Tag: Immigration and Emigration

They Fled Climate Chaos. Asylum Rules Made for War Might Not Help.

First came the hurricanes — two storms, two weeks apart in 2020 — that devastated Honduras and left the country’s most vulnerable in dire need. In distant villages inhabited by Indigenous people known as the Miskito, homes were leveled and growing fields were ravaged. Then came the drug cartels, who stepped into the vacuum left […]

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To Beat Trump, Nikki Haley Is Trying to Speak to All Sides of a Fractured G.O.P.

Ryan Williams, a Republican strategist and a former aide to Mitt Romney who has known Ms. Haley since she was a state lawmaker first running for governor, said she “has always been a pragmatic conservative.” “She is comfortable in her own skin, and she is going to win or lose based on her own values […]

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What Today’s Migrant Crisis Looks Like to a Holocaust Refugee

Even with New York’s complicated history as a port for new arrivals, the photographs this summer of more than a hundred migrants sleeping shoulder to shoulder on the sidewalk outside the once-elegant Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan were shocking. So were scenes of young migrants idling on sidewalks, stoops and park benches, desperate to work […]

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Donors Give Over €300,000 for Immigrant Who Intervened in Dublin Stabbing

In the wake of a knife attack in Dublin this past week that sparked Ireland’s worst anti-immigrant violence in recent memory, people in the country and beyond are celebrating a Brazilian immigrant who intervened to end the assault. An online fund-raiser set up to “Buy Caio Benicio a pint,” a standard token of appreciation in […]

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Baseball Has Grown in Bogotá, Colombia Thanks to Venezuelan Migrants

Baseball is not popular in Colombia. Except on the Caribbean coast, soccer dominates. In Bogotá, the capital, many know very little about “béisbol.” And the city has only two public baseball fields. But swing by Hermes Barros Cabas baseball stadium on any weekend, and it doesn’t feel that way. On a recent Sunday, five groups […]

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Dutch Election Results Deliver a Turn to the Far Right

The Netherlands, long regarded as one of Europe’s most socially liberal countries, woke up to a drastically changed political landscape on Thursday after a far-right party swept national elections in a result that has reverberated throughout Europe. Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom, which advocates banning the Quran, closing Islamic schools and entirely halting the acceptance […]

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As Pakistan Expels Afghan Migrants, Families Are Ripped Apart

On the day Baz Gul’s world was shattered, he was out scavenging garbage with his 10-year-old son, hoping to earn a few dollars to provide for his family of five. He and his son were arrested on Sept. 12 in the Pakistani city of Karachi during a raid on Afghan migrants. Mr. Gul, 30, was […]

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The Asylum Crisis in America: A Look at the Numbers

Under President Biden, the Border Patrol has arrested more people for illegally crossing the southern border into the country than in any other period since the government started keeping count in 1960. His time in office coincides with a global migration movement driven by tens of millions of people displaced because of war, persecution, climate […]

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‘It’s Like I Am Blind’: Waiting for Asylum in a British Hotel

Every morning, Mohammed Al Muhandes wakes up in a hotel in Leeds, England, and wonders how to pass the day. Along with dozens of other asylum seekers, he eats the same breakfast each morning, then returns to his room or walks in a nearby park. The 9.58 pounds, or $11.90, he is given each week […]

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Checks and Balances Are for Losers

Over the last few weeks, we’ve gotten a pretty good idea of what Donald Trump would do if given a second chance in the White House. And it is neither exaggeration nor hyperbole to say that it looks an awful lot like a set of proposals meant to give the former president the power and […]

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Sweeping Raids and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans

Former President Donald J. Trump is planning an extreme expansion of his first-term crackdown on immigration if he returns to power in 2025 — including preparing to round up undocumented people already in the United States on a vast scale and detain them in sprawling camps while they wait to be expelled. The plans would […]

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Congressional Split on Immigration Hangs Over Year-End Spending Fights

There is growing consensus on Capitol Hill and at the White House that any deal to fund foreign wars, and possibly the entire government, must include significant new measures to address the U.S.-Mexico border, but Republicans and Democrats are deeply split over what changes to make. President Biden and Democrats in Congress — who had […]

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Republicans Are Hammering Democrats on the Migrant Crisis. Will It Work?

The Buffalo News editorial board called her “frankly, wacky.” At an early voting site in Amherst, a Democratic-leaning suburb, a handful of voters said on Friday that they had voted for Mr. Poloncarz because of his management during difficult emergencies, including the pandemic and a blizzard that killed 31 people last year. The office of […]

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Seeking a Home for His Parents, a Son Built a Community

When Arun Paul’s parents were in their 70s, he began searching for a duplex in his neighborhood in the Bay Area where they could live. The plan was that Mr. Paul would be close by, but his parents would also share the duplex with their friends, another older couple. It was important to Mr. Paul […]

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A Record 119,300 New York City Students Were Homeless Last Year

The number of homeless public school students in New York City reached an all-time high of 119,320 last school year, according to new data released Wednesday, as migrants crossing the southern border continued to flock to the city. Since last summer alone, more than 30,000 new students in temporary housing have enrolled in city schools, […]

