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Der Grundrechtsbeauftragte von #Frontex hat den Tod von 8 Menschen am 3. April 2025 vor #Lesbos untersucht und sieht Griechenlands Küstenwache als Verursacher. Die hat dieses Jahr auch in #Chios ein Schlauchboot gerammt, 15 Menschen starben:
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1199473.unglueck-vor-lesbos-frontex-bericht-sieht-schuld-bei-griechischer-kuestenwache.html

Der Grundrechtsbeauftragte von #Frontex hat den Tod von 8 Menschen am 3. April 2025 vor #Lesbos untersucht und sieht Griechenlands Küstenwache als Verursacher. Die hat dieses Jahr auch in #Chios ein Schlauchboot gerammt, 15 Menschen starben:
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1199473.unglueck-vor-lesbos-frontex-bericht-sieht-schuld-bei-griechischer-kuestenwache.html

Der Grundrechtsbeauftragte von #Frontex hat den Tod von 8 Menschen am 3. April 2025 vor #Lesbos untersucht und sieht Griechenlands Küstenwache als Verursacher. Die hat dieses Jahr auch in #Chios ein Schlauchboot gerammt, 15 Menschen starben:
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1199473.unglueck-vor-lesbos-frontex-bericht-sieht-schuld-bei-griechischer-kuestenwache.html

Der Grundrechtsbeauftragte von #Frontex hat den Tod von 8 Menschen am 3. April 2025 vor #Lesbos untersucht und sieht Griechenlands Küstenwache als Verursacher. Die hat dieses Jahr auch in #Chios ein Schlauchboot gerammt, 15 Menschen starben:
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1199473.unglueck-vor-lesbos-frontex-bericht-sieht-schuld-bei-griechischer-kuestenwache.html

Der Grundrechtsbeauftragte von #Frontex hat den Tod von 8 Menschen am 3. April 2025 vor #Lesbos untersucht und sieht Griechenlands Küstenwache als Verursacher. Die hat dieses Jahr auch in #Chios ein Schlauchboot gerammt, 15 Menschen starben:
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1199473.unglueck-vor-lesbos-frontex-bericht-sieht-schuld-bei-griechischer-kuestenwache.html

Alertă sanitară pe insula grecească #Lesbos, după descoperirea unui focar de febră aftoasă.
Aproximativ 8.000 de oi și capre au fost sacrificate până în prezent.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5dNY

#Știri

Alertă sanitară pe insula grecească #Lesbos, după descoperirea unui focar de febră aftoasă.
Aproximativ 8.000 de oi și capre au fost sacrificate până în prezent.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5dNY

#Știri

Alertă sanitară pe insula grecească #Lesbos, după descoperirea unui focar de febră aftoasă.
Aproximativ 8.000 de oi și capre au fost sacrificate până în prezent.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5dNY

#Știri

Alertă sanitară pe insula grecească #Lesbos, după descoperirea unui focar de febră aftoasă.
Aproximativ 8.000 de oi și capre au fost sacrificate până în prezent.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5dNY

#Știri

Alertă sanitară pe insula grecească #Lesbos, după descoperirea unui focar de febră aftoasă.
Aproximativ 8.000 de oi și capre au fost sacrificate până în prezent.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5dNY

#Știri

https://www.europesays.com/be-nl/32891/ LTO: Europese dierziektensituatie onrustig | Melkvee.nl #BE #bedrijven #België #Belgium #Cyprus #dierziektensituatie #eiland #europese #gemeld #Gezondheid #Griekenland #griekse #Health #klauwzeer #lesbos #LTO #MKZ #Mond #Nederland #onrustig #reiniging #runderen #schapen #uitbraak #vastgesteld

America’s hidden agenda and detention of children

It looked to incredible to be true, so first I considered it “fake news“. After a few days hearing about incredible incidents and seeing unbelievable pictures I started wondering how it could be that the European Press only got to know about those horrible matters months after it had already started. That proofs that there is something going ‘very very wrong’ within the press office at the White House or that it might be that intentionally certain matters are not brought in the open, but stay uncovered until by accident some one would come to know about it. This would be a dangerous sign of which the American citizen should be much more aware and should make all concerned about the freedom of speech and of the attitude to human rights.

Mediterranean region

One would expect from a civilised country that the people in charge would know how to have a juvenile justice system based on the premise that adolescents have needs and capacities that are different from adults and that it is important for young children to have their own parents around.

In 2016 West Europe was already confronted with refugees arriving on the Greek islands from Turkey, on Kos, Lesbos, Samos and the big and beautiful island of Crete, normally tourist hot spots where authorities would be eager to please the many foreigners visiting. But what happened there in 2016 was considered not at all acceptable. We could see how refugee ships landed and got the authorities to react. The people were welcomed at the port, UNHCR representatives were present and they informed the people about the asylum process and about half of the people agreed to make an asylum application. Meanwhile helpers accommodated places for housing the refugees. The UNHCR people left and the local authority took over, the police. They presented a paper to the applicants and an interpreter started to translate, but after a few minutes he protested and refused to further translate, something went wrong. The interpreter left. Then police presented another interpreter and he explained the “content” of the paper the asylum applicants had to sign. So the people did sign.

The paper they had signed was a declaration to approval for deportation, not for asylum. The police tried to cheat the people seeking asylum, then the translator refused to change the content of the paper and left, finally a translator, apparently belonging to the police force faked the translation and people have been transferred to a detention centre.

Today we see thousands of people detained having parents and their children not sure what is going to happen with them. Several managed to escape from the camps and tried to find their way into Europe. Though several could only find death on their way.

Refugee children in Greece were considered by us in Europe, in the worst situation ever. Many homes for unaccompanied children had to close because of lack of financing by the Greek state. NGOs who run these homes haven’t been paid for the services since more than a year. The Greek ministry is drowning the NGOs with bureaucratic and administrative controls having not paid even for the year 2017.

