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 ...
More than 100 demonstrators protested Saturday in withering heat outside an Oklahoma army base against the Trump administration's plans to detain migrant children there. Japanese Americans and Native Americans are among those who took part in Saturday's march to Fort Sill and rally in front ...
U.S. to send asylum-seekers back to dangerous Mexican border town of Matamoros
The U.S. government on Friday expanded its requirement that asylum-seekers wait outside the country to a part of the Texas Rio Grande Valley across from one of Mexico's most dangerous cities. The Department of Homeland Security said that it would implement its Migrant Protection Protocols ...
Confusion, fear spread on Mexico border with new U.S. asylum policy
Asylum-seekers gathered in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Texas, grappled to understand what a new U.S. policy that all but eliminates refugee claims by Central Americans and many others meant for their bids to find a better life in America amid a chaos ...
Migrants seen returning to Libya detention center two weeks after airstrike killed over 50
A Libyan detention center where an airstrike killed more than 50 people two weeks ago is filling with migrants again, and work has resumed at a nearby weapons workshop, despite calls from the United Nations to empty the compound and others like it near ...
62 Border Patrol employees probed over secret Facebook group that mocked lawmakers and migrants
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Monday that 62 current and eight former Border Patrol employees are under internal investigation following revelations of a secret Facebook group that mocked lawmakers and migrants. Most are under investigation for posts that surfaced in a secret group ...
Italian police clear migrants, squatters amid burning debris barricades
Migrants and squatters set up burning barricades at an abandoned school outside Rome on Monday after police were ordered to clear the site. Residents set fire to tires, mattresses and garbage to try and deter the police in riot gear. But authorities doused the blaze ...
Man with rifle and firebombs dies after attacking immigration prison in Washington state
A man armed with a rifle threw incendiary devices at an immigration jail in Washington state early Saturday morning, then was found dead after four police officers arrived and opened fire, authorities said. The Tacoma Police Department said the officers responded at about 4 a.m. ...
Asylum-seekers in Japan are stuck in bureaucratic limbo
At the end of June, a Nigerian man in his 40s died at an immigration detention center in Nagasaki. According to a support group, the man had been on a hunger strike to protest his lengthy confinement, which had continued for more than three ...
In 'safe third country' plan, Guatemala is ill-prepared to assist U.S.-bound refugees
A potential agreement with Washington to turn Guatemala into a "safe third country" for asylum-seekers has the Guatemalan opposition up in arms and experts scratching their heads. President Jimmy Morales is set to meet Monday in Washington with his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, and officials ...
Appeals court gives Trump a win in restricting grants to 'sanctuary cities'
A federal appeals court gave President Donald Trump a rare legal win in his efforts to crack down on "sanctuary cities" Friday, upholding the Justice Department's decision to give preferential treatment in awarding community policing grants to cities that cooperate with immigration authorities. The 2-1 ...
Forty-four migrants, including women and children, plucked from their stricken vessel in the Mediterranean arrived in Malta Tuesday after charity boat Alan Kurdi handed the shipwreck victims over to the Maltese coast guard on the high-seas. Malta agreed to take in those rescued by the ...
