Tag: migrants

Thursday, June 27th 2019 - 09:15 UTC
A photograph shocks world opinion and questions Trump's immigration polices

A shocking photograph of a Salvadoran man and his baby daughter drowned in the Rio Grande fuelled a surge of emotion around the world on Wednesday, as US Democrats furiously denounced Donald Trump's immigration policies.
Friday, June 7th 2019 - 08:42 UTC
Mexican soldiers blocking migrants as they cross the border from Guatemala

Mexican soldiers, armed police and migration officials blocked hundreds of migrants after they crossed the border from Guatemala in a caravan into southern Mexico, and detained dozens of them, a witness from a migrant aid group and an official said.
Tuesday, June 4th 2019 - 09:55 UTC
Mexico and US begin talks to defue illegal inmmigration controversy

Fighting to stave off punitive tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, a senior Mexican delegation had started high level talks on Monday in Washington, where it will be pushed to do more to hold back Central American migrants.
Friday, May 31st 2019 - 09:50 UTC
Trump threatens Mexico with increasing tariffs if illegal immigration is not stopped

President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States will impose a 5% tariff on all goods coming from Mexico starting on Jun 10 until illegal immigration across the southern border is stopped.
Tuesday, May 28th 2019 - 09:54 UTC
Colombia and Peru call on the world to face the massive migration of Venezuelans

Colombia and Peru on Monday called on the international community to commit more aid to help them cope with an influx of around three million Venezuelans who have migrated to the two countries in recent years.
Friday, April 26th 2019 - 09:04 UTC
Venezuelan boat people drown in an attempt to reach the island of Trinidad

At least 23 illegal immigrants, including women and two children, are feared drowned after their boat overturned early Wednesday morning off Venezuela. The ill-fated fishing pirogue was carrying 35 persons, including the captain, an inlet along the Caribbean island of Trinidad’s south western peninsula.
Tuesday, February 19th 2019 - 09:00 UTC
UK Border Force nets 34 migrants in a boat in the Channel

A group of 34 migrants have been brought ashore after the UK Border Force intercepted a boat in the Channel. The group of people, whose nationalities are not yet known, were brought to shore at Dover by a coastal patrol vessel and given blankets.
Saturday, January 26th 2019 - 20:02 UTC
USA at the UN: Countries should support transition in Venezuela; Russia denounces interventionist acts

The Security Council convened by the United States this Saturday to discuss the institutional and political crisis that Venezuela is experiencing has been lifted this afternoon. With a strongly polarized participation, the bloc that supports the transitional government of Juan Guaidó with the US at the head, faced the block that recognizes as legitimate the regime of Nicolás Maduro, headed by Russia and China. Latin American countries also expressed their positions, describing the case as a crisis that directly affects the region.
Friday, January 11th 2019 - 12:43 UTC
Trump campaigns for The Wall, steel or concrete, along the Mexican border

President Donald Trump warned of murderers and gangsters spreading across the country during a visit to the US-Mexican border on Thursday to push his demand for a multi-billion dollar wall. Trump used the backdrop of the Rio Grande border river at McAllen, Texas, to ramp up what has already turned into a hugely messy political fight with Democratic opponents, resulting in the shutdown of swaths of the US government.
Friday, December 28th 2018 - 08:40 UTC
Chile, “darling” of foreign investors has seen number of slums double since 2011

The number of slums in Chile, one of Latin America’s most prosperous and stable economies, has nearly doubled since 2011, the government said, as an influx of migrants increasingly faces a lack of low-income housing and rising rents.