Wahamiaji: Safari toka Congo kupitia Brazil mpaka Canada kwa miguu

Wahamiaji: Safari toka Congo kupitia Brazil mpaka Canada kwa miguu

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Ungana nasi kwa kutazama video hii kufuatilia mguu kwa mguu toka wakiwasili jijini Sao Paolo Brazil wakijifanya raia wa Angola ktk utalii Brazil kisha wanaanza safari kwenda Canada.

Safari hii ya 'Wakongomani' toka Congo na nchi za Maziwa Makuu pia Afrika ya Mashariki wanaoingia Brazil bila viza kisha wanakutana na wahamiaji wengine toka nchi za China, Morocco, Mali, Senegal, Somalia, Nepal, Nigeria and Bangladeshi kwa miezi mitano wanakatiza mito misitu na barabara ktk nchi kumi za bara la Marekani ya Kusini kabla ya kuingia Marekani nia ni kufika nchini Canada.

Safari hii ya kilometa 20,000 wanakutana wa wahamiaji wengine toka nchi za Caribbean na Latino America ambao pia lengo lao ni kufika Marekani na Canada. Wakongomani lengo ni kufika jimbo la Quebec Canada linalotumia lugha ya Kifaransa kama Congo.

Safari hii inajumuisha kutembea kwa miguu, kupanda basi, taxi, punda, boti , ngalawa na kushirikisha wenyeji wa nchi hizo za Latin America ktk kuonesha njia za vichochoro vijijini zisizo ktk ramani za GPS maana wahamiaji wanatumia simu janja smart phone kutafuta welekeo kupuguza malipo kwa wavushaji watu kwa magendo pale inapowezekana.

Njiani katika njia za panya zilizobatizwa "Njia ya Kuzimu" kukwepa askari wa uhamiaji, kunaonekana utelezi utokanao na mvua zisizokoma za misitu minene ya tropiki, matope yafikayo ugokoni, makaburi yasiyo na jina wala alama za imani zao kwani hao wahamiaji waliopoteza maisha na sasa wamelala udongoni hata kaburini utambulisho wao haujulikani.

Nchi nyingi kama Colombia, Ecuador na Panama wameongeza vikwazo ktk vituo vya mipaka rasmi kutokana na mbinyo toka serikali ya Marekani. Hivyo wahamiaji na watu wote wanaojihusisha na biashara ya kusafirisha watu hutumia njia za vichochoroni kukwepa askari hao.

Pamoja na hayo bado kuna ongozeko kubwa la wahamiaji wanaoelekea Marekani ya Kaskazini wakiwa na imani ya kutafuta fursa na maisha bora zaidi. Wenyeji wa vijiji vya ndani ndani Colombia na Ecuador wanashangazwa na ari bila kusahau hamasa ya kusonga mbele ya hawa wageni toka nchi za mbali.

Watu watajiuliza unawezaje kukatiza nchi zaidi ya 10 salama bila kudhuriwa na wenyeji au magenge ya kutorosha watu mipakani.

Sababu ni kuwa hii ni biashara kubwa inayoingiza kipato na makundi ya waliokuwa wanasafirisha madawa ya kulevya sasa wamejiingiza ktk biashara hii ya kusafirisha watu. Hivyo wakubwa wa magenge haya hawataki kusikia mtu kakabwa au kina mama kubaka n.k na kuwataka wote wanaojihusisha na biashara hii ya kuvusha watu kimagendo mipakani kuwalipa 'kodi' ma drug lords na pia kuhakikisha wageni hao wanamaliza safari salama ili njia zao ziendelee kuaminiwa na maelfu ya wageni hawa waendao Marekani ya Kaskazini. Yeyote atakaye mdhuru mgeni huadhibiwa kwa adhabu kali na wababe hawa wa biashara hii ya kusafirisha wageni.

Canada has become the new El Dorado for many African migrants, who have seen Europe and the United States close their borders.

But they face a dangerous journey across South and North America. Every year, some of them die on their way to a better life, amid widespread indifference to their plight.

For five months, our reporters followed Rosette and her family from DR Congo on this long, dangerous odyssey across ten countries. In the space of five months, Rosette and her family have travelled more than 20,000 kilometres – risking their lives.

First, they fled DR Congo for Brazil. Then, from Sao Paulo, where they arrived on a tourist visa, they crossed South America – including the perilous Colombian jungle – before reaching the United States and finally their Canadian El Dorado.

