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Montevideo, November 21st 2024 - 22:51 UTC

Tag: Migration

  • Thursday, September 28th 2023 - 08:53 UTC

    Migration crisis; state of emergency in Costa Rica to deal with massive influx of people heading for US

    Since January, more than 386,000 migrants have passed through the border from Panama into Costa Rica.

    Costa Rica in Central America intends to declare a state of emergency due to an increased wave of migrants on their way to Mexico and later cross to the United States. “I have instructed the security ministry to take a firm stance with anyone who takes Costa Rica's kindness for weakness,” Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves said at a media briefing, referring to recent riots by migrants crossing the nation.

  • Saturday, August 12th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

    Legionella forces the removal of UK asylum seekers from Bibby Stockholm barge

    UK government is planning to move more asylum seekers onto the large grey, three-storey barge that can hold some 500 people in 200 bedrooms.

    Frustration for 10 Downing Street migrant policy. The United Kingdom was forced to remove migrants from the barge where they were being held after Legionella bacteria was found in the water supply, the government said on Friday.

  • Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

    Uruguayan orange producers said to be retaining cheap Argentine labor

    “So far we have not found where this phenomenon is occurring,” Uruguayan Labor Minister Mieres said

    Agricultural producers in the Salto area have been reported to hire Argentine labor from Concordia just across the border and pay them three times less than they would local workers, Uruguay's National Union of Salaried, Rural, and Related Workers (Unión Nacional de Asalariados, Trabajadores Rurales y Afines - Unatra) denounced.

  • Tuesday, July 25th 2023 - 11:35 UTC

    Interpol disrupts criminal network that smuggled 5,000 Cubans to EU

    The complex criminal infrastructure was set up in many cities across Spain, Greece and in Serbia, flexible and able to adapt to changing circumstances

    Law enforcement from several European countries have disrupted an intercontinental criminal network smuggling migrants from fantasy island Cuba to the European Union. The investigation, coordinated by Europol and INTERPOL, led to the arrest of 62 persons, 25 of which were Cuban nationals and officials.

  • Monday, July 24th 2023 - 10:20 UTC

    Tories, after a rough week fight back laws to stop irregular migrant boats and prop the economy

    Under the Illegal Migration Act people who come to the UK illegally will not have a right to stay. They will be sent back to their countries or to a safe third country

    Following a rough week with adverse electoral results and poor prospects for a general election next year, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a strong comeback with new laws to help stop the irregular boats crossing the English Channel, grow the economy, support families and deliver on the priorities that matter most to the United Kingdom, have received Royal Assent.

  • Monday, July 10th 2023 - 10:36 UTC

    Peru: Afghan migrants rescued from people traffickers

    The victims were cheated out of their money and crowded into a house without food

    Peruvian authorities Sunday rescued 23 Afghan victims of migrant trafficking, it was reported in Lima. “The Tahuamanu Prosecutor's Office in the district of Madre de Dios achieved the rescue of 23 migrants of Afghan nationality in an operation carried out on the Peru-Brazil border, in coordination with the police,” said a statement from the prosecutor's office.

  • Friday, July 7th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

    Chile toughens migration controls

    According to statistics provided by the National Statistics Institute (INE) in April of this year, there are 1,482,390 foreigners living in Chile, of which 476,451 are Venezuelans.

    The Chilean government of President Gabriel Boric Font Thursday announced the creation of a committee to handle the expulsion of irregular migrants and develop a biometric registry of foreigners, it was reported in Santiago. The measure seeks to control irregular entries, such as those occurring at the northern border with Peru, of mostly Venezuelan people.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 16:05 UTC

    IMF suggests immigration could help UK with inflation and labor shortage

    IMF's Gita Gopinath told BBC Newsnight that “with inflation as high as it is... there are benefits to having workers come in”

    Immigration that fills gaps in the domestic jobs market can help push down UK inflation, the deputy head of the International Monetary Fund has said. However British prime minister Rishi Sunak has insisted rates of legal immigration are “too high”

  • Friday, May 19th 2023 - 18:44 UTC

    Family alleges negligence as eight-year-old migrant girl dies in US Border Patrol custody

    “They killed her, they didn't want to help her until she fainted, and then they said they couldn't call an ambulance,” the father's victim asserted. Photo: AP.

    On Wednesday, an eight-year-old girl died while under the custody of the US Border Patrol in a border town in the state of Texas, after crossing the southern border with her family. In recent hours, details have emerged about the tragic incident in which family members denounced that the girl reported she couldn't breathe, a situation that authorities ignored.

  • Monday, May 8th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

    Chilean and Venezuelan authorities cooperate to repatriate stranded migrants

    “There is a firm determination of the government of President Gabriel Boric to take charge of migration in all its senses, in an orderly and safe manner,” Sanzana explained

    Venezuelan authorities Sunday flew back 115 migrants who were stranded in northern Chile through the Plan Vuelta a la Patria (Return to the Homeland Plan), it was announced by Caracas. The Foreign Ministry said on Twitter that: “115 Venezuelan men and women are happily returning to their homes thanks to a new day of the Plan Vuelta a la Patria,” an initiative in force since 2018.