In early January, I drove along the Pan-American Highway in the scenic Mexican state of Oaxaca. On the opposite side of the road, the Mexican National Guard had erected a temporary roadblock. A line of cars heading north had halted. Uniformed officers walked down the line, questioning drivers. They were searching for migrants bound for the United States.
A few hours later, I returned by the same route. I braced myself for the obstruction and delay. There was none. The
When the mayor of New York, of all places, warned that a recent influx of asylum seekers would destroy his city, something didn’t add up.
“I said it last year when we had 15,000, and I’m telling you now at 110,000. The city we knew, we’re about to lose,” Eric Adams urged in September. By the end of the year, more than 150,000 migrants had arrived. Still, the mayor’s apocalyptic prediction didn’t square with New York’s past experience. How could
An ex-adviser to Melania Trump has criticized the former first lady’s recent speech at a National Archives Naturalization Ceremony as a feigned sympathy grab amid the current migrant crisis.
Trump, 53, on Friday assured new arrivals that they ‘are American’ and thus should be ‘proud’ and ‘stand [their] ground’ – spurring the angry response from former staffer Stephanie Winston Wolkoff.
In comments to CNN, Winston Wolkoff – who once served as an unpaid advisor to the Slovenian national – called
A group of smartly-dressed Chinese migrants with pristine luggage were photographed being apprehended in California after illegally crossing the southern border.
The migrants, reported to be mostly Chinese nationals fleeing authoritarian leader Xi Jinping, were lined up neatly dressed and with proper luggage as they were processed following their illegal crossing, NewsNation reported.
They were lined up near the San Diego County town of Jacumba Hot Springs as the county debates approving millions more in emergency funding to help
President Joe Biden’s administration moved boldly yesterday to solve his most immediate immigration problem at the risk of creating a new target for Republicans who accuse him of surrendering control of the border.
Yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security extended legal protections under a federal program called Temporary Protected Status (TPS) that will allow as many as 472,000 migrants from Venezuela to live and work legally in the United States for at least the next 18 months.
With that decision,
A friend who migrated to the United States young once told me that her first and only return to her birth country ended with a bout of malaria. There was no revelatory homecoming; in lieu of self-knowledge came sickness, as though her origins were trying to spit her back out. Narrative is one of many tariffs that the world exacts from the uprooted. But what happens when the vagaries of displacement don’t add up to a story, or at least
Diane Abbott led a leftwing meltdown over Lee Anderson’s no nonsense comments telling illegal migrants who do not like the Bibby Stockholm barge they should “f*** off back to France.”
The row exploded as a leading charity with links to the Labour Party, Care4Calais, tried to block illegal migrants from being moved on board the barge.
But the attacks have helped bolster Mr Anderson’s hero status with one Conservative MP saying: “Shows he is doing something right.”
Ipswich Conservative MP
Suella Braverman has delivered a blunt warning to those working to oppose the Government’s decision to move migrants out of hotels and onto the Bibby Stockholm barge.
A Government source said migrants have got one more day to board the barge, or the Home Office will consider removing their accommodation support.
Those who crossed the channel now have a stark choice: go where the Government tells them to, or become destitute.
The stark warning comes after a left-wing charity intervened
Thousands of migrants travel to Britain every year on small boats, risking their lives to cross the English Channel and hoping to claim asylum when they reach dry land.
On Monday, the British government moved a group of them onto a barge docked at the coast, a controversial step it argues will save money but that critics say is the latest example of a steady hardening of migration policy under the governing Conservative Party.
A small group of asylum seekers
The first asylum seekers are being moved onto the Bibby Stockholm barge off the coast of Dorset, however according to reports the relocation is not going smoothly.
DorsetLive reports that so far only “two” migrants are aboard the vessel, designed to hold 500 people.
Reporter Mike Taylor has said: “Understand that a few migrants due on board have refused to go on board the Bibby Stockholm have been successful in not going on board.”
Human rights group Amnesty International has
