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HRW urges India to provide refuge to Rohingya Muslims adrift at Indian Ocean
Mar 01, 2021 11:16Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Indian government to provide refuge to dozens of Rohingya Muslim asylum seekers who have been adrift in the Andaman Sea for more than two weeks.
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More child migrants are arriving alone in Spain’s holiday islands than ever before
Feb 26, 2021 05:45Spain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said around 23,000 migrants arrived in the Canary Islands from Africa in 2020 – more than seven times the number of arrivals in 2019.
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Over 700 children in detention as Biden reopens Trump-era infamous site for refugee kids
Feb 25, 2021 11:52US President Joe Biden has opened a Trump-era detention center to lock up hundreds of refugee children, a move reminiscent of the former president’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy.
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US migrant smugglers utilize deep freeze in Texas to bring in more people
Feb 22, 2021 05:03Migrant smugglers in the United States are taking advantage of the deep freeze in Texas to bring in more people from Mexico.
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From concentration camps to overflow facilities: With Biden in charge, media forgets kids in cages
Feb 14, 2021 06:40The Biden administration is opening a new child prison along the United States-Mexico border. The center, located in Carrizo Springs, around 100 miles southwest of San Antonio, is being specifically built for unaccompanied migrant children attempting to cross the border and will hold around 700 people when finished, although plans noted it will be expanded if the government deems it necessary.
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ICE threatened to expose asylum-seekers to COVID-19 if they did not accept deportation
Feb 10, 2021 17:07Three Cameroonian asylum-seekers locked up at the Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center in Louisiana say that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement guard threatened to expose them to Covid-19 if they failed to obey his orders and submit to a transfer.
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Biden continues policies which put kids in cages, in Syria
Feb 10, 2021 16:54US President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, backed policies towards Syria which saw innocent children separated from their families and placed in cages. But the worst part of it, is that they have no quarrels with doing it again.
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Biden administration suspends Trump asylum deals with El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
Feb 07, 2021 05:30The United States says it is suspending former President Donald Trump’s controversial asylum deals with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
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Biden is rejecting Trump’s Border Wall — but favors his own technological wall
Feb 05, 2021 16:47President Joe Biden will sign a number of immigration-related executive actions continuing his reversals of former President Donald Trump’s harsh policies toward undocumented immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees as part the new administration’s effort to pursue a more humanitarian approach to immigration and border enforcement.
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UNHCR calls on European states to end refugee pushbacks at borders
Jan 28, 2021 05:56The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed alarm over the increasingly frequent repulsion and expulsion of refugees at Europe’s borders, urging European countries to halt these practices and protect the right to seek asylum.