By Jacob Garcia ARRIAGA, Mexico (Reuters) – A new migrant caravan of approximately 2,000 people formed in southern Mexico on Monday, largely made up of people that have been on the move since Christmas Eve who say the Mexican government’s promises of transit visas last week never materialized. The migrants, including some carrying young children, […]
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is asking bus companies sending migrants to the state to provide advance notice of arrivals, mirroring a similar rule recently implemented by New York City Mayor Eric Adams. In a public letter Monday, Murphy asked about two dozen bus companies that he said were sending migrants from the southern border […]
After they missed their train from Glen Ellyn to Chicago early Friday morning, migrants wrapped themselves in thin white blankets on the concrete platform. They were left at the Metra station after a ride in a large charter bus from El Paso, Texas, and given train tickets by their bus driver. They ran toward a […]
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak was unsure the UK government’s scheme to send migrants to Rwanda would stop channel crossings when he was chancellor, according to documents. The BBC said it had seen No 10 papers from March 2022, a month before the plan was announced by then UK prime minister Boris Johnson, which showed […]
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday he has asked U.S. authorities to grant visas to at least 10 million Hispanic migrants that have worked for more than 10 years in the country, amid the rescue of 32 kidnapped migrants. Lopez Obrador also said he urged U.S. authorities to deploy $20 […]
The Justice Department on Wednesday sued Texas over a new law that lets state and local police arrest migrants who illegally cross the border, the latest legal battle between the Biden administration and Gov. Greg Abbott over immigration. In the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Austin, prosecutors said the Texas statute violates the Supremacy […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department on Wednesday sued Texas over a new law that would allow police to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally, taking Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to court again over his escalating response to border crossers arriving from Mexico. The lawsuit draws Texas into another clash over immigration at […]
Jan 2 (Reuters) – Russia’s police have detained thousands of migrants across the country in New Year’s Eve raids with scores of them facing deportation, Russian media reported on Monday. About 3,000 migrants were detained in Russia’s second-largest city of St. Petersburg during checks “to prevent crime,” Russia’s RIA state news agency reported. “As it […]
(Reuters) – Russia’s police have detained thousands of migrants across the country in New Year’s Eve raids with scores of them facing deportation, Russian media reported on Monday. About 3,000 migrants were detained in Russia’s second-largest city of St. Petersburg during checks “to prevent crime,” Russia’s RIA state news agency reported. “As it turned out, […]
Buses of migrants have arrived at train station stops in various parts of New Jersey, state and local officials said, an apparent response and workaround to New York City’s executive order limiting an influx of migrants. Details of the drop offs remain unclear, although Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s office said that migrants were taking the […]
At least 14 people have died off the coast of Morocco after the small boat they were travelling in got into trouble as they attempted to reach Spain’s Canary Islands, an aid organization said. Some 58 people were on the dinghy at the time of the incident, Spanish NGO Caminando Fronteras said. The survivors were […]
PHILADELPHIA – A flight with migrant passengers heading for John F. Kennedy Airport was diverted to Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia officials confirmed. The reason for the change in flight Tuesday night was weather, officials said. The flight originated in Texas and was making its way to Long Island when weather in New York forced the […]