Illegal Immigration: UK announces deal with Turkey
- 09-Aug-2023
United Kingdom (UK) said it had struck a deal with Turkey in a bid to slow the flow of illegal immigrants passing through the Mediterranean country on their way to Europe, including joint police operations against smuggler rings and the trade in boat parts. With the issue of illegal migration high on the political agenda […]
US govt still keeps 565 immigrant children in custody
- 18-Aug-2018
WASHINGTON: The US government continues to hold 565 illegal immigrant children in custody, three weeks after a court deadline to reunite them with parents or guardians, according to reports. That included 24 children five years old or younger being cared for by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). ORR reported […]
Illegal immigrant parents not facing US prosecution for now
- 26-Jun-2018
WASHINGTON: Parents who cross illegally from Mexico to the United States with their children will not face prosecution for the time being because the government is running short of space to house them, officials said on Monday. President Donald Trump’s administration has vowed to prosecute all adults who cross the border illegally but its policy […]
First lady Melania Trump visits detained immigrant children
- 21-Jun-2018
Melania Trump went on a damage-control mission with a visit to a border detention facility where children separated from their parents were being held.
Pakistani immigrant’s daughter wins London’s mayoral election
- 05-May-2018
LONDON: UK’s Labour party’s politician Rohksana Fiaz, who is a British-Pakistani, has become London’s first directly-elected female mayor. Rohksana Fiaz, who won with 53,214 votes, said she was “proud and privileged” to be London’s first directly-elected female mayor, accoeding to Evening Standard. She takes over from Sir Robin Wales, who was deselected after 23 years in […]
Trump administration appeals against ‘Dreamer’ immigrant ruling to top court
- 19-Jan-2018
WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to quickly overturn a lower court ruling that blocked President Donald Trump’s move to end a program that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children. Solicitor General Noel Francisco said in a court filing “time is of […]
Tech companies to lobby for immigrant ‘Dreamers’ to remain in US
- 20-Oct-2017
SAN FRANCISCO: Nearly two dozen major companies in technology and other industries are planning to launch a coalition to demand legislation that would allow young, illegal immigrants a path to permanent residency, according to documents seen by Reuters. The Coalition for the American Dream intends to ask Congress to pass bipartisan legislation this year that […]
German police seek Tunisian in hunt for Christmas market attacker
- 21-Dec-2016
BERLIN: German police are looking for a Tunisian man after finding an identity document under the driver’s seat of the truck that ploughed into a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people, on Monday evening, security sources said. The document was in the name of Anis A., born in the southern city of Tataouine in 1992, the […]
Chinese tourist mistakenly ends up as refugee in Germany
- 09-Aug-2016
BERLIN: A Chinese tourist who tried to report a stolen wallet during a visit to Germany unwittingly signed an asylum application that got him stranded as a refugee for two weeks in the country's burgeoning asylum bureaucracy.