#PM on migrants

[saywhat-politics]

60 Minutes - Newsmakers

U.S. sent 238 migrants to Salvadoran mega-prison; documents indicate most have no apparent criminal records

By Cecilia Vega

April 6, 2025 / 7:00 PM EDT / CBS News

Three weeks ago, 238 Venezuelan migrants were flown from Texas to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.

That country's president offered to take them and the Trump administration used a law not invoked since World War II to send them -- claiming they are all terrorists and violent gang members.

The government has released very little information about the men. But through internal government documents, we have obtained a list of their identities and found that an overwhelming majority have no apparent criminal convictions or even criminal charges. 

They are now prisoners. 

Among them: a makeup artist, a soccer player and a food delivery driver, being held in a place so harsh that El Salvador's justice minister once said the only way out is in a coffin.

[anarchopuppy]

FESTIVALS OF RESISTANCE: ORGANIZE TO OPPOSE TRUMP

January 11

Chicago, Illinois: A training about fighting deportations, as part of the week-long “Regroup and Strategize” series.

Sacramento, California: “Call to Action” conference and gathering, featuring a “day of skillshares and trainings” along with workshops, panels, and a keynote presentation from anarchist author Dean Spade. You can find more information and a full schedule here.

January 18

Atlanta, Georgia: A mass mobilization and day of resistance on the two-year anniversary of the murder of Tortuguita.

Brooklyn, New York: A community gathering including workshops.

Carbondale, Ilinois: A community event, currently in the planning stages.

Cleveland, Ohio: 3 pm Coventry Peace Park, 5 pm Rhizome House

Dayton, Ohio: 5 pm, Union Hall, 313 South Jefferson; a community discussion followed by music

Durham, North Carolina: The Triangle Festival of Resistance, a weekend-long festival focused on community defense, resilience, and liberation. For updates and information about how to contribute, consult Triangle Radical Events.

Gary, Indiana: A demonstration against mass deportations.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: 6 pm at Nice Hair, with workshops on trans defense, migrant defense, self-defense, and movement defense

Minneapolis, Minnesota: A screening of Fell in Love with Fire with letter writing to prisoners and a discussion about the next phase of struggle at the Seward Cafê at 6:30 pm.

Portland, Oregon: A gathering in a COVID-safer, sober space. Families with and without children are welcome to attend. Food will be provided. You can also find updates about event organizing in Portland here.

Providence, Rhode Island: 3 pm - 9+ pm, AS220

Oakland, California: A march to a community assembly, departing from Wilma Chan park next to the Lake Merritt BART at 1 pm.

Olympia, Washington: The People’s March, 12 pm, departing from Heritage Park; followed by the Festival of Resistance.

Phoenix, Arizona: 3-8 pm, Margaret T. Hance Park, featuring a Really Really Free Market, food, literature tables, and a number of educational workshops

Richmond, Virginia: A community assembly involving panel discussions, workshops, and food, followed by a benefit concert.

Events are also being organized in Salt Lake City, Utah and elsewhere.

January 19

Chapel Hill, NC: The second day of the Triangle Festival of Resistance.

January 20

Indianapolis, Indiana: A Mutual Aid Convergence at Ujamaa Community Bookstore.

January 21

Arcata, California: A march departing from Arcata Plaza at noon—against Donald Trump, in solidarity with Palestine, and in memory of Tortuguita.

January 25

Tampa Bay, Florida: A community gathering and organizing fair for “politics beyond the ballot box.” “Organize with your community to fight for transformative change! Connect with a local project from anti-capitalist orgs, labor and tenant unions, mutual aid orgs, and more!”

Click here for the call to action and most up-to-date list

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

I'm so pissed off at that new Netflix show Adolescence. It's supposed to be inspired by real-life cases of knife murder in the UK. But despite the overwhelming majority of these cases being committed by black and Middle Eastern migrants, they cast an English/ white boy in the role as the perpetrator and attached a red pill movement narrative to it. Just more insidious propaganda and demonisation of native English people and working class white boys. I'm certain that this constant villainisation of working class men and boys in media and education is what pushes them towards the political right or men like Andrew Tate, and yet this series does nothing to explore that. As soon as I heard that PM Keir Starmer wanted this to be shown in schools, I knew right then and there that this series was going to be bullshit.

