The huge hullabaloo over the CAA is difficult to understand unless it is a cynical campaign to rouse communal passions under the garb of protecting the secular nature of the Constitution. POLITICS 16-01-2020 Kanwal Sibal The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has been passed by Parliament after a thorough debate in […]
Oct 24, 2019 – swissinfo.ch KARACHI (Reuters) – India and Pakistan signed an agreement on Thursday allowing Indian pilgrims to cross the border to a Sikh shrine in Pakistan, rare […]
Source: Religion News Service By Aysha Khan CHICAGO (RNS) — Perhaps no item of clothing so immediately expresses a person’s values as a hijab. Why then, asks Hoda Katebi, do […]
Source: Huffington Post By Roque Planas The Trump administration deported a Muslim man Thursday who was detained by Border Patrol even though he was married to a U.S. citizen, held […]
Source: Time BY ABIGAIL ABRAMS When President Donald Trump introduced a new immigration plan last Thursday, he told Americans that he wanted to shift the focus of the U.S. immigration system, going from […]
Source: The Guardian By Vivian Ho (now) and Jamiles Lartey(earlier) The Mueller team unsealed evidence today that indicated that Michael Flynn told them of several instances of “persons connected to the Administration or Congress” interfering with the […]
Source: The Intercept By Maryam Saleh MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS DETAINED at a Florida jail made more than 20 requests — orally and in writing — for religious accommodation throughout last year. Their […]
Source: Pew Research Center But U.S. trails other economically advanced nations in share of immigrants with high skills BY PHILLIP CONNOR AND NEIL G. RUIZ Like publics in other economically advanced countries with […]
Source: The Local MPs including Chancellor Angela Merkel voting in the Bundestag on Thursday. Photo: DPA It has sparked a split of opinions among politicians in Germany. But on Thursday the Bundestag voted in favour of the controversial UN migration pact. In the ballot 372 MPs voted in favour of […]
Source: Vox By Tara Isabella Burton Members of the Central American caravan wait in line for food and other items while in a camp on October 31, 2018, in Juchitan, de […]
Source: Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government announced Monday that it agreed to absorb 1,000 Ethiopian Jews — accepting just a fraction of the African country’s 8,000 remaining […]
Source: Time By BILLY PERRIGO The European Union will deploy 10,000 armed border guards to tackle unlawful migration by 2020, the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced in a speech on Wednesday. The […]
Source: Los Angeles Times By SARAH PARVINI Even as it cracked down on immigration from predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East and Africa, the Trump administration stressed that the safety […]
Source: The Guardian Crossbencher Fraser Anning widely condemned for speech praising white Australia policy and pushing for plebiscite on Muslim immigration An Australian crossbench senator has invoked the term “the […]
Source: Time BY BILLY PERRIGO Stephen Miller, a senior advisor to President Donald Trump, has been branded an “immigration hypocrite” by his uncle, David S. Glosser, in a column in which […]
Source: CNN By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN)We haven’t seen their faces. We don’t know their names. We only know a number: 711. That’s how many immigrant kids from separated families […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Aysha Khan (RNS) — When Imam Arjan Abu Sa’ad turned on the news to see reports of toddlers being pulled from their families and detained in […]
Source: Associated Press By JESSE J. HOLLAND and RUSSELL CONTRERAS WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s lament this week that immigration is “changing the culture” of Europe echoed rising anti-immigrant […]
Source: The Guardian BY Angela Giuffridaand Lorenzo Tondo Gianfranco Formenton, a priest in Umbria, has long preached against racism. Gianfranco Formenton, a priest in Italy’s central Umbria region who has long preached […]
Source: The New York Times By Katrin Bennhold and Melissa Eddy BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel, who staked her legacy on welcoming hundreds of thousands of migrants into Germany, agreed on Monday to […]
