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Spain rescues 325 migrants at sea over start of new year, searches for more
Spanish coast guard elements rescued 325 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean over the first two days of the new year, they said Wednesday. The news comes just days after a charity rescue vessel carrying 311 mainly African migrants plucked off the coast of Libya ...
U.S. authorities fired tear gas into Mexico during the first hours of the new year to repel about 150 migrants who were trying to breach the border fence in Tijuana. An Associated Press photographer witnessed at least three volleys of gas launched onto the Mexican ...
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 ...
Malta rescues 180 migrants off two boats as Mediterranean weather worsens but 49 still adrift
Malta on Monday pulled 180 migrants to safety from two boats in distress, while 49 more were stuck in limbo at sea as the weather worsened in the Mediterranean. The Maltese military said a patrol boat picked up 28 migrants from a dinghy some 71 ...
The officers suit up in the predawn darkness, wrapping on body armor, snapping in guns, pulling on black sweat shirts that read POLICE and ICE. They gather around a conference table in an ordinary office in a nondescript office park in the suburbs, going over ...
69 migrants rescued off Malta while 49 more wait adrift at sea for welcoming port: navy
A group of 69 migrants on a rickety wooden boat were rescued Sunday off Malta, the navy said, while 49 more were still at sea waiting for a country to allow them to dock. The migrants sent out a distress call 117 nautical miles southwest ...
Trump blames 'very sick' migrant child deaths at border on Democrats despite health check OKs
In his first public statements on the deaths of two Guatemalan children in U.S. custody, President Donald Trump claimed they were "very sick" before they reached the border and foisted responsibility for their deaths on Democrats, yet both young migrants passed initial health screenings ...
Dad of Guatemalan boy who died in U.S. custody heard rumors they could cross border to better life
The father of an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy who died in U.S. custody took his son to the border after hearing rumors that parents and their children would be allowed to migrate to the United States and escape the poverty in their homeland, the boy's ...
Political game of chicken: Trump tweets ire on Day 6 of government shutdown
Congress members trickled back into Washington Thursday but there was little hope of ending the government shutdown sparked by a row with President Donald Trump over his demand for US-Mexico border wall construction. The Senate was in session after the Christmas break, but very few ...
U.K. finds nine more migrants trying to enter by boat amid surge across English Channel
British authorities detained nine migrants including children on a beach in southeastern England on Thursday after they crossed the English Channel in a small inflatable boat, officials said. The latest attempt to enter England comes after at least 43 migrants tried to cross the English ...
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 ...
Over 40 U.K.-bound migrants aboard six boats rescued in English Channel
British and French maritime authorities have rescued more than 40 migrants trying to cross the Channel into the U.K. in six small boats over two days, officials said on Wednesday. Five dinghies, carrying 40 people from Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, were spotted on Christmas Day, ...