They traversed ten countries in total, in the hands of powerful clandestine networks of people smugglers and cartels, and corrupt policemen or soldiers who control the borders.

They often crossed paths with cocaine smugglers heading for North America. ►► Now hiring! Unemployment in Quebec hits record low During the five months that we spent with Rosette, her husband Godet and their daughters Maria and Pauline, we saw many other migrants heading north to Canada.

On this route, where a human life is worth just a few handfuls of dollars, Congolese, Malians, Senegalese, Nepalese and Bangladeshis try to blend in with the flow of South American and Caribbean migrants.

But some will never reach their destination. We spent longer on the most dangerous stage of the journey: a vast stretch of jungle called the Darien Gap, the only way of getting from Colombia to Panama.

Finally, we reached the Canadian border, which is seeing an unprecedented wave of illegal migrants crossing daily to seek asylum, all of them desperate for better lives. Report by François Rihouay. A Keep In News production with teams from France 24, Radio Canada, and RCN (Colombia).

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Source : CBC news
Thousands of African migrants coming to U.S. through Mexico
Mis Lie Charles of the Democratic Republic of Congo, listens to her partner Charles Etienne, 37, speak of their journey to the United States. They arrived to Mexico's northern border after four months of travel from Africa to Brazil and through Central America.

Mis Lie Charles of the Democratic Republic of Congo, listens to her partner Charles Etienne, 37, speak of their journey to the United States. They arrived to Mexico's northern border after four months of travel from Africa to Brazil and through Central America.
OMAR ORNELAS/THE DESERT SUN

GUSTAVO SOLIS | THE DESERT SUN | 4:55 pm PDT September 26, 2016
Mengue Miere Justine had $20 when she left her native Cameroon and boarded a boat set for Brazil.
In South America, Justine saved $1,200 working as a meat packer near the coast before embarking on a four-month journey involving her hiking through Colombian jungles, begging on Nicaraguan street corners and sleeping in Mexican migrant shelters.
“The journey was very painful,” she said from the border town of Mexicali. “It’s not easy, but I know that Americans are good people who can give us opportunities to have a better life.”

OMAR ORNELAS/THE DESERT SUN
She is one of about 200 migrants from African countries, and Haiti, to arrive in Mexicali in September and one of nearly 5,000 to arrive in Mexico so far this year. In fact, Mexico detained more African migrants in the first seven months of 2016 than they did in the last four years combined. Already, this year's number of 4,900 migrants detained is more than double last year's total of 2,000, according to statistics from the Mexican government.
Once detained, the migrants can plead their case to the U.S., hoping to be allowed entry under asylum. The number of Africans granted asylum in the U.S. since 2010 has grown at a faster rate than those from any other region of the world.
The international trend has local impact on Mexico's border towns. In Mexicali, where migrant shelters were once mostly occupied by deported Mexicans and Central American migrants heading north, shelters are now filling with African asylum-seekers. And more are coming.


Cramped quarters
In one Mexicali shelter built with 60 beds nearly twice as many men sleep in the facility on worn out mattresses and used blankets spread side-by-side on a concrete floor.
“We are at a critical point in Mexicali and Tijuana,” said Monica Oropeza, who works at Albergue del Desierto, the shelter where Justine is staying. “The shelters are at maximum capacity and more migrants are coming.”
She and volunteers from another shelter, Grupo de Ayuda Para el Migrante, are asking for clothing, blankets and food, as well as financial support from the local government. In the last month Mexicali's residents have stepped up by donating clothes and city officials have met with local shelters to try to coordinate a response. But shelters need more resources, volunteers said.
Migrants from African countries began arriving in Tijuana in May, but the city has become so saturated with migrants that many are leaving the Mexican border town, just south of San Diego, and heading eastward to Mexicali. Migrants say Mexicali offers more room and shorter wait times to request asylum to U.S. immigration authorities.
Justine, the refugee from Cameroon, arrived in Mexicali from Tijuana on Sept. 13. She was told by other migrants in Tijuana that they may have to wait until October to see immigration officials. In Mexicali, she expects to wait one week.
News of Mexicali as a faster and more comfortable way to get across the border is spreading through word of mouth. Migrants communicate by phones and those in Tijuana are telling others heading north to go straight to Mexicali.
Last month, Mexican Immigration authorities issued 424 transit visas that allow migrants to cross the country from Guatemala to the U.S. Based on what shelter volunteers in Mexicali are hearing from colleagues in southern Mexico, where the visas are issued, they expect the number to increase throughout the fall.
But nobody is sure why migrants are going to the Mexican state of Baja California, where Mexicali is the capital, instead of border crossings in Arizona, New Mexico, or Texas.
“Who told them to come through Baja California?” Oropeza said. “Our border is very big.”
Hundreds of migrants from Africa and Haiti arrived in the Mexican border town of Mexicali in September. The city's migrant shelters are starting to overcrowd and volunteers say they are at risk of being overwhelmed if more migrants arrive.

