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A year after border crisis, Haitian asylum seekers face discriminatory treatment, report says

Haitians crossing the southern border of the United States without proper documentation are being subjected to arbitrary detention and discriminatory and humiliating ill treatment that amounts to race-based torture, Amnesty International says in a new report marking the first anniversary of the migration crisis at the U.S. border in Del…

Miami Herald

DeSantis grabs hold of immigration debate but leaves Florida GOP open to attacks

MIAMI — By flying dozens of Venezuelans to Martha’s Vineyard last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis inflamed a national debate over U.S. immigration policy and put himself in a position to dictate the terms of the discussion.

Miami Herald

Don’t blame the immigrants — it’s our laws that are criminal

We are an aging population with a declining birth rate. Our national spirit needs the infusion of energy and dynamism that immigrants provide.And we will be thanked and strengthened by people whose lives we save.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Long the subject of rhetoric, migrants have now become props in political theater

A long-reliable political playbook of highlighting immigration in election season has been escalated by Govs. Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis.

The Texas Tribune

Jared Kushner slams ‘very troubling’ flights of migrants launched by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

Jared Kushner Thursday blasted as “very troubling” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ policy of flying asylum-seekers from Texas to liberal enclaves like Martha’s Vineyard.

Tribune News Service

Feds drop case against judge charged in immigrant's escape

Federal prosecutors have agreed to dismiss charges against a Massachusetts judge accused of helping a man who was living in the U.S. illegally evade an immigration enforcement agent

The Independent UK

U.S. drops charges against Massachusetts judge in immigration arrest case

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday said they reached an agreement to drop criminal charges filed during the Trump administration against a Massachusetts judge accused of impeding a federal immigration arrest of a defendant in her courtroom.

Reuters

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Record pace for green cards won't last without congressional action - Roll Call

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is on track to process the most employment-based green cards in the history of the program.

Roll Call

Michael Hiltzik: The saga of DeSantis' migrant flights gets uglier

Earlier this week, we speculated that the saga of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's migrant flights was bound to look uglier with time.

Los Angeles Times

Venezuelan migrants flown to California from Texas not part of GOP operation, activists say

Two groups of Venezuelan migrants flown separately to Sacramento, California, last week were sent by a Texas agency directing the travelers to a nonexistent immigration check-in location, an advocacy group told the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday.

Los Angeles Times

Are Ron DeSantis' Migrant Flights Legal?

Critics of the Martha’s Vineyard flights are raising a bevy of questions about the finances and alleged deception behind the scheme.

Reason

Ken Burns, Lynn Novick: How Closed Borders Helped Facilitate the Holocaust

A new PBS series underscores the long, deadly shadow cast by xenophobia, antisemitism, and restrictive immigration laws.

Reason

Expert: DeSantis stunt may be illegal

Is it legal to move migrants potentially against their will? An immigration lawyer weighs in

Salon

Influx of migrants from GOP-led states tests Dem strongholds

There are few places in the U.S. with a more deeply ingrained reputation as a refuge for immigrants than New York City

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The Independent UK

Jon Stewart blasts DeSantis over ‘d***ish’ migrant flights

‘This stunt did exactly what he wanted it to do, which is jumped his profile, made him a hero amongst those, for whom d***ishness is one of those sole characteristics that they’re looking for in their leaders’

The Guardian - UK

Staff at Home Office contractors sue over discrimination and unfair dismissal

Majority of cases are from escorts accompanying refugees from immigration centres for deportation

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: There’s a crisis at the border all right, but one created by political posturing

Despite widespread outcry, the governors of Florida and Texas say they will continue to bus or fly more migrants to unexpected locations across the nation to raise awareness about the crisis at the border. Using vulnerable humans as pawns in a political game is morally wrong and further destabilizes an…

Tribune News Service

Tyler Cowen: When immigration hypocrisy landed on Martha’s Vineyard

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis spent public money to fly about 50 Venezuelan asylum seekers from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, the ostensible point — besides trolling and publicity, of course — was to show that immigrants are a burden on red-state resources. But his stunt reveals a political…

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Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: The ugly historical roots of the GOP's sadistic migrant transports

Just about the only thing that one can say about the migrant transports sponsored by Republican governors in the South is that the picture is sure to get uglier as more facts emerge.

The Independent UK

Increase in Venezuelan migration is felt across US

Venezuelans have surpassed Guatemalans and Hondurans to become the second-largest nationality stopped at the U.S. border in August after Mexicans

Los Angeles Times

Migrant flight never arrives near Biden’s coastal home after Delaware officials launch preparations

GEORGETOWN, Del. — As the Republican governors of Texas, Florida and Arizona continued to wield a political tactic of transporting migrants outside their states, Delaware officials and immigration advocates prepared Tuesday to offer help after reports suggested a private plane bringing a group of migrants could land at an airport…

The Independent UK

Fact check: Ron DeSantis distorting immigration facts as he defends flights

Governors of Texas and Florida exaggerate Biden’s role in border situation — and ignore ways he’s like Trump

The Texas Tribune

Three Venezuelan migrants flown from Texas to Massachusetts sue Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

The lawsuit alleges an elaborate scheme of people luring migrants with hotel rooms, McDonald’s gift cards, hundreds of dollars in cash and false information about their final destinations.

Miami Herald

In lawsuit, migrants say DeSantis flights ‘cruelty akin to what they fled in’ Venezuela

Three migrants who were part of a group that was flown from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard last week by the state of Florida are suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials, alleging they were duped into traveling to an isolated island in the northeast as part of a…

The Guardian - US

Advocates for migrants who were sent to Martha’s Vineyard sue Ron DeSantis

Suit says Venezuelans were ‘used as political pawns’ in a ‘fraudulent and discriminatory’ scheme

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