In the beginning of June it was 20 weeks the social workers had not been paid by their employers, the NGOs were on the ground now. One by one the services of the NGOs had to close down, which meant that refugee children are sent on the streets.

For most children it was good to have their parents at their site, and for some children whose parent had died other parents took them under their care.

In the United States we come to see a more cruel version of detention.

American version of refugees

The issue of juvenile incarceration encompasses more than youth who are determined by a court to be delinquent. One would expect youngsters be taken separate from their parents at a certain age and when they had done something of a criminal act. But two weeks ago we started getting pictures of very small children being detained, not having their parents around. We saw babies their napkins changed by other children which would have no family relationship with that baby. We heard and saw toddlers crying for their mammy.

The 44th president of the United States of America in his eight years of service was able to see neighbours and communities take care of each other during the worst economic crisis of the American citizens their lifetimes. It was a president who did not mind mourning with grieving families searching for answers — and with those who found grace in a Charleston church. That president could be proud he had seen the youngest of children remind us through their actions and through their generosity of our obligations to care for refugees, or work for peace, and, above all, to look out for each other.

But with this 45th president America has shown an other face to the world and clearly has a cold hard of stone. I wonder how many would still be pleased with their vote they gave for this (unstable) man, who does not want to know of the call Barack Obama gave at the end of his term for the joyous work of citizenship.

Not just when there’s an election, not just when our own narrow interest is at stake, but over the full span of a lifetime. {Thank You Letter from Barack Obama dated 19/01/2017}

Today we should ask for the American with a warm heart for children to react seriously to end this cruel situation where children are placed in huge cages.

How could it happen when this situation of caged children is already going on since March 2018 that we only heard from it in June 2018?  Where were the American eyes and voices to report injustice?

Now when more pictures came under the eyes of so many people, who could not believe their eyes, the Republican-controlled Congress felt the pressure becoming to warming, some not wanting to have their hands burned to become accounted for such atrocity.

Parents bringing misery onto their children

At last yesterday we got to hear Melania Trump visited a detention place (= prison with small children in cages) and some republicans also demanding for a change in the border policy, following widespread condemnation. But the president waves all those European and American negative comments on this child detentions aside. He finds it normal when parents do something wrong and entered the country illegally those kids illegal in the country should also bear the consequences of the act of their parents and be imprisoned. For him there is no pardon because, he says, it is necessary to stop illegal border crossings.

Jeff Sessions – 84th United States Attorney General

The “zero-tolerance” policy – brought in by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions last month – means that adults who try to cross the border, many planning to seek asylum, are placed in custody and face criminal prosecution for illegal entry. Their children are taken away from them and as a result, hundreds of minors are now being housed in detention centres, and kept away from their parents. If they do not like that they should not have come in the first place, according the republican president and his entourage.

On Tuesday, Mr Trump said children had to be taken away if their parents were jailed for illegally crossing the US border.

“When you prosecute the parents for coming in illegally – which should happen – you have to take the children away,”

he said.

US immigration officials say 2,342 children were separated from 2,206 parents between 5 May and 9 June.

Babies and toddlers have been sent to three “tender age” shelters after being separated from their parents, the Associated Press news agency reported.

Doctors and lawyers who visited the shelters described the infants as hysterical, crying, and acting out, according to the AP report.

Those children are so called being cared off and all the things we came to see are, according to Trump, fake news.

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Audio initially obtained by investigative news outlet ProPublica appears to capture the heartbreaking cries of young Spanish-speaking children being processed by US officials after they are taken from their parents at the border with Mexico. Throughout the recording one child can be heard repeatedly calling for her father. The audio was recorded inside a US Customs and Border Protection detention facility, according to ProPublica

***

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Knife-trust in democratic sore back

A busy 2017 #3 Fake, gossip and real news

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1. The Tapestry
2. Migrants caught at the Mexico-U.S. border
3. Three Mexican window-washers and their world
4. Court: Legal Immigrants Can Be Held Indefinitely
5. Nation of Immigrants

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America’s hidden agenda and detention of children

It looked to incredible to be true, so first I considered it “fake news“. After a few days hearing about incredible incidents and seeing unbelievable pictures I started wondering how it could be that the European Press only got to know about those horrible matters months after it had already started. That proofs that there is something going ‘very very wrong’ within the press office at the White House or that it might be that intentionally certain matters are not brought in the open, but stay uncovered until by accident some one would come to know about it. This would be a dangerous sign of which the American citizen should be much more aware and should make all concerned about the freedom of speech and of the attitude to human rights.

Mediterranean region

One would expect from a civilised country that the people in charge would know how to have a juvenile justice system based on the premise that adolescents have needs and capacities that are different from adults and that it is important for young children to have their own parents around.

In 2016 West Europe was already confronted with refugees arriving on the Greek islands from Turkey, on Kos, Lesbos, Samos and the big and beautiful island of Crete, normally tourist hot spots where authorities would be eager to please the many foreigners visiting. But what happened there in 2016 was considered not at all acceptable. We could see how refugee ships landed and got the authorities to react. The people were welcomed at the port, UNHCR representatives were present and they informed the people about the asylum process and about half of the people agreed to make an asylum application. Meanwhile helpers accommodated places for housing the refugees. The UNHCR people left and the local authority took over, the police. They presented a paper to the applicants and an interpreter started to translate, but after a few minutes he protested and refused to further translate, something went wrong. The interpreter left. Then police presented another interpreter and he explained the “content” of the paper the asylum applicants had to sign. So the people did sign.

The paper they had signed was a declaration to approval for deportation, not for asylum. The police tried to cheat the people seeking asylum, then the translator refused to change the content of the paper and left, finally a translator, apparently belonging to the police force faked the translation and people have been transferred to a detention centre.

