Virus Chaos Snarls Farm Workers as New Season Buds in Europe
Asparagus grower Henning Hoffheinz is looking at blue skies, a record-early harvest – and a big problem.
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UN Urges ‘Reboot’ of Refugee Response as Millions Uprooted
The United Nations urged governments, businesses and others on Tuesday to “reboot” the world’s response to refugees as the number of people fleeing their homes rises along with hostility to migrants.
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UN Report Offers Bleak Look at Human Toll on Oceans
Efforts to protect imperiled marine ecosystems – and the island nations and coastal communities that depend on them – must intensify to reverse a global decline in ocean health and biodiversity, the United Nations said in a report released Tuesday.
Read moreUN: Migrant Deaths in Americas Top 500 So Far This Year
More than 500 migrants have lost their lives in the Americas so far this year, about a 33% increase from a year ago, the U.N. migration agency said Friday.
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Earliest Evidence of Modern Humans in Eurasia Uncovered
A pair of ancient skulls found in Greece may prove the earliest modern humans migrated to Eurasia much earlier than originally believed, according to a study published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature.
Read moreWhite House Wants $4.5 Billion in Emergency Border Funding
The Trump administration on Wednesday asked Congress for an additional $4.5 billion in emergency funds for the U.S.-Mexico border as the administration contends with a surge of Central American migrant families, with the bulk of the money for shelter and care.
Read moreMexican Police Detain Hundreds of Central American Migrants
Mexican police and immigration agents detained hundreds of Central American migrants Monday in the largest single raid on a migrant caravan since the groups started moving through the country last year.
Read moreRights Group: EU Complicit in Violence Against Migrants
A leading rights group has accused European Union states of complacency in the “systematic, unlawful and frequently violent pushbacks” by Croatian border guards of thousands of asylum-seekers to squalid and unsafe refugee camps in Bosnia.
Read moreStrawberry Farm Under Fire for Worker-Recruitment Fees
Fending off labor claims from 54 migrant workers, a lawyer for a Florida strawberry farm told 11th Circuit that the company is not liable for the illegal fees its pickers paid a recruiter.
Read moreItaly’s Salvini Defends Himself From Possible Charges
Italy’s interior minister has written a letter to leading daily Corriere della Sera saying the country’s Senate should not approve a judicial request to try him for not allowing 177 migrants off an Italian coast guard ship last August.
Read moreSpanish Police Discover 2 Migrants Hidden Inside Mattresses
Desperate to reach Europe from North Africa, two African migrants were discovered by police attempting to cross the Spanish border hidden inside a pair of mattresses.
Read moreAutopsy Set for Migrant Girl, 7, Who Died in Border Custody
Immigration officials say an autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death of a 7-year-old migrant girl who suffered seizures in custody and later died.
Read moreWorking While They Wait, Migrants Seek Jobs at US Border
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Before dawn each morning, migrants slip away from a Tijuana shelter within
Read moreAid Groups Terminate Aquarius Migrant Rescue Operations
The aid groups Doctors Without Borders and SOS Mediterranee say they have been forced to end the migrant rescue operations of the Aquarius ship in the Mediterranean Sea.
Read moreNovember Border Arrests Jump to Highest in Trump Presidency
U.S. Border Patrol arrests on the Mexican border jumped 78 percent in November from a year earlier to the highest level in Donald Trump’s presidency, with families and children accounting for a majority for a third straight month.
Read moreMerkel Rebuffs German Nationalists Over Migration Pact
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday rejected calls from nationalist lawmakers for Germany to drop its support for a U.N.-backed agreement on migration.
Read moreTrump Accuses Migrants of Abusing Asylum System
In a lengthy speech that at times verged on being a diatribe, President Donald Trump said Thursday that asylum seekers must stop making a “mockery” of U.S. immigration laws and must go to ports of entry in order to make a claim.
Read moreAustria Says It Won’t Sign UN Global Migration Pact
The Austrian government said Wednesday that it won’t sign a global compact to promote safe and orderly migration, citing concerns about national sovereignty as it joined neighboring Hungary in shunning the agreement.
Read moreMattis Expected to Send Hundreds of Troops to Border
A U.S. official says Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected to sign an order as early as Thursday sending 800 or more troops to the southern border to support the Border Patrol.
Read morePressure Turns to Mexico as Migrant Caravan Heads for Border
President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to call out the military “close our southern border” if Mexico does not stop a Central American migrant caravan before it reaches the U.S. border.
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