we honour the strength of Palestine #Refugees—and we cannot forget the #kindness of people like you, who choose to stand with them."
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World Refugee Day is an international day organised every year on 20 June by the United Nations. It is designed to celebrate and honour refugees from around the world. The day was first established on 20 June 2001, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.
🗨️ That's why the world needs more expenses for wars and #warfare. Not.
#fundingcuts #funding #aid #humanitarianaid #refugees
#humanrights #humanity
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🆘 A funding shortfall is forcing 🔵 WFP and other humanitarian organizations to cut assistance to some of the world’s most vulnerable people
📰 Report: WFP JUN-19
https://www.wfp.org/stories/uganda-angola-africas-refugees-face-soaring-hunger-shrinking-aid
On refugee week, a report from the Green party that sees that immigrants need support rather than victimisation is long overdue
raised at PMQs
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