#asylum hotel evictions

[sronti]

"Government statistics released in February showed a 965% increase over about six months in people sleeping rough after leaving asylum accommodation in the UK, jumping from 42 people in July 2023 to 469 by December 2023."

Nevetségesen alulbecsült számok. Ha 2023-ban csak negyvenketten voltak teljesen fedél nélkül, akkor én abból legalább öttel dolgoztam abban a hónapban.

A 469 is teljes hülyeség, a valós szám legalább tízszeres. Az outreach, aminek dolga lenne megtalálni a teljesen fedél nélkül élő embereket elavult koncepció alapján működik és igazából senkinek se érdeke reformálni. Az outreachnek az a dolga, hogy kimegy éjszaka a helyekre, ahol valaki látott egy hajléktalant, visz neki egy teát és megpróbál szállást találni neki. Ez kb. az, ami @konyvekkozt (meg a magyar szakma) utcázásnak hív.

Amikor könnyen elérhető (bár rossz minőségű) szállásokból sok van, akkor csak azok élnek az utcán, akikkel valami egyéb probléma is van, vagy kitaláltak egy olyan verziót, ami működik (pl. kunyhó az erdőben). Ezek az emberek kialakítottak egy rutint és vannak bejáratott helyek, ahol alszanak és amiket a munkások ismernek. A rendszer, ahol jelentheted ha látsz az utcán hajléktalant kicsit szerintem arra is van, hogy ne legyen annyi zavaró utcán hagyott ember (ezt most találtam ki az unhoused fordításaként) az utcán.

Viszont ez nem működik azoknak, akik újonnan kerültek utcára és félnek egy helyen maradni, nem ismerik a helyeket, ahol maradni lehet, squatban húzzák meg magukat, zárt parkokban, vagy buszokon alszanak, vagy egyszerűen pont telefont töltenek, vécét keresnek, amikor jön az outreach, sőt azoknak se, akik csak heti pár éjszakát töltenek utcán, amikor nem találnak valakit, akinél meghúzhatják magukat. Tegnap hallottam valakitől, hogy egy utcázó ember szerint Londonban nők nem élnek utcán. Aha.

Visszatérve a menekültekre, a Home Office szerintem kicsit direkt csinálja ezt és reménykedik benne, hogy elég menekült lesz kétségbeesett a bűnözéshez egy jó xenofób rasszista kampányhoz, mert más értelme nincs, annak, amit csinálnak. A friss menekülteknek Londonban, akiknek nincs itt családja, nincs sok esélye más szállást találni, mint támogatott lakhatást, azokhoz viszont átlag két hónap mostanában a várakozási idő.

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EXCLUSIVE: Migrants Transferred from Bronx Hotel to Queens Village Tents — Locals Protest Move https://www.breitbart.com/border/2023/08/19/exclusive-migrants-transferred-from-bronx-hotel-to-queens-village-tents-locals-protest-move/

[beardedmrbean]

Migrants are leaving New York City and heading north into Canada on taxpayer-funded buses, according to a new report from the New York Post. 

The Big Apple is the center of the migrant crisis on the East Coast after thousands of illegal immigrants have flooded the city, with some living in ritzy, taxpayer-funded hotel rooms. 

But not all migrants are pleased with life in the city, telling the New York Post that they would rather accept "free tickets" for a ride up north to Canada and better opportunities in a country with lower rates of homelessness and drug abuse. 

"The military gave me and my family free bus tickets," one Venezuelan migrant told the New York Post. 

NYPD CLEARS OUT GROUP OF MIGRANT 'SINGLE MEN' REFUSING EVICTION FROM RITZY MANHATTAN HOTEL

"I am going to Canada for a better quality of life for my family," one migrant, named Raymond Peña told The New York Post. 

Another migrant said he was "kicked out" of the Row hotel near Times Square, after which he was sent to a homeless shelter in Brooklyn. 

A whistleblower at the Row Hotel released video and photos last month of illegal immigrants trashing the hotel and leaving "good" food out to rot. 

"The chaos that we see at the Row today is [caused] by migrants being drunk, drinking all day, smoking marijuana [and] consuming drugs," Felipe Rodriguez said. 

The whistleblower also said that the Row was struggling with "domestic violence" among migrants, young people "having sex in the stairs," and a fight between a migrant and a hotel security officer. 

MIGRANTS ARE 'DRINKING ALL DAY,' 'HAVING SEX IN THE STAIRS' IN TAXPAYER-FUNDED NEW YORK HOTELS: WHISTLEBLOWER

Manuel Rodon, a migrant from Venezuela, told the New York Post that he was concerned about rampant drug use in New York City. 

"A lot of the Americans used drugs there," he said. 

"I feel like Canada will be safer. It is a much quieter country than America," he added. 

NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS PLEADS WITH WHITE HOUSE FOR MORE HELP ON MIGRANT CRISIS

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has begged the White House to give aid on the migrant crisis. 

"I'm extremely frustrated," Adams said in December. 

He was referring to the nearly 21,000 migrants who have been bussed to New York since last year. 

But the mayor’s press office has simultaneously attempted to present itself as pro-migrant, with Adam’s press secretary sharing that "asylum seekers are also being provided with free roundtrip tickets on a NYC Ferry every day." 

Adams’ press office did not respond immediately to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. 

#nunyas news #this is funny stuff

[jaspersboy]

NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of a nonprofit group has been accused of fabricating a story about homeless military veterans being evicted from a New York hotel to make room for migrants, a tale that stoked days of outrage on cable news networks.

One Republican lawmaker in New York who helped spread the story is now calling for an investigation, saying he and others were duped.

The uproar began after New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, bused a small group of asylum seekers to a suburban hotel as the city’s homeless shelter system struggled to accommodate an influx of migrants from the U.S. border with Mexico.

