The Biden administration says Temporary Protection Status is necessary due to extraordinary conditions that make it unsafe to return to the South American country. The decision will affect some 320k people, said the government. TPS will allow a work permit, and a residence for at least 18 months. By Milan Sime Martinic Read more
Colombian President Iván Duque announced that temporary protection status will be granted to Venezuelan migrants residing in Colombian territory. During the announcement, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, was present. Thanks to the measure adopted by the coffee-growing country, Venezuelans located in the Colombia will be able to work legally. According to … Read more
SAO PAULO – A humanitarian crisis is escalating in the far west Brazilian state of Acre as about 300 Haitians, Indians, Pakistanis have taken over the Friendship Bridge connecting Assis, Brazil with Peru at the Brazil-Peru-Bolivia border. Peruvian authorities are refusing entry and the immigrants are demanding to be allowed to return home through the … Read more
A government shutdown could be the result of Trump’s demand for funding for a wall on the Mexico border. Among Trump’s priorities for the CR* are the wall and the military, according to White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer. Congressional Democrats and some Republicans oppose the funding of the wall, and it may result in … Read more
A new study experience option has started, called “city stay,” which is in some ways similar to “study abroad.” City Stay is the name of a program run by Minnehaha Academy, a private school in Minneapolis. When students enrol in a city stay, they are placed in immigrant homes for a week and have a … Read more
The Faroe Islands are experiencing a woman shortage. The Island’s population is 50,000, and they have a “gender deficit” of 2,000 more men than women. Increasingly, Faroese men are bringing women in from Asia, and there are currently 300 women from Thailand and the Phillipines, and Asians now make up the largest ethnic minority. The … Read more
The exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, spoke to German press this week about his current situation, also commenting on the current refugee crisis in Europe. The Dalai Lama has previously spoken in favor of sheltering all refugees in need, but in his interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine he also said that the numbers had … Read more
Report by Cambridge professor’s takes a critical look at economics of immigration The current large-scale immigration policy of the UK will result in small gross economic benefits while creating serious negative consequences, according to a UK economics professor who has just published a report on his research. The moral and practical questions related to controlling … Read more
The Center for Climate and Security, in partnership with the Carnegie Mellon University Civil and Environmental Engineering Program, the Center for New American Security, and the University of Oxford released the report, “The U.S. Asia-Pacific Rebalance, National Security, and Climate Change,” Tuesday. Dr. Leo Goff, program manager of the CNA Military Advisory Board, and Nilanthi Samaranayake, … Read more
Norway’s parliamentary ombudsman has visited the prison in which political mass killer Anders Breivik has been locked up since 2012, and reported Wednesday that the conditions of the prison could represent inhumane treatment as alleged by Breivik in his lawsuit against the Norwegian State. Breivik has brought suit against his country for what he says … Read more
Canada, the nation with the highest per capita immigration intake per year — adding 1 million immigrants every four years to her now-35 million population, is suffering because of an abnormal and unnecessary mass immigration policy, according to the immigration-focused group Immigration Watch Canada. “Since 1991, Canada has had a mass immigration policy,” Dan Murray … Read more
Pressure on the borders of the European Union under the weight of illegal migration from Africa will continue unabated so long as policy makers in both continents do not pay the necessary attention to the issues of democracy, justice, fair trade and the expansion of economic opportunity. Many of Africa’s most enterprising people routinely leave their … Read more