Two busloads of migrants have been dropped off at Naperville’s downtown Metra station since last Thursday, according to city spokeswoman Linda LaCloche. LaCloche could not say how many migrants arrived in the city or where the buses traveled from but said passengers boarded a Metra train for downtown Chicago right after arriving in Naperville. “We […]
Federal prison sentences were handed down to three women for their roles in a human smuggling operation, which resulted in the deaths of two migrants in the West Texas desert, court records show. Guadalupe Quezada, 35; Veronica Quezada, 39; and Elizabeth Miranda Lozano, 39, were sentenced in December to prison after each woman pleaded guilty […]
Two busloads of migrants have been dropped off at Naperville’s downtown Metra station since last Thursday, according to city spokeswoman Linda LaCloche. LaCloche could not say how many migrants arrived in the city or where the buses traveled from but said passengers boarded a Metra train for downtown Chicago right after arriving in Naperville. “We […]
KANKAKEE COUNTY, Ill. – A bus of migrants was dropped off at a Kankakee County gas station Thursday morning, and the driver of the bus erroneously told them they had arrived in Chicago. At about 7:30 a.m., Kankakee police officers, members of the Kankakee County Sheriff’s Office and Illinois State Police troopers responded to a […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Homeland Security Department took the temporary measure of closing the Texas-Mexico border crossing to “stop a large movement of migrants coming by rail and to protect the health and safety of its personnel,” the White House said on Wednesday. “We are working closely with the Mexican government in attempt to […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has begun flying migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to Chicago after the city took a tougher stance on the buses that Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has been sending north since last year. The first flight of 120 migrants arrived Tuesday, according to Abbott’s office. The governor directed state officials to […]
The European Union reached agreement early on Wednesday on new rules designed to share out the cost and work of hosting migrants more evenly and to limit the numbers of people coming in. Representatives of the European Parliament and of EU governments reached an accord after all-night talks on EU laws collectively called the New […]
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved new legislation that will grant tens of thousands of undocumented migrants residence and work permits amid a shortage of unskilled labor. The law drafted by the center-right government links the right to residence with proof of employment. According to the labor ministry, it will affect […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The White House and Mexico’s president on Tuesday came out strongly against a new Texas law that would allow police to arrest migrants who illegally cross into the U.S. and empower local judges to order them to leave the country. Also Tuesday, civil rights groups and Texas’ largest border county filed […]
A man forced migrants from Guatemala to work on farms in New York and raped a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant, whom he’s accused of abducting twice, federal prosecutors said. Augusto Mateo Francisco, 32, of Dunkirk, is facing forced labor, sex trafficking and kidnapping charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York announced […]
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday approved sweeping new powers that allow police to arrest migrants who illegally cross the U.S. border and give local judges authority to order them to leave the country, testing the limits of how far a state can go to enforce immigration laws. Opponents have […]
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday signed legislation that makes it a criminal offense to enter the state illegally, setting up a potential clash with President Joe Biden‘s administration over immigration policy and border enforcement. Abbott, a Republican who has implemented other policies directed at migrants that have drawn court challenges, signed the bill at […]