Rights groups and the UN say any repatriations must be voluntary.
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Its critics oppose this, insisting the United Nations must oversee any repatriations.
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He also dismissed accusations from Amnesty International and others about forcible repatriations.
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Start with the fact that repatriations are mostly not true capital inflows.
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A UNHCR spokesman said it was not clear when repatriations could begin.
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Such repatriations violate China's clear legal obligations under the International Refugee Convention.
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He said Syrian authorities have asked that the repatriations take place in phases.
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Now there are groups that specialize in the repatriations of many different nationalities.
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Burundi and Tanzania agreed at the weekend that repatriations would start on Oct.
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" Matthew Smith, chief executive officer, Fortify Rights "Repatriations now would be dangerous and reckless.
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According to the best available study, repatriations did not increase domestic investment or employment.
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Pence later wrote he was "humbled & honored" to be a part of the repatriations ceremony.
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Meanwhile, Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has made no comment on the repatriations.
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Last year, British diplomats assisted with 16 repatriations, through rescues or protection orders, he added.
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A report by the Wall Street Journal found that the rate of repatriations proved sluggish.
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China has recently stepped up detentions and repatriations of North Koreans who have made it across.
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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has said repatriations from Dadaab will be done in a humane way.
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Repatriations to Myanmar are supposed to be safe, voluntary and dignified, according to a bilateral agreement.
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Yet despite the prospect of large-scale profit repatriations, the dollar has been strangely weak of late.
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The TVPRA has protections for minors in custody, including provisions that streamline repatriations to Mexico and Canada.
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In February, the two governments held talks on the repatriations, and 16 deportees have arrived this year.
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Fitch expects the branch to maintain sufficient capitalisation to support its business plans despite regular profit repatriations.
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Prior to 2017, Baghdad had refused to allow such repatriations, citing political, logistical and human rights concerns.
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Yet the president says that repatriations would "spur billions of dollars in new investments in our struggling communities".
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But lack of repatriations is not the problem, and tax cuts for such activities are not the solution.
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It also got help in the past week from repatriations before the end of quarter and half year.
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Iraq maintains a long-standing policy against involuntary repatriations, something ICE didn't previously disclose, according to the ACLU.
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That deadline was quietly delayed without much clarity on when the new start date for repatriations might be.
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Instead, a $1 increase in repatriations was associated with an increase of almost $1 in payouts to shareholders.
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The ACLU says it "continues to raise concerns about timely information for repatriations" with government attorneys as they arise.
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Mattis said allies were engaged in dealing with the issue and a number of steps were under way, including repatriations.
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Sea rescues and repatriations, as well as the loss of life, have become a regular hallmark of the migrant crisis.
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He said he would increase repatriations despite the logistical and financial — not to mention, humanitarian — implications of such a move.
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Other European countries have had more repatriations this year, but none are known to have had so many forcible ones.
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US officials say additional fighters have been repatriated by several countries that have chosen to not make those repatriations public.
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He disputed claims that workers had been improperly sent home, saying that foreign governments in the program must approve repatriations.
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One of several possibilities is to return to a system of global taxation without the deferrals that enabled empty repatriations.
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President Vladimir Putin has suggested such repatriations could be absolved of profit tax and also allowed to invest in special bonds.
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The ACLU had originally asked Goldsmith to block the repatriations because many of the detainees would face persecution in their home country.
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The ACLU originally had asked Goldsmith to block the repatriations because many of the detainees would face persecution in their home country.
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The International Organization for Migration carries out voluntary repatriations of migrants from Libya, flying home more than 10,600 so far this year.
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Five companies — Pfizer, Merck, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson and IBM — accounted for 28 percent, or more than a quarter, of total repatriations.
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"'Controlled' repatriations allow European governments to prepare their prosecution, detention regime, and above all to avoid losing track of them," he said.
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"A $1 increase in repatriations was associated with an increase of almost $1 in payouts to shareholders," Dharmapala, Foley, and Forbes conclude.
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Padiyara is delighted to get the girls home but does fear early repatriations could lead to acquittals of the accused in these cases.
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If you change the capital repatriations and you bring money back and you do some of these other things, these are stimulative things.
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The latest departures come as Myanmar prepares to take some of the refugees back after agreeing with Bangladesh to start repatriations on Nov.
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Both the Bangladesh and Myanmar governments have talked up voluntary repatriations as a solution to one of the world's most urgent refugee crises.
