While U.S. officials had been worried about a spike in migrant crossings after President-electDonald Trump wonthe presidential election, due to his promises to seal the southern border, that has not materialized — at least not yet. In fact, illegal border crossings dropped slightly after Electi...
Illegal Border Crossings Show Upward Trend Four Years after Passing Immigration Reform, Lawmakers Consider Adjusting Its Provisions
These are just some of the repercussions of the more than 20,000 illegal border crossings into Canada since early 2017, all of them made by foreign nationals seeking asylum. With the influx expected to grow even bigger this summer, here are the details of Canada’s ongoing migrant crisis....
5 -- Illegal border crossings at Europe's external borders in 2018 fell by a quarter to the lowest level in five years, according to the European Border and Coast Guard Agency. The number in 2018 was estimated at 150,000, 92 percent below the peak of the migratory crisis in 2017, said...
The final section addresses a pressing question: why should a polity respond to border crossings by immigrants in a way that not only combats illegality but also redefines how the polity draws the distinction between inside and outside? An answer to this question brings into view the primordial...
The police also noted that it is possible that one person could get more than one caught crossing the border illegally. The number of illegal crossings of the border increased significantly in April and May last year, mostly because of the more favourable weather and a new route opening up ac...
Illegal crossings are up all along the more than 2,000-mile northern border. In one sector they're up more than 700%. And increasingly, like on the southern border, people are being smuggled by human trafficking rings. "You know, the smugglers do not care about their lives at all. You...
The action will clamp down on organizing and transporting illegal border crossings and using fake licenses in the process, as well as organizing, inveigling, and recruiting personnel into crossing the border illicitly. It is also aimed to guard against imported COVID-19 infections. ...
Arizona GOP lawmakers say the proposal was necessary to help secure the border, as they blamed the Biden administration for an unprecedented surge of illegal immigration. Record levels ofillegal crossings have plummetedin recent months, following moves by the ...
Immigration advocates have been calling on the government to suspend the Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement, which has been cited as a major factor in the spike of irregular border crossings. The agreement prevents asylum seekers from asking for refugee protection when they pr...