Today we see thousands of people detained having parents and their children not sure what is going to happen with them. Several managed to escape from the camps and tried to find their way into Europe. Though several could only find death on their way.

Refugee children in Greece were considered by us in Europe, in the worst situation ever. Many homes for unaccompanied children had to close because of lack of financing by the Greek state. NGOs who run these homes haven’t been paid for the services since more than a year. The Greek ministry is drowning the NGOs with bureaucratic and administrative controls having not paid even for the year 2017.

In the beginning of June it was 20 weeks the social workers had not been paid by their employers, the NGOs were on the ground now. One by one the services of the NGOs had to close down, which meant that refugee children are sent on the streets.

For most children it was good to have their parents at their site, and for some children whose parent had died other parents took them under their care.

In the United States we come to see a more cruel version of detention.

American version of refugees

The issue of juvenile incarceration encompasses more than youth who are determined by a court to be delinquent. One would expect youngsters be taken separate from their parents at a certain age and when they had done something of a criminal act. But two weeks ago we started getting pictures of very small children being detained, not having their parents around. We saw babies their napkins changed by other children which would have no family relationship with that baby. We heard and saw toddlers crying for their mammy.

The 44th president of the United States of America in his eight years of service was able to see neighbours and communities take care of each other during the worst economic crisis of the American citizens their lifetimes. It was a president who did not mind mourning with grieving families searching for answers — and with those who found grace in a Charleston church. That president could be proud he had seen the youngest of children remind us through their actions and through their generosity of our obligations to care for refugees, or work for peace, and, above all, to look out for each other.

But with this 45th president America has shown an other face to the world and clearly has a cold hard of stone. I wonder how many would still be pleased with their vote they gave for this (unstable) man, who does not want to know of the call Barack Obama gave at the end of his term for the joyous work of citizenship.

Not just when there’s an election, not just when our own narrow interest is at stake, but over the full span of a lifetime. {Thank You Letter from Barack Obama dated 19/01/2017}

Today we should ask for the American with a warm heart for children to react seriously to end this cruel situation where children are placed in huge cages.

How could it happen when this situation of caged children is already going on since March 2018 that we only heard from it in June 2018?  Where were the American eyes and voices to report injustice?

Now when more pictures came under the eyes of so many people, who could not believe their eyes, the Republican-controlled Congress felt the pressure becoming to warming, some not wanting to have their hands burned to become accounted for such atrocity.

Parents bringing misery onto their children

At last yesterday we got to hear Melania Trump visited a detention place (= prison with small children in cages) and some republicans also demanding for a change in the border policy, following widespread condemnation. But the president waves all those European and American negative comments on this child detentions aside. He finds it normal when parents do something wrong and entered the country illegally those kids illegal in the country should also bear the consequences of the act of their parents and be imprisoned. For him there is no pardon because, he says, it is necessary to stop illegal border crossings.

Jeff Sessions – 84th United States Attorney General

The “zero-tolerance” policy – brought in by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions last month – means that adults who try to cross the border, many planning to seek asylum, are placed in custody and face criminal prosecution for illegal entry. Their children are taken away from them and as a result, hundreds of minors are now being housed in detention centres, and kept away from their parents. If they do not like that they should not have come in the first place, according the republican president and his entourage.

On Tuesday, Mr Trump said children had to be taken away if their parents were jailed for illegally crossing the US border.

“When you prosecute the parents for coming in illegally – which should happen – you have to take the children away,”

he said.

US immigration officials say 2,342 children were separated from 2,206 parents between 5 May and 9 June.

Babies and toddlers have been sent to three “tender age” shelters after being separated from their parents, the Associated Press news agency reported.

Doctors and lawyers who visited the shelters described the infants as hysterical, crying, and acting out, according to the AP report.

Those children are so called being cared off and all the things we came to see are, according to Trump, fake news.

***

***

Audio initially obtained by investigative news outlet ProPublica appears to capture the heartbreaking cries of young Spanish-speaking children being processed by US officials after they are taken from their parents at the border with Mexico. Throughout the recording one child can be heard repeatedly calling for her father. The audio was recorded inside a US Customs and Border Protection detention facility, according to ProPublica

***

+

Preceding

Knife-trust in democratic sore back

A busy 2017 #3 Fake, gossip and real news

+++

Related

1. The Tapestry
2. Migrants caught at the Mexico-U.S. border
3. Three Mexican window-washers and their world
4. Court: Legal Immigrants Can Be Held Indefinitely
5. Nation of Immigrants

Rate this:

#AmericanCitizens #AmericanImmigration #AmericanMexicanBorder #Asylum #AsylumApplication #AsylumCentres #AsylumCrisis #BarackObama #CagingChildren #ChildDetention #Crete #DetentionCentra #DonaldTrump #EconomicCrisis #EuropeanPress #FakeNews #HumanRights #IllegalBorderCrossing #IllegalImmigrants #Immigrants #Injustice #JeffSessions #Kos #Lesbos #MediterraneanRegion #MelaniaTrumpOrKnaussBornMelanijaKnavs_ #Mexico #ProPublica #Refugees #Samos #TenderAgeShelters #USABorderPolicy #UnitedNationsHighCommissionerForRefugeesUNHCR_ #USCustomsAndBorderProtectionDetentionFacility #WhiteHouse #WorkOfCitizenship

America’s hidden agenda and detention of children

It looked to incredible to be true, so first I considered it “fake news“. After a few days hearing about incredible incidents and seeing unbelievable pictures I started wondering how it could be that the European Press only got to know about those horrible matters months after it had already started. That proofs that there is something going ‘very very wrong’ within the press office at the White House or that it might be that intentionally certain matters are not brought in the open, but stay uncovered until by accident some one would come to know about it. This would be a dangerous sign of which the American citizen should be much more aware and should make all concerned about the freedom of speech and of the attitude to human rights.

