News:

Americans Fleeing the US for fear of the far right

Article in the New Republic - open with a gay man in NYC going to the German consulate to apply for citizenship - looking forward to a time when LGBTQ rights are truly erroded

There is little doubt that members of the political right are setting their sight on LGBTQ rights, it was alluded to directly in Dobbs

“Blaxit” - movement of black Americans moving abroad - huge uptick in internet searches in the last years since Trump - politics aside, we can agree that the far right took the mask off in terms of bigotry

Mass Migration Preparedness - Migration is now just another type of whether pattern delivering inconvenience to us all

“Board up your windows folks i think we’re going to have a system moving through the next few months

https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/c...

Expats v Immigrants - What’s the difference!?

The blunt expression of this problem is well put by a Guardian article: “Why are white people expats and the rest of us are immigrants?”

Wall Street Journal’s take:

has a blog dedicated to the life of expats and recently they featured a story ‘Who is an expat, anyway?’. Here are the main conclusions: “Some arrivals are described as expats; others as immigrants; and some simply as migrants. It depends on social class, country of origin and economic status. It’s strange to hear some people in Hong Kong described as expats, but not others. Anyone with roots in a western country is considered an expat … Filipino domestic helpers are just guests, even if they’ve been here for decades. Mandarin-speaking mainland Chinese are rarely regarded as expats … It’s a double standard woven into official policy.”

GoFundMe - Coyote

Mt. Pleasant High School in RI

Assistant VP and teacher soliciting money to pay the rest of a students tab to a coyote

Predictable backlash - money was returned and another email sent out by the principal saying the request was “not appropriate”

This was probably a teacher trying to simply support a student - understandably, it was swallowed up by the culture wars

DARIEN GAP - THE MIGRANT ROUTE OF LAST RESORT (Specific uptick in Afghans taking this route)

What is the Darien gap?

60 miles of roadless jungle, steep mountains, rivers, swamps completely controlled by gangs

The Spanish, who took control of almost all of Central America at one point or another, steered clear of the Darien jungle, seeing it as to dense, the mountains too steep, and filled with malaria and yellow fever

Land and sea routes have been targeted by authorities increasingly over the past few years - pushing more people into this route - only land bridge to north america - this is becoming the only way for many

This is the only break in the pan-american highway which otherwise stretches from Alaska to Argentina

According to the Panamanian Gov -- 151k have crossed the darien gap between Jan and Sep in 2022 - up from only a couple hundred people annually about a decade ago

The majority were from Cuba, Ecuador, and Haiti—including Haitian children born in Brazil and Chile—but some hailed from as far away as Angola, Bangladesh, and Uzbekistan.