Mexican authorities said a group of about 350 migrants broke the locks on a gate at the Guatemalan border Friday and forced their way into southern Mexico to join a larger group of migrants trying to make their way toward the United States. The National Immigration Institute did not identify the nationalities of the migrants, […]
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‘Our country is full’: Trump says migrants straining system
Declaring “our country is full,” President Donald Trump on Friday insisted the US immigration system was overburdened and illegal crossings must be stopped as he inspected a refurbished section of fencing at the Mexican border. Trump, making a renewed push for border security as a central campaign issue for his 2020 re-election, participated in a […]
Merkel’s last-ditch migrant deal reopens deep EU divisions
German Chancellor Angela Merkel came under fire Tuesday from EU partners after she agreed to push back migrants in a last-ditch deal to save her fragile government, a move that threatened to unleash a domino effect of European nations shutting refugees out. In high-stakes crisis talks overnight, Merkel put down a rebellion by Interior Minister […]
EU leaders seal hard-fought migration deal
European Union leaders reached a crucial deal on steps to tackle migration during all-night talks Friday after resolving a bitter row with Italy’s hardline new premier. German Chancellor Angela Merkel had warned that the bloc’s “destiny” was at stake if it failed to reach an agreement, with her own job also hanging in the balance […]
EU split on migration at ‘mother of all summits’
EU leaders face deep divisions on migration and the eurozone at a crucial summit in Brussels on Thursday that could decide the fate of embattled German Chancellor Angela Merkel and even the bloc itself. The meeting comes amid warnings that authoritarian and “anti-European” movements will profit from any failure by the 28 leaders to deal […]
Trump gets historic chance to shift Supreme Court to right
President Donald Trump on Wednesday secured a historic chance to shift the US Supreme Court decisively to the right as Justice Anthony Kennedy, the tie-breaking vote between the bench’s liberal and conservative judges, announced he is to retire. Kennedy’s departure at the end of July will give Trump the opportunity to appoint his second justice […]
Six EU countries to take in stranded rescue ship migrants
Six EU countries have agreed to take in over 200 migrants stranded on a rescue ship off Malta’s coast, French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday, after days of bickering between member states over their fate. Each of the member states, which include France, Italy and Portugal, will take “a few dozen individuals” of the 233 […]
EU leaders to hold crisis talks on migration
The leaders of 10 EU countries will hold crisis talks on migration in Brussels Sunday aimed at countering movement of asylum seekers between member nations which is a source of tensions within the bloc. European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker called the meeting at the last minute as the issue causes fresh divisions in Europe, three […]
Melania Trump calls for end to migrant family separations
WASHINGTON: Democratic and Republican lawmakers upped the ante Sunday on the thorny issue of the separation of migrant children from their parents at the US border, as First Lady Melania Trump made a rare political plea to end the deeply controversial practice. The “zero-tolerance” border security policy implemented by President Donald Trump’s administration has sparked […]
Hungarian court to hand down heavy sentences for migrant truck deaths
Nearly three years after the gruesome discovery of 71 migrants suffocated in a lorry on an Austrian highway shocked Europe, a Hungarian court is due Thursday to hand down expected heavy sentences for the traffickers. State prosecutor Gabor Schmidt has asked for life terms for four of the 14 accused, insisting that three should get […]