Texas Incarcerates Immigrant Children In Private Prisons They Call ‘Day Care Centers’

In this episode of MintPress News’ ‘Behind the Headline,’ host Mnar Muhawesh interviews Alejandro Caceres, the immigration organizer at Grassroots Leadership, about the mistreatment of migrant children held in private prisons in the Lone Star State.

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
Immigration Overload-Nogales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWvH3SGoRds Update: On May 4, a judge in the 250th District Court granted a temporary restraining order preventing the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services from issuing a childcare license to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. The restraining order lasts until May 13,

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Refugee Crisis & Syria War Fueled By Competing Gas Pipelines

Don’t let anyone fool you: Sectarian strife in Syria has been engineered to provide cover for a war for access to oil and gas, and the power and money that come along with it.

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
Note the purple line which traces the proposed Qatar-Turkey natural gas pipeline and note that all of the countries highlighted in red are part of a new coalition hastily put together after Turkey finally (in exchange for NATO’s acquiescence on Erdogan’s politically-motivated war with the PKK) agreed to allow the US to fly combat missions against ISIS targets from Incirlik. Now note which country along the purple line is not highlighted in red. That’s because Bashar al-Assad didn’t support the pipeline and now we’re seeing what happens when you’re a Mid-East strongman and you decide not to support something the US and Saudi Arabia want to get done.

  Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect recent Wikileaks revelations of US State Department leaks that show plans to destabilize Syria and overthrow the Syrian government as early as 2006.  The leaks reveal that these plans were given to the US directly from the Israeli government and would be formalized

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Global Response To People Fleeing Ravages Of War: ‘Callous Indifference,’ Humanitarian Failure

Boat tragedy in Libya, corpses of refugees in truck in Austria reminder of human cost of war, lack of humanitarian responses.

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos
Migrants wait to disembark from the Italian Navy vessel 'Bettica' in the harbor of Salerno, Italy, Tuesday, May 5, 2015. About 700 migrants, including children, were rescued in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. (AP Photo/Francesco Pecoraro)

It's a crisis of record proportions that is being met with global "callous indifference" and failed, dehumanizing responses, human rights experts say. The crisis, described as Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War Two, involves hundreds of thousands of people fleeing conflict, many from Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, trying to reach

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As Refugee Numbers Rise In Europe So Do Anti-Immigrant Tensions

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is meeting with French President Francois Hollande in Prague to try and reach a solution to the swathes of asylum seekers and refugees arriving in Europe.

Sputnik News
By Sputnik News
Migrant men help a fellow migrant man holding a boy as they are stuck between Macedonian riot police officers and migrants during a clash near the border train station of Idomeni, northern Greece, as they wait to be allowed by the Macedonian police to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. Macedonian special police forces have fired stun grenades to disperse thousands of migrants stuck on a no-man's land with Greece, a day after Macedonia declared a state of emergency on its borders to deal with a massive influx of migrants heading north to Europe. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

A diplomatic source has told Italian newspaper, Corriere della sera, that both Merkel and Hollande are aware that “Europe is facing its biggest emergency in 50 years”, regarding the number of people needing to be re-settled in the EU. The source suggests that decisions being made by EU leaders are not being reached quickly enough. Also high

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EU Responds To Refugee Crisis With Military Force

The European Union seeks to quell a worsening refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, not with humanitarian aid but with military force.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Rescued migrants line up after disembarking from the Italian Navy vessel "Bettica" in the harbor of Augusta, Sicily, southern Italy, Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Italy pressed the European Union on Wednesday to devise concrete, robust steps to stop the deadly tide of migrants on smugglers' boats in the Mediterranean, including setting up refugee camps in countries bordering Libya. Italian Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti also said human traffickers must be targeted with military intervention.

Rescued migrants line up after disembarking from the Italian Navy vessel "Bettica" in the harbor of Augusta, Sicily, southern Italy, Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Italy pressed the European Union on Wednesday to devise concrete, robust steps to stop the deadly tide of migrants on smugglers' boats in the Mediterranean, including setting up refugee

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How Secure Are The Friendly Skies?

Interpol reports that four in 10 international travelers fly without their passports being checked for validity.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese
Pakistan India Sikh

On Saturday, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Ruzak announced that “deliberate actions” diverted Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing Capital International Airport on March 8. Difficult questions linger, however, with the search area expanding from the Gulf of Thailand and the

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