Biden faces pressure at border as U.S. sets new course on immigration

Elliot Spagat/Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico — After a weeklong bus ride from Honduras, Isabel Osorio Medina arrived in northern Mexico with the hope President Joe Biden would make it easier for people like him to get into the United States. … Read More

Biden signs order to ramp up refugee admissions and plans to allocate 125,000 spots next fiscal year

President Biden issued an executive order on Thursday to increase refugee admissions and allow the U.S. to set a goal of providing safe haven to 125,000 people around the world fleeing violence, conflict, and persecution during his first full fiscal … Read More

An Iraqi teenager trapped in Bosnia: ‘I need mama, I need school’

Frhan Hzam from Iraq and his children Hsan and Hubas speak with their mother who is in Germany, in a temporary home in the village near Velika Kladusa, Bosnia and Herzegovina January 30, 2021 | Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Thousands of … Read More

‘We do what the state doesn’t do’: Surviving a Paris squat filled with tents

Tents fill a squat in the Paris region | Photo: InfoMigrants Cold, hungry, forgotten: 250 migrants have turned a disused Paris office into their temporary home. In recent months, this type of abandoned building has become one of the only … Read More

Factbox: What Biden plans to do next on refugees, separated families and regional migration

(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to issue executive orders on asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, refugee resettlement, and the reunification of migrant families, according to a Biden transition team memo shared with lawmakers and recent comments by … Read More

UK prepares to welcome thousands of Hong Kongers fleeing national security law

How 2020 saw Hong Kong change forever. Hong Kong (CNN) The United Kingdom is preparing to welcome potentially tens of thousands of migrants from Hong Kong, with the opening of a new visa for residents of the former British colony this … Read More

Federal judge blocks Biden’s 100-day moratorium on deportations

Texas challenged the immigration policy in court. A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked President Biden’s attempt to put a moratorium on deportations for 100 days. After Texas sued over the policy, the judge blocked Biden, via a temporary restraining order, from moving forward for … Read More

Biden’s pledge to suspend deportations may be behind migrant caravan

Migrant caravan member cites Biden’s pledge to suspend deportations for 100 days as reason for traveling to US A migrant traveling with a caravan that left Honduras on Friday told a reporter he was headed to the U.S. because soon-to-be … Read More

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