Mediterranean region

One would expect from a civilised country that the people in charge would know how to have a juvenile justice system based on the premise that adolescents have needs and capacities that are different from adults and that it is important for young children to have their own parents around.

In 2016 West Europe was already confronted with refugees arriving on the Greek islands from Turkey, on Kos, Lesbos, Samos and the big and beautiful island of Crete, normally tourist hot spots where authorities would be eager to please the many foreigners visiting. But what happened there in 2016 was considered not at all acceptable. We could see how refugee ships landed and got the authorities to react. The people were welcomed at the port, UNHCR representatives were present and they informed the people about the asylum process and about half of the people agreed to make an asylum application. Meanwhile helpers accommodated places for housing the refugees. The UNHCR people left and the local authority took over, the police. They presented a paper to the applicants and an interpreter started to translate, but after a few minutes he protested and refused to further translate, something went wrong. The interpreter left. Then police presented another interpreter and he explained the “content” of the paper the asylum applicants had to sign. So the people did sign.

The paper they had signed was a declaration to approval for deportation, not for asylum. The police tried to cheat the people seeking asylum, then the translator refused to change the content of the paper and left, finally a translator, apparently belonging to the police force faked the translation and people have been transferred to a detention centre.

Today we see thousands of people detained having parents and their children not sure what is going to happen with them. Several managed to escape from the camps and tried to find their way into Europe. Though several could only find death on their way.

Refugee children in Greece were considered by us in Europe, in the worst situation ever. Many homes for unaccompanied children had to close because of lack of financing by the Greek state. NGOs who run these homes haven’t been paid for the services since more than a year. The Greek ministry is drowning the NGOs with bureaucratic and administrative controls having not paid even for the year 2017.

In the beginning of June it was 20 weeks the social workers had not been paid by their employers, the NGOs were on the ground now. One by one the services of the NGOs had to close down, which meant that refugee children are sent on the streets.

For most children it was good to have their parents at their site, and for some children whose parent had died other parents took them under their care.

In the United States we come to see a more cruel version of detention.

American version of refugees

The issue of juvenile incarceration encompasses more than youth who are determined by a court to be delinquent. One would expect youngsters be taken separate from their parents at a certain age and when they had done something of a criminal act. But two weeks ago we started getting pictures of very small children being detained, not having their parents around. We saw babies their napkins changed by other children which would have no family relationship with that baby. We heard and saw toddlers crying for their mammy.

The 44th president of the United States of America in his eight years of service was able to see neighbours and communities take care of each other during the worst economic crisis of the American citizens their lifetimes. It was a president who did not mind mourning with grieving families searching for answers — and with those who found grace in a Charleston church. That president could be proud he had seen the youngest of children remind us through their actions and through their generosity of our obligations to care for refugees, or work for peace, and, above all, to look out for each other.

But with this 45th president America has shown an other face to the world and clearly has a cold hard of stone. I wonder how many would still be pleased with their vote they gave for this (unstable) man, who does not want to know of the call Barack Obama gave at the end of his term for the joyous work of citizenship.

Not just when there’s an election, not just when our own narrow interest is at stake, but over the full span of a lifetime. {Thank You Letter from Barack Obama dated 19/01/2017}

Today we should ask for the American with a warm heart for children to react seriously to end this cruel situation where children are placed in huge cages.

How could it happen when this situation of caged children is already going on since March 2018 that we only heard from it in June 2018?  Where were the American eyes and voices to report injustice?

Now when more pictures came under the eyes of so many people, who could not believe their eyes, the Republican-controlled Congress felt the pressure becoming to warming, some not wanting to have their hands burned to become accounted for such atrocity.

Parents bringing misery onto their children

At last yesterday we got to hear Melania Trump visited a detention place (= prison with small children in cages) and some republicans also demanding for a change in the border policy, following widespread condemnation. But the president waves all those European and American negative comments on this child detentions aside. He finds it normal when parents do something wrong and entered the country illegally those kids illegal in the country should also bear the consequences of the act of their parents and be imprisoned. For him there is no pardon because, he says, it is necessary to stop illegal border crossings.

Jeff Sessions – 84th United States Attorney General

The “zero-tolerance” policy – brought in by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions last month – means that adults who try to cross the border, many planning to seek asylum, are placed in custody and face criminal prosecution for illegal entry. Their children are taken away from them and as a result, hundreds of minors are now being housed in detention centres, and kept away from their parents. If they do not like that they should not have come in the first place, according the republican president and his entourage.

On Tuesday, Mr Trump said children had to be taken away if their parents were jailed for illegally crossing the US border.

“When you prosecute the parents for coming in illegally – which should happen – you have to take the children away,”

he said.

US immigration officials say 2,342 children were separated from 2,206 parents between 5 May and 9 June.

Babies and toddlers have been sent to three “tender age” shelters after being separated from their parents, the Associated Press news agency reported.

Doctors and lawyers who visited the shelters described the infants as hysterical, crying, and acting out, according to the AP report.

Those children are so called being cared off and all the things we came to see are, according to Trump, fake news.