The group’s transfer prompted a political backlash from Republican county officials, who accused the mayor of trying to offload his problems on unprepared communities.

Then, the founder of a small charity in the area added an explosive claim: To make way for the migrants, a hotel in Newburgh, New York, evicted nearly two dozen homeless veterans.

That story, told by Yerik Israel Toney Foundation chief executive Sharon Toney-Finch, was picked up May 12 by The New York Post and quickly followed by Fox News, Newsmax and other conservative news outlets. The Post on Friday published a follow-up story reporting on the latest development.

“Our veterans have been placed in another hotel due to what’s going on with the immigrants,” Toney-Finch told the Post in its initial story, saying her group had made arrangements to find alternative lodging. “We didn’t waste any time.”

State Assemblyman Brian Maher, a Republican, introduced legislation that would prohibit the displacement of homeless veterans. In an appearance on Fox News, he called the purported evictions an “absolute embarrassment on all fronts.”

Cracks in the story emerged after an investigation by a local newspaper, the Mid Hudson News.

The managers of the hotel told the paper the story wasn’t true. A receipt purporting to show that the Crossroads Hotel had been paid $37,800 to house the veterans appeared to have been sloppily doctored.

In a follow-up report Friday, the Mid-Hudson News reported that several men staying at a homeless shelter in Poughkeepsie, New York, had come forward to say they were recruited to pretend they were among the veterans kicked out of the hotel. The paper quoted some of the men as saying they were offered $200, food and alcohol to take part in the ruse.

They said they met with Toney-Finch, then participated in a meeting at a veterans center in Orange County with local chamber of commerce officials.

Toney-Finch denied giving any money to the men.

In a brief interview with The Associated Press, she declined to say directly that her story was not true, but she suggested that a misunderstanding might have led to confusion.

[vague-humanoid]

[pretordh]

Russian propaganda spreads FAKE that Ukrainian refugees are allegedly being evicted from hotels in Bulgaria

🤬Russian media are spreading misinformation that the Bulgarian authorities are allegedly expelling Ukrainian refugees "on the street" from those hotels located in resort areas.

Moreover, some users of the network claim that Bulgaria has allegedly announced the beginning of the procedure of eviction of refugees from Ukraine "because of their unworthy behavior and disrespect for the local population."

This information is not true!

The Bulgarian state program, which covers free accommodation and meals for Ukrainian refugees in hotels, expires on May 31st.

After that, refugees in need of asylum will be relocated to state, municipal or departmental bases or to private hotels, which under the new conditions participate in the New State Humanitarian Program to accommodate displaced persons from Ukraine.

‼ ️Russian media are spreading this fake to undermine friendly ties between Bulgaria and Ukraine.

Do not trust Russian propaganda and believe in Ukraine💙💛

#russian agression #ukraine war #war #stop russia #stop putin #stop war #propaganda

[dertaglichedan]

Thousands Of Migrants Set To Hit The Streets As New York To Start Evicting From Overwhelmed Shelters

Nicole Littlefield | Daily Caller News Foundation

September 22, 2023

New York City could start to evict single adult migrants from shelters on Saturday in an effort to dissuade new migrants from coming to the sanctuary city, according to Politico.

New York is struggling to provide care for the 60,000 migrants currently in shelters and Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams have been in a disagreement on how to respond to the crisis. With shelters pushed past their limits, the city will stop sheltering single adults after 60 days and thousands will start being evicted as soon as this weekend, Politico reported Friday.

New York has seen the arrival of more than 110,000 migrants since spring 2022 and has spent more than $2 billion on the crisis, according to Politico. In early September 2023, Adams said the migrant crisis “will destroy” the city, and he previously announced a state of emergency in October 2022 due to the massive influx.

A policy by Adams hopes to limit the number of asylum-seekers by restricting the time period migrants are allowed to stay in shelters. The shelters will stop housing single adults after 60 days, but the administration might further reduce the time period to 30 days, according to Politico.

“If you’re going to leave your country, go somewhere else,” Hochul said during an interview with CNN on Thursday. “We have to let the word out that when you come to New York, you’re not going to have more hotel rooms. We don’t have capacity, so we have to also message properly.”

Protesters shouted over New York representatives last week over New York City’s response to the migrant crisis and 10 protesters were arrested for disorderly conduct on Tuesday for obstructing a bus carrying migrants to Staten Island.

Adams’ office and Hochul’s office did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

[tenantrightslawyer]

Sacramento Owner Move-In Evictions Under the Sacramento Tenant Protection Act

Under the Sacramento Tenant Protection Act, landlords are permitted to terminate a tenancy to perform an owner move-in eviction or relative move-in eviction, which requires the owner or relative to reside in the unit as their primary residence for twelve (12) months.  Despite being a lawful just cause for eviction, the owner must follow strict rules regarding the owner or relative move-in following the eviction.  The Sacramento Tenant Protection Program regulates owner move-in and relative move-in evictions of covered units in Sacramento.  As with Sacramento Ellis Act evictions, an owner or relative’s failure to comply with the Sacramento Tenant Protection Act’s Owner Move-In or Relative Move-In provisions results in the Sacramento tenant having a claim for wrongful eviction.

Owner Move-In Defined

Under the Sacramento Tenant Protection Act, an owner move-in eviction occurs where the landlord seeks to recover possession in good faith for use and occupancy as a primary residence by the owner, or their spouse, domestic partner, parent, grandparent, brother, sister, child, and grandchild, whether related by blood, birth, adoption, marriage, or registered domestic partnership.  Sacramento Municipal Code §§ 5.156.090, 5.156.020.  Please note that in-laws are not considered part of the owner’s immediate family for relative move-in eviction purposes unless the owner’s spouse is also a property owner.  Sacramento Tenant Protection Program Administrative Procedures § 1.08.

