Mexico has reached an agreement with the United States to deport migrants from its border cities to their home countries. It will take a series of actions to deter migrants as part of new efforts to combat a recent surge in border crossings, CNN reports. Mexican officials...
The mayor of Eagle Pass, Texas, signed a declaration of a state of emergency due to the fact that thousands of migrants crossed the city border. TPR reported in more detail. Eagle Pass has become accustomed to a regular flow of immigrants as, in recent years, the town of fewer than 30 has become one...
The Biden administration on August 31 sent notices to tens of thousands of migrants across the US reminding them to apply for work permits. The move comes in response to mounting pressure from officials in New York and other cities…
More than a dozen Uzbek citizens have been allowed into the US after they applied for asylum on the southern border with Mexico earlier this year. US intelligence officials have discovered that the migrants were traveling with the help of an ISIS-linked smuggler, CNN reports. While the FBI...
Officers working under Gov. Greg Abbott's border security initiative have been ordered to push small and infant children back into the Rio Grande and withhold water from asylum seekers in extreme heat, the Houston Chronicle reported. In the report...
Boat with migrants capsized in southern Greece. Hundreds of people have gone missing, and the search for survivors continues. This writes CBS News. Rescuers transferred the bodies of the dead migrants to refrigerated trucks. A large-scale search for possible survivors of the disaster continues. Hundreds of people are still...
At the Agape Migrant Shelter in Tijuana, the entire morning revolves around a mobile app. People are waking up as early as 05:00 to log into the CBP One mobile app, which was designed to connect vulnerable migrants to the US asylum system. The application allows…
On March 28, at least 39 people died in a fire at a migrant detention center in Mexico's northern border town of Ciudad Juarez, CNN reported. Authorities said the fire at the office of the National Institute for Migration (INM) occurred after they took…
On March 12, US officials stopped hundreds of migrants, mostly Venezuelans, who were trying to enter the country from Mexico. A large group broke through the Mexican border lines to claim asylum in the US. Migrants were thwarted by barbed wire, barriers and shields, Reuters reports. Disappointed…
On February 21, the administration of US President Joe Biden announced a new plan to combat illegal immigrants. This could be the toughest border control measure to date, according to the Texas Tribune. Under current immigration law, fugitives may request…