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Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday said that as many as 30 minor girls and boys were rescued last week owing to the steps taken by the state government to end human trafficking and migrant workers exploitation, news agency PTI reported.

In a statement, Soren explained that on June 24, a crackdown by the state police department led to the rescue of 30 children from the Ranchi railway station and Birsa Munda airport. They were being trafficked to Delhi, the chief minister added, as reported by PTI.

Soren further stated that his government is providing 2,000 per month to trafficking survivors towards living expenses until they attain 18 years of age. He added that besides the financial aid, the girls would get free education and vocational training that would enable them to become independent.

Soren said that a proposal has been given for the setting up of an anti-human trafficking unit, especially in the sensitive regions of the state. Furthermore, women police officers will also be appointed across the state to keep a check on human trafficking in the rural areas. The chief minister stated that the government will soon come up with a detailed plan to rehabilitate children whose parents have succumbed to Covid-19.

Addressing the issue of migrant workers, who suffered severely during the nationwide lockdown last year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Soren said that his government was concerned about the workers welfare.

According to the PTI report, the chief minister pointed out that despite the pandemic-induced migration crisis, the state has handled the matter sensitively. He said earlier this month his government ensured the safe return of Jharkhand-based migrant workers from Uttar Pradeshs Deoria district. Thirty migrant labourers including women and children were brought back to Jharkhand, he added.

Interestingly, earlier this month, a skill mapping of 250,056 migrant labourers, who returned home to Jharkhand, showed that 177,186 or 70 per cent of the returnees are skilled labourers, while the rest 72,871 are unskilled workers, according to the state governments assessment. The mapping was done on Sorens instructions with the aim for the government to provide them with jobs as per their skills.

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McAllen, Texas Mayor Javier Villalobos says his city is starting to be affected 'quite a bit' by the migrant surge at the southern border.

McAllen, Texas Mayor Javier Villalobos said he is "happy" former President Trump is visiting the southern border and told "Varney & Co." that "hopefully this brings attention to the issues we have."

"We welcome any elected official,whetherstate or federal," Villalobos, a Republican who was electedmayor of McAllen earlier this month, told Fox Business' Stuart Varney on Tuesday. "We need to dosomething to tighten ourborders and we are not necessarily talking necessarily about a wall."

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Villalobos stressed that "we need some enforcement somehow, one way or another, because it is starting to affect us quite a bit now." He noted that in McAllen, "we used to have maybe 500 crosses through McAllen."

"This past week weve had over 1000 a day and its starting to be a little burdensome on the city," he continued, stressing that"we shouldnt have to bespending a single dollar on federalissues."

Villalobos made the comments one day before Trumpis scheduled to visit the U.S.-Mexicoborder with Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. Trump described the border as an "unmitigated disaster zone." The president said in a press release that he had accepted Abbott's invitation to visit the "decimated" border, a deteriorating situation that he attributed to the Biden administrations decisions to reverse many of his immigration policies.

McAllen, Texas Mayor Javier Villalobos says he is 'happy' former President Trump is visiting the southern border and says 'hopefully this brings attention to the issues we have.'

President Biden scrapped a number of his predecessor's immigration policies, which included wall construction and having asylum seekers remain in Mexico instead of in the U.S. while they wait for their cases to be heard. The moves have led to a record surge inmigrants, including unaccompanied minors, that has strained capacity at immigration facilities.

Trumps visit to the southern border comes five days after Vice President Kamala Harris visited El Paso, Texas, nearly 100 days after being appointed by President Biden to address the immigration crisis at the southern border.

During a press conference, Harris touted "extreme progress" made by the Biden administration in tackling the migrant surge despite inheriting a "tough situation" due to the "disastrous effects" of the Trump administrationsborder policies. When asked why she visited El Paso, instead of areas that have been more acutely hit, like the Rio Grande Valley Sector, Harris explained that El Paso was where a number of Trump policies, like the Remain-in-Mexico policy and child separation policies, were implemented.

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When Varney asked Villalobos if he has "heard anything fromVice President Harris," he responded,"No actually."

"This is a lions den. This is where the action is," he explained. "I think this is a placewhere they can talk and they whatthe issues are."