To perform an owner move-in or relative move-in eviction, the owner must be a natural person and have at least a fifty-one percent (51%) ownership interest in the property.  Sacramento Tenant Protection Program Administrative Procedures § 1.08.  An LLC or corporate landlord may not perform an owner move-in eviction or a relative move-in eviction.

What Types of Rental Units Does the Sacramento Tenant Protection Act Cover?

The Sacramento Tenant Protection Act’s Owner Move-In Eviction and Relative Move-In Eviction Act provisions only cover specific rental units.  Specifically, the Sacramento Tenant Protection Act covers all units leased for residential use under a lease agreement in the City of Sacramento.  Sacramento Municipal Code § 5.156.020.  Leases may be written, verbal, or implied by landlord and tenant conduct.  However, the Sacramento Tenant Protection Act exempts certain rental units, including:

Units in hotels, motels, inns, tourist homes, or room and board homes rented to guests for fewer than thirty (30) days, or other transient occupancies as defined in Civil Code section 1940(b);

Units in hospitals, medical care facilities, residential care facilities, asylums, group homes for seniors or the disabled, transitional housing programs for the unhoused, converts or monasteries owner and operated by a religious organization, frat and sorority houses, and dormitories owned and operated by accredited higher education institutions;

Units with income-based rent that are owned and operated or subsidized by a government entity or subject to a government affordable housing contract leased to families with an income of 120% of the area median income or below;

Units in which the tenant shares a bathroom or kitchen with the property owner;

Units that were built after February 1, 1995, as specified on the Certificate of Occupancy (“CO”), or, where no CO exists, the final inspection date;

Units in condominium complexes or stock cooperatives; and,

Units that the landlord or the landlord’s immediate family occupancy as their primary residence.  Sacramento Municipal Code § 5.156.030.

Click here to read more about the Sacramento Tenant Protection Act.

Are Disabled, Senior, or Minor Children Sacramento Tenants Protected from Owner Move-In or Relative Move-In Evictions?

No, the Sacramento Tenant Protection Act does not contain any protections from owner move-in or relative move-in evictions performed on rental units with disabled, senior, or minor children Sacramento tenants.

What Must the Landlord Include on a Termination of Tenancy Notice When Performing an Owner Move-In or Relative Move-In Eviction on a Sacramento Tenant?

The landlord must serve the Sacramento tenant with written notice to perform an owner move-in or relative move-in eviction on a Sacramento tenant.  Sacramento Municipal Cod § 5.156.090.  The written must state the just cause reason for the termination of tenancy; here, an owner move-in or relative move-in eviction.  The written notice must also provide the Sacramento tenant with at least one-hundred-and-twenty (120) days to vacate the property.  The written notice should also specify the person’s name who will reside in the Sacramento tenant’s unit following the termination of tenancy.  Also, after serving the Sacramento tenant with advanced written notice, the landlord must provide a copy of the written notice and a copy of the rental agreement to the Sacramento Tenant Protection Program.

Does the Sacramento Tenant Protection Act Provide Sacramento Tenants Displaced Due to an Owner Move-In Eviction or Relative Move-In Eviction with Relocation Payments?

Unfortunately, the Sacramento Tenant Protection Act does not provide Sacramento tenants displaced due to an owner move-in eviction or relative move-in eviction with relocation payments. However, some Sacramento tenants may be covered by the California Tenant Protection Act of 2019, which provides relocation assistance when the landlord performs an owner move-in eviction or relative move-in eviction.  For more information about the California Tenant Protection Act of 2019, click here.

After Recovering Through an Owner Move-In Eviction or Relative Move-In Eviction, How Long May the Landlord Keep the Unit Vacant?

Under the Sacramento Tenant Protection Act, the landlord must move into the recovered rental unit within a “reasonable time.”  Sacramento Tenant Protection Program Administrative Procedures § 1.08.  The landlord may remodel the unit before the owner or relative moves in.  However, the owner or the qualified relative must file an “Owner Move-In Initial Declaration of Occupancy” within one-hundred-and-twenty (120) days of moving into the unit.

After Moving into a Unit Recovered Through an Owner Move-In or Relative Move-In Eviction, How Long Must the Owner or Qualified Relative Reside in the Unit?

After moving into a unit recovered through an owner move-in or relative move-in eviction, the owner or qualified relative must reside in the rental unit for twelve (12) months.  Sacramento Tenant Protection Program Administrative Procedures § 1.08.

What Happens When the Sacramento Tenant Vacates the Unit Before the 120 Expires, and the Landlord Decides Not to Perform the Owner Move-In Eviction or Relative Move-In Eviction?

If the Sacramento tenant moves out during the notice period, and the owner subsequently decides to cancel the owner move-in eviction or relative move-in eviction, the owner must notify the Sacramento Tenant Protection Programand the former tenant.  Sacramento Tenant Protection Program Administrative Procedures § 1.08.  Additionally, the landlord must inform the Sacramento tenant that they can move back into their former home at the same rental rate in effect as of the date they vacated.   

What Happens if the Owner or Qualified Relative Vacates the Unit Recovered Under an Owner Move-In Eviction or Relative Move-In Eviction Before Residing in the Unit for Twelve Months? 

Where the landlord or qualified relative fails to reside in the recovered unit for twelve (12) months, the landlord must offer the Sacramento tenant their former home at the same rental rate in effect as of the date they vacated.  Sacramento Tenant Protection Program Administrative Procedures § 1.08.  Their failure to do so constitutes a wrongful eviction.  The Sacramento tenant has a claim for money damages, and may file a civil lawsuit in court.  Contact Astanehe Law for more information.

What Happens When the Landlord Recovers the Unit by Performing an Owner Move-In Eviction or Relative Move-In Eviction, But the Owner or Qualified Relative Fail to Occupy the Recovered Unit?

