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On Monday, a record 1,295 refugees arrived on Englands south coast after crossing the Channel in 27 small boats.

It was the highest daily total since records began, and prompted familiar comments from the Home Office, who said the numbers were unacceptable and it was all the people smugglers fault. In truth, however, the Government is now compelled by its own figures to admit that its asylum policies, which promised to deter refugees from crossing the Channel, have failed.

But it is not just a question of failure. Refugees sent to Rwanda could be forced to join the countrys army and sent to fight in neighbouring states, it was revealed in court disclosures last month. Despite this, Tory leadership hopefuls Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have doubled down on the plan because it is popular among Conservative Party members.

To promise to send refugees to a foreign country with a poor human rights record would be grotesque under any circumstances; but in this case it is all the worse because the evidence shows Channel crossings will continue regardless. The Governments policies may in fact be persuading more people to make the Channel crossing.

We know that the Rwanda plan is not a deterrent, because since it was announced, small boat crossings have reached this record high. But Care4Calais has its own evidence from refugees in northern France, too. From 1-7 August, our volunteers surveyed 270 refugees in Calais and Dunkirk camps. We found that 61 per cent of refugees were aware of the Rwanda policy, but the vast majority of them 85 per cent said it would not stop them trying to claim asylum in the UK. Some 89 per cent per cent said they wouldnt consider trying another country in Europe. And crucially, 84 per cent said that the Rwanda policy wouldnt have stopped them leaving their own country if they had known about it before setting off.

The great deterrent will not work because of another policy ministers rarely mention in public. All official asylum claim routes for refugees, such as those in northern France, have now been shut off by the UK Government. Fewer than one per cent of refugees are eligible for official schemes. That causes the crisis we now see, with people driven into the hands of people smugglers and record numbers of terrified people risking their lives on the cold, dark water of the English Channel.

UK government policy is driving up the numbers they claim to be so intent on reducing. Desperate refugees do not have any meaningful choices. They are victims of the very worst tragedies; they have seen their families killed in conflicts; they have been tortured and abused by tyrants; and they have survived horrendous journeys. These refugees are desperately seeking safety. In most cases, they are trying to reach the UK because they have family and friends here who can shelter them.

It can seem a hopeless situation. But there is a fairly simple solution. Of the 20,000 people who have risked everything by crossing the Channel on boats so far this year, not one has been a Ukrainian citizen. Why? Because Ukrainians are given visas for safe passage to the UK.

If Truss or Sunak are serious about stopping dangerous boat journeys and breaking the smugglers business model, the answer is clear: offer refugees from other countries a process like the scheme for Ukraine. Screen them in Europe and provide visas for safe travel to those with a viable asylum claim. They can then get to the UK and claim asylum on arrival without risking their lives. This would put people smugglers out of business and end the chaos on the Channel.

The winner of the Conservative leadership contest will be announced on 5 September the same day our joint court action against the Rwanda policy returns to the High Court. If the next Prime Minister wishes to solve the problem that has bedeviled the Government for more than a decade, they should heed mounting evidence and abandon the Rwanda plan as soon as they enter 10 Downing Street.

Their immediate priorities should be delivering a workable solution to the Channel crossing with visas for safe passage, alongside tackling the cost-of-living crisis at home.

No one will miss the Rwanda plan. When the crossings end, as they so easily could, everyone will be happy even Conservative Party members.

Clare Moseley is the founder of refugee charity Care4Calais

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Weary of Venezuela's autocratic government and the pittance he earned in the military, Dario Maldonado deserted and fled with his family to neighboring Colombia.

But life remained hard money was tight and expenses mounted. So he set off for the United States, an odyssey that required him to travel by foot through Central American jungle infested with venomous snakes and gun-toting bandits, sometimes sidestepping the corpses of people who died on the same journey.

Now Maldonado and thousands of other asylum seekers from across Latin America and the Caribbean are caught in the political battle over U.S. immigration policy after two Republican governors started sending busloads of migrants to New York City and Washington.

