Migrants

Royal Caribbean Ship Rescues 23 Cuban Migrants

AP | Posted 04.07.2012

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A cruise ship departing from Jamaica has rescued 23 Cuban migrants after someone aboard spotted their small boat. A spokeswo...

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WATCH: What Migrants Left Behind While Crossing The Border

The Huffington Post | Cindy Y. Rodriguez | Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: Desert, Video, Undocumented Immigrants, Sonoran Desert, Mexico, Undocumented Immigration, US-Mexico Border, Migrants, Latino Voices News

Not many people consider the human side of immigration, let alone take the time to document the belongings of those left behind by the migrants crossi...

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Scholarship Plan Will Aid Haitian Students (PHOTOS)

Christian Fuchs | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Photos, Photography, Dominican Republic, Jesuit Refugee Service, Forced Migrants, Catholic, Scholarship, Jesuit, JRS/USA, Education, Haiti, Slidefreestyle, Exposure, Migrants, Refugees, Displaced, Impact News
Christian Fuchs

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Somalia to Libya to Malta: Nomadic Migration Part 1

Phillip Martin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: African Refugees, Somalia, Color Initiative, Phillip Martin, Africans, Nomadic Migration, Wgbh, Denver, Unhcr, Asylum Seekers, PRI's the World, Lifted Veils, Racism, Libya, Boat People, Migrants, Somalis, Malta, Tripoli, Iom, World News
Phillip Martin

With Libya's inevitable collapse, Europe will likely see a tsunami of black refugees sweeping across the Mediterranean. And Malta and Italy will be t...

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Economic Security or Border Security: Immigration and the New Congress

Vicki Gass | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Forum on Migration and Development, Border Violence, Immigration, Development, Migrants, Central America, Mexico, Pledge to America, Arizona Immigration Law, Politics News
Vicki Gass

People make the difficult decision to migrate to the United States because of the lack of employment and the absence of long-term public policies to address poverty in their home countries.

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Colbert, Immigrant Farm Workers Challenge Pundits And Unemployed To 'Take Our Jobs'

AP | JULIANA BARBASSA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farm Workers, Fruit Pickers, Illegal Immigration, Agriculture, Labor Department, Pensions, Mexico, Immigration, Stephen Colbert, Immigration Reform, Unemployment, Farms, Border, Colbert Report, Migrants, Overtime, Takeourjobs, Comedy News

SAN FRANCISCO — In a tongue-in-cheek call for immigration reform, farm workers are teaming up with comedian Stephen Colbert to challenge unemployed ...

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Two Idols, a Song and Some Money Transfers

Todd Reisz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dubai Idol, Al Quoz, Migrants, Al Manakh, United Arab Emirates, Dubai, Sonapur, Laborers, Arts News
Todd Reisz

For a few sweltering weeks of a Dubai summer, 'Dubai Idol' each year pares down the number of men who have a chance at breaking from the crowd with which they are always associated, if for just a few evenings.

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From My Family to Yours: Immigrant Youth Shout Out

Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jorge-Mario Cabrera

This week thousands of children will gather in small and large cities in the United States and Mexico to ask Congress to push immigration reform forward and keep families together.

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Arizona's Big Fat Lies

Fernando Espuelas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mid-Term Elections, John McCain, Latinos, Arizona Republic, Crime, Mexico, Violent Crime, Immigration, Arizona, Democrats, Russel Pearce, Jim Crow, Politics, Jan Brewer, Latino, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, sb1070, Border Security, Migrants, Fbi, Racism., Republicans, Hispanic, Politics News
Fernando Espuelas

These unprincipled politicians will continue to traffic in anti-Latino lies and smears while our country is stuck with an immigration system that does not in any way serve the national interest.

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Lessons from Cochabamba on Borders, Labels and Justice

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Jobs, Copenhagen 2009, Carbon Emissions, Rainforest, World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, Renewable Energy, Environmentalism, Immigrants, Immigration, Clean Energy, Green Energy, BORDER ISSUES, Climate Debt, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability, Evo Morales, Bolivia, Green Economy, Migrants, Deforestation, Green News
Michelle Chen

As the chaos of climate change forces unprecedented demographic shifts, we may see yet more labels, more borderlands turned into disaster zones or even battlefields.

