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Haitians prepare for US immigration crackdown DW
Americas 06-Aug-2026

Haitians prepare for US immigration crackdown

Hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the US face an uncertain future after the Trump administration ended protections tied to Temporary Protected Status (TPS), raising fears of deportation and family separation.

DW
UK. View from The Hill: Burke struggles to wrangle numbers as opposition and One Nation apply heat on migration Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke arrives to speak to the media during a press conference at the Australian Federal Police (AFP) Headquarters in Canberra, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. Lukas Coch/AAP
Global 05-Aug-2026

UK. View from The Hill: Burke struggles to wrangle numbers as opposition and One Nation apply heat on migration

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke’s cancelling of his big speech on migration that had been scheduled for delivery at the National Press Club on Thursday was embarrassing but also revealing.

The Conversation
Migration in Latin America Is Becoming More Complex and Harder to Predict: New IOM Report IOM’s latest report offers key insights to support smarter planning for migration in an increasingly uncertain regional context. Photo: IOM
Americas 04-Aug-2026

Migration in Latin America Is Becoming More Complex and Harder to Predict: New IOM Report

Violence linked to organized crime, economic shifts, changing migration policies, rising returns and deportations, and the growing impact of climate-related hazards are set to reshape migration across Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a new report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

IOM
US Deports 147 Venezuelan Immigrants After Quake Pause RatoPati
Americas 04-Aug-2026

US Deports 147 Venezuelan Immigrants After Quake Pause

Washington DC. The United States has deported 147 Venezuelan immigrants. The deportation process was temporarily halted due to a powerful earthquake that occurred two months ago. For the first time since the earthquake in June, Venezuelan immigrants were deported on Monday.

RatoPati
Haitians eye Canada as U.S. ’temporary protected status’ ends People walk on a train platform at the Little Haiti subway station in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on July 29, 2026. Tens of thousands of Haitians faced the prospect of leaving the United States or being deported, with the special protected status allowing them to live and work legally in the country set to expire on Aug. 3, 2026. Photo by RYAN MURPHY /AFP via Getty Images
Americas 04-Aug-2026

Haitians eye Canada as U.S. ’temporary protected status’ ends

Activists and immigration lawyers say it’s prompting Haitian ex-TPS holders to consider a move north.

National Post
New Immigration Plan Considered To Stop Students From Working In U.S. An exterior view of the steps and columns of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Trump administration is considering imposing a $100,000 fee for Optional Practical Training to prevent international students from working in America after graduating. Getty Images
Americas 03-Aug-2026

New Immigration Plan Considered To Stop Students From Working In U.S.

The Trump administration is considering imposing a $100,000 immigration fee for Optional Practical Training to prevent international students from working in America after graduating.

Forbes
Supreme Court lets Trump turn away asylum seekers at the border Supreme Court lets Trump turn away asylum seekers at the borderThe Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration can end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria.
Americas 03-Aug-2026

Supreme Court lets Trump turn away asylum seekers at the border

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration can turn away asylum seekers who approach ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border, reversing a lower court decision that the policy likely violates federal law and international treaties.

ABC News
Fact check: Can the British navy be deployed to stop migrants in the Channel? Reform UK, a hardliner right-wing political party led by Nigel Farage (pictured), wants to deploy the Royal Navy and Royal Marines to intercept and return Channel migrants | Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire/dpa/picture alliance
Global 03-Aug-2026

Fact check: Can the British navy be deployed to stop migrants in the Channel?

Reform UK has announced plans to deploy the Royal Navy and Royal Marines to stop migrant boats in the Channel. But, even if Reform were to win power and enact their plans, whether it can become reality depends on overcoming legal, diplomatic and operational obstacles, including France’s cooperation. So is it possible?

InfoMigrants
Trump uses Spain’s deadly migrant crisis to make chilling prediction about U.S. borders Spanish army soldiers block access to the beach for people crossing from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Sempere)AP Photo/Antonio Sempere
Americas 31-Jul-2026

Trump uses Spain’s deadly migrant crisis to make chilling prediction about U.S. borders

Conservatives praised President Donald Trump’s immigration policies this week, pointing to Spain’s massive migrant crisis in Ceuta as an example of what the U.S. avoided under his leadership.

NJ.com
About 60,000 migrants arrive in Ceuta in 24 hours, Spanish territory’s leader says BBC - Getty Images
Global 31-Jul-2026

About 60,000 migrants arrive in Ceuta in 24 hours, Spanish territory’s leader says

Up to 60,000 migrants have arrived in the Spanish territory of Ceuta in 24 hours, its leader said, in what he described as the biggest influx of migrants in decades. The Spanish government has deployed police and military to deal with the crisis. Some migrants were seen swimming or being carried by inflatable dinghies across the short stretch of water from Morocco.

