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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A research team from the University of Oxford and the University of Glasgow has found that prepayment cards provided to U.K. asylum seekers by the Home Office are collecting their data and controlling their behaviors in ways that have highly detrimental impacts on their well-being. The research details the…

This story was originally published by Capital & Main, a publication that reports from California on economic, political, and social issues.When a woman from Nicaragua got off a federally contracted bus at the San Diego trolley station next to the border on a recent December night, she felt a mix of joy and confusion.Joy because she was finally taking her first steps of freedom after months locked in immigration custody. Confusion because she didn’t know how she would get to Miami, where her cousin was waiting to help…

Posted in: Comics, Comics Publishers, Current News, DC Comics, Games, Justice League, Video Game Publishers, Video Games, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment | Tagged: digital token, suicide squadSuicide Squad: Kill Arkham Asylum #1 includes a redeemable code for a bonus digital token in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.Article Summary New comic series Suicide Squad: Kill Arkham Asylum ties in with the video game. Issue #1 offers a Victor Zsasz-inspired digital token for the game. Subsequent…

Lynval Golding, guitar, backing vocals, songwriterWhen we were in the Specials, working on the More Specials album, every day someone would leave the band, then three days later they’d rejoin. It’s an amazing record, but we needed a good break from each other. After doing Ghost Town on Top of the Pops, three of us went to see Jerry Dammers at his house and told him we were leaving. He was in bed and said, “You’re not allowed to leave.” We said, “That’s the reason we’re going, Jerry”, and walked out.We’d already written…

A federal judge in Oakland on Tuesday blocked a Biden administration rule that limits migrants’ access to asylum at the southern border, casting doubt on the future of a key policy aimed at limiting crossings.The order from federal Judge Jon S. Tigar, who was appointed by President Obama, won’t take effect for two weeks. The Biden administration is expected to appeal quickly — first to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals then, if unsuccessful, to the U.S. Supreme Court.The policy, which restricts access to asylum for…

A new Biden administration policy has dramatically lowered the percentage of migrants at the southern border who enter the United States and are allowed to apply for asylum, according to numbers revealed in legal documents obtained by The Times. Without these new limits to asylum, border crossings could overwhelm local towns and resources, a Department of Homeland Security official warned a federal court in a filing this month.The new asylum policy is the centerpiece of the Biden administration’s border efforts. Under…

June 20th is World Refugee Day. To commemorate the occasion, The Beat is proud to present this interview with Unaccompanied: Stories of Brave Teenagers Seeking Asylum author Tracy White conducted by Liz Frances, founder of activist nonfiction graphic novel publisher Street Noise Books.  LIZ FRANCES: Hi Tracy, I’m so glad to speak with you on June 20th, which is not only the launch date of your new book Unaccompanied: Stories of Brave Teenagers Seeking Asylum, but which the United Nations has declared World Refugee Day.…

Oriana Silva, a 30-year-old Venezuelan mother of two, was so determined to make it to the United States that she entered illegally and was expelled back to Mexico five times in seven months. Now, she is trying another way she hopes will be easier: the US asylum app. As US Covid-era border restrictions give way to strict new asylum rules on Friday, she and other migrants in Mexico have opted to forgo unlawful crossings and instead heed the Biden administration's calls to request asylum via mobile app. "It's much better,"…

Police in Spain have arrested 69 people accused of using bots to circumvent the asylum system in the country. Spanish authorities said on Friday a gang had used the bots to obtain open time slots for the country’s online booking system, which is free, and resold the appointments to asylum seekers for 200 euros ($217) each.Sam Bankman-Fried Using a VPN, McDonald’s AI Drive Thru Fails, Buzzfeed AI Quizzes Suck | Editor PicksSpain’s asylum site takes measures to identify bots, but the group’s automated software system was…

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in federal court in Northern California on Thursday aiming to block a Biden administration policy set to limit asylum for those who cross the border without authorization. The policy, which is set to take effect late Thursday, limits asylum from migrants who cross through a third country on the way to the U.S. and do not seek protections on the way to the southern border. The ACLU, along with the UC Hastings Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, and the National…