Tag: Migration

• Thursday, January 15th 2026 - 15:41 UTC

  US to suspend immigrant visas for 75 countries, including Uruguay; Orsi calls it a “worrying signal”

  

  Uruguay’s President Yamandú Orsi said he was concerned by Washington’s decision to pause immigrant visa issuance for citizens of 75 countries —including Uruguay— starting January 21, with no end date announced. “In numerical terms it’s not very important, but as a signal it certainly worries us,” Orsi said after meeting US Ambassador Lou Rinaldi at the presidential residence in Montevideo.

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• Tuesday, January 13th 2026 - 10:19 UTC

  No human corridor through Peru for Venezuelans exiting Chile

  

  Peru's President José Jerí told Chile's President-elect José Antonio Kast that the human corridor through his country so that Venezuelan migrants could return home was not a feasible option.

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• Wednesday, December 31st 2025 - 10:41 UTC

  US embassies tasked with monitoring Latin America's migration policies

  

  The US State Department formally instructed its embassies across Latin America to monitor and report on government policies that encourage or facilitate mass migration, it was announced on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, December 24th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

  Kast and Noboa discuss “humanitarian corridor” for Venezuelan immigrants to return home

  

  Following a high-level summit at the Carondelet Palace in Quito on Tuesday, Chilean President-elect José Antonio Kast and Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa have signaled a unified front on the South American migration crisis. Both leaders discussed Kast's proposal to establish a “humanitarian corridor” to facilitate the return of undocumented Venezuelan migrants to their home country.

• Tuesday, December 2nd 2025 - 19:02 UTC

  Venezuela approves migrant repatriation flight from US despite Trump’s airspace closure claim

  

  The Venezuelan government announced on Tuesday that it had approved a US request to operate a migrant repatriation flight, just days after President Donald Trump declared that Venezuelan airspace was “closed in its entirety.” The move, reported by The New York Times, highlights that communication between Washington and Caracas remains active despite escalating tensions over Trump’s military campaign against President Nicolás Maduro.

• Monday, December 1st 2025 - 09:48 UTC

  Joint Peru-Chile committee to be established to address northbound migration

  

  Chilean and Peruvian authorities have agreed to set up a joint committee to address the overflowing northbound migration. High-level officials from both countries are to meet on Monday to lay out the body managing border security henceforth, it was announced Sunday after a gathering between Undersecretary of the Interior Víctor Ramos and Regional Governor Diego Paco.

• Friday, November 28th 2025 - 22:11 UTC

  Irregular migrants flocking from Chile to Peru out of fear of Kast

  

  Peruvian President José Jerí convened an “extraordinary Council of Ministers meeting to declare, as announced, a state of emergency” along the border with Chile as a direct response to a growing influx of undocumented migrants. The measure seeks to dramatically tighten border control and security.

• Wednesday, November 26th 2025 - 10:04 UTC

  Ex-PM Boris Johnson advisor: “Falklands should be looked at again as an asylum processing center”

  

  Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, has had a great ten days.

• Tuesday, October 7th 2025 - 12:30 UTC

  Chicago becomes epicenter of tension amid Trump’s “migration war”

  Chicago is facing a wave of violence and repression following protests against the mass detention of migrants. U.S. President Donald Trump has authorized the deployment of 300 National Guard troops to the city, as the federal operation Midway Blitz has already led to more than 500 arrests since it began in September.

• Saturday, September 20th 2025 - 10:38 UTC

  Trump makes H-1B visa not profitable to boost employment of US nationals

  

  US President Donald Trump has upped the H-1B visa fee for employers to US$100,000 annually, effective Sept 21. The measure is intended to boost hiring local workers. “So there is an incentive to hire Americans,” Trump argued.