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Latest State to Restore Gun Rights
Fairfax, Va. The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) today applauded Gov.Terry Branstad for signingHouse File 517 (HF517) into law. The newly enacted law strengthensIowans fundamental right to self-defense and follows a national trend to expand Second Amendment rights.
It is a great day for freedom. Today, Iowa joined the nationwide movement to expand law-abiding citizens constitutional right to self-protection, said Chris W. Cox, executive director, NRA-ILA.The NRA and our five million members thank the IowaLegislature and Gov.Branstad for working to strengthen Iowans Second Amendment rights so they have the freedom to protect themselves and their families.
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Established in 1871, the National Rifle Association is America's oldest civil rights and sportsmen's group. More than five million members strong, NRA continues to uphold the Second Amendment and advocates enforcement of existing laws against violent offenders to reduce crime. The Association remains the nation's leader in firearm education and training for law-abiding gun owners, law enforcement and the armed services. Be sure to follow the NRA on Facebook at NRA on Facebook and Twitter @NRA.
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Michigan -(Ammoland.com)-The Second Amendment March (SAM) is coordinating a pro-gun march and rally at the Michigan State Capitol on Wednesday, April 26th from 10:00 A.M.-2:00 P.M.
This event is open to the public.
The purpose of the event is to show support for the 2nd Amendment and allow citizens to meet with their legislators to discuss gun rights issues. Along with the SAM will be representatives for Michigan Gun Owners (MGO) and Michigan Open Carry, Inc. (MOC).
The event will start with speakers at 10:00 AM until noon. At noon a march will take place around the Capital Mall. Speakers will resume again at 1:00 PM. From 10:00 to 2:00 people are encouraged to meet with their local legislators and discuss their support of the 2nd Amendment. Throughout the event representatives from each gun groups as well as some State legislators will speak on the Capitol steps.
Tables for each gun group will be in the large tent on site with fundraising merchandise and literature available. Vendors can rent a table at this event. Lawful firearm carry is allowed on and in the Capitol building and we encourage all participants to exercise their 2nd Amendment right in a responsible manner.
Oh, and did I mention there will be a raffle?
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The German interior ministry announced they will no longer be sending people to Hungary until Budapest ensures those transferred are dealt with according to European procedures.
A spokesman for the ministry added: Without such assurance, there would no referrals until further notice.
Under the European Unions so-called Dublin rules, migrants and refugees should be sent back to the first European country they arrive in.
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Hungary has seen an influx of migrants across its border with Serbia, which has been the scene of violent clashes in the past.
But there have been damning claims the country, lead by Eurosceptic stalwart Viktor Orban, has been flouting international and EU law.
The Hungarian parliament approved plans on March 7 to detain migrants in camps on the countrys border with Serbia.
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Aid workers help migrants up the shore after making the crossing from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos on November 16, 2015 in Sikaminias, Greece
But some migrants confined in the camps have complained of beatings from border authorities.
After being set upon by dogs, one refugee even claimed guards took selfies with him.
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Without such assurance, there would no referrals until further notice
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Filippo Grandi, the United Nations refugee agency chief, this week called for a suspension of transfers of asylum seekers until the Hungarian authorities bring their practices and policies in line with European and international law.
Germany waived Dublin rules for refugees at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015.
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But after the number of people arriving in the country passed one million last year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was forced to take measures to limit arrivals.
Germany sent 294 asylum seekers back to Hungary in 2016, according to official figures.
Asylum applications in Hungary fell from 177,000 in 2015 to just 29,000 last year.
In the first two months of 2017, there were just 912 applications.
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Germany to STOP migrant deportations to Hungary over fears of 'poor treatment' at camps - Express.co.uk
Media coverage of the European migrant crisis often focuses on the migrants themselvescapturing their stories as millions escape violent conflicts and crushing poverty.
In Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Savior, Peter Tinti and Tuesday Reitano consider the smugglers involved in transporting migrants throughout Europe. Although many smugglers are viewed as saviors, others give little regard to the human rights issues. The excerpt below addresses how European policies limit asylum-seekers and lead them to depend on dangerous underground smuggling networks.
Europe is currently experiencing the biggest mass migration since the Second World War in what has come to be known as the migrant crisis. There is a natural impulseamong scholars, journalists, politicians, activists, and concerned citizensto frame their stories within a broader human rights narrative. They remind us of the unfairness of the world and the injustice of global inequality. What we want to focus on are the smugglers, traffickers, and networks of criminals that make their narratives possible.
These networks, tens of thousands of people strong, are facilitating an unprecedented surge of migration from Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia into Europe. Although the drivers of the current crisis are manyincluding but not limited to the concentric phenomena of conflict, climate change, global inequality, political persecution, and globalizationthe actualization of the crisis is enabled and actively encouraged by an increasingly professional set of criminal groups and opportunistic individuals that is generating profits in the billions.
Some smugglers are revered by the people they transport, hailed as saviors due to their willingness to deliver men, women, and children to safety and opportunity when no legal alternatives will offer them either. In a neoliberal world where the fates of individuals are couched in anodyne policy-speak, it is often the criminals who help the most desperate among us escape the inadequacy, hypocrisy, and immorality that run through our current international system. It is certainly true that smugglers profit from the desperation of others, but it is also true that in many cases smugglers save lives, create possibilities, and redress global inequalities.
Other smugglers carry out their activities without any regard for human rights, treating the lives of those they smuggle as disposable commodities in a broader quest to maximize profits. For all too many migrants and refugees, smugglers prove unable to deliver, exposing their clients to serious injury or even death. Even worse, some smugglers turn out to be traffickers, who, after luring unsuspecting clients with false promises of a better life, subject them to exploitation and abuse.
Meanwhile, efforts by European policymakers and their allies to stem the flow of migrants into Europe are pushing smuggling networks deeper underground and putting migrants more at risk, while at the same time doing little to address the root causes of mass migration. In lieu of safe, legal paths to seeking refuge and opportunity, new barriers are forcing migrants to pursue more dangerous journeys and seek the services of more established mafias and criminal organizations. These groups have developed expertise in trafficking drugs, weapons, stolen goods, and people, and were uniquely qualified to add migrant smuggling to their business portfolios.
The result has been a manifold increase in human insecurity, not only in the Mediterranean and Aegean Sea crossings, which have received considerable attention in the international media, but also along the overland smuggling routes that cross the Sahara and the Central Asian Silk Road, penetrate deep into the Balkans, and continue into the grimiest corners of Europes trendiest capitals.
What was once a loose network of freelancers and ad hoc facilitators has blossomed into professional, transnational organized criminal networks devoted to migrant smuggling. The size and scope of their operations is unprecedented. Shadowy new figures have emerged, existing crime syndicates have moved in, and a range of enterprising opportunists have come forward, together forming a dynamic, multi-level criminal industry that has shown an extraordinary ability to innovate and adapt.
What we are witnessing is not just the story of traditional migrant smuggling on a larger scale. Rather, we are witnessing a paradigm shift in which the unprecedented profits associated with migrant smuggling are altering long-standing political arrangements, transforming economies and challenging security structures in ways that could potentially have a profound impact on global order.
Furthermore, the consolidation and codification of these networks also means that smuggling networks now seek to create contexts in which demand for their services will thrive. They have become a vector for global migration, quick to identify loopholes, exploit new areas of insecurity, and target vulnerable populations whom they see as prospective clients. They no longer simply respond to demand for smuggler services: they actively generate it.
In order for governments, aid groups, and organizations to better understand how to help refugees, we must get beyond the facile and counterproductive narratives of villains and victims, and we must start by examining smugglers dispassionately for what they are: service providers in an era of unprecedented demand.
Featured image credit: Refugees on a boat crossing the Mediterranean sea by Mstyslav Chernov. CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
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