"You can go to El Paso, you can go to different areas, but here we have a lot of peoplecoming in and we need to do something," he continued. "Weve been expending our municipal funds and we shouldnt have to."

Villalobos added that he would welcome President Biden or any other federal or state official to come see the issues his community is facing due to the immigration crisis.

A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to FOX Business request for comment.

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Vice President Harris' border trip is coming under fire as critics point out that she's steering clear of the areas that have been hardest hit by the ongoing immigration crisis.

Harris' trip to El Paso, Texas, on Friday came 93 days after President Biden first tapped her to deal with the "root causes" of the border crisis.

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"If Vice President Harris truly wanted to assess the situation at the border, she'd head to McAllen and sites along the Rio Grande Valley," a senior border official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Fox News. "It will be worth seeing if this trip extends beyond a rubber stamp of I visited the border."

Tom Homan, former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) chief, said Harris "needs to go to the epicenter of this crisis."

"Instead of going there and talking to the men and women dealing with that crisis and taking care of thousands of unaccompanied children, she picks El Paso because she doesn't want to see the devastation that her administration's policies have caused," he said.

"Now, El Paso, is seeing a rise in crossings, absolutely a rise in drug crossings, but when you look at the crisis, why would you not go to the epicenter and talk to the men and women of Border Patrol and see what's going on?" Homan noted separately in a Friday interview on Fox News' "America's Newsroom."

A Border Patrol who insisted on anonymity told Fox News he was "not surprised" Harris took so long to visit the border. "I'm not surprised. She doesn't think this is a problem."

Washington Post reporter Nick Miroff pointed out that Harris' trip to El Paso allows her to avoid harder-hit areas in the Rio Grande Valley, where even Democratic officials have been critical of the Biden administration's response to the border crisis.

The Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector has been especially hard hit by the crisis.

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Border Patrol agents in that sector are seeing a significant increase in large groups of migrants hitting the border, with more groups in fiscal year 2021 already matching the number encountered in the past two years combined.

"With 3 months remaining in the fiscal year, RGV has already matched the total number of large groups apprehended in the previous two fiscal years combined," RGV Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings tweeted Monday.

Brooke Singman and Adam Shaw contributed reporting.

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A 24-year-old Somali-born man stabbed three women to death and injured seven more; a 42-year-old Kurdish man risked his own life to intervene and prevented much worse.

Three months to election day, Germanys tortured immigration debate is back on the political agenda as politicians and journalists grapple with how to frame a horrific kitchen-knife attack in the southern city of Wrzburg.

Police say their only suspect in Fridays attack is a man who arrived in Germany six years ago and had been treated at a local psychiatric institution.

On Friday evening he entered a discount store and stabbed three people with a knife. His victims were all women: a 24-year-old shopping for a dress for a friends wedding; a 49-year-old stabbed while protecting her daughter from the attacker; and an 82-year-old pensioner who tried to overpower the man.

Identified locally as Abdirahman J, the suspect was born in Mogadishu in 1997 and applied for asylum in Germany in 2015. He remained in Germany with subsidiary protection status after his application was rejected.

Investigators say the man, who was shot in the thigh and overpowered by police, has no known Islamist links. However, an eyewitness report, that the suspect cried Allah Akbar! (God is greatest!) during his spree, sparked speculation of an extremist motive.

The attack shocked the country and brought back unhappy memories of a series of nine violent attacks stretching back to 2016, which left 14 dead and more than 100 injured, that were carried out by young men who arrived during the refugee crisis.

On Monday the Bild tabloid accused the rest of the German media and much of the political establishment of downplaying the possible Islamist connection. It claimed Islamic State material had been found in a homeless shelter where the man lived and that, after his arrest, he told police he was planning his own jihad or holy war.

He was already known to police and had spent time in a closed psychiatric facility. But his lawyer, Hajo Schrepfer, told Bild the doctors clearly assumed there was no acute danger for himself or others.

The attack has echoes of another incident, in July 2016, an hour from Wrzburg, when a Syrian asylum seeker attempted to blow up himself and others with a self-made bomb.

Police registered that attack as the work of a psychologically disturbed perpetrator rather than a political extremist. A similar tag was added to the 2017 Christmas market attack in Berlin that left 12 dead.

