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Nick Petru

Fresh claims US is running secret prison in Afghanistan - 1 views

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  • Nick Petru on 18 Oct 10
     
    An interesting concern on US, foreign detention centers
  • Rebecca Heller on 18 Oct 10
     
    Also an interesting question is whether it would be in the best interest of the US to be more open about their secret prisons and detention centers.
julianp22

Biden administration makes second attempt to end "Remain in Mexico" border program - CB... - 0 views

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  • The Biden administration on Friday announced its second attempt to end a Trump-era border program that forced migrants to wait in Mexico for their U.S. asylum hearings, issuing a new termination memo it hopes will pass legal muster.
  • "I recognize that MPP likely contributed to reduced migratory flows. But it did so by imposing substantial and unjustifiable human costs on the individuals who were exposed to harm while waiting in Mexico,"
  • Lawyers representing the government, as well as Texas and Missouri, which filed the lawsuit against the termination of the Remain in Mexico policy, are set to convene on Tuesday to hold oral arguments before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is hearing the administration's appeal of the August ruling. 
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  • The Trump administration used the MPP to return 70,000 migrants to Mexico,
  • The modifications include expanding migrants' access to lawyers; striving to complete court cases within 180 days; and creating a policy exception for at-risk asylum-seekers, including migrants who identify as members of the LGBTQI community and those whose age or medical conditions make them too vulnerable to be returned to Mexico, DHS officials said.
  • Kacsmaryk also determined the reversal of the Trump-era border policy led the Biden administration to violate a section of U.S. immigration law that mandates the detention of certain asylum-seekers, since there's currently not enough detention capacity to detain all of them.
Kay Bradley

Israel's Lessons From the Gaza Wars - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • unless the proper lessons are learned
  • The first is that Israel’s deterrence capabilities are limited.
  • But that’s the point: Israel’s future wars with Palestinians are going to be in very densely populated areas.
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  • Israel was unable to achieve the goals that it announced before the war. It was unable to disarm the various resistance movements and turn Gaza into a demilitarized zone, nor was it able to put an end to the tunnel system, or impose calm and guarantee the security of its own citizens.
  • The second lesson is that Israel’s ongoing siege of Gaza can’t continue.
  • t is neither possible nor acceptable that 1.8 million Palestinians continue to live in the world’s biggest open-air prison, and that they be required to surrender and acquiesce to the conditions of their detention.
  • It is unacceptable that Palestinians living there are banned from travelling out of Gaza. How much longer will Israel continue to rule the lives of Palestinians and demand their compliance, branding all those who resist the state of siege and occupation terrorists?
  • Gaza’s infrastructure has been destroyed
  • The third lesson is that Israel’s relentless campaign to weaken the Palestinian Authority, its president and moderate Palestinians seeking a political settlement has always been misguided and will only breed disaster.
  • When members of the Israeli cabinet claim that the Palestinian Authority’s president, Mahmoud Abbas, who is criticized for his dovishness in Palestinian circles, is not a possible partner for peace, they are essentially demanding a puppet, who completely submits to all Israeli demands.
  • The road to peace is both clearly delineated and short: It is the public acceptance of the legitimate right of the Palestinians to end the occupation and establish a state.
  • If Israel is unwilling or incapable of understanding that this is the only way to end the conflict, then the international community must take it upon itself to intervene and enforce the two-state solution. It can no longer be claimed that direct negotiations between two unequal partners, Israel the occupier and the Palestinians who live under its occupation, are the only way to achieve this. It hasn’t worked for over 20 years.
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