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Reports about African migrants dying to breathe free have become normalized. They hardly register in public consciousness, let alone prick our collective conscience. At least 65 migrants have died after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia. … The incident is thought to be one of the deadliest shipwrecks involving migrants… Read more.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that an electronic fence along the Israel-Egypt border has saved the Jewish state from jihadist attacks or what he believes would be worse — a tide of African migrants. … The interior ministry says there are currently some 42,000 African migrants in Israel, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea,… Read more.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel can be forgiven for bemoaning that no good deed goes unpunished. Recall that she made quite a show last summer of welcoming as many refugees as could make it to Germany. But she soon had just cause to rue her open door policy – as reports of assimilation woes and spikes in crime… Read more.
The flak Israel is getting for repatriating Africans who entered the country illegally is as unfair as it is uninformed. Israel has launched a forced repatriation of Eritrean migrants that amounts to a grave violation of their human rights because of the risk of persecution in their reclusive homeland…. (Reuters, July 16, 2013) Human rights… Read more.
Australia is roughly the same size as the contiguous United States. But it has a population of only 22 million people; the US has 307 million. Therefore, you’d think Australia would be solicitous about attracting new immigrants to its shores. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. For the record, over 1 million people… Read more.
