“All 54 survivors have been rescued and are now aboard,” Mediterranea, which is made up of left-wing activists, tweeted. “Among them 11 women [three pregnant] and 4 children… “Happy to have rescued 54 lives from the hell of Libya. Now we need a safe port.” Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini who has tried to close …
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Pediatricians shared disturbing images drawn by migrant children who were recently separated from their parents while in US Customs and Border Protection custody. The drawings show people behind bars and in cages. The pictures were drawn last week by three children, ages 10 and 11, at Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas, after …
MEXICO CITY, July 2 (Xinhua) — The Mexican government on Tuesday began to implement a program for Central American migrants to voluntarily return to their countries. The Mexican National Institute of Migration (INM) announced in a statement that the first group of migrants returning home departed Tuesday morning by bus from Ciudad Juarez in the …
US officials are investigating a secret Facebook group where border patrol members allegedly posted racist and sexist jokes about migrants. The private group had about 9,500 members, including former and current border patrol agents, ProPublica reported. Some posts mocked migrant deaths, while others targeted Latino members of Congress, ProPublica said. The Border Patrol chief has called …
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Around 650,000 people in Germany are without a permanent home, according to figures released by the Federal Association for Assistance to Homeless People (BAGW). The figures are based on estimates from 2017 and revealed that: Most homeless people live in emergency shelters, but around 48,000 people live on the streets. Migrants from EU nations in …
A 30-year-old Honduran man who had previously been forced to wait in Mexico while his asylum case was processed in the US died on June 30, weeks after being taken into federal immigration custody, officials said. The death of Yimi Alexis Balderramos-Torres, first reported by BuzzFeed News on Monday morning, is the sixth in Immigration …
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An Italian coast guard vessel carrying some 130 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean has finally been allowed to dock in Sicily, but its passengers will not be allowed to leave the ship until Brussels decides on which countries will take them in, Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli said on Sunday. The EU had to give a clear …
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After the death of an unborn baby of a female asylum seeker from Armenia in Berlin, criminal charges have been pressed for neglected support against two employees of the security service at a center in Lichtenberg, Berlin. The woman, together with her husband, had been hosted at the center for two months. She was nine months …
In September 2013, Sweden was the first country in the world to open its arms fully to those fleeing the country’s brutal civil war, with the agency ruling that all Syrians arriving in Sweden would be eligible for permanent residency. But on August 29, the agency announced in a press release that it was bringing the policy to an …
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The Trump administration has ended a policy that allows undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States and avoid deportation if they are receiving life-saving medical treatments, in a change that advocates have criticised as inhumane. The policy change, which also takes away protections for immigrants whose family members are receiving life-saving care, was announced …