***

***

Audio initially obtained by investigative news outlet ProPublica appears to capture the heartbreaking cries of young Spanish-speaking children being processed by US officials after they are taken from their parents at the border with Mexico. Throughout the recording one child can be heard repeatedly calling for her father. The audio was recorded inside a US Customs and Border Protection detention facility, according to ProPublica

***

+

Preceding

Knife-trust in democratic sore back

A busy 2017 #3 Fake, gossip and real news

+++

Related

1. The Tapestry
2. Migrants caught at the Mexico-U.S. border
3. Three Mexican window-washers and their world
4. Court: Legal Immigrants Can Be Held Indefinitely
5. Nation of Immigrants

Rate this:

#AmericanCitizens #AmericanImmigration #AmericanMexicanBorder #Asylum #AsylumApplication #AsylumCentres #AsylumCrisis #BarackObama #CagingChildren #ChildDetention #Crete #DetentionCentra #DonaldTrump #EconomicCrisis #EuropeanPress #FakeNews #HumanRights #IllegalBorderCrossing #IllegalImmigrants #Immigrants #Injustice #JeffSessions #Kos #Lesbos #MediterraneanRegion #MelaniaTrumpOrKnaussBornMelanijaKnavs_ #Mexico #ProPublica #Refugees #Samos #TenderAgeShelters #USABorderPolicy #UnitedNationsHighCommissionerForRefugeesUNHCR_ #USCustomsAndBorderProtectionDetentionFacility #WhiteHouse #WorkOfCitizenship

America’s hidden agenda and detention of children

It looked to incredible to be true, so first I considered it “fake news“. After a few days hearing about incredible incidents and seeing unbelievable pictures I started wondering how it could be that the European Press only got to know about those horrible matters months after it had already started. That proofs that there is something going ‘very very wrong’ within the press office at the White House or that it might be that intentionally certain matters are not brought in the open, but stay uncovered until by accident some one would come to know about it. This would be a dangerous sign of which the American citizen should be much more aware and should make all concerned about the freedom of speech and of the attitude to human rights.

Mediterranean region

One would expect from a civilised country that the people in charge would know how to have a juvenile justice system based on the premise that adolescents have needs and capacities that are different from adults and that it is important for young children to have their own parents around.

In 2016 West Europe was already confronted with refugees arriving on the Greek islands from Turkey, on Kos, Lesbos, Samos and the big and beautiful island of Crete, normally tourist hot spots where authorities would be eager to please the many foreigners visiting. But what happened there in 2016 was considered not at all acceptable. We could see how refugee ships landed and got the authorities to react. The people were welcomed at the port, UNHCR representatives were present and they informed the people about the asylum process and about half of the people agreed to make an asylum application. Meanwhile helpers accommodated places for housing the refugees. The UNHCR people left and the local authority took over, the police. They presented a paper to the applicants and an interpreter started to translate, but after a few minutes he protested and refused to further translate, something went wrong. The interpreter left. Then police presented another interpreter and he explained the “content” of the paper the asylum applicants had to sign. So the people did sign.

The paper they had signed was a declaration to approval for deportation, not for asylum. The police tried to cheat the people seeking asylum, then the translator refused to change the content of the paper and left, finally a translator, apparently belonging to the police force faked the translation and people have been transferred to a detention centre.

Today we see thousands of people detained having parents and their children not sure what is going to happen with them. Several managed to escape from the camps and tried to find their way into Europe. Though several could only find death on their way.

Refugee children in Greece were considered by us in Europe, in the worst situation ever. Many homes for unaccompanied children had to close because of lack of financing by the Greek state. NGOs who run these homes haven’t been paid for the services since more than a year. The Greek ministry is drowning the NGOs with bureaucratic and administrative controls having not paid even for the year 2017.

In the beginning of June it was 20 weeks the social workers had not been paid by their employers, the NGOs were on the ground now. One by one the services of the NGOs had to close down, which meant that refugee children are sent on the streets.

For most children it was good to have their parents at their site, and for some children whose parent had died other parents took them under their care.

In the United States we come to see a more cruel version of detention.

American version of refugees

The issue of juvenile incarceration encompasses more than youth who are determined by a court to be delinquent. One would expect youngsters be taken separate from their parents at a certain age and when they had done something of a criminal act. But two weeks ago we started getting pictures of very small children being detained, not having their parents around. We saw babies their napkins changed by other children which would have no family relationship with that baby. We heard and saw toddlers crying for their mammy.

The 44th president of the United States of America in his eight years of service was able to see neighbours and communities take care of each other during the worst economic crisis of the American citizens their lifetimes. It was a president who did not mind mourning with grieving families searching for answers — and with those who found grace in a Charleston church. That president could be proud he had seen the youngest of children remind us through their actions and through their generosity of our obligations to care for refugees, or work for peace, and, above all, to look out for each other.

But with this 45th president America has shown an other face to the world and clearly has a cold hard of stone. I wonder how many would still be pleased with their vote they gave for this (unstable) man, who does not want to know of the call Barack Obama gave at the end of his term for the joyous work of citizenship.

Not just when there’s an election, not just when our own narrow interest is at stake, but over the full span of a lifetime. {Thank You Letter from Barack Obama dated 19/01/2017}

Today we should ask for the American with a warm heart for children to react seriously to end this cruel situation where children are placed in huge cages.

How could it happen when this situation of caged children is already going on since March 2018 that we only heard from it in June 2018?  Where were the American eyes and voices to report injustice?

Now when more pictures came under the eyes of so many people, who could not believe their eyes, the Republican-controlled Congress felt the pressure becoming to warming, some not wanting to have their hands burned to become accounted for such atrocity.

Parents bringing misery onto their children

At last yesterday we got to hear Melania Trump visited a detention place (= prison with small children in cages) and some republicans also demanding for a change in the border policy, following widespread condemnation. But the president waves all those European and American negative comments on this child detentions aside. He finds it normal when parents do something wrong and entered the country illegally those kids illegal in the country should also bear the consequences of the act of their parents and be imprisoned. For him there is no pardon because, he says, it is necessary to stop illegal border crossings.

