President Joe Biden talks with US Border Patrol agents as they walk along a stretch of the US-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, Jan 8, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden's administration is developing a sweeping bill that would revamp the country's asylum system to speed up the resolution of claims […]
Haitian migrants who hope to apply for asylum in the US wait to register their names on a list made by a religious organization in Reynosa, Mexico, Dec 21, 2022, on the other side of the border with McAllen, Texas. (PHOTO / AP) MEXICO CITY – The Mexican government said on Monday it is opposed to […]
Mexican authorities keep watch as migrants descend from a tractor-trailer where they were transported to the US at a checkpoint in Chiapa de Corzo, in Chiapas state, Mexico Jan 18, 2023. (JACOB GARCIA / REUTERS) CIUDAD JUAREZ/MEXICO CITY – Migrants on Mexico's northern border on Wednesday began entering the United States using a mobile app […]
President Joe Biden talks with US Border Patrol agents as they walk along a stretch of the US-Mexico border in El Paso Texas, Jan 8, 2023. (ANDREW HARNIK / AP) EL PASO, Texas – President Joe Biden visited the US-Mexico border on Sunday for the first time since taking office, tackling one of the most […]
Haitian migrants who hope to apply for asylum in the US wait to register their names on a list made by a religious organization in Reynosa, Mexico, Dec 21, 2022, on the other side of the border with McAllen, Texas. (FERNANDO LLANO / AP) WASHINGTON – The United States will expand Trump-era restrictions to rapidly […]
In this file photo, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador presents his fourth year government report at the National Palace in Mexico City, Sept 1, 2022. (MARCO UGARTE / AP) MEXICO CITY – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday criticized the "inhumane" treatment of migrants by US Republicans, saying he would propose to […]
Members of the Texas National Guard stand guard on the banks of the Rio Bravo river, the border between the United States and Mexico, with the purpose of reinforcing border security and inhibiting the crossing of migrants to the US, seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Dec 27, 2022. (JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ / REUTERS) The US […]
In this file photo dated Sept 15 2022, a volunteer assists migrants from Venezuela, who boarded a bus in Texas, as they wait to be transported to a local church by volunteers after being dropped off outside the residence of US Vice President Kamala Harris, at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. (STEFANI REYNOLDS / […]
Migrants gather at a crossing into El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Dec 20, 2022. (CHRISTIAN CHAVEZ / AP) CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico / WASHINGTON – When Vladimir Castellanos learned that COVID-19 restrictions blocking him and other migrants from claiming asylum at the US border with Mexico may not be terminated this week, […]
Migrants eat and wait for help while camping on a street in downtown El Paso, Texas on Dec 18, 2022. (ANDRES LEIGHTON / AP) HOUSTON – The US state Texas on Monday deployed more than 400 National Guard troops and other personnel to El Paso, a city bordering Mexico, as the US Supreme Court temporarily […]
In this Oct 12, 2022 file photo, migrants sail after boarding a smuggler's boat on the beach of Gravelines, near Dunkirk, northern France, in an attempt to cross the English Channel. (SAMEER Al-DOUMY / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday called for the protection and respect of migrants, who he described […]
Migrants wait in line for clothes and supplies in a makeshift migrant camp in the border town of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico on July 10, 2021. (PAUL RATJE / AFP) CIUDAD JUAREZ — Many of the hundreds of migrants who crossed the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juarez into El Paso this week were part of a […]
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi speaks to the media prior to the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award ceremony, in Geneva on Oct 10, 2022. (STEFAN WERMUTH / POOL / AFP) GENEVA – The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Thursday called on the European Union (EU) to put safety […]
Hellenic Red Cross rescuers and health workers stand by a boat carrying some 400 refugees and migrants at the town of Paleochora, southwestern Crete island on November 22, 2022, following a rescue operation. (Costas METAXAKIS / AFP) ATHEN — Greece rescued hundreds of migrants on Tuesday after the fishing boat they were travelling on issued […]
A Border Force vessel assist a group of people thought to be migrants on board from their inflatable dinghy in the Channel, Aug 10, 2020. (GARETH FULLER / PA VIA AP) PARIS/LONDON – Britain and France on Monday signed an agreement worth 72.2 million euros ($74.5 million) over the coming year to ramp up efforts […]
Pope Francis greets the journalists onboard the papal plane on the return flight at the end of a four-day pastoral visit to Bahrain, Nov 6, 2022. (MAURIZIO BRAMBATTI / POOL PHOTO VIA AP) ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE – Pope Francis said on Sunday European Union member states should share responsibility for taking in migrants and […]
Migrants sit on the deck of a coast guard vessel upon their arrival at Mytilene port, on the northeastern Aegean Sea island of Lesbos, Greece on June 22, 2022. (PANAGIOTIS BALASKAS / AP) ATHENS – At least 15 people died when their vessel sank off the Greek island of Lesbos in the central Aegean Sea […]
Migrants who where heading in a caravan to the US, travel in a truck in Nuevo Morelos, Jesus Carranza municipality, Veracruz state, Mexico, on Nov 17, 2021. (CLAUDIO CRUZ / AFP) ACAYUCAN, Mexico – Mexican authorities rescued nearly 100 migrants who escaped from a stifling trailer being driven by a people smuggler in the coastal […]
In this photo provided by the Royal Bahamas Defense Force, survivors sit on a capsized boat as they are about to be rescued near New Providence in the Bahamas, early Sunday, July 24, 2022. (ROYAL BAHAMAS DEFENSE FORCE VIA AP) NASSAU – Seventeen people died after a boat carrying dozens of Haitian migrants capsized off […]
A girl looks at the portrait of Wilmer Tulul – killed inside a tractor-trailer in Texas after crossing from Mexico – at his house in Tzucubal village, Nahuala, Guatemala, on June 30, 2022. Melvin Guachiac and his cousin Wilmer were among the 53 migrants who died after they were abandoned in a suffocatingly hot tractor-trailer […]