The far-right Alternative fr Deutschland (AfD) says fear of being dubbed racist has inhibited proper discussion of the phenomenon of extremist immigrants.

Mass immigration is also knife immigration, said Gottfried Curio, an AfD Bundestag MP after Fridays attack.

But leading German politicians have pushed back against the AfD strategy of highlighting when attackers are people with a migrant background.

They pointed on Monday afternoon to the eastern city of Erfurt, where police detained a 32-year-old German man after he stabbed two people at a tram stop.

Among the heroes of the Wrzburg attack is Chia Rabiei, a Kurdish-Iranian man in Germany for nearly 18 months. Video footage shows him trying to tackle the knife-wielding man and slow him down as he ran through the city.

I tried to stop him with my rucksack, I tried to take the knife from him but didnt succeed, said Rabiei.

On Sunday, Bavarian state premier Markus Sder thanked Rabiei personally for his bravery and has nominated him for Germanys highest civil honour, adding: Good and evil are not an issue of nationality, religionand ethnicity.

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When Kostas Papadopoulos entered Houlton on a rainy Tuesday afternoon riding in a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol vehicle, it was the end of a long journey that had taken him from one end of the United States to the other.

HOULTON, Maine When Kostas Papadopoulos entered Houlton on a rainy Tuesday afternoon riding in a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol vehicle, it was the end of a long journey that had taken him from one end of the United States to the other.

Papadopoulos, a CBP officer who was stationed in the Houlton sector of the U.S.-Canada border, had been transferred to the Mexican border at the Rio Grande Valley Central Processing Center in Texas to help combat the ongoing migrant crisis occurring there. The crisis has drawn national attention for many of the facilities having poor conditions for migrants and unaccompanied children, often overpacked and lacking proper sanitation, overwhelmed by the number of arrivals at the southern border.

Combined with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the migrant crisis has also become a public health crisis, with the conditions of the facilities and the large number of arriving migrants, most of whom are unvaccinated, making it easy for the virus to proliferate among new arrivals and CBP officers stationed at the facility.

On March 25, less than a month after he first arrived in Texas, Papadopoulos began feeling ill with coronavirus symptoms, and tested positive for COVID-19. He was admitted to the Valley Baptist Hospital in nearby Harlingen, and spent six weeks in the intensive care unit as he fought against the disease which has claimed more than 600,000 American lives.

With Papadopoulos being treated in Texas, family and friends in Houlton began a campaign to bring him back home. A GoFundMe page was started by family friend Dayna Lincoln, raising more than $34,000 to provide for an out-of-pocket medical evacuation flight from Texas to Boston.

Weve been overwhelmed by the love, support, and prayers of our community, friends, border patrol family and even strangers, Jaclyn Papadopoulos, Kostas wife, said. Getting him the medical care he not only needed, but deserved, and ultimately getting him back home for continued care was a joint effort.

Kostas Papadopoulos arrived in Boston on May 10, where he continued to receive treatment. On June 22, he finally returned home, being greeted with a parade of family and friends as well as local Customs and Border Patrol and other law enforcement.

During this difficult time Kostas has managed to stay in the fight and persevere, said Jodi Williams, the active patrol agent in charge of the Houlton station. We are all extremely proud of him and are overjoyed that he is finally home with his family.

The concern for our law enforcement and front line workers, and in turn their families contracting COVID-19 is a real concern, Jacyln Papadopoulos said. These men and women serving our country have signed up to protect and defend the constitution of the United States of America. They selflessly serve.

HOULTON, Maine June 23, 2021 A car in a parade welcoming home Kostas Papadopoulos from the Mexican border waves an American flag to mark his return. (Alexander MacDougall, Houlton Pioneer Times)

HOULTON, Maine June 23, 2021 Hank and Ellie Papadopoulos get ready to greet their father, Kostas, after he returned to Houlton following treatment in Texas and Boston for COVID-19. (Alexander MacDougall, Houlton Pioneer Times)

HOULTON, Maine June 23, 2021 Family and friends of Kostas Papadopoulos stand outside in the parking lot of Mardens in Houlton before a parade welcoming him home from the southern border in Texas. (Alexander MacDougall, Houlton Pioneer Times)

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