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Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on July 27, 2019 31 Comments
The European Union is taking Hungary to court over the country's immigration law, German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported. The legal action by Brussels seeks to repeal a law passed last year by Hungary's parliament aimed at securing the country's borders and combating illegal trafficking of migrants. The case will he heard by the top EU court, the European Court of Justice.

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on July 19, 2019 15 Comments
As Republicans, normal Americans, and even some moderate Democrats are lambasted as "unAmerican" at best and "racist, white supremacist Nazis" at worst for arguing that open borders is a really bad idea, a new survey conducted by The Washington Post and Mexico’s Reforma newspaper finds that the majority of Mexicans want illegal aliens in Mexico deported back to their home countries.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on July 19, 2019 9 Comments
Five years after a significant outbreak in Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared another international emergency over Ebola. The spread of the Ebola virus, which began in the central African nation of Congo, has been designated as a "public health emergency of international concern," a WHO spokesperson said.

Posted by Stacey Matthews on July 15, 2019 13 Comments
Top DHS officials from President Barack Obama's administration have taken a strong stand against the border decriminalization positions held by 2020 Democratic presidential candidates. The Hill reports:
In an op-ed in The Washington Post this week, former Obama Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said that decriminalization would attract hundreds of thousands of new migrants to the southern border. He described the proposal as “tantamount to declaring publicly that we have open borders.”

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on July 14, 2019 42 Comments
Germany has called for a European Union-wide 'redistribution coalition' to settle migrants who are presently entering into Europe through the Mediterranean Sea. "We need a coalition of willing for a mandatory distribution mechanism," German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said. Germany will be taking a "leadership role" in accepting migrants coming from the Mediterranean route, the Foreign Minister added.

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 05, 2019 61 Comments
2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker (NJ) took a page out of rival Robert O'Rourke's book when he went to Mexico to speak with those sent back to Mexico after our government denied them asylum. Booker took it one step further by bringing five female asylum seekers with him back to America.

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 02, 2019 31 Comments
As his campaign flounders, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Robert O'Rourke did what anyone else would do. He crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico to campaign with asylum seekers. Oh, wait. That does not make sense since those people cannot vote until they become citizens.

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 01, 2019 21 Comments
The photo of Óscar Martinez and his daughter, who drowned trying to reach the United States shook the world. Many have blamed President Donald Trump and American policies, but El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, elected in February, took the blame. From the BBC:
"People don't flee their homes because they want to, people flee their homes because they feel they have to," he told the BBC in the capital, San Salvador.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on June 18, 2019 11 Comments
British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has sided with U.S. President Donald Trump in his ongoing Twitter spat with London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Hunt said he "150 per cent" agreed with the U.S. President's comments on Khan. Present Trump had shared a tweet by the conservative British columnist Katie Hopkins highlighting rampant knife crime in London. "London needs a new mayor ASAP. Khan is a disaster -- will only get worse!" he commented on the tweet.
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