#AI #USA #AsylumSeekers #AutomatedTranslation: "Problems with the translation tools occur throughout the asylum process, from border stations to detention centers to immigration courts, said several volunteers at Respond Crisis Translation. The CBP One app, which the Biden administration has mandated anyone seeking asylum to use to schedule an appointment with CBP before entering the country, is translated into only a handful of languages. And even in those translations, errors appear. The version of the FAQ section of the app in Haitian Creole, for instance, largely shows a string of letters with no spaces or the necessary accent marks.

Respond Crisis Translation volunteers say they have seen cases of asylum applications being denied because the translation tool interpreted an “I” in a refugee’s statement as “we”, making it seem as if it was an application for more than one person. They also recalled the case of a woman seeking asylum due to domestic abuse who described her abuser as “mi jefe” in her application. The woman was using the term colloquially to describe her father, but the translation service translated it literally to “my boss”. Her asylum application was denied."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/07/asylum-seekers-ai-translation-apps?CMP=share_btn_tw

Petition · Rethink the Bibby Stockholm barge: ensure safe, humane conditions for asylum seekers in UK · Change.org
https://www.change.org/p/rethink-the-bibby-stockholm-barge-ensure-safe-humane-conditions-for-asylum-seekers-in-uk

#BibbyStockholm
#AsylumSeekers

Legionella found onboard the Bibby Stockholm is most deadly strain | Bibby Stockholm | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/08/legionella-found-onboard-the-bibby-stockholm-is-most-deadly-strain

#Legionella
#LegionairesDisease
#BibbyStockholm
#LegionellaPneumophilaSerogroup1
#WessexWater
#AsylumSeekers

If #NewYorkCity doesn't want #migrants maybe they should get rid of the statue of liberty

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/07/eric-adams-migrants-new-york-city-00114437

#immigration #newyork #asylumSeekers #politics #immigrants

So the Illegal Migration Act means that the Tories will no longer be able to use the overseas aid budget to pay for housing asylum seekers in country. This is because reclassifying asylum seekers as 'illegal migrants' means that they are removed from the purview of the aid budget.

So the Act is going to cost the Home Office £4 billion a year. You couldn't make it up.

https://www.ft.com/content/75265b59-5318-4b3a-bddd-a15c59d6d3e3

#UKPolitics #AsylumSeekers #ToryIncompetence

My Mrs is doing a 24 hour live stream "sew off" to raise money for the #charity #Mind #mindcharity and all clothes produced will be donated to #refugees and #asylumseekers

The live stream can be viewed on #PeerTube here: https://videos.gamercast.net/w/1iN78SJm6pB1eSWG36BtP2

More details (and Twitch stream if you're so inclined) are available here: https://www.catmoo.co.uk/links/

#livestream #fundraising

Croatia: A new detention centre, but no solutions
European policies tend to support technical equipment, unreliable securitisation plans and procedures, and questionable police centres rather than new, effective, common policies on migration.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/09/04/croatia-a-new-detention-centre-but-no-solutions/
#AsylumSeekers #Croatia #DetentionCentres #MigrantStruggles

Home Office defies high court by placing 100 asylum-seeker children in hotels | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/01/home-office-defies-high-court-by-placing-100-asylum-seeker-children-in-hotels

#HomeOffice
#AsylumSeekerChildren
#AsylumSeekerKids
#AsylumSeekers
#Hotels

Home Office ‘may fit asylum seekers with electronic tags’ | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/27/home-office-may-fit-asylum-seekers-with-electronic-tags

#HomeOffice
#Tags
#AsylumSeekers
#IllegalMigrationBill
#Rwanda
#IllegalMigrationAct
#Braverman
#UNHCR
#Bedfordshire

Braverman’s plan to house UK asylum seekers on ‘deathtrap’ barge faces legal hurdle

Suella #Braverman’s stalled plan to house #AsylumSeekers on a giant barge is facing a major legal hurdle after firefighters launched a judicial review claiming the vessel is a “potential deathtrap”.

#AsylumSeekersLivesMatter

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/27/braverman-plan-to-house-uk-asylum-seekers-on-bibby-stockholm-barge-faces-legal-hurdle?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

“These children [#AsylumSeekers & #Refugees] look for safety but find themselves in an adult prison, denied protection & exposed to great harm.”

Hard to believe that this could happen in a nation that supposedly cares about children’s welfare & dignity.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/27/children-reaching-uk-in-small-boats-sent-to-jail-for-adult-sex-offenders?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

So the Biden admin is arming and TRAINING Saudi border death squads who have been shooting asylum seekers from the horn of Africa at the border, including families

https://www.columnblog.com/p/biden-administration-funding-and?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email #masskillings #saudiarabia #asylumseekers #defencecontracts #MIC

Unsurprising tbh, can't upset the important people now, can we?

#NotMyKing
#Hypocrisy
#AsylumSeekers

FYI scholarships in Western Australia for people of asylum seeker and refugee background https://www.uwa.edu.au/study/scholarship-listing/uwa-humanitarian-swans-scholarship-f757691

#withrefugees #refugees #asylumseekers #scholarships #WA #Australia #degrees #study

Germany: Migrant deportations rise sharply

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-migrant-deportations-rise-sharply/a-66578402?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#Germany #asylumseekers #immigration

Until last month, newly recognised refugees and survivors of trafficking had 28 days to find alternative accommodation after receiving a “notice to quit” before being evicted from Home Office accommodation they had lived in while officials were processing their claims. The Home Office has now reduced this to a minimum of seven days, so thousands could become homeless.

As ever, with the Tories, the cruelty is the point.
#Refugees #AsylumSeekers #UKPolitics #HomeOffice

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/15/thousands-of-refugees-could-face-homelessness-after-home-office-policy-change?CMP=GTUK_email

‘Secretive and evasive’: Patel criticises plan to house asylum seekers at Essex RAF base

Patel now says

… it had been drawn to her attention over the weekend that the government was planning to use the site for years.

What was she doing all the time she was Home Secretary?

#refugees
#asylumseekers

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/14/priti-patel-criticises-plan-to-house-asylum-seekers-at-essex-raf-base?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Contractors told about #legionella on day #AsylumSeekers boarded barge

#Dorset council says it flagged test results about potentially deadly bacteria on Monday, but evacuation didn’t take place until four days later
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/13/home-office-was-told-about-legionella-on-refugees-barge-on-day-they-boarded #BibiStockholm #ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #TheCrueltyIsThePoint

Government faces renewed pressure as Tory MP questions ‘small boats week’ | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/13/more-than-500-people-crossed-channel-in-small-boats-on-saturday

#SmallBoats
#SmallBoatsWeek
#AsylumSeekers
#ChannelCrossingDeaths
#Loughton
#Tories
#HomeOffice
#ProcessingTimes
#Anderson

Home Office under fresh scrutiny over Bibby Stockholm migrant barge legionnaires’ disease evacuation | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bibby-stockholm-legionnaires-migrant-barge-b2391967.html

#HomeOffice
#BibbyStockholm
#Incompetance
#LegionairesDisease
#Evacuation
#AsylumSeekers
#Kinnock
#DorsetCouncil
#UKHealthSecurityAgency
#Braverman
#DorsetNHS