Tag: Migration

• 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.

• Friday, October 14th 2022 - 20:41 UTC

  Chilean President says only legal migrants may stay

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Thursday underlined that in his country there were no privileges and therefore foreign residents will have to either regularize their migration status or leave.

• Thursday, September 29th 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Guyana to offer training to unskilled Venezuelan migrants

  

  Venezuela's Ambassador to Guyana Carlos Amador Pérez Silva and Labor Minister Joseph Hamilton discussed the status of Venezuelan migrants and possible measures that can be taken to improve their living conditions.

• Monday, September 26th 2022 - 10:12 UTC

  Mexico/US border migrants' record arrests; mostly from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua

  

  New figures from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), indicate that 2.15 million migrants were detained at the US/Mexico border over the past year, a 24% increase, but with a drastic change in the origin of the new migrants, since the fastest growing number are from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.

• Monday, August 29th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Over 25,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel so far this year, BBC report

  

  Over 25,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel to Kent so far in 2022, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Defense. while a total of 915 people reached Kent in 19 small boats on Saturday, according to a report from BBC. Women and children were among a group brought ashore by an RNLI lifeboat at Dungeness.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 09:25 UTC

  Truss if elected, will continue deploying the navy to tackle migrant's crossings of the English Channel

  

  Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has vowed to continue deploying the Royal Navy to tackle people making crossings of the English Channel in small boats if she becomes the next prime minister.

• Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:31 UTC

  Biden and AMLO discuss immigration, oil supply, and China's role

  

  Presidents Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico and Joseph Biden of the United States Wednesday held their second face-to-face meeting, and the first since the Latin American leader chose not to attend last month's Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles following the White House's decision not to invite Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to the event.