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San Antonio migrant truck deaths prove, again, need for real immigration reform
The blocking of legal entry routes into the United States is leading migrants to risk more dangerous ways to enter the country, says JOHN BACHTELL
SHOCKING: Police and other first responders at the scene where dozens migrants were found dead and
multiple others were taken to hospitals with heat-related illnesses in San Antonio, Texas
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
THE horrific deaths of 53 migrants in San Antonio, Texas, packed in an unairconditioned 18-wheeler in sweltering 100-degree (38°C) heat is another shocking reminder of the United States’ outdated, unjust, and inhumane immigration system.
Policies based on criminalising migrants and militarising borders are causing more suffering and death while failing to address the root crisis primarily driving it.
A record number of migrants and their families, escaping gang violence and poverty, including from the Covid-19 pandemic aftershocks which worsened conditions in their home countries, are seeking entry into the US, seeking refuge, asylum and economic security.
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