The Sacramento tenant has been wrongfully evicted where the owner or qualified relative fails to occupy a unit recovered under Sacramento Owner Move-In eviction or Relative Move-In eviction laws.  Sacramento Tenant Protection Program Administrative Procedures § 1.08.  The Sacramento tenant has a claim for money damages, and may file a civil lawsuit in court.  Contact Astanehe Law for more information.

What Can Sacramento Tenants Do When Their Landlord Abuses the Sacramento Owner Move-In or Relative Move-In Eviction Law?  

Sacramento tenants facing landlord owner move-in or relative move-in eviction abuse may contact the city attorney’s office by phone or in person or file a petition with the Sacramento Tenant Protection Program.  Additionally, they may initiate a civil lawsuit, for money damages against their landlord.  Sacramento Municipal Code § 5.156.120.  This includes tenants suffering harassment or retaliation for fighting back against landlord abuse of the Owner Move-In eviction, Relative Move-In eviction laws, or the Sacramento Tenant Protection Act.  This includes instances where the Sacramento tenant suffers a wrongful eviction related to a fraudulent Sacramento Owner Move-In eviction or Relative Move-In eviction.

To discuss the Sacramento Tenant Protection Act, Sacramento Ellis Act Evictions, Sacramento Owner Move-In Evictions and Relative Move-In Evictions, or California Rent Control (AB1482), contact Astanehe Law, including by phone or email, to speak with a tenant attorney.

#Sacramento #Sacramento tenant #tenants #tenant rights #tenants rights #sacramentotenants #Sacramento tenant protection act #tpa #tenant protection act #eviction #evictions #eviction law #landlordtenant #landlord tenant #tenant law #tenantlaw #tenant lawyer #tenantlawyer #tenant attorney #tenantattorney #astanehelaw

[skyhawkstragedy]

I see BB23 is pulling out all the stops and recreating every American Horror Story season

Murder Slaughter House: Frenchie creates the Slaughterhouse then immediately tries to disband it once someone else becomes HOH

Asylum: Everyone goes mad and starts making unusual and erratic game moves in the late night

Coven: Tiffany wanting to initiate a blood ritual

Freakshow: The Jokers being clowns and bouncing off of each other's bad reads (started by Frenchie)

Hotel: Half of the house lying about their jobs and being secret threats game-wise

Roanoke: The spirit of Christine possessing houseguests one by one, causing them to stalk other HGs either because of a power trip or a fit of envy

Cult: Teams developing new dynamics within the HGs and majority alliances cannibalize themselves and form new ones

Apocalypse: Britini acting like the world is ending since she hasn't been safe since Travis got evicted

1984: Neon aesthetic + the book Big Brother was influenced by

#bb23 #american horror story

[kny111]

7 Provide Safe Housing for Everyone

Cancel rent without burden of repayment during COVID-19.

Repurpose empty buildings, houses, apartments, and hotels to house people experiencing homelessness.

Prohibit evictions.

Remove cops from all re-entry and shelter institutions.

Provide unequivocal support and resources to refugee and asylum seeking communities.

Allow Community Benefits Agreements to be a community governed means of urban planning. Make public housing accessible to everyone, repealing discriminatory laws barring people from accessing resources based on income, race, gender, sexuality, immigration status, or history of incarceration.

Support and promote the existence of community land trusts for Black and historically displaced communities.

Ensure that survivors of gendered violence have access to alternative housing options in the event that their primary housing becomes unsafe.

Provide non-coercive housing options for young people experiencing abuse or family rejection of their queer or trans identities.

#decolonisation #decolonization #housing #police state #neocolonialism #white supremacist capitalist patriarchy #info #information #resource #resources #blm #black lives matter

[culturacao]

COURAGE TOOK THE STREETS

Housing, Health, Education and papers for all 

A demonstration made by locals, refugees and immigrants took the center of Athens the past saturday. It was claimed housing for all, access to healthcare, education and papers that recognize the status of so many that wait months for a reply to an asylum or refuge request. I’ve met during the protest R., that explained me that he has been waiting for 6 months for a reply of the Greek state while living on the street. “Every now and then, when I’m able to, I rent a room for a night for 5 or 10 euros” – he explained me in a calm voice. In the last year, the occupied houses and independent structures from anarchist and left- wing movements that were housing refugees, have been violently attacked and dismembered by the police. After a long wait in terrible conditions, the ones to which is granted asylum or refuge have just one month to find house and work. “The government announced the eviction of more than 11.000 recognized refugees from their residencies. 2.500 from camps, 600 from hotels and 7.400 from apartments. They plan to throw them in the street, adding thousands to the country homeless” – informs the manifest made public by the platforms that got together in this demonstration.

The ones that arrived to the street with their protest, reunited the courage to make visible their frail condition, many in company of friends or family. For the ones that live in camps, as Eleonas in the south of Athens, they had to defy orders of the keepers of the space to be able to leave. Who arrived to the street and showed his or her voice has after all a great courage. They know that behind them many others are kept invisible. Yesterday, sunday, was announced a new movement restriction until July 5th for the residents in the Reception and Identification Centers in the country, as well for the accommodation structures. The sanitary block of these places forbids the exit of its residents since March 24th, before quarantine was imposed to the general population. Moreover, the restriction of movements in these places with few sanitary and structural conditions continues even if in the surrounding environments, in the Greek villages and cities, life goes on as normal.

#refugee #demonstration #Athens #Greece #Eleonas

[beardedmrbean]

New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued an executive order this week exempting emergency shelters intended for the increased surge of illegal immigrants arriving to the Big Apple since the end of Title 42 from the city’s lengthy land-use process, knocking down bureaucratic blocks to finding temporary housing.

Laws and rules related to the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, and other procedures applicable to the city planning and land use review processes, are suspended for the extent of the state of emergency. 

That includes those that apply to siting, leasing, construction and operations of facilities including homeless shelters created or expanded in response to the asylum emergency. These generally require the holding of public hearings, the certification of applications, the submission of recommendations, any required or necessary voting, the taking of final actions, and the issuance of determinations, the order says.

