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Until recently, most migrants setting out for Italy made the
crossing
on small vessels.
Senior ministers in the United Kingdom and other northern European countries, relying on little more than armchair behavioral economics, argued that Mare Nostrum encouraged more migrants to attempt the dangerous sea
crossing.
Back in the real world, the desperation and aspiration driving people to flee outweigh the risks posed by the
crossing
– meaning that the closure of Mare Nostrum will do nothing to reduce the number of people attempting the journey to Europe.
Surrounded by a forbidding wall, watchtowers, and deadly buffer zones, I entered with a hard-to-obtain visa at the Erez
crossing
– iron gates, an interrogation by bored young immigration officers and scanners.
It is largely the result of EU efforts, such as the agreement with Turkey to prevent Syrians from
crossing
into Greece, its cooperation with Libyan militias, and the massive pressure it has placed on the Sahara transit states to close their borders.
On May 7, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, at the border in Texas, announced a new policy of “zero tolerance” for illegal border crossings: anyone suspected of
crossing
the border illegally would be detained and held for trial.
Rather, it calls for
crossing
the political aisle, as Winston Churchill (no doubt a hero to all of them) did, when he switched from the Liberal to the Conservative Party.
On November 15, 2015, a migration command center in the German Foreign Ministry on Werderscher Markt in Berlin was tracking refugee flows at every potential border
crossing
on the route from Greece to Germany.
Worse, in recent months, US President Donald Trump has ordered a zero-tolerance immigration policy that treats all adults
crossing
the border illegally – a misdemeanor – as if they were violent criminals.
Each asylum-seeker bravely
crossing
the Mediterranean was telling us that something was wrong in countries of first asylum.
A Safer Path to AsylumLONDON – In 2014, more than 190,000 people risked their lives
crossing
the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to Europe.
So, while Hezbollah has not decisively won its current war with Israel, by maintaining its ability to fight in the face of the might of the Israeli army, it has captured the imagination of Arabs, restoring lost pride in the same way as the Egyptian Army’s
crossing
of the Suez Canal in the war of 1973 did.
If the Obama administration does not succeed in stopping Iran by peaceful means from
crossing
the threshold to becoming a nuclear power, a hot confrontation is lurking.
Such an explanation is needed to decide whether
crossing
a particular threshold really is the determining factor in an economic slowdown.
The city’s position on an important border
crossing
and access to an enormous fresh-water supply from the Great Lakes, not to mention the business community’s unrelenting support, enhance its prospects further.
Initially, SPZ perimeters would have checkpoints like those for
crossing
into the West Bank and Gaza.
From the pro-consulate of Julius Caesar until 1945, there was most likely at least one army
crossing
or about to cross or thinking of
crossing
the Rhine in arms.
Crossing
that line has led to the disbanding of some Confucius Institutes.
The arrest of 21 British Muslims for conspiring to blow up airlines
crossing
the Atlantic underscored, once again, the growing sense of dread and inevitability that is rooted in the homegrown nature of the threat.
He argued not only that Western values are applicable across cultures, but that he owes his literary achievements to precisely that universality afforded by
crossing
Huntington's putative civilizational boundaries.
Uganda, for example, took in more refugees from South Sudan in 2016 than the total number of migrants
crossing
the Mediterranean into Europe over the same period.
The Annan Plan failed in Cyprus because of one party’s opposition; progress now (the minor but symbolically important opening of the Ledra Street
crossing
in downtown Nicosia) reflects internal political changes on the Greek Cypriot side.
The hardest-to-reach children in Pakistan are those on the move, traveling from relative to relative as families search for a better life, often
crossing
the Afghan border.
With the closure of Jordan’s last border
crossing
with Syria, that country faces a similar fate.
For example, the closure of the last border
crossing
between Syria and Jordan means that the free-trade zone that thrived along the frontier is facing dissolution.
But, in today’s interconnected world, capital can move much more quickly and to many more destinations,
crossing
borders with the click of a mouse.
For example, a networked shipping container
crossing
the ocean must have extended wireless range, but it doesn’t need super-fast response speeds.
Thanks to the agreement that the EU reached with Turkey in March 2016, very few people are now
crossing
into Greece.
So, while the world should reduce its reliance on fossil fuels in favor of lower-carbon alternatives as quickly as possible, another approach is needed to avoid
crossing
the two-degree threshold.
Some 800,000 refugees are expected to enter Germany this year, whereas British Prime Minister David Cameron is making a fuss about fewer than 30,000 asylum applications and warning darkly about “swarms of people”
crossing
the North Sea.
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