A growing proportion of non-European Union citizens ordered to leave EU territory are being returned to countries outside the Union as part of efforts to rein in irregular migration, data from the EU’s statistics office shows. The deportation success rate reached 29.5% in the first quarter of 2024, up from 21.6% in the same period […]
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s government on Wednesday launched new legislation to ease the deportation of foreigners who publicly approve of terrorist acts. Under the law, a single comment on social media could provide grounds for kicking people out. The measure approved by the Cabinet was pledged by Chancellor Olaf Scholz following a knife attack last […]
On Tuesday, the Biden administration plans to announce an executive action protecting undocumented spouses of American citizens that would shield about 500,000 immigrants from deportation, according to four sources familiar with the matter. “This is the biggest thing since DACA,” said one of the sources, an immigration advocate, adding that it was a smart political […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is planning to announce a sweeping new policy Tuesday that would lift the threat of deportation for tens of thousands of people married to U.S. citizens, an aggressive election-year action on immigration that had been sought by many Democrats. Biden was hosting a White House event to celebrate an […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Border Patrol arrested Gerardo Henao 14 hours after President Joe Biden suspended asylum processing at the U.S. border with Mexico this week. But instead of being summarily deported, he was dropped off by agents the next day at a San Diego bus stop, where he caught a train to the […]
GAINESVILLE — After a violent crash killed eight of their colleagues and injured dozens more, the path to recovery for the migrant farmworkers looked long. Rigoberto Gregorio shattered his femur, leaving the 30-year-old in a wheelchair and unable to bathe himself. Ramón Pérez Ponce endured ongoing and radiating pain, prompting the 39-year-old to dial 911 […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky commemorated the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars by the Soviets and drew comparisons with Russia’s occupation of Crimea. “Today, as we commemorate the victims of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars and condemn Russia’s abuse of Crimea, we feel that Russian evil is not and will not […]
LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom’s law to deport asylum-seekers shouldn’t apply in Northern Ireland, because parts of it violate human rights protections, a Belfast judge ruled Monday. The Illegal Migration Act was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights and undermines rights provided in the Good Friday peace agreement of 1998, High Court […]
WORCESTER — A Brazilian man living in Framingham pleaded guilty last Friday in U.S. District Court to charges in connection with escaping federal custody in February. Judge David Hennessey sentenced Victor Rodrigues De Moura-Pereira, 20, to five weeks in prison, which he has already served, as well as a year of supervised release. De Moura-Pereira […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador are moving swiftly on new steps to crack down on illegal migration that include tougher enforcement on railways, buses and in airports as well as increased repatriation flights for migrants from both the U.S. and Mexico. The two leaders previewed the measures […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Born and raised in Pakistan to parents who fled neighboring Afghanistan half a century ago, an 18-year-old found himself at the mercy of police in Karachi who took his cash, phone and motorbike, and sent him to a deportation center. Scared and bewildered, he spent three days there before he was […]
The murder of Athens nursing student Laken Riley has led to a rigorous debate about undocumented immigrants who commit crimes in the U.S. Some are pushing for stiff penalties and more deportations while others are asking for updated border policies. Channel 2′s Courtney Francisco got unfiltered access and rode along with immigration agents as they […]