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All aboard for the American Dream: Desperate migrants ride the ‘Train of Death’ through Mexico to reach the U.S risking violent attack, rape and kidnap

The freight train known as The Beast travels from the southern Mexican town of Arriaga up to Mexico City.

And every day hundreds of migrants, mostly from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras or Nicaragua, sit on top of the notorious train, often for days at a time.

It is also known as the Train Of Death. Riding precariously on top of the moving containers, migrants are often maimed or killed if they fall [...]

28 migrant workers working at a strawberry farm in Manolada, Greece have been shot because they demanded to get paid, after six months of unpaid work

28 migrant workers working at a strawberry production farm in Manolada, Greece were shot because they demanded to get paid, after six months of unpaid work. According to the press reports, there were no fatal injuries among the Bangladeshi workers.

New Manolada is in Peloponnese and according to Greek daily Kathimerini the farm owners have a history in abusing migrants. The incident occurred when approximately 200 workers demanded six months’ worth [...]

French government cuts immigrants welfare by 83%

eutimes.net / December 28, 2012

It seems that migration policies of a leading country in Europe, France, are seriously changing. The country is no longer able to hold back the crowd of migrants, many of whom do not want to integrate into the social and economic life of their new home country. The upcoming radical changes for migrants were announced by French Interior Minister Manuel Valls.

After a meeting on the National Immigration [...]

Immigrants strangle France alive

It seems that migration policies of a leading country in Europe, France, are seriously changing. The country is no longer able to hold back the crowd of migrants, many of whom do not want to integrate into the social and economic life of their new home country. The upcoming radical changes for migrants were announced by French Interior Minister Manuel Valls.

http://english.pravda.ru/world/europe/28-12-2012/123334-migrants_france-0/

Thousands of swastika-wearing Russian nationalists march through Moscow in protest against immigration

Thousands of Russian nationalists, some wearing swastikas, marched through Moscow on Sunday to protest against immigration.

There were chants of slogans such as ‘Russia for the Russians’ to protest President Vladimir Putin’s government.

Expressing resentment at the number of migrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia living in the country, they chanted: ‘Moscow is a Russian city.’ Nationalists accuse the Kremlin of lavishing privileges on migrants and minorities while ignoring ethnic Russians.

Nationalist [...]

Wary of Future, Professionals Leave China in Record Numbers: ‘The system here isn’t stable and you don’t know what’s going to happen next’

From NYT:

Few emigrants from China cite politics, but it underlies many of their concerns. They talk about a development-at-all-costs strategy that has ruined the environment, as well as a deteriorating social and moral fabric that makes China feel like a chillier place than when they were growing up. Over all, there is a sense that despite all the gains in recent decades, China’s political and social trajectory is still highly [...]

IN CRISIS, GREECE ROUNDS UP IMMIGRANTS

NEA VYSSA, Greece (AP) — Border police jeeps hurtle along hot, dusty tracks past potato fields on their way to the river that marks the Greek-Turkish border. Sirens blaring, the convoys have been repelling wave after wave of migrants.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_GREECE_STOPPING_IMMIGRANTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-08-22-08-37-28

Nationwide Bank Run Imminent!!! BREAKING ALERT: EU Discussed Imposing Capital Controls, Border Checks, Limiting ATM Withdrawals

EU SOURCES HAVE DISCUSSED IMPOSING CAPITAL CONTROLS AS WORST CASE SCENARIO IF GREECE LEAVES EUROZONE – RTRS

IMPOSING BORDER CHECKS, LIMITING ATM WITHDRAWALS ALSO PART OF WORST-CASE SCENARIO PLANNING – EU SOURCES – RTRS
SUSPENSION OF SCHENGEN ALSO DISCUSSED

 

Major Italian Bank Freezes All Customer Accounts

On May 31st Bank Network Investments discretely posted an announcementon their website that they would be freezing all of their customers accounts for 1 month freeze on citing financial [...]

‘El Loco’ Arrested After 49 Beheaded Bodies Found

ABC News

 

Authorities have arrested an alleged Zetas drug cartel leader nicknamed “El Loco,” AKA the Fool or the Crazy One, on charges that he dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway outside Monterrey, Mexico.

