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Shipwreck off Libya leaves over 40 refugees dead: UN
Jan 21, 2021 02:12At least 43 migrants from West Africa perished in the first major shipwreck off the Libyan coast this year, the United Nations said Wednesday, adding that 10 people were rescued.
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Guatemalan officials crack down on US-bound Honduran caravan
Jan 17, 2021 05:37Guatemalan authorities have cracked down on a caravan of Latin American asylum seekers headed to the United States just as a new administration is about to enter the White House.
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Citing the pandemic, CBP has expelled newborn U.S. citizens with their migrant mothers
Jan 08, 2021 07:01U.S. Customs and Border Protection has used a controversial Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order authorizing the expulsion of asylum-seekers on supposed public health grounds to send multiple U.S.-born infants — who are by law U.S. citizens — and their migrant families across the southern border to Mexico.
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Australia vows to 'restore order' as riots erupt on immigration detention island
Jan 06, 2021 07:27Unrest broke out at an Australian island immigration detention center, authorities and NGOs said Wednesday following reports the Christmas Island facility had been set alight by frustrated detainees.
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Hundreds of migrants stranded in freezing weather in Bosnia
Jan 05, 2021 06:52According to humanitarian groups, hundreds of migrants stranded at an abandoned camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina were spending New Year’s Eve in freezing temperatures.
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Saudi Arabia holds hundreds of African migrants in appalling conditions: HRW
Dec 16, 2020 04:05Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Saudi Arabia has held in a deportation center hundreds of mostly Ethiopian migrant workers in “appalling” conditions, calling for their immediate release.
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Blaze in migrant squat near Barcelona kills at least two
Dec 10, 2020 11:34Flames ripped through an abandoned warehouse occupied by scores of immigrant squatters in a Barcelona suburb, killing at least two people and injuring at least 19 overnight.
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'This lack of humanity can't go on': Canary Islands struggle with huge rise in migration’
Dec 06, 2020 06:06Over the past 11 months, about 20,000 people have braved the Atlantic route from Africa to Europe, with more than 8,000 arriving in the Canaries in November alone. Last year, 2,557 migrants arrived in the archipelago, up from 1,307 in 2018. Nowhere is the strain and chaos more evident than on the dock at Arguineguín.
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US temporarily closes detention facility at Texas border
Nov 26, 2020 05:30The US Border Patrol is temporarily closing a converted warehouse used to detain immigrants in South Texas for renovation.
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Refugee settlement plunging in 2020: UN
Nov 19, 2020 14:30The United Nations warned Thursday that 2020 could witness the fewest resettled refugees in almost two decades, in part due to the global pandemic.