Tag: illegal migration

UK’s Braverman Pledges ‘Whatever It Takes’ to Stop Illegal Immigration

October 5, 2022
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British Home Secretary Suella Braverman on Tuesday vowed to do “whatever it takes” to stop illegal immigration across the English Channel. In her first major speech as home secretary, Braverman told the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham that she wants to “cut [the] overall numbers” of immigration, adding the UK shouldn’t be “relying wholly on low…

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The Power to Ignore

February 10, 2022
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Commentary Once in TV journalism there were people called assignment editors and news directors. Among their responsibilities was to instruct reporters and camera crews which stories they were to cover that day. Their choices were based on several factors that included what they regarded as news, viewer interest (i.e., ratings), and much more subtly, their…

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Ecuadorian Migration Spike Driven by Poverty from Pandemic Aftermath

November 8, 2021
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Among the thousands of migrants heading for the United States border this year, the number of Ecuadorians detained or deported by US border security reached 97,074 in September. That’s more than seven times the number of Ecuadorian migrants encountered by US border officials at the same time last year. William Murillo, an immigration attorney and co-founder…

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Life Along the Border Collapses

September 28, 2021
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Commentary Take all of the imagery you have seen of the over 14,000 Haitian migrants camped under an international bridge in the small Texas border town of Del Rio and add the complications of disease, public excrement, unbearable heat, and heightened frustrations. It has led to violence that has injured Border Patrol officers. Now close…

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