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8/3/2023 11:02:44 AM
US border police persistently commit human rights abuses without accountability in their handling of migrants at the frontier with Mexico, a new report from two Latin America-focused NGOs said Wednesday.
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8/2/2023 11:19:15 AM
New York, once the gateway to the United States through Ellis Island and a city built by immigrants, is full, according to the mayor -- but migrants seeking a better life continue to arrive by the hundreds.
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8/1/2023 10:10:08 AM
Security authorities in eastern Libya freed at least 385 Pakistani migrants who were held in trafficking warehouses in an overnight raid, a migrant rights group said Monday.
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7/28/2023 4:41:32 PM
The UK government is planning to house migrants in tents to help deal with any surge in small boats crossing the Channel in the coming months, British media reported Friday.
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7/27/2023 4:05:24 PM
Almost 800 irregular migrants drowned off Tunisia in the first half of this year as they tried to reach Europe by boat, a National Guard spokesman told AFP Thursday.
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7/26/2023 3:41:38 PM
The EU watchdog on Wednesday announced a probe into the bloc's border patrol agency Frontex over its actions after a boat packed with migrants off Greece sank last month, killing hundreds.
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7/25/2023 11:22:33 AM
The Justice Department on Monday sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over a newly installed floating barrier on the Rio Grande that is the Republican’s latest aggressive tactic to try to stop migrants from crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.
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7/23/2023 5:53:59 PM
Migrants in Tunisia’s port city of Sfax who are aiming to make Europe their new home are now sharing the burden and the blame for escalating tensions deeply tinged with racism, amid the fears of European leaders who are trying to stanch the numbers of people arriving at their shores.
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7/23/2023 10:44:24 AM
Italy has invited Mediterranean countries to Rome on Sunday for an "international conference" aimed at extending an EU-backed deal with Tunisia to curb the arrival of migrants to European shores.
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7/16/2023 9:42:09 PM
Libyan border guards have rescued dozens of migrants they say had been left in the desert by Tunisian authorities without water, food or shelter, AFP correspondents reported Sunday.
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Africa
7/16/2023 9:16:20 PM
The rumour spread through Mbour like an Atlantic wave unfurling on a beach.
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7/15/2023 5:46:00 PM
Tunisian security forces have expelled hundreds of black African migrants to desert border zones.
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7/15/2023 10:08:32 AM
Tunisian rights groups called on Friday for emergency aid and shelters for migrants expelled from Sfax last week, as dozens of people protested in Tunis in support of their plight.
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7/13/2023 7:49:36 PM
Five charities that help migrants said Thursday they had complained to the European Commission about a new Italian law forcing rescue ships in the Mediterranean to dock in far-off ports.
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7/11/2023 5:22:15 PM
Hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa are being transferred back to Tunisia after being pushed into a dangerous no-man’s-land on the Libyan border and trapped for a week there without access to basic necessities, according to aid agencies.
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7/8/2023 3:48:44 PM
A court in the Libyan capital sentenced three people to harsh prison terms on charges of human trafficking, in the first such ruling in a North African nation where migrants are routinely mistreated.
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7/5/2023 1:45:46 PM
Youths in Tunisia called for vengeance on Tuesday at the funeral of a man stabbed to death during a scuffle between residents and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa.
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6/29/2023 2:09:47 PM
EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday are to look at ways to press aid on Tunisia in a bid to stem migrant boat departures for Europe.
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6/28/2023 10:07:07 PM
The migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking rescued 86 people off the coast of Libya on Tuesday as their vessel foundered while trying to reach Europe, its French-based operator said.
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6/25/2023 9:51:27 PM
Hundreds of protesters rallied Saturday near Spain's North African exclave of Melilla, bordering Morocco, to mark a mass attempt by migrants to storm the territory, in which at least 23 people died.
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