Washington’s immigrant neighborhoods push back against ICE arrests
- 19-Sep-2025
WASHINGTON, Sept 19: When U.S. immigration agents swooped down to arrest a Salvadoran man in Mount Pleasant, a Washington area known for its Hispanic immigrant population, residents alerted neighbors who flocked to the scene, chanting at officers to get out before the man was hauled away. And when Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained a […]
UN launches Pakistan first Network on Migration
- 01-Sep-2025
Islamabad: The United Nations migration network launched on Monday for the first time in Pakistan. In this connection, an inauguration ceremony of the United Nations Network on Migration was held in Islamabad. The network will play its role overcoming problems and issues related to human migration and smuggling of migrants. The UN institution will strengthen […]
UK migrant arrivals on small boats reach new record
- 25-Aug-2025
LONDON: A record 28,076 migrants have crossed the Channel to Britain in small boats this year, a 46% rise on the same period in 2024, government data showed on Monday, piling pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer over his handling of immigration. The sharp increase comes amid mounting public concern over immigration, which is polling […]
Three young sisters drown, dozens rescued from boat carrying migrants to Italy
- 24-Aug-2025
MILAN: Three young sisters drowned when the rubber boat carrying them and dozens of other migrants got into difficulties on the perilous central Mediterranean crossing from Libya to Italy, a German sea rescue charity said on Sunday. RESQSHIP said the bodies of the sisters, aged 9, 11 and 17, were found inside the boat, which […]
US may soon deport migrants to Libya
- 07-May-2025
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s administration may deport migrants to Libya for the first time this week, three U.S. officials said on Tuesday, as part of his immigration crackdown and despite Washington’s past condemnation of Libya’s harsh treatment of detainees. Two of the officials said the U.S. military could fly the migrants to the North […]
Trump administration offers $1,000 to migrants who self-deport
- 05-May-2025
The Trump administration said Monday it will pay for the travel and give $1,000 to undocumented migrants who “self-deport” back to their home country. “If you are here illegally, self-deportation is the best, safest and most cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said. The Department of […]
India detains over 1,000 Bangladeshi migrants
- 26-Apr-2025
Ahmedabad: Indian police have detained 1,024 Bangladeshi migrants in a sweeping crackdown in the western state of Gujarat aimed at deporting people living there illegally, the state government said Saturday. The Indian government, led by Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, often describes undocumented Bangladeshi immigrants as “Muslim infiltrators”, accusing them of posing a threat […]
Trump revokes legal status for 530,000 migrants
- 22-Mar-2025
US President Donald Trump’s administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal Register notice on Friday, the latest expansion of his crackdown on immigration. The move, effective April 24, cuts short a two-year “parole” granted to the migrants under former President […]
Panama to start deporting migrants
- 20-Jul-2024
Panama’s government expects to start deportation flights for migrants who crossed the country’s dangerous Darien jungle in two to three months, the country’s chief of migration Roger Mojica said Friday. The flights will be paid by the United States under a recent agreement that the two countries closed earlier this month. “We are establishing the […]
Biden announces sweeping measures to bar migrants from asylum
- 04-Jun-2024
Migrants caught illegally crossing the US-Mexico border could be denied the chance to claim asylum and quickly deported or turned back to Mexico under new restrictions announced on Tuesday, part of a sweeping enforcement effort by U.S. President Joe Biden. The new measures will take effect immediately and will have exceptions for unaccompanied children, people […]