Hundreds of migrants from Africa and Haiti arrived in the Mexican border town of Mexicali in September. The city's migrant shelters are starting to overcrowd and volunteers say they are at risk of being overwhelmed if more migrants arrive.
OMAR ORNELAS/THE DESERT SUN
Escaping hardship
Most of the migrants in Mexicali are from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A half dozen interviewed by the Desert Sun said they fled their country because there aren’t enough jobs and the few jobs available don’t pay enough to support a family.
There is also fear of a looming civil war. The country has not had a peaceful transition of power since 1960. Just this week, 44 people were killed in a confrontation between police and anti-government protesters, who accuse the Congo's president of plotting to stay in power after his term ends in December by delaying elections.
Also this week, the main opposition party's headquarters was burned down, according to reports from Human Rights Watch.
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Migrants from the Democratic Republic of Congo have been arriving at the border in Mexicali, many of these migrants traveled north from Brazil and endured many obstacles in their journey. (Sept. 23, 2016)
OMAR ORNELAS/THE DESERT SUN
Charles Etienne, 37, decided to flee to the U.S. instead of Europe because of anti-immigrant sentiment in that part of the world.
“I thought America would be able to give me a better opportunity than Europe,” he said in Spanish. “In America, there are a lot of places where they treat black people well. If you see the news, a lot of people are experiencing uncertainty in Europe. That’s why I came here.”
Etienne worked in construction in the Congo. It took him four months to get from Brazil to Mexico. He speaks French, Spanish and Portuguese.
Mexico has seen a dramatic increase of migrants from Africa since 2011. That year, 280 migrants from African countries, most from Eritrea, were detained by immigration authorities. In 2015, more than 2,000 migrants, the majority coming from Ghana and Somalia, were detained. In the first seven months of this year the number has skyrocketed to 4,900, almost entirely from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
U.S. and Mexican immigration authorities have also seen a surge of Haitian migrants at the southern border. So far this fiscal year, the U.S. has apprehended more Haitian migrants than they did the previous two combined, according to U.S. Customs and Immigration Services.
But according to migrants and shelters in Mexicali, Haitians are not coming from the Caribbean. Many of them left Haiti after the 2010 earthquake and relocated to Venezuela and Brazil. Economic and social conditions in both of those South American countries are prompting Haitian migrants to relocate again, this time to the U.S.
Emilio Louil, 31, a Spanish-speaking Haitian migrant serves as a translator between the Mexican staff of a migrant shelter and French-speaking men from Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo who plan to go to the United States.

