Tag Archives: Migrants

Nearly two months since the lifting of a public health order that allowed the United States to swiftly expel migrants at the southern border, the number of migrants crossing into the country has not only sharply declined, but has also remained relatively low. Since May 12, the average number of …

Sixteen migrants from Venezuela and Colombia were abruptly flown on a private chartered jet to California and dropped off outside a church building in Sacramento on Friday, state officials said, accusing a contractor for a state-funded Florida program of transporting the group from outside a Texas migrant center under a …

A new report by the National Bureau of Statistics says about 48% of migrants came to Nigeria based on hardship abroad. This statistic was contained in a report by the NBS titled ‘Awareness and Perception of Intending and Returned Migrant on the Dangers of Irregular Migration 2022’. The report featured …

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas actually halted a press conference briefly to correct reporter April Ryan after she tried to revive – twice – a false story about Border Patrol agents ‘whipping’ Haitian illegal immigrants. Ryan, a reporter for The Grio and contributor to CNN, obviously felt comfortable enough in her …

Police have arrested 19 African migrants including Nigerian nationals over alleged involvement in prostitution in Benghazi, Libya.   The undocumented migrants comprising seven men and eight women were arrested when police raided an apartment located in a three-storey building on Mahdawi Street on Saturday, April 29, 2023.    “Police in …

The blaze broke out at a migrant detention facility in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, a border city near El Paso, Texas.

At precisely midnight, two officers pulled a black tarp and plastic sheet off a newly erected sign at what has been the most famous unofficial border crossing in Canada, Roxham Road. “STOP. DO NOT CROSS,” it told asylum seekers in French and English, warning that if they did come into …

At least 73 migrants are reported missing and presumed dead after an inflatable rubber boat sunk off the coast of Libya, the UN’s International Organization for Migration said.   The boat, crammed with around 80 migrants, reportedly departed from the village of Qasr al-Akhyar, 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of …

EL PASO — President Biden on Sunday made his first visit to the border since taking office, arriving at a city swamped by migrants amid a historic surge in illegal immigration and anger from both parties about how he is handling it. In a brief visit to El Paso’s busiest …

An overcrowded boat carrying migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean has capsized off the coast of Sfax. At least five people have died and 10 are missing after an overcrowded boat carrying migrants and refugees attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Tunisia to Italy sank. The boat sank off of …