UNHCR rejects claim it is 'starving migrants' at crowded Tripoli facility to get them to leave
The U.N. refugee agency said Thursday it was encouraging migrants to leave a severely overcrowded Tripoli center, but rejected as "offensive" a British daily report alleging it was "starving" asylum-seekers to force them out. "I find that accusation offensive," UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi told reporters ...
On Albania border patrol, EU's Frontex helps tackle migrant flow
Patrolling dirt paths on sun-baked hills bordering Greece, a European police team is helping Albania intercept more of the migrants trying to reach European Union states to the north. The EU border and coast guard police Frontex deployed 50 officers with night vision cameras and ...
For many migrants, the 'American Dream' is becoming a Mexican one
Honduran Rolando Rodrigo arrived last week in the Mexican city of Tapachula with his family, just one stop on the long route to the United States and the dream of a new life free from the poverty and gang violence that wracks their homeland. But ...
The spread of HIV as a serious aspect of Latin America's migration crisis — whether through Venezuelans forced to emigrate to obtain medicine or Central American migrants unaware they carry the virus — will be a focus of the world AIDS conference opening Sunday ...
SOS Mediterranee relaunches migrant rescue missions off Libya
Humanitarian group SOS Mediterranee said Sunday it has relaunched rescue efforts off Libya seven months after it abandoned operations using its ship Aquarius and despite a refusal by European ports to accept the migrants. The Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking will "conduct search and rescue activities in ...
U.S. cities brace for immigration raids and say they will not participate
U.S. cities expecting to be hit by a wave of immigration raids intended to deport recently arrived families who are in the United States illegally said on Friday they would not cooperate with federal authorities. In a call with reporters earlier this week, Mark Morgan, ...
The U.S. attorney general on Tuesday struck down a decision that had allowed some asylum-seekers to ask for bond in front of an immigration judge, an action that expands indefinite detention for some migrants who must wait months or years for their cases to ...
More than 100,000 migrants encountered at U.S. southern border in March: data
U.S. officers arrested or denied entry to over 103,000 people along the border with Mexico in March, a 35 percent increase over the prior month and more than twice as many as the same period last year, according to data released by U.S. Customs ...
Aid effort brings little relief for migrants trapped in Libya limbo
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 ...
Ecuador to demand Venezuelan migrants' criminal records after pregnant woman's murder
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 ...
Britain deploys extra patrol boats as English Channel migrant crossings rise, 12 turn up on beach
Britain is recalling two patrol boats from overseas deployments to help deal with an increase in the number of migrants trying to reach the country from France, interior minister Sajid Javid said on Monday. Javid said there had been an increase in the number of ...
Christmas funeral for Guatemalan girl who died in U.S. custody too much for grieving mom to bear
A crowd of mourners said goodbye to the 7-year-old Guatemalan migrant girl who died in U.S. custody this month, laying her to rest in a Christmas Day funeral that left her mother so crushed she could not bear to attend. Friends and family on Tuesday ...