Jeff Sessions – 84th United States Attorney General

The “zero-tolerance” policy – brought in by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions last month – means that adults who try to cross the border, many planning to seek asylum, are placed in custody and face criminal prosecution for illegal entry. Their children are taken away from them and as a result, hundreds of minors are now being housed in detention centres, and kept away from their parents. If they do not like that they should not have come in the first place, according the republican president and his entourage.

On Tuesday, Mr Trump said children had to be taken away if their parents were jailed for illegally crossing the US border.

“When you prosecute the parents for coming in illegally – which should happen – you have to take the children away,”

he said.

US immigration officials say 2,342 children were separated from 2,206 parents between 5 May and 9 June.

Babies and toddlers have been sent to three “tender age” shelters after being separated from their parents, the Associated Press news agency reported.

Doctors and lawyers who visited the shelters described the infants as hysterical, crying, and acting out, according to the AP report.

Those children are so called being cared off and all the things we came to see are, according to Trump, fake news.

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Audio initially obtained by investigative news outlet ProPublica appears to capture the heartbreaking cries of young Spanish-speaking children being processed by US officials after they are taken from their parents at the border with Mexico. Throughout the recording one child can be heard repeatedly calling for her father. The audio was recorded inside a US Customs and Border Protection detention facility, according to ProPublica

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Exposição Solidariedade Violência, Esquecimento - Os Três Tempos de Lesboa

Centro de Artes e Espectáculos de Sever do Vouga, domingo, 22 de março às 10:00 GMT

A ilha grega de Lesbos, inserida na rota migratória do Mediterrâneo Oriental, onde mais de 60% da população é descendente de refugiados, tornou-se palco mediático de um enorme fluxo migratório em 2015. Esse ano marcou um antes e um depois no debate sobre migrações na década que se seguiu, tanto na ilha grega como em toda a UE.

O projeto de fotografia de Ana Mendes propõe-se a homenagear a memória dos que se arriscaram nesta fronteira nos últimos dez anos, usando Lesbos como porta de entrada para a Europa. Lugares e momentos, históricos e simbólicos, foram mapeados de modo a narrar uma cronologia de eventos.

📅 Inauguração: 22 MAR (dom), 16h
🔔 Visita Guiada: 4 ABR (sáb), com Ana Mendes
🕓Datas: 22 MAR - 30 ABR
📍Galeria: Centro das Artes e do Espetáculo Sever do Vouga, Av. Comendador Augusto Martins Pereira 70
🎟️Preço: gratuito

https://eventos.coletivos.org/event/exposicao-solidariedade-violencia-esquecimento-os-tres-tempos-de-lesboa

Migreurop
Exilés : Rapport sur la situation à Lesbos - Janvier à Juin 2025
https://mcinformactions.net/exiles-rapport-sur-la-situation-a-lesbos-janvier-a-juin-2025
#Grece #migrants #immigration #exiles #solidarite #migreurop #Lesbos

Und es ist immer noch die Hölle!

#Mavrovouni / #KaraTepe / #Moria2.0
Februar 2025

#ShameOnEUrope

#RefugeesGR #Lesbos #CCAC

via @[email protected] @[email protected]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M93D19jGN_I

Und es ist immer noch die Hölle!

#Mavrovouni / #KaraTepe / #Moria2.0
Februar 2025

#ShameOnEUrope

#RefugeesGR #Lesbos #CCAC

via @[email protected] @[email protected]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M93D19jGN_I

Und es ist immer noch die Hölle!

#Mavrovouni / #KaraTepe / #Moria2.0
Februar 2025

#ShameOnEUrope

#RefugeesGR #Lesbos #CCAC

via @[email protected] @[email protected]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M93D19jGN_I

Und es ist immer noch die Hölle!

#Mavrovouni / #KaraTepe / #Moria2.0
Februar 2025

#ShameOnEUrope

#RefugeesGR #Lesbos #CCAC

via @[email protected] @[email protected]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M93D19jGN_I

Und es ist immer noch die Hölle!

#Mavrovouni / #KaraTepe / #Moria2.0
Februar 2025

#ShameOnEUrope

#RefugeesGR #Lesbos #CCAC

via @[email protected] @[email protected]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M93D19jGN_I

Reale Entrechtung auf fiktiver Grundlage: Auf #Lesbos wird derzeit ein neues sogenanntes «Closed Controlled Access Center (#CCAC)» errichtet, finanziert von der Europäischen Union. 👇
https://youtube.com/shorts/qGSzn_X757s?si=lmywEBQrtQcRy66R

Reale Entrechtung auf fiktiver Grundlage: Auf #Lesbos wird derzeit ein neues sogenanntes «Closed Controlled Access Center (#CCAC)» errichtet, finanziert von der Europäischen Union. 👇
https://youtube.com/shorts/qGSzn_X757s?si=lmywEBQrtQcRy66R

Reale Entrechtung auf fiktiver Grundlage: Auf #Lesbos wird derzeit ein neues sogenanntes «Closed Controlled Access Center (#CCAC)» errichtet, finanziert von der Europäischen Union. 👇
https://youtube.com/shorts/qGSzn_X757s?si=lmywEBQrtQcRy66R

Reale Entrechtung auf fiktiver Grundlage: Auf #Lesbos wird derzeit ein neues sogenanntes «Closed Controlled Access Center (#CCAC)» errichtet, finanziert von der Europäischen Union. 👇
https://youtube.com/shorts/qGSzn_X757s?si=lmywEBQrtQcRy66R

Reale Entrechtung auf fiktiver Grundlage: Auf #Lesbos wird derzeit ein neues sogenanntes «Closed Controlled Access Center (#CCAC)» errichtet, finanziert von der Europäischen Union. 👇
https://youtube.com/shorts/qGSzn_X757s?si=lmywEBQrtQcRy66R

🥀 Im Seegebiet vor #Tsonia (im Nordosten von #Lesbos) wurde heute früh eine männliche Leiche im Zustand fortgeschrittener Verwesung geborgen. Ihr fehlt der Kopf und der linke Arm. Aufgrund der Größe wird vermutet, dass ein Kind im Alter zwischen 6 und 10 Jahren hier sein Leben verloren hat.

