Tag: Migration

• Wednesday, June 9th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  Kamala Harris tackles migration on Guatemala, Mexico tour

  

  US Vice President Kamala Harris rounded up her first official foreign mission in Mexico City by underlining the need to tackle the “root causes” of migration as crowds at the southwestern border grow by the hour.

• Wednesday, April 28th 2021 - 09:57 UTC

  Amnesty International against deportation of migrants in Chile

  

  Amnesty International's office in Chile Tuesday “repudiated” the wave of arrests and deportations of migrants after the enactment of the new immigration law promoted by the administration of President Sebastián Piñera, it was announced.

• Monday, April 12th 2021 - 10:40 UTC

  Chile has new immigration law after eight years in Congress

  

  Chile's President Sebastán Piñera Sunday signed into law the new migration law which spent eight years in Congress before being passed.

• Tuesday, March 9th 2021 - 09:51 UTC

  Biden granting temporary protection status to Venezuelans in US, and in no rush to lift sanctions on Maduro's regime

  

  The Joe Biden’s administration is granting temporary protected status to Venezuelans living in the United States and is also working to coordinate international pressure against president Nicolas Maduro to hold free and fair elections, senior U.S. officials said on Monday.

• Thursday, March 4th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  France bans extreme right group which incited hatred, violence and attacks immigrants

  

  France agreed on Wednesday to ban the far-right group Generation Identity. Interior minister Gerald Darmanin said it took into account the group's “structure and military organization,” adding that GI can be regarded “as having the character of a private militia.”

• Tuesday, November 10th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  UN review criticizes US police violence, racism and separation of migrant children from families

  

  Major powers, including allies, criticized the United States for its human rights record on Monday during a U.N. review, citing the use of the death penalty, police violence against African Americans, and the separation of migrant children from their families.

• Monday, August 10th 2020 - 06:06 UTC

  Britain gets tougher on “boat people” crossing the Channel

  

  Britain appointed a commander on Sunday to lead its response to illegal small boat crossings across the Channel and said it was exploring tougher action after a spate of migrant arrivals.

• Friday, May 22nd 2020 - 07:30 UTC

  With lockdown, unaccompanied young migrants crossing the Channel to Britain on boats instead of trucks

  

  The number of unaccompanied young migrants crossing the Channel from France to Britain has spiked during the coronavirus outbreak, as travel restrictions force them onto boats rather than trucks.

• Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  US and UN launch program to help Venezuelan migrants settle in Brazil

  

  The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched a program to help tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants settle in Brazil for the long-term.

• Friday, January 17th 2020 - 16:07 UTC

  Honduran migrant column heading for US, but Mexico warns it won't let them through

  

  US President Donald Trump has put Mexico and Central American nations under pressure to accept a series of migration agreements that aim to shift the burden of dealing with asylum-seekers on to them, and away from the United States.