WHY ARE PEOPLE NOW CROSSING BY BOAT? When the COVID-19 pandemic all but halted rail, air and ship travel and disrupted freight transport in 2020, people-smugglers began to put migrants into inflatable dinghies and other small boats. In 2018, only 300 people reached Britain that way....
The number of migrants arriving at the southern border isunprecedented. Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection recorded two-and-a-half million instances of detaining or turning away people attempting to cross into the United States from Mexico. So what's the fastest growing group am...
Colombian President Iván Duque announced in December 2020 that undocumented Venezuelan migrants and asylum-seekers would bedenied access to vaccinesbefore making a policy U-turn in February 2021 giving themtemporary protection status. This temporary status gives undocumented Venezuelans access to the natio...
Despite millions of pounds being spent on various measures to curb the spiralling numbers of migrants crossing the Channel from France, they are still rising. Speaking to Sky News last month, Border Force staff said they expect 60,000 to make the dangerous journey this year - more ...
ICE detains migrants at its processing centers and privately operated detention facilities, along with local prisons and jails. It has no facilities geared toward detention of families, who account for roughly one-third of arrivals on the southern U.S. border. During Trump’s first term, he au...
Migrants in the Mexican city of Matamoros waiting for their asylum interviews to enter the United States tell Sky News they know what a Donald Trump victory could mean for their chances at crossing the border, and their hopes for Kamala Harris.
The storm gates in the towering steel wall have been open since mid-June because of rains during the monsoon season. Rushing water from heavy downpours can damage closed gates, the wall, a rocky border road, and flora and fauna. But migrants get in even when the...
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Wang, who traveled several weeks from Ecuador to the southern U.S. border, then spent 48 hours in an immigration detention facility before heading to Flushing, said the idea that Chinese migrants were building a military “does not exist” among the immigrants he...
In 2019, for example, Trump used the threat of tariffs as leverage to persuade Mexico to crack down on waves of Central American migrants crossing Mexican territory on their way to the United States. Trump even sees tariffs as a way to prevent wars. “I can do it with a phone call,’...