Moving migrants into neighborhoods where longtime residents may not want them without any public hearing to voice their input could result in lawsuits for the city, the New York Daily News reported. 

NEW YORK ANCHOR ASKS ERIC ADAMS ‘WHERE THE HECK’ IS BIDEN ON MIGRANT CRISIS: ‘THAT’S A GOOD QUESTION'

The now-suspended procedures normally required under the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) would usually postpone major development projects by months, but Adams’ spokesperson Adam Levy told the Daily News that the mayor’s office found the "speeding up the process of bringing needed shelter space online" necessary at this time. 

Adams’ decision builds on a prior executive order from October that already exempted from ULURP the city’s Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers. The new order, issued Monday and made public Tuesday, also renews the mayor’s directive issued last Wednesday suspending portions of the city’s longstanding right-to-shelter law. Adams temporarily made it so rules that require the city to secure shelter beds for families with children by a certain time, prohibit placing families with children in congregate settings, related to unlawful evictions would not apply amid the migrant surge. 

"We are carrying this entire burden. This national problem is being laid in the lap of New Yorkers," Adams told Fox 5 New York on Tuesday. "This is an unsustainable crisis that's been forced on New Yorkers and is going to continue to grow if there's not a real response at our border and if there's not assistance of a decompression strategy here in New York State."

The order will last for five days, unless Adams seeks to extend it before then. 

Legal Aid and the Coalition for the Homeless, meanwhile, has threatened to sue Adams’ office if the city does not abide by right-to-shelter rules requiring families with children be placed in private dwellings. With the city’s current emergency shelter and hotel systems at capacity, Adams is moving to open migrant shelter facilities in the gyms of public schools across the city, sparking outrage from parents. 

Adams’ administration is also moving forward with controversial plans to bus migrants out of the city to mostly Republican-led counties. 

"I was criticized by those who are advocates and elected officials who in one breath states that they don't want any migrants in their districts, but at the same time they're pushing back on the city," Adams told Fox 5. "We have done moving migrants that want to go upstate to different locales. We are going to continue to do everything possible to manage this crisis." 

Adams said he expects a potential 15 more busloads of migrants arriving in New York City this weekend following some 4,200 illegal immigrants who arrived last week alone.  

#nunyas news

[everlarkbookclub]

The Everlark Book Club would like to nominate the following fics to @everlarkficbackfriday as part of the Fic Back Friday community challenge:

Your Hand in Mine by ellembee (@andthisisthewonder)

Modern AU. Rated T. Multi-chapter (complete).

Katniss works a crappy retail job folding clothes and supervising dressing rooms. She doesn't have much hope for a better job or brighter future. Until one day a lost little girl needs help finding her father.

Hope she was worth it by @aquarpisc

Modern AU. Rated M. One shot.

Katniss comes home early and finds something she never expected.

Three and Out by hutchabelle (@hutchhitched)

Modern AU. Rated E. One shot.

Katniss and Peeta lose a bet with Finnick, which makes watching the annual Panem University v. Panem State University football game much more interesting.

In Name Only by Izzy Samson 

Historical AU. Rated E. Multi-chapter (complete).

In the midst the Great Depression eighteen year old Katniss needs a miracle. Her Papa is dead, Mama has just been hauled off to the asylum, soon she'll be evicted, and Prim put into the child's home. WW1 Veteran, Peeta Mellark, gives her the means to save Prim, he offers to be her husband 'in name only'. The only hitch is; Katniss thinks she loves him…

Hotel Paper by Kattomas

Canon compliant (post-epilogue). Rated T. One shot. 

Eighteen years after the Capitol fell, it's reclaiming its hold on Peeta. How much are his memories worth?

*****

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#EverlarkFicBackFriday #ficbackfriday #everlark fanfiction #everlark book club #fic recs

[humanrightsupdates]

From Chaos in Moria to Despair in Athens, Greece

A woman and her children sitting in Victoria Square in Athens, Greece, awaiting transfer, are among the thousands of refugees summarily evicted from their residence by the government. © 2020 AFP

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the Greek government announced that it was throwing more than 11,000 refugees out on the street, including families with children, pregnant women, and women who are alone in Greece, as well as people with disabilities and older people.

Starting on June 1st, refugees were told to leave government-provided housing in apartments, hotels, and camps. Also, EU cash assistance ends once people are formally recognized as refugees, leaving them without support.

In August, Basira, a 21-year-old woman from Afghanistan who is alone in Greece, told me that she was given just a few days to leave her tent in Moria camp, on Lesbos island, after she was granted asylum. “They cut the cash assistance and told me I have to go,” she said. “They said that if they come again and find me [in the tent] they will take me by force. I felt fear and despair because I am on my own, I didn’t know where to go.”

Like many refugees in her situation, Basira left the island for mainland Greece, and was living in central Athens’ Viktoria square. There, dozens of families are sleeping on blankets or pieces of cardboard in stifling heat. I saw children playing near dangerous electric wires and garbage. Migrant associations and some citizens are distributing food and water, but nearby shop owners are increasingly hostile.

On at least three occasions, the police have rounded people up, sometimes using threats and force, to take them to a temporary camp outside Athens. A 75-year-old man from Afghanistan told me riot police beat him twice with a baton on August 2 for objecting to relocation.

Although refugees are legally entitled to look for work and independent housing, lengthy and complex bureaucratic procedures mean many wait weeks or months for documents allowing them to support themselves. Making things worse, the government announced plans to shut at least 60 out of the 92 reception facilities on mainland Greece.

The UN special rapporteur on the right to housing has warned that when people are deprived of shelter, they become more at risk to Covid-19. He called on governments to halt evictions until the pandemic ends.

