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      Immigrants in line at U.S. and Mexican border.

      The Curious Incuriosity of US Immigration Coverage

      Throwing the question of “Why?” into the media’s reporting will help veer the national focus beyond armed paranoia toward finding and participating in global solutions.

      Robert C. Koehler
      May 28, 2023

      “Go back to where you came from.”

      This is basic American politics—what I might call spiritual ignorance: a dismissal of refugees fleeing war, famine, and poverty as global sludge, clogging up our way of life. So many media stories about the border— our border—begin with an unquestioned presumption. These aren’t individual humans fleeing hell and trying to reclaim their lives. They exist only en masse—basically, in the millions.

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      How the EU Weaponizes Time Against Refugees

      Rather than simply a “failed system,” delays in rescue need to be understood as strategic—and deliberate—elements built into Europe's current migration governance.

      Maurice Stierl
      May 20, 2023

      When boats with refugees are at risk of capsizing in the Mediterranean Sea, the speed of rescue operations is essential. Any delay in the emergency response can lead to serious bodily harm or the loss of life.

      Still, offering a speedy response in such situations is not one of Europe’s priorities. In a study recently published in the journalSecurity Dialogue, I argue that time has become increasingly “weaponized” in Mediterranean migration governance.

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      People place their hands against a chain-link fence while another in a cowboy hat and uniform searches them.

      Biden’s New Asylum Ban Continues the Psychological Warfare on the U.S. Border

      The U.S. operates according to the assumption that psychological torment and bodily anguish deter asylum applications and migration, but this could not be further from the truth.

      Belen Fernandez
      May 12, 2023

      On April 8, three young Venezuelan men were detained in El Paso, Texas, where they had just crossed the border from Ciudad Júarez, Mexico. They were among the 183,000 undocumented people reportedly apprehended by the United States Border Patrol that month, which, according to the Reuters news agency, constituted a 13% increase from March.

      I had met these three men in February in Panama when they had emerged with their three Colombian travel companions from the traumatic stretch of corpse-ridden jungle known as the Darién Gap. Over the next month and a half, we seven had remained in continuous contact on WhatsApp, and I had undertaken an informal fundraising campaign that consisted of harassing wealthy acquaintances to send me money that I could transfer to my friends to help offset the costs of undocumented movement.

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