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One Russian-speaking family arrivedat a migrant shelter in Phoenix carrying Louis Vuitton luggage. Theyhad toted the designerbagsacross the U.S.-Mexico border after travelinghalfway around the globeto ask forasylum in the United States

Another large migrant family from India asked if there was a vegetarian restaurant nearby after being dropped off by federal immigration authorities at the same shelter. They then ordered 15 meatless burgers and sodas to go.

OneRussian-speaking family persuaded a volunteer to sell them their van so they could drive themselves across the country to Philadelphia rather than take a Greyhound bus.

Still another Russian-speaking family carriedenough U.S. cash to buy four plane tickets totaling $1,300 tofly to the East Coast.

These are examples of some of the non-Spanish speakingmigrant families federal immigration authorities have been dropping off lately at local churches after the families arrived at the southern border without documents and asked for asylum to remainin the U.S.

Some of the non-Spanish speakingarrivals have raised eyebrows amonglocal pastors whose churches have been assisting migrant families released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Not only are the non-Spanish speaking families from countries far from the United States, they carry their own cash and credit cards and appearmuch better educated than the mostly poor Central American families that federal immigration authorities had been dropping off earlier this year.

The sudden arrival of affluent migrant families from outside Latin America even prompted onelocal pastor to close the church's doors to any more families.

"There are different people coming and the main reason we stopped is because they don't seem to need our help," said Angel Campos, head pastor atIglesia Monte Vista,a Hispanic church on the east side of Phoenix.

The church had provided assistance to more than 5,000 people until it stopped, Campos estimated.

Previously, most came from Central America, principally Guatemala but also El Salvador and Honduras, three countries known as the Northern Triangle,plagued byhigh rates of poverty, corruption and violence.

Volunteer members help asylum seekers Sandra Estefania Lema Guaraca, 20, from Ecuador (left), her 3-year-old son Derick Joshua Morocho Lema and Brenda Carolina Rosales, 28, from Guatemala after they were released by ICE at Iglesia Cristiana El Buen Pastor Church in Mesa, Arizona.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)

The Central American families were content to sleep on floorswaiting for relativesalready in the U.S. to scrape together enough money to buy them bus tickets or plane fares. Many had little more than a sixth grade education, Campos said.

Because they often carried little or no moneyof their own, the Spanish-speaking families often relied on volunteers at the churches to provide them with food, used clothing and basic necessities like toothbrushes and diapers, he said.

In contrast, the non-Spanish-speaking families coming from India, the former Soviet Union and other countries typically hop on planes within a few hours of being dropped off at the shelters byICE authorities.

"We love the immigrants. I dont care if they are from Central America or from China," Campos said.

"Butthe point is we dont see the need for us to (remain)open. ... Some people were even trying to buy a car, or they can take an Uber to whatever place they want," Campos said. "... So that made us see that our participation in helping the people was not so necessary because It was not a crisis anymore."

Local pastors from Hispanic churches who have been helping migrant families since October 2018 say ICE continues to drop off families.

But the numbers have slowed to a trickle after President Donald Trump's administration effectively shut down the wave of families migrating to the U.S. from Central America.

The relatively few families ICE isreleasing are from regions in Mexico plaguedbydrug cartel violence, or fromcountries inother parts of Latin America struggling with political and economic turmoil, notablyBrazil, Cuba, and Venezuela.

ICE has been increasingly releasingnon-Spanish speaking migrant families from faraway countries, most notably from India, China and the former Soviet Union. Theywere released after arrivingat the border without documents after traveling from the opposite side of the globe, possibly with the help of international smuggling rings.

In October, Mexico deported 311 migrants from India back to their country after they were caught in Mexico without documents. The Indian migrants had paid smugglers about $41,000 each to reach the U.S., The Times of India reported.

Volunteer members help asylum seekers Zhu Yanying, 41, and her son Ling Jie Zoel, 17, from China. They were released by ICE at Iglesia Cristiana El Buen Pastor Church in Mesa, Arizona.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)

The sudden arrival of non-Spanish speaking families reflects a big spike in migrant families overall.

The Trump administration has focused almost all of its attention on addressing the huge wave of migrant families coming to the U.S. from Central America, so little attention has been paid to the rise in non-Spanish-speaking migrant families fromcontinents on the other side of the globe.

Border Patrol apprehensions of migrant "family units" hit 473,682 in fiscal year 2019, up 342% from the 107,212 the previous year.

