New UK leader Starmer declares Rwanda deportation plan “dead and buried”
London, UK Reuters Britain’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday he would scrap a controversial plan to fly thousands of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda in his first major policy announcement since winning a landslide election victory. The previous Conservative government first announced the plan in 2022 to send migrants who arrived […]
US-Mexico border: On bridge between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, two sides of Biden border crackdown
ANDREW HAY and JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ, of Reuters, report on the impact of President Joe Biden’s new approach to the crisis on the US-Mexico border…
Migrant arrests drop at US-Mexico border as Biden asylum ban rolls out
Washington DC, US Reuters The number of migrants caught illegally crossing the US-Mexico border dropped on Friday, a senior US border official told Reuters, saying it signaled a restrictive new Biden administration policy was deterring some illegal immigration. Asylum-seeking migrants from Colombia and the Dominican Republic gather their belongings to move towards the main road […]
New reality for migrants at US-Mexico border as Biden asylum ban takes effect
San Diego, US Reuters Jessica Leon, an asylum-seeker from Ecuador, scaled a border wall on Tuesday with her three-year-old daughter, setting foot on US soil in San Diego, California, just hours before a new asylum ban took effect. She and about a dozen other migrants from Guatemala, Colombia and Vietnam who climbed the wall immediately […]
In the US, faith-based agencies denounce Biden’s executive order at the southern border
United States RNS President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Tuesday, dramatically limiting the number of immigrants who may apply for asylum at the southern United States border. The policy pauses entry at the border, starting Wednesday, once 2,500 illegal entries have occurred in any 24-hour period. The executive order follows two failed efforts […]
Biden imposes sweeping asylum ban at US-Mexico border
Washington DC, US Reuters US President Joe Biden on Tuesday instituted a broad asylum ban on migrants caught illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, a major enforcement move in the run-up to November elections that will decide control of the White House. Migrants caught crossing illegally could be quickly deported or turned back to Mexico under […]
With no flights before election, UK’s Rwanda migrant scheme may never get off ground
London, UK Reuters The controversial plan to fly thousands of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda may never get off the ground, after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Thursday that there would be no deportations before a national election in July. After taking office in October, 2022, Sunak made the plan to send migrants […]
Biden set to tighten asylum access at US-Mexico border – sources
Washington DC, US Reuters The Biden administration is set to tighten access to asylum at the US-Mexico border via a new regulation that could be issued as soon as Thursday, four sources familiar with the matter said, in a targeted move aimed at reducing illegal crossings. The regulation would require migrants to be assessed at […]
More migrant dinghies cross Channel to England despite Rwanda threat
Strait of Dover Reuters Dozens of people in two rubber dinghies reached the southern coast of England on Saturday, the latest among thousands of asylum-seeking migrants to make the risky sea crossing from France this year. Bobbing on the waves of the English Channel on a clear morning, the boats sailed across the narrow strip […]
UK begins detaining migrants set to be deported to Rwanda
London, UK Reuters British authorities have started to detain migrants in preparation for them to be sent to Rwanda in the next nine to 11 weeks, the government said on Wednesday, laying the groundwork for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s flagship immigration policy. Parliament last month approved a law that paves the way for sending asylum […]