Greek authorities should listen and provide suitable alternatives to refugees on the streets, particularly families with children, people with disabilities, older persons, and single women. - Human Rights Watch

[creepingsharia]

“Tomorrow We Are Coming to Kill You All!” Muslim Persecution of Christians, June 2019

by Raymond Ibrahim

Slaughter of Christians

Mali: On June 9, Islamic Fulani gunmen massacred 95 Christians—including women and children—during their rampage of a Christian village, which they set ablaze before leaving;  several of the slain were burned alive.  “About 50 heavily armed men arrived on motorbikes and pickups,” a survivor recalled. “They first surrounded the village and then attacked—anyone who tried to escape was killed….  No one was spared—women, children, elderly people.”  Security sources confirmed that the raiders also randomly killed domestic animals in the village which was “virtually wiped out.”

Burkina Faso:  Islamic terrorists slaughtered another 29 Christians over the course of two separate raids.  The first occurred on Sunday, June 9, in the town of Arbinda; 19 Christians were butchered.  On the next day, another ten Christians were murdered in a nearby town.  An additional eleven thousand Christians fled the region and were left displaced, as they feared they would be next if they were to remain in their villages.  “There is no Christian anymore in this town [Arbinda],” said a local contact; he added that “It’s proven that they [terrorists] were looking for Christians. Families who hide Christians are [also] killed. Arbinda had now lost in total no less than 100 people within six months.”  These June attacks follow a string of Islamic terror attacks in the West African nation over the preceding six weeks that left at least another 20 Christians dead. 

Nigeria:  Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed at least 24 Christians in three separate raids.  On June 17, the herdsmen slaughtered 13 Christians—three of whom were children, one reportedly only eight years old—in Kaduna and Plateau States.  Two churches, over 200 Christian homes, and crops were also torched to the ground.   On the same day in Tarabu State, “Muslim Fulanis riding Bajaj motorcycles” raided another Christian village, where they  butchered another 11 Christians. “They burned houses and shot us as we fled,” a contact said.  Discussing these incidents, human rights activist John Eibner elaborates, “Like Boko Haram, they [Fulani] are inspired by the jihad and caliphate of their Fulani kinsman Usman dan Fodio.  The extensive death and destruction caused by Fulani terrorists rarely makes major headlines in the West. But, according to the Global Terrorism Index, ‘In 2018 alone, deaths attributed to Fulani extremists are estimated to be six times greater than the number committed by Boko Haram.’”

Morocco:  According to the ringleader of an Islamic terror cell, the sole reason that he and his men slaughtered two female Scandinavian students—Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, Danish, 24, and Maren Ueland, Norwegian, 28 (pictured above)—who were hiking through the North African nation’s Atlas Mountains, was because they were Christian (many Muslims assume that all Europeans are practicing Christians).  Abdessamad Ejoud, 25, confessed to this motivation during his and two other terrorists’ court trial over the slaughters that occurred last December.  Ejoud, who professed his “love” for ISIS in court, personally beheaded one of the two women because, as Christians, they are Allah’s “enemies,” he said, and are responsible for “killing Muslims.”

Pakistan:  Three Muslim men and one woman robbed, beat, and poisoned Sagheer Masih, a 35-year-old Christian auto rickshaw driver.   According to the report,  he “was targeted because of religious hatred, prejudice and apparent jealously of his success”:

Sagheer Masih’s work ethic and personality drew several customers to him. He was well-mannered, polite and very friendly. Knowing he had the responsibility of taking care of three younger siblings after the death of his father, he ensured that he always got to work early and left late in order to gather as much money as he could to care for them. At work, he experienced discrimination because of his faith. Several of the other drivers called him “Choora” which is a derogatory word for a Christian in Pakistan, but he never saw his death coming.  On the night of the incident, he stayed at work later than usual to drive for people he thought were customers. The group requested that he take them on a longer route than usual and made it clear to him that they were willing to pay an extra fee. After moments of driving, they directed him to a remote location and, at knife-point, demanded that he give them all his money. Sagheer, being scared for his life and concerned for his siblings, gave all he had, but begged that they spare his life. Instead of killing him in on the spot, they forced him to drink poison and acid and left him there to die. Sagheer Masih spent that night on laying on the street unconscious. When he was finally found, he was unable to eat or drink anything and he consistently vomited blood for almost a week.

He died a week later.

Sri Lanka: The Islamic suicide bombing of churches and hotels on Easter Sunday, April 21, that claimed more than 250 lives claimed another life in June: Arun Prashanth, who heroically helped others after his church was bombed, had been struggling between life and death in an intensive care unit for 40 days, when he finally succumbed to death on June 4. According to the report, “Arun, [30,] the sole family breadwinner who cared for his widowed mother, was very active in Christian ministry and known as someone who was always available to help out anyone in need.”

Attacks on Churches and Christian Institutions

Niger: On June 15 and in response to the arrest of a popular Muslim imam who had accused proposed legislation of being “anti-Islamic,” a Muslim mob of more than 150 people set the Assembly of God Church in Maradi ablaze; they also intentionally torched the pastor’s car and raided another neighboring church.  A senior official of Niger’s Ministry of Interior later said that there is “nothing anti-Islamic” in the proposed legislation, which is intended to counter measures advocated by “obscurantist terrorist organizations.”  The Imam, Sheikh Rayadoune, was released the day after his arrest, at which point he announced that “all my supporters must stop making trouble in the town. Islam does not recommend that.”

United States of America:  A Muslim man from Syria, who in August 2016 was admitted into the U.S. as a “refugee,” was “arrested on terrorism charges in relation to a plan to attack a church in Pittsburgh, according to the Justice Department,”  a report dated June 19 notes:

Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 21, was arrested based on a federal complaint charging him with one count of attempting to provide material support and resources to the self-described Islamic State, also known as ISIS, according to the U.S. Justice Department. He’s also charged with two counts of distributing information relating to an explosive, destructive device or weapon of mass destruction in relation to a plan to attack the Legacy International Worship Center on the city’s north side.  The complaint states that Alowemer in May gave “multiple instructional documents” detailing how to build and use explosives, including improvised explosive devices, to an undercover FBI agent he believed was an ISIS supporter. Federal prosecutors allege that the man handed over these documents intending for them to be used in assembling a weapon to conduct an attack.

