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Montevideo, June 26th 2025 - 08:18 UTC

Tag: illegal immigrants

  • Thursday, May 15th 2025 - 09:56 UTC

    Argentina to toughen immigration rules

    “We want to continue welcoming those who come to build a freer and more prosperous country,” Adorni insisted

    Argentina's Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni, who is campaigning to become a lawmaker in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires' elections next Sunday, has announced that the Javier Milei administration plans to introduce stricter immigration requirements to curb State spending on illegal aliens.

  • Friday, December 27th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

    Boat people with 71 illegal immigrants intercepted in the English Channel

    Over the past year, growing numbers of migrants from Africa, Middle East and Central Asia have taken to the treacherous waters of the Channel

    Seventy-one migrants were intercepted on several boats in the English Channel overnight, with some needing hospitalization for hypothermia, French and British authorities said on Thursday.

  • Tuesday, June 18th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

    Trump prepared to remove 12 million illegal immigrants as of next week

    “Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States,” Trump tweeted

    United States President Donald Trump said on Monday that US authorities would begin next week removing millions of immigrants who are in the United States illegally. There are an estimated 12 million immigrants who are in the United States illegally, mainly from Mexico and Central America.

  • Wednesday, December 26th 2018 - 09:03 UTC

    Busy Christmas: UK rescues illegal immigrants in the English Channel

    The Home Office said some of the migrants identified as Iraqis, Iranians and Afghans, and the children will come under the care of social services

    Forty migrants, including two children, have been rescued from boats in five separate incidents on Christmas Day in the English Channel. Lifeboats and a coastguard helicopter intercepted a boat carrying 12 people and a child off the coast of Deal, Kent, at about 04:30 GMT. And a girl was one of eight who arrived in Folkestone at about 02:40 GMT.