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Joe Biden detained tens of thousands of asylum-seekers in the last year (1)
Apr 27, 2022 18:59The US president’s immigration policies forced refugees into detention, where they faced “horrific abuse and mistreatment,” a rights group says.
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Outrage over UK’s decision to send migrants to Rwanda
Apr 19, 2022 15:04The UK has launched a plan with Rwanda to send asylum-seekers to the African nation. The UK is giving Rwanda £120m to accommodate migrants. Critics say it’s inhumane to send migrants to Rwanda. Rights organizations also say the plan will hurt asylum-seekers.
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US arrests 210,000 migrants at Mexico border in March, rivaling record highs
Apr 16, 2022 14:41US border authorities arrested 210,000 migrants attempting to cross the border with Mexico in March, the highest monthly total in two decades and underscoring challenges in the coming months for US President Joe Biden.
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Kremlin: Russia seeks ‘more substantial’ talks with Ukraine to end conflict
Mar 22, 2022 12:36Russia says it would like to have more “substantial” talks with Kiev to end almost a month of conflict, which has so far forced more than 3.5 million people to flee Ukraine.
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Activists protest migrants expulsion at Mexico-US border
Mar 22, 2022 06:26A group of migrants and activists protest in the Mexican border city of Tijuana to demand an end to Title 42, a US law that allows for the immediate expulsion of those who enter the US for public health reasons.
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Dozens rescued after Indonesian boat carrying migrants sinks
Mar 21, 2022 06:21Twenty-six passengers reported missing when a fishing boat carrying undocumented migrant workers sank off the coast of Indonesia have been found alive, some after drifting for two days, officials said Monday.
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Italy rescues hundreds of migrants at sea, one found dead
Feb 22, 2022 09:24The Italian coastguard rescued 573 migrants at sea who were trying to reach Europe aboard two fishing boats in distress in bad weather, a statement said on Tuesday. One body was found.
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'We don't have food.' Migrants demand safe-passage permits in southern Mexico
Feb 22, 2022 08:16Migrants protested outside Mexico's Migration Institute offices in the southern city of Tapachula demanding to get documents that will allow them to move through the country safely.
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Macron: UK ‘hypocrisy’ to blame for Channel migrant deaths
Feb 03, 2022 05:34France’s President Emanuel Macron says London refuses to establish a legal migration route to Britain, and is therefore responsible for the death of the migrants, who undertake the perilous journey through the Channel.
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About 12 migrants found frozen to death near Turkey-Greece border
Feb 03, 2022 04:53Twelve migrants were found dead in a small Turkish town near the Greek border often used by migrants seeking to enter the European Union, after they apparently froze to death, igniting a war of words between the two countries.