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reasonsforhope · 1 year

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“America likes to tell a certain story about itself: It’s a safe haven, a place of refuge for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. It’s a story that history shows hasn’t always been true. But thankfully, it just got easier for Americans to take matters into their own hands and turn that aspiration into a reality.

The Biden administration on January 19 launched the Welcome Corps, a new program that will allow groups of Americans to directly sponsor refugees to resettle in their communities.

Whereas recent programs have focused on bringing over people from specific places — Afghanistan, Ukraine, Venezuela — this program makes it possible for private citizens to resettle people from any place in the world, so long as they are refugees as defined by the US Refugee Act.

Under the Welcome Corps program, you and a few of your friends can pool together funds to provide an immigration pathway that allows vulnerable people who may not otherwise be able to immigrate the ability to rebuild their lives in the US. Forming a private sponsor group involves bringing together at least five adults in your area and collectively raising $2,275 for each person you want to resettle in your community. With that money, sponsors commit to helping them through the first three months there, which can include securing and furnishing housing, stocking the pantry with food, supporting job hunts, and registering kids for school.

It’s a powerful way to improve life for the newcomers, granting them protection from persecution or violence in their country of origin, plus the chance to access health care, education, and socioeconomic opportunities. It can also improve life for everyone who’ll be in the newcomers’ orbit, including you and your neighbors. Research suggests welcoming refugees will likely benefit your community as a whole, for example by opening new businesses that revitalize neighborhoods. In Canada, a similar private sponsorship program has proven immensely popular and successful over the past decade.

But you might be thinking: Why should it fall to private citizens to fork over the cash, time, and energy to resettle refugees? Shouldn’t that be the government’s job?

...It’s a fair point: This is the government’s job. That’s why the advocacy groups that pushed for the Welcome Corps program insisted that any refugees who come to the US via private sponsorship should be in addition to the number of traditional, government-assisted resettlement cases.

The State Department has signaled that it agrees. This means that by sponsoring a refugee, you can play a role in allowing the US to take in more refugees overall. It really is additive.

And unlike prior programs for Afghans or Ukrainians, which were temporary, ad hoc responses to crises, the Welcome Corps is intended to be a permanent fixture. The hope is that it’ll complement the traditional resettlement process, which has been struggling for years.”

-via Vox, 1/27/23

#refugees #asylum #us politics #immigration #migration is a human right #refugee #afghanistan #ukraine #welcome corps #refugee sponsorship #united states #human rights #immigration reform #immigrant rights #good news #hope #this has SO MUCH potential to make a difference #to let us help people rather than just watch the government be awful and racist #it's huge

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radicalgraff · 1 year

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"Migration is not a crime"

Seen in Izmir, Turkey

#graffiti #graff #stencil art #migration is a human right

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catrocketship · 1 year

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Rabbit rabbit! Happy first of February! Good time to remember that borders are fake!

#rabbits #bunnies #borders #no borders #no walls #immigration #migration is a human right #my art #artists on tumblr

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bfscr · 4 months

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Texas "physically barred" Border Patrol agents from trying to rescue migrants from drowning

By the Abyss, when you're more fascist than the *Border* *Patrol* agents

"Federal officials and a Texas congressman said National Guard soldiers deployed by Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did not allow Border Patrol agents to attempt to rescue the migrants"

#cw child death #cw cops killing people #cw drowning #migration is a human right #xenophobia

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talentconnectworldwide · 1 year

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7 Mistakes to Avoid Before Immigrating to Canada

This blog will tell you about 7 mistakes that you should absolutely avoid AT ALL COSTS before immigrating to Canada. Go on, read it!

Leaving All Your Imp Documents Scattered Everywhere

2. Forgot to Open Bank Account

3. Didn’t Research Living Expenses

4. Unaware of the Local Culture

5. Forgot to Research About Healthcare Options

6. Where Will You be Living?

7. Didn’t Pack Right for the Weather

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saddayfordemocracy · 1 month

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Vincent Dubourg, "Exile coffee table," France, 2008,

Patinated cast bronze, polished cast aluminum,

30 h × 37⅜ w × 35 d in (76 × 95 × 89 cm)

Courtesy: Wright20

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hiba91 · 6 months

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protoslacker · 18 days

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The main focus of the course is the ways in which global economic systems and political interests both manufacture and protect different forms of vulnerable, precarious, and forced labour. Drawing upon examples from across the world, the course specifically focuses on labour in three major categories: supply chain work, migrant work, and sex work. It also considers the limitations of popular approaches and ‘solutions’ focusing upon the politics of rescue, and contrast these popular approaches with alternatives based upon models of worker rights, collective organising, and decent work.

