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WASHINGTONToday, U.S. Senator and Ranking Member of the Foreign Relations Committee Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Rob Portman (R-Ohio) introduced theSolving the Border Crisis Act. This bill will secure the southern border by resuming construction of the border wall, strengthening management and enforcement capacities, and upholding the rule of law.

The Biden administrations dismantling of the effective immigration system it inherited has created a full-blown disaster at the southern border. The past few months of illegal migrant encounters have broken every record in the book, and there is no end in sight unless we secure our border with strong immigration policies,said Risch.Using several of the findings of my recent migration report, Im proud to introduce the Solving the Border Crisis Act to prevent this national security and public health disaster from getting any worse.

The skyrocketing amounts of fentanyl and unlawful migrants coming over our border must stop. The irresponsible and dangerous border policies of this administration are allowing Mexican transnational criminal organizations to traffic record numbers of unlawful migrants and deadly, illicit narcotics into communities in Ohio and throughout the country,"said Portman."Thats why Im proud to introduce this bill to implement the recommendations from our recent border report to end the catastrophe at our border to ensure the safety and security of all Americans."

The Solving the Border Crisis Act will:

Text of the bill can be foundhere.

A one pager on the bill can be foundhere.

Background:Under the Biden administration, illegal immigration has reached some ofthe highest levels ever recorded. In the first eight months of FY 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has already encountered more than1.4 million illegal immigrantsat the southern border compared to almost 1.7 million in FY 2021. Last month, Risch and Portman published a report titledBidens Border Crisis: Examining Policies that Encourage Illegal Migrationoutlining how the administrations policies have exacerbated the crisis at the southern border and incentivized illegal migration. Read the full report,here.

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ZAGREB, 15 July 2022 - Asmall unit of the Slovenian army on Fridaystarted removing the anti-migrant wire fence on the Slovenian side of the border with Croatianear the small border crossing Vivodina-Krmaina andthe town of Metlika.

Slovenia's Interior Minister Tatjana Bobnarattended theremoval of the fence, saying that it had a great symbolic meaning.

Bobnar said that the removal of anti-migrant barriers, which Prime Minister Robert Golob described as inhumane and as notservingthe purpose for which they were set up, is a sign of a change in the new government's policy towards migrants and refugees, as it has committed to the highest respect for human rights and speeding up the processing of asylum requests.

She added that around 51 kilometres of razorwire currently exists on the border with Croatia,that the army can remove 150 to 200 meters per day, and estimates that it will take at least 150 working days to remove.

"Our intention is to first remove the wire fence" and then to "gradually remove" the metal panel fence, in cooperation with local communities, she said.

About 2.5 million hasbeen allocated to have the panel fence removed, she added.

According to data recently published by Slovenia's Interior Ministry, a total of 135,372 meters of panel fence and 60,595 meters of razorwirewere erected on the border with Croatia. The wire fenceswere installed at the end of 2015 by the then Slovenian government, led by Miro Cerar, due to fears of the migrant crisis at the time.

The expansion of the initial anti-immigrant barriers after Cerar's government continued by succeeding governments.The razor wire fence was later gradually replaced with less hazardous panel fencing.

In September last year, the government of former Prime Minister Janez Jana donated about 40 kilometres of anti-migrant barriers to Lithuania from its stockpiles so that it could more effectively protect the 508-kilometre-long land border with Belarus. At that time, Lithuania was experiencing an uncontrolled influx of refugees who were deliberately sent across the border towards the West by the regime of Belarusian President Lukashenko.

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WANNABE-PM Penny Mordaunt will cut off fuel supplies and boats from people smugglers in France in a bold bid to halt perilous Channel crossings.

The leading 'Stop Rishi' candidate promised to crack down on sick traffickers upstream - and offered France Britain's help to guard their borders better against illegal migrants.

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She also wants to slash the millions of pounds of taxpayer cash spent putting up Channel crossers in hotels.

The Tory grassroots darling would also stick by Priti Patel's policy of sending illegal migrants to Rwanda if she gets the keys to No10 - which is hugely popular with members.

The former defence secretary warned that the migration crisis is at risk of getting worse as the world gets more unstable - calling on the world to unite to stop lives being lost to dangerous gangs at sea.

She told The Sun: "We must crack down on the evil and barbaric practice that exploits vulnerable people to arrive here illegally.

"Ive spent a long time in the Mediterranean mapping migrant routes in the Med and North Libya - we should be doing more to work on what would be in Frances interest in regards to their Southern border.

