Spain Tries to Turn Back Growing Migrant Tide
Spain is trying to turn back a growing wave of African migrants who seek to enter the country through its southern coast or its small enclaves in North Africa. About 800 migrants rushed the border fence in the enclave of Ceuta on Friday. At least 30 managed to climb over the seven-meter-high fence according to […]
US Withdraws from UN Global Compact on Migration
The United States has informed the United Nations that it will no longer participate in the Global Compact on Migration. In 2016, the 193 members of the U.N. General Assembly unanimously adopted a non-binding political declaration, the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, pledging to uphold the rights of refugees, help them resettle and […]
The First Brick in the Wall
President Donald Trump’s administration announced a $600 million bidding contest late Friday night to kick off construction of The Wall, a towering physical barrier between the United States and Mexico. The process will start with little walls — an unknown number of barriers of concrete and other materials that will serve as models for the […]
FBI joins investigation into Sikh man’s shooting
The FBI is helping police in the US city of Seattle hunt for the attacker who shot a Sikh man and told him to “go back to your own country”, authorities said. The victim, a US national of Indian origin, was identified by India’s foreign minister as Deep Rai. He told police that a gunman […]
Mass Christian Immigration From Iraq Makes Future of Church Uncertain
Hind Safaa has returned to her hometown of Qaraqosh in northern Iraq after Islamic State fighters were pushed out of the town. She and her family left the area two years ago due to fears that Islamic State fighters will target them as religious minorities. Safaa was shocked to witness the destruction and ruins brought […]
Trump Plans To Deport Anyone Caught Crossing Southern Border To Mexico, Regardless of Nationality
Buried deep in the Trump Administration’s plans to round up undocumented immigrants is a provision certain to enrage Mexico — new authority for federal agents to deport anyone caught crossing the southern border to Mexico, regardless of where they are from. If present immigration trends continue, that could mean the United States would push hundreds […]
Swiss voters ‘accept’ new citizenship rules
Swiss voters have approved a measure to make it easier for third-generation immigrants to become citizens, according to projections, in a defeat for right-wing nationalists who carried out an anti-Islam campaign ahead of the vote. Some 59 percent of the Swiss voters were projected to had backed the plan on Sunday to lower bureaucratic hurdles […]
Top cops to Trump: Sanctuary cities make us safer | Moran
If you want to understand the emotional fight over “sanctuary cities” the place to begin is at police headquarters. You don’t find a lot of tender-hearted liberals advocating open borders there. You find hard men and women who risk their necks every day to keep a lid on the local bloodshed. So I spoke with […]
How to help an immigrant who’s under attack
I don’t need to tell people I’m an immigrant: My accent does it for me. Over the years, when Americans would hear me speak, they’d ask about my origins and what I thought of the United States. But since Donald Trump took up residence in the White House, I’ve gotten a new line of questioning:
‘The world will suffer’: Prize-winning researcher worries about limits on immigrants like her
All six Americans who won Nobel Prizes in science this year were immigrants – a fact widely noted as anti-immigrant rhetoric flared on the campaign trail. At the glitzy Breakthrough Prize ceremony in Silicon Valley on Sunday night, two of the five winners of the $3 million prizes for biomedical science were US immigrants. And […]