Migrant families from the Northern Triangle and Mexico made up 92% of the total.

The remaining 37,132 from countries outside the Northern Triangle or Mexico was 25 times larger than the1,442family unitapprehensions fromother countries the previous year, the data shows.

The Border Patrol does not publish data on migrant family apprehensions by citizenship. That makes itdifficult to tell how many of those are from other countries in Latin America and how many come from other continents, which the Border Patrol refers to as "extra-continentals."

In the past, most "extra-continentals" apprehended by the Border Patrol wereyoung adult men.Now more "extra-continental" migrants are arriving as families, based on overall Border Patrol data and anecdotal evidence.

Asylum seekers from Brazil Adriano Moraes da Silva, 43, and his wife Claudineia Ferreira Rodrigues Moraes, 40, talk about their journey after they were released by ICE at Iglesia Cristiana El Buen Pastor Church in Mesa, Arizona.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)

Since July 27, when a vacant elementary school in Phoenix converted into a shelter for migrant families opened, ICE has dropped off 201 families, according to data provided by the International Rescue Committee, which runs the shelter, along with other organizations.

Of the 201, 125families were from Mexico, and 42 came from countries inthe Northern Triangle. An additional 16families were from other parts of Latin America. Eighteen camefrom countries outside of Latin America, including 12 families from India, 3 from Romania, two from Kyrgyzstan and one from Azerbaijan.

"Weve seen families from around the world," saidStanford Prescott, a spokesman for the International Rescue Committee inArizona.

In trying to stop the wave, theTrump administration has accusedmigrant families ofexploiting "loopholes" in the immigration system to get into the U.S. to seek better economic opportunities not to flee persecution.

Under legal rulings and immigration laws, adults who arrive at the border with children are typically released from custody within 20days, which Trump says acts as a draw for more families to come illegally and then ask for asylum.

Migrant families are allowed to remain in the U.S. while their asylum claims are pending, a process that can take years because of growing court backlogs, as opposed to single adults who typically are held in detention centers until their asylum cases are decided or they are deported.

It's difficult to say whether the migrant families arriving from other countries are trying to exploit the U.S. immigration system or are truly fleeing persecution.

Sikh family Parmijit Kaur (left), husband Surjit Singh and their 12 year-old-son Sukhvir Singh arrive at Iglesia Cristiana El Buen Pastor Church in Mesa on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)

Experts point out that refugees and asylum-seekers are often portrayed as destitute and impoverished, a misconception that likely wasreinforced by the wave of mostly poor Central American familieswho poured across the border earlier this year in unprecedented numbers and received so much media attention.

In reality, people forced to leave their home countries due to persecution come from all walks of life, economic backgrounds and education levels, experts say.

The sudden arrival of families from India, for example,could reflect rising persecution against religious minorities, including Sikhs, Muslims and Christians,in that country under the government of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist.

"Indians have beenseeking asylum for years now," though in the past most were adult men, not families, said Randy Capps, director of research for U.S. programs at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute.

"Many of them are religious minorities, Sikhs in particular," Capps said. "They are fleeing religious persecution in many cases so their motiveon the surface doesnt appear to be economic the way it appears partially for many of the poorer people coming from Mexico and Central America."

Sukhvir Singh, age 12 and part of a Sikh family from India, arrives with his parents at Iglesia Cristiana El Buen Pastor Church in Mesa on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)

The arrival of Chinese and Russian speaking families asking for asylum also isnot surprising, said Daniel Balson, advocacy director for Europe and Central Asia at Amnesty International USA.

"There is any number of reasonsfor why individuals from across Eastern Europe and Asia would be interested in the United States," Balson said. "Obviously, the government of the Russian Federation is remarkably repressive. This is especially true if you are active politically, or are actively speaking out against the policies of the (Vladimir) Putin government."

Harder to explain is thegrowing numbers of non-Spanish speaking families at the U.S.-Mexicoborder. Non-Spanish speaking migrants in the past almost always tended to be young adult men.

Balsonbelieves the Trump administration's immigration policies are driving more non-Spanish speaking migrants, including families, to seek asylum at the southern border, either by crossing illegally or at ports of entry, rather than flying directly to the U.S. with visas.

"The Trump administration hasshut down virtually all of the common paths for individuals fleeing persecution who are interested in seeking asylum," Balson said. "This is really true around the world. What this has resulted in is individuals who are fleeing persecution who have credible claims for asylum are looking for other alternative paths to make those claims. And the southern route is an immigration route that is common."