I'm glad I gave it a skip. I figured it was going to be a screed against guns from the description but it never even occured to me that it as going to be about attacking white boys and masculinity.

[croquis-el]

Authentic Japan in Gyakuten Saiban pt. 4

Another bright representative of Japanese culture in Gyakuten Saiban is the 5-2 case.

As we remember, in the English version, the place where Odoroki and Minuki are heading was built by Japanese migrants and is called "Nine-Tailed Vale" (a quite suitable and logical explanation). So - naturally, in the Japanese version everything is a little different. Let's see:

同日午後1時30分

九尾村・妖怪横町

Dōjitsu gogo 1-ji 30-bu

Kyūbi-mura yōkai yokochō

1:30 pm on the same day

Kyuubi Village, Yokai Yokochou

九尾村 (Kyūbi-mura) = Nine-Tailed Village

九 (kyuu) - nine

尾 (bi) - tail

村 (mura) - village

横町 (yokochou) - bystreet, side street, back street, alley, lane

This is not a vale (although it sounds nice), this is a village. A village with its own marketing ploy

ここは九尾村(きゅうびむら)。

妖怪ブームで話題の村です。

koko wa Kyūbi-mura (ki ~yuubimura). Yōkai būmu de wadai no muradesu.

This is Kyuubi Village. This village is the talk of the town due to the yokai boom.

妖怪････そういえば････ それっぽいのがあるね。

yōkai sō ieba sore ppoi no ga aru ne.

Yokai... Now that I think of it... There's something that looks like it.

で、この村に何の用事なんだい?

de, kono mura ni nani no yōjina n dai?

So, what business do you have in this village?

今日は村おこしのパーティーがこの村のお屋敷であるんですが････

kyō wa mura-okoshi no pātī ga kono mura no o yashikidearu ndesuga ko hanjō

Today, there's a village revitalization party at the mansion in this village...

Of course, Odoroki wasn't surprised that everything here was literally teeming with youkai themes. He was familiar with this culture.

And the celebration they were invited to here was the restoration and revitalization of an entire village.

妖怪ブーム。そういえば、 テレビで見た覚えがあるな。

yōkai būmu. Sō ieba, terebi de mita oboe ga aru na.

Yokai boom. Come to think of it, I remember seeing it on TV.

九尾村は、 妖怪で村おこしってわけか。

Kyūbi-mura wa, yōkai de mura-okoshi tte wake ka.

So Kyuubi Village is revitalizing itself with yokai.

The village simply uses the yokai as a tourist product to attract visitors. And there are no migrants involved.

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妖怪ブームに便乗して、パパとオドロキさんでコンビを結成!

yōkai būmu ni binjō shite, papa to odoroki-san de konbi o kessei!

Taking advantage of the yokai boom, Papa and Odoroki-san form a duo!

赤鬼青鬼コンビってのは どうでしょう?

aka oni ao oni konbi tte no wa dōdeshou?

What do you think of the Red Oni and Blue Oni combo?

パパがボケで、おどろきさんがツッコミです!

papa ga boke de, odoroki-san ga tsukkomi desu!

Dad is the Wise guy, Odoroki is the Straight man!

Here Minuki mentions two scenarios and tropes that are popular in Japan.

1. "Red Oni and Blue Oni" is based on the fairy tale: The Tale of Kind Ao Oni-kun (Blue Oni)

2. "Duo of Boke and Tsukkomi" from comedy genre Manzai

The Tale of Kind Ao Oni-kun (Blue Oni)

(Those who played Genshin Impact may know this story from the Itto Legends quest)

Red Oni wanted to become friends with the humans and live together with them in the village.

Blue Oni want to help his friend and went to the village and started to cause trouble.

After "defeating" evil Blue Oni, Red Oni became known as a kind demon who saved the village, and the villagers befriended him.

