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This site will have frequent short updates, lots of links, and some longer analysis. If you like it, please subscribe. You can view my other blogs at maryturck.com-
Recent posts
- President Biden, Keep Your Promise to Refugees! April 13, 2021
- Crisis of Conscience, Not of Immigrants March 26, 2021
- Doing Better for Children at the Border March 22, 2021
- We are All Watching the Children. Watching Is Not Enough. March 21, 2021
- That Crash in California: Remembering Yesenia March 6, 2021
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Monthly Archives: March 2016
Three-year-olds, immigration law, and the presidential candidates
David Wilson and Jane Guskin explain what’s wrong with the mainstream immigration debate, including the Sanders/Clinton pseudo-discussion in their March 9 debate: “The media and the politicians treat the migration either as a natural disaster (‘flooding over the border’) or … Continue reading
Posted in Central America, Children, due process, Refugees
Tagged Central America, deportation, due process, immigration, immigration court, immigration law, Refugees
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As France clears “the jungle,” refugees flee to even worse camps
French authorities cleared a Calais refugee camp called “the jungle” this week — and the refugees displaced from the squalid camp scattered to set up even less secure camps nearby. But what did the French government expect? The refugees in … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Europe, Refugees
Tagged "the jungle", Calais refugee camp, France, Refugees
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As borders close, refugee crisis in Europe escalates
This week, the already-terrible refugee crisis in Europe got worse, as Turkey and the E.U. reached an agreement that severely restricts refugee movement, and Balkan nations closed borders, leaving refugees stranded in makeshift camps.
Posted in Europe, Refugees, Syria
Tagged Afghani refugees, Balkan route, E.U. refugees, Greece, Iraqi refugees, Refugees, Syrian refugees, Turkey
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