Balsoncited examples such as the Trump administration'sslashing of refugee admissionsinto the U.S. and the so-called Muslim ban, which under a version upheld by the Supreme Court in 2018 blocks travel to the U.S. from six predominantly Muslim countries as well asNorth Koreans and certain Venezuelan government officials.

Some of the migrant families arriving from other continentscould be paying smuggling organizations to reach the U.S., he said.

"What we have seen in Europe is what we have seen in the United States,"Balson said, "that shutting down safe, effective ways to secure asylum functions as a subsidy for militiamen, human-traffickers, war lords of all different shapes and stripes."

Balson pointed out that migrant families from other continents who chooseto travel through Mexicofacethe same deadly risks as those from Spanish-speaking countries.

Volunteer members help Adriano Moraes da Silva, 43, and his daughter Rikelly Stephany Rodrigues Moraes, 16, get food and clothing after the asylum seekers from Brazil were released by ICE at Iglesia Cristiana El Buen Pastor Church in Mesa, Arizona.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)

On June 12, the body of a 7-year-old girl from India was found in a remote desert area inthe Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona where hundreds of migrants have perished in recent years.

The girl had crossed the border illegally with a group of migrants from India, the Border Patrol said.

The Indian girl died less than two weeks before the bodies of a father from El Salvador and his 23-month-old daughter were found on the banks of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico. The pair drowned trying to reach Brownsville, Texas by wading across the river into the U.S.

On Nov. 14, a Border Patrol agent shot and wounded amigrant from Russia suspected of trying to cross the border illegally near Lukeville in the southwestern corner of Arizona The agent fired his weapon while trying to arrest the migrant and an altercation ensued, the Border Patrol said. It was not clear if the Russian migrant was traveling alone or with a family.

"The bottom line is that nobody wants to leave their home to travel to a foreign land where they dont speak the language, trek across dangerous terrain only to face hostile border guards," Balson said. "When people do this, especially with their families, with their children, it simply is reflective of the fact that their conditions at home have become so unstable, so dangerous so terrifying that this perilous journey is the only possible alternative that they can envision."

Asylum seekers Claudineia Ferreira Rodrigues Moraes, 40, and her husband Adriano moraes da Silva, 43, from Brazil (left) and Sandra Estefania Lema Guaraca, 20, with her 3-year-old son Derick from Ecuador, prays with Co-pastor Hector Ramirez after they were released by ICE at Iglesia Cristiana El Buen Pastor Church in Mesa, Arizona.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)

The risein migrant families from other continents arriving at local shelters may show that while the Trump administration has effectively closed the door on migrant families from Central America, it remains open for others, saidCapps at the Migration Policy Institute.

"Over time, people from all over the world are learning that the U.S. system has a hole in it when it comes to families seeking asylum," Capps said.

The Trump administration has essentially "plugged"that holefor Central Americans through policies thatnow requireCentral Americans to wait in Mexico for asylum hearings in the U.S.

The U.S. has pressuredMexico to stop Central American migrantsfrom reaching the U.S.

Additionally, the U.S. has recentlysigned agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras that require asylum-seekers who pass through to apply in thosecountries first.

"But it hasnt been plugged for the extra-continentals, for the non-Spanish speakers," Cappssaid.

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On Tuesday, Oct. 29, immigration authorities dropped off four families at Iglesia Cristiana Buen Pastor, a small Hispanic church in Mesa.

Three of the families were not out of the ordinary. They includeda mother and her 2-year-oldson from Chiapas, Mexico, a couple and their 6-year-old daughter from Morelos, Mexico,and a couple and their 4-year-old sonfrom Brazil.

But the fourth family, a mother and her 17-year-old sonstood out. They camefrom China, and spoke only a few words of English.

Zhu Yanying, the 41-year-old mother, her hair cut short, wore ana orangepuffy jacket. She had a GPS monitoring device placed on one ankle by immigration authorities before her release to track her whereabouts.

She told a Chinese-speaking reporter that she and her son, Zou Ling Jie, were fleeing religious persecution in Fujian, a provincein China.

She said she decided to bring her son to the U.S. to ask for asylum after she was jailed for 14 days by the policebecause of her religious views.

