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“It’s like the Walking Dead”: Migrant children held under dangerous conditions in Texas
May 28, 2021 03:42More than 4,300 unaccompanied children who crossed the US-Mexico border are being held at a makeshift detention center in the US state of Texas under dangerous and distressing conditions.
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Bodies of babies, toddlers wash up on Libyan beach after refugee shipwreck
May 25, 2021 15:05Charity organizations have posted photographs of the bodies of babies and toddlers having washed up on a beach in Libya after a shipwreck, highlighting the human toll of the refugee crisis at Europe’s doorstep.
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UN official: Iran’s behavior with Afghan refugees outstanding
May 24, 2021 11:11Director of the regional bureau for Asia and the Pacific of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, says what the Islamic Republic of Iran has done for Afghan refugees over the past four decades has been outstanding.
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Trump officials used secret terrorism unit to question lawyers at border
May 17, 2021 10:42Following revelations two years ago by NBC 7 San Diego that some journalists and others were targeted for questioning when crossing from Tijuana, Mexico, the Donald Trump administration maintained that the incidents were limited to San Diego and a handful of U.S. citizens. But the new documents prove the operation went further — and raise questions about how many others were targeted.
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Anger in Scotland over removal of immigrants during Eid al-Fitr
May 14, 2021 04:04Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has condemned the Home Office for the detention and removal of a group of people from their Glasgow home during Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
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Five boats carrying hundreds of migrants in Italy's Lampedusa
May 09, 2021 11:32Five boats carrying hundreds of migrants landed in Lampedusa after being intercepted by Italian authorities off the coast of the Mediterranean island, ANSA news agency reported on Sunday.
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Four dead, dozens injured after migrant boat capsizes off San Diego coast in US
May 03, 2021 09:46At least four people have died and over two dozen injured after a suspected smuggling vessel capsized off the coast of San Diego in the US State of California.
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Florida governor says Biden created 'catastrophe' at US border by scrapping Trump's policies
Apr 21, 2021 04:57A Republican representative from Kansas's 1st congressional district wrote on twitter that "migrant children have been traumatized and been taken advantage of by Mexican cartels, adding, “These cartels are making hundreds of millions of dollars every day by exploiting children. Under the Biden Administration, cartels are the winners, and innocent children are the losers.”
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Biden breaks promise on refugee resettlement, imposing Trump’s “draconian” cap
Apr 18, 2021 05:08US President Joe Biden will uphold former President Donald Trump’s historically low “refugee cap” despite earlier promises to raise it drastically. Biden’s decision prolongs what Representatives Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal have decried as “the Trump Administration’s full-scale assault on refugee resettlement in the United States.”
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Rights advocates concerned over Biden push to increase militarization of borders in Central America
Apr 15, 2021 15:06Human rights defenders have expressed concern after the Biden administration announced it reached agreements with Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala for those countries to boost their deployments of military forces to stop the flow of migrants trying to make their way to the United States.