Spain’s parliament to draft amnesty bill for undocumented migrants
Madrid, Spain Reuters Spain’s lower house of parliament voted on Tuesday to start working on a bill that would legalise hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants, based on a proposal by civil society groups that had collected more than 600,000 signatures backing it. Political parties now have up to two months to amend the proposal […]
Pakistan deported Afghans waiting for US resettlement – sources
Washington DC, US/Islamabad, PakistanReuters Pakistan’s huge deportation drive has forcibly repatriated scores of Afghans awaiting resettlement in the United States, an advocacy group and Afghan applicants say, adding that Pakistani authorities often ignored US embassy letters of protection. That complicates the efforts of such Afghans, as the US has shuttered its embassy in Kabul and […]
Forced to start again: Forced out of Pakistan, Afghan waste pickers count their losses
Pakistan’s push to deport undocumented migrants has turned life upside down for thousands of Afghan garbage collectors. ZOFEEN T EBRAHIM, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Border crossing with Afghanistan swamped by Afghans after Pakistani expulsion order
Peshawar, Pakistan Reuters Thousands of people swamped Pakistan’s main north-western border crossing seeking to cross into Afghanistan on Thursday, a day after the government’s deadline expired for undocumented foreigners to leave or face expulsion. Pakistani authorities began rounding up undocumented foreigners, most of them Afghans, hours before Wednesday’s deadline. More than a million Afghans could […]
Pakistan starts rounding up undocumented foreigners, mostly Afghans, ahead of deadline
Peshawar, Pakistan Reuters Pakistani authorities began rounding up undocumented foreigners, most of them Afghans, on Wednesday, ahead of a midnight deadline for them to leave or face expulsion. The removal of people to temporary holding centres began a day earlier than previously announced. The interior ministry said 140,322 people had already voluntarily left after days […]
Mass expulsion: Afghans return to Taliban rule as Pakistan moves to expel 1.7 million
ARIBA SHAHID and CHARLOTTE GREENFIELD, of Reuters, reports on Pakistan’s crackdown on undocumented migrants…
Essay: Migrants often can’t access US healthcare until they are critically ill – here are some of the barriers they face
In an article first published on The Conversation, ANTHONY JIMENEZ writes about the “chilling impacts” undocumented migrants face with regard to healthcare…
Migrants stranded on Chile-Peru border repatriated to Venezuela
Santiago, ChileReuters Chile’s government said that 115 Venezuelan migrants who had been stranded on the border with Peru were repatriated to Venezuela on a humanitarian flight Sunday. Hundreds of migrants, mostly Venezuelans seeking to return home, had been stranded in the country’s northern border after being denied entry into Peru. The incident sparked diplomatic tensions […]
Immigration reform used to unite US faith groups – not anymore, says survey
RNS Back in 2013, creating a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants in the US was the rare issue that virtually all major American religious groups could agree on. The cause was so unifying that conservative evangelicals joined liberal leaders from other faiths that year to muster an unsuccessful but vibrant faith-based campaign […]
US border arrests top one million in fiscal year 2021
Washington DC, USReuters US authorities have made more than a million arrests of migrants at the US-Mexico border so far in fiscal year 2021, according to preliminary figures shared with Reuters, a tally that underscores the immigration challenges facing President Joe Biden. At the current pace, the total border arrests for the fiscal year, which […]