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Burkina Faso - Research Brief - Migrant Debt - West and Central Africa (November 2020) Format This research study is part of the « Safety, Support and Solutions along the Central Mediterranean Route » programme, funded by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID), whose Outcome 3 aims to improve governments, humanitarian agencies and national organizations’ understanding on migration trends in order to formulate responses tailored to the needs of the populations. Between 2018 and 2020, the programme’s Outcome 3 has enabled short-term research studies to be c...

IOM – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) supported the voluntary return of some 2,565 people from Greece to their home countries in 2020, in coordination with the Greek authorities and respective countries’ diplomatic representatives. Amid hardships and challenges induced by COVID-19 in the past year-including mobility restrictions and closed borders-many migrants living in Greece expressed interest in returning voluntarily to their home countries. “It is extremely important to be able to continue offering the Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration support during th...

What’s It Like to Work for the Border Patrol? Phil Defer, American Renaissance, December 18, 2020 Phil Defer joined the Border Patrol in the 1990s. First stationed in the Rio Grande Valley Sector, he later worked on the northern border, and then again on the southern one. He retired relatively recently. This interview was conducted by email and has been edited for length and clarity.  What is your background? Why did you join the force? I guess I was always somewhat politically minded. Even before I joined the Border Patrol, I was contributing money to anti-immigration causes. I read a lot...

Deportation. we have a category called voluntary return. if they're picked up at the border and agree to go back to mexico, we haul them back there, open the side door on the van and walk back to mexico. >> that's an interesting metaphor -- >> that was mott the deportation under bush -- obama called it a deportation. >> the homeland security dhs releases at the end of 2016. here is how they categorize it. you can, like the president, say this is all politicized and everybody is lying. an increasing percentage of those deported from the interior were convicted of serious crimes. over 90% in 201...