#BordersKill
#FortressEUropeKills every single day. Jeden verdammten Tag.

https://www.lesvosnews.net/articles/news-categories/astynomiko-reportaz/makabrio-eyrima-sti-lesbo-akefali-soros-ypsoys-120-m

"Doch selbst in den ersten Monaten der sog. Flüchtlingskrise [2015] gab es Anzeichen, wie hässlich die Zukunft werden würde…"

2015 war Patrick Strickland das erste Mal auf #Lesbos, 2016 berichtete er zum ersten Mal über die Situation von #RefugeesGR in #Vial auf #Chios.. Dieses Jahr im November war er zum vierten Mal dort. So wird seine aktuelle Bestandsaufnahme auch zu einem Rückblick auf 10 Jahre menschenverachtender wie tödlicher europäischer Abschottungspolitik.

https://inkstickmedia.com/after-greeces-refugee-crisis-a-riskier-more-violent-journey-for-migrants/

I noticed this as well!

#AncientTexts depict all kinds of people, not just straight and cis ones – this college course looks at #LGBTQ sexuality and #gender in #Egypt, #Greece and #Rome

By Tina Chronopoulos
Published: September 11, 2023

Title of course:

“LGBTQ Antiquity: A View from the Mediterranean”

What prompted the idea for the course?

I study Greek and Latin literature and have noticed that ancient authors wrote about sex, #homoerotic feelings or relations, and gender more often than we assume.

A few figures from ancient Mediterranean mythology are sometimes held up as LGBTQ ancestors – such as the Greek gods #Apollo and #Zeus who both loved other men. But in a mythology course I taught in the fall of 2021, I found myself highlighting a number of other stories about same-sex attraction and gender variance beyond a strict male-female binary. For example, spells from Egypt show that there were women who tried to get other women to fall in love with them.

Students responded with such curiosity and excitement that I decided to create a stand-alone course that would focus exclusively on these topics.

What does the course explore?

The course explores literary texts from the #AncientMediterranean – including #Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Roman Italy – in which authors describe relationships that can be said to fall under the LGBTQ umbrella. We read the texts in chronological order, rather than grouped by theme or identity. This allows students to encounter the texts relatively label-free, since the words U.S. society uses to talk about gender and sexuality today – like “gay” or “transgender” – do not always align with ancient understandings.

Why is this course relevant now?

Assaults on members of the LGBTQ community, especially trans folks, are rising in the United States: both through legal means in a number of states and through physical attacks and hate crimes.

My goal is for students to take courage and hope from knowing that same-sex relationships and gender diversity have existed in various guises for millennia. In antiquity, homosexuality was not considered an identity category the way it is today, making it hard to determine if and how LGBTQ-like people were discriminated against, but they certainly were not always met with contempt. For example, the body of #Hermaphroditus, a god whom Greeks sought out for help with fertility and child care issues, combined female and male characteristics.

I also want students to connect with the past as a way to feel rooted and validated. In this, I took a cue from trans activist #LeslieFeinberg, who wrote in the 1996 book “#TransgenderWarriors,” “I couldn’t find myself in history. No one like me seemed to have ever existed.”
What’s a critical lesson from the course?

LGBTQ-like individuals have always been here, although modern conceptions of self, gender and sexuality cannot be mapped directly onto the past.

The identities we know today were unknown then: The concept of homosexuality as a distinct sexual orientation or distinct kind of behavior did not exist. For instance, elite men in ancient Athens often engaged in same-sex relationships with men alongside their marriages to women. Those who were in exclusively homoerotic relationships, however, tended to be ridiculed.

Another critical lesson is that language matters. The words we use today are often inadequate to capture how social status or age intersected with one’s gender in the ancient Mediterranean. Take the Greek word for a woman or wife, “γῠνή.” Typically, this word refers to an upper-class woman, rather than, say, one who is enslaved or a foreigner. Norms around sexual activity depended on a person’s social status, age and gender.

What materials does the course feature?

Students come into the course expecting to encounter celebrated characters such as the poet #Sappho, from the Greek island of #Lesbos, whom lesbians have regarded as an ancestor.

However, we also read less famous authors, such as #Lucian of #Samosata, a Syrian-born satirist from the second century C.E. In one of his dialogues, a sex worker tells her friend about an encounter she had with two other women, one of whom describes herself as “quite like a man.”

Not all authors are sympathetic. #JohnChrysostom, archbishop of Constantinople at the end of the fourth century C.E., vilified people who engaged in homoerotic acts or homosexual relationships as criminals, mentally ill, diseased or diabolic. Many of these views are still being promulgated by religious leaders today.

The course also explores the lives of some Byzantine saints who were seen as women before they entered a monastery or became ascetics. Yet their self-punishing practices, such as extreme fasting, transformed their bodies, and the surrounding communities started to see them as men. These stories, which aimed to uplift their audiences, serve as a reminder that cross-dressing and gender variance were not always seen as objectionable.

Read more:
https://theconversation.com/ancient-texts-depict-all-kinds-of-people-not-just-straight-and-cis-ones-this-college-course-looks-at-lgbtq-sexuality-and-gender-in-egypt-greece-and-rome-210182

#AncientRome #AncientGreece #AncientEgypt #LGBTQHistory #Histodon #AncientHistory

Die CCACs auf #Samos, #Kos & #Leros sind von doppeltem NATO-Draht-Zaun umgeben (auf #Lesbos & #Chios steht Inbetriebnahme noch aus). Zugang nur durch Drehkreuze, Magnettore, Röntgengeräte u. 2-Faktor-Kontrolle (Identität u. Fingerabdruck).

