{"id":3663,"date":"2019-07-09T08:23:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T08:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","slug":"from-libya-to-texas-tragedies-illustrate-plight-of-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/09\/from-libya-to-texas-tragedies-illustrate-plight-of-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"From Libya to Texas, Tragedies Illustrate Plight of Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By associated press<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are trapped in squalid detention centers on Libya\u2019s front\nlines. They wash up on the banks of the Rio Grande. They sink without a trace \u2014\nin the Mediterranean, in the Pacific or in waterways they can\u2019t even name. A\nhandful fall out of airplanes\u2019 landing gear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\ntheir choices narrow on land and at sea, migrants are often seen as a political\nheadache in the countries they hope to reach and ignored in the countries they\nflee. Most live in limbo, but recent tragedies have focused attention on the\nrisks they face and the political constraints at the root of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\nrecord 71 million people were forcibly displaced around the world in 2018,\naccording to a report last month by the U.N. refugee agency, in places as\ndiverse as Turkey, Uganda, Bangladesh and Peru. Many are still on the move in\n2019, or trapped like thousands in detention in Libya, where an airstrike on\nTuesday killed at least 44 migrants and refugees locked away in the Tripoli\nsuburb of Tajoura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most\nof those in Tajoura and other Libyan detention centers have been intercepted by\nthe Libyan coast guard, which has become the go-to border force for the\nEuropean Union, which can\u2019t get 28 governments to agree about migration.\nDespite the rhetoric about migration crises in Europe and the U.S., the top\nthree countries taking in refugees are Turkey, Pakistan and Uganda. Germany\ncomes in a distant fifth\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/usa\/immigration\/libya-texas-tragedies-illustrate-plight-migrants\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By associated press They are trapped in squalid detention centers on Libya\u2019s front lines. They wash up on the banks of the Rio Grande. They sink without a trace \u2014&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}