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How does anyone sleep on a rudder? Appearantly, this taxi missed a stop:
Immigration Problems in Non-White Countries
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Saudi border guards accused of mass murder of Ethiopian migrants fleeing Yemen
Saudi border guards have killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants who have attempted to or successfully crossed the country’s border with Yemen since March 2022, a bombshell report by Human Rights Watch has claimed. The U.S.-based research and advocacy group alleged that Saudi border officials have...
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Saudi border guards accused of mass murder of Ethiopian migrants fleeing Yemen
A human rights advocacy group claims Saudi border guards used mortars to target migrants entering the country and shot women and children at close range
August 21, 2023
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author: THOMAS BROOKE
In this July 14, 2019 photo, smugglers lead Ethiopian migrants in Obock, Djibouti. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
Saudi border guards have killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants who have attempted to or successfully crossed the country’s border with Yemen since March 2022, a bombshell report by Human Rights Watch has claimed.
The U.S.-based research and advocacy group alleged that Saudi border officials have used mortar projectiles and other explosive weapons to murder those attempting to reach the Islamic nation; they have also shot people, including women and children, at close range, reportedly asking victims in which limb of their body they would prefer to be shot.
It is also alleged that border guards fired at migrants who had been released from Saudi detention camps and were attempting to flee back to Yemen, which is currently engaged in a decade-long civil war.
The allegations relate to the period between March 2022 and June 2023, although the human rights group claims to be in receipt of evidence that the killings are ongoing.
In its report titled, “They Fired on Us Like Rain,” the group published interviews with eyewitnesses to the alleged crimes against humanity, and cite satellite images that purport to show the devastation caused by the unprovoked attacks on migrants. The group states that these images have been verified by forensic experts from the Independent Forensic Expert Group (IFEG) of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims, which concluded that injuries sustained by the victims show “clear patterns consistent with the explosion of munitions with capacity to produce heat and fragmentation” and “characteristics consistent with gunshot wounds.”
In interviews with the group, eyewitnesses recounted their experience on the migrant trail from Yemen to Saudi Arabia, revealing how they were subjected to explosive attacks with weapons “like a bomb” being fired from the “back of cars.” They explained how the attacks often last hours or days, and when they stopped the survivors would be detained by Saudi border guards and placed in detention camps.
Human Rights Watch research estimated that at least 655 deaths occurred on the migrant trails during the reported period, and the group spoke to one survivor who claimed that over half of the 170-strong migrant caravan he was traveling in were killed.
“I know 90 people were killed because some returned to that place to pick up the dead bodies – they counted around 90 dead bodies,” he told the group.
“We were fired on repeatedly. I saw people killed in a way I have never imagined. I saw 30 killed people on the spot. I pushed myself under a rock and slept there. I could feel people sleeping around me. I realized what I thought were people sleeping around me were actually dead bodies. I woke up, and I was alone,” read the testimony of 14-year-old Hamdiya.
The group does not directly accuse the Saudi government of being involved in the alleged atrocities, but states that “if committed as part of a Saudi government policy to murder migrants, these killings would be a crime against humanity.”
In a list of recommendations, the group called for the Saudi government to “immediately and urgently revoke any policy to deliberately use lethal force on migrants and asylum seekers” if it has indeed implemented such a policy.
It urged governments across the world to condemn the violence and “press for accountability for any senior Saudi officials credibly implicated in ongoing mass killings of migrants and asylum seekers.”
The group further called for governments to suspend the transfer of arms and military equipment to Saudi Arabia, establish a UN-backed investigation into the alleged abuses and call for a boycott of Saudi-sponsored international events.
Gawn Chippin
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Immigration of another sort
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Book V of the Aeneid. See also, Palinurus.
> "You, Palinurus, placed too much trust in the sky and the ocean's / Calm. You'll lie naked and dead on the sands of an unknown seashore."
