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U.S. immigration enforcement agencies have the ability to impose fines on people who fail to leave the country after either entering illegally or arriving legally with a visa but remaining in the country after it has expired. And they were doing it up until January 20th of this year. (I’m sure that date is strictly a coincidence.) Since that time, no new fines have been issued to illegal aliens. But now the Department of Homeland Security has made the new policy official. Not only will there be no new fines issued, but there will be no effort made to collect on fines that were already issued. Why? Because fining people who are in violation of our immigration laws “runs counter to the agency’s best interest.” And no… you really can’t make this stuff up. (Daily Wire)
At an official memorial in Armenia's capital Yerevan, thousands of people have been remembering those who died under the rule of Ottoman Turks. Historians regard the mass killings - which began in 1915 - as the first genocide of the 20th century. Turkey rejects the term 'genocide'.
A drawing by Momoh s eight-year-old daughter depicting them cycling and dancing together.
PETALING JAYA: It has been 39 days since Nigerian Simon Momoh has been in detention, and his two young daughters keep on crying, asking where he is.
There is nothing much they can do except to look at pictures and videos of him, and to make cards for Momoh, who faces imminent deportation to Nigeria.
One of the drawings by his eight-year-old depicts them cycling and dancing together. Papa, we miss you cycling with us, cooking with us and dancing with us, she writes in the card.
Another drawing by his five-year-old is a picture of the family of four together.
US prepares formal acknowledgement of Armenian genocide
22 Apr, 2021 03:05 AM
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Joe Biden pledged as a candidate to recognise the Armenian genocide of 1915 to 1923, saying at the time silence is complicity . Photo / AP
Joe Biden pledged as a candidate to recognise the Armenian genocide of 1915 to 1923, saying at the time silence is complicity . Photo / AP
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By: Matthew Lee and Aamer Madhani
US President Joe Biden is preparing to formally acknowledge that the systematic killing and deportation of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in modern-day Turkey more than a century ago was genocide, according to US officials.
5 highlights from Aaron Motsoaledi’s briefing on refugees in Cape Town 20 April 2021 - 13:20 At the height of the protests, police and refugees clashed in the Cape Town city centre where the refugees had camped outside the UN High Commission for Refugees office before occupying the Central Methodist Church. File photo. Image: Esa Alexander/Sunday Times
Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi on Monday said temporary shelters which housed foreign nationals last year were established under the Disaster Management Act and were aimed at preventing the spread of Covid-19 at the height of lockdown.
The minister was addressing the media about the decision to deport 41 foreign nationals who demanded to be resettled in other countries. They had occupied the Central Methodist Church in the Cape Town CBD in April last year, but some ended up on the streets due to infighting.