Emilio Louil, 31, a Spanish-speaking Haitian migrant serves as a translator between the Mexican staff of a migrant shelter and French-speaking men from Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo who plan to go to the United States.
OMAR ORNELAS/THE DESERT SUN
Brazil is experiencing its worst recession in decades. The country has 22 of the 50 most violent cities in the world based on homicide rates, according to a report from the Center for Public Security And Criminal Justice, which is based in Mexico City.
Meanwhile, the economic crisis in Venezuela has gotten so dire that hospitals are asking patients to pay for their own gauze and syringes, and Venezuelans cross the border to Colombia to buy milk and bread. Part of the economic decline is due to the country's dependence on oil, which accounts for half the government's revenues.
“A lot of people from Haiti went to Brazil to find work,” said Emilio Louil, who arrived to Mexicali in September. “I was there a year, but half of my money went to pay the rent. I could not earn enough to live and send money home so I had to leave."
Louil, 31, said Haiti hasn’t recovered from the earthquake. People can’t find jobs and those who can don’t earn enough money to make a living.
Louil spent a year in Brazil working construction, but it was not enough to support his three sons back in Haiti. He met dozens of Haitians while traveling to the United States. Most of them lived in Venezuela and all of them are heading to the United States, he said.
“I don’t want my sons to go through what I am going through,” he said. “That’s why I want to go to the United States.”
Crossing the border
The influx of asylum-seeking migrants has created a morning ritual in Mexicali. At 8 a.m., dozens wait outside at a port of entry for U.S. immigration officials to call their number.
From there, the intensity of the screening process depends on whether the migrant is an "affirmative" or "defensive" asylum-seeker.
In affirmative asylum cases, immigrants who are not in the process of being deported can apply with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The six-step process, for those who enter the country legally or illegally, involves filing a formal application, several interviews, finger printing and background checks.
Defensive asylum applies to people already in the deportation process. The migrants must pass what is known as a “credible fear” interview and, if credible fear is established, next comes a courtroom-like hearing with an immigration judge to plead their case.
All asylum-seekers must demonstrate that they face persecution based on their race, gender, age, ethnicity, social class or political ideology back home. Migrants coming to the U.S. to earn higher paying jobs to support their families are unlikely to qualify, according to immigration experts.
It is unclear how many of the thousands of African asylum-seekers coming through Mexico this year will be approved to enter the U.S. Between 2005 and 2014, the most recent year asylum data is available through the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. granted asylum to 54,000 people from African countries, accounting for 40 percent of all asylum cases granted during that time frame.
Those granted asylum are eligible to receive services such as medical assistance, employment preparation, job placement and English classes from the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Those who do not receive asylum will likely be deported to their country of origin and return to everything they fled from.
Migrants from Congo arrive at US/Mexico border in hopes of asylum

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Migrants from Congo arrive at US/Mexico border in hopes of asylum
If allowed to stay, Justine hopes to get a job - it doesn't matter what - and save enough money to get an education so that she can get a better job. If and when her legal status is sorted, she wants to petition to have her girlfriend and child join her in the U.S.
That is the only way Justine wants to be reunited with her family. She does not want them to go through what she endured on her journey through Brazil, Central America, and Mexico.
“People do very bad things that I cannot talk of because of the shame,” she said.

Source : www.thedesertsun.com
 
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Nchi iliyo kusini mwa bara la Marekani ya Argentina ilikuwa inajulikana kama Ulaya ya Marekani ya Kusini kutokana na kuwepo wahamiaji kutoka bara la Ulaya miaka mingi iliyopita.

Ilikuwa ngumu kumuona Mwafrika ktk mitaa ya miji mikubwa nchini humo. Ila sasa kutokana na sababu mbalimbali sasa unaweza kugogana na watu weusi toka kama mataifa ya DR Congo, Senegal n.k
 
bagamoyo said:
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Nchi iliyo kusini mwa bara la Marekani ya Argentina ilikuwa inajulikana kama Ulaya ya Marekani ya Kusini kutokana na kuwepo wahamiaji kutoka bara la Ulaya miaka mingi iliyopita.

Ilikuwa ngumu kumuona Mwafrika ktk mitaa ya miji mikubwa nchini humo. Ila sasa kutokana na sababu mbalimbali sasa unaweza kugogana na watu weusi toka kama mataifa ya DR Congo, Senegal n.k
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April 2019
Ontario, Canada

Mwanasheria Abdallah akielezea masuala mbalimbali juu ya kuishi katika nchi mpya na utamaduni wa kufanya kazi, siasa, historia ya Canada, sheria za uhamiaji na haki pia wajibu wa serikali kwa wakaazi Canada



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Uhamiaji wa holela namna hii una changamoto kubwa, kwanza tungetuma wenzetu wachache mahiri ktk kutafuta fursa kwenda nchi za mbali wafanye utambuzi wa ABC ya nchi mpya kuhusu fursa zilizopo ili wanaofuta baadaye wakiwasili waweze kuwazidi wazawa wa huko kiuchumi, kitamaduni na kifikra. Jamii zingine wameweza sisi nini kinatukwaza?
 
Hahaha nyie nendeni huko.
Mkifika tu wenyeji wanahamia sayari nyingine.

Mtabaki wageni watupu, kisha mtaanza kupigana upya, halafu hamtakuwa na pakwenda maana huko sayari nyingine hakuna pori wala barabara ya kupita.