unum pro multis dabitur caput
Palinurus - Wikipedia
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In Book 3, which tells of the Trojans' wanderings after The Fall of Troy, he is singled out as an experienced navigator.[1] In Book 5, when the Trojans have left Carthage, he advises Aeneas to forestall sailing to Italy and to wait out a terrible storm on Sicily, where they hold the funeral games honoring Aeneas's father, Anchises. After they leave Sicily for Italy, Palinurus, at the helm of Aeneas's ship and leading the fleet, is singled out by Virgil in second person[2] when it becomes clear that he is the one whom the gods will sacrifice to guarantee safe passage to Italy for the Trojans: unum pro multis dabitur caput, "one single life shall be offered to save many." Drugged by the god of sleep, he falls overboard;[3] Aeneas takes over the helm and, unaware of the gods' influence, accuses Palinurus of complacency: "You, Palinurus, placed too much trust in the sky and the ocean's / Calm. You'll lie naked and dead on the sands of an unknown seashore."[4][5]
Aeneas next encounters Palinurus in the underworld, before he crosses Cocytus (which the ghosts of the unburied dead cannot cross into the underworld proper), where he asks how it came to be that he died despite a prophecy from Apollo, that he would reach Italy unscathed. Palinurus responds that he survived the plunge into the sea and washed ashore after four days near Velia, and was killed there and left unburied. The Cumaean Sibyl, who has guided Aeneas into the underworld, predicts that locals will come and build him a mound; the place will be named Cape Palinuro in his honor.[6][7]
The death of Palinurus is, according to classical scholar Bill Gladhill, "the most lucid example of this representation of human sacrifice in which the divine perspective construes his death in terms of unus pro multis".[8]
Scholars have recognized in Palinurus a counterpart of Homer's Elpenor, who dies while Odysseus is on Circe's island; in their haste, his comrades do not look for him and his body remains unburied. When Odysseus is in Hades, he is accosted by Elpenor, and after his return he cremates Elpenor's body and erects a monument for him. Virgil takes that tradition, and changes details like the cremation ceremony to fit Roman custom. Palinurus falling overboard shows the influence of the "shipwreck" trope, popular in the centuries before Virgil; Richard F. Thomas read the Palinurus episode in the light of the epigrams found in the Milan Papyrus, ascribed to Posidippus.[9]
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Indonesian Papua is indeed one place in the world where Black people are getting colonized and ethnically displaced (with Javanese Malays moving in), but the world hardly makes a peep about it.
(This here is pro-Israeli satire, noting sarcastically how little attention the Papuan cause gets, compared to the Palestinian cause.)
(This here is pro-Israeli satire, noting sarcastically how little attention the Papuan cause gets, compared to the Palestinian cause.)
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Dominican Republic Building Over 100 Miles of Border Wall to Stop Illegal Immigration from Haiti
The Dominican Republic is building a 13-foot-high border wall in the hopes of ending waves of illegal immigration from Haiti.www.breitbart.com
Dominican Republic Building Over 100 Miles of Border Wall to Stop Illegal Immigration from Haiti
JOHN BINDER
29 Sep 2022
The Dominican Republic is building a 13-foot-high border wall — set to be the second-longest border wall in the Americas — in the hopes of ending waves of illegal immigration from Haiti.
The government of the Dominican Republic began building the border wall in February to put a halt to illegal immigration from Haiti, which citizens have said is overwhelming their small communities, depressing wages, and undercutting their quality of life.
The concrete and steel wall, when finished, will stand 13 feet tall, and stretch just over 100 miles. The only other existing border wall in the Americas that is longer is the United States-Mexico border wall.
One citizen of the Dominican Republic told Bloomberg that he is tired of Haitians overwhelming his small hometown and leaving trash along the streets:
Workers build a border wall between Haiti and the Dominican Republic to stop the flow of migrants fleeing Haiti in Dajabon, Dominican Republic, on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. (Tatiana Fernandez Geara/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The Dominican Republic’s border wall with Haiti comes as a multitude of foreign countries have taken new steps to preserve their national sovereignty. In August, Greek officials announced they would lengthen their border wall with Turkey, and in 2019, France built a similar border wall to keep migrants from rushing into Britain.
Border wall projects around the world are set against the backdrop of President Joe Biden halting all construction of a border wall along the United States-Mexico border — vowing before he was elected that “there will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration.”
In July, though, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began closing up particular holes in the border wall, specifically in the Yuma, Arizona region. Most of the nearly 2,000-mile-long southern border remains without any barrier at all.
Since Biden took office, roughly 2.2 million border crossers and illegal aliens have entered American communities via the southern border. About 1.35 million of those were briefly apprehended and quickly released into the U.S. interior by Biden’s DHS.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
What I do not understand is why has there been no effort to reunify Hispaniola? The DR would do well to steal the land and then subjugate the population.