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"The number of rejections is rising, so we have to do more about repatriations and deportations," Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said Thursday.
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Clarification: This story has been updated to reflect the estimated damages incurred by Poland and what repatriations have already been paid by Germany.
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U.N. officials and rights groups have expressed concern over the organized repatriations, calling them premature as violence and a government crackdown continue in Syria.
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Other repatriations and resettlements of former Guantánamo Bay detainees have typically included promises not to let former detainees travel abroad and other security measures.
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He was relieved in 2008, when the bilateral agreement on repatriations was signed in which the return of pre-1995 refugees was specifically barred.
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Mr. Trump, who called for ending all transfers because of the risk of recidivism, has given no sign that he will permit their repatriations.
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This is due to the disbursement of the AfDB loan, asset repatriations and the repayment of some BoN claims on the National Bank of Angola.
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US officials say additional fighters have been repatriated by several countries that have chosen not to make those repatriations public due to domestic political concerns.
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So far, about 6,000 Afghans have chosen to return home from Pakistan in 2016, compared with 58,211 voluntary repatriations last year, according to the UNHCR.
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Most repatriations go to Bosnia, Montenegro, Uzbekistan, Kosovo, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, but they've gone to more far-flung places, like Ethiopia and the Ivory Coast.
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In May a government review, set up after Monarch's collapse, recommended adding a 50p levy to every air fare to help pay for future repatriations.
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European funding has helped increase voluntary repatriations of migrants caught in Libya who agree to return home, but this is unlikely to surpass 10,000 this year.
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One of the United States Department of Homeland Security's latest repatriations is the head of a statue stolen from an archaeological site in Rome in 2475.
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The training program aims to instruct an expected 200 Guatemalan police in performing stricter border checks for suspected people-smugglers and in handling detentions and repatriations.
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The United States, the European Union, South Korea and the United Nations regularly ask China to stop such repatriations of defectors, whom they consider political refugees.
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On August 22nd, outside dismal refugee camps near Cox's Bazar, buses and lorries lined up for the first of many envisaged repatriations taking Rohingyas back home.
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The two countries unsuccessfully tried to start repatriations in November 2018 but the move faced massive opposition from the refugees living in the Cox's Bazar camps.
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Later that month, however, after the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner by Al Qaeda's Yemen branch, President Barack Obama halted further repatriations to Yemen.
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Yet, while the Turkish incursion in northern Syria may have prodded European governments to address repatriations, it may have made the returns more complicated, analysts said.
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The repatriations come amid a row between the Lebanese government and the U.N.&aposs refugee agency, which Beirut accuses of trying to discourage refugees from returning home.
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Officials have bristled, however, at criticism from the U.S. that it seeks to profit from the repatriations by demanding excessive fees for handling and transporting the remains.
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"This will create a good start for dealing with this complex historical issue and accumulate experience for the next repatriations," the foreign ministry cited Wang as saying.
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US officials say several countries have also privately repatriated their citizens from SDF detention but have chosen not to make those repatriations public due to domestic political concerns.
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Officials in Burundi, which contributes more than 1,200 soldiers and police to U.N. peacekeeping missions, did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the repatriations.
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U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the delay in the repatriations was a good idea and Washington was concerned about a lack of access for U.N. organizations.
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Early in October, the European Union signed an agreement with Afghanistan to return Afghans whose asylum appeals are rejected — most likely resulting in tens of thousands of repatriations.
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The repatriations started last week, with some refugees expressing fears they might be forced home despite assurances from both governments and the United Nations that would not happen.
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"It shows that the route remains open and the repatriations are possible, despite the tense situation on the ground," said Orlaith Minogue of the charity Save the Children.
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He doubled down on his message on Monday, urging Italians to signal to the police the whereabouts of illegal migrants and promising mass repatriations by boat and plane.
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In her press conference yesterday she suggested she sees her existing cash-for-repatriations deal with Turkey, which has helped reduce flows of immigrants to Germany, as a template.
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"Repatriations did not lead to an increase in domestic investment, employment or R&D — even for the firms that lobbied for the tax holiday stating these intentions," they write.
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But that agreement didn't extend to all Iraqis or alter the Iraqi government's long-standing policy of refusing involuntary repatriations, according to documents released by the government in the case.
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Many are rescued but the wait to go home is long despite India and Bangladesh having an inter-country task force for about a decade to organize repatriations, said campaigners.
