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![Community members protest outside the Public School 188 Michael E. Berdy at Coney Island on May 16, 2023, in Brooklyn borough of New York City, in response to New York City officials turning to at least three different schools to help house asylum seekers.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/07/2023_0721-asylum-seekers-400x300.jpg)
House Passes “Hateful” Bill to Defund Schools That Give Asylum Seekers Shelter
The bill targets two top scapegoats for the Republican Party: public schools and asylum seekers.
![Immigrant Women in ICE Jails Face Sexual Abuse Despite Reforms, Report Reveals](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/07/seg1-maria-ice-poster-400x300.jpg)
Reforms Have Failed to Prevent Sexual Abuse in ICE Jails, Report Reveals
Reporting by Futuro Investigates and Latino USA found officials are not properly addressing detainees' complaints.
![This undated handout image, provided by Greece's coast guard, appears to show an overcrowded fishing boat that later capsized and sank off the southern coast of Greece on June 14, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/07/2023_0720-migrant-ship-400x300.jpg)
Victims of Migrant Boat Tragedy Are Casualties of the US “War on Terror”
It’s hard to disentangle the U.S.’s military interventions from the reasons so many of the migrants made their journeys.
![A mother cries beside her unconscious child in the back of an ambulance](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/07/2023_0719-family-ambulance-400x300.jpg)
Texas State Troopers Were Reportedly Told to Push Migrant Kids Into Rio Grande
Gov. Greg Abbott's border militarization initiative is leading officers to take deadly actions against asylum seekers.
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Water Stations for Migrants at the Border Are Being Destroyed Amid Heat Waves
Migrant deterrence policies are inhumane and ineffective, says Texas-based human rights activist Eddie Canales.
![The Hellenic Coast Guard move recovered bodies to a makeshift morgue as migrants sleep in a hangar where more than 100 have been temporarily housed, on June 14, 2023, in Kalamata, Greece.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/07/2023_0710-greek-coast-guard-400x300.jpg)
Greek Coast Guard Tried to Cover Up Role in Migrant Shipwreck, Analysis Says
The investigation suggested that the Greek coast guard's efforts to tow the ship may have caused it to capsize.
![Ron DeSantis glowers, his face half in shadow](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0618-rondesantis-400x300.jpg)
DeSantis’s Election Strategy? Competing With Trump to Be Crueler to Migrants.
DeSantis and Trump's efforts to outdo each other on anti-immigrant rhetoric could stoke racist violence, critics warn.
![This undated handout image provided by Greece's coast guard appears to show an overcrowded fishing boat that later capsized and sank off southern Greece on June 14, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0623-refugee-ship-400x300.jpg)
The Mediterranean Shipwreck Tragedy Was an Outcome of Militarism
Horror spreads everywhere when militarism reigns and weapon sales proliferate, displacing those fleeing violence.
![Migrants, mostly from Haiti, line up to apply for humanitarian asylum, in front of the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance, in Mexico City, Mexico, on May 16, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0622-haiti-refugees-400x300.jpg)
Biden’s Asylum Policy Continues Tradition of US Cruelty to Haitians
Biden has recycled some of Trump’s racist asylum policies.
![A man in military uniform patrolls refugees as they sleep on the floor of a warehouse](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0621-kalamata-shipwreck-400x300.jpg)
Mediterranean Migrant Shipwreck Reveals Cost of Cruel European Asylum Policies
Eighty-one people have been confirmed dead, but roughly 500 more likely drowned when the ship sank, locked below decks.