Volunteer members help asylum seekers Zhu Yanying, 41, and her son Zou Ling Jie, 17, from China. They were released by ICE at Iglesia Cristiana El Buen Pastor Church in Mesa, Arizona. Co-pastor Cecilia Ramirez, arranged for food, shelter and their final destination.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)

She said she and her son had plane tickets for a 3:30 p.m. flight from Phoenix toNew York City, where a relative lives. The tickets were bought for them by relatives in New York.

After eating breakfast at tables volunteers had set up for the families outside in a patio, Yanying and her son went into the church kitchen to figure out how they were going to get to the airport.

To communicate, volunteers spoke into their phones in English and Spanish, using an app to translate their words into Chinese, and then back again into English or Spanish.

"Sarah, one of our volunteers, is going to take you to the airport at 1:30 because you need to be at the airport two hours before your flight," Renata Garza Irving, one of the church volunteers, told them through the phone app.

Two weeks earlier, immigration authorities released a family from India at the same church:Surjit Singh, 39, his wife, Parmit Kaur, 35, and their 11-year-old son, Sukhvir.

Singh and his sonwore turbans on their heads, which identified them as Sikhs, a religious minorityin India.

Singh told a Punjabi-speaking reporter that hisfamilycamefrom Punjab, where the majority of the population are Sikhs.

Sukhvir Singh, age 12 and part of a Sikh family from India, arrives with his parents at Iglesia Cristiana El Buen Pastor Church in Mesa.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)

He said it took the familytwo months to reach the U.S. They first flew from India to Dubai, then to Paris and then to Ecuador. From Ecuador, Singh said the familyflew to Cancun, a resort city in southern Mexico, and then traveled by bus to the southern border of the U.S.

Singh said the family was on their way to the Los Angeles area, where Singh said a nephewlived. Southern California is home to one of the largestSikh Indian populations in the U.S.

When the reporter asked Singh how much the trip had cost them, he turned and walked away. Singhrefused to answer any more questions.

The Indian family did not stay at the church long. Theyatea vegetarian lunch served by volunteers,tookshowersand picked out a few items ofclothing from a room with racks full of donated items, then hopped in a cab to drive them from Phoenix to California.

Before the familyleft, Singh told one of the church volunteers, "Youare so generous, I will never forget your help."

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Arizona Republic reporter Alison Steinbach and photographer Nick Oza contributed to this article.

Reach the reporter at daniel.gonzalez@arizonarepublic.com or at 602-444-8312. Follow him on Twitter @azdangonzalez.

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London-based public intellectual Douglas Murray is in Montreal this week to promote his new book. I was afforded the luxury of a rambling conversation over coffee with him about The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity.

A clubbable conservative, as one reviewer accurately describes him, Murray hit his intellectual stride early, publishing his first book at 18, which attracted the attention and mentorship of polemical giants Christopher Hitchens and Roger Scruton. Quite different in personality from Jordan Peterson (less intensity, more suavity), hes equally erudite and similarly crowd-pleasing (theyve done joint appearances in the U.K., attracting massive audiences).

Murray shot to international celebrity with his powerful, if depressing 2017 book, The Strange Death of Europe, which opens with the words, Europe is committing suicide. Or at least its leaders have decided to commit suicide. Joining frontline reports from unpleasant way stations in the 2015 migrant crisis to insightful analysis of the Wests present malaise, Murray painted a gloomy picture of continental passivity in the face of momentous cultural change.

Europe is committing suicide. Or at least its leaders have decided to commit suicide

Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe

In The Madness of Crowds, also inspired by the Wests loss of a grand narrative, Murray applies his formidable exegetical skills to the proliferation of identity politics tripwires that corrode civic life and wreak havoc with individual lives.

Murray writes: The interpretation of the world through the lens of social justice, identity group politics and intersectionalism is probably the most audacious and comprehensive effort since the Cold War at creating a new ideology. Christianity has been spurned, but the religious impulse is inherent and abhors a vacuum. The religion of social justice, Murray observes, poured itself into the handy campus vessel of Marxism with remarkable speed.

One of the hallmarks of Marxism not a bug, but a feature is its ruthlessness. I was particularly struck by Murrays quite poignant chapter, On Forgiveness. Normal religions offer redemption to sinners. But there is no forgiveness or statute of limitations for thoughtcrimes in the religion of social justice. A mural of Rudyard Kiplings If voted Britains favourite poem was painted over at the University of Manchester in retroactive punishment for Kiplings now politically incorrect views on empire. The past, Murray says, is hostage like everything else to any archeologist with a vendetta.