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"The ICRC sees the release as a positive step and hopes that it will spur further releases and repatriations of conflict-related detainees," the aid agency said in a statement.
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The transfer was one of the few repatriations of ISIS-linked women or children from Syria to Western countries since the group lost the last of its territory in March.
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On Tuesday Erdoğan boasted of the so-called forced repatriations, telling fellow lawmakers that Gabon had recently returned three Turkish citizens with suspected links to U.S.-based opposition leader Fethullah Gulen.
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The George W. Bush administration in 2003 passed the Homeland Investment Act, a one-year holiday on repatriations, which "required" that all funds brought back be used for job-creating investments.
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"Simply put, the more the repatriated earnings are used to shore up a corporation's balance sheet or paid to shareholders, the less the stimulative effect of the repatriations," the report said.
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While there hasn't been much progress, both governments have already been negotiating on thorny issues like human rights, fugitives and repatriations for Americans who had their property seized after the revolution.
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"Now we are telling you that we are going to send them back to you," the Turkish interior minister, Suleyman Soylu, said in announcing that the repatriations would start on Monday.
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The $22018 billion charge includes about $27 billion tax recognized on deemed repatriations of certain overseas earnings and roughly $28 million related to the remeasurement of U.S. net deferred tax assets.
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European governments, facing increasing opposition from voters to immigration at home, have pressed Afghanistan to accept more repatriations, saying that many parts of the country, including the capital Kabul, are safe.
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Repatriations are on course this year to reach their highest level since 2008, with the UNHCR saying 103,013 refugees have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan, 93 percent within the last two months.
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But after an unsuccessful attempt by Al Qaeda's Yemen branch to set off a bomb on a Detroit-bound plane that Christmas, Mr. Obama halted repatriations to Yemen until its security improved.
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Museums have been slow to return indigenous human remains from their collections, although the tide is shifting with major repatriations like the Spirit Cave mummy to the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Indian Tribe.
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Given that in 2004 only around $300 billion of an estimated $500 billion in untaxed offshore funds were brought home, that suggests many firms' repatriations might not involve any foreign exchange at all.
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Human Rights Watch said the expulsions reported since 2015 were one of the largest illegal forced repatriations it had seen in recent years, and were in "flagrant breach" of global and Cameroonian law.
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Moreover, a Brexit could actually reroute investments to continental Europe, either through repatriations or new investments from non-EU countries which took the UK as an entrance point to the European Single Market.
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"Some are concerned that China may impose foreign exchange controls if these repatriations mount up and lead to capital outflow pressures, like we saw early this year and last year," Mr. Parker said.
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As conditions at the camp deteriorated in December, media reported that Haavisto grew impatient with one ministry director who opposed his plan for speedy repatriations without an official government decision on the matter.
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Refugees in Tanzania must go home, President John Magufuli said on Friday, a week after officials began mass repatriations of Burundians despite concerns that they may face political persecution.
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Acting ICE Director Matt Albence said in a written statement on Thursday that the interior repatriations would allow Mexican nationals to be returned closer to their homes and discourage future border-crossing attempts.
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The men — an Algerian named Sufyian Barhoumi and a Moroccan named Abdul Latif Nasir — both come from countries that the government has deemed stable enough for repatriations of other detainees in the past.
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In fact, the one-in-three figure comes from confirmed and suspected problems among the 532 men who were transferred in the Bush era — an effort that included bulk repatriations of Saudis and Afghans.
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Tanzanian officials have said that all repatriations will be voluntary but Magufuli warned in his speech that refugees in Tanzania, most of whom are Burundians, cannot stay indefinitely and will not be granted citizenship.
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The disbursement of the first tranche of the AfDB loan, asset repatriations by investment funds and higher SACU receipts caused excess liquidity to soar fourfold to around NAD6 billion, according to Bank of Namibia (BoN).
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Now authorities have started to inform Eritreans that they have to leave, SRF's Rundschau program said, although they cannot force people out as Switzerland lacks a treaty on repatriations with the Horn of Africa country.
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Known as the Joint Way Forward declaration, which critics say Europe made a condition of continued development assistance to Afghanistan, it even provides for building a dedicated airport terminal in Kabul to handle the expected repatriations.
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"No further negative steps have been taken by the authorities in Nigeria, however it is important to keep legal steps going," Shuter said, adding that MTN was not carrying out any repatriations from Nigeria for now.
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"The bigger opportunity is moving an infrastructure bill forward with a provision for repatriations so that tech companies might be able to bring back cash held overseas and deploy the capital for growth at home," said Chopra.
