Refugee's increasingly find Hell after leaving another one
I consider myself a "economic refugee" because i could not afford accomodation, enough food to survive and medical care. I would certainly have to live rough on the streets. I been working all my life until i turned old enough for retirement. My pension would not be enough to even pay for a small apartment, let alone everything else.
I can only imagine in my worst nightmare what these people from Afghanistan, Myanmar, North Korea, Venezuela, and many other states around the world, particulary in Africa have to go through to end up at the border of their dream land and face a concrete human and other kind of wall. In case of the Haitians they are now put into a plane and shuttled back to Hell where they came from. At the same time the Ultra Rich promote Space Travel etc. while fleecing those that work for them.
Something has to change, soon.
Crowded camps, garbage piles, extreme heat: migrants in Texas face unlivable conditions
A boy bathes himself with a jug of water at a migrant camp in Del Rio, Texas. Many are from Haiti, fleeing political turmoil after their president’s assassination and earthquake destruction.
An estimated 14,000 have crossed the Rio Grande only to be faced with squalid living conditions and possible deportation
Wed 22 Sep 2021 22.30 BST
Thousands of migrants and asylum seekers are facing desperate conditions as they continue to be held in makeshift camps under the Del Rio International Bridge in Texas, including high temperatures, squalid living conditions, probable deportation and shocking mistreatment by border patrol agents.
Thousands of migrants encamped in Del Rio, Texas, USA
A man carrying a child on his shoulders wades across the Rio Grande river from the United States to Mexico, as thousands of migrants, many of them Haitian, remain camped under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, USA, 20 September 2021. More than 14,000 people have crossed the Rio Grande river from Mexico creating a humanitarian crisis. The Biden administration has started to fly the migrants back to Haiti according to federal officials. EPA/ALLISON DINNER
An estimated 14,000 migrants, including pregnant women and children, have crossed the Rio Grande over the last two weeks, coming by bus and foot to seek refuge or a new life in the US. The majority are Haitian, with many fleeing the recent mass destruction of an earthquake and political turmoil following President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination.
“A friend of mine told me to cross here. I heard it was easier,” said Mackenson, a 25-year-old Haitian migrant who spoke to the New York Times and didn’t want his last name published. Mackenson made the journey with his pregnant wife, traveling from Tapachula, Mexico, over 1,100 miles from the Texas border, after spending the past three years sheltering in Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Panama. “It took us two months to get here on foot and by bus.”
Like Mackenson, the journey to the US for many Haitian migrants has been a treacherous one that is sometimes months or years in the making through Latin American countries. Arriving in waves with their families in tow, asylum seekers bring few provisions – food, mattresses, diapers – to survive while they wait to see if they will be admitted to the US.
The temporary camps under the Del Rio bridge provide limited respite from the difficulties of the trek. In the crowded camps, migrants sleep in tents or in the dirt surrounded by growing piles of garbage, all in sweltering 100F (38C) heat.
A shaded temporary staging area under the bridge meant to “prevent injuries from heat-related illness” according to US border patrol, offers some shade, but is often equally crowded. Food and water is growing increasingly scarce, with more food, towels and water being delivered. But many migrants and refugees worry for their family, especially those accompanied by young children who have to cope with Texas’s extreme heat and a recent storm.
“We’re suffering here,” James Tilus, a 26-year-old Haitian migrant, told CNN as he held his two young children.
A United States Border Patrol agent on horseback tries to stop a Haitian migrant from entering an encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande near the Acuna Del Rio International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas on September 19, 2021. - The United States said Saturday it would ramp up deportation flights for thousands of migrants who flooded into the Texas border city of Del Rio, as authorities scramble to alleviate a burgeoning crisis for President Joe Biden's administration.
“We told our son we were camping so he wouldn’t worry,” said Roselini Villasmil, a 33-year-old from Venezuela. “You’re thinking, what will happen to us?”
Facing increased migration, the US has carried out mass deportations, expulsions made permissible under Trump-era emergency public health order, Title 42, that allows the US to send away migrants during the pandemic. More than 1,000 people have been deported to Haiti since Sunday, reports the New York Times.
Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of homeland security, confirmed during a press conference on Monday that officials plan to ramp up deportation flights to Haiti and other destinations, “[anticipating] at least one to three flights per day”. Only Haitian migrants who arrived in the US before 29 July will be eligible for temporary protected status, according to Mayorkas.
US border patrol, national guard and Texas department of public safety vehicles shine their lights on the Rio Grande migrant crossing point in Del Rio, Texas.
“It’s not right,” said Jean Philipe Samus, a Haitian national. “The Americans are grabbing Haitians and deporting everyone to Haiti. Haiti has no president, no jobs, there is nothing. In the earthquake a lot of people died. It’s not right over there, I’m going back to Mexico.”
“I’m not going to stay in Haiti,” said Elène Jean-Baptiste, a 33-year-old migrant who traveled with her husband and her three-year-old son, to the New York Times.
Migrants are routed out of a makeshift border camp after being processed in Del Rio, Texas.
On the ground, border patrol agents have escalated tactics to intimidate and hold newly arrived migrants. Mounted on horses and using what look like whips, photos and videos showing agents chasing migrants have been widely shared, with at least one video showing a border patrol agent shouting expletives at migrants. The Texas governor, Greg Abbott, has also approved a mile-long “steel barrier” made of police vehicles to deter refugees from entering the state.
The situation at Del Rio bridge has drawn intense criticism of the Biden administration from both parties. Democrats, including the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, have decried the treatment of migrants as “completely unacceptable”.
He added that the administration should not “continue these hateful and xenophobic Trump policies that disregard our refugee laws”, and said asylum seekers must be afforded due process.
Many others have called for a halt to deportations. Republicans largely blame the administration for mishandling the current migration surge and not cracking down on undocumented immigration.
Other US officials, meanwhile, have cast doubt on the Biden administration’s statements about deportations. Many Haitian migrants camped in Del Rio are being released in the United States, two US officials said on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press, undercutting the Biden administration’s public statements that the thousands in the camp faced immediate expulsion.
source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... mmigration
Europe is not doing any better.
Greece has built a wall and keeps Frontex Boats to push back those that try to enter by sea. Even Turkey which now faces lots of Refugee's from Afghanistan has built a wall. Britain with the help of France is trying to stop the Refugee Tsunami crossing the English Cannel by small boats. Spain and Italy are in a similar situation and even the spanish gran canary islands in the atlantic are overwhelmed.
The Future looks nasty !
From one Hell to another - the economic and other refugee
Do you ever have any opinions of your own?
@ by Guest (!i/577kffyE) Have you even read anything on this thread ? My opinion was posted clearly. Do you have anything to contribute except nagging around ?
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