Biden lays out new immigration curbs on US-Mexico border
Washington DC, USReuters The United States will use Trump-era restrictions to rapidly expel Cuban, Nicaraguan and Haitian migrants caught illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, President Joe Biden said Thursday in his first major speech on border security. At the same time, the United States will allow up to 30,000 people from those three countries plus […]
Abuse and “vilification” of migrants on the rise as borders close
Thomson Reuters Foundation Vilification of migrants as criminals, rather than people needing protection, by politicians and the media is making them more vulnerable to abuse, said a frontline humanitarian worker. Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, a humanitarian affairs adviser with Medecins Sans Frontieres who has rescued migrants from the Mediterranean Sea, instead called for the world’s most […]