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Greece wants European Union to sanction countries that refuse deported migrants, minister says
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece is urging other European Union member states to adopt a proposed plan to sanction countries that refuse to accept migrants deported by the bloc. Dimitris Kairidis, the Greek minister for asylum and migration, said existing bilateral agreements for...
Slovakia reintroduces checks on the border with Hungary to curb migration
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia said Wednesday it will resume checks at the border with Hungary to reduce growing numbers of migrants entering the country. The measure, which will become effective on Thursday, came the day that the country’s neighbours, including Austria,...
New York City mayor heads to Latin America with message for asylum seekers: 'We are at capacity'
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday said he will travel to Latin America to discourage people from seeking asylum in the city as it struggles to handle a massive influx of migrants that have overwhelmed its shelter system and strained financial resources. ...
UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman wows some Conservatives and alarms others with hard-line stance
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman railed against unauthorized migrants, human rights laws and "woke" critics of her hard-line policies Tuesday, as she tried to secure her place as the flag-bearer of the Conservative Party’s authoritarian law-and-order wing. ...
UK court says the government's routine housing of unaccompanied child migrants in hotels is unlawful
LONDON (AP) — Britain's government acted unlawfully when it routinely housed newly arrived unaccompanied child asylum seekers in hotels, the High Court ruled on Thursday. A child protection charity brought legal action against Britain's Home Office and local authorities in Kent,...
Mexico's president says 10,000 migrants a day head to US border; he blames US sanctions on Cuba
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Monday that about 10,000 migrants per day are heading to the U.S. border, and he blamed U.S. economic sanctions on countries like Cuba and Venezuela for the influx. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the number of migrants...
Jimmy Carter turns 99 at home with Rosalynn and other family as tributes come from around the world
ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter has always been a man of discipline and habit. But the former president broke routine Sunday, putting off his practice of quietly watching church services online to instead celebrate his 99th birthday with his wife, Rosalynn, and their children, grandchildren and...
10 Cuban migrants are killed in a freight truck crash in southern Mexico, 17 seriously injured
TAPACHULA, Chiapas (AP) — At least 10 Cuban migrants died and 17 others were seriously injured after a freight truck they were riding in crashed on a highway in southern Mexico near the border with Guatemala. The National Immigration Institute said all of the dead Cuban migrants...
Chicago is keeping hundreds of migrants at airports while waiting on shelters and tents
CHICAGO (AP) — Hidden behind a heavy black curtain in one of the nation’s busiest airports is Chicago’s unsettling response to a growing population of asylum-seekers arriving by plane. Hundreds of migrants, from babies to the elderly, live inside a shuttle bus center at...
An Ecuadorian migrant was killed in Mexico in a crash of a van operated by the immigration agency
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A migrant from Ecuador died and 10 others from Colombia and Guatemala were injured in an crash that occurred while they were being taken for processing in a van operated by Mexico's immigration agency, authorities said Saturday. Mexico’s National Migration...
