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Jules Soupault
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painfully PhDing • (no) border studies and abolition geographies • @uvic • @big-lab • he/him • free Palestine! 🇵🇸 free kanaky! 🇳🇨
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Four reasons why $200 billion for ICE is a bad, bad idea by @vermontgmg.bsky.social
Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea
I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.
www.motherjones.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Our new report on the criminalisation of migration and solidarity registers cases in 8 EU countries. This is very likely an undercount as many cases go unreported or never make it to the public eye.

Full report: picum.org/wp-content/u...
April 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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In our latest newsletter: 142 people were criminalised simply for helping others in need, Frontex investigates Greek pushbacks, Spanish bishops call for a broad regularisation... and much more.

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April 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Télérama demande quelle mouche a piqué Arte, qui diffuse la propagande israélienne dans une série sur Jérusalem-Est qui occulte, pour le moins, la réalité coloniale. J'ai regardé le premier épisode. Ahurissant. www.telerama.fr/television/e...
“East Side”, saison 1 : une série qui manie l’art de l’euphémisme
Un ancien espion achète des biens à Jérusalem-Est à des propriétaires arabes pour les revendre à de riches Israéliens. Prévue pour 2024, puis déprogrammée, cette série ne parle jamais de colons ni de ...
www.telerama.fr
April 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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As expected, Italy plans to make use of its detention centers in Albania, after all apnews.com/article/ital...
Italy approves new decree to use Albanian migration centers as 'repatriation' hubs
Italy's far-right-led government has approved a new decree that allows the use of centers opened in Albania for asylum seekers’ fast-track processing also as “repatriation” hubs, in line with a recent...
apnews.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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The business of border control: Who really profits from mass deportation plans?

Professor Nando Sigona comments on Donald Trump's mass deportation plans and examines who mass deportations actually benefit.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/th...
The business of border control: Who really profits from mass deportation plans? - University of Birmingham
Professor Nando Sigona comments on Donald Trump's mass deportation plans and examines who mass deportations actually benefit.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Thread. Notre dossier complet sur les conditions inhumaines de rétention des étrangers dans les CRA : ⤵️

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CRA : "On est traités comme des chiens"
Fin janvier, la sénatrice Anne Souyris a visité le CRA de Vincennes, où les retenus ont témoigné de traitements indignes. Quinze jours avant la visite, un homme à l’isolement avait tenté de se suicider. Dossier sur le traitement inhumain des personnes retenues.
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February 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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In response to the Border Security, Asylum & Immigration Bill introduced by the UK government on 30 Jan, Border Criminologies (@vickytaylor.bsky.social) and @humansforrights.bsky.social issued a briefing on the criminalisation provisions related to irregular arrival: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
February 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Sophie Primas porte parole du gouvernement annonce sur BFM que le gouv soutiendra sûrement le rétablissement du délit de séjour irrégulier en France, idée proposée par Retailleau. On va vers des moments où la criminalisation de l’entraide sera la norme. Soyons des criminels 😌
February 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
As the EU allocated Mauritania €210 million to combat migrants, EU Commission President Von der Leyen praised the country’s “remarkable commitment to saving the lives of migrants taking the Atlantic route.”
February 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Guantánamo Bay detention center was created first for immigrants, then repurposed for war on terror. Today Trump signed executive order instructing preparation of facility to house 30,000 immigrants at US naval base in Cuba.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump orders opening of migrant detention center at Guantánamo Bay
President signs executive order instructing preparation of facility to house 30,000 immigrants at US naval base in Cuba
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Silence is Complicity: Our statement after more than one year of silence on the Israeli Genocide in Gaza/Palestine

borderviolence.eu/reports/sile...
Silence is Complicity - BVMN
Our statement after more than one year of silence on the Israeli Genocide in Gaza/Palestine. Download to read the full … Continued
borderviolence.eu
January 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Je vous conseille vivement d'acheter ou d'emprunter dans une bibliothèque, le dernier ouvrage signé de l'historien @campvolant.bsky.social une enquête implacable, un travail historique et mémoriel remarquable sur les actes de torture de Jean-Marie Le Pen en Algérie.
À jamais contre l'oubli.
January 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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NEW: A study by Yale University and other institutions has found that the Gaza war death toll is likely 41% HIGHER than Palestinian health officials reported.

It also found that over 59% of those killed were women, children and people over the age of 65.

www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Gaza war toll likely significantly undercounts deaths, says study
An official Palestinian tally of direct deaths in the Israel-Hamas war likely undercounted the number of casualties by 41% through the middle of 2024 as the Gaza Strip's healthcare infrastructure unravelled, according to the study.
www.reuters.com
January 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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“at least 1,107 people drowned crossing the Rio Grande between Texas and Mexico from 2017 to 2023, a figure significantly higher than has been previously reported”
Texas has become the blueprint for the militarization of the US-Mexico border. This politically-driven show of force has sent the Rio Grande death toll soaring. We reveal for first time the true human cost of this
Drownings and Deterrence in the Rio Grande
More women and children are drowning trying to reach the US as Texas and Mexico militarize the border. Record requests reveal the soaring death toll in the Rio Grande amid official undercounts.
www.lighthousereports.com
December 8, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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La répression des solidarités c'est aussi ça : trois enquêtes pénales ouvertes contre Utopia 56 après des signalements des autorités françaises
www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...
L’association d’aide aux migrants Utopia 56 visée par trois enquêtes pénales
Trois bénévoles et salariés de l’association sont convoqués dans le cadre d’enquêtes préliminaires portant sur ses actions à la frontière franco-britannique, à la suite de signalements par les autorit...
www.lemonde.fr
December 3, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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Christian Tein, président du FLNKS et leader du mouvement kanak, va rester emprisonné à 17.000 km de chez lui.

La France continue d’agir comme un État colonial et enferme des prisonniers politiques

Il doit être libéré immédiatement
November 29, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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Alors que l'hiver se rapproche et que les expulsions de campements ne s'arrêtent pas, petit fil sur Calais, ville frontière française où le droit est si souvent bafoué par l'Etat et où la violence s'est unanimement dirigée contre les exilé.e.s et ceux qui les aident durant ces deux quinquennats ⤵️
November 23, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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Mettre un masque dans les lieux publics pour protéger autrui.
C'est quoi votre opinion de gauche qui fait dire même aux autres gens de gauche "ah oui quand même" ?
November 19, 2024 at 8:43 PM