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Guest Blogger Ian Danley in Phoenix: 'I don't want my city to be the Birmingham or Selma in this drama'

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

On Tuesday, a group of local faith and community leaders, along with Jim Wallis and Noel Castellanos, called on the Governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, t...

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Pray Immigration Reform Into Passage

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

If our political leaders won't make room for the "strangers" among us, we, the people of faith, will. It's time to stop playing politics with people's lives.

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Moving Millions: How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration

Geri Spieler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coyotes, Smuggling, Global Economy, Mexicans, Global Immigration, Coyote Capitalism, Illegal Immigration, Arizona, Migrants, Obama Immigration Reform, Jeffrey Kaye, Books News
Geri Spieler

While Moving Millions is well written, with excellent documentation, it is often challenging to navigate the context of the various episodes throughout the book.

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Immigration Reform: Change Takes Courage and Faith

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

If our political leaders won't make room for the "strangers" among us, we will -- because Jesus commands us to do so.

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Stop the Killing of Migrants on the Egypt-Israel Border

Navi Pillay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Israel, Human Rights, Migrants, World News
Navi Pillay

While migrants often lose their lives accidentally traveling in over-crowded boats crossing remote land borders, I know of no other country where so many unarmed migrants and asylum seekers appear to have been deliberately killed.

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Health Care and Bipartisanship in the Balance

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

President Obama, this is your moment for political courage, vision, leadership, and faith. We urge you to take heart and move meaningful health care reform forward.

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China Executes 2 Tibetans For The Roles In 2008 Riots

AP | By HENRY SANDERSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING -- Two people have been put to death for their roles in deadly protests last year in the Chinese-controlled region of Tibet, the first known e...

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National Association of Evangelicals Provides Moral Model on Immigration Reform

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citizenship, Undocumented Immigrants, Nae, Biblical, Immigration, Immigrants, Evangelicals, Migrants, Leith Anderson, Legislative Debate, Immigrant, Immigration Reform, Biblical Foundations, Bible, National Association of Evangelicals, Politics News
Jim Wallis

Church leaders who have been personally and privately supportive of immigrants and their struggles have now publicly declared that it is morally wrong to keep families apart.

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Health Care, Immigrants, and the Character of Our Country

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

With an issue like health, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debate.

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Greece: Hunger Strike by 150 Detained Children a Sign of System's Failure

Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration, Migrants, Children, Greece, World News
Human Rights Watch

Unaccompanied children who do not apply for asylum or who have been refused asylum are without regular status and subject to repeated detention or even deportation, in violation of binding international law.

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West Bank: Migrants Account For A Third Of Settler Population Growth

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: West Bank, Israel, Israel Settlers, West Bank Migrants, Migrants, Israeli Settlers, West Bank Settlement Growth, World News

MAALEH ADUMIM, West Bank — Israelis moving to the West Bank accounted for more than a third of settler population growth in recent years, govern...

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Czech Republic: Economic Crisis Leaves Migrants With Few Options

GlobalPost | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Financial Crisis, Foreign Affairs, Czech Migrants, Prague, Migrants, Migrant Labor, Crech Republic, Czech Republic, World News

PRAGUE -- When the global demand for consumer goods tumbled, production and assembly line jobs here evaporated. The consequences for some migrants fro...

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Mexico: 79 Central American Kidnapped Migrants Rescued

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Latin America, Mexico, Central America, Immigrants, Kidnapped, Migrants, Veracruz, World News

VERACRUZ, Mexico — Mexican officials say they have rescued 79 kidnapped migrants from a house in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. Veracruz sta...

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From Jordan: Iraqis Need Our Help

Luis Carlos Montalván and Tyler Boudreau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq Refugees, Iraq Refugees Jordan, Jordan Iraq Refugees, Middle East Migrants, Jordan, Migrants, Iraq, Politics News
Luis Carlos Montalván and Tyler Boudreau

Iraq refugees say the reason they will not return to Iraq is that it is too dangerous and unlivable. Yet living conditions in Jordan are arduous. They wait for a miracle, because that is all that is left.

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