Ao Oni-kun (“Blue Oni” in Japanese) is considered a model of kind friendship for helping his friend. 

Besides the fairy tale, there are also character behavior patterns based on the red and blue oni.

The Red Oni is associated with passion, wildness, and defiance. A Red Oni character is often more brawny than brainy, extroverted, enthusiastic, determined, and filled with a zest for life.

The Blue Oni is associated with the opposite — serenity, control, and observance of authority — and tending to be more intellectual, proud, traditional, introverted, cultured, and good-natured. Blue Oni personalities are often more noble and/or respected by others, but also likely to puzzle or confound their peers because they are difficult to read and have a mysterious quality to them.

This is literally the plot of the entire fourth part of Gyakuten Saiban: the blue oni makes the red oni a hero in the faces of the townspeople, guiding him from the shadows. Naruhodo turned out to be that "necessary evil" that exposed the flaws of the judicial system that lawyers were thinking about, and Odoroki proved by his example that even the most complicated case can be resolved if you work honestly and believe in the truth until the end.

Second trope: Manzai

This is the Japanese variation on the ever-popular Straight Man and Wise Guy duo.

The tsukkomi is the Straight Man of the pair, roughly, while the boke is more or less the Wise Guy. The act usually involves the duo having a conversation on some subject, with the tsukkomi trying to correct the boke's misconceptionsnote and sometimes trying to have his partner act out a scene with him in order to help make his point.

The boke, meanwhile, sets up the gags by getting everything completely wrong, either because he's a moron or because he's being a smartass to the tsukkomi.

It suits them well, doesn't it?

Naruhodō does not try to impose his point of view on Odoroki, allowing him to find out the details and decide what is true. He constantly makes fun of him, about his status, while it seems that he never behaves seriously. At the same time, Naruhodō is very smart and wise, he wisely manages his knowledge and opportunities.

Once again I don't have room for all the photos, so I'll continue in the next part.

[savage-daughter-of-nikitie]

From Robert Reich

Friends,

After a federal judge pressed the Trump administration to provide evidence by 5 pm yesterday about whether the White House had violated the court’s order in deporting migrants with little to no due process, so-called border czar Tom Homan said that the flights would continue regardless. “We’re not stopping,” he said. “I don’t care what the judges think.”

In our system, judges don’t just “think.” They have the final say, unless their rulings are appealed to the Supreme Court, in which case the high court’s majority has the final final say.

Yesterday afternoon, it became apparent that Trump’s Justice Department shares Homan’s odd view of our judicial system. DOJ lawyers filed papers telling the judge that the administration would not provide any further information about the deportation flights, and that the court should vacate the hearing.

Then, speaking on Fox News, Attorney General Pam Bondi criticized the judge, saying “What he’s done is an intrusion on the president’s authority.”

What’s going on here?

A very dangerous game.

On Sunday night, Trump told reporters that a federal judge in California who ordered the administration to rehire thousands of fired probationary workers was “putting himself in the position of the president of the United States, who was elected by close to 80 million votes.”

Excuse me? In our system of government, courts pass judgment on actions of a president and the executive branch. Courts don’t put themselves in the “position” of a president. They act as the Constitution empowers them to act — as a co-equal branch of government.

If the executive branch doesn’t agree with what a lower-court judge decides, it can appeal to a higher court and ultimately to the Supreme Court.

Trump isn’t the only one to make this unconstitutional claim. In early February, Trump’s vice president, JD Vance, declared that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” It was an odd statement coming from someone who has studied at one of America’s preeminent law schools — and it was logically absurd, since it’s up to judges (and eventually the Supreme Court’s justices) to determine a president’s “legitimate power.”

Let’s be clear. Trump has openly violated numerous laws and constitutional provisions — such as ending birthright citizenship; giving associates of Elon Musk’s government-slashing effort access to a sensitive Treasury Department system; transferring transgender female inmates to male prisons; placing thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development employees on leave; and effectively dismantling USAID and folding it into the State Department.

In response, federal judges have temporarily barred a slew of Trump orders from taking effect.

