Migration News
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On the Greek island of Lesbos, the notorious camp of Moria still casts a long shadow, more than six months after it went up in flames.
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Vice President Kamala Harris thanked the Guatemalan president Tuesday for monitoring the border with Honduras, during a telephone call to discuss the recent surge of Central American migrants into the United States, the White House said.
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On a windswept hill overlooking the Aegean Sea, thousands of asylum seekers huddling in tents on the island of Lesbos are glad to see the end of winter.
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The European Union said on Monday that Turkey must "urgently" resume accepting migrants from Greece, where thousands are being held in camps, days before EU chiefs are to visit Ankara.
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Karbala -
Hassanein Mohsen spent months protesting against corruption in Iraq. He also lodged complaints against officials. But now he is shunned as a whistleblower and sees only one way out: emigration.
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Gutierrez -
The governments of Mexico and Guatemala have launched a joint military-police operation along their common border aimed at blocking caravans of migrants hoping to reach the United States.
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Damascus -
Samer became paralysed, Bakri had a leg amputated and Rukaia fled to France: a decade of civil war in Syria has devastated millions of lives.
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Guatemala City -
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei on Friday urged justice for 16 migrants gruesomely murdered in Mexico in January, as their remains were received with honors.
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Tijuana -
Migrants from central America, Cuba, Haiti and Mexico blocked two lanes of the US-Mexico border crossing in Tijuana, begging President Joe Biden's administration to allow them to apply for asylum in the United States.
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Mexico -
Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Saturday that in a virtual meeting Monday with President Joe Biden he will emphasize how important migrant labor is to the US economy.
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Kuala Lumpur -
The United States on Wednesday led criticism of Malaysia for deporing more than 1,000 Myanmar nationals back to their military-ruled nation in defiance of a court order.
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Lumut -
Malaysia on Tuesday deported more than 1,000 Myanmar detainees back to their strife-torn homeland just weeks after a coup, despite a court order halting the repatriation and a storm of criticism.
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Lumut -
Malaysian activists made a last-ditch legal bid to halt the deportation Tuesday of 1,200 Myanmar detainees to their homeland weeks after a coup, following a storm of criticism.
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Lumut -
Malaysia faced calls Monday to halt the deportation of 1,200 Myanmar nationals on navy ships to their homeland weeks after a coup, with the United States the latest to voice concerns.
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Baden -
The white paint has not yet dried, but as Sukhdeep Singh walks through the house where he used to live in the Austrian town of Baden, he is already picturing the refugees who -- thanks to him -- will soon be calling it home.
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Guatemala City -
Central American countries are preparing for a wave of migrant caravans containing people from as far away as Africa and Asia to cross their territories, a Guatemala official said Friday.
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Matamoros -
A first group of asylum seekers crossed the US border Friday under President Joe Biden's immigration reforms, while thousands more waited nervously in Mexico praying that they too would be allowed entry.
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Athens -
There was an "unprecedented escalation" of human rights violations against migrants in the Aegean Sea last year, a campaign group said Friday, accusing Greece and the EU's border patrol agency Frontex of being behind a soaring number of illegal returns...
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Mexico -
The massacre of a group of migrants whose charred bodies were found in northern Mexico has shone a spotlight on the entrenched links between police and criminals in the violence-ridden country.
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A new visa scheme is offering millions of Hong Kongers a pathway to British citizenship as the city's former colonial master opens its doors to those wanting to escape China's crackdown.
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As the clock counts down to her finally leaving Hong Kong, Judy is riddled with self-doubt and guilt over the gut-wrenching decision to move her family to the other side of the world for a new life in Britain.
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Colombia will temporarily normalize the status of almost one million undocumented Venezuelan migrants, President Ivan Duque said on Monday during a visit by the UN Refugee Agency.Some 56 percent -- around 950,000 -- of the 1.
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"We will try again," Mohammad Amin Ibrahimi, a teacher from Kabul, says as he looks west towards the hills of neighbouring Croatia, a country he has tried to enter 30 times in his dream to bring his family to the European Union.
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The closing of Panama's border due to Covid has stranded a thousand migrants -- most from Haiti and Cuba -- in Colombia, as they had planned to sneak across on their way to the United States, officials said Thursday.
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Juarez -
Migrants stranded on the Mexican-US border said Wednesday that Joe Biden's arrival in the White House had given them a new sense of optimism after years of Donald Trump's harsh policies."We're very happy.
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Sanarate -
Returning home to a life of hunger and desolation, Hondurans who were kicked out of Guatemala as they started off on a long walk to the United States are vowing they will not abandon their pursuit of the American dream.
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In buses and trucks, Guatemala on Tuesday returned thousands of migrants to Honduras after police and soldiers halted their northward march to the United States, dashing their hopes of a better life there.
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In buses and trucks, Guatemala on Tuesday returned thousands of migrants to Honduras after police and soldiers halted their northward march to the United States, dashing their hopes of a better life there.
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Colombian immigration officials announced Monday that foreign nationals caught taking part in underground parties in violation of a ban on social gatherings during the pandemic will be expelled from the country.
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Gual -
Guatemalan security forces on Monday broke up a caravan of some 4,000 Honduran migrants trying to reach the United States on a journey of thousands of kilometers through Central America on foot, AFP reporters witnessed.
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Migration Image
The gray whale MPF / NOAA
This baby zebra, born right before the herd started crossing the Mara River, didn't make it. Smithsonian Channel
The western North American population of monarch butterflies migrates to Southern California. Here we see some monarchs On a Eucalyptus branch at Sweet Springs in Baywood-Los Osos. Located near Morro Bay in San Luis Obispo County, central California. "Mike" Michael L. Baird
Lions, hyenas and crocodiles lie in wait along the path of the great migration. YouTube
Wildebeest, zebras and other mammals crossing the Mara River do so even with the danger of crocodiles. MBC Documentary
Monarch butterflies cluster in Santa Cruz, Mexico. Monarch butterflies migrate to Santa Cruz to spend the northern winter. Brocken Inaglory. Edited by jjron (CC BY-SA 3.0)
In 2012, the Mexican government announced the acquisition through a 15-year lease of a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. President Enrique Peña Nieto used the aircraft for the first time at the Air Force 101st anniversary ceremony on 10 February 2016. Presidencia de la República Mexicana
Various views of the Manot 1 partial calvaria. Hershkovitz et. al.
The Red Knot, Calidris canutus, makes a yearly journey from southern Argentina to the Canadian Arctic in the spring. Audubun.org/Doug Wechsler
A Tumstone at the edge of a snow patch. University of Queensland
Blacktip shark at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. Monterey Bay Aquarium
Sandfill cranes in the Platte River valley in Nebraska, March 7, 2007. Mongo
Migration out of Africa Spreading homo Sapiens.jpg which is in the public domain
White-rumped sandpiper chicks on northern Canada's Bylot Island. Laura McKinnon/NPR.org
Map of human migration out of Africa unknown
Millions of hermit crabs descend on a beach on St. John Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Screen Capture
North American Indian migration into North Dakota National Park Service
False Pass, Alaska is also the name given the Isanoyski Strait that gray whales will sometimes use on their journey to the Bering Sea. Here many fall prey to Killer whales. Shishaldin
Red Phalarope at a shoreline. Gerry Beyersbergen/Environment and Climate Change Canada,
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