Trump Builds Wall Made of Mexico: Ends U.S. Asylum for Pass-Through Migrants
President Trump effectively ends asylum for migrants traveling through Mexico to get to the U.S.. These pass-though migrants must, instead, now seek asylum in the first safe country they enter. In effect, Trump builds a wall made of Mexico. Have we given up on the idea of the U.S. as refuge for the world’s beleaguered masses?
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Quick Hit: Breach Of Trust. Then The SFO.
Van Velden has lost confidence in FENZ CE Kerry Gregory after a seriously significant file was withheld for a year. SFO sits on a historical levy matter FENZ says is proactive and not Gregory personally. Accountability needs the file. Breach of trust. Then the SFO.
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Ngarewa-Packer made the remark after Speaker Maureen Pugh told fellow Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara to watch her language in response to her calling the government’s move-on orders “bull crap”.
This Is a Naked Inconsistency
What the reaction to another Sydney Sweeney advertisement reveals about consistency, power, and political double standards.
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The Elites and an Imaginary War
As the warnings about Russia grow louder, the public is being told to fear more, question less and prepare for war.
When the Inclusion Stops at Israelis
Nationality is not culpability. Shalev Biton did not need Adidas to endorse his politics. He did not need it to endorse the IDF. He needed one shoe. Adidas should never have apologised for selling it to him.
Where Have All the Visionaries Gone?
Australia remains one of the luckiest countries on Earth. Resources, agriculture, skills, institutions, capital and proximity to Asia. We don’t lack opportunity. We lack a destination.
