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...What motivated Pelosi and the Democrats to incur the wrath of their liberal base and allow one of the Administration's most controversial anti-terror policies to be extended? A mix of politics, pragmatism and some significant concessions...
...often as impoverished as the one from which they fled. "Iraqi exiles are living in dire conditions in Damascus and Aleppo," says Guterres, whose organization has been encouraging the Iraqi government to pledge $125 million to help displaced citizens. "It's going to take a lot of work to allow them to return, but there is no Plan B: we have to promote national integrity so refugees can go back in safety and dignity...
...people arrived in Italy by sea, most of them on rickety vessels from Libya to the Italian island of Lampedusa; about half that number will seek asylum in the E.U. With anti-immigrant sentiment growing, the European Parliament this week passed tough new common immigration guidelines that allow E.U. countries to hold illegal migrants for up to 18 months before expelling them. And in the U.S., Congress has allocated $1.2 billion to extend and improve the anti-immigration fence along the Mexican border. That kind of sentiment and political polarization will not make it easier to help true refugees...
Guterres has no problem with border controls: "Countries ought to have border policies that assure their security and defend migration policy." But he says those arrangements should allow legitimate asylum-seekers to make their claims before they're turned back automatically. "Border management doesn't solve the migration problem," he says in response to a question about U.S. border fence project. "The example is Israel: there are now 7,000 asylum-seekers interned there, who got through the border with Egypt, where it's not exactly easy. You close the door, they come through the window; close the window...
...next phase, Israel and Hamas will start indirect talks, through the Egyptians, to trade captured Israeli soldier Corporal Gilad Shalit for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Once Shalit is freed, says Israeli negotiator Amos Gilad, Israel will then agree to allow the reopening of Rafah, the main crossing between Gaza and Egypt, as long as it is manned by European Union monitors. Egypt will also undertake the near-impossible task of stopping arms from being smuggled into Gaza; Israelis are worried, with good reason, that Hamas will use the truce to rearm itself with longer-range and more accurate missiles...