migrants

They were once manual laborers, taxi drivers, fishermen and merchants. But Venezuelan migrants fleeing poverty and shortages of basic necessities have been forced into new work: picking coca leaves for Colombia's drug traffickers. Hundreds of Venezuelans work grueling days on coca leaf plantations, seduced by ...

A German migrant rescue ship that operates in the Mediterranean was renamed Sunday after Alan Kurdi, a 3-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose body washed up on a Turkish beach at the height of the migrant crisis, sparking global outrage Alan's father, Abdullah Kurdi, and aunt, ...

France recalled its ambassador to Italy on Thursday amid mounting tensions after Italy's deputy prime minister met with French "yellow vest" protesters and Italian leaders made a string of critical public comments about French President Emmanuel Macron's government. French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Agnes von der ...

Immigrants have gone on hunger strikes over the past month to protest conditions inside detention facilities, prompting officials to force-feed six of them through plastic nasal tubes at a Texas location, The Associated Press has learned. More detainees are refusing food at the El Paso ...

Forty-seven migrants disembarked in the Sicilian port of Catania on Thursday, where the crew of the charity ship that rescued them feared legal action as Italy's far-right interior minister tries to stop new arrivals. The Dutch-flagged Sea Watch 3, which had been waiting off the ...

A bigger presence of relief agencies, U.N. workers and diplomats in Libya has done little to ease the plight of migrants abused in detention centers and blocked from crossing the Mediterranean, migrants and aid workers say. Migrant boat crossings from Libya dropped steeply from mid-2017 ...

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte says five European Union nations are stepping forward to help resolve the latest impasse involving migrants stuck at sea on a humanitarian ship, but he bemoaned the lack of a systematic EU way to deal with migrant rescues. Conte said ...

Maria Orbelina Cortez says she fled El Salvador for the U.S. after her husband attacked her and knocked a pan of scalding oil onto her youngest son's head. After quietly planning for months, she took the 3-year-old boy and his two brothers and headed north ...

France has summoned Italy's ambassador to protest about comments by Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio, who accused Paris of continuing to colonize Africa and causing people to migrate from the continent, a government source told AFP. The ambassador was summoned Monday after the ...

Ecuador will ask Venezuelan migrants to present their criminal records upon entering, the country's vice president said on Monday, following the murder of a pregnant Ecuadorean woman by a Venezuelan man that triggered protests and acts of violence. The Saturday killing in the northern city ...

Government investigators said Thursday that thousands more migrant children may have been separated from their families than the Trump administration has acknowledged. A report from the Health and Human Services inspector general's office found that family separations were occurring before the spring of last year, ...