By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – The Biden administration on Wednesday urged a U.S. appeals court to rule that Texas cannot keep a 1,000-foot-long floating barrier in the Rio Grande, one in a series of measures taken by the Republican-led state to deter illegal border crossings. The full New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals […]
Eight people were killed and dozens injured after a bus carrying migrant workers to a local farm crashed in Florida early Tuesday. The crash happened around 6.30 am in west Marion county, Florida, according to the Florida highway patrol, WCJB reported. The accident involved a 2010 International bus transporting workers and a 2001 Ford Ranger […]
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 […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Refugee rights activists on Monday criticized Poland’s pro-European Union government for plans to tighten security at the border with Belarus and for continuing a policy initiated by predecessors of pushing migrants back across the border there. The activists organized an online news conference after Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk made his […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration is expected to try to partially end a 27-year-old agreement that provides court oversight of how the federal government cares for migrant children in its custody, according to an attorney with Children’s Rights, which represents children in the case. The anticipated move comes weeks after the Health and […]
New York City rolled out shelter-stay limits for migrant families in a “haphazard” way — without adequate policies or effective case management — Comptroller Brad Lander said Thursday. Mayor Adams announced a 60-day limit on how long migrant families could stay in shelters in October as an influx of asylum seekers strained the city’s shelter […]
ROME (AP) — Italy’s aviation authority has barred humanitarian migrant rescue groups from using a Sicilian airport to launch search and rescue flights over the Mediterranean, in the government’s latest crackdown on their activities. An ordinance from ENAC’s western Sicilian office said the flights interfered with the Italian coast guard’s exclusive role in coordinating search […]
Social media posts claim the US state of Michigan is awarding “illegal immigrants” thousands of dollars in housing subsidies. This is false; only non-citizens with a legal resident status can benefit from the program. “So the State of Michigan will give you $6,000 completely free if you meet one condition: You just have to be […]
(Bloomberg) — Panama elected investor favorite Jose Raul Mulino as its new president drawing voters with his pledge to revive the once-stellar economy, crack down on drug cartels and shut down migration routes to the US. Most Read from Bloomberg Mulino ran as the substitute for fugitive former leader Ricardo Martinelli, who was banned from […]
DENVER (KDVR) — An organization in Denver is working to get migrants off the streets and into homes of host families across Colorado, and a new partnership is making that task easier than ever before. Hope Has No Borders began pairing migrant workers and their families with hosts in Colorado in late 2023. Now, with […]
In Reality Check stories, Star-Telegram journalists dig deeper into questions over facts, consequences and accountability. Read more. Story idea? RealityCheck@star-telegram.com. A common refrain among people raising alarms about the border crisis is that every American city is a border city, meaning undocumented immigrants bring elevated crime rates to communities far from the U.S.-Mexico border. Keller […]
Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently arrested an Uzbek man in Baltimore with alleged ISIS ties after he had been living inside the United States for over two years, according to two U.S. officials. The man, 33-year-old Jovokhir Attoev, crossed the border into Arizona and was apprehended by Border Patrol in February 2022, the officials said. […]