The past, Murray says, is 'hostage like everything else to any archeologist with a vendetta'

This new religion gives permission to those of oppressed status women, people of colour, indigenous peoples, LGBTQ to hate their oppressors: heterosexual white men, racists, transphobics. (Gay himself, Murray refuses to play the LGBTQ card as the sole, or even most important marker of his humanity.) For many unlucky people, a silly joke tweeted, an incorrect opinion on Facebook or an inadvertently touched knee can be the kiss of death to career and reputation. Murray provides plenty of examples of good people cut down without mercy indeed with unseemly relish by relentlessly vigilant activists.

Toby Young, for example, once divided his time between journalism and the New Schools Network, where he worked to help disadvantaged children get a better education. Long story short, a few naughty references to boobs on Twitter, excavated by the usual suspects, lost him a government appointment and all his writing gigs in a fusillade of opprobrium. Too good a mind to waste, Young is now the U.K. editor of Quillette magazine, a platform for heterodox ideas, ironically one of several excellent magazines that have sprung up in a polemical resistance movement to cancel culture.

In fact, Murray muses during our chat, Its a good time for someone whos got an appetite for writing. If they think writing is a way to pursue truth this is a great time. We live in an incredibly target-rich environment.

I asked Murray if he followed news of Canadas more egregious cancel-culture incidents. Yes, very much so. And he had some trenchant words of advice for us.

Canada doesnt look good (internationally) at the moment. Its repeatedly throwing up more hostile battles in this area than your population size would demand. In Canada it looks from outside like theres an adult deficit. A serious lack of adults.

Who the hell had ever heard of Wilfrid Laurier University before? This is a third-rate university by Canadian, let alone international standards. Now everyone knows of Wilfrid Laurier because of the lack of adults on the campus, and the fact they were bullying (Lindsay Shepherd).

This doesnt look like social justice. This looks like mob activism against women

What does the Meghan Murphy (story) look like to outsiders? It looks like trans activists hate women hate them cant bear them find women disgusting. Thats what we see going on. We see people born women being bullied. This doesnt look like social justice. This looks like mob activism against women. Can Canada protect women? Is Canada interested in protecting women? These would be good questions to ask of your own society.

In The Madness of Crowds, Murray cuts through the doubt-sowing incoherence of social-justice babble to say eloquently what 95 per cent of us believe, but have been made fearful to say aloud. Read it. And welcome to the Resistance.

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Clutching her entrance badge to see the Pope, Vietnamese Catholic refugee Ko Sa says attending the pontiff's mass this week is a great honour -- a rare bright spot in her "miserable" life in limbo as an asylum seeker in Bangkok.

Ko Sa is one of just a handful of Vietnamese Catholic refugees registered to attend the mass by Pope Francis, who arrives in Thailand on Wednesday carrying a message of peace and religious tolerance.

The four-day jaunt is the Pope's first trip to Thailand, where about 1,400 Vietnamese Christians and ethnic minorities have settled, many fearing religious persecution in communist Vietnam.

Like Ko Sa, they are unable to legally settle in Thailand since the government has not signed on to UN conventions protecting refugees.

Many live in fear of arrest and long detention in immigration centres while they scrape by on under-the-table jobs for a few dollars a day. Some wait years for resettlement in a third country.

The chance to glimpse the Pope at the Thursday mass is a welcome respite.

"It's difficult to describe the feeling... It is a great honour for us to see him," said 34-year-old Ko Sa, sitting on a mattress on the floor of a rented house where she lives with eight other people.

Her UN refugee ID does not shield her from police, and she has had to move several times to avoid immigration crackdowns.

Though she's now fully free to practise her religion, she worries about the future.

"When I think of how miserable my life is here I just cry," added Ko Sa, who works as a cleaner for $5 a day.

- 'Forgotten people' -

She arrived in Thailand seven years ago, hiding in a truck to cross the Cambodian border during a three-day journey.

She fled Vietnam after she was accused of helping hide a relative who got caught up with police.

As a Catholic and a member of the vulnerable K'Ho ethnic minority, she feared repercussions from authorities in the one-party state where religion is tightly controlled.

The US State Department lists Vietnam as a "country of particular concern" on its religious freedom index, accusing the government of targeting people because of their beliefs or religious freedom advocacy.

Some prominent activists are Catholic -- a denomination comprising seven percent of the population -- and the communist government has long had an uneasy relationship with organised religion.