Alowemer had purchased several items—including  nails, batteries and consumer products containing hazardous chemicals—to be used in his improvised explosive device.

Ethiopia:  Authorities ordered an evangelical church congregation to vacate the building it had been using for the last decade.   Complaints from neighbors of loud noises were cited in the eviction letter, which gave the congregation 30 days to vacate premises.  “This decision is nothing other than a display of animosity towards Protestant churches in the region,” explained one local.  “Similar tensions are bubbling under the surface in other parts of Oromia.  We have even heard of places where Muslims had asked Christians to vacate the area. And though this call is veiled as ethnic rivalry by some media and observers, it is at its very core a religious matter.”  According to the report,

There is concern that these measures are part of a concerted effort to discourage Christian activity in Oromia state, the birthplace of [Muslim] President Abiye Ahmed. Leaders say they also fear that if these government actions are successful, it might encourage Muslims in other communities in Oromia to initiate similar complaints. As of the 2007 census, the state was about 51 percent Christian (17.7% protestant, 30.4 orthodox) and 47.6% Muslim….  It’s not only the state’s Protestant churches that face problems. Some Ethiopian Orthodox churches have reported an increase in difficulties…

Lebanon:  Security agents arrested a Syrian national and ISIS-sympathizer, aged 20, for plotting a series of attacks against the nation’s Christian churches and Shia mosques.   He was inspired by the April 21 Sri Lanka terror attacks on Christian churches and tourist designations that left 250 dead.  According to the report,

Within the Middle East context, Lebanon is considered a comparatively safe country for Christians. It is the only country with a Christian president. Even so, challenges persist. The Iranian backed terrorist group, Hezbollah, has a strong political influence in the country. Lebanon is home to over a million refugees and asylum seekers. Lebanese Christians are well-aware of how this combination could place them into situations which make them more vulnerable to attacks.

Uganda: A Christian primary school, which takes in Muslim children kicked out by their parents for converting to Christianity, was unexpectedly demolished by authorities after local Muslims complained that the school was conducting loud and disruptive worship services in the evening. One written compliant was sent directly to the school and threatened that “If you do not stop night prayers, we are going to take tough action against the school.”  Soon thereafter, the school was demolished at 2 am on June 2 and without previous notification.

Attacks on Apostates, Blasphemers, and Preachers

Uganda:  Local authorities banned open air evangelical church events after some Muslims converted to Christianity—while others, angered by such apostasy, threatened church leaders with text messages such as   “Tomorrow we are coming to kill all of you during the open air crusade.” Several of the Christians who spoke at the event were former Muslims and openly discussed what they deemed problematic Islamic doctrines that prompted them to embrace Christianity. “We cannot allow the Christians to use the Koran in their meetings or to allege that Jesus is the Son of God,” explained one mosque leader; “this [is] a serious blasphemy to Muslims.”  Another sheikh openly threatened the apostates with death:  “We cannot watch the Christians changing our faithful members to Christianity. If those who have joined Christianity will not return back to Islam, then we are going to treat them as infidels, hence deserving death according to the teaching of Islam.”  “I am very afraid for my life,” said a former Muslim cleric turned Christian. “I have received threatening messages in my phone that the Muslims want my head.”  Local authorities responded to these threats by shutting down the evangelical events.

Egypt: A Sudanese Muslim cleric who on converting to Christianity fled his persecutors in Sudan and came to Egypt continues to be threatened.  Most recently, a phone caller told Al Hadi Izzalden Shareef Osman that he is “an infidel and fuel for hell.”  It was the voice of a cleric who a week earlier came to Osman’s Cairo apartment with five other Muslim sheikhs demanding that the apostate renounce Christ and re-embrace Islam or prepare to face the consequences.   “They kept telling me to go mosque, but I refused,” Osman said. “I was afraid and had to relocate from the apartment to another location….  Egypt is no longer safe for me. I want to relocate elsewhere, I am tired of these threats.”

Separately,on June 10, an angry Muslim mob attacked Christians in the village of Ishnin, in Upper Egypt, following the Islamic call to prayer, portions of which announced that a young Christian had made a post on Facebook deemed offensive to Islam.  Fadi Yousef, 25, the accused, says his account was hacked;  he deleted the post once he saw it—posting in its place an explanatory apology.  “He is apologizing because he respects your feelings,” his sister later explained. “He is not a child to do such a thing…”  Regardless, a mob gathered around and barged into his family home and the homes of two other relatives; they destroyed furniture and tore out the electrical wiring. According to a local, “The extremists were roaming the village saying, ‘There is no god but Allah.’ We were very afraid in that time….  All of us are now in our homes.” “This is a village which is full of many Muslim Brotherhood members,” said another Christian woman. “I’m sure that unless the police had entered the village, the extremists would have killed every Christian, one by one. Now there are many armored police in the village.”  The young Christian, his wife and small daughter barely managed to escape “minutes before the Muslim extremists broke in and destroyed the refrigerator, television set, mattresses, furniture and windows,” a statement from the local bishopric indicated; it adds that the mob was “shouting against the Christian religion and the Copts of the village.”

On the next day, police arrested the accused on the charge that he insulted Islam, which in Egypt is punishable by as many as five years in prison.

