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![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.
![A Texas National Guard soldier stands vigil at a makeshift migrant camp near the U.S.-Mexico border fence on May 11, 2023, in El Paso, Texas.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0609-troop-border-400x300.jpg)
GOP Governors Send National Guard Forces, State Troopers to Texas-Mexico Border
The border is already militarized with walls, surveillance, Border Patrol and thousands of troops deployed by Biden.
![People sit in a line as they're watched by an armed and uniformed border patrol agent](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0607-cbp-400x300.jpg)
Human Rights Advocates Expose Systemic Reproductive Injustices by Border Patrol
“The agency knows this is happening, and they’re turning away from the problem,” said one immigrants' rights attorney.
![California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0606-newsom-desantis-400x300.jpg)
Newsom Says DeSantis Might Be Charged With Kidnapping for Transporting Migrants
The California Department of Justice is investigating whether dozens of migrants were tricked into flying to Sacramento.
![In this aerial picture taken on May 11, 2023, migrants walk through gate 42 to board vans after waiting along the border wall to surrender to U.S. Border Patrol agents for immigration and asylum claim processing upon crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States on the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0602-border-patrol-400x300.jpg)
8-Year-Old Migrant Who Died in CBP’s Custody Was Denied Hospital Treatment
Anadith Tanay Reyes Álvarez was denied ambulance transport to a hospital until she suffered a seizure on May 17.
![Former President Donald Trump is seen arriving at Trump Tower on May 28, 2023, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/05/2023_0530-donald-trump-400x300.jpg)
Trump Makes Xenophobic Campaign Pledge to End Birthright Citizenship
Over a century of legal precedent and a constitutional amendment would bar Trump from taking such an egregious action.
![A police car drives past the main gate of the newly established refugee camp on the island of Samos, Greece, on September 18, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/05/2023_0526-Refugees-EU-400x300.jpg)
Europe’s War Against Refugees Is Fueling the Far Right’s Ascension
The international guaranteed rights of refugees are eroding on both sides of the Atlantic.