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In fact, when Apple borrows money in U.S. capital markets, as it has done in recent years to the tune of billions of dollars, those borrowings operate in substance as tax free repatriations of its offshore income.
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They cited National Bureau of Economic Research numbers that found a "$85033 increase in repatriations was associated with a $0.60–$0.92 increase in payouts to shareholders," but found no positive impact on job creation and domestic investment.
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"It's both not getting any advance notice so the parents can be there to get the child, and the length of time it's taking in many of the repatriations that are being done by ICE," Gelernt said.
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But that agreement did not extend to all Iraqis or alter the Iraqi government's long-standing policy of refusing involuntary repatriations, a fact the ACLU claims the government tried to hide from US District Court Judge Mark Goldsmith.
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The remarks by Prime Minister Sanna Marin, a day after she took office, could set the stage for a conflict within her five member center-left coalition, which has yet to agree a position on the issue of repatriations.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India deported seven Rohingya Muslim men to Myanmar on Thursday, raising fears of further repatriations among those sheltering in refugee camps in the country, and concern that those returned faced the risk of abuse at the hands of Myanmar authorities.
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Thomas Renard, a senior research fellow at Belgium's Egmont Institute, told VICE News that "controlled" repatriations were a far better option than the prevailing inaction by European countries towards their ISIS fighters, which raised the risk of jihadists slipping back home undetected.
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India and Bangladesh signed a partnership in 2015 to speed up repatriations, but how a victim is treated - whether it is their experience with the judiciary or the wait to go home - varies from one Indian state to another, according to activists.
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On July 20, 2017, the government cited an ICE official's declaration that "Iraq has agreed ... to the timely return of its nationals that are subject to final orders of removal" in opposing an ACLU motion that the court issue a preliminary injunction blocking the repatriations.
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At best she might secure the outlines of a long-term reform to the Dublin rules, probably involving more resources for sealing the EU's external borders, and of bilateral deals with southern European states trading German cash for commitments to speedier repatriations of migrants.
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The ministry's statement did acknowledge that Peña Nieto told Trump at the G-20 summit that "repatriations of Mexican nationals from the United States had fallen 31 per cent between January and June 2017 in comparison to the same timeframe in 2016," according to CBS.
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Careful study of its effects tells us that Repatriations did not lead to an increase in domestic investment, employment or R&D — even for the firms that lobbied for the tax holiday stating these intentions and for firms that appeared to be financially constrained.
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While Republican presidents have historically supported the claim by conservative Cuban-Americans, most of whom live in swing state Florida, that Cuba needs to hold multi-party elections and make repatriations for property seized after the 1959 revolution, Trump has hit the island especially hard.
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The Mexican presidential authorities also said Peña Nieto offered Trump a different set of figures than the ones he claimed: a 31% decrease in repatriations of Mexican citizens from the United States over the past six months and a 47% decrease in migration from central America into Mexico.
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The latest repatriations were "part of a series of measures taken by the Algerian government to strengthen cooperation with sub-Saharan African countries, notably Niger and Mali, to curb the irregular migration flows facing our country," said Benali Cherif, Algeria's foreign affairs spokesman, according to state news agency APS.
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PALONG KHALI, Bangladesh/NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - The U.N. refugee agency and other groups have urged a rethink of the plan to send Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar amid fears of forced repatriations and the inability of aid agencies to ensure the safety of hundreds of thousands who fled bloodshed at home.
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"A few years back, I noticed that among our scholastic clients, there were a really large number of mental health repatriations [people who return to their home countries]," Robert L. Quigley, senior vice president of medical assistance at International SOS, a company that provides medical and emergency services for organizations with operations overseas, told VICE.
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Related: Belgium Rescues 244 Christians From War-Torn Syria In Covert Operation In September, the Belgian Office of the Commissioner-General for Refugees and Stateless Persons announced it would no longer automatically grant subsidiary protection — a financial assistance program for refugees — to migrants from Iraq, which could explain the recent wave of voluntary repatriations and the drop in the number of asylum claims.
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For more than a year, the Trump administration has drastically increased the deportations of Southeast Asian immigrants, as it pressures countries like Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam to accept more repatriations of immigrants detained in the US. In the case of Cambodians facing deportations, many immigrants have been living in the US for decades, having fled their birth country as children with parents escaping a series of bloody wars, as well as the brutal rule under the Khmer Rouge.
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