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In Chicago, a Neighborhood of Immigrants Is Conflicted About More Arrivals

For generations, Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood has been made and remade by successive waves of immigrants. So many arrived from Poland that Pope John Paul II, who was Polish, paid a visit in the 1970s. When Polish and Lithuanian families were moving out in the 1990s, Mexican Americans bought houses, opened businesses and forged a […]

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Judge Orders Border Agents to Stop Cutting Texas’ Barbed Wire Fence

In the latest chapter in an expanding legal struggle over border security, a federal judge in Texas ordered federal Border Patrol agents on Monday to stop cutting concertina wire that had been placed by the state along the Rio Grande to deter migrants from crossing from Mexico. The temporary restraining order, granted by Judge Alia […]

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From Smugglers and TikTok, Migrants Get a Message: Go to New York

Pedro took them to Honduras, where other smugglers took over in Honduras and then Guatemala. The hardest and most expensive part of the journey was Mexico, where violence, crooked police and the threat of deportation always loomed. All six of the Mauritanians eventually crossed the border by Lukeville, Ariz., then flew to New York after […]

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Migrants in NYC Search for Beds as City Stops Offering Shelter to Some

On Thursday, Vinicius Funes, a 26-year-old migrant from Honduras, went in search of a bed. He had spent two nights waiting in a chair at New York City’s official arrival center for migrants at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. He was then given a handout directing him to what he thought was a homeless […]

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Texas Lawmakers Vote to Let Local Police Arrest Migrants

In a direct challenge to federal power over immigration, the Texas House on Thursday approved the creation of a state-level crime for entering the country from Mexico between ports of entry, allowing local police agencies to arrest and jail unauthorized migrants or order them back to Mexico. The legislation had been called for by Gov. […]

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As Bombs Fall in Gaza, History Hangs Over a Family Fighting to Survive

The legacy of displacement also loomed large inside Israel, said Nathan Thrall, author of “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama,” a book about the lives of Palestinians and Israelis. “Beyond the shock and atrocities of the attack, it played to the deepest Israeli fears — that all these Palestinians, who live on the […]

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Migrants Who Follow U.S. Entry Rules Faces Endless Wait

They live in a rusty shack with no running water, hiding from the violence just outside their door, haunted by a question that won’t go away: Should they have listened to President Biden? A year ago, Dayry Alexandra Cuauro and her 6-year-old daughter, Sarah, fled a crumbling Venezuela, setting off for the United States, carrying […]

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U.S. Southern Border Crossings Are Higher Than Ever

Migrants were caught crossing the southern border of the United States more times in the past year than in any other year since at least 1960, when the government started keeping track of the data. It is the third record-setting year in a row, during a time when migration around the world is at historic […]

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Canada Pulls 41 Diplomats as India Threatens to Revoke Their Immunity

Canada has withdrawn two-thirds of its diplomats based in India after that country said it would revoke their diplomatic immunity this Friday, further ratcheting up tension between the two countries. India and Canada have been at increasingly bitter odds since the assertion last month by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Indian government agents had played […]

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A Texas Town Wanted Tougher Border Security. Now It Regrets It.

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Texas Has Bused 50,000 Migrants. Now Abbott Wants Them Arrested.

A year and a half after Gov. Greg Abbott began busing newly arrived migrants from Texas to large Democratic cities whose leaders had pledged to provide sanctuary, the state has now sent more than 50,000 migrants to destinations across the United States, helping to provoke a shelter crisis in several cities that has reshaped the […]

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As More Migrants Arrive in New York, Adams Toughens Approach to Shelters

New York City’s homeless system is sheltering record numbers of people week after week, as an influx of migrants accelerates to its highest rate since the crisis began. The city is moving more and more migrants out of its vast network of emergency shelters by combining pressure tactics with help in finding permanent housing. But […]

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France on Edge After Killing of a Teacher and Hamas Attack

The terrorist attack by Hamas in Israel and the retaliatory strikes in Gaza had already put French authorities on edge, pushing them to jack up security at Jewish sites and ban pro-Palestinian protests. Then, last Friday, just three days before the country was set to mark the somber anniversary of a teacher’s gruesome beheading by […]

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Migrant Families Separated at U.S. Border by Trump Reach Settlement

Lawyers representing thousands of families separated at the southern border during a Trump administration crackdown have reached a settlement with the federal government that enables the migrants to remain in the United States and apply for asylum, putting them on the path to permanent legal residency. The agreement, filed on Monday in federal court in […]

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Law and Justice Party Holds Narrow Lead in Poland Election

Centrist and progressive forces appeared capable of forming a new government in Poland after securing more seats in a critical general election on Sunday, despite the governing nationalist party, Law and Justice winning the most votes for a single party. Exit polls showing a strong second place finish by the main opposition group, Civic Coalition, […]

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After Biden’s Border Wall Pivot, a Texas County Asks: Why Build It Here?

On the outskirts of Rio Grande City, Texas, Eva Alvarez stepped past the graves of her parents and grandparents before stopping at the edge of the small cemetery to marvel at the rust-red steel bollards stacked in piles, row after row, not far from her house. For years, the Trump administration had surveyed and condemned […]

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