BBC News
Trapped behind the scam This year’s theme "Trapped Behind the Scam" highlights the growing phenomenon of human trafficking for forced criminality within online scam operations.
Americas 30-Jul-2026

Trapped behind the scam

The 2026 World Day Against Trafficking in Persons theme, "Trapped Behind the Scam," draws attention to a rapidly expanding form of human trafficking in which transnational organized crime groups exploit people to carry out industrial-scale financial fraud. Victims are trafficked for forced criminality and compelled to participate in online scam operations.

U.N.
Haiti’s cardinal and U.S. bishops lead Mass of Solidarity as Haitian immigrants face losing their TPS status Cardinal Chibly Langlois of Les Cayes, Haiti, (second from left), gives the final blessing at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Takoma Park, Maryland, on July 28, 2026 during a Mass of Solidarity with the Haitian community and those impacted by changes to immigration policy. The concelebrants at the Mass included Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami at left, and Archbishop Robert G. Casey of Cincinnati and Bishop Jacques Fabre-Jeune, CS, of Charleston, South Carolina at right. The Mass was coordinated by offices from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
Americas 30-Jul-2026

Haiti’s cardinal and U.S. bishops lead Mass of Solidarity as Haitian immigrants face losing their TPS status

The concelebrants at the Mass at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Takoma Park, Maryland, included Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami; Archbishop Robert G. Casey of Cincinnati; Bishop Jacques Fabre-Jeune, CS, of Charleston...

Catholic Standard
Trapped behind the scam This year’s theme "Trapped Behind the Scam" highlights the growing phenomenon of human trafficking for forced criminality within online scam operations.
Global 30-Jul-2026

Trapped behind the scam

The 2026 World Day Against Trafficking in Persons theme, "Trapped Behind the Scam," draws attention to a rapidly expanding form of human trafficking in which transnational organized crime groups exploit people to carry out industrial-scale financial fraud. Victims are trafficked for forced criminality and compelled to participate in online scam operations.

U.N.
New Orleans fears loss of Haitian migrants who helped build the city A Haitian worker with Temporary Protected Status, left, prepares food in the kitchen at Half Shell Raw Bar in Key West, Fla., Saturday, July 25, 2026. Rebecca Blackwell/Copyright 2026 The AP. All rights reserved.
Americas 29-Jul-2026

New Orleans fears loss of Haitian migrants who helped build the city

The United States Supreme Court last month allowed the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians and Syrians, affecting thousands. But in New Orleans, Haitian culture has been embedded for over 200 years.

Africa News
Lithuania investigates potential ’migrant smuggling’ tunnels from Belarus A picture released by the Lithuanian Border Guard shows migrants trying to cross into Lithuania from Belarus | Source: Lithuanian Interior Ministry Press Office
Global 29-Jul-2026

Lithuania investigates potential ’migrant smuggling’ tunnels from Belarus

Lithuanian officials suspect the passage was intended to provide a covert route across the border, potentially for irregular migrants to pass through. Lithuania, along with Poland and Latvia, have accused Belarus and Russia of using migrants from Asia and Africa at the Belarusian border as "hybrid warfare" against the European Union.

InfoMigrants
Thousands of children, sponsors arrested by ICE after tips from US child migrant agency [1/5] Aurora and het her six-year-old daughter, who were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and sent to a family detention center in Texas, pose for a portrait during an interview with Reuters in the Central Valley of California, U.S., July 23, 2026. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Americas 28-Jul-2026

Thousands of children, sponsors arrested by ICE after tips from US child migrant agency

Aurora’s 6-year-old daughter arrived at the U.S. border alone and spent more than half a year in a child migrant shelter while her mother, who was already in the country, worked to get her out.

Reuters
As a migrant bishop in Peru, Leo made immigration advocacy a priority in his diocese Then-Bishop Robert Prevost, of Chiclayo, Peru, today Pope Leo XIV, is featured ministering to his flock in this undated photo. (OSV News/Courtesy of Caritas Chiclayo/Janina Sesa)
Americas 28-Jul-2026

As a migrant bishop in Peru, Leo made immigration advocacy a priority in his diocese

What began as a quiet, methodical but slow-moving pontificate was jolted awake when Pope Leo XIV called the treatment of immigrants in the United States under the Trump administration "inhuman" in response to questions from reporters.

