Tag: Migration

• Monday, January 24th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Haitian migrants stranded at Santiago's airport in Chile

  

  A group of 23 Haitian migrants were stranded Sunday at Santiago's Arturo Merino Benítez international airport where they have filed for refugee status but nevertheless fear local authorities might deport them back to their country of origin where all lives are “at-risk” due to the ongoing crisis, according to Rodolfo Noriega of the local Migrant Ombudsman's Office.

• Monday, December 20th 2021 - 09:48 UTC

  Mexico tightens travel requirements on South American visitors

  

  Mexican migration authorities have decided over the past few days to reinstate a visa requirement for travelers from Venezuela, Ecuador, and Brazil after it was detected large numbers of those alleged tourists were seeking to go on by land and try to cross into the United States.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Chile and Interpol break up smuggling ring of Haitians and children to Mexico and US

  

  An operation codenamed ‘Frontera Norte’ has allowed Chile’s Criminal Investigations Police (Policía de Investigaciones – PDI) to arrest nine suspected members of a migrant smuggling ring following an investigation supported by INTERPOL and law enforcement across South and Central America.

• Friday, October 1st 2021 - 09:53 UTC

  Irregular migration and drug trafficking alongside Bolivia-Chile border keeps drawing concern

  

  While Chile's presidential delegate at Tarapacá, Miguel Ángel Quezada, accused Bolivia on Thursday of “not making any effort” to prevent the crossing of irregular migrants through the common border, authorities from both countries have formed four working groups to coordinate the fight against drug trafficking.

• Monday, September 27th 2021 - 09:39 UTC

  International community concerned over xenophobia in Chile

  

  The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) Saturday asked the Chilean Government to guarantee and protect the rights of migrant children, following violent incidents involving foreign citizens in the city port Iquique, which has been flocked by undocumented migrants.

• Thursday, September 23rd 2021 - 23:14 UTC

  Foreign offenders expelled from Chile as deportation of irregular migrants set to resume

  

  Chilean migration authorities Thursday expelled 49 migrants who were found guilty of human trafficking in addition to carrying weapons illegally, the Department of Migration and International Police of Tarapacá reported.

• Monday, September 20th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  UK and France coordinate efforts to stop irregular migrants crossing the Channel

  

  The United Kingdom and France will deploy more police and invest in detection technology on the French coast to try to stop boats carrying irregular migrants from reaching British shores.

• Sunday, August 8th 2021 - 13:02 UTC

  Migration crisis in Ecuadorian border town: Clandestine crossings and lack of government support

  

  By Sebastián Astorga (*) – A border town divided between two countries, where before the Covid-19 pandemic people passed through without custom controls, is now divided by fences on the two bridges that cross from Ecuador to Peru in its vicinity, cutting off almost completely the only commercial activity on which it survived and further burdening the situation of the more than ten thousand migrants who are passing through, many of them on foot.

• Friday, June 18th 2021 - 09:52 UTC

  Brazilians flock into Portugal for the fourth straight year

  

  The arrival of Brazilian migrants into Portugal has reached new levels for the fourth consecutive year even despite the coronavirus pandemic restrictions.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2021 - 09:48 UTC

  UN concerned over deportation of 56 Venezuelan migrants from Chile

  

  The United Nations (UN) Tuesday voiced their concern about Sunday's deportation of 56 Venezuelan migrants from Chile despite legal actions taken against such a measure.