As a fire raged through a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, Dildar Begum ran in terror from her family’s shack to her brother’s home. “It looked like hell fire,” he said. The …
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The United States competes to find space for beds for migrant children, as the number of unaccompanied minors in government custody reaches 15,500
On Saturday, the U.S. government was housing approximately 15,500 unaccompanied migrant minors, including 5,000 teens and children stranded in Border Patrol facilities not designed for long-term custody, according to government data reviewed …
Read More »Ticket? Passport? Add a Covid vaccination card to the list of mandatory travel documents
LONDON – The world’s airlines are betting on vaccines to restart international travel. Two of Europe’s largest airlines, British Airways ICAGY -1.96% and the low-cost airline Ryanair Holdings RYAAY 0.85% PLC, has …
Read More »Backlog of migrant children in Border Patrol custody rises to 4,200, with 3,000 being held beyond the legal limit
As of Sunday morning, the U.S. Border Patrol was holding more than 4,200 migrant children. short-term retention facilities, including prison-like stations that are not suitable for housing minors, according to government records …
Read More »FEMA Deployed to Help Process Migrant Children Amid Overcrowding at Border Facilities
The Biden administration on Saturday ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help process the growing number of unaccompanied migrant children entering U.S. border custody amid reports of overcrowding at facilities. …
Read More »Arrests of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in Increased Southern Border
WASHINGTON – The number of unaccompanied immigrant children arrested for illegally crossing the U.S. southern border is on track to increase more than 50% in February compared to the previous month, people …
Read More »Azeris fight for the return to abandoned cities, decades after the first Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Armenia
AGDAM, Azerbaijan: Some 30 years after the war in which the Armenian forces expelled hundreds of thousands of Azeris from their homes in and around the conflict-ravaged Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, many hope to …
Read More »The ban on new foreign workers left US jobs vacant.
The United States closed the door to almost all incoming foreign workers last year. The causes were Covid-19 restrictions that blocked global borders and Trump administration policies that drastically reduced work visas, …
Read More »Biden and Mexico will cooperate on migration despite tension
MEXICO CITY – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador became an unlikely ally of former US President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, deploying thousands of soldiers across Mexico to detain Central American asylum-seekers …
Read More »Trump approves illegal deportation of Venezuelans to US
WASHINGTON – As one of his last acts in office, President Trump has authorized a program to grant work permits and deportation protections to Venezuelan immigrants in the US without legal permission, …
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