NCR Online
ICE Reportedly Set to Ramp Up Operations Against Haitian Migrants After TPS Ruling Haitian flags are displayed on a store in the Little Haiti neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City on June 25, 2026.Michael M. Santiago—Getty Images
Americas 27-Jul-2026

ICE Reportedly Set to Ramp Up Operations Against Haitian Migrants After TPS Ruling

More than 300,000 Haitian immigrants are set to lose their ability to legally live and work in the U.S. on Monday, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is reportedly preparing to escalate its operations to arrest and deport some of them.

Time
Ceuta: Hundreds of migrants attempt crossing into the Spanish enclave as accommodation reaches capacity File photo for illustration: Migrants depart the Temporary Migrant Reception Center (CETI) in Ceuta after spending several months there following their arrival in the Spanish enclave | Photo: Antonio Sempere/JNA/ZUMA/picture alliance.
Global 24-Jul-2026

Ceuta: Hundreds of migrants attempt crossing into the Spanish enclave as accommodation reaches capacity

Spanish Interior Ministry data show 2,826 irregular arrivals in Ceuta between January 1 and July 15, 2026, compared with 1,133 in the equivalent period last year, translating to a 149 percent increase. There were 244 recorded arrivals during the first half of July alone.

InfoMigrants
From Mexico to Venezuela: A diaspora’s race to save lives Venezuelan organizers with the Topos Azteca rescue team, renowned for their expertise in earthquake response and building collapses, at Benito Juárez International Airport with boxes and bags filled with medical supplies, essential materials, and rescue equipment. Photo courtesy of the organizers. Used with permission.
Americas 23-Jul-2026

From Mexico to Venezuela: A diaspora’s race to save lives

When devastating earthquakes struck Venezuela, the response extended far beyond the country’s borders. Across Latin America and beyond, Venezuelans living abroad mobilized within hours, raising funds, organizing volunteers, and building trusted networks...

Global Voices
US Catholic agency struggles amid lack of funds to support unaccompanied minors Melissa Lopez, executive director of Estrella del Paso, a ministry of the Diocese of El Paso, Texas, speaks March 24, during a March & Vigil for Human life and to End Deportations. (Photo: OSV News/courtesy Estrella del Paso)
Americas 23-Jul-2026

US Catholic agency struggles amid lack of funds to support unaccompanied minors

A legal aid ministry of the Diocese of El Paso, Texas, that serves tens of thousands has exhausted its reserves after seven months of not receiving payment from the federal government for its program that represents unaccompanied immigrant children.

UCA News
Migrant Rescue Operations Navigate a Mediterranean Bloodbath The central Mediterranean is among the world’s most surveilled stretches of water, in the search for weapons, migrants, or drugs. This makes Europe’s collective failure to prevent record deaths more striking. (Aris Messinis / AFP via Getty Images)
Global 23-Jul-2026

Migrant Rescue Operations Navigate a Mediterranean Bloodbath

The Seabird is a plane that monitors violence along the world’s deadliest migration route. Piloted by a German NGO, it is showing how European authorities collaborate with militias to harass people crossing the Mediterranean.

Jacobin
Thomson Reuters to share American information with ICE in new deal A group of undocumented migrants is deported by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents across the McAllen–Hidalgo–Reynosa International Bridge in McAllen, Texas, in March. File photo by: Felix Marquez / The Associated Press
Americas 21-Jul-2026

Thomson Reuters to share American information with ICE in new deal

The billionaire Thomson family, who through their Woodbridge Company own both the Reuters global news agency and the Canadian national newspaper The Globe and Mail, will be working with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on alleged voter and immigration fraud.

Canada’s National Observer
Americans’ Humanitarian Views on Haitian Migrants PRRI.org
Americas 20-Jul-2026

Americans’ Humanitarian Views on Haitian Migrants

On June 25, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Mullin v. Doe that the Trump administration can remove Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian migrants. This means that up to 350,000 Haitians and 4,000 Syrians are now at risk for deportation...

PRRI
US judge lets Trump administration re-revoke status of migrants who used Biden-era app The U.S. Department of Homeland Security seal is displayed ahead of an expected press conference at the FEMA National Response Coordination Center in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 24, 2026. REUTERS/Nathan Howard./File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights
Americas 16-Jul-2026

US judge lets Trump administration re-revoke status of migrants who used Biden-era app

A federal judge has allowed the Trump administration to again revoke the legal status ​of hundreds of thousands of migrants who entered the United States through a now-defunct program begun under Democratic President Joe ‌Biden after she ruled its initial attempt to do so was unlawful.