But not until now has Trump or his regime so blatantly refused to follow a judge’s order.

What happens when this or another lower-court ruling goes to the Supreme Court, and the high court rules against Trump?

Vance has said that if this occurs, Trump should “stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”

Never mind that the quote attributed to Jackson is, as one scholar has noted, “probably apocryphal.” It’s heard more and more from Trump appointees these days, as exemplified by Homan’s remark this morning and this afternoon’s Justice Department filing.

Trump’s appointments in his second term are having the opposite effect of his first-term appointees. In his first term, they restrained him somewhat. Recall that the Justice Department’s top brass threatened to resign en masse if he appointed as attorney general the one assistant attorney general who was prepared to sell his soul to Trump and say the 2020 election was stolen from him.

This time, his appointees are magnifying his worst instincts. Rather than act as guardrails, they are egging Trump on.

Many people wonder if we’re in a “constitutional crisis.” Definitions of that phrase vary considerably, as do opinions about whether we’re in one now.

My worry is that Trump is surrounded by extremist anti-democracy nihilists, including his vice president, who are encouraging him to defy the Supreme Court.

If and when he does, we’ll be in a constitutional crisis that should cause every American to take to the streets.

[misfitwashere]

ROBERT REICH

MAR 17

Friends,

Sorry to intrude on your inboxes for a second time today, but it’s necessary. 

After a federal judge pressed the Trump administration to provide evidence by 5 pm today about whether the White House had violated the court’s order in deporting migrants with little to no due process, so-called border czar Tom Homan said that flights would continue regardless. “We’re not stopping,” he said. “I don’t care what the judges think.”

In our system, judges don’t just “think.” They have the final say, unless their rulings are appealed to the Supreme Court, in which case the high court’s majority has the final final say. 

This afternoon, it became apparent that Trump’s Justice Department shares Homan’s odd view of our judicial system. DOJ lawyers filed papers telling the judge they would not appear in court, that the administration would not provide any further information about the deportation flights, and that the court should vacate the hearing. 

What’s going on here? 

On Sunday night, Trump told reporters that a federal judge in California who ordered the administration to rehire thousands of fired probationary workers was “putting himself in the position of the president of the United States, who was elected by close to 80 million votes.” 

Wrong. In our system of government, courts pass judgment on actions of a president and the executive branch. Court don’t put themselves in the position of a president. They act as the Constitution empowers them to act — as a co-equal branch of government. If the executive branch doesn’t agree with what a lower-court judge decides, it can appeal to a higher court and ultimately to the Supreme Court.

Trump isn’t the only one to make this mistake. In early February, Trump’s vice-president JD Vance declared that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” It was an odd statement from someone who has studied at one of America’s preeminent law schools — and it was logically absurd, since it’s up to judges and — if their rulings are appealed to the Supreme Court — justices to determine a president’s “legitimate power.” 

Let’s be clear. Trump has openly violated numerous laws and constitutional provisions — such ending birthright citizenship; giving associates of Elon Musk’s government-slashing effort access to a sensitive Treasury Department system; transferring transgender female inmates to male prisons; placing thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development employees on leave; and effectively dismantling U.S.A.I.D. and folding it into the State Department. In response, federal judges have temporarily barred a slew of Trump orders from taking effect.

But not until today has Trump or his regime openly and blatantly refused to follow a judge’s order. 

What happens when this or another lower court ruling goes to the Supreme Court, and the high court rules against Trump? 

Vance has��said if this occurs, Trump should “stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’” 

Never mind that the quote attributed to Jackson is, as one scholar has noted, “probably apocryphal.” It’s heard more and more from Trump appointees these days, as exemplified by Homan’s remark, and this afternoon’s Justice Department filing. 

Trump’s appointments in his second term are having the opposite effect of his first-term appointees. In first term, they restrained him somewhat. The Justice Department’s top brass threatened to resign en mass if he appointed as Attorney General the one assistant attorney general who was prepared to sell his soul to Trump and say the 2020 election was stolen from him. 

