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  Finland to close half of its eastern border crossings after Russia migrant 'malice'

  Euronews - By David Mac Dougall with AFP

  The move comes after an uptick in undocumented migrants showing up at Finnish checkpoints. PM Petteri Orpo says they are being "helped, encouraged …

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  What's behind the rise in undocumented Indian immigrants crossing U.S. borders on foot

  NBC News - By Sakshi Venkatraman

  There were almost 97,000 encounters with Indian migrants in the U.S. over the past year, nearly a fivefold increase from the same period from 2019 to 2020, when there were almost 20,000. An unprecedented number of undocumented Indian immigrants are crossing U.S. borders on foot, according to new …

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  AOC Says Streamlining US Citizenship Could Solve Immigrant Crisis: ‘We Should Make It Easier’ (Video)

  TheWrap - Jeremy Bailey

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the famously outspoken Democratic congresswoman from New York, says she has a simple approach to fixing the immigrant …

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  How Biden ended up building part of Trump’s border wall

  Vox - Nicole Narea

  Biden is skeptical that a border wall works. He’s still building a new one. The Biden administration has authorized the construction of a new section of border wall in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley. It’s a reversal of President Joe Biden’s campaign promise that “not another foot” of border wall would be …

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  Biden Administration to Resume Deporting Migrants Back to Venezuela

  The Messenger - Rebecca Morin

  The Biden administration will resume deporting Venezuelans who cross the southern border illegally back to their home country, a major shift in …

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  On the boat as Doctors Without Borders tries to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean

  NPR - Ruth Sherlock

  A ship run by the international rescue agency Doctors Without Borders is cruising the Mediterranean in search of migrants who need rescue. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: The central Mediterranean Sea is called the most dangerous migration route in the world. Just this year so far, the U.N. says more than 2,500 …