When the Mexican Army came to arrest Daniel Elizondo Jesus Ramirez, say authorities, Ramirez attempted to elude capture by shooting at troops and throwing a fragmentation grenade. Zetas commanders nicknamed The Shrimp and The Speaker [...]

Israelis build the world’s biggest detention centre

The Independent
March 10, 2012

Israel is to begin construction soon on a vast detention facility in the Negev desert to house the thousands of immigrants that cross illegally into Israel from Egypt every year.

Human rights groups fear that the detention centre, the largest of its kind in the world, with a capacity to hold 8,000 migrants, will turn into a festering refugee camp, and deprive those escaping persecution at home of [...]

Forgotten: The stolen people of the Sinai

JEROME TAYLOR 
The Independent
January 23, 2012

Refugees from sub-Saharan Africa are being kidnapped, tortured and ransomed for thousands of dollars in the Egyptian Sinai in what human rights activists say is the world’s forgotten hostage crisis. Over the past year, thousands of desperate migrants from Eritrea, Sudan and Ethiopia have been kidnapped by Bedouin tribesmen who are taking advantage of continuing instability in Egypt to ramp up their lucrative trade.

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Obamacare-Funded Health Centers for ‘Migrants’ Won’t Check Immigration Status

Matt Cover
CNSNews.com

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on Tuesday that it has awarded $28.8 million to 67 community health centers with funds from the Obamacare health reform law.

Of that $28.8 million, “approximately $8.5 million will be used by 25 New Access Point awardees to target services to migrant and seasonal farm workers,” Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Spokeswoman Judy Andrews told CNSNews.com. [...]

213 Central, South American migrants are discovered in tractor trailer in southern Mexico – AP

Foxconn amidst concern over scandals, reports of worker abuses, suicides and explosions is ousted from Hong Kong’s main stock index as its share value plummets:

Working conditions at Foxconn have come under attack

First came the suicides. Then came the fatal explosion.

Now the Taiwanese company that toils in the shadow of high-profile clients such as Apple is facing another blow – losing its blue-chip status.

Foxconn International will be removed from Hong Kong’s benchmark Hang Seng index, which groups the city’s biggest listed companies, on Tuesday.

Shares in the money-losing company have [...]

SHOCK: 16 more bodies found in Mexican pits, total now 88

From AP:

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A suspect in the kidnapping and killing of bus passengers near the U.S. border led Mexican soldiers to another set of clandestine graves containing 16 bodies, bringing to 88 the number of corpses found in mass pits in the northern state of Tamaulipas.

The latest batch of bodies was found in four pits in the township of San Fernando, where prosecutors had previously found 72 corpses [...]

Worldwatch: Latest developments on the crisis in Libya

Libyan rebels arrive at the frontline on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, March 21, 2011.

(Credit: AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

At a briefing by the British Defense Ministry this morning, Maj. Gen. John Lorimer said the launch of allied military operations is having “a very real effect protecting Benghazi from Col. Qaddafi’s forces.” Lorimer said Qaddafi’s attack on the city and its population has been stopped in its tracks. [...]

More Than 140,000 People Flee Libya

The United Nations refugee agency says over the past 10 days, more than 140,000 people have fled to Egypt and Tunisia from Libya.  The UNHCR says tens of thousands of people are stuck at the borders and in urgent need of help.

The U.N. refugee agency says the situation at the Libya-Tunisia border is chaotic. It says 14,000 people crossed the border Monday, the highest number [...]

Two really interesting articles that give a lot of food for thought, and another for good measure.

In The Wake Of Victory

“There’s a famous quote of Gandhi’s: ‘First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.’ We’re well past the stage of being ignored, and the few voices still laughing at peak oil are sounding very hollow and forced these days; the fighting is still going on, but that last stage is starting to look [...]

Forget About Owning A Chinese Property, Now Even Renting Is Out Of Reach For Many

by guy

China Daily:

The housing price-to-income ratio for urban residents is expected to reach 8.3 and the figure for migrant workers will be as high as 22.08, according to the 2010 Blue Book of China’s Economy released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences at the end of 2009.

That means millions are forced to rent, the rising costs of which can prove frustrating.

In [...]