This time, his appointees are magnifying his worst instincts. Rather than act as guardrails, they are egging Trump on. 

Many people wonder if we’re in a “constitutional crisis.” Definitions of that phrase vary considerably as do opinions about whether we’re in one now. 

My worry is that Trump is surrounded by extremist anti-democracy nihilists, including his vice president, who are encouraging him to defy the Supreme Court. 

If and when he does, we’ll be in a constitutional crisis that should cause every American to take to the streets.

[doomdaysdecays]

ANYWAY let me tell you about the virtual menstruation & migration panel on March 18th, 12:30 pm eastern standard time. six women, all dedicated healthcare experts and/or activists, will be speaking at the event as panelists and im really excited to listen.

Menstruation and Migration brings together a diverse panel of experts and advocates to discuss the intersection of menstruation and migration. Our panelists will explore the unique challenges faced by migrant women and girls in accessing menstrual health resources, share stories from their work, and highlight solutions to address period poverty in displaced communities. Join us for an engaging conversation that sheds light on this critical yet often overlooked issue.

get your free virtual admission here!!!

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Noel Sims at Popular Information:

On March 15, President Trump signed a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The proclamation claimed that the Alien Enemies Act gave Trump the authority to summarily deport alleged members of Tren de Aragua (TdA), a gang based in Venezuela, without due process. At 5:26 and 5:42 PM Eastern, shortly after the proclamation was posted to the White House website, two planes loaded with purported TdA members took off from an airport in Harlingen, Texas bound for San Salvador, El Salvador. A third plane of accused TdA members took off from the same airport at 7:36 PM Eastern. In all, about 200 people were on the planes. There are a few big problems with these flights. First, the Alien Enemies Act does not authorize the president to deport alleged gang members without due process. The law is "a wartime authority that allows the president to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an enemy nation." It can be invoked only in the context of a "declared war" or "invasion" by "any foreign nation or government." The United States is not at war with Venezuela and the 200 people, whether or not they are gang members, did not "invade" the United States on behalf of Venezuela. Second, before any of the flights landed — and before one flight even took off — a federal judge ordered the flights not to proceed. "You shall inform your clients of this immediately, and that any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States," a federal judge told lawyers representing the Trump administration at 6:48 PM. The ACLU and Democracy Forward had sued the administration on behalf of the accused migrants. The Trump administration ignored the judge's order, did not turn the planes in the air around, and directed a third flight to take off. Once in San Salvador, the detainees were transported to Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), a notorious mega-prison that can house over 40,000 people. The inmates are confined to cells for 23.5 hours a day, sleep on metal bunks with no sheets, pillows, or mattresses, and relieve themselves in an open toilet. Upon arrival from the United States, the detainees were "forced to kneel while prison guards shaved their hair and shouted commands." Beyond the legalities, there is another fundamental problem with the deportation operation: many of the alleged gang members sent to CECOT do not appear to be gang members at all. The Trump administration appears to be linking some of the migrants to TdA through tattoos. But, according to experts, TdA affiliates do not “have any particular signs that identify their membership."

A significant share of those alleged to be members of Tren de Aragua sent to the infamous CECOT prison in El Salvador as a result of Donald Trump’s lawless Alien Enemies Act declaration do not have any gang ties at all.

See Also:

The Parnas Perspective (Aaron Parnas): BREAKING: ICE Admits To Deporting Migrants With No Criminal History To El Salvador

The Guardian: What to know about the El Salvador mega-prison where Trump sent deported Venezuelans

[allthegeopolitics]

Prosecutors have asked judges to jail Italy's deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini over his 2019 decision to stop a ship carrying more than 100 migrants from landing in the country. Prosecutors in the city of Palermo have requested a six-year sentence for alleged kidnapping over the incident, which happened when Mr Salvini was interior minister. The vessel, operated by the charity Open Arms, was stranded in the Mediterranean Sea for 19 days due to his refusal, with some passengers throwing themselves into the sea in desperation amid an "extreme humanitarian emergency" on board. The remaining 89 people on the vessel were eventually allowed to disembark in Lampedusa following a court battle.

