11 illegal Chinese migrants busted hiding in washing machine, furniture
By Duncan Mutwiri, 1244, December 11, 2019 (EAT)
11 Chinese migrants who were being smuggled into the U.S. were found hidden inside furniture and home appliances. America's Custom and Border Prote...
Chinese migrants
U.S. immigration report reveals 182 Kenyans with arrest records requested for DACA
By Paul Ombati, 1317, November 22, 2019 (EAT)
182 Kenyans living U.S. citizens who requested Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) had been previously been arrested for a criminal or immig...
DACA , Immigration , U.S. citizenship , USCIS
By VOA, 1207, August 7, 2019 (EAT)
President Trump is bringing a message aimed at national unity and healing to the sites of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. But the words he o...
Donald Trump , United States
Trump tells black lawmaker to clean up 'disgusting, rat and rodent infested' district
By Reuters, 1234, July 28, 2019 (EAT)
President Donald Trump hit out at a prominent African-American critic on Saturday, calling him a "brutal bully" who should concentrate on cleaning...
Elijah Cummings , Immigration , President Donald Trump
US, Guatemala sign deal to restrict Central American asylum-seekers
By VOA, 1719, July 27, 2019 (EAT)
President Donald Trump says Guatemala has signed a deal with the U.S. that would restrict Central Americans from seeking asylum in the United States. ...
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) report , Guatemala , President Donald Trump , U.S migrants
Reuters photo captures Guatemalan mother begging soldier to let her enter U.S.
Lety Perez fell to her haunches, a clenched hand covering her face as she wept, an arm clutching her small 6-year old son, who glared defiantly at the...
Guatemalan , Mexican National Guard , migrants , U.S
Trump says Mexico may put more troops at border with U.S
U.S. President Donald Trump, who is trying to stem the flow of mostly Central American migrants seeking to enter the United States from Mexico, said o...
Donald J Trump , U.S migrants , US-Mexico border
Asylum seekers anxiously cross into U.S. as new policy kicks in
Fear over new U.S. curbs on almost all asylum seekers spread this week among migrants at its southern border, but some on waiting lists in Mexican cit...
asylum , Donald Trump , Mexico , migrants , U.S.-Mexico border
Mexican officials find 51 migrants in truck using giant X-ray scanner
By VOA, 1827, July 9, 2019 (EAT)
Mexican officials using a large X-ray scanner at a checkpoint in the central state of Zacatecas found 51 Central American migrants in hidden compartme...
immigrants , Mexico , National Migration Institute
Central American migrants plead to seek asylum in U.S., not Mexico
By Reuters, 1110, June 28, 2019 (EAT)
Several Central American migrants seeking asylum in the United States were allowed to return there on Thursday after being forced to wait in one of Me...
asylum , Mexico , Pilgrims , South American migrants , U.S
Photo of drowned migrant triggers fight over Trump asylum clampdown
A harrowing photo of a Salvadoran migrant and his young daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border became the focus on Wednesday...
Donald Trump , migrants , U.S.-Mexico border , United Nations
Trump on Democratic debate: 'BORING'
By Reuters, 830, June 27, 2019 (EAT)
President Donald Trump dismissed the first Democratic debate as "BORING" on Wednesday night and declared himself above the fray even as his campai...
Pope expresses sadness over image of drowned father, child
By VOA, 829, June 27, 2019 (EAT)
Pope Francis on Wednesday expressed sadness over the fate of the father and young daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande while trying to cross into th...
Pope Francis , US-Mexico border
US House passes emergency funding bill for migrant care crisis
It took last-minute changes and a full-court press by top Democratic leaders, but the House passed with relative ease Tuesday a $4.5 billion emergency...
Funding bill , Immigration crisis , John Sanders , U.S.A
Trump takes on women's soccer star Rapinoe over White House invite
United States President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to criticise U.S women's soccer team co-captain Megan Rapinoe for saying she would...
Donald Trump , Megan Rapinoe
Seven migrant deaths reported in 'extreme heat' at U.S. border
Authorities in Texas reported seven migrant deaths on Monday, including those of a woman, two babies and a toddler, showing the danger of extreme summ...
Border Patrol , migrants , U.S. border
U.S. lawmakers alarmed by state of federal lockups for migrant kids
By VOA, 1411, June 22, 2019 (EAT)
Lawmakers on Friday were calling for swift change after reports this week of more than 250 infants, children and teens being held inside a windowless ...
Federal lock ups , migrants , U.S lawmakers
U.S. targets families for deportation to discourage migrants
U.S. immigration authorities want to deport recently arrived families who are in the United States illegally to discourage the surging numbers of Cent...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Poor nations hosting most refugees worldwide, need more Western help: U.N.
Developing countries, not rich Western nations, are bearing the brunt of the world's refugee crisis and are hosting most of the record 70.8 million ...
Global Trends , refugees , UNHCR , United Nations
Trump says immigration roundup will start next week
U.S. President Donald Trump repeated on Tuesday that immigration authorities would next week target migrants in the country illegally in large-scale a...
Donald Trump , United States of America
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