THE COASTGUARD is responding to a number of “incidents” in the Channel, a day after a record 90 migrants crossed to Britain. Daily Express :: News Feed
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More than 130 migrants killed after U.S. deports them to El Salvador, human rights group says
More than 130 Salvadorans have been killed after being deported from the United States since 2013, the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday, as it stressed the danger migrants face under the Trump administration’s hardening immigration policy. CBC | World News
Read More »Greece to boost border patrols, install cameras in effort to stop migrants
Greece is stepping up security on its porous land border with Turkey, used by thousands of migrants to clandestinely enter Europe, with extra guards supported by a network of powerful surveillance cameras, officials said Friday. CBC | World News
Read More »Migrants at Libya camp prevented from leaving between deadly airstrikes, report claims
The United Nations revealed on Monday chilling new details about an airstrike that smashed into a migrant detention centre in Libya, killing at least 50 people. CBC | World News
Read More »Mexico begins flying, busing migrants back to Honduras
Hundreds of Central American migrants who entered southern Mexico in recent days have either been pushed back into Guatemala by Mexican troops, shipped to detention centres or returned to Honduras, officials said Tuesday. An unknown number slipped past Mexican authorities and continued north. CBC | World News
Read More »Hundreds of Central American migrants cross river into Mexico
Hundreds of Central American migrants waded across the Suchiate River into southern Mexico Monday in a new test of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Central America strategy to keep them away from the U.S. border. CBC | World News
Read More »‘It’s hell’: Teen migrants in Paris risk homelessness if they can’t prove they’re under 18
French law states that anyone under the age of 18 must have access to shelter and education – whether they’re born in France or not. But some aid groups say that young migrants from Africa are being forced to go to unreasonable lengths to prove their age. CBC | World News
Read More »Border Force intercepts four boats carrying 49 suspected migrants near Dover this morning
FOUR boats carrying 49 suspected migrants, made up of men, women and one minor, were rescued after trying to cross the English Channel in the early hours of Boxing Day morning. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Italian coast guard recovers 7 bodies of migrants off island
Italian news reports say the coast guard has recovered the bodies of seven migrants near Lampedusa, an island south of Sicily. CBC | World News
Read More »A ‘good amount’ of Venezuela’s millions of fleeing migrants won’t ever return, UN envoy says
The Venezuela migration crisis has now entered a new stage in which many of those fleeing their country’s devastating economic downturn and political turmoil are increasingly unlikely to return, a United Nations special envoy said. CBC | World News
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