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NEW YORK -- Asylum seekers camped outside the Roosevelt Hotel for a second straight night Saturday as the Manhattan relief center is at capacity. Overnight, buses pulled up to the hotel and some asylum seekers were able to spend the night on board. But many waited all day in the heat and rain, without knowing what would happen next. Things got contentious Saturday night with asylum seekers pushing to get inside the hotel while a small group of workers tried to manage the crowd.

WASHINGTON — Dozens of House and Senate Democrats tore into President Biden Thursday for keeping in place a Trump-era immigration policy that allows the government to turn away asylum-seekers without first hearing their cases. Title 42, first implemented in March 2020 at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, allows border agents to kick migrants back across the US-Mexico frontier for public health reasons. The Biden administration has repeatedly tried to end the policy, but later backtracked as the migration crisis at the southern border exploded. “Anyone who tells you that the only way to secure our border is to punish...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) stated that the United States can’t take an unlimited number of asylum seekers, even though “there are many in my party who don’t want to admit that,” and the U.S. will have to limit the number of people it grants asylum to, encourage applicants to do so from their own country, “and then, frankly, turn those who don’t go through that process back around.” Murphy stated, “[H]ere’s the question, the question is can we accept an unlimited number of asylum seekers? The answer is no. And so while there...

Last November, Jack Dorsey, the brains behind Twitter, declared that he had gone on a 10-day silent retreat in Myanmar to practice Vipassana, considered the oldest form of Buddhist meditation. Sounding more like the Monk of Silicon Valley than the Disruptor of Wall Street, Dorsey explained that giving up “devices, reading, writing, physical exercise, music, intoxicants, meat, talking, or even eye contact with others” was a “detox of all the noise in the world.” Never mind that he conveniently forgot about Myanmar’s violence toward the Rohingya minority, and not to mention that much of that noise is amplified through the...

In the small but cohesive Mormon community where he grew up, Hans Mattsson was a solid believer and a pillar of the church. He followed his father and grandfather into church leadership and finally became an “area authority” overseeing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints throughout Europe When fellow believers in Sweden first began coming to him with information from the Internet that contradicted the church’s history and teachings, he dismissed it as “anti-Mormon propaganda,” the whisperings of Lucifer. He asked his superiors for help in responding to the members’ doubts, and when they seemed to only sidestep...

NTEB has reported extensively on the growing Chrislam movement. Started by Rick Warren of Saddleback Church, it has grown dramatically and now has infected many hundreds of churches and denominations all across America. A group called Faith Shared is now spearheading the move to merge Christianity with Islam, and in the process provoking the very judgment of God down upon us as a nation. The following is taken directly from their website: “Faith Shared asks houses of worship across the country to organize events involving clergy reading from each other’s sacred texts. An example would be a Christian Minister, Jewish...

Job seekers now outnumber openings six to one, the worst ratio since the government began tracking open positions in 2000. And even though the pace of layoffs is slowing, many companies remain anxious about growth prospects in the months ahead, making them reluctant to add to their payrolls. Thomas A. Kochan, a labor economist at M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management. “There’s not going to be an upsurge in job openings for quite a while, not until employers feel confident the economy is really growing.” The dearth of jobs reflects the caution of many American businesses when no one knows what...

Stumbling to my feet amidst this show of inspiration, Crumbling to the earth in chunks of ebony; sublime! Wonder fills my senses with divine anticipation… Peeking through the twilight; blankets laced with starry night, ______________________________________________________ Like an orange flower blooming out of just a notion, Gentle beams of sunlight soon initiate the stream, Before you know it, floods of light come streaming like an ocean The sea lay there before me basking in its radiant beam ______________________________________________________ What do I owe this pleasure? To the gods of here or there? Or to a Heavenly Father who created all we see,...

MPs revolt over plan to put asylum seekers on an island By Nick Squires in Sydney (Filed: 11/08/2006) Australia's prime minister, John Howard, suffered the biggest parliamentary revolt of his decade in power yesterday over a proposal to send asylum seekers to remote island detention centres while their claims are processed. Three members of his Liberal Party voted against the Bill and one abstained. It was the worst breach of party loyalty confronted by Mr Howard since he won office from the Labour prime minister Paul Keating in 1996. John Howard shrugged off the party rebellion Despite the MPs' rebellion,...

Asylum seekers 'killed after being forced out of Australia' By Nick Squires in Sydney (Filed: 09/08/2006) Australia's hardline immigration policy was dealt a heavy blow yesterday with claims that up to nine asylum seekers forcibly repatriated to Afghanistan were murdered on their return home. The Edmund Rice Centre, a Catholic advocacy group, investigated the fate of nearly 200 Afghan asylum seekers who were returned home after being kept at an Australian-run detention centre on the South Pacific island of Nauru. The group said that "as many as nine men returned from Nauru may have been killed, and three children of...

