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A critique of RAT (Racial Awareness Training).
"The Schengen Information System contains 79 million entries on persons and objects. These can now also be used by the EU agencies. A new regulation allows simple police officers to question people without a lawyer."
Including: • UNHCR (31.12.18): 112,852 refugees arrived in the EU by sea and 6,782 by land • When governments turn against volunteers - the case of AYS • 'Its an Act of Murder': How Europe Out sources Suffering as Migrants Drown
"14 associations signed an open letter to French President Emmanuel Macron denouncing the failure of the state in the protection and sheltering of migrants."
"Despite the bad weather, dozens of undocumented migrants made the short but perilous crossing to the Aegean islands from Turkey in the last few days of the year."
"In our previous blog post ‘Border Deaths in the Mediterranean: what we can learn from the latest data?’ on Border Criminologies (March 2017) we discussed the existing data sources on Mediterranean Sea migration and provided an analysis of key patterns and trends.
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