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Washington, DC U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03) earlier this month introduced H.R. 3659, the Migrant Resettlement Transparency Act, which requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to consult in advance with state and local officials of impacted jurisdictions regarding federally administered or funded migrant resettlement. It will also require the Administration to submit to Congress and governors a monthly, state-specific report regarding the resettlement, transportation, or relocation of illegal aliens. United States Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Bill Hagerty (R-TN) joined Rep. Fleischmann to introduce the bill in the Senate.

Federal transparency with state and local officials is always important in our republic, but its particularly critical during the ongoing crisis on the border,said Congressman Fleischmann. Im proud to join with Senators Hagerty and Blackburn to address this issue and require disclosure from the federal government.

Over half a million illegal aliens have been apprehended since President Biden took office,said Senator Blackburn.In Tennessee, the Biden Administration was caught using a Chattanooga airport to secretly traffic migrant children into the interior of our country without the knowledge or involvement of state or local officials. We have no idea where else this is occurring, and communities have a right to know what is happening in their backyard. President Bidens failed immigration policies have turned every town into a border town.

Tennesseans have a right to know if the federal government is resettling migrants in their communities,said Senator Hagerty. President Bidens border crisis has turned every town into a border town, and the resettlement of migrants is an effect of that crisis that impacts citizens on a local level, placing new strains on schools, hospitals, law enforcement, and other emergency services.

Representatives Steven Palazzo (MS-04) and Tim Burchett (TN-02) are cosponsors of H.R. 3659.

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JUSTICE Ashok Bhushan bid farewell to the Supreme Court on Wednesday as he shared a ceremonial bench with Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana and concluded his judicial work. He retires on July 4.

His judgments stand testimony to his welfarist and humanistic approach. He will certainly be remembered for his judgments, CJI Ramana said.

Justice Bhushan said the Bar had been very kind and respectful to him, both inside and outside court.

I am of the view that judgment delivered by a judge cant be called only his contribution, but the Bars contribution is more than the judges contribution. I am proud to be part of this Supreme Court which has upheld the rule of law. To be part of the Supreme Court is a matter of great pride, Justice Bhushan said.

Justice Bhushan was appointed judge of the top court on 13.05.2016. Prior to his elevation, he served as the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court. He originally belongs to the Allahabad High Court.

In his five years tenure, Justice Bhushan was part of the Constitution bench even as he handed down many significant rulings. He was part of a five-judge bench concerning power tussle between the Central Government and the Government of Delhi. In another case, he upheld the Aadhaar Act in his separate but concurring opinion with the majority decision.

Justice Bhushan was also part of the Ayodhya judgment giving the disputed land to the Ram temple. In 2020, a bench headed by him took suo motu cognisance of the migrant crisis that followed the nationwide lonckdwon.

Early this year, a Justice Bhushan-led bench refused to grant interim protection from arrest to the makers of the Amazon web series Tandav in multiple FIRs filed against them by the police from different states. After the Allahabad High Court denied bail to Amazon Primes Aparna Purohit in the FIR in Lucknow, Justice Bhushan stayed the arrest though he termed the Centres rules for regulating over-the-top (OTT) platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, toothless.

Yesterday, a bench headed by himdirected all states that had not implemented the one nation one ration scheme to do so by July 31, 2021. The bench also directed that community kitchens continue to provide food to migrant workers till the pandemic is over.

On his last working days, a bench of which Justice Bhushan was part, held that theNational Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) had failed to perform its duty by not recommending minimum standards of relief for families of those who had died of Covid19. The bench, thus, ordered theNDMA to frame guidelines for ex-gratia compensation for COVID deaths within six months. It left the amount to the discretion of the national authority.

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Support for Turkey's struggle in managing the migrant crisis should not be reduced to financial issues only, said the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) spokesperson Tuesday, who added that Turkey has a limit to the burden it will carry on migration.

mer elik criticized the European Union for "reducing the issue of migration to merely financial aid," which he viewed as "a lack of vision, unsustainable in the long run, a grave mistake."