Border cities such as San Diego have long wrestled with influxes of asylum-seekers and created well-oiled machines to respond, but the nation's largest city and its capital were caught flat-footed. That created an opening for Greg Abbott of Texas and Doug Ducey of Arizona to exploit what they consider failed Democratic leadership.

Nearly 8,000 migrants have arrived on the state-sponsored bus trips, straining the resources and humanitarian services of both cities, which have also sought assistance from the federal government.

This can be chaotic. But we want to send a message: Were here to help, and we want to put politics aside, said New York Citys immigration commissioner, Manuel Castro, as he greeted arriving migrants on a recent morning.

Abbott started the practice in April with Washington, and Doug Ducey followed suit in May. Abbott also recently began sending buses to New York.

For migrants, the politics are only dimly understood and far less relevant than finding temporary shelter, jobs and a long-term home in America.

I have heard that the Texas governor is anti-immigrant, Maldonado said outside a New York shelter. It is like a war between the party of the governor of Texas and the party of Biden.

A voluntary consent form for free transportation from Texas tells migrants that Washington is where the president and members of Congress are more immediately able to help address the needs of migrants.

Migrants who sign a consent form for a free trip to New York are told that the city has designated itself a sanctuary for migrants, who are provided with food and shelter.

A new group of asylum seekers arrived in New York City by bus from Texas Friday morning as the city announces a plan to get all the children arriving here to the NYC Schools system. Andrew Siff reports.

U.S. authorities stopped migrants 1.43 million times at the Mexican border from January through July, up 28% from the same period last year. Many are released on humanitarian parole or with notices to appear in immigration court.

The sight of both cities scrambling to cope with the influx drew undisguised schadenfreude from Abbott, who called New York City "the ideal destination for these migrants, who can receive the abundance of city services and housing that Mayor Eric Adams has boasted about within the sanctuary city."

In both cities, social service charities and churches have mobilized to support new arrivals, offering temporary shelter, medical attention and often a ticket to their next destination as they await a date in immigration court.

Many are fleeing persecution and other very severe circumstances. Theyre confused. And we want to make sure that we support them as much as possible and make sure that theyre not being used as political pawns, Castro said.

Mayor Eric Adams for weeks has promised to give shelter and support to every migrant family being bused to NYC from Texas but the I-Team has learned some families seeking asylum are being told they're not eligible. NBC New York's Melissa Russo reports.

On a recent August day, a bus of 41 migrants from Arizona arrived at a church in Washington's Capitol Hill neighborhood, where they were greeted by workers from SAMU First Response, an international relief agency. Within minutes the group was enjoying a hot meal inside the church and filling out arrival forms.

Texas buses arrive haphazardly, said Tatiana Laborde, the agency's managing director. They only hear from charitable groups that a bus carrying a certain number of people has departed. At some point about 48 hours later, that bus drops off riders at Washington's Union Station.

Arizona provides detailed manifests of passengers and their nationalities, coordination on arrival times and has medical personnel aboard each bus.

They dont want to just dump people here," Laborde said.

Many of those who arrive in Washington dont stay long. Mayor Muriel Bowser, in her second request for National Guard support, told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that most migrants stay up to three days before moving on to their final destinations.

"They dont know much about D.C. other than the president is here, Laborde said.

The Pentagon on Mondaydenied the mayor's request for help, saying the use of the National Guard would be inappropriate and would hurt the overall readiness of the troops by forcing some to cancel or disrupt military training.

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Kelin Enriquez, another Venezuelan, was among them. She and and her children first arrived in Washington and later found themselves at a family center in the Bronx to plan the family's next steps.

No one leaves their land because they want to. We want to work. We want a better opportunity, said Enriquez, who helped care for Alzheimers patients in her native country.

Some migrants see a free ticket from the border as the best of bad options. For Eduardo Garcia, the top priorities were finding a job and a place to live and starting life anew.