Reuters
ICE targets South Asians for removal from United States DW
Americas 15-Jul-2026

ICE targets South Asians for removal from United States

Meenu Batra spent decades working as a court interpreter in the US immigration system. Then ICE detained her for 45 days. Her story shows why South Asians can’t treat immigration enforcement as an issue for someone else.

DW
“You’re Only Getting Out Deported or Dead” US Army soldiers assist with the deportation of detained migrants at Biggs Army Airfield, Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, February 4, 2025. © 2025 U.S. Army/Sgt. Caleb Woodburn/Handout via REUTERS
Americas 15-Jul-2026

“You’re Only Getting Out Deported or Dead”

Camp East Montana is the nation’s largest immigration detention center, with the current capacity to hold up to 5,000 people. It is located on the grounds of Fort Bliss, a US military base with headquarters in El Paso, Texas...

Human Rights Watch
Third-country deportation is increasing, leaving lives in limbo in Iowa and other states Katie Currid / Special to The Midwest Newsroom. Secah Shahib opens cards and letters containing drawings by his wife, Alisa Ramdial Shahib, on Friday, June 19, 2026, in Blue Springs, Missouri. Ramdial Shahib sent the letters from an ICE detention facility, where she has been in custody since February and her future remains uncertain.
Americas 15-Jul-2026

Third-country deportation is increasing, leaving lives in limbo in Iowa and other states

Alisa Ramdial Shahib sketches roses, hearts, butterflies and golf clubs to send to her family. This is the first time she has been away from her 8-year-old son. She is also separated from her daughter, who is attending college...

Iowa Public Radio
Germany: More than half of survey respondents in favor of full closure of the borders File photo: More than half of survey respondents in Germany would like the borders closed | Photo: Joachim Herrmann/Reuters
Global 15-Jul-2026

Germany: More than half of survey respondents in favor of full closure of the borders

A recent global survey, carried out by the polling company Ipsos on behalf of UNHCR, has found that 51 percent of those surveyed in Germany were in favor of a full closure of the German borders, although they also agreed that it was important to offer protection to recognized refugees.

InfoMigrants
Exploitation of Cuban Migrants in Brazil Involves Smugglers, Million-Dollar Operations and Roadside Abandonment Oiapoque, Amapá, June 19, 2026. Cuban migrants wait to file their asylum applications at the Federal Police station in Oiapoque, in the state of Amapá. The migrants arrive in the city after crossing the Oiapoque River, which forms the border with French Guiana. ( Foto: Lalo de Almeida/ Folhapress ).
Americas 13-Jul-2026

Exploitation of Cuban Migrants in Brazil Involves Smugglers, Million-Dollar Operations and Roadside Abandonment

The route taken by Cuban migrants through Brazil’s Amazon region to cities such as Goiânia, São Paulo, Curitiba, Florianópolis and Joinville is marked by clandestine travel.

Folha de S.Paulo
EU tightens visa policy for Guineans over lack of migrant returns cooperation File photo: Guinea has emerged as a new departure point for migrants hoping to reach the European Union via the Atlantic route to Spain’s Canary Islands | Photo: Europa Press/ABACA/picture alliance
Global 13-Jul-2026

EU tightens visa policy for Guineans over lack of migrant returns cooperation

The European Union claims that Guinea has been showing a certain lack of cooperation when it comes to taking back migrants who have been living in Europe without permission. In response, the EU has announced that it will be introducing new restrictions on issuing visas to people from Guinea as a penalty.

InfoMigrants
Record 128 migrants cross Channel in one boat, even as overall numbers drop A group of people on an inflatable dinghy before leaving the coast of northern France in an attempt to cross the English Channel, from the beach of Petit-Fort-Philippe in Gravelines, near Calais, France, 23 May 2026. © Dylan Martinez/Reuters
Global 13-Jul-2026

Record 128 migrants cross Channel in one boat, even as overall numbers drop

A small boat carrying 128 people has reached the coast of England, marking a new record for the largest single crossing of the Channel on a small boat, even as the number of crossings has dropped in recent months.

RFI
What to know about Houston ICE shooting and other migrant deaths in Texas Antonio is comforted by a passerby after becoming emotional at a memorial for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo at North Wayside Drive and Canal Street in Houston on Wednesday afternoon, July 8, 2026. Salgado Araujo was the second person in Texas shot by federal immigration agents since 2025. Kavan VanHal for the Texas Tribune
Americas 09-Jul-2026

What to know about Houston ICE shooting and other migrant deaths in Texas

Most migrant deaths in Texas have occurred while they were detained since President Donald Trump began his immigration crackdown. Several were from natural causes.