He said the aid will be provided to Syrian refugees, not Turkey, and the EU desires to protect Europe from migration and its negative effects through the funds.

"Turkey bears this burden, but there is a limit to Turkey's bearing of this burden. Therefore, the determination of close cooperation should not be reduced to financial issues only, but should be viewed from a broader perspective," he said.

Last week, the European Union agreed on additional funding of 3 billion euros ($3.6 billion) for migrants in Turkey.

In response, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said that the decisions taken regarding Turkey at the EU summit in Brussels are far from containing the expected and necessary steps.

"The proposed new financial aid package is for Syrian refugees, not Turkey, and is essentially a step to be taken to ensure the EU's own peace and security. Reducing migration cooperation to merely a financial dimension is a big mistake. Aiming for close cooperation in this area would be beneficial for everyone," it said.

elik went on to say that the 2016 migration agreement between Turkey and the bloc should be addressed in all aspects rather than partial approaches.

In March 2016, the EU and Turkey reached an agreement to stop irregular migration through the Aegean Sea and improve the conditions of more than 3 million Syrian refugees in Turkey.

The deal has been successful in stemming the flow of migrants and refugees, but the EUs reluctance to take in refugees from Turkey and bureaucratic hurdles in transferring promised funds for refugees have led to sharp criticism from Turkish politicians.

Ankara criticized the EU for failing to fulfill its pledge to provide funding for migrants and refugees in Turkey as part of the pact while allocating billions of euros to Greece.

Five years on, the pact is failing as Turkey struggles with increased numbers of migrants, while the EU is more divided than ever over its asylum policy.

Turkey is hosting 6 million migrants, with nearly 4 million from Syria, its migration authority says. That is 2 million more than in 2016 and a heavy burden on a country that only had 60,000 asylum-seekers in 2011 before Syria's civil war broke out.

elik also reiterated that Greece violated the 1988 Athens Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) by declaring war drill zones in the Aegean Sea during the summer tourism season, a period not allowed by the deal.

He said the attitude Greece adopted is against the deal as well as discussions between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

"As a result of Greece's tendency to maintain the policy of tension, Turkey issued a Navtex," said elik. "Turkey has no choice but to issue a Navtex ... The whole world must see that tensions originate in Greece."

Turkey last week announced a new NAVTEX in the Aegean Sea's international waters in retaliation for Greece's recent NAVTEX announcement that violated the two countries' bilateral agreements.

According to the information received from security sources, with the Athens MoU signed between Turkey and Greece in 1988 it was decided not to carry out exercises in the international waters of the Aegean Sea and not to declare a military training area during the busy summer tourism season between June 15 and Sep. 15. Taking into account the moratorium period established by the MoU, Turkey did not declare an area in international waters in the Aegean Sea for military training between June 15 and Sept. 15 during the planning of its 2021 operations-training activities. Greece, on the other hand, did not comply with the agreement and declared a training/practice area for this year, including the period determined by the moratorium. Despite Turkey's respectful attitude and diplomatic initiatives to the moratorium, Greece did not make any changes in the areas it had declared in order to comply with the moratorium.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlt avuolu recently said that Greece must halt its provocations in order for relations to grow and to avoid further escalation. The bilateral ties between the two neighbors have become tense due to conflicts concerning drilling rights and maritime borders in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Turkey, which has the longest continental coastline in the Eastern Mediterranean, has rejected the maritime boundary claims of Greece and the Greek Cypriot administration, stressing that these excessive claims violate the sovereign rights of both Turkey and Turkish Cyprus.

On the Cyprus issue in particular, elk said decisions about the island at last week's EU summit did not present a fair attitude.

"The EU failed to see the realities on the island once more, as seen in the summit decisions. We emphasize once again that the EU needs to see the truth on the island, and that there is a state and society that shares equal status with the Greek Cypriots, as the TRNC (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus)," he said.