It was an agonizing journey, even if he hadnt broken his left ankle while trying to keep his wife from falling along the perilous trail. He limped in pain for more than 1,000 miles.

I didnt care because I cared more about getting here, he said.

He told no one about his fractured limb until he arrived in New York, where he got medical attention, a cast and crutches.

The Remain in Mexico policy was enacted, then rescinded, reinstated and ultimately overturned. Political theater and warring parties continued throughout. Heres whats led to the migrant crisis in New York City.

In New York, many of the migrants make their way to the offices of Catholic Charities. Officials in Texas it is unclear who listed the office as the migrants' address, which perplexed church officials at the New York Diocese. The diocese has now received more than 1,300 court notices on behalf of migrants.

I think we were maybe caught off guard, a little bit disappointed by the governments in Texas and Arizona just putting individuals on buses to D.C. without any plan at the other end, said Msgr. Kevin Sullivan, executive director of migrant services for Catholic Charities in New York.

In the last two months, the procession of Venezuelans seeking refuge in the United States has grown dramatically. In July, Border Patrol agents stopped Venezuelans 17,603 times up 34% from June and nearly triple from July 2021.

The United States does not recognize the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro because of allegations that the country's 2018 election was a sham. The lack of official recognition complicates the country's ability to take back asylum-seekers. The Mexican government also refuses to accept the migrants, which gives the U.S. few options in handling Venezuelans.

Advocates for the homeless are threatening to sue the Adams administration. Melissa Russo explains why.

At a New York City shelter, brothers Leonardo Oviedo, 22, and Angel Mota, 19, seemed giddy shortly after arriving in New York. They had plans to reconnect with an acquaintance in New Jersey.

Big plans lie ahead. Oviedo wants to land a job. Mota wants to attend school. How they will accomplish their dreams was still uncertain as the pair swiped through photos of relatives they left behind in Venezuela, including their mother, grandmother, brother and sister.

For now, neither brother is especially concerned about the politics that brought them here.

We had nowhere to go," Mota said outside a shelter on a sweltering summer morning. "This is where they would welcome us.

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Liberals in deep blue cities far removed from America's southern border have been lecturing Republicans for years about the ideals of Emma Lazarus' poem on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." The Trump administration and politicians in states like Texas, overwhelmed with the problems associated with illegal immigration, were blasted as hard-hearted xenophobes.

Hoping that the country's changing demographics would doom Republicansthe real "replacement theory"Democrats became the party of open borders, a policy that the Biden administration implemented once it took office. The result has been a record number of illegal border crossings. Yet any concerns about the enormous toll of the growing press of illegal immigrants on America's welfare system and on the country's beleaguered working class are dismissed as racist hyperbole.

There's no sign that politicians on the Left are rethinking their support for amnesty and the opening of the border, but the mayors of New York City and Washington D.C. have discovered that these ideological chickens have finally come home to roost.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott's decision to bus illegal immigrants and asylum claimantsturned loose in his state by federal authoritiesnorth to those Democratic strongholds has sent politicians and bureaucrats in both cities into a panic. Instead of being able to just sit back and judge Texas and ArizonaGov. Doug Ducey has also bused immigrants to the Northeastfrom a comfortable distance, they must now deal with the migrants themselves.

The result is a "humanitarian crisis" that is making it harder for Northeast liberal elites to pretend that only right-wing hatemongers worry about illegal immigration. While New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been spouting rhetoric about welcoming immigrants, he's also acting as if his city has been the victim of a dirty trick. He called Abbott's tactic "unimaginable" and "horrific." He's been begging the federal government to help him address a problem that is overwhelming a social welfare system already dealing with an out-of-control homelessness problem.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is similarly outraged. She appealed to the Biden administration to send the National Guard to help deal with the several thousand migrants who have been exiting buses from Arizona and Texas at Union Station. She was turned down by the Department of Defense on the grounds that troops are not trained to help process, feed, and deal with the sanitation problems generated by illegal immigrants. Her request was all the more ironic given the Democrats' complaints about Abbott using the Texas National Guard to deal with the border crisis.

