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Labor migration has always existed Jochen Oltmer 2024-06-14 12:57 PM
Labor migration to Germany has a history: Italian guest workers in the 1960s The labor shortage in the countryside is becoming increasingly noticeable, and it is becoming more and more difficult to find local workers; on the other hand, the demand for migrant workers, mainly foreigners, is increasing. (...) (text/plain)

Immigrants Are Not Hurting US-Born Workers Economic Policy Institute 2024-03-01 11:57 AM
immigration is contributing to strong economic growth—with future immigration forecast to boost real gross domestic product by 2% over the next 10 years—as well as increasing government revenue. Immigrants are also complementing U.S.-born workers by contributing to overall population and workforce growth. (text/plain)

Asylum policy: how to create a permanent crisis Judith Saladin and Lukas Tobler 2023-11-27 1:31 PM
The principle of repression instead of adapting the asylum system to changing circumstances had long been established by this time. The discourse is being whipped up from the right. In its dispatch, the (German) Federal Council justifies its repressive package of measures with the dissatisfied mood among the population towards "delinquent asylum seekers." (text/plain)

The road to barbarism Robert Kurz 2021-11-26 4:11 PM
Capital is losing its capacity for productive investment and is turning to the financial markets, which are more profitable. It is with this money that the war machine and the trade deficit are financed. The US is under great pressure to constantly show that it is in control. (text/plain)

Fighting the "Immigrant Threat" Lola Loustaunau 2021-02-02 2:54 PM
The current rise in precarious work is better understood in the context of neoliberal reform, processes of deregulation, deindustrialization, and deunionization, as well as the growing inequality that has resulted. (text/plain)

For a borderless pragmatism. Outline of a Progressive Migration Policy Christoph Spehr 2021-01-08 11:48 AM
Immigration leads to stronger economic growth, which in turn creates jobs, Without migration, we would all be sitting in Olduvia in East Africa, as we were 100,000 years ago. About 3% of the world's population, about 215 million people, live in a state other than the one in which they were born. Migration has always existed. (text/plain)

Five Theses on the Political-Theological Foundation of Church Asylum Benedikt Kern 2020-09-24 11:54 AM
Human rights did not just fall from the sky, but had to and must be fought for by those who are not granted them...This includes the unwritten human right to global freedom of movement. (text/plain)

Close the Camps johnk 2019-10-12 7:57 PM
Update: Assemble at Grand Park between Temple and First. (text/plain)

Fighting the Causes of Flight Jens Berger 2019-07-29 10:08 AM
The refugee debate is back but only the symptoms are in the spotlight. Refugees are fought instead of the causes of flight. The political failure is as dreadful as the forgetfulness of the media and politics. More than 70 million persons are fleeing from war, persecution and conflicts. (text/plain)

The Refugee Welcoming Center in Vancouver BC vancouversun.com 2019-06-26 6:45 PM
Hope like the immigrant is an interruption leading to new priorities and policies. (text/plain)

April 16 2019 Inmigration Rules do not Hold Water we want to stay in our country in a 1 story 2019-04-17 10:28 AM
people have a right to organize for sanctuary laws.There are reasons for this.What we do not like, is the funneling of tens of thousands of people who have been apprehended by border patrol and then delivered like a ups to these sanctuary zones. (text/plain)

African Nations Large and Small Want Visa Numbers Changed to Work With NGO,s Businesses P 2019-04-04 12:59 AM
A frican NGO's are reporting a dire lack of legal visas for nations that warrant legally protected travel. This was also reported in an economic census of businesses that are in groceries, restaurant and other categories (text/plain)

Tazria: Spiritual Leprosy and Real Faith In G-d Ariel Natan Pasko 2019-04-03 7:44 PM
The G-d of Israel is Stronger than Trump! Jews Belong in Israel, the Torah says so. Jewish Self-defense is an Obligation. (text/plain)

"Capitalism will make migrants out of all citizens" Diego Fusaro 2019-03-04 11:41 AM
No one speaks about the right to be deeply rooted in one's country and not to be uprooted by global capitalism. In reality, the elite is demophobic. That means, it hates people and democracy. We must be populist and not elitist today, democratic and not demophobic. (text/plain)

Please Release Me John Wakefield 2019-02-27 2:25 AM

I tried to renounce my US nationality in 2011; and due to illegal actions taken by the US Department of State, my application was rejected. At the time the fee for renunciation was $400; it is now $2,350, thanks to former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, whose only goal was to extort as much money as possible from the fleeing masses. Why should there even be a fee for this? That speaks volumes. (image/jpeg)

On the Refugee Debate Marco Wenzel 2018-12-26 2:00 PM
The rulers want to divert from the real causes of the refugee wave and from their own misdeeds because the cause of the misery is an exploitation crisis of capital and the greed of mammoth world corporations. Only the prospect for a future in their country can stop refugees. (text/plain)

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