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Trump Agriculture Chief Mocked for Suggesting Medicaid Recipients Could Replace Deported Farm Workers

12/07/2025 - Leave a Comment

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday drew instant jeers when she defended the mass deportation of immigrant farm laborers and suggested that they could be replaced by Americans who …

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Trump remittance tax to hit Africans hard

31/05/2025 - Leave a Comment

For Enoch Aikins, a political economist who focuses on Africa, the topic of sending money home to relatives is personal. “I can use myself as an example, as somebody that comes …

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EU migration strategy: treat migrants like the mafia

16/11/2024 - Leave a Comment

In November 2023, Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, gathered the country’s top prosecutors at the headquarters of the powerful anti-mafia and anti-terrorism directorate, the DNAA. The far-right leader flattered them, …

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An Indian fixer lured workers to Italy. They say he used threats, violence

07/09/2024 - Leave a Comment

Ladnun, India and Padua, Italy – When Sandeep migrated from India’s Rajasthan state to Italy in 2009, he was fulfilling a long-held dream of relocating overseas for a better life. But …

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Migrant workers sent $650bn overseas last year – what it means – Copy

23/08/2024 - Leave a Comment

Last Monday, Punjabi farmworker Satnam Singh suffered critical injuries in an accident on an Italian farm — and then his boss left him to die. The shocking case showed how …

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Migrant workers sent $650bn overseas last year – what it means

17/08/2024 - Leave a Comment

Mina Hamid*, who hails from Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the Netherlands at the age of 11, says she will never forget the first time she sent money to help …

Migrant workers sent $650bn overseas last year – what it means Read More

New visa programs spark brain drain fears across Africa

21/07/2023 - Leave a Comment

When Edmund Ekott, a Nigerian front-end developer, decided to relocate to Germany in 2022, he had to deal with an exasperating immigration process. He went through a prolonged back-and-forth with …

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HGV driver says training more Brits won’t solve awful working conditions

20/05/2023 - Leave a Comment

A lorry driver has said Suella Braverman’s plan to end reliance on foreign workers by training more Brits ignores the awful working conditions putting people off the job. The home …

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India: Families of migrants who died in Qatar seek answers

16/12/202216/12/2022 - Leave a Comment

Mammai Bhoo Laxmi’s husband went to Qatar to work on its FIFA World Cup infrastructure as a construction worker. Within one week of arriving, he was reported dead. Eight years …

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How migrants in the Gulf are fighting discrimination during the pandemic

08/04/202109/04/2021 - Leave a Comment

Like millions before him, Manoj migrated from the southwestern Indian state of Kerala to the Gulf in search of work in 2019. He found a job at a construction company …

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