Migrants

Thousands of Hondurans pressed toward the Mexico border in hopes of arriving in the U.S. just in time for immigration reform from the Biden administration.

President Joe Biden must apply muscle as well as heart at the border or his best plans will fall apart.

The incoming president has not said what he plans to do with the tens of thousands of asylum-seekers living in limbo in crowded shelters and makeshift camps along the border.

In theory, a prosecutor in Texas could bring charges against a Trump official on behalf of a separated child or parents. It's "a high threshold" but not impossible, said a human-rights expert.

Even assuming a log-jammed Congress, there are still avenues for Biden to single-handedly provide temporary protection for millions of immigrants.

"I wish people didn't take for granted how great this country is," Aron Marquez says.

Heartbreaking footage shows the mother screaming: "I'm not going to see my baby. I lost my baby. Why me? Where's my baby?"

An immigration art show in a boutique shop is provoking strong reactions in the small town of Montclair.

Court filings by the ACLU show that 545 migrant children have still not been reunited with their parents.

Trucks outfitted with the campaign's message will also drive past the White House and ICE headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Two new reports show engineering concerns about Trump's privately-built border wall, which experts say is at risk of collapse.

The woman was being airlifted from Lampedusa to a hospital in Sicily only an hour away, but gave birth while airborne.

"In order to protect and guarantee public health and safety, in the absence of suitable reception facilities, it is forbidden to enter, transit and stop in the territory of the Sicilian Region by every migrant," the ordinance said.

"The only solution is martial law on the border, putting the United States Army in charge of it," retired Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor said in 2019.

Craig Whittaker was asked to clarify exactly which people he thought were responsible: "[The] immigrant and Asian population," he answered.

Mexican health officials, doctors and residents along the border with the United States say new outbreaks of COVID-19 are tied to people crossing south over the border.

The rescue comes a day after the government declared it could no longer guarantee the rescue or disembarkation of those seeking refuge and closed its harbors.

Human rights groups have warned that poor workers in the Gulf cannot properly practise social distancing due to their poor living and working conditions.

Immigration attorneys in El Paso voiced concerns about ICE officials detaining pregnant women, saying they don't receive proper medical care.

A boat carrying 19 migrants sunk near Cesme in western Turkey on Saturday. There were eleven fatalities, eight of which were children.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection joined several government agencies in marking Christmas Day, but their Santa Claus immigration reference angered many who responded that hundreds of migrant families remain separated at the border.

The White House sought to embed ICE agents at the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which cares for migrant children who cross the border without a parent, current and former Trump administration officials said.

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus held a press conference Tuesday calling for flu shots to be provided for detained migrants, after a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy died of the flu while being held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

While President Donald Trump administration's ignores their requests, up to 70 physicians have vowed to keep returning to border stations until they're allowed to give life-saving flu shots, participants told Newsweek.

Authorities announced the Thursday arrest of Saifullah Al-Mamun, who they allege smuggled large numbers of people into the U.S. by way of a network operating in Brazil and Latin America.

"What we are seeing are the humanitarian consequences of the tightening of migration policies," said MSF Mexico General Coordinator Sergio Martín.

The Royal Caribbean cruise ship picked up the Cubans in a broken raft as they were trying to reach Florida.

"If you study the issue, you would thank ICE rather than vilify them," Thomas Homan insisted.

"This attack on children and their families is inhumane and unjust. These families are all here receiving treatment that is unavailable in their home countries, and our government has issued them a death sentence."

"We're doing everything we can to ensure the well-being of these children, pending their deportation proceedings," Brandon Judd said.