Category Archives: immigration
Priti Patel criticised over comments on Leicester’s sweatshops | Leicester | The Guardian
Claudia Webbe, the Labour MP for Leicester East where many of the factories are based, who raised the issue in her maiden speech to the Commons in February. “It’s not about the fear of being labelled racist, it’s not about cultural sensitivity, it’s about the failure of government to protect mainly women from migrant communities who have been seriously exploited by unscrupulous employers.”
Source: Priti Patel criticised over comments on Leicester’s sweatshops | Leicester | The Guardian
bellingcat – Migrants From Another World: Introduction To The Project – bellingcat
Migrants have Facebook and WhatsApp on their phones, and they can report what happens to them along the way. They span networks by nationality, like the one Malians and Senegalese have been building in Brazil and Argentina since the late 1990s. In chat groups, those who have already made it through put them in contact with some migrant protectors — like Luis Guerrero Araya, whom I met in La Cruz, Costa Rica — and they can let others know if there are problems ahead.
Once some find soil to put down roots, they call the others, and those call others. This is what humanity has always done: migrate in clusters.
This long journey is also possible because, although migrants are unwelcome almost everywhere, their money is always welcomed. It flows easily from accounts in Karachi, Pakistan and Douala, Cameroon to Cruzeiro Oeste and Sao Paulo, Brasil or to Apartadó, Colombia, it crosses all borders with very little paperwork, through multiple international instant money transfer services like Western Union or MoneyGram, which are often mentioned.
Source: bellingcat – Migrants From Another World: Introduction To The Project – bellingcat
Indigenous Americans had contact with Polynesians 800 years ago, DNA reveals | World news | The Guardian
Whether peoples from what is today Colombia or Ecuador drifted thousands of kilometres to tiny islands in the middle of the Pacific, or whether seafaring Polynesians sailed upwind to South America and then back again, is still unknown. But what is certain, according to a study in Nature, is that it took place hundreds of years before Europeans set foot in either region, and left individuals scattered across what became French Polynesia with signature traces of the New World in their DNA.
Harvard, MIT Sue ICE, Homeland Security Over Rules Barring International Students – NBC Boston
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, asks for a temporary restraining order to keep Homeland Security and ICE from enforcing the federal guidelines which state that removal proceedings could be initiated for international students who refuse to transfer to a school offering in-person classes.
Source: Harvard, MIT Sue ICE, Homeland Security Over Rules Barring International Students – NBC Boston
Corona in the Slaughterhouse: The High Price of Cheap Meat – DER SPIEGEL
The coronavirus outbreaks in the meat plants – with 1,400 cases in the Rheda-Wiedenbrück factory alone, combined with lockdowns this week in the regions surrounding the towns of Guterslöh and Warendorf – is forcing us not only to address the question as to why the virus is able to spread so quickly in slaughterhouses. It is also shining the spotlight on the industry as a whole: What actually goes on in the meatpacking industry? What conditions are workers forced to endure? And is it worth it for a couple slices of ham on your breakfast sandwich?
Source: Corona in the Slaughterhouse: The High Price of Cheap Meat – DER SPIEGEL
‘We give you 30 minutes’: Malta turns migrant boat away with directions to Italy | Global development | The Guardian
Survivors say an armed forces’ patrol vessel intercepted an overloaded dinghy, giving the refugees fuel and GPS coordinates for Sicily
— Read on www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/may/20/we-give-you-30-minutes-malta-turns-migrant-boat-away-with-directions-to-italy
Uncivilized behavior
Neither Human Nor Ghost: Chinese Immigrants Scrape By In San Gabriel Valley’s Boarding Houses
Many ‘boarding house’ residents are low-wage Chinese workers new to the U.S. They live among rats, roaches and dangerous conditions to earn a living.
— Read on laist.com/projects/2020/sgv-boarding-houses/
LA Times trying to relight “Yellow Peril” fears of turn of last century California? Sham and shame journalism 🤬
‘Flood the Streets’: ICE Targets Sanctuary Cities With Increased Surveillance – The New York Times
ICE is boosting its operations in sanctuary cities to arrest and deport undocumented immigrants, conducting round-the-clock surveillance in addition to deploying elite tactical agents.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/us/ICE-BORTAC-sanctuary-cities.html
Forget looking for criminals; hunt families and please head racist Trump 🤬
Public Charge Inadmissibility Final Rule: Revised Forms and Updated Policy Manual Guidance | USCIS
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has published revised forms consistent with the final rule on the public charge ground of inadmissibility, which the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, inc
Source: Public Charge Inadmissibility Final Rule: Revised Forms and Updated Policy Manual Guidance | USCIS
