Tag: Immigration
Biden’s Immigration Reckoning – The Atlantic
President Joe Biden’s administration moved boldly yesterday to solve his most immediate immigration problem at the risk of creating a new target for Republicans who accuse him of surrendering control of the border.
Yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security extended legal protections under a federal program called Temporary Protected Status (TPS) that will allow as many as 472,000 migrants from Venezuela to live and work legally in the United States for at least the next 18 months.
With that decision,
Rishi Sunak weaponizes net zero as election looms – POLITICO
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LONDON — Rishi Sunak has rolled the dice on weaponizing net zero for electoral advantage. No one knows if it will pay off — and some say it’s already costing him dearly.
In a Downing Street speech on Wednesday — coincidentally on the very afternoon the UN hosted talks in New York on increasing climate ambition — the British prime minister took a red pen to some of his
A Departure from Reality, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
If a quiet library with towering walls of books and hushed patrons and my own leather armchair is my vision of eternal bliss, this refrigerator is, if not Hell, then a purgatory with tiled floors, brightly lit hallways, bland meals under plastic covers, incapacitated patients, the constant bustle of nurses, therapists, visitors, the buzz of televisions.
I have never seen anyone
reading a book in
this purgatory.
Most of the staff, clad in nursing scrubs or polo shirts and chinos,
A Departure from Reality | The New Yorker
If a quiet library with towering walls of books and hushed patrons and my own leather armchair is my vision of eternal bliss, this refrigerator is, if not Hell, then a purgatory with tiled floors, brightly lit hallways, bland meals under plastic covers, incapacitated patients, the constant bustle of nurses, therapists, visitors, the buzz of televisions.
I have never seen anyone
reading a book in
this purgatory.
Most of the staff, clad in nursing scrubs or polo shirts and chinos,
Only a Social Movement Can Win Real Immigration Reform
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September 1, 2023
Activists marched for three days straight, demanding that Congress finally change the immigration registry date.
At the beginning of the 1990s, Sahuayo, a small city of factories and craftspeople near Michoacan’s Lake Chapala, could not provide enough work to support its growing population. People had
Why Britain wants to shout about its offshore asylum ship – POLITICO
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LONDON — Walking up a narrow gangplank, a small group of asylum seekers boarded the floating barge moored off England’s south coast. It would be their home for the foreseeable future.
Their arrival Monday was being closely monitored — and amplified — at the highest levels of the U.K. government.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, on holiday in California, posted a video claiming he was “ending the farce of illegal
The Legacy of the El Paso Shooting
For almost four years, residents of El Paso waited for the gunman in the Walmart shooting to be sentenced. Twenty-three people—children, mothers, fathers, and grandparents—were murdered by a man who, according to the Department of Justice, described himself as a “white nationalist, motivated to kill Hispanics.” In the course of two days in July, their relatives took the stand at the gunman’s sentencing hearing. Francisco Rodriguez, the father of Javier Amir—the youngest of the victims, who died at fifteen—wore a
Karan Mahajan on Immigration and the Self
In “The True Margaret,” your story in this week’s issue, Meera, a young Indian woman, moves to London to be with her new husband only to discover that he already has a wife in the city, a woman named Margaret. The story that’s then related is set in 1959. What drew you to the historical setting of London in that time?
I’m interested in scrambled, liminal spaces. London of the nineteen-fifties was one such place. The war had been over
Some 30 migrants missing after shipwrecks off Italy’s Lampedusa – POLITICO
Around 30 people were reported missing after two shipwrecks occurred off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa in the night from Saturday to Sunday.
The Italian coast guard on Sunday said it recovered two bodies and rescued 57 migrants, Italian news agency Ansa reported. The two boats had set off from the Tunisian port of Sfax and sank on their way to Europe, the agency said, citing survivors’ accounts.
The first boat is said to have carried 48 people, the
Niger junta revokes military pacts with France – POLITICO
Niger putschists said Thursday they will end military cooperation deals with France, dealing a major blow to French efforts to combat terrorism in the Sahel region.
Junta representative Amadou Abdramane late on Thursday read on national television a decision to revoke five military deals with France dating between 1977 and 2020, Reuters reported.
France’s foreign affairs ministry on Friday said that the revocation of military pacts by the junta will have no effect on existing military deals as it does