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France unveils plan to curtail right to French citizenship in Indian Ocean island of Mayotte
Interior minister Gérald Darmanin plans to change constitution to remove birthplace right to citizenship on island that is part of France
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France unveils plan to curtail right to French citizenship in Indian Ocean island of Mayotte
Interior minister Gérald Darmanin plans to change constitution to remove birthplace right to citizenship on island that is part of France
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Mon 12 Feb 2024 02.56 CET
Demonstrators in Mayotte head towards the judicial court to protest against insecurity and immigration last week. Paris plans to revoke the right to French citizenship based on birthplace in French Indian Ocean island. Photograph: Lemor David/ABACA/REX/Shutterstock
French authorities have announced a controversial plan to amend the constitution to revoke birthplace citizenship on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, claiming it would help stem an immigration crisis.
The reform was announced by the interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, on Sunday after he arrived on the island, the country’s poorest department (administrative region), following three weeks of protests there.
“We are going to take a radical decision,” Darmanin said. “It will no longer be possible to become French if you are not the child of a French parent.” He said the measure would reduce “the attractiveness” of the archipelago for prospective immigrants.
“It is an extremely strong, clear, radical measure, which obviously will be limited to the Mayotte archipelago,” Darmanin said.
France currently grants citizenship through both bloodline and birthplace, and the proposal risks further ramping up of tensions in France following the adoption of a new immigration law.
Mayotte is composed of two islands that voted to stay part of France in 1973. The others in the surrounding Muslim-majority archipelago sought independence, becoming the Comoros Islands.
While the left denounced the fresh plan as another attack on French values, some local campaigners in Mayotte welcomed it, and political leaders on the right and the far right quickly suggested it be applied across the whole of France.
In Mayotte’s capital, Mamoudzou, several hundred protesters greeted Darmanin and his entourage with boos and shouts of “Mayotte is angry”.
Boris Vallaud, the head of the Socialists in the national assembly, said they would oppose the revision of the constitution. “Birthright citizenship is not negotiable,” he told the broadcaster France 3.
Manon Aubry, of the far-left France Unbowed (LFI) party, denounced the decision. She said Emmanuel Macron’s administration was “attacking the very concept of nationality, the foundation of the republic”.
The French campaign group SOS Racisme also denounced what it called “a particularly spectacular calling into question of the principle of equality”.
The centrist MP Aurelien Tache told BFMTV that “if this provision is enacted and if Marine Le Pen then comes to power, it will be the end of birthright citizenship in France.”
Eric Ciotti, the leader of the rightwing Republicans party, welcomed Darmanin’s proposal but complained it did not go far enough. “What is happening in Mayotte risks hitting mainland France tomorrow,” he posted on X, formerly Twitter. The measure should be applied across the whole of French territory, he added.
Sebastien Chenu, a spokesperson for Le Pen’s far-right National Rally, took a similar line. “A lot of time has been wasted coming to this conclusion that abolishing the right of the soil, not only in Mayotte but everywhere in France, is not only necessary but possible,” he told Europe 1 radio. That could be achieved with a referendum and a revision of the constitution, Chenu added.
Le Pen’s niece, Marion Marechal, of the far-right Reconquete group, also welcomed the announcement. “Bravo for finally recognising evidence which should have been put on the table for more than ten years now,” she said on BFMTV. She too argued that the measure could be extended across all of France.
Mayotte, which lies north-west of Madagascar, became a full-fledged French department in 2011.
Thousands of Comorans fleeing poverty and corruption make the trip across to Mayotte every year in search of higher living standards.
The influx has caused major tensions, with many on Mayotte complaining about crime and poverty. There have been weeks of protest against insecurity and the migration crisis. A months-long water crisis has exacerbated tensions.
According to France’s National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), the 375-square kilometre island is home to about 310,000 people, but officials say this figure is seriously underestimated.
More than 40% of the islanders survive on less than €160 (£137) a month, said INSEE. Nearly half of island residents do not have French nationality.
Residence permits issued to foreign arrivals in Mayotte are valid only for the island and cannot be used to travel to mainland France. The scrapping of that system is one of the key demands of the protesters.
Darmanin said the authorities would abolish the measure as part of the changes, which some protesters welcomed.
France grants citizenship through both bloodline and birthplace, although “jus soli” (“right of the soil”) legislation has been massively tightened over the years.
In December, the French parliament passed a tough immigration bill adopted under pressure from the right.
In January, France’s top constitutional authority censured contentious additions made on the insistence of the right.
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EU Centrists Look To Fend Off the Right With Egyptian Migration Deal?
Despite little success with previous similar programs, EU leaders are willing to pour €7.4 billion into another North African agreement.
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Although Egypt’s Mediterranean coast has not served as a major point of departure for EU-bound migrants in the past, European leaders fear that, given that the country is already hosting 9 million migrants while facing migratory pressure from the region, this could easily and quickly change.
