Tag: Migration

• Tuesday, April 25th 2023 - 11:47 UTC

  Deportation flights to Havana resumed

  

  The United States has resumed its deportation flights to Cuba of the so-called undesirable migrants after the procedures were halted during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed.

• Thursday, April 13th 2023 - 10:46 UTC

  UN calls on Italy to act responsibly on migration issues

  

  Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has urged Italy to ensure that any migration measures it implements during the state of emergency declared on Monday respect its humanitarian obligations.

• Wednesday, March 29th 2023 - 11:06 UTC

  Fire at migrant detention center in Mexico leaves 38 dead and 28 injured

  

  At least 38 people were killed and 28 injured in a fire at a migrant detention center in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, on the border with the United States, according to the Mexican government. The fire broke out on Monday night in the facilities of the National Migration Institute (INM) in the state of Chihuahua.

• Wednesday, March 8th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

  Uruguay generates certainty for Argentine migrants, Lacalle says

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Tuesday explained that many Argentines had decided to migrate and settle “across the pond” because his country was one that “generates certainty.”

• Saturday, February 4th 2023 - 11:17 UTC

  Home Office will resume patrolling for irregular migrants in the English Channel

  

  UK's Home Office is resuming operational responsibility for tackling boats carrying migrants across the English Channel, after eight months under the leadership of the Royal Navy.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2023 - 10:22 UTC

  Argentine migrants flocking into Uruguay at a slower pace

  

  Uruguay processed a total of 7,209 resident visas for Argentine nationals in 2022, a drop of nearly 42% from the previous year, it was reported in Montevideo on Monday.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2023 - 09:30 UTC

  In three years of Brexit, migration in UK trebled, June 21/22

  

  The UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that the country had a net migration gain of 504,000 people between June 2021 and June 2022. That number was nearly triple the 173,000 registered the year prior.

• Monday, January 9th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

  Biden reaches El Paso to have first-hand impression of migration crisis

  

  US President Joseph Biden Sunday arrived in El Paso, Texas, from where he will cross into Mexico for a Summit with his local colleague Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

• Wednesday, December 28th 2022 - 10:05 UTC

  US Supreme Court appeals to 1944 law to expel asylum seekers at border

  

  The United States Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a pandemic-era health measure used to limit immigration will say in place indefinitely. The restriction, known as Title 42, has been used by officials to expel asylum seekers. In all, it has been deployed some 2.5 million times and turned away many more at the border.

• Friday, November 4th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Paraguay denies negotiations with UK regarding migrants

  

  Paraguayan authorities Thursday denied press reports that British Home Secretary Suella Braverman had been brokering a deal whereby migrants arriving in the United Kingdom through the English Channel would be relocated to the South American country.