Today all religions in Buddhist-majority Vietnam are controlled by the state and any practitioners operating without official registration could face jail time.

Vietnam broke off official ties with the Vatican in 1975, but relations have eased in recent years.

It is not clear if the Pope will address Vietnam's Catholics this week, though his trip is raising hopes he could speak about the plight of refugees as he has since the migrant crisis of 2015.

"This pope in particular also wants to encourage the awareness of the people who are forgotten, like refugees," said Puttipong Puttansri, a Thai historian of the Catholic Church.

- 'I can't sleep' -

Any mention of refugees would be a boon for Chu Manh Son, a Vietnamese Catholic activist living in Thailand since 2017.

He was among many Catholics who voiced anger over a 2016 toxic spill by a Taiwanese steel firm that killed tonnes of fish and decimated livelihoods.

Son says he was imprisoned, beaten and forbidden from travelling for speaking out on the environmental disaster.

He and his wife paid traffickers $600 to sneak them through the jungle where they at one point ran out of food and ate plants.

They eventually made it to Bangkok where they attended a local church frequented by migrant labourers.

Like Ko Sa, he used his UN refugee agency card as ID when parishes announced registration for the pontiff's visit.

While he knows venturing out can be risky, his spirits were lifted when he saw his name on the list.

"It also strengthens my faith," he said, adding that he would ask the Pope to "pray for refugees".

Francis will hold two masses and meet with the Catholic community and top officials before jetting on Saturday to Japan, where he will visit Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the sites of the world's only atomic attacks.

Some 50,000 people from Thailand and all over Southeast Asia are signed up for the Pope's first mass on November 21 in Bangkok.

Ko Sa is attending with two relatives, one of whom is her niece Lo Mu, who made the journey to Thailand with her.

"Knowing that I'm going to see him, I can't sleep," Lo Mu said.

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Middle Eastern migrants continue to flood into Greece from Turkey, with an additional 427 arriving in just twenty-four hours, according to new reports.

This marks the newest round of mass arrivals in a summer which has seen thousands upon thousands of illegal migrants make their way to Greece from Turkey.

According to areportfrom HLN, within just one day, 427 illegal migrants reached the Greek islands of Rhodes, Lesbos, and Samos in the eastern region of the Aegean Sea on Thursday morning.

The fresh arrivals come as migrant reception camps on the Greek islands are already overflowing. The reception centers, designed to house close to 6,300 migrants, are now housing more than 20,000. 4,000 additional migrants are said to be housed at smaller camps, warehouses, and apartments.

Things have gotten so bad that the head of the Moria migrant reception center on Lesbos, Giannis Balbakakis, has resigned.

A couple of weeks earlier, close to 1,500 migrants had to be moved from the Moria reception center to migrant facilities in Thessaloniki due to overcrowding,Athens News Agencyreports.

In late August, around 600 migrants landed in Skala Sikamias in Lesbos. This represented thelargest number of migrant arrivalsin a single day since the EU-Turkey agreement was signed.

In August, Greece saw close to 7,000 migrants arrive by boat, thehighest number since 2016.

In2019 alone, its believed that 34,000 migrants have arrived in Greece, again the highest number since the height of the migrant crisis in 2016.

Earlier this month,Turkeys President Erdogan threatened to open the gates to allow Syrian migrants to leave Turkey for European countries unless a safe zone inside war-torn Syria is established very soon.

Weeks before that, Turkish Interior Minister Sleyman Soylu said: We are facing the biggest wave of migration in history. If we open the floodgates,no European government will be able to survivefor more than six months. We advise them not to try our patience.

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Migrant crisis is the intense difficulty, trouble, or danger situation in the receiving state (destination country) due to the movements of large groups of immigrants (displaced people, refugee or asylum seeker) escaping from the conditions (natural or artificially created) which negatively affected their situation (security, economic, political or societal) at the country of origin (departure). The crisis situation is not the refugee numbers (number of migrants seeking protection) but the systems failure to respond in a orderly way in the governments legal obligations.[1] Some notable crisis are; European migrant crisis, English Channel migrant crisis and World War II evacuation and expulsion.

