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  1. ImmigrationProf Blog

    An overloaded boat, packed with dreams: Hundreds of migrants plucked from a hazardous journey across the Mediterranean

    By immigrationprof

    Three teams, including Save the Children, work to transport 412 migrants from a smuggler's boat to rescue ships off the coast of northern Libya. The migrants, who came from 13…

  2. ImmigrationProf Blog

    “Be Aware Brother, Be Aware Sister” — “Aware Migrants”

    By immigrationprof

      “Be aware brother, be aware sister” is the song that Rokia Traoré has written specially for the Aware Migrants Project. Malian singer Rokia Traoré has released a new  single – “Be…

  3. ImmigrationProf Blog

    Thousands Saved Off Coast of Libya

    By immigrationprof

    Migrants and refugees are rescued from a wooden boat off Libya on Monday. Photo: AP The Italian navy and a number of search and rescue boats have saved nearly 7,000…

  4. ImmigrationProf Blog

    Aboard a Mediterranean rescue ship, migrants share horror stories from Libya

    By immigrationprof

     The sea route from Libya to Italy is dangerous, even deadly, for African migrants and refugees who are desperate to cross. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant from PBS reports from a…

  5. The Right Coast

    Libya: U.S. Special Forces take fight to ISIS – CNN.com

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Misrata, Libya (CNN)It is a tiny, remote aircraft hangar, carved in the Sicilian rock decades ago, but now home to a new and vital front for the United States against…

  6. ImmigrationProf Blog

    Massive loss of life reported in latest Mediterranean tragedy

    By immigrationprof

    A boat carrying refugees and migrants drifts on the Mediterranean Sea shortly before rescue by the Italian Navy in 2014. The UN Refugee Agency reports on the latest refugee tragedy from…

  7. The Right Coast

    Clinton: We didn t lose a single person in Libya « Hot Air

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Yes, they certainly do ignore the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi. But these remarks ignore a lot more than that. Qaddafi s Libya was a brutal dictatorship, but one that…

  8. International Compliance Blog

    US Adds More Countries to the Visa Waiver Program Restrictions

    By Liz LaRocca

    The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) announced Thursday, February 18, 2015, that it is expanding the list of countries that will restrict travel with the Visa Waiver Program (“VWP”). The…

  9. International Law Prof Blog

    UN Secretary-General Urges Use of All Tools Available to Solve Problems in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen

    By InternationalLaw Blogger

    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today called for using all the tools available to the United Nations to help steer the Middle East and North Africa towards a path of…

  10. The Right Coast

    Reported two-month gap in Clinton emails coincides with escalating Libya violence | Fox News

    By Thomas A. Smith

    A reported two-month gap in emails from Hillary Clinton's private account during 2012 coincides with a period of escalating violence in Libya and the obtaining of a special exemption by…