The situation has demonstrated that Adams, the former cop turned politician, is failing to do a better job managing the city than his much-despised predecessor Bill de Blasio and that his heretofore deft public relations touch is slipping. As the New York Times reported, for all of the mayor's complaints about Abbott's grandstanding, the show Adams put on of welcoming the migrants was transparently false. Adams grabbed supplies out of the hands of volunteers so he could be shown giving them out himself. Meanwhile, witnesses said his aides were screaming at the migrants to smile at the mayor while the cameras were rolling.

Leaving aside Democratic hypocrisy, the mayors are right to assume the solution to their newfound migrant problem can only be provided by the federal government. Much as they may resent Abbott and Ducey's ploy, the person most responsible for their dilemma is in the White House, not Austin or Phoenix.

The wave of illegal immigrants is a man-made catastrophe, and the man who made it is Joe Biden. It was his endorsement of amnesty and condemnations of former president Donald Trump's effective border policies that set in motion the massive surge of illegal immigration that border states now face. His decisions to effectively shut down enforcement of the law by Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel and to entertain false accusations of brutality lodged against border patrol personnel have served as an effective green light to illegal immigrants.

The federal government should help cities cope with bused-in migrants, but not by sending them money. Instead, Biden should reverse his immigration policies and return to his predecessor's policy of sealing the border, including resuming work on the wall Trump wanted to build.

A president like Biden, who is in thrall to his party's left wing, can't even contemplate choosing the rule of law over open borders. But that is the only possible solution to illegal immigration. Until Biden sees reason, Texas and Arizona should keep busing immigrants to Democratic strongholds to remind the administration that the cost of dealing with this disaster shouldn't only be borne by their citizens.

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS.org, a senior contributor to The Federalist and a columnist for the New York Post. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.

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On a cold Berlin afternoon in February 2022, Nigerian filmmaker Ike Nnaebue presented his debut feature documentary, No U-Turn, to a public audience for the first time. Nnaebues strikingly personal documentary, in which he attempts to retrace a journey he embarked on 27 years agothe tumultuous migrant route from West Africa to southern Europepremiered in the Panorama section of the Berlinale.

No U-Turn, which received a special mention by the Berlinale documentary jury, is part of the Generation Africa project, an ambitious collection of 25 feature-length, medium and short films centered around the hot-button issue of migration on the African continent.

Generation Africa is an initiative of the South African nonprofit Social Transformation and Empowerment Projects (STEPS), a media organization that uses documentaries to consolidate social change, particularly in Africa.

According to STEPS co-founder and documentary stalwart, Don Edkins, the objective of Generation Africaand STEPS, ultimatelyis about giving voice to disadvantaged people and communities through film, while also finding strategic ways to spark conversations on some of the most pertinent contemporary issues. Of the unique role of Generation Africa, Edkins explains, The focus is on social and environmental issues that people face in the communities locally but also globally. When we started Generation Africa, we took a look at the continent and saw this enormous youth population without a voice. We werent listening or learning from young people about their challenges, dreams, opportunities, or lack thereof.

Generation Africa is the fourth cycle of projects undertaken by STEPS since its inception in 2001. STEPS has also executed projects themed around structural causes of poverty, as well as the role of democracy in governance.

Conceptualized at a time when the global news media was awash with reports of a migrant crisis in Europe, with images of African youth crossing the Mediterranean into Europe becoming morbid fodder for politicking, Generation Africa sought to regain control of the narrative and frame it within the proper context. For one, the bulk of migration involving Africans was happening within the continent, not outside. And the lurid headlines and fear-mongering stories mostly failed to capture the humanity or lived realities of the migrants.

The films in the series go deep into the issuespersonal, social, economic, and environmental factors that surround migration, within Africa and outside, but mostly within. The portraits that emerge are often fully realized, compassionate accounts that present their subjects as human beings armed with agency and exercising their basic right to move across borders.

