Immigrants Have Fascinating Powers!

"And so where are these tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands – in fact millions – of migrant heroes?  IOM wants to find them and pay homage to them, for without migrants, the wheels would stop turning". (By Niurka Pineiro, IOM, Washington). 

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Let's stop human trafficking!!

The International Organization for Migration develops programs for human trafficking prevention, protection of victims (survivors) and general information for the correct understanding of global migration. 

Human trafficking is a "business opportunity" caused by two essential ingredients: One of them is the extreme poverty, social violence, or other conditions that make life impossible for the human being in his or her country of origin; the second ingredient consist in the restrictive laws that close the borders to the free exercise of the right to migrate. 

This situation forces the migrants to seek alternative routes of escape, taking the risk of being captured by criminal groups for which they are a simple commodity offered in the market of prostitution, illegal organ trafficking, drug trafficking and organized crime groups. 

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Knocking Down the Abstract U.S. Border.

"...Since this case, more than half of the federal circuit courts have agreed with its findings. As a result, most immigrants in the U.S. who are deported are now able to file a motion to reopen even after they are forcibly removed from the country". (Carter E (2014) Knocking Down the Abstract U.S. Border. Available at: http://bordercriminologies.law.ox.ac.uk/knocking-down-the-border/ (Consulted in February  2015).

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Some Possible Business For The New Merchandise Called "Migrants"

Trafficking, smuggling, extortion, private detention centers, just some possible business for the new merchandise called "migrants".

Reed more: IOM Monitors Italy arrivals during a busy smuggling week in Meditarranean.

Restrictive Immigration Policies Tending To Fail.

"The record of both Labour and Coalition governments show that restrictive immigration policies don't achieve the set objectives, though they do make life much harder for migrants..."

By Don Flynn, Migrant's Rights Network, Director in mrn blog, January 12, 2015.

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We Still Have a Dream!

Immigration is about human dignity and the nobility of parents of different tribes and nations facing the risk of coming to a foreign land, a land of opportunity, to work for a better tomorrow for their children…Dr. King invoked the truth, the truth being that all humans ought to be treated with a certain dignity. It would be natural for us to look to him as an example for fighting for a just cause. (Article written by Seth Hoy, in American Immigration Council Blog, Immigration Impact, January 18 of 2010).


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Have Human Rights Treaties Failed?

To say that human rights treaties are too ambitious and even utopian, and that it overwhelms  governments with obligations that they can’t possibly keep, is like inviting the disobedience of every law which is arduous for us to compliance.
In fact, international law does not create fundamental rights but it just recognize them as existing. That is to say, human rights already exist in each person, they are inherent to human nature. Human rights are prior and superior to the positive law system.
The idea of discarding all international treaties dealing with human rights as suggested by Professor Posner does not make sense, because human rights would survive any attack.
Otherwise, the State as a political institution justifies its existence on respect, promotion and defense of human rights within their jurisdiction. Like Jacques Maritain said long ago, "The State is for man and not the man for the State ".
Certainly justice is an arduous good especially in our times, but to resign the search for a just social order is to deny the very reason of law.

(Debate between Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch and Eric Posner, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. Source: The New York Times , The Opinion Pages, " Room For Debate" December 28, 2014 ).

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