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[mightyflamethrower]

Riots have broken out in multiple cities and towns across Great Britain, particularly over the past week. There were already protests taking place, but some of them have now turned violent. The topic driving all of this unrest is the immigration situation, particularly the illegal migrants that have been crossing the English Channel on rubber rafts and boats. Much as we've seen a backlash in the United States to violent crimes committed by illegal migrants, many Brits are clearly fed up as well. Everything seemed to come to a head last week when a series of stabbing attacks took the lives of three young children and left eight other children and two adults seriously injured. This took place in Southport, a seaside town north of Liverpool. Rumors quickly spread that the attacker was an illegal migrant, and that's when the protests turned violent. Hundreds have been arrested as a result. (AP)

Britain has been convulsed by violence for the past week as crowds spouting anti-immigrant and Islamophobic slogans clashed with police. The disturbances have been fueled by right-wing activists using social media to spread misinformation about a knife attack that killed three girls during a Taylor Swift-themed dance event. The violence, some of Britain’s worst in years, has led to hundreds of arrests as the government pledges that the rioters will feel “the full force of the law” after hurling bricks and other projectiles at police, looting shops and attacking hotels used to house asylum-seekers. As Britain’s new government struggles to quell the unrest and announces a “standing army” of specialist police to deal with rioting, here’s a look at what’s happening and why.

The liberal media has a marked tendency to try to blame nearly everything on online misinformation or disinformation, but in this case, they do seem to have a point. The attacker was described in several outlets as someone "believed to be an asylum-seeker or a Muslim immigrant." That report spread across the media quickly, inflaming tensions. But it turns out that the killer's name is Axel Muganwa Rudakubana and he was actually born in Wales in 2006, moving to Southport in 2013. His parents are reportedly legal immigrants from Rwanda. He also reportedly suffers from autism, so the stabbing attack may have been more of a mental health issue than any sort of hate crime.

Even if the deadly attack in Southport turns out to have been mischaracterized, that doesn't mean that the UK doesn't still have a serious problem with its illegal immigration situation and resultant unrest. This situation has been simmering for more than a decade and it now appears to be reaching the boiling point. There is a group over there named the English Defence League that has been operating for more than a decade, running a campaign against massive Muslim migration into the country, and they've been attracting more followers recently.

As far as the response to this situation goes, what we're seeing is a jarring juxtaposition between two different British leaders. The UK recently elected its new Labor Party Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, to replace the outgoing Conservative Party PM, Rishi Sunak. Sunak had previously vowed to stop the flow of illegals into the country by turning back the boats in the channel and deporting illegals already in the country to Rwanda. Immediately upon taking office, Starmer canceled the plan and instead vowed to take care of the problem by "working with other European nations and speeding up the removal of failed asylum-seekers."

Starmer has also vastly increased the rate of arrests... not of the migrants, of course, but of the protesters. Some of the protesters have engaged in vandalism and caused damage, with some even attacking the police, so they will need to be held accountable, but many of them are simply carrying signs and decrying both the current administration and the flood of migrants. They don't have the type of First Amendment protections we enjoy in the United States, so many of them have been sent to jail. Starmer has promised that the protesters will "feel the full force of the law" and established a "standing army" of specialist police to deal with the rioting. The entire situation is a mess, to be sure, but it's yet one more sign that massive migration and lax immigration enforcement are causing unrest far beyond America's borders. And the problem is spreading.

[saywhat-politics]

By The Associated Press

Published: Dec. 27, 2024 at 1:13 PM MST|Updated: 6 hours ago

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is developing a cellphone app that will allow migrants to warn relatives and local consulates if they think they are about to be detained by the U.S. immigration department, a senior official said Friday.

The move is in response to President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to carry out mass deportations after he takes office on Jan. 20.

The app has been rolled out for small-scale testing and “appears to be working very well,” said Juan Ramón de la Fuente, Mexico’s secretary of foreign affairs.

He said the app would allow users to press a tab that would send an alert notification to previously chosen relatives and the nearest Mexican consulate. De la Fuente described it as a sort of panic button.