Some of these stories are heartbreaking, some breathtaking. Ousmane Samasskous The Last Shelter, which won the grand prize at the 2021 CPH:DOX, manages to be both. The director embeds himself in a halfway home for migrants close to the desert and captures the beauty in the wrenching stories of broken people and survivors alike. There are stories that find joy in the simple things. Rumbi Katedzas Transactions is a racy chronicle of a Zimbabwean family that remains close-knit and in good spirits, even while members are scattered around the world.

The films in the collection have a common thread of deconstructing migration, but many of them cover a wider gamut of issues relating to the experiences of young people on the continent. Noella Lukas Whats Eating my Mind investigates mental illness, a taboo topic in many communities. Fatimah Dadzies Fatis Choice considers female participation in migration and the changing roles of women in traditional societies. Many of the films depict how migration impacts families and empowers communities in ways that global development aid does not always succeed. It is impossible to engage with the films in the collection without confronting relatable characters presented as living, complex beings.

These films went through a rigorous curatorial process, though, especially with respect to matters of duty of care and accountability.

Historically, documentaries made in and about Africa have been skewed in ways that have not always been the most edifying. With this in mind, plenty of thought and effort has gone into creating documentaries that engage with their subjects and themes in ways that are respectful and authentic.

Tiny Mungwe, producer on Generation Africa, talks about the principles guiding the selection. One of the things we noticed when we put out the call was that the majority of the stories had filmmakers hoping to speak on behalf of people, without providing enough evidence of engaging with their subjects. We were attracted to projects where the filmmakers established a clear connection with the community and had a shared interest in starting social change by telling stories with the community. These are the types of stories we tried to identify and take into the development process.

With the participation of an international consortium of partners, the projects are developed with professional support for the filmmakers at all stages of the production process. Experts were invited to reflect with the filmmaking teams about their ideas and the possible results. For many of the filmmakers, it was a different way of working and thinking about film. Edkins reflects, For filmmakers that rely on NGO work, it is a shift in terms of their storytelling, and I think that has been interesting, working with them to help understand the possibilities that this offers.

Mungwe is quick to impress that the film teams retain the freedom to tell their own stories. She stresses, Rather than dish out a way of making documentaries, we want to create a space to free our filmmakers of any biases. She continues, There isnt a formula that we are parachuting into people. We are asking them to really interrogate why certain conventions exist and how well those conventions have worked, historically and today.

With the focus on east and west Africaregions that do not necessarily have strong creative documentary industriesand on younger filmmakers in the early phases of their career, instilling an ethically sound culture of responsibility, equity and accountability in the documentary-making process came with its own rewards.

Akuol de Mabior, whose debut feature-length doc, No Simple Way Home, also premiered at the Berlinalea first for South Sudanfound this to be the case. Navigating the realities of shooting her films protagonisther mother, who also happens to be one of South Sudans vice presidentswas easier because her core crew of cinematographer and sound recordist was composed of women. It was important that we were three East African women, de Mabior shares. My mom took us in like her daughters; that is how we were able to maintain a level of intimacy such that filming in her bedroom did not feel awkward.

Beyond the festival circuit, all the films in the Generation Africa collection will be available for free on AfriDocs, the pan-African streaming platform set up by STEPS to distribute African documentaries, for anyone on the continent with Internet access. Future generations of filmmakers will thus have access to locally relevant, world-class documentaries. Viewers elsewhere will be able to access the films through broadcast agreements between STEPS and global partners. Building documentary communities is at the heart of the work STEPS does, and with Generation Africa, that culture is being reinforced. Getting the films to audiences is just as important as creating them.

STEPS was conceived in the late 90s as a reaction to the stories of death and devastation surrounding the HIV/AIDS pandemic, which hit South Africa hard. The original cycle, dubbed Steps for the Future, included 38 HIV/AIDS-themed films from seven countries, each one offering a different narrative to what the global media was peddling. The project pioneered mobile cinemas, organized community screenings, and distributed local-language versions of the films via support groups. Facilitators were trained to organize discussions at the community level to enable people to take control of their decision-making process.