"The rules governing all of this are completely unfit for the world we live in today - we need a new diplomatic narrative."

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Claire Keegan'snovella Small Things Like These has won this year's Orwell Prize for political fiction.

The Orwell Prize for political fiction is a 3,000 (approx. $4,640.84 Cdn) award that was launched in 2019. It is a companion to the Orwell Prize for political writing, the Orwell Prize for journalism and the Orwell Prize for exposing Britain's social evils.

The Orwell Prizes 2022 were presented in an awards gala on Thursday, July 14 in London.

Set in Ireland in the mid-1980s,Small Things Like These is amoving tale of faith, forgiveness and the authority of the Catholic Church. The book's protagonist,Bill Furlong,is faced with a moral dilemma when he discovers a shivering, ragged girl locked in the shed of a local convent.

Small Things Like These was also a 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize finalistfor the best literary work of the year.

"The focus of this novella is close, precise and unwavering: a beautifully written evocation of Ireland in the 1980s, precisely rendered; of a good man and his ordinary life; and of the decision he makes that unlocks major, present questions about social care, women's lives and collective morality," the jury said in a statement.

"The very tightness of focus, and Keegan's marvellous control of her instrument as a writer, makes for a story at once intensely particular and powerfully resonant."

Keegan is the Irish author of prize-winning short fiction, including two story collections, Antarctica and Walk the Blue Fields.

In a recentinterview with Writers and Company's Eleanor Wachtel, Keegan saidSmall Things Like These explores moral philosophy, human decency and the authority of organized religion.

"People were hugely brutalized in this country by the Catholic Church. They were so far removed from any type of decency, they didn't even know what decency was anymore. And they were also rewarded financially for it," said Keegan.

"People get lost morally and I mean truly lost. And then they hide behind a screen of morality which the church gives you to wear. It's very powerful. People become afraid of you, and look up to you."

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The Orwell Prize for political writing went to the book The Fourth Time, We Drowned by Irish author Sally Hayden. The nonfiction work examines the migrant crisis across North Africa and the experiences of refugees fleeing dictatorships, violence, persecution and war.

"Hayden's reporting is an extraordinary exploration of a modern reality using modern means: truly a book of our times. While many people seeking refuge from the terrible logics of repression, war and poverty cannot easily cross frontiers, phone and Facebook messages can," the jury said in a statement.

"Both Sally Hayden and Claire Keegan have, in very different ways, written gripping stories about things that should alarm us: there are awful truths right at the heart of our societies and systems. However, in their wit, elegance and compassion, these powerful winning books also help us think about the choices we make, and how to make the future better. Orwell would be proud," said Jean Seaton, the director of The Orwell Foundation, of the 2022 book prizes.

This year's Orwell Prize for journalism went to the Guardian journalist George Monbiot.

Ed Thomas won this year's prize for exposing Britain's social evils for his work on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis in the U.K. for BBC News.

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A woman and a girl of 4 were found dead on a migrant boat off Spain's Canary Islands, Spanish rescue services said on Friday.

A total of 27 people had left the west African coast in a barely seaworthy dinghy, seeking to reach the Canaries archipelago.

The Spanish coastguard said the two bodies were discovered after a fishing boat came to the vessel's assistance on Thursday.

Officials said a third person was airlifted to hospital with chest pains.

The boat was found off the coast of the island of Lanzarote. Some reports, citing local officials on the Canary Islands, said the woman and child had been crushed in the overcrowded dinghy.

Another boat, said to be carrying about 50 people, was intercepted on Friday.

Non-government organisations say women and children are increasingly embarking on the dangerous route to the islands of EU member Spain.

The death in March last year of a girl of 2 from Mali, after days fighting for her life in a Canaries hospital, sparked debate in Spain.

She had made the perilous journey with 51 other migrants, including her mother and sister.

This year, 9,308 migrants have arrived in the islands up 27 per cent on the same period last year, the Spanish Interior Ministry said.

This is despite a decrease in migrants trying to reach Spain in recent weeks, after Madrid and Morocco normalised diplomatic relations. This followed a months-long crisis centred on the disputed Western Sahara territory.

Many migrants trying to reach the Canaries set sail from southern Morocco, near Western Sahara.

Last year, more than 40,000 migrants arrived in Spain, mainly via Morocco.

Spanish NGO Caminando Fronteras said 4,404 migrants died or went missing while making the journey twice as many as in 2020.

Updated: July 15, 2022, 7:20 PM

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