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Priya Nadesalingam, mother of Biloela family, signs book deal for memoir of asylum ordeal

Mother of Tamil family will recount their remarkable journey, from fleeing war-torn Sri Lanka to enduring Australia’s immigration detention system

The Guardian - AU

11 immigration police, officials arrested on bribery charges

Eleven government officials, including six immigration police, have been arrested and charged for allegedly taking bribes.

Bangkok Post

Flying migrants to Massachusetts was political, critics say. But was it legal?

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who is running for reelection, said the flights from Texas were "voluntary" but if they were lured, some argue the migrants could now be victims of a crime.

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Border arrests on track to break record as divide grows over states’ handling of migrants

DALLAS — Complications for the Biden administration over immigration intensified as migrants were transported by Republican governors to cities governed by Democrats and rising migration along the southern border remains on pace to exceed a record 2 million.

Tribune News Service

How immigration, betrayal and neglect caused feeling of 'Scouse, not English'

Many Liverpudlians reject their national identity in favour of civic pride

Liverpool Echo

11 immigration police, officials arrested on bribery charges

Eleven government officials, including six immigration police, have been arrested and charged for allegedly taking bribes to facilitate the release of five foreign fishing trawlers earlier confiscated for illegally fishing in Thai waters.

Bangkok Post

Anna Sorokin calls immigration "broken"

"There’s no such thing in ICE as the United States Constitutional right to legal representation," Sorokin says

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Ron DeSantis breaks fundraising record for governors amid Martha’s Vineyard immigration stunt

The Florida governor has raised $175.8m for his re-election campaign

The Independent UK

Hillary Clinton says DeSantis sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard is ‘literally human trafficking’

Ron DeSantis abandoned around 50 migrants on Martha’s Vineyard on Thursday without warning in a pushback against the Biden administration’s immigration policies

The Independent UK

France tables bill to tighten immigration, asylum policies

President Emmanuel Macron says France will begin debating a bill on asylum and immigration at the start of 2023 to put an end to "an absurd policy" he considers "inefficient and inhumane".

Radio France Internationale

‘Sadistic lie.’ Venezuelans flown to Martha’s Vineyard search for a way off the island

MARTHA'S VINEYARD, Mass. — Standing on a cobblestone sidewalk in a touristy downtown neighborhood of this island thousands of miles from his native Venezuela, a young man used a cellphone Thursday night to record a message to Florida’s governor.

Miami Herald

‘On the cusp of a crisis:’ Migrants make their way to Atlanta from border

ATLANTA — Klinsman Torres says his journey to Atlanta resembled a “horror movie.”

Tribune News Service

Migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard by Florida governor say they were misled

Some migrants who were flown to the wealthy island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, said on Thursday they were duped about their destination, and Democratic leaders called for a probe of the move by Florida's Republican governor to send them there from Texas.

Reuters

Editorial: What did these kids do to deserve this?

These are little kids. Just kids. We don’t know much about them. We don’t know their names or even where they’re from. Maybe Venezuela. Maybe Colombia. But we do know this. They’re just kids, and they deserve to be kids, not props or pawns in some ridiculous political grandstanding about…

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France 24

Biden outraged as Texas, Florida governors displace migrants across country

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took credit Thursday for sending two planeloads of undocumented Venezuelans from Texas to wealthy Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, as Republicans play up immigration issues before November midterm elections.

Los Angeles Times

GOP governors bused migrants to liberal cities. Texas sent them to the vice president’s home

WASHINGTON — Politicians have been using migrants as props for decades. Republicans visit the Southwest border and declare that immigration is out of control. During the Trump administration, Democrats made their way to detention centers to decry the treatment of children locked in cages.

Salon

Goldberg talks immigration on "The View"

"We don’t have any problem when people come through the border from Canada," Goldberg said

Axios

Top Biden officials to discuss "litigation options" over migrant buses sent by GOP governors

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis chartered two planes to fly roughly 50 migrants to Martha's Vineyard.

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The Independent UK

Cruel or harmless? Pastors mixed on GOP migrant transports

As Republican governors ramp up their transports of migrants to Democratic-run jurisdictions, the practice is getting a mixed reaction from Christian faith leaders — many of whom, especially evangelicals, have supported GOP candidates by large numbers in recent elections

Axios

"They've been lied to": The scramble to help migrants on Martha's Vineyard

Roughly 50 people are packed into a homeless shelter at a small church in Edgartown.

Tribune News Service

Mexico officials abused 47% of migrants awaiting US asylum, rights group says

Nearly half of asylum-seekers returned to Mexico under the “Remain in Mexico” program to await a U.S. immigration court hearing said they’d been abused by local officials, according to a Human Rights First report released Thursday.

Tribune News Service

DeSantis defends sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard. Critics blast ‘inhumane’ stunt

The day after Florida took credit for sending two planeloads of undocumented immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Gov. Ron DeSantis suggested the flights were to “protect” the state while the backlash swelled, with critics decrying the flights as an inhumane political stunt.

The Guardian - AU

Call for UN torture watchdog to investigate Australia’s handcuffing of asylum seekers en route to medical care

Detainees report feeling humiliated sitting in handcuffs in waiting rooms during medical appointments

Los Angeles Times

Migrants, long used as political props, were dumped Thursday at the vice president’s residence

Daily Mirror

Teen left alone in UK after parents die urgently trying to move to US to live with aunt

After 16-year-old Pramiti tragically lost her mum two years ago, when she was just 14, and her dad died after suffering a heart attack earlier this year, she is now left desperately trying to move country to live with her aunt

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