Tag: Migration

• Friday, April 28th 2023 - 11:43 UTC

  Venezuelan migrant crisis sparks diplomatic clash between Chile and Peru

  

  Peru's Foreign Ministry Thursday Chilean ambassador Óscar Fuentes as thousands of Venezuelan migrants are trying to cross into the country from the southern border to “protest for the lack of collaboration shown by the Chilean police authorities, which has generated the events that occurred today” when a group tried to force their way into the country and circumvent the police checkpoints.

• Thursday, April 27th 2023 - 10:20 UTC

  State of emergency decreed in Peruvian borderline areas

  

  Peruvian authorities have declared a state of emergency across its areas bordering Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, and Chile in a move to curb a surge in crime President Dina Boluarte claims is linked to migrant offenders. While the measure is in force, certain constitutional rights such as the inviolability of the home, freedom of transit, freedom of assembly, and personal freedom and security are restricted or suspended.

• Tuesday, April 25th 2023 - 11:47 UTC

  Deportation flights to Havana resumed

  

  The United States has resumed its deportation flights to Cuba of the so-called undesirable migrants after the procedures were halted during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed.

• Thursday, April 13th 2023 - 10:46 UTC

  UN calls on Italy to act responsibly on migration issues

  

  Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has urged Italy to ensure that any migration measures it implements during the state of emergency declared on Monday respect its humanitarian obligations.

• Wednesday, March 29th 2023 - 11:06 UTC

  Fire at migrant detention center in Mexico leaves 38 dead and 28 injured

  

  At least 38 people were killed and 28 injured in a fire at a migrant detention center in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, on the border with the United States, according to the Mexican government. The fire broke out on Monday night in the facilities of the National Migration Institute (INM) in the state of Chihuahua.

• Wednesday, March 8th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

  Uruguay generates certainty for Argentine migrants, Lacalle says

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Tuesday explained that many Argentines had decided to migrate and settle “across the pond” because his country was one that “generates certainty.”

• Saturday, February 4th 2023 - 11:17 UTC

  Home Office will resume patrolling for irregular migrants in the English Channel

  

  UK's Home Office is resuming operational responsibility for tackling boats carrying migrants across the English Channel, after eight months under the leadership of the Royal Navy.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2023 - 10:22 UTC

  Argentine migrants flocking into Uruguay at a slower pace

  

  Uruguay processed a total of 7,209 resident visas for Argentine nationals in 2022, a drop of nearly 42% from the previous year, it was reported in Montevideo on Monday.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2023 - 09:30 UTC

  In three years of Brexit, migration in UK trebled, June 21/22

  

  The UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that the country had a net migration gain of 504,000 people between June 2021 and June 2022. That number was nearly triple the 173,000 registered the year prior.

• Monday, January 9th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

  Biden reaches El Paso to have first-hand impression of migration crisis

  

  US President Joseph Biden Sunday arrived in El Paso, Texas, from where he will cross into Mexico for a Summit with his local colleague Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.