The US Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted restrictions on deporting immigrants to countries that are not their own, while agreeing to hear the issue on its merits in December. The court granted an emergency request by the Trump administration to suspend a lower…
Myanmar's Min Aung Hlaing is due to make a two-day visit to Malaysia from Wednesday, October 7, for talks including the return of Myanmar nationals, after nearly 1,500 returnees reached Myanmar from Malaysia on Sunday. Malaysia's Foreign Affairs Ministry said…
Three migrants, including a 10-year-old boy, died on September 28 off the French coast while trying to cross the Channel to Britain, French authorities said. Local prefect Francois Xavier Lauch said the dinghy left the Sangatte area in northern France at arou…
Thousands of people rallied in Madrid on Saturday against the Spanish government's handling of the migrant crisis in Ceuta, calling for stronger border protection and an early general election. Demonstrators waved Spanish flags and marched through the centre…
More than 55,000 Sudanese refugees have crossed into eastern Chad since the start of the year, the United Nations said Friday, warning that arrivals are accelerating while aid funding remains far below needs. Mamadou Dian Balde, the UN's regional refugee coor…
About 100 high school students in central Texas protested against US immigration raids on Tuesday after ICE agents shot and wounded Venezuelan delivery driver Wilber Garces Perez in Austin on Sunday. The students, from the Pflugerville school district, chante…
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Moroccan border controls failed during a migrant crisis in Ceuta, where more than 70,000 people entered the Spanish North African territory over two days in July. “We are investigating what happened in those days back…
Renewed fighting in Yemen could push more than 10,000 people to flee across the Red Sea to Djibouti in the coming months, the United Nations refugee agency said Tuesday. UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch said more than 3,000 people had already reached Djibouti in…
Spain's interior ministry said more than 48,000 migrants had returned to Morocco from Ceuta after tens of thousands crossed into the Spanish North African encl…
A Moroccan boy reached mainland Spain from Ceuta hidden under a Real Valladolid football team bus on Monday, club sources said. The players found the child near the coach's wheel axle after the bus stopped at a service station, according to sources at the nor…
More than five million displaced Sudanese people have returned to their areas of origin despite the continuing civil war, the UN's International Organization for Migration said on Monday. IOM said new data showed 5.15 million people had returned to 76 localit…
The United States has deported at least 25,447 people to third countries under agreements with 35 countries, according to an investigation by Forbidden Stories and a consortium of international journalists. The investigation, published Monday, said the deport…
Spain's Under-20 football friendly against Mexico will be moved from Ceuta because of security concerns during a migration crisis, Spanish football federation president Rafael Louzan said on September 20. The match had been due to take place on September 30 i…
Chan Atak, a 19-year-old asylum seeker from South Sudan, was jailed in the UK for two years and three months for piloting a Channel migrant boat carrying 165 people. Canterbury Crown Court in southeast England sentenced Atak on Friday for endangering others d…
Australia's plans to cut some working holiday visa places and detain tourists who overstay have left backpackers uncertain about whether they can remain in the country. Interior Minister Tony Burke said this week that a backlog of applications from the United…
Police began moving hundreds of migrants from beaches in Ceuta to a tented site in the Spanish enclave's port area on Friday, after weeks in which many had been sleeping rough. Police struggled to contain crowds of people jostling to secure a place at the new…
Australia will detain tourists who overstay visas under new rules aimed at reducing migration levels, Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs Matt Thistlethwaite said Friday. The government announced reforms Thursday that include stopping family members accomp…
Italian rights groups criticised prosecutors Thursday over an investigation into doctors suspected of helping undocumented migrants avoid detention before deportation. Prosecutors ordered searches Wednesday involving 21 infectious disease specialists and two…
Australia will cut migration by tightening student and working holiday visa rules and cracking down on overstayers, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said Thursday, arguing that housing needed time to catch up. Burke told the National Press Club in Canberra th…
Piddington, an English village of around 350 people, has voted symbolically to “secede” from the United Kingdom in protest at plans to house more than 1,200 asylum seekers at a nearby disused military site. The parish council in the central England village an…
Eritrean migrants have told AFP they faced rape, torture, extortion and killings in Libyan detention centres, while a UN report says abuses against migrants in Libya remain systematic and widespread. The accounts come despite at least 865 million euros in Eur…
Migrant workers continue to travel to Indian Kashmir for higher wages despite militant threats and past attacks on labourers in the disputed Himalayan region. An estimated half a million migrant workers enter the region each year, taking jobs in construction,…
Ahmed Soliman, an Egyptian national deported from the United States to Equatorial Guinea earlier this year, has been arrested and taken to an unknown location, his US lawyer Kate O'Donnell told AFP on Friday. O'Donnell said Soliman was arrested on Friday morn…
Thailand's military is building an 8.4-kilometre wall along part of the Cambodian border after deadly clashes with its neighbour in 2025. The first one-kilometre section in Chanthaburi province is made of reinforced concrete, galvanised steel mesh and barbed…
