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On France’s Beaches, UK-Funded Police Make Channel Crossings More Dangerous

As France and the UK intensify their crackdown on small-boat crossings, people are taking greater risks to evade police — while a lack of transparency makes the human and financial costs of the border regime difficult to track.

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  • Germany's internal border checks were supposed to be temporary. Introduced in 2015 as an emergency response, they've now become a familiar part of daily life across much of Europe. Reporter Sam Baker travels to Germany's borders with France and the Netherlands, where commuters sit in traffic, businesses absorb mounting costs, and local leaders question whether[...]
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  • Ah Long spent years building a life in Shanghai. Then the pandemic arrived. China's Zero-COVID policy cost him his job, his relationship, and eventually his faith that he could build a future there. So he did something almost unimaginable: he set out alone for the United States, crossing the Darién Gap, surviving robberies, and surrendering[...]
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