#labor #migration #slavery #exploitation #trafficking #human rights

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riverswater · 11 months

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(Speciesism refers to the attribution of a superior status to human beings compared to other animal species)

#I've been thinking about this recently #Because I used to think it was too an exaggeration almost #Especially when in human societies still there aren't equal rights between genders ethnicities religious groups and everything else #But idk lately I've been thinking more about life/the universe/everything else as a whole #So I'm migrating to the other option #I still think I don't know enough and I would love to know more and also I still think that creating an equal and just society is the most #Important thing #But also #We should stop treating animals like that #Vegan #Veganism #Poll #Polls #Speciesism #<- random tags idk who the target for this is #m

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memenewsdotcom · 7 months

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Ferromex suspends routes amid migrant surge

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#America #asylum-seeker #business #ferromex #freight train #human rights #immigration #la bestia #meme #memes #mexico #migrant #migration #news #shipping #the beast #trains #united states

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reasonsforhope · 20 days

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"Fingers clinging to a crimp hold, eyes fixed determinedly on his goal, young Waleed (pictured above) scales the bouldering wall at The Climbing Hangar in Liverpool.

Waleed was newly arrived in the UK from Sudan three years ago, when he became among the first to take part in Refugees Rock, then a fledgling project offering free climbing sessions to refugees and asylum seekers.

It’s easy to imagine what might be going through his head. ‘Will I make it?’, perhaps, or ‘What happens if I fail?’ As a sporting metaphor for the challenges faced by refugees like him, climbing could not be more apt.

“That feeling when people make it to the top for the first time and they look back down at you: they’re beaming and smiling because they’ve got there, and everyone’s cheering. It has a much deeper meaning than just climbing,” said Emma Leaper. Leaper is national coordinator with the Action Asylum initiative, which runs Refugees Rock alongside The British Red Cross and the Climbing Hangar.

“It reflects the resilience of some of the people we’re working with, the journeys they’ve undergone and the fact that they’ve come all this way in the face of adversity.”

Next month marks Refugees Rock’s third year in operation. Starting with just a handful of anxious newbies at The Climbing Hangar’s Liverpool branch, it now hosts hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers at 14 centres across the UK.

Camaraderie is a huge draw. In a show of solidarity, local climbers have been recruited as volunteer ‘boulder buddies’ to show asylum-seeking newcomers the ropes, and extend a warm hand of friendship.

“It’s just wonderful,” said Leaper. “You leave your problems behind. You’re not thinking about your asylum case, or the fact that you’re separated from your family and the trauma you’ve gone through – you’re thinking about the problem on the wall in front of you.

“But the biggest difference I notice in people is in their confidence – up on that wall, they’re basically finding themselves again.”"

-via Positive.News, March 27, 2024

#rock climbing #bouldering #refugees #migrants #asylum seekers #uk #united kingdom #liverpool #migration is a human right #good news #hope

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despertoki · 10 months

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block rule

i cannot express how good it feels to see some fucking terf have the absolute most dipshit take and block them.

#trans rights are human rights #Fuckterfs #Fuck terfs #Fuck swerfs and terfs #r196 #196 #rule #r/196 #196 migration #trans rights #trans pride

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purplelalys · 2 months

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This Shabbat I will pray for a miracle ceasefire between Israel and Gaza! ❤️ #shabbatshalom

#amnesty international #human rights #change.org #european union #migration #humanitarian crisis #christianity #petition #immigrants #migrants #israel #gaza strip #gaza #peace on earth #shabbat #shabbat shalom #ceasefire #ceasefire now

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talentconnectworldwide · 1 year

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What is the best way to prepare for the IELTS?

Want to prepare IELTS? So, What is the best way to prepare for the IELTS?

Are you unable to find an answer no matter how hard you have been trying and all you can find are half-baked blogs?

Prepare IELTS in 5 Easy-Peasy Steps!

Choosing which test to give

Understand the test

Question Types

Band Scores

Mock Tests are Life Savers

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meezer · 9 months

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"calling ben shapiro gay is homophobic" he is ACTIVELY spouting racist, homophobic, transphobic and misogynistic rhetoric, day in an day out, and you're worried about being a good person to him.

#I'm so tired of some leftists being so milquetoast and obsessed with taking the high road #you will never win in any debate or fight with the right by being a good and patient person.#if appeals to the morality of the right worked the right wouldn't exist anymore cause they'd all be convinced by leftism.#it's not like they're this hesitant to EVER dehumanize us. the right insults; harrasses; doxxes with no fucking trepidation #yet some leftists INSIST. INSIST THAT WE TREAT THEM WITH RESPECT. FUCK NO. THEY LITERALLY DON'T THINK WE'RE HUMAN #YOU WILL NEVER CONVINCE THEM #these men care about their masculinity and their image. just call him a fag with migrated filler #EDIT: THIS IS NOT ABOUT ANY OF MY MUTUALS

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saddayfordemocracy · 6 months

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Nhu Xuan Hua, “Tropism, Consequences of a Displaced Memory.”

Fueled by her own background as a second-generation immigrant, French-Vietnamese artist Nhu Xuan Hua delved into her family’s photographic archive and created an eery, lingering work on cultural displacement, generational memories and the malleability of reality.

#art #human rights #photography #nhu xuan hua #memories #tropism #displaced #life #past #time #dissipation #vietnam #migration #migrants #displacement

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