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Boat carrying 500 asylum seekers disappears in Mediterranean Sea
May 26, 2023 10:51A boat carrying about 500 asylum seekers, including a newborn baby and pregnant women, has disappeared in the central Mediterranean, according to two humanitarian organizations.
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Uncertainty clouds US transition at Mexico border as new rules take effect
May 14, 2023 04:20The Biden administration began implementing a sweeping policy shift at the US-Mexico border on Friday as a COVID-era order that had allowed the swift expulsion of many migrants expired and new asylum restrictions took effect amid confusion and uncertainty.
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Honduran teenage migrant dies in US government custody
May 14, 2023 04:17A teenage migrant who arrived unaccompanied in the United States from Honduras has died in government custody.
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Seven migrants killed when struck by vehicle waiting at bus stop in Brownsville in Texas
May 08, 2023 03:05At least seven people have been killed and a dozen more injured after an SUV plowed into people waiting at a bus stop in the US city of Brownsville in Texas.
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Thousands of protesters demonstrate across France, slamming government's immigration plans
Apr 30, 2023 03:52Thousands of protesters, including a large group of migrants, have marched in Paris and other French cities, protesting planned changes to immigration laws and evictions from the Indian Ocean Island of Mayotte.
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UK's medical bodies express ‘grave concerns’ over government’s Rwanda policy
Apr 24, 2023 03:42Hundreds of healthcare professionals across the UK have raised the alarm over the government’s controversial Rwanda deportation scheme, warning that the plan will cause ‘catastrophic mental and physical harm’ to refugees, in advance of a court of appeal hearing on the policy.
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WFP: More refugees to flee Sudan as fighting intensifies between warring sides
Apr 23, 2023 02:47The World Food Program (WFP) has warned that more refugees will flee Sudan into neighboring Chad amid ongoing fighting between the country's Army and its rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
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UK seeks to change law to speed up deportation of illegal migrants
Apr 22, 2023 03:01Britain's government said on Friday that it would set out measures to limit courts' ability to block the deportation of illegal migrants, as part of changes to proposed legislation which will go before parliament next week.
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Mexico opens homicide probe as number of migrants killed in blaze increases
Mar 30, 2023 09:29Mexican authorities have announced a homicide probe against eight officials who face possible murder charges for the death of 38 migrants in a detention center, accusing them of doing nothing to evacuate the victims.
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UK mulls banning Strasbourg Court orders on refugee deportations
Mar 26, 2023 11:27The British government is locked in negotiations with up to 60 Conservative lawmakers trying to ban the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) from interfering with Britain’s controversial immigration policy.