Pakistan:  Apparently angered at the success of and eager to prevent a Christian pastor’s fruitful ministry, a Muslim mob consisting of about 35 men attacked him and his family at their home.  Thanks to a police officer who was passing by and saw the attack in progress, “Pastor Aziz, his wife, and their daughter escaped with minor injuries, though they only have the clothes on their backs,” says the report.  “They are now homeless as the attackers seized Pastor Aziz’s property.”  According to a Western source, who knows him, “Pastor Aziz, who himself had come out of a Muslim background, has been evangelizing and church planting…  These Muslim militants want to see that stopped. But we are very glad that he is alive and he is determined to continue his ministry, even though he now has no home.”  This attack—the third since Aziz became Christian—has also stirred up traumatic memories: “More than 15 years ago, he has a son who was five-years-old who was kidnapped, again, because of the family’s faith in Jesus Christ. And Aziz and Ruhab have never seen him since.”

Hate for and General Abuse of Christians

Kuwait: Islamic cleric Othman al-Khamis was again accused of  “stoking sectarian tension,” against Christians.  In June  he issued a fatwa, an Islamic ruling, comparing the Christian crucifix to Satan, adding that “Muslims cannot wear clothes bearing images of the cross or the devil unless it is in an insulting place such as socks.”  Earlier this year he issued another fatwa  encouraging his followers to kill those who apostatize from Islam.

United Kingdom:   Muslim jail gangs are threatening and beating non-Muslim prisoners, the majority of whom identify with Christianity,  into converting to Islam.  According to a new Ministry of Justice report:  “The tactic they use is to befriend someone when they come in,” a non-Muslim inmate was quoted as saying. “If they don’t convert, they will then start spreading rumours about them, that the person is a snitch (informer), so that they will be ostracised. Then the beatings follow.”  Another prisoner summarized the gang leaders as follows:

This will be someone whose offence has validity. It could be for high profile terrorism… They will either be born to the [Islamic] religion or converted a long time ago, before they came into prison. Prison converts wouldn’t have the legitimacy to become leaders. Nothing will happen without the say so of the leader. If you can speak Arabic or learn passages of the Koran, this will allow you to get up the ranks. The leaders will be very polite to the faces of staff and won’t do anything to get into trouble with the authorities themselves… It’s all done though their footsoldiers.

“If I said I didn’t want to be a Muslim, I’d need to watch out just in case someone stabbed me,” said another prisoner.  According to Christian prison pastor Paul Song—who was fired after a Muslim imam who disapproved of the Christian’s approach took over as head chaplain—non-Muslim prisoners who “want to lead a peaceful life in prison … need to become Muslim. That way they are protected….   Some people have been forced to convert with violence. How do I know? Because three or four people come up to me and tell me.”

Libya:  An internal UN report states that Libyan authorities are not burying the dead bodies of those Christians who died in the overcrowded Zintan detention center, which houses migrants and refugees, “because the local community insists the cemetery is only for Muslims,” the Irish Times reported.

Egypt:  On June 5, anti-Christian mob violence erupted in a majority-Muslim village after a former Christian woman who had run away with a Muslim man returned married, converted to Islam, and pregnant.   During her absence, her now Muslim-in-laws regularly harassed and threatened her former Christian family, who live across the street.  As part of the triumphant celebrations of her return as a Muslim, area Muslims began attacking and pelting the Christian household and others with stones, and reportedly to the encouragement and support of the police. “We live in a state of terror now,” the woman’s Christian brother last reported, “and the village has become chaotic as a result of the celebrations.”

Separately, and in response to an ISIS attack in Sinai that left eight Egypt security officers dead, the government responded by honoring the slain—except for one, a Christian.  Seven schools were named after the seven slain Muslim officers, but the Christian, Abanoub Nageh, was denied this honor, until his family protested.   Authorities initially responded by saying that a school would also be named after the Christian, but then reneged, saying “this could not be done because of severe objections by the village Muslims that a school would bear such a flagrantly Coptic name as ‘Abanoub.’”  Instead, a rarely used canal bridge was named after him. 

Pakistan:  Eyewitnesses saw two Muslim men abduct Sania Lateef, a 15 year old Christian girl, as she was taking out garbage from her family home. Her distraught parents went to the local police, but they refused to open an investigation.   An activist acquainted with the case said the girl is believed to have been coerced into converting to Islam and marrying one of her abductors.   The report adds that “the case of the Christian girl is the latest in a long series of abductions for the purpose of forced conversion and marriage in Pakistan…. In Pakistan the victims of kidnapping and forced conversion are almost always girls from religious minorities, whose members lack the power and money needed to file complaints and go to trial.”

Raymond Ibrahim, author of the new book, Sword and Scimitar, Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and a Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

About this Series

The persecution of Christians in the Islamic world has become endemic.  Accordingly, “Muslim Persecution of Christians” was developed in 2011 to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that occur or are reported each month.

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Time to Bring an End to the Eviction of Failed Asylum Seekers in the UK

This piece was contributed to the Rights in Exile newsletter by Athiei Ajuong, who is a content writer for the Immigration Advice Service, an immigration law firm assisting asylum seekers and undocumented migrants to address legal status issues. 

As of March 2020, the UK has faced one of its greatest challenges in recent history due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Since the government first implemented a national lockdown, there have been grave concerns regarding the impact the virus is having on society’s most vulnerable populations, with charities and non-governmental organisations warning of the added risks the virus holds for asylum seekers and destitute persons. In response to public concerns, the government opted to temporarily suspend any evictions of British citizens, migrants and failed asylum seekers from social and private accommodation.

Following this decision in April, the Home Office moved some asylum seekers into emergency accommodation, such as hotels, to help prevent the spread of the virus. The intention was to provide them with accommodation that would facilitate the implementation of COVID-19 prevention measures, as per recommendations by public health advisors. Asylum seekers are usually housed in communal asylum accommodation as they wait for a decision on their claim. Many that have their claims refused often face eviction and a reduction in their financial support or are completely stripped of any government support. As a result, many failed asylum seekers are faced with homelessness and poverty. [Read more here.]

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