“In case you find yourself in a situation where detention is imminent, you push the alert button, and that sends a signal to the nearest consulate,” he said.

U.S. authorities are obliged to give notice to home-country consulates when a foreign citizen is detained. Mexico says it has beefed up consular staff and legal aid to help migrants in the legal process related to deportation.

De la Fuente expects the app to be rolled out in January. He didn’t say whether the app has a de-activation tab that would allow someone to rescind an alert if they weren’t really detained.

The government says it has also set up a call center staffed 24 hours a day to answer migrants’ questions.

The Mexican government estimates there are 11.5 million migrants with some form of legal residency in the United States, and 4.8 million without legal residency or proper documents.

[uispeccoll]

#MiniatureMonday

Happy Māori Language Week from Special Collections & Archives!

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, Maori Language Week, is celebrated annually the week of September 14th to commemorate Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori, the Maori Language Moment, which stamps the presentation of the Maori Language Petition in New Zealand at 12 pm on September 14, 1972.

Te Reo Māori is the language of New Zealand's Indigenous Maori people. It is a part of the Austronesian language family and shares its roots with other island languages including Tahitian and Hawaiian. The celebration of Te Wiki is rooted deeply in efforts to revitalize the Māori language after years of the speaking and use of te reo was banned in schools. Today, te reo Māori is the official language of New Zealand, or Aotearoa as it is called by the Indigenous people. It has become increasingly used in New Zealand society, culture, and professional institutions. The Māori language has also become something of global interest, with the popularization of the language through its presence in music, film, television, and sports commentary.

In the United States, Polynesians as a whole make up less than half of a percent of the American population, with Māori people as one of the smallest migrant populations. Still, for those living abroad or interested in learning the language from afar, the language revitalization movement has certainly spread to the United States, along with its learning materials and resources.

There is a Māori proverb that reads ahakoa he iti he pounamu, "although it is small, it is greenstone." This refers to the importance of things small but precious, such as these miniatures!

The Reeds' Lilliput Māori dictionary and Reeds' Lilliput Māori proverbs live in Special Collections as part of the Smith Miniature Book Collection. These 5cm tall miniature books were published by A.W. Reed in the early 1960s, the dictionary in 1960 as part of a collection of miniature dictionaries made popular by other global publishers. The book of whakatauki, Māori proverbs, joined the mini-dictionary in 1964. Other language dictionaries include Spanish, French, and Romanian. Due to their size, it is likely that these books were made to entertain more so than educate. Still, they are certainly one of the many taonga, treasures, of Special Collections.

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2023 begins Monday, September 11, and concludes Sunday, September 17. Celebrate through songs, stories, conversations, or by learning some library-related Māori vocabulary! You can also visit the University of Iowa LibGuide on learning beginner's te reo Māori.

NGĀ KUPU WHARE PUKAPUKA LIBRARY VOCABULARY

pukapuka book

pūranga archive

whakaputunga collection

kaitiaki pukapuka librarian

wāhi tuku pukapuka reference desk

pānui to read

ako to learn

--From M Clark, Instruction GA

Reeds' proverbs (SMITH PL6465.Z77 .R44 1964) and Reeds' dictionary (SMITH PL6465.Z5 .R44 1960)

[stele3]

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/deadliest-israeli-strike-yet-central-beirut-leaves-gruesome-scenes-2024-11-25/

[mariacallous]

Donald Tusk has criticised Berlin’s decision to introduce controls on all its borders, arguing that it is “unacceptable” to “de facto suspend Schengen on such a large scale”.

Tusk, who was speaking during a meeting of diplomats on Tuesday in Warsaw, said he would discuss the matter on an EU level with all other countries affected.

Under the Schengen Borders Code, member states and the European Commission are entitled to table a proposal to the Council of the EU to introduce temporary restrictions, including entry, across the passport-free Schengen Area.

