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26.03.2023 / 04:53

Roxham Road is now closed. Advocates call the move ‘rushed,’ ‘inhumane’

The closure of the Roxham Road crossing at the Canada-U.S. border was “rushed” and will only further endanger the lives of asylum seekers, immigration advocates say.

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Close Roxham Road border crossing within 30 days, Poilievre urges

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for the federal government to close the Roxham Road border crossing within 30 days amid a rising influx of migrants entering Quebec irregularly and spurring calls from Quebec leaders who say their communities cannot keep up with the pace.

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Greek police move thousands of asylum seekers displaced by fire to new camp

Greek police operation is underway on the island of Lesbos to move thousands of migrants and refugees left homeless after a fire destroyed their overcrowded camp into a new facility on the island.Police said Thursday morning’s operation included 70 female police officers who were approaching asylum-seekers with the aim of persuading them to move to the new camp in the island’s Kara Tepe area. No violence was reported as the operation began.

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Thousands of asylum seekers left homeless after fire at refugee camp in Greece

Greek island of Lesbos, after successive fires destroyed a notoriously overcrowded migrant and refugee camp during a coronavirus lockdown.Officials have said the Tuesday and Wednesday night blazes were deliberately set by some camp residents angered at quarantine and isolation orders imposed after 35 people in the Moria camp tested positive for COVID-19. Thousands flee fires at migrant camp in Greece amid coronavirus lockdown With the camp gutted, Saturday morning found men, women and children sleeping under improvised shelters made of reed stalks, blankets and salvaged tents.Thousands gathered for a protest demanding to be allowed to leave the island, gathering on a road blocked by police buses.

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Roughly 8,800 unaccompanied migrant children expelled from U.S. since March

Donald Trump’s administration has expelled about 8,800 unaccompanied migrant children intercepted at the U.S.-Mexico border since March 20 under rules seeking to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus in the United States, according to court documents filed Friday by the Justice Department.The administration had declined to disclose the numbers since June, when it said about 2,000 children had been expelled. Immigration advocates had argued that many more were likely subject to the rules, but the scope of the expulsions was not clear until Friday.

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Coronavirus: Quebec farms facing lost profits and rotting harvests due to migrant worker shortage

[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]He said it takes inexperienced Quebecers up to three times as long to do farm work compared to a migrant worker. That meant he had to pay locals to do less work, eating into his profits.D’Aoust slashed production at his farm, Les Bontés de la Vallée, by 60 per cent this year because he and his wife figured they would only have migrant workers later in the harvest season.Two Guatemalan workers eventually made it on D’Aoust and Plante’s farm — but the financial damage to the business was done.

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Ontario probing 17 temp agencies after coronavirus outbreaks on farms

health officials warned that agencies that move workers from farm to farm could be contributing to COVID-19 outbreaks.Canadian farms rely on some 60,000 people who come to Canada on temporary work permits every year, typically living and working on one farm all season. Mistreatment of migrant farm workers amid COVID-19 a ‘national disgrace’: health minister But some also use temp agencies that employ locals, including undocumented workers.“Worker safety laws on farms apply to all workers in Ontario.

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U.S. argues for migrant family detainment, despite judge’s order to release children

immigrant parents detained with their children — including some infants — after a federal judge set a deadline for the children to be freed, which advocates warned could lead to the renewed separation of families.In court papers, the Trump administration argued Judge Dolly Gee’s findings on Friday were “insufficient” to prove the allegations made by families that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement isn’t doing enough to control the spread of coronavirus, even as there have been confirmed cases of COVID-19 in two of three family detention centres in Texas and Pennsylvania.

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Thousands of workers flock to board train to flee worst coronavirus-hit state in India

Thousands of migrant workers have flocked to a train terminal as they rushed to get on a special cross-state train in desperate bids to flee from the worst coronavirus -hit Indian state.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0