In their battle to replace former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, Republicans are embracing their party's ideals while distancing themselves from its record in Washington. As deficits balloon and scandals multiply under a Republican-controlled Congress, these candidates are touting independence over party loyalty and lashing out at the GOP as often as they criticize Democrats. Setting the tone is millionaire businessman Eric Roach, whose television commercials ask, “When did Congress begin losing touch?” “I think it began when Republicans quit being Republicans,” Roach answers in the ad. “You know, they were sent to Congress to bring the budget in balance, to...

Asylum seekers are offered £2,000 cash to go home By John Steele (Filed: 13/01/2006) Thousands of asylum seekers are to be offered millions of pounds in cash to return to their home countries under a scheme announced yesterday by the Home Office. The Government expects to spend about £6 million over six months encouraging around 3,000 refugees, who have been refused permission to stay or are awaiting decisions, to return home. As an incentive, they will be offered up to £2,000 cash and a further £1,000 worth of help "in kind" for reintegration, to fund education or training. A pilot...

Dutch Center-Right Coalition Stands up to Islamism By Andrew L. Jaffee, July 22, 2004 Home   Search   Forum   Terms Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and his center-right coalition are standing up to Islamism, the true enemy of all civilized nations in the 21st century. Balkenende said Muslim groups “were sowing hatred, and [he] promised new anti-terror measures” in a speech to the European Parliament yesterday. On February 18 of this year, Dutch lawmakers promised to expel approximately 26,000 asylum seekers after digesting a parliamentary report which concluded … that the country's 30-year experiment in tolerant multiculturalism had been a failure, and has...

Asylum seekers fall by more than 40pc as tighter rules bite By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor (Filed: 25/02/2004) The number of people claiming asylum in Britain fell by more than 40 per cent last year, the Home Office said yesterday. In 2003, 61,000 applications for political refugee status were made, compared with the record number of 104,000 in 2002. The reduction fell short of Tony Blair's promise to halve applications last year. But while the total remained the highest in Europe, the decline was greater than anywhere else in the European Union. The fall is put down to the...

Asylum seekers with no papers face prison By Andrew Sparrow, Political Correspondent (Filed: 28/10/2003)Measures including a two-year prison sentence for refugees who destroy their travel documents were announced by David Blunkett yesterday. The Home Secretary described his proposals as the "remaining" phase of the Government's reforms to speed up the asylum application process. Mr Blunkett claimed that asylum applications had halved over the past year as a result of the "tough" policies already introduced. His new proposals would create a "swifter and fairer" appeals system and penalise people like "dubious legal advisers" who abused the system. Last week Mr Blunkett...

US to round up all Muslim and Arab asylum-seekers By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles 19 March 2003 The United States has ordered the detention of all political asylum-seekers from a long list of Arab and Muslim countries, infuriating immigrant advocates who say it violates international human rights law. The Department of Homeland Security announced the policy shift as part of its tightening of security in anticipation of a war with Iraq, codenamed Operation Liberty Shield. "Asylum applications from nations where al-Qa'ida, al-Qa'ida sympathisers and other terrorist groups are known to have operated will be detained for the duration of...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghans who failed to win asylum in Australia returned home voluntarily Sunday after spending more than a year on the Pacific island state of Nauru. Cy Winter of the International Organization for Migration said 119 Afghans returned aboard an IOM-chartered Air Holland Boeing 757. He said 113 others returned to Afghanistan in November and 431 were still in an IOM processing center in Nauru. The migrants were intercepted at sea last year while en route to Australia and have spent most of their time on Nauru while waiting for their asylum claims to be processed. Those...

Progress of a Pilgrim When in these blissful dreams I see Beyond these temporal skies Heaven’s bright and glorious streets Where wisdom and prudence stride They gleefully greet each welcome saint Who’s made their voyage home And through their terrestrial testimonies Have Christ’s compassion shown Each entered an apprenticeship And were tempered in the trade Influencing others through relationships As more “Sons of God” were made Though while on earth the veil disguise “His” purposes in each day If opened with inquiring eyes His instruction’s on each page While we in youth with passions wild Forge through temptation’s seas It’s...

10,000 asylum seekers allowed to disappear By David Bamber, Home Affairs Correspondent (Filed: 11/08/2002) More than 10,000 asylum seekers who were sent to a detention centre set up to deport unfounded claimants have been sent back into the community despite having their applications rejected. When the Oakington centre in Cambridgeshire opened two years ago, ministers hailed it as the solution to the asylum crisis and promised that it would "fast-track" 13,000 asylum seekers each year, assessing claims within seven days and deporting those rejected. Last night, however, the Home Office said that although it was assessing initial asylum applications as...

UK asylum seekers to be repatriated in huge airlift By Colin Brown and Jo Dillon 26 May 2002 Cabinet plans are being prepared for the RAF to airlift hundreds of Afghan asylum seekers from Britain back to Afghanistan in an attempt to answer growing criticism of the failure to halt illegal entrants to Britain. The Government will face a renewed attack this week over new asylum figures for the first quarter of the year, showing the crisis is getting worse, with a near-record rise in applications to a total of 78,000 a year and a fall in removals to 1,000...