Earlier this week, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announced that her country would introduce spot controls on all of its borders following a fatal knife attack by a Syrian asylum seeker, who was about to be deported, in the Western town of Solingen. The knife attack, in which three were killed and others were wounded, was later claimed by Islamic State.

Such border controls were already in place with four of Germany’s neighbours – Austria, Poland, Czechia and Switzerland – in a bid to stem the flow of migrants. Entirely new controls will now be introduced on Germany’s borders with France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark.

The temporary controls already in place on the border with Austria are due to expire in November, while those with Poland, Czechia and Switzerland were just extended until the end of 2024.

Faeser’s announcement comes amidst intense debates on the matter in Germany, with the government facing pressure to deport illegal immigrants and asylum seekers as soon as possible. In the first half of this year, Germany sent back to Poland over 4,600 migrants who had entered the EU via Poland and then moved onwards to Germany; according to the EU Dublin system, migrants should be processed in the first EU country they enter.

“Such actions are unacceptable from the Polish point of view, because I have no doubt that it is the internal political situation in Germany that is causing these more stringent steps, and not our policy towards illegal migration on our borders,” Tusk said, criticising the border controls and referring to the anti-immigration party AfD winning its first state elections in eastern Germany earlier this month.

“Poland does not need anyone to lecture us on this issue,” Tusk said, meaning illegal immigration. “We have been the most consistent country when it comes to warning against ill-advised decisions concerning Ukraine, Russia and migration policy.”

Poland has built a border wall on its border with Belarus, which is also the eastern border of the EU, and this year it has “prevented” over 24,000 “attempted entries” while accepting only 1,900 asylum applications, according to data provided by the Polish Border Guard to BIRN. In contrast, Germany has accepted 110,000 asylum applications this year alone.

Other countries affected by Germany’s measure also expressed dissatisfaction. Gerhard Karner, Austria’s interior minister, said his country would not take in any asylum seekers rejected by Germany. “There’s no room for manoeuvre there,” Karner told Austrian media.

The nationalist-populist government of Hungary, on the other hand, which takes a much harder line on immigration than other member states, welcomed the announcement from Germany.

“Scholz, Welcome to the club!” Prime Minister Viktor Orban tweeted to the German chancellor on Tuesday.

The same day, the European Commission vowed to use all its powers to prevent Hungary from carrying through with its threat to bus illegal migrants at its borders to Brussels, in a stunt similar to what the US’s border states like Texas have done to highlight the issue of migration. According to the New York Times, in two years Texas has bused more than 119,000 people to Democrat-led cities.

On Friday, Hungary reiterated its threat to flood the EU with illegal migrants unless Brussels withdraws the 200-million-euro fine for failing to comply with EU asylum rules. “If the EU forces us to let in migrants, we will offer them free transport to the EU,” Hungary’s state secretary of the Interior Ministry said.

“In terms of the announcements made by the Hungarian authorities that they would transport irregular migrants from the Hungarian Serbian borders to Brussels, in one word, basically, it is unacceptable,” an EU Commission spokesperson was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

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I totally crashed into a food coma after getting back from a quick bank errand and a side-quest, which involved grabbing a late lunch alone at 5pm. It was my first meal of the day since it was so busy and I didn't have time to eat earlier.

Kurosaki: In-English ako ng waitress, po*a.

Hoshino: Haha! Mukha ka kasing Arabo. Bagay ka sa Dubai.

K: I'll blend well. Gulat s'ya nung nag-Tagalog ako e.

I tried Ashoka once when a friend brought us some Biryani on duty, but I never got to eat at their restaurant because of the parking hassle. The prices were a bit steep, but I get it – quality spices can be pricey.

I had a sweetened Lassi, a Punjabi yoghurt-based smoothie (Php 199) and for lunch, I went with my favourite Indian dish, Rogan Josh (Php 509) – a Kashmiri meat dish cooked in curry with Kashmiri chillies accompanied by a heaping serving of Basmati Rice (Php 199). It was all perfect. The food was so great that I had to commend the owner (a legit Indian migrant, by the way) before leaving. It was just that good and authentic!

22 July 2024 10:08 PM El Nido, Philippines