Turkish leaders have repeatedly stressed that Ankara is in favor of resolving all outstanding problems in the region through international law, good neighborly relations, dialogue and negotiation. Turkey has also criticized the EUs stance on the Eastern Mediterranean conflict, calling on the bloc to adopt a fair attitude regarding the dispute and give up favoring Greece under the pretext of EU solidarity.

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A third of migrant and refugee women in a new survey said they experienced some form of domestic and/or family violence.

And temporary visa holders consistently reported proportionately higher levels of domestic and family violence, including controlling behaviours. Temporary visa holders also reported much higher patterns of migration-related abuse and threats (such as threats to be deported or separated from their children).

These are the main findings of a survey of nearly 1,400 migrant and refugee women across Australia, the most comprehensive of its kind in the country.

This was the first national study to look at the residency and visa status of migrant and refugee women, and the first to ask specific questions about controlling behaviours related to migration abuse.

The survey was conducted last year by Harmony Alliance, a migrant and refugee women advocacy organisation, and the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre.

While the survey is not a representative sample, and cannot provide a comprehensive account of the experiences of all women from these backgrounds, it offers a unique snapshot of the lives of those who were willing to share their stories with us.

The findings provide an understanding of the needs of women across Australias diverse migrant and refugee communities as we look towards a post-COVID-19 future.

The study also offers key insights into the diversity of these womens experiences, which are critical for informing policies and other measures to help support them in future.

Of the participants who had experienced domestic and/or family violence:

91% experienced controlling behaviours

47% experienced or witnessed violence towards others and/or property

42% experienced physical or sexual violence.

The majority of women in our sample who had experienced domestic and/or family violence had experienced more than one form of harm on multiple occasions.

While the majority of perpetrators were male partners or former partners, family members and the womens in-laws were also responsible for this violence.

This survey is also among a handful in the world to comprehensively focus on migrant and refugee womens experiences with victimisation, their perceptions of policing, and their trust in communities and institutions.

Of the women who were victims of crimes like theft, burglary, threatening behaviour or property damage, nearly 40% said they believed it was motivated by bias and/or prejudice.

Read more: 'If you call 000 ... I will send you back to your country': how COVID-19 has trapped temporary visa holders

The majority of the women we surveyed perceived the police as just and fair. However, the women who had experienced domestic and/or family violence and were the victims of other crimes viewed the police as less procedurally just and fair than the rest of our participants.

Older people had higher levels of trust in the police compared to younger participants. And those with higher levels of education reported lower levels of trust in police compared to those with high school or trade/TAFE qualifications.

While the women generally had high trust in the institutions included in the study, religious institutions were consistently rated at the bottom. The greatest levels of trust were for Australias health care system and state education systems. Only 30% of the sample trusted their neighbours a great deal or a lot.

Our survey was conducted in late 2020 to take into account the impact of COVID-19 when asking about employment and financial hardship.

Of those participants who were employed in 2019, 10% lost their jobs due to the pandemic. There was an increased reliance on government payments as their main source of income during the crisis.

Temporary visa holders experienced an increase in hardship, more so than permanent visa holders and Australian citizens. Our understanding of the hardships of temporary visa holders and those in precarious work is limited, however, due to their somewhat limited representation in the study.

We also analysed key differences among the women based on a range of factors. Age was one area where we saw major differences. Two key findings:

Younger participants reported lower levels of trust compared to older participants across all institutions. The difference was most stark when it came to religious community leadership, with nearly a third of participants under the age of 44 saying they had no trust in these individuals.

Younger participants also reported greater levels of hardship after the pandemic began, compared to older participants. Those who lived in areas with high disadvantage reported the highest level of hardship.

As Australia moves towards a post-pandemic national recovery, our findings highlight the urgent needs among those most affected by the crisis, including young people and temporary visa holders.

Our report also shows that embracing and celebrating Australias diversity means paying greater attention to the needs of migrant and refugee women to ensure their safety and security in all aspects of their lives.

Read more: We need to restart immigration quickly to drive economic growth. Here's one way to do it safely

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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