The Texas Tribune
Mission priest supports US families impacted by Venezuela’s earthquakes Missionary priest Fr. Raymond Riding hugs two little girls at a Mass hastily organized on June 27 in Tucson, Arizona, to support Venezuelan migrants who are worried and in mourning after two devastating earthquakes killed hundreds of people and injured thousands more in their homeland on June 24. (Anita Snow)
Americas 08-Jul-2026

Mission priest supports US families impacted by Venezuela’s earthquakes

Fr. Raymond Riding stood behind the altar of the small mission church, writing names called out by Venezuelan migrants as they listed family members and friends killed, hurt or missing in a recent pair of devastating earthquakes.

National Catholic Reporter
Meet the Nigerian nun championing migrant, refugee ministries across the US Sr. Joanna Okereke, assistant director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee on Pastoral Care of Migrants, Refugees and Travelers, speaks to a group of bishops Nov. 12, 2024, in Baltimore, about the different hidden communities the subcommittee works with. (GSR photo/ Rhina Guidos)
Americas 08-Jul-2026

Meet the Nigerian nun championing migrant, refugee ministries across the US

Sr. Joanna Okereke leads Catholic outreach to migrants, refugees, seafarers, and farmworkers while urging bishops to expand pastoral care for often-overlooked communities across the United States.

Global Catholic
US deportation deal leaves 15 Latino migrants stranded in DRC amid pressure to return home US President Donald Trump greets DRC President Félix Tshisekedi during a past meeting at the White House. (Photo: The White House)
Americas 07-Jul-2026

US deportation deal leaves 15 Latino migrants stranded in DRC amid pressure to return home

A group of 15 migrants from Colombia, Peru and Ecuador who were recently flown from the United States to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have accused authorities of pressuring them to repatriate, despite their claims that returning home would put their lives at risk.

Eastleigh Voice
From Anti-Apartheid to Anti-Immigrant, Nativist Wave Sweeps South Africa A display in the OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg with the title of Nelson Mandela’s autobiography alongside a recreation of Mandela’s prison cell. Photo by Louis Freedberg.
Global 07-Jul-2026

From Anti-Apartheid to Anti-Immigrant, Nativist Wave Sweeps South Africa

Three weeks ago, I arrived in South Africa, the country of my birth. It was June 16, the 50th anniversary of the 1976 uprisings in Soweto, one of the most significant dates in the country’s history.

American Community Media
On U.S. Independence Day, Pope Leo honors migrants in Lampedusa Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass at the Arena sports field of Lampedusa, Italy, July 4, 2026, during his pastoral visit to the Mediterranean island, one of Europe’s principal gateways for migrants crossing the sea. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Americas 06-Jul-2026

On U.S. Independence Day, Pope Leo honors migrants in Lampedusa

In addition to his July 4 homily, Pope Leo released a message marking the United States’ 250th birthday, praising the nation’s founding ideals of liberty and religious freedom while reminding Americans that immigrants "have formed part of the history of this country from its very beginning."

USCCB
Trump administration cannot hold migrants without bond hearings past 90 days, court rules Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents stand guard outside Delaney Hall, which is being used as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center, in Newark, New Jersey, on May 29, 2026. Protesters clashed with US law enforcement outside an immigration detention center in New Jersey, a top US official said Friday, after inmates inside staged a hunger strike over conditions. Days of unrest outside the ICE detention center have led to several arrests as a tough stance by US President Donald Trump’s administration draws stiff opposition. (Photo by Bryan R. SMITH / AFP via Getty Images) Bryan R. Smith | Afp | Getty Images
Americas 03-Jul-2026

Trump administration cannot hold migrants without bond hearings past 90 days, court rules

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot detain people for more than 90 days under the Trump administration’s mass detention policy without providing them a chance to be released on bond...

CNBC
The U.S. healthcare system is in crisis. A Supreme Court ruling could make things worse Healthcare workers rally at a Manhattan union headquarters to show support for the Haitian and Syrian communities after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could end temporary protected status for potentially millions of foreign nationals from countries experiencing conflict and violence. The decision means that over 330,000 Haitians and Syrians could lose their work authorizations and ability to remain in the country. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Americas 02-Jul-2026

The U.S. healthcare system is in crisis. A Supreme Court ruling could make things worse

Amid the flurry of consequential Supreme Court decisions that have come down recently, it’s the one about temporary protