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Refugees and Migrants aboard fishing boat driven by smugglers reach the coast of Europe after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey (Photo: Jim Forest)

On World Refugee Day, June 17 in Naples and June 18 in Caserta, the migrant and refugee movement of Naples and Caserta, together with organizations struggling for dignity and rights for migrants, will take to the streets demanding peace, social justice and the regularization of undocumented people.

We will present concrete proposals to the immigration offices of Naples and Caserta, to the regional government and to the Ministry of the Interior, the organizers state. Its about improving the lives of both migrants who have lived in these territories for years, and those who have just arrived.

Organizations building the two-day mobilization arranged assemblies and meetings in the fields where migrants are exploited in the agricultural industry, and in the Extraordinary Reception Centers, which are collective shelters in which refugees are forced to live.

Growing poverty, widespread precariousness, increasing layoffs and the institutional racism to which migrant people are exposed, are demanding for a popular and determined response, declare the organizers of the mobilization.

World Refugee Day has special significance this year. The escalation of the war in Ukraine has introduced the possibility of a new World War. The militarization of the conflict is producing even more deaths and refugees. Since the beginning of the conflict, more than 6.6 million have fled. Meanwhile, refugees from other conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan, and Ethiopia are treated far worse by Western media than Ukrainian refugees, in a hypocritical and racist double standard.

The pandemic has created an economic crisis which has worsened living conditions. The most affected are migrants, who continue to work and run the economy in the midst of the lockdowns. At the same time, migrants were the last to have access to the vaccine and are now the first to lose their jobs and residence permits.

Institutional racism has a concrete effect in the everyday lives of migrants and refugees. Long waiting times at immigration offices, the impossibility of renewing documents often due to illegitimate requests by institutions create the perfect conditions for blackmail and labor exploitation.

In August 2020, the governments regularization program was introduced supposedly to solve these problems, but according to the organizers, two years after its introduction, the program has ended up as an empty promise. In summer 2020, over 200,000 requests were passed in to the immigration offices, two years later, over 110,000 migrants are still waiting for their papers, organizers explain. Only an urgent administrative intervention can guarantee that they can emerge from irregularity and restore dignity and justice to those who live and work in Italy. That is the reason why we will take to the streets for World Refugee Day.

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Emily Thornberry has been slamming the Government's scheme over its efficacy, insisting moving illegal migrants to Rwanda for processing and resettling would not solve the issue. The Shadow Attorney-General was questioned on how the Labour Party would then address the problem of illegal immigration after she once again criticised the current Government strategy. Speaking to Good Morning Britain, Ms Thornberry said Labour would simply resume its cooperation with France despite years of clashes with Paris over the handling of boats leaving the French coast to cross the Channel into England.

London has been at loggerheads with the Elysee for years, claiming the French Government has failed to respect pacts on stopping departures despite the UK forking out millions for the help.

GMB presenter Adil Ray said: "What would Labour do to sort out what is described as a migrant crisis of people coming on boats from Calais? What would Labour do to stop that?"

Ms Thornberry said: "The first thing we'd do is work with the French.

"We'd work with the French in how it is we challenge these criminal gangs that are putting people onto boats.

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"We would work with the French Priti Patel has not relationship with the French, as far as I can see. She's not able to work with them.

"And we would also be looking upstream on how people get to the situation in which they do, we need to be able to work with that."

The Labour frontbencher continued: "We would also need to be making much more timely decisions about asylum.

"I had somebody come to my office a couple of days ago who had fled the war in Eritrea with his wife and two children, he's been here since 2018, he's been waiting four years for a decision to be made on whether he's not claiming asylum rightly and he's had no decision made.

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Business minister Paul Scully has defended Boris Johnson claiming that lawyers attempting to block theRwandascheme are "abetting" criminal gangs, agreeing this would be the "net result" of their work.

When asked about lawyers receiving death threats following the Prime Minister's comment, Mr Scully told Times Radio: "I don't recognise the link between the two to be fair.

"Because I think in terms of the situation inRwandathere has always been a number of lines of appeals to block and to divert removals in any given situation - not just inRwanda, but we've seen in other countries as well.

"We want to put in a robust system that actually works because people time and time again at the ballot box have always said that mass migration in this way needs to be tackled.

"We feel that we've done it in a fair way and in a reasonable way, and no court as yet has ruled thatRwandadeal unlawful."

When asked whether the Prime Minister's comment was appropriate, Mr Scully said: "I think the net result is that if we are blocking measures to tackle the situation in the Channel, then invariably, human traffickers will continue to apply their hideous trade and push people onto small dinghies and risking their lives."

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The United States is experiencing the highest inflation in 40 years. One of the few causes that has dominoed into hikes in inflation is the decrease in migrant labor in the U.S.

According to a source from Fortune Magazine, there are 2 million fewer immigrant laborers in the United States.

These 2 million missing immigrants are part of the reason we have a labor shortage, shares Giovanni Peri, an economist at the University of California, Davis.

Peri notes, too, that consumers will meet these labor shortages by paying higher prices for goods. Peri predicts that we will see an increase in wages to attract folks to traditionally low-paying, high-laborious jobs.

For every 100 immigrant workers in the U.S, there are 2.7 immigrants employed in agriculture, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is more than double the amount of people in agriculture that are native born. And the numbers have decreased as a result of COVID-19 and increased immigration policies.

Its an unfortunate outcome, in and out of our control as a country. I say out of our control because the last two years of COVID has alerted the country to invasive antigens and variants from people coming into the country. The U.S. has put in extensive measures to prevent immigrants from entering the country and, almost over a year later, adding new expectations for testing to be allowed in. This has slowed the labor force and brought the number of laborers down hundreds of thousands of people.

Whats in our control? Policies that allow immigrant laborers to work in the country.

This decline [in immigrant labor] reflects both tougher immigration policies and the pandemic which reduced legal immigration and caused some recent immigrants to return to their native countries, David Kelly, chief global strategist at JPMorgan Funds.

President Joe Biden addressed the lack of incentive for immigrant workers to jump back into the U.S. labor force in his May 31, 2022, statement:

My Administration is committed to ensuring that our immigration system is accessible and humane. I have called on the Congress to pass long-overdue legislation to comprehensively reform our immigration system. Through multiple Executive Orders, I have also directed agencies across the Federal Government to remove barriers that improperly impede access to immigration benefits and to assure fair and timely adjudication of those benefits.

The White House can look into increasing benefits for immigrants seeking work in the U.S., and we can increase wages but does that really solve the issue?

There is still a decrease in birth rates in the U.S., which will lead to a huge fight between industries to secure laborers native or immigrant in the future. Most laborious fields, like agriculture, rarely see a growth in employee numbers with an increase in wages as the task is still daunting for many native workers. And many jobs require more than a high school diploma, but the cost of attending school is egregiously high.

The U.S, especially industries like agriculture that are very laborious, has two paths forward. One, partially or fully atomizing the industry. Two, lobbying alongside immigrant labor unions to amend immigration policies and immigrant labor policies that allow easier access to our country and the hundreds of thousands of jobs that are going unfilled; stalling our national supply of goods across industries (such as textile, food, etc.).

So, what are those immigration policies halting immigration labor and amnesty?

The entirety of the policies arent the issue. In fact, policies such as the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of 1952 or the clause within the act speaking specifically to special agriculture workers have taken many years and many edits to arrive where the legislation stands today. However, there are still places within the legislation that can be amended to allow easier access to our country and its labor to help us as a nation get back on track and to see more of our prices at the store decrease.

As everyday citizens, consumers, and/or agriculturalists, we can engage in this work. We dont need to be the people in the game, shuffling through legislatures offices and having meetings. We can support, monetarily or in our own meetings with lobbying organizations, to share our perspectives either for or against some immigration policies. Why? This because conversations around these issues from all our varying perspectives is what will springboard us all to a more inclusive, equitable, and positive space. It takes all kinds of kinds in an argument or an issue to arrive at a better tomorrow.

Where will you be in these next few months to help resolve the growing labor shortage in our country that is contributing to a rise in inflation? Is there something we can be doing, rather than watching as the price for goods rises? Where do we fall in the challenges that a decrease in labor has caused our country?

Bre Holbert is a past National FFA President and studies agriculture science and education at California State-Chico. Two ears to listen is better than one mouth to speak. Two ears allow us to affirm more people, rather than letting our mouth loose to damage peoples story by speaking on behalf of others.

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Danish Red Cross is looking for a consultant to conduct a feasibility assessment to explore the potential to integrate NCD interventions into existing interventions in Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia with a focus on areas such as disaster preparedness and response, health, resilience, mental health and psychosocial support and migrant/refugee projects.

Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases, diabetes and mental health conditions currently represent the fastest growing disease burden in Africa adding to the existing high burden of communicable diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS[1]. It is estimated that 34% of all deaths in Africa are caused by NCDs (WHO 2015). By 2030, NCDs will be the leading cause of death in Sub-Saharan Africa increasing from 28 to 46 percent of the total disease burden. In the Eastern African countries of Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, South Sudan and Uganda, 40% of all deaths on average are attributable to NCDs. Most of these deaths occur when people are in the productive age, causing economic hardship to families and countries. Furthermore, every year 703 000people take their own life and there are many more people who attempt suicide. Every suicide is a tragedy that affects families, communities and entire countries and has long-lasting effects on the people left behind. Suicide occurs throughout the lifespan and was the fourth leading cause of death among 1529-year-olds globally in 2019. (WHO, 2021) In the Sub Saharan African, Cases of suicide and other Mental Health conditions have been on the rise and have become a major of grave concern.

Migrants, refugees and internally displaced people (IDP) may face additional risks as they often do lack or have limited access to basic services including health and NCD care. It is estimated that East Africa and the Great Lakes Region currently hosts more than 4.7 million refugees and asylum seekers with almost 4 million residing in Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan (2021).2 The region thus hosts some 67 percent of the refugees on the African continent and 20 percent of the global refugee population. The largest number come from South Sudan, with significant arrivals from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan. Most governments have generally continued to maintain open-door asylum policies by adopting progressive national refugee frameworks and promoting the inclusion of refugees into national health, education, and social protection/security systems.

Disasters, particularly those associated with weather related hazards such as floods, storms and drought triggered 2.6 million new displacements during the year(2018). Conflict and disaster events caused by climate change in 2019 suggest that the number of displacements is likely to continue rising. Risks and vulnerabilities linked to disasters and conflict, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic-, have highlighted the importance of addressing health risks holistically while integrating comprehensive NCD care, both in humanitarian response and in efforts to strengthen health systems and reduce risks especially in contexts affected by crisis and disaster. There is an urgent need to ensure continuity of NCD care for vulnerable and marginalized crisis-affected populations without access to NCD care in Africa.

The Danish Red Cross with funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, plans to implement a project that seeks to replicate NCD project experiences from Kenya and integrate them into relevant NCD interventions into DRC supported programmes in the East and Horn of Africa, including Ethiopia RC (ERCS) South Sudan RC (SSRC), Sudan RC (SRCS) and Somalia RC (SRCS). The unique access and mandate of RC/RC National Societies to provide lifesaving assistance to migrant and displaced populations and health care and MHPSS in emergencies will form the basis for integration, but the specific target groups and interventions will depend on needs and opportunities in the country contexts selected.

Based on the feasibility assessment conducted, this project will support the four countries in the East and Horn of Africa in planning, designing and integrating NCD activities into ongoing DRC supported programs. This will entail providing technical support, capacity building of staff and the National Society as well as resources for implementation of pilot interventions for 1-2 years. As part of the evaluation, DRC will support the development of case studies of the pilots, which will feed into the documentation and learning objectives of the projects.

The assignment will entail compilation and desk review of existing documents and information about existing services for the target group, review of real time programme data from health facilities, and review of programme documents from Sudan Red Crescent, South Sudan Red Cross, Ethiopia Red Cross and Somalia Red Crescent on services offered so far on the ongoing Health facilities and other relevant documents. The desk review will focus on Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia health care systems and access to NCD care and MHPSS services in these Countries. More data and information will be collected from Focus group discussions, Key Informant interviews and Household/ Individual questionnaires.

We expect that you apply as a firm or as team of consultants with the following areas of Expertise: Public Health with additional training/experience in NCD management, Counselling Psychology and Social Science with additional training/experience in Migration/ population movement/displacements. The team should also have relevant knowledge about the African region. Be familiar with the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. Full proficiency in English is a requirement for this consultancy.

The consultancy is expected to take place in July and August 2022.

[1] Fighting non-communicable diseases in East Africa: assessing progress and identifying the next steps | BMJ Global Health

You can apply through this link: Rde Kors - Consultant for Continuity in Crisis - Ensuring continuity of NCD care for crisis-affected populations in East Africa Feasibility Assessment (easycruit.com)

Please reach out to Sylvia Khamati Anekha, sykma@rodekors.dk, if you need more information about the consultancy.

Application deadline is 15th July 2022.

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June 17, 2022 | Austin, Texas | Press Release

Governor Greg Abbott, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), and the Texas National Guard are continuing to work together to secure the border, stop the smuggling of drugs, weapons, and people into Texas, and prevent, detect, and interdict transnational criminal behavior between ports of entry.

Since the launch of Operation Lone Star, the multi-agency effort has led to more than 263,900 migrant apprehensions and more than 16,240 criminal arrests, with more than 13,500 felony charges reported. More than 5,400 weapons and over $41.5 million in currency have been seized.

Operation Lone Star continues to fill the dangerous gaps left by the Biden Administration's refusal to secure the border. Every individual who is apprehended or arrested and every ounce of drugs seized would have otherwise made their way into communities across Texas and the nation due to President Biden's open border policies.

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS FROM OPERATION LONE STAR:

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When Mexico last week granted federal humanitarian travel permits to 15,000 U.S.-bound third-country migrants whodformed the largest caravanin Mexican history, most planned to head straight to the border to cross illegally into the Texas towns of Del Rio and Eagle Pass, writes Todd Bensman with the Center for Immigration Studies. Few, if any, of those thousands are finding their way over the Rio Grande into the Border Patrols Del Rio Sector. Mexican state police areblocking northbound commercial busesat the bus station in the Coahuila state capital of Saltillo, and at many other stations, and emptying migrants from trucks and vans at checkpoints on all roads leading into that states border cities of Piedras Negras, across from Eagle Pass, and Acuna, across from Del Rio, according toMexican press reporting.

The Mexican state police response comes after Governor Abbott reminded Coahuila Governor Miguel Angel Solis of his security obligations under the memorandum of understanding the governors signed in April.

WATCH: National Guard, DPS Perform Mass-Migration Exercise Along Texas-Mexico Border

Texas Army National Guard soldiers and DPS state troopers rehearsed mass-migration response capabilities on Saturday, June 11. The soldiers and state troopers are able to rapidly respond to incidents of mass migration at any point along the Texas-Mexico border.

WATCH: Texas National Guard Soldiers Establish Command-And-Control Post To Prepare For Mass Migrations

Last Saturday, a command-and-control post was established by the Texas National Guard at the Anzalduas International Bridge in preparation for a mass-migration response. The post will allow effective coordination of partner agencies on the ground by directing joint and multi-agency operations during a mass-migration event.

So long as there is a threat that exists here, our job is to remain proficient, competent, capable, and ready to respond, day or night, said MAJ Jason Cordaway, Task Force East Commanding Officer.

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DPS Lieutenant Christopher Olivarez gives a border tour to Fox News Rachel Campos-Duffy to shed light on the ongoing crisis along the Texas-Mexico border. Campos-Duffy and Lt. Olivarez view groups of migrants along the Rio Grande in a helicopter tour, followed by interviews with interdicted migrants.

Texas National Guard Seize Transnationally Trafficked Narcotics

Texas Army National Guard soldiers assisted law enforcement in seizing transnationally trafficked narcotics. The guardsmen detected a group of men illegally crossing the Texas-Mexico border and interdicted the group, who dropped the packages of narcotics and fled the scene. The narcotics were seized by law enforcement as the men returned to the Mexico side of the border.

VIDEO: High-Speed Pursuit Through Multiple Counties Leads To Arrest Of Smuggler

DPS engaged in a high-speed pursuit of a smuggler through several counties. The smuggler eventually came to a stop and was charged with the smuggling of persons and evading arrest.

Criminal Trespassers Apprehended By National Guard Soldiers, DPS On Privately Owned Ranch

Texas Army National Guard soldiers assisted DPS state troopers in apprehending a group of illegal migrants last week. The illegal migrants were spotted by federal agencies, which called the soldiers and state troopers to track the group within a large stretch of privately owned ranch land. The Guard notes it is common for illegal migrants to avoid detection by border patrol agents by trespassing into ranch lands on foot.

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A traffic stop by DPS troopers on a passenger car resulted in the arrest of the driver for the smuggling of persons. All of the illegal migrants were referred to the U.S. Border Patrol.

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