19 h. ago France has a massive debt crisis. So why is it spending billions a year subsidising business? | Alexander Hurst

The government is on the brink of collapse over planned austerity. Instead it must face up to the costs of its unnecessarily rigid labour marketAs someone who has always been against austerity, I find France, with a national debt at 114% of GDP and a budget deficit of 5.8% of GDP, a conundrum. Despite years of denunciation from his left and far-right opponents that Macron has engaged in “ultraneoliberalism”, there hasn’t been any. Not on a macro level, anyway, where both French government spending (57.3% of GDP) and tax receipts (51.4% of GDP) are among the highest in the world, including social spending, which outpaces any of its European neighbours.At the same time, it’s impossible to have spent the past decade in France without encountering the widely shared perception and accusation that public services are in decline. Doctors and nurses denounce a labour shortage in public hospitals; people who live in rural areas denounce the closing of rural train lines; students and academic...

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28 h. ago Tiny African country detaining five deported US migrants asked Trump team for $500 million: report

Activists challenge secret agreement between US and Eswatini as human rights groups warn against lack of due process

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30 h. ago More than 1 million migrants have left the US workforce in wake of Trump’s immigration crackdown: report

Foreign-born workforce participation declined between January and July, leaving some sectors, such as construction, scrambling to fill roles

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61 h. ago Wisconsin meatpackers face labour shortage after Trump orders migrants home

Lack of workers will restrict economic growth and could push up prices at grocery stores, economists warn

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4 d. ago Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 unaccompanied migrant children, senator says

The Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 Guatemalan children who crossed into the U.S. without their parents

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4 d. ago Trump loses another court fight as his push to remove legal status for 600,000 migrants is put on hold

Homeland Security has ‘plunged into uncertainty’ the lives of tens of thousands of Venezuelans, California appeals court says

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1 week ago Trump administration threatens to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda within days after he’s released from detention

The case of the Salvadoran migrant became a symbol of the Trump administration’s boundary-pushing approach to mass deportations

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1 week ago US court allows Trump officials to end protected status for 60,000 migrants

Administration officials given legal right to move towards deportation of people from Nepal, Honduras and NicaraguaA federal appeals court on Wednesday sided with the Trump administration and halted for now a lower court’s order that had kept in place temporary protections for 60,000 migrants from Central America and Nepal.This means that the Republican administration can move toward removing an estimated 7,000 people from Nepal whose temporary protected status designations expired on 5 August. The TPS designations and legal status of 51,000 Hondurans and 3,000 Nicaraguans are set to expire 8 September, at which point they will become eligible for removal. Continue reading...

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1 week ago From swamps to fields: Trump's new Alligator Alcatraz is a Cornhusker Clink to detail migrants

Nebraska announced the Midwest will be home to the latest installment of President Donald Trump's nationwide deportation depots.

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1 week ago Appeals court allows Trump to end temporary protections for migrants from Central America and Nepal

A federal appeals court is allowing the Trump administration to end temporary protections for 60,000 migrants from Central America and Nepal

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1 week ago Kristi Noem says border wall to be painted black on Trump’s request to make the metal hotter and deter migrants

Noem’s announcement came as Trump boasted about the historically low border crossings in July

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3 w. ago John Leguizamo brands Superman actor Dean Cain a ‘moron’ over ICE announcement

Emmy-winning star of films such as ‘John Wick’ and ‘Moulin Rouge!’ hit out at the former Superman actor after he urged his followers to join Trump’s immigration crackdown

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3 w. ago No contempt for Trump officials over Venezuelan migrant deportations to El Salvadorian prison, appeals court rules – live

Three-judge panel sided with government by a 2-1 vote, with two Trump-appointed judges and one Obama-appointed judge making the decisionAccording to new reporting by the New York Times, the president has secretly signed a directive to the Pentagon to begin using military force against certain Latin American drug cartels that the Trump administration considers terrorist organizations.According to the Times’ sources, US military officials have started drawing up options for how the military could go after the group. The Times also notes that this escalation would be the most “aggressive step” in the administration’s “campaign against cartels”. They also noted that this continues the president’s preference for using “military forces to carry out what has primarily been considered a law enforcement responsibility to curb the flow of fentanyl and other illegal drugs”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Conservationists hail US judge’s order to halt building at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ jail

Temporary halt for facility in Florida Everglades comes as attorneys argue whether it violates environmental lawsA coalition of conservation groups has welcomed a federal judge’s ruling on Thursday that halts construction work on the controversial immigration jail in the Florida Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz.US district judge Kathleen Williams ordered workers to stop adding any new paving, infrastructure or ground filling at the remote tented detention camp that the Trump administration intends to eventually hold 3,000 migrants awaiting deportation. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Biden averaged 350 flights a month shuttling migrants around US. Trump has already more than doubled that

Trump administration averaging more than monthly 700 flights shuttling detainees from detention center to detention center

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3 w. ago Trump wants a new census that will exclude migrants in US ‘illegally’

Move is latest step by president to reshape country’s most important economic institutions

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3 w. ago Indiana announces a ‘Speedway Slammer’ to house migrants and become the Hoosier state’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Indiana is expanding a state prison by 1,000 beds to house migrants in what Trump officials are calling the ‘Speedway Slammer.’

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