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Rights groups denounce France’s ‘punitive policy’ on migrants

26 Jun 2019

Twenty rights groups — including Amnesty International and Medicins du Monde — on Wednesday denounced France’s “punitive policy” towards migrants held in the country’s detention centres. The groups claimed...

Mexico’s largest demographic of immigrants? Americans!

20 Jun 2019

Wendy Fry, Tribune News Service They come for the tacos. Or the music. Or the nightlife. They stay to live a less-expensive lifestyle or to retire in a casita...

US slashes aid to Central America over migrants

18 Jun 2019

US President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, after Trump blasted the three countries because thousands of...

Migrants feel the pinch of a crackdown spurred by US

17 Jun 2019

Patrick J. McDonnell, Tribune News Service Long lines of migrants, mostly Central Americans, line up daily outside the Tapachula offices of the refugee agencies of Mexico and the United...

Eight dead after migrant boat sinks off Turkey

17 Jun 2019

Eight people died after a boat carrying illegal migrants sank off southwestern Turkey, the Turkish coastguard said on Monday. The coastguard said 31 migrants had been rescued after the...

Entire immigration detention system needs overhauling

16 Jun 2019

Nathan Ward, The Independent In 2017 brave undercover reporting by Callum Tulley and BBC Panorama exposed the appalling abuse of people taking place at Brook House Detention Centre. As...

Mexico scrambles to slow flow of migrants as US tariffs loom

07 Jun 2019

Mexico scrambled on Thursday to slow the flow of Central American migrants to the United States as talks continued in Washington to head off President Donald Trump’s threat of potentially...

Venezuelan asylum seekers pose a challenge for Trump

07 Jun 2019

Molly O’Toole, Tribune News Service Lionel Ortega had worked as an engineer for nearly 40 years for the Venezuelan state oil company when he walked off the job last...

Displaced people need protection

03 Jun 2019

The plight of the displaced people is incomprehensible. It is distressing that the daily tragedy of internal displacement continues for millions of people around the globe. A recent report by...

US now seeking social media details from all visa applicants

01 Jun 2019

The State Department is now requiring nearly all applicants for US visas to submit their social media usernames, previous email addresses and phone numbers. It's a vast expansion of...

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