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Two more migrant boats reach Canary Islands after deadly sinking
EL HIERRO, Spain - Two boats loaded with migrants reached the Canary Islands late on Sunday as rescuers kept searching for 48 missing...
Oct 1, 20242 min read
Austria's rightward shift puts immigration in crosshairs
VIENNA - Picknicking with friends in the park after prayers at a Vienna mosque, Saima Arab, a 20-year-old pedicurist originally from...
Oct 1, 20243 min read
Factbox-Austria election: An overview of political parties' immigration policies
Austria's far-right Freedom Party won on Sunday a parliamentary election for the first time after a campaign that leant heavily into...
Oct 1, 20243 min read
Explainer-How Germany plans to tighten border controls in immigration crackdown
BERLIN/PRAGUE/WARSAW - Germany announced plans this week to extend controls to all its land borders and turn away more asylum seekers in...
Sep 12, 20243 min read
Finland to vote on turning back migrants crossing from Russia
HELSINKI - Finland's parliament is set to vote on a bill on Friday granting border guards the power to turn back asylum seekers crossing...
Jul 12, 20242 min read
Analysis-Panama deportations unlikely to be enough to curb Darien crossings
PANAMA CITY - An agreement between Panama and the United States to try to deter migrants from crossing the treacherous Darien jungle, by...
Jul 4, 20243 min read
Panama to launch migrant deportation flights in coming weeks, US says
Panama will launch deportation flights for irregular migrants in the coming weeks, part of a deal with the United States, a U.S. official...
Jul 3, 20241 min read
U.S. offers deportation relief to further 309,000 Haitians
WASHINGTON - The Biden administration will expand deportation relief and work permits to an estimated 309,000 Haitians in the country...
Jun 29, 20242 min read
EU sees rise in deportation rates for non-EU migrants
A growing proportion of non-European Union citizens ordered to leave EU territory are being returned to countries outside the bloc as...
Jun 28, 20242 min read
Migrant expulsions from Tunisia to Libya fuel extortion, abuse -UN briefing
NAIROBI - Tunisian border guards have rounded up migrants and passed them to counterparts in Libya where they have faced forced labour,...
Jun 12, 20243 min read
Polish border no-go zone will stop tourists as well as migrants, locals fear
BIALOWIEZA, Poland - Poland's move to set up a no-go zone to control the number of migrants coming over its borders could also stop...
Jun 11, 20242 min read
A year after Greece migrant boat tragedy, answers and justice still out of reach
ATHENS/BEIRUT - Egyptian electrician Mahmoud Shalabi was the only person from his hometown to survive when a fishing trawler crammed...
Jun 8, 20243 min read
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