Tag Archives: Migrants

Former President Donald J. Trump, at an event on Saturday ostensibly meant to boost his preferred candidate in Ohio’s Republican Senate primary race, gave a freewheeling speech in which he used dehumanizing language to describe immigrants, maintained a steady stream of insults and vulgarities and predicted that the United States …

At least 8,565 people died on migration routes worldwide in 2023, making it the deadliest year since records began a decade ago, the UN has said. The 2023 death toll represents a tragic increase of 20 percent compared to 2022, highlighting the urgent need for action to prevent further loss …

Opinion Source: Fox News YouTube Dr. Phil McGraw is speaking out this week to suggest that Chinese migrants crossing the U.S. border are actually spies. Dr. Phil Sounds Off Dr. Phil went on Fox News on Tuesday to talk to host Sean Hannity about his recent trip to the US-Mexico border, …

Tunis, Tunisia – A boat said to be carrying some 37 migrants and asylum seekers has gone missing off the coast of Sfax in Tunisia. Relatives described receiving final phone calls at around 2:30pm on January 11, as the boat was setting out to sea. By around 10pm the same …

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, International Organisation for Migration’s Libya office quotes survivors as saying the boat was carrying around 86 people. At least 61 migrants, including women and children, have drowned following a “tragic” shipwreck off Libya, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says. The organisation’s Libya office early on Sunday …

Britain has signed a new treaty with Rwanda which it said would overcome a court decision blocking its plan to deport asylum seekers to the East African country, a ruling that dealt a huge blow to the government’s immigration policy.   The Rwanda scheme aims to stop illegal migration and …

Climate migrants tend to move to cities in their own countries where they often end up in urban slums characterized by sub-standard housing. Credit: Donatas Dabravolskas/Shutterstock Opinion by Jin-ho Chung (oxford, england) Friday, November 24, 2023 Inter Press Service OXFORD, England, Nov 24 (IPS) – The impacts of climate change on …

The surge of migrants entering the United States across the southern border increasingly includes people from a surprising place: China. Despite the distances involved and the difficulties of the journey, more than 24,000 Chinese citizens have been apprehended crossing into the United States from Mexico in the past year. That …

The number of migrants who died or went missing trying to cross the Mediterranean this summer was three times the number seen in the same period last year, the UN said Friday, Sept. 29.  Between June and August, at least 990 people died or went missing in the dangerous central …

Pope Francis warned against a ‘paralysis of fear’ as European nations shift responsibility for taking care of people arriving by sea. Pope Francis has blasted the “fanaticism of indifference” that greets migrants seeking a better life, as he arrived in France amid a new influx of refugees from Africa reaching …