In allen Einrichtungen wurde ein geschlossenes Überwachungssystem (CCTV) installiert, das 24/7 Bilder u. Warnungen an das lokale Überwachungszentrum, das Athener Kontrollzentrum und andere Kontrollzentren (z. B. griech. Polizei) überträgt.

Wie in der #Ägäis🇬🇷 systematisch die Rechte Geflüchteter, aber auch die derjenigen, die dort arbeiten, verletzt werden, ausführlich im Bericht von @rspaegean:
👇
rsaegean.org/en/ccac-aegean-is…

#RefugeesGR #NichtMeineLager #AllCampsAreBad #MigrationIsNotACrime #antireport

France24
L’île grecque de Lesbos, symbole de la crise migratoire en Europe
https://mcinformactions.net/l-ile-grecque-de-lesbos-symbole-de-la-crise-migratoire-en-europe
#Grece #Lesbos #UE #migrants #immigration #maltraitances

#PlacesOfIsolation | Ob #StopDeportation Flughafen um die Ecke, EAEH in #Gießen, #AbolishFrontex Zentrale in #Warschau, #Moria2.0 auf #Lesbos: Alle sind Symbol wie Ort europ. Grenzgewalt.

Danke café bar DIE BRÜCKE, wo jetzt ein weiterer #Wegweiser für Sichtbarkeit in Ffm sorgt!

twitter.com/SeebrueckeFfm/stat…

#PlacesOfIsolation | Ob #StopDeportation Flughafen um die Ecke, EAEH in #Gießen, #AbolishFrontex Zentrale in #Warschau, #Moria2.0 auf #Lesbos: Alle sind Symbol wie Ort europ. Grenzgewalt.

Danke café bar DIE BRÜCKE, wo jetzt ein weiterer #Wegweiser für Sichtbarkeit in Ffm sorgt!

twitter.com/SeebrueckeFfm/stat…

#PlacesOfIsolation | Ob #StopDeportation Flughafen um die Ecke, EAEH in #Gießen, #AbolishFrontex Zentrale in #Warschau, #Moria2.0 auf #Lesbos: Alle sind Symbol wie Ort europ. Grenzgewalt.

Danke café bar DIE BRÜCKE, wo jetzt ein weiterer #Wegweiser für Sichtbarkeit in Ffm sorgt!

twitter.com/SeebrueckeFfm/stat…

#PlacesOfIsolation | Ob #StopDeportation Flughafen um die Ecke, EAEH in #Gießen, #AbolishFrontex Zentrale in #Warschau, #Moria2.0 auf #Lesbos: Alle sind Symbol wie Ort europ. Grenzgewalt.

Danke café bar DIE BRÜCKE, wo jetzt ein weiterer #Wegweiser für Sichtbarkeit in Ffm sorgt!

twitter.com/SeebrueckeFfm/stat…

"Rosinenpicken" was Fotos anbelangt ist auch eine verabscheuungswürdige Art, die Tatsachen zu verdrehen. Passt aber zum Lügengebilde, das @EUHomeAffairs aufgebaut hat.🤢🤬
#Lesbos, #KaraTepe #MORIA2
#AllCampsAreBad

twitter.com/AVeizis/status/156…

Mir friert das Blut in den Adern und der Hals schnürt sich zu.
☹️🤬🤢
#Lesbos #KaraTepe #Moria2
#AllCampsAreBad

twitter.com/standbymelesvos/st…

Teile der Sachspenden unseres letzten #Griechenland-Transports gingen an das Community Center auf #Lesbos. Da die humanitäre Hilfe in Griechenland eines unserer Hauptprojekte ist, hier ein Thread über das Center und der aktuellen Situation im Camp #Moria2.
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We are getting reports that a boat has arrived directly at the camp.
Early information says around 42 people. We are informed that the people have been taken to quarantine zone in the camp but that information is not as yet confirmed.
#lesvos #boatlanding #boatlandings #refugees

🇬🇷 Diese Lager sind kein sicherer Ort zum Leben!

🔥 In einem der großen Zelte in #KaraTepe / #Moria2.0 auf #Lesbos brach am Abend ein Feuer aus.

🧯 Alle Menschen im Zelt konnten unverletzt evakuiert werden, und das Feuer wurde gelöscht. Aber 40 #RefugeesGR verloren ihre Habe. Nach ersten Ermittlungen wurde das Feuer durch einen Kurzschluss an einem Heizgerät ausgelöst.

#AllCampsAreBad #AbolishAllCamps

https://stonisi.gr/post/23355/fwtia-sto-kyt-toy-kara-tepe

🇬🇷 Diese Lager sind kein sicherer Ort zum Leben!

🔥 In einem der großen Zelte in #KaraTepe / #Moria2.0 auf #Lesbos brach am Abend ein Feuer aus.

🧯 Alle Menschen im Zelt konnten unverletzt evakuiert werden, und das Feuer wurde gelöscht. Aber 40 #RefugeesGR verloren ihre Habe. Nach ersten Ermittlungen wurde das Feuer durch einen Kurzschluss an einem Heizgerät ausgelöst.

#AllCampsAreBad #AbolishAllCamps

https://stonisi.gr/post/23355/fwtia-sto-kyt-toy-kara-tepe

🇬🇷 Im #Moria2/#KaraTepe Lager auf #Lesbos ist heute ein großes Zelt ausgebrannt. Glücklicherweise wurde kein Mensch verletzt, das Feuer konnte gelöscht werden.
Aber wieder zeigt sich, dass diese Lager keine sicheren Orte zum Leben sind.
#AllCampsAreBad

https://stonisi.gr/post/23043/esvhse-h-fwtia-sto-kyt-toy-kara-tepe