All posts tagged "Asylum Seekers"

The Supreme Court's conservative super majority on Thursday sided with the Trump administration in a 6-3 ruling, and in a sharp dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor described the consequences of turning away asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Following the ruling in Markwayne Mullin, Secretary of Homeland Security v. Al Otro Lado, Sotomayor spoke from the bench and reminded the high court of a historical moment in 1939 when more than 900 Jewish refugees who were attempting to flee persecution in Nazi Germany boarded the M.S. St. Louis in Hamburg, Germany, and were turned away from Cuba and the United States during the Holocaust. Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson also joined the dissent.

"The ship docked in the Havana harbor for days, but the Cuban Government refused to allow the fleeing passengers offboard," Sotomayor wrote. "The ship then sailed near the Miami coastline, but the U.S. Government also turned them away in part because the immigration laws at the time had strict country quotas and the relevant quota was already filled for that year. The ship sailed to Canada and was again turned away. It eventually returned to Europe. Tragically, over 500 of the refugees that had attempted to flee were trapped in Western Europe under German control, and over 250 of them died during the Holocaust. Most of them were 'murdered in the killing centers of Auschwitz and Sobibór' and 'the rest died in internment camps, in hiding, or attempting to evade the Nazis.'"...

A white nationalist who posts his content on the social media platform hosting the Republican presidential debates this week told followers charity workers should be shot for helping immigrants.

Stew Peters, a Minnesota rapper and bounty hunter who called for the execution of Hunter Biden and went after Taylor Swift, on Saturday targeted both asylum seekers and nonprofit charities that provide them with assistance. He identified Catholic Charities as one example.

“A lot of people say that we need troops on the border who will shoot the people trying to sneak across — I agree,” Peters told viewers of his Rumble stream. ...

Three boats carrying more than 700 asylum-seekers -- some of whom were Syrian refugees -- have landed on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, according to the Italian Coastguard.

Two boats carrying around 270 mainly Syrian asylum seekers landed on Italian shores on Monday, the latest of thousands of refugees fleeing the war-torn country to arrive in Italy, officials said.

German neo-Nazis have protested against a new political refugee centre in Berlin, seeking to stoke anti-foreigner sentiment a month before elections and sparking large counter-demonstrations.