These methodologies have been revisited with successive project cycles organized by STEPS,and have proven to be effective in reaching new audiences and driving behavioral change. With most of the Generation Africa films now nearing completion, participating filmmakers are being supported to draw up strategies that will drive engagement within their respective communities. This will aim to create a dialogue on what migration means to people and how it can support development in their communities. For Ike Nnaebue, the Berlinale premiere is only the beginning of the impact that he hopes to achieve with No U-Turn. Having abandoned his own quest to migrate to Europe decades ago, he wants to use his film not just to discourage migration through dangerous routes, but also to drum up awareness and raise funds to resettle and integrate people who would like to come back home.

Nnaebue credits Generation Africa for putting him in a position to give back to his community and for linking him with a global network of filmmakers and resource persons. He concludes, "You can never underestimate the power of the collective."

Wilfred Okiche has attended critic programs and reported from festivals in Locarno, Rotterdam, Stockholm, and Sundance. He works as a film critic and occasional programmer and has garnered experience covering and writing about documentaries, Nollywood, and African cinema. His writing has appeared in Variety, IndieWire, Filmkrant, and Senses of Cinema, among other publications.

Wilfred Okiche is a 2022 Documentary Magazine Editorial Fellow. The Fellowship program is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit http://www.arts.gov.

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday claimed that the southern border "is secure" even as Border Patrol agents are facing historic migrant numbers.

Mayorkas spoke at the Aspen Security Forum, where he was asked about the situation at the southern border which has seen more than 200,000 migrant encounters a month in the last four months.

But, even though he acknowledged the situation is a "historic challenge," the secretary claimed the border is "secure."

"Look, the border is secure," he said. "We are working to make the border more secure. That has been a historic challenge."

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He also used the question to take aim at lawmakers who have said they will not pass comprehensive immigration legislation. A number of Republicans have said they would not consider legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants already in the country until the border crisis ends.

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, on Capitol Hill, May 4, 2022. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Image)

"I have said to a number of legislators who expressed to me that we need to address the challenge at the border before they pass legislation and I take issue with the math of holding the solution hostage until the problem is resolved," he said.

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"There is work to be done," he said before clarifying that "safe and secure are two different words."

"There are smugglers that operate on the Mexican side of the border and placing one's life in their hands is not safe," he said.

His remarks come after Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced last week that there were 207,000 migrant encounters at the border in June, compared to just over 189,000 in June last year. The June report shows there were 105,161 migrants removed from the U.S. last month, including 92,273 expelled under CDCs Title 42 order 79,652 migrants were released into the US.

With Junes numbers, there have now been 1,746,119 total encounters at the southern border in the 2022 fiscal year outpacing the 1,734,686 encounters set in the FY21, and with still three months remaining in FY'22.

Republicans have zeroed in on the Biden administration's handling of the crisis, blaming its rolling back of Trump-era border policy like the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which requires migrants be returned to Mexico for the duration of their immigration hearings. The administration has also narrowed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) priorities, stopped border wall construction and implemented an asylum rule to expedite the length of hearings.

The administration has pushed back on those claims by Republicans, blaming instead the closing off of legal asylum pathways by the Trump administration and also pointing to "root causes" like poverty, violence and corruption in Central America. It is also seeking to end Title 42 expulsions, which have been used to expel a majority of migrants since March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. arguing that a shift to traditional expulsions will lower repeat encounters and dissuade migrants. So far the administration has been blocked by a federal court from ending Title 42.

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Mayorkas has repeatedly defended his handling of the border crisis, in April he said that his DHS inherited a broken and dismantled system that is already under strain only Congress can fix this."

"Yet, we have effectively managed an unprecedented number of non-citizens seeking to enter the United States," he told lawmakers.

Fox News' Lawrence Richard contributed to this report.

Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, with a focus on immigration. He can be reached at adam.shaw2@fox.com or on Twitter: @AdamShawNY

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