Asylum applications in the European Union plus Switzerland and Norway fell to a five-year low in the first half of 2026, the European Union Agency for Asylum said Thursday. The EUAA said the EU+ area received 332,000 applications for international protection…
US deportees sent to Cameroon under third-country removals are living in uncertainty, with some saying they cannot return to their home countries and do not know whether Cameroon will allow them to stay. About 50 people from the Democratic Republic of Congo,…
Anti-immigration demonstrators gathered outside a hotel in southern England where Pakistan's Under-19 cricket team were staying after mistaking them for asylum seekers, British media reported Wednesday. The incident happened on Tuesday evening at a Marriott H…
The UK and Belgian governments signed an agreement Wednesday to speed up intelligence sharing against people-smugglers who launch small boats carrying migrants from Belgium toward England. The pact was signed in London by British interior minister Shabana Mah…
Sweden's tighter immigration rules are worrying healthcare workers who say the sector depends on migrant staff, as voters prepare for a general election on September 13. At the NU Hospital Group in Trollhattan, nurse Johanna Bjorkman said operations would not…
Lebanese naval forces, civil defence teams and the Red Cross rescued 22 people from a broken-down boat off Tripoli on Tuesday, the Lebanese military said. The…
Senegal's Prime Minister Ahmadou Al Aminou Mohamed Lo denounced rising xenophobic rhetoric on Tuesday and said foreigners in the country must follow residency…
Kenya said foreign workers would have 90 days to regularise their status, stepping back from concern caused by President William Ruto's order for immigrant-own…
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez denied allegations on Monday that Morocco was blackmailing him over the mass migrant influx into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta. More than 70,000 migrants entered Ceuta from Morocco on July 30 and 31. Most returned…
The European Union said Wednesday it was granting Spain 115 million euros in emergency aid to strengthen border security and support returns after a mass migrant rush into Ceuta. More than 70,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into the Spanish North African te…
Doctors Without Borders said 1,046 migrants were rescued off the coast of West Africa in one week after seven boats travelling from The Gambia toward Spain's C…
Libya's Tripoli-based foreign ministry said it had referred reports and complaints about the storming of a UN-linked migrant service centre to the public prosecutor's office, after the United Nations condemned what it called “deeply aggressive acts”. The UN h…
Hundreds of Burundians living in Kenya went to their embassy in Nairobi on Monday seeking travel documents to leave the country, days after President William Ruto ordered small businesses run by foreigners to close. Ruto last week gave foreign-owned small bus…
Thailand said Monday it would deport Kevin Dimino, a French co-owner of a zoo on Koh Samui, after he banned Israeli visitors from the park. An order signed by…
UN human rights chief Volker Turk said 23 people have died in US immigration custody in 2026 and called for accountability for the deaths. Speaking to the UN…
Guyana will receive a limited number of migrants deported from the United States under an agreement announced Saturday by President Irfaan Ali's government. T…
British hard-right leader Nigel Farage and Jordan Bardella, president of France's far-right National Rally, signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday to cooperate on ending small boat migrant crossings if their anti-immigration parties enter government.…
Five European Union countries are seeking a deal with a non-EU country to host a return hub for migrants whose asylum applications have been rejected, with the aim of making it operational by 2027. Denmark, Greece, Austria, Germany and the Netherlands agreed…
Cambodian families displaced by last year's border clashes with Thailand are trying to rebuild their lives in new government-built villages near the frontier, but many say they still want to return home. More than 3,000 identical houses have been built in one…
An anti-migrant protest in Durban, South Africa, turned violent on Thursday, with police reporting one arrest and a community leader saying five Congolese nationals were hurt. Police said about 100 marchers from an anti-illegal migrant group moved against an…
Bosnian border police said nearly 100 migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan were stopped near the Croatian border while trying to enter the Europe…
Spanish rescuers said five African migrants died on the Atlantic route to the Canary Islands, while a migrant aid NGO said the toll could be far higher. Spain…
Myanmar pledged on Thursday to support "safe and dignified" returns for displaced citizens abroad, as Malaysia prepares to repatriate nearly 1,500 Myanmar nationals in late September despite concerns from the United Nations and rights groups. Malaysia said in…
Aminata Boye, a 48-year-old Senegalese woman whose son disappeared while trying to migrate by sea, has become a leading support figure for families in Mbour wh…
Protests over the migrant crisis in Spain's North African territory of Ceuta drew tens of thousands of people across Spain on Wednesday, one month after more t…
Moroccan media have criticised a Spanish police report that accused Morocco's security forces of failures during the mass migrant influx into Spain's North African territory of Ceuta. More than 70,000 migrants entered Ceuta from Morocco on July 30 and 31 in a…
Climate-driven drought is pushing thousands of Angolans, mainly women and children, into Namibia, where they face harsh treatment and forcible return, Amnesty…
Thailand will cut visa-free tourist stays for visitors from more than 60 countries and territories to 30 days from September 15, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. Officials say the measure is part of an effort to curb crime involving foreign nationals. Recen…