As his long-lost son walked toward him in an airport terminal, a sobbing David Xol stretched out his arms, fell to one knee and embraced the boy for about three minutes, crying into his shoulder.
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Hundreds of Central Americans who entered southern Mexico in recent days have been pushed back into Guatemala by Mexican troops, shipped to detention centers or returned to Honduras, officials said Tuesday. An unknown number slipped past Mexican authorities and continued north.
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Denis Contreras, a Honduran making a second try at reaching the U.S., laid out the plan Sunday night to his fellow migrants marooned in this Guatemalan border town: First the men will go, then the families and the women traveling alone with children.
Read moreSix refuge-seekers sued Attorney General William Barr et al. in federal court, claiming the Trump administration’s policy of sending political asylum applicants to “wait” in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is unconstitutional.
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Greece’s conservative government on Wednesday reinstated the migration ministry six months after scrapping it, amid frantic efforts to relocate tens of thousands of asylum-seekers from dismal island camps.
Read moreNBCUniversal Media sued the Department of Homeland Security in federal court for refusing to release information on at least 13 detainees who died in ICE custody between June 6, 2017 and July 31, 2018.
Read moreThe Second Baptist Church sued San Antonio in federal court for refusing to let it lease some of its property to be used as a shelter for unaccompanied refuge-seeking boys.
Read moreChina on Monday defended barring the head of Human Rights Watch from entering Hong Kong, saying nongovernmental organizations were responsible for political unrest in the city and should “pay the proper price.”
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The European Union refused to take part in a rare diplomatic visit to Indian Kashmir starting Thursday because they will not be allowed to meet detained politicians, reports said.
Read moreThe escalating cycle of reprisals between the United States and Iran is threatening the delivery of aid to millions of people across the Middle East, the Norwegian Refugee Council warned Wednesday.
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Sometimes Arshad Hussain disappears. He will be sitting on the bed, watching relatives, neighbors and journalists pour into his house when suddenly scenes of his dead son wash over him.
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The United States on Thursday began sending asylum-seekers to Nogales, Mexico, to await court hearings that will be scheduled roughly 350 miles away in Juarez, Mexico.
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Hundreds of thousands of people packed Hong Kong streets for an annual New Year’s Day protest march as the months-long pro-democracy movement extended into 2020 with more violence between police and demonstrators.
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By now, the young couple thought they’d be in the United States. Somewhere, anywhere, in the United States. They thought they’d have jobs — he’d work construction, maybe she’d be a waitress. They thought they’d be safe. They thought they’d have asylum.
Read moreChina denied on Friday that detained Uighur academic Tashpolat Tiyip was secretly tried and sentenced to death, after U.N. experts demanded answers from Beijing.
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Mohammed Hafar paced around the airport terminal — first to the monitor to check flight arrivals, then to the gift shop and finally to the doors where international passengers were arriving.
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At least eight people, including five children, were killed Tuesday in Russian airstrikes on a school in northwest Syria sheltering displaced civilians, according to a war monitor.
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An executive order by President Trump giving states the right to refuse to take refugees is putting Republican governors in an uncomfortable position.
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The U.K.-based grocery chain Tesco said it halted production at a factory in China on Sunday after a British newspaper reported the factory used forced labor to produce charity Christmas cards for the supermarket.
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A former premier and onetime ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched a new party on Friday, saying it would stand against “cult of the leader” politics.
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