New York to distribute flyers telling migrants at US-Mexico border to ‘consider another city’
Washington DC, USReuters New York City will distribute flyers at the US-Mexico border telling newly arrived migrants to “consider another city” and limit shelter stays for adult asylum seekers to 60 days as the city’s Democratic mayor says it is straining to house them. In an announcement on Wednesday, the office of Mayor Eric Adams […]
UK’s first flight taking migrants to Rwanda can go ahead, court rules
London, UKReuters Britain’s government overcame a legal challenge to its controversial policy to begin deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda as the High Court dismissed campaigners’ attempts to win an injunction and said the first flight could leave next week. Charities and a trade union had launched a challenge earlier this week against the government’s plan […]
New Australian government releases Sri Lankan family from immigration detention
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia’s new government said on Friday it would give temporary visas to a Sri Lankan asylum seeker family held in immigration detention since 2019, a step towards closure of one of the country’s most controversial migration cases. The Tamil family of four, Priya and Nadesalingam Murugappan and their two daughters, have been a […]
Migration crisis: Biden tells migrants to stay put. Central Americans hear a different message
LAURA GOTTESDIENER, of Reuters, reports from Guatemala on the growing migrant crisis on the southern US border…
ELCA leaders call on US Congress to pass Citizenship Act of 2021 in new letter
RNS Pastors, bishops and the head of the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States are calling on Congress to support the US Citizenship Act of 2021, which President Joe Biden proposed on the first day of his administration. In a letter published Thursday, leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America threw their support behind […]
Faith groups fear the end of refugee resettlement in the US
RNS Faith-based groups that help the US Government resettle refugees fear the future of their work is in jeopardy, after learning that the Trump administration is considering shutting down refugee resettlement for the coming fiscal year. That move, advocates say, would dismantle an already weakened – and largely religious – refugee resettlement infrastructure dedicated to […]