A harrowing photo of a Salvadoran migrant and his young daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border became the focus on Wednesday of a U.S. political debate over President Donald Trump’s asylum policies. The picture of Oscar Alberto Martinez, 25, and his 24-month-old daughter Angie Valeria …

  A photo of a man and his young daughter who drowned on the U.S.-Mexico border symbolizes the failure to deal with their desperation, the U.N. refugee agency said on Wednesday. “UNHCR, the U.N. Refugee Agency, is deeply shocked to see the heart-breaking photo of the drowned bodies of Oscar …

More than a thousand migrants broke out of a detention center in southern Mexico on Thursday evening, authorities said, in a fresh sign of how a surge in arrivals has stretched the country’s resources to the limit. More than half of the roughly 1,300 migrants later returned to the Siglo …

A group of approximately 100 Central American migrants was detained by members of the National Migration Institute during an operation close to the Mexican town of Huixtla in Chiapas State on Tuesday afternoon (April 16), Milenio TV reported. A group of migrants, resting at a toll booth along the Huixtla-Escuintla …

Greek police clashed on Saturday with groups of migrants and refugees camped in a field close to the country’s northern border hoping to cross to neighboring countries and travel onward to northern Europe, witnesses said. Hundreds of people including children had arrived at the field next to the migrant camp …

A new report says the US capital has seen a 28 percent uptick in homicide this year, as violent crimes continue to rise across the country. The report published on Wednesday noted that victims of crime upsurge in Washington, DC cover a wide range from little schoolgirls to immigrants. It …

Thousands of refugees and migrants are continuing to cross the United States border from Mexico, overwhelming the city of El Paso in the State of Texas, and leaving President Joe Biden’s administration scrambling to stem the influx of people. “The city of El Paso only has so many resources and …

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has warned that the “future of Europe is at stake” in the wake of a surge in the number of migrants and refugees arriving from the North African coast. It is “the future that Europe wants for itself that is at stake here, because the …

Austria’s Foreign Minister, Alexander Schallenberg, announced that Austria’s government has decided to reopen its embassy in Baghdad. Additionally, the two countries are set to conclude an agreement related to internal security. Speaking at a joint press conference held in the Iraqi capital with his Iraqi counterpart, Fuad Hussein, Minister Schallenberg …

Dozens of migrants are feared dead after a boat that left Senegal with more than 100 people onboard over a month ago was rescued by the coast guard in Cabo Verde with just 38 survivors onboard, officials said. The boat was rescued by the coast guard in Cabo Verde, about …

An additional 2,000 troops will be sent to the Poland-Belarus border amid a recent influx of illegal immigrants, Polish Deputy Interior Minister Maciej Wasik said. The Polish border guard requested 1,000 troops earlier this week as reinforcements to the 2,000 soldiers already deployed at the border. Wasik told the Polish …

Britain has moved dozens of asylum-seekers to a large residential barge on its southern coast. London is under fire for its controversial policy of deterring thousands of refugees from landing on British shores. The government on Monday moved 50 migrants onto the 222-room Bibby Stockholm, which docked off the Dorset coast …

Greek authorities says 104 rescued so far after fishing vessel capsizes off coast of Peloponnese Peninsula, in worst such disaster this year A fishing boat carrying migrants capsized and sank off the coast of Greece on Wednesday, authorities said, leaving at least 78 people dead and many dozens feared missing …

The leader of Turkey’s anti-immigrant Victory Party has endorsed opposition presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu, potentially boosting the challenger as he seeks to defeat incumbent President Tayyip Erdogan in the upcoming runoff vote. The head of the nationalist party, Umit Ozdag, who won 2.2 percent of the vote in the May …

Advocates call for answers on how Mexico will handle expulsions, increased stresses on asylum system after end of Title 42. Rights observers and advocates have called on Mexico to release a clear plan for asylum seekers after a shift in US border policy that is expected to increase pressure on …

Turkish citizens based abroad began voting on Saturday in Turkey’s presidential runoff election between the incumbent Tayyip Erdogan and his challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who aims to bring an end to the president’s two-decade rule. The runoff election will be held in Turkey on May 28 after Erdogan fell just short …

The United States rolled out a new regulation on Wednesday that will deny asylum to most migrants crossing the US-Mexico border illegally, a key part of President Joe Biden’s enforcement plan as COVID-19 border restrictions known as Title 42 end this week. The final version of the regulation, which becomes effective on …

Italy remains dissatisfied with the apologies offered by Paris after a French minister accused Rome of mishandling the influx of migrants, Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Sunday. “Clearer words are needed,” Tajani, who is a member of the conservative Forza Italia party, told Italian state-owned television RAI in …

Seven people are dead after a car ran into pedestrians in Brownsville, Texas, and a male suspect is in custody, a local television station reported on Sunday. The crash occurred at 8:30 a.m. local time near Ozanam Center, a shelter for migrants and homeless, said CBS 4 and NBC 23 …

France has come under fire by several states at the United Nations over racism and police violence, including against demonstrators during mass rallies over a controversial pension reform bill that finally became law. On Monday, the French government was accused of conducting attacks on migrants, racial profiling and religious intolerance during …