“I want Trump out … it would make things easier,” one Honduran woman said, according to a report. Immigration advocates and even some Central Americans mulling entering the U.S. are reportedly rooting hard for a Joe Biden victory in November, encouraged by … Read More
Such words as ‘foreigner’ and ‘asylum seeker’ are, according to a new handbook, discriminatory. Officials in Berlin’s left-wing government have a new handbook which states that they can no longer label people as “foreigners” or “asylum seekers”, with both of … Read More
For the first time since 2011, the number of people living in a country with refugee status decreased. In Germany, for the first time since 2011, the number of people living in a country with refugee status decreased year-on-year. Some … Read More
The UK government is considering using cruise ships, possibly similar to this one docked near Athens this week, to process asylum seekrs – Petros Giannakouris/AP The UK government is considering plans to move arriving asylum seekers offshore to small islands … Read More
Greek authorities have moved almost all of the 12,000 displaced migrants and refugees on Lesbos island into a new camp after the Moria camp where they were living was destroyed by fire. Since the fire that engulfed Moria camp on … Read More
Apprehensions of unauthorized migrants along the southern border rose for a fourth consecutive month in August, with U.S. immigration authorities making nearly 50,000 arrests and expelling the majority of those apprehended under pandemic-era restrictions. More than 43,000 of the apprehensions … Read More
A mother and her child photographed in Honduras on June 3, 2020, aboard a bus headed for Toncontin international airport, where they will be tested for COVID-19 and then quarantined for two weeks in nearby Tegucigalpa. © UNICEF/UNI344621/SIERRA/AFP Lea Beaudry, … Read More
Accommodation is urgently required for some 400 unaccompanied minors – Reuters One local resident told the BBC almost the whole camp was burning. “Now with the first light I can see that there is a few tents that make it, … Read More
More than half of German residents are now skeptical about Chancellor Angela Merkel’s famously optimistic quote regarding the 2015 migrant crisis, a poll published by the Augsburger Allgemeine on Saturday found. Read more: Refugees in Germany: From the boat to the Bundeskunsthalle The survey, carried out … Read More
Protesters have set up chairs in Berlin to represent residents of the overcrowded Moria camp in Greece. They say the first positive coronavirus test at the camp has made the need for intervention even more urgent. NGOs stage refugee protest … Read More