Refugee crisis refer to movements of "large" groups of displaced people which may or may not involve a migrant crisis. USA governments legal obligations inadvertently created 2014 American immigration crisis. Crisis developed because of unaccompanied children[2] who does not have a legal guardian to provide physical custody (USA ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child) and care quickly overwhelmed the "local border patrols" creating a migrant crisis.[3] Push-Pull view: The "refugee crisis" is a humanitarian one for those adopting the "Push" factors as main cause, while they acknowledge that reasons for migration may be mixed, even the refugees as weapons. For those focusing on "Pull" factors, the "migration crisis" has its roots in border enforcement policies (Immigration system) that were perceived as not sufficiently strict (family separation policy), severe (Operation Streamline), or careful (catch & release) by potential migrants.[4] Compared to refugee crisis (refugee is a refugee), migrant crises also have a separate or distinguish between the deserving refugee from the undeserving migrant and play into fear of cultural, religious, and ethnic difference in the midst of increasing intense, excessive, and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations and lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare for many in Europe (such in closure of Green Borders).[5]

"Migrant crisis management" involves dealing with issues ("immigration system", "resource management", etc) before, during, and after they have occurred. This is an area which Global Crisis Centre of PricewaterhouseCoopers works by developing outlines on roles, opportunities and challenges faced by governments and private sector actors in addressing migration crisis through the 'push' and 'pull' factors that influence migration.[6] According to Global Crisis Centre, migrant crisis management is shaped using the definitions and responsibilities outlined in the UNs Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and subsequent Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees and international solidarity and burden-sharing with collaboration, communication and information dissemination, which are absolutely necessary for solving migratory issues of the world.[7]

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"Transboundary crisis management" (migration is transboundary) involves co-decision, shared procedures and collective instruments in aligened with the steps below:[9]

Management of the crisis shows succession of four scenarios.[10]

Institution that works in this area is the Migration Policy Institute. Global Crisis Centre of PricewaterhouseCoopers works on migrant crisis management.

Broken immigration system (Crisis) is what immigration experts and lawyers refer to as failure in management of "push and pull factors." Push forces for the displaced people are summarized as running from horrors and poverty in the departure country toward a broken immigration system in the receiving states. Pull forces are receiving states having a functioning economy, the safer-faster journey with the help of communication technology (organize and warn) and established smuggler networks which has safer-faster ways to move people. For a full description Human migration#Lee. The condition of refugee or asylum seekers in receiving countries, from the perspective of governments, employers, and citizens, is a topic of continual debate (debate on migrant crises), and on the other end, the violation of migrant human rights is an ongoing crisis.[11]

According to Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International,

It is within world leaders power to prevent these crises from spiralling further out of control. Governments must halt their assault on our rights and strengthen the defences the world has put in place to protect them. Human rights are a necessity, not an accessory; and the stakes for humankind have never been higher.

Immigration reform is the solution to "Migrant crisis" through implementing procedure or protocols to manage push and pull factors.

Broken resource management toward the immigrants is part of the inability to develop efficient responses to people in need, causing crisis. The asylum offices in USA, United Kingdom and Australia manages the immigration services.

During 2014 American immigration crisis, immigration courts as well as the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) asylum system are completely under-resourced and confronting an unmanageable caseload.[1] In June, 2019 (five years into crisis), more than 350 "unaccompanied children" have been removed from a holding facility in Texas to bring it into compliance as designed to hold around 120.[12]

Resource management towards the immigrants in USA includes "private sector" involvement as listed in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Law mandates that all companies must help the federal government. Specific immigration areas where human resource managers must ensure compliance by meeting the legal requirements of this immigration reform regulation by incorporating the Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) Form I-9 into their hiring processes.

Another case for resource management for migrant crisis is the Trump wall, which is a colloquial name for President Trump's solution to immigration. President Trump signed Executive Order 13767, which formally directed the US government to begin attempting wall construction. Executive Order 13767 followed with the 2018 federal government shutdown because of presidential veto on any spending bill that did not include "resource" on wall funding. In February 2019, Trump signed a Declaration of National Emergency, saying situation is a "crisis," officially declaring a "Migrant Crisis" in the MexicoUnited States border.

The financial burden of crises: Germany allocated roughly 10 billion Euros for the cost of refugee care and acceptance in 2015.[13] On the other hand Greece was exempt to pay from EU-wide refugee sharing initiatives between 2013 and 2015.

Resource management toward the immigrants in UK managed under National Asylum Support Service (NASS) which is tasked with the responsibility for regulating entry to, and settlement in the interests of sustainable growth and social inclusion.[14] NASS is a section of the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) division of the Home Office which support "otherwise be destitute." Provision of accommodation is part of the process.

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