So far this year, the Greek islands of Crete and Gavdos have witnessed a sharp uptick in illegal migrant arrivals, most of whom are from Egypt, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
“We must prevent the opening of new migration routes, and we will work very closely with Egypt to ensure that this will be achieved,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during the meeting in Cairo.
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PRSC leader proposes that France, Canada, and the U.S. receive 5 million Haitians
<p>Santo Domingo.- The Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC) declared that the solution to the economic, political, and social crisis that Haiti is experiencing is the responsibility of the great nations, which now want to try to impose on the Dominican Republic that it receive thousands of...
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March 22, 2024 | 2:20 pm
PRSC leader proposes that France, Canada, and the U.S. receive 5 million Haitians
Santo Domingo.- The Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC) declared that the solution to the economic, political, and social crisis that Haiti is experiencing is the responsibility of the great nations, which now want to try to impose on the Dominican Republic that it receive thousands of Haitians as refugees, which it said “is absolutely unacceptable because our territory is already saturated with citizens from the neighboring country.”
As reported by El Dia newspaper, the president of the PRSC, Federico Antún Batlle (Quique), warned those great powers, including France, Canada, and the United States, that the Dominican Republic can no longer bear more Haitian migration, “and therefore, that proposal from international organizations is flatly rejected by Dominican society.”
“Right now it is estimated that there are more than two million Haitians living in our territory, the vast majority of them irregularly, so we cannot admit a single Haitian more,” he added.
Quique Antún, approached by journalists at the PRSC headquarters after concluding a meeting with senior leaders of that organization, suggested that the United Nations (UN) desist from its “diplomatic pressures” to accept Haitian refugee camps in the Dominican Republic.
“The UN, instead of looking to our territory as a solution to the Haitian crisis, should try to get those great nations to receive a part of the Haitian population as refugees,” he added.
In that sense, he proposed that France should receive at least 3 million Haitians, Canada 2 million, and the United States 1 million, as well as other countries receiving a smaller proportion.
He believes that if the UN wants to solve the problem of violence and insecurity in Haiti, “it should help establish those shelters in areas where criminal gangs do not have control or influence.”
He pointed out that, according to information from the Haitian authorities themselves, the violence of the armed gangs is concentrated in Port-au-Prince, “which means that in much of that territory the violence is minimal or non-existent, so the UN should take those areas to open those refugee centers.”
The reformist leader said, finally, that this proposal should be added to that of establishing a kind of “Marshall Plan” to pacify and rebuild the neighboring country, where violence has worsened in recent weeks.
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Panama presidential frontrunner vows to shut jungle migrant route
The frontrunner in Panama's presidential election vowed Tuesday to block US-bound migrants from crossing the lawless jungle straddling his country's border with Colombia and to begin deportations.Along with other international groups and non-governmental organizations, the UN agency has...
Panama presidential frontrunner vows to shut jungle migrant route
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Wed, 17 April 2024
Despite its dangers, the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama has become a key corridor for US-bound migrants (Luis ACOSTA)
The frontrunner in Panama's presidential election vowed Tuesday to block US-bound migrants from crossing the lawless jungle straddling his country's border with Colombia and to begin deportations.
Last year, more than half a million people braved the so-called Darien Gap, where they faced perilous river crossings and violent criminal gangs that extort, kidnap and abuse them.
"We're going to close the Darien and we're going to repatriate all these people," Jose Raul Mulino told reporters during a visit to a working class suburb of the capital, without saying exactly how he would do it.
"I hope and trust that the United Nations (Refugee Agency) will help us," he added, pledging to respect migrants' human rights.
Along with other international groups and non-governmental organizations, the UN agency has personnel in the jungle helping migrants.
While most of those crossing the Darien are fleeing an economic crisis in Venezuela, migrants from Africa and Asia also enter the remote rainforest in a bid to reach the United States.
"The border of the United States, instead of being in Texas, moved to Panama," said Mulino, who served as security minister during Ricardo Martinelli's 2009-2014 presidency.
Mulino underscored the need for Panama to work with the United States and Colombia to tackle the problem.
With less than three weeks to go before the May 5 election, Mulino enjoys voter support of 34 percent, according to a survey by the Doxa firm published on Monday.
That puts him comfortably ahead of center-right lawyer Ricardo Lombana with 15 percent and former social democratic president Martin Torrijos with 13 percent.
Panama's electoral tribunal last month annulled the candidacy of Martinelli, a month after he lost his last bid to avoid prison and took asylum in the Nicaraguan embassy.