Donald Trump has called a refugee resettlement deal agreed between the US and Australia “dumb”, and fractured the relationship between the US and Australia within days of taking office.
What happens when a non-EU migrant arrives on British soil.
The debate surrounding immigration and asylum seekers is typically skewed in the extreme. Many blame the Daily Mail and other right wing media outlets, but the government and politicians are equally complicit in the smokescreen that has been created to steer us away from the facts and into the realm of dangerous and unfounded rhetoric, that at best is xenophobic and at worst is stirring up racial hatred.
The scale of this latest tragedy is unprecedented: at least 94 people have died and hundreds are missing after an overcrowded boat carrying some 500 people caught fire and sank off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy, early Thursday morning. Some 140 people have been rescued and the search continues for more survivors even as hope fades.
Last Stop, Tel Aviv is the story of the 60,000 asylum seekers living in Israel. Escaping dictatorships and indefinite military conscription, Africans flee their homelands in the hope of a better life, but arrive to find that they are criminalized, vilified, and unrecognised in the Israeli state.