Mtu unamiaka 50 unaanza kukimbia ukifika mpaka u settle unamiaka 65 uanze kutafuta una miaka 70.

Humu humu tu tutabanana, akikung'oa jino mkate masikio life inakwenda.
 
January 24, 2020

State Department to Issue Rules Restricting U.S. Travel for Pregnant Foreigners


Doug Stanglin and Deirdre Shesgreen USA TODAY
Published 4:37 PM EST Jan 23, 2020
The Trump administration issued new visa guidelines Thursday that could make it more difficult for some pregnant women to visit the United States, a move that White House officials said is aimed at curbing "birth tourism."

White House officials offered no evidence or data to support assertions that "birth tourism" is a growing problem. And critics quickly denounced the policy change, saying it's tantamount to a "handmaid's test" and would pave the way for discrimination against female travelers.

The new rules apply to foreign travelers applying for visas for business, pleasure, tourism and medical visits.
Under the new guidelines, which take effect Friday, applicants deemed by consular officers to be coming to the U.S. primarily to give birth will be treated like foreigners coming for medical treatment – they must prove they have the money to pay for it, including transportation and living expenses.

Under the Constitution, anyone born in the United States is considered a citizen. Though the practice of traveling to the U.S. to give birth is not illegal, authorities have arrested operators of birth tourism agencies for visa fraud or tax evasion.
The State Department noted that investigations of birth tourism found that operators often fabricated financial documents, used false information to lease apartments and charged individuals as much as $100,000 for the service.

"This rule will help prevent operators in the birth tourism industry from profiting off treating U.S. citizenship as a commodity, sometimes through potentially criminal acts," the State Department said.

The White House said the new rule is necessary to protect "public safety, national security, and the integrity of our immigration system." The current system has "a glaring immigration loophole," the White House said, and birth tourism "threatens to overburden valuable hospital resources" and foster criminal activity.

But a State Department official, who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity, could not cite any specific national security threat posed by children born in the U.S. as a result of "birth tourism."

The State Department does not have specific data on how many women come to the US annually to give birth, this official said, and has no estimate of how much such cases cost. He estimated there are “thousands” of such cases annually without offering any evidence.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly complained about birth tourism and "anchor babies," arguing that foreign parents may use that connection to gain U.S. citizenship.

In 2018, Trump told Axios he would issue an executive order to end the right to citizenship for babies of noncitizens and unauthorized immigrants born on U.S. soil.

"It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don't," Trump said.
Immigration advocates said the new rule is unnecessary and harmful.

“It is absurd that the Trump administration is turning embassy employees into reproductive policemen," said Kerri Talbot, director of federal advocacy with the Immigration Hub, an immigration rights group. "Women will have to conceal their pregnancies just to get a tourist visa to visit the United States.”

Talbot's group called it a "handmaid’s test" that will apply even if a woman or girl states affirmatively that she is not pregnant. Other groups said it could prevent foreigners from coming to the U.S. for life-saving medical treatment.
Implementing the guidelines could be problematic. Under the rules consular officers will not be able to require female applicants to take pregnancy tests and they have been “directed not to ask all female applicants if they are pregnant or intend to become pregnant,” the State Department official told reporters.

Visa officers will use other ways to determine if a woman is planning to come to the U.S. to give birth to a child, such as self-reporting on a visa application, according to the State Department official. This official side-stepped questions about whether visa officers can use “visual cues” to determine if women might be traveling to the U.S. to give birth.

The issue would only be raised at the time of the application for the visa, which could be valid for 10 years.

Though the State Department said the rules were focused on organized birth tourism operators, it will be applied to individual women. And the policy raises questions about whether a woman could be turned away by border officers who suspected she might be pregnant just by looking at her.

More travel: Trump says he will add 'a couple' of countries to his controversial travel ban
"While this rule will not preclude visa issuance to all aliens who may give birth in the United States, it recognizes the risks posed by allowing the previous visa policy to continue," the State Department said.

It said the rule "addresses some of those national security threats that exist when aliens, who may have no ties to, or constructive interest in, the United States, easily are able to obtain U.S. citizenship for their children, through birth in the United States."

The Center for Immigration Studies, a group that advocates for stricter immigration laws, estimated that in 2012, about 36,000 foreign-born women gave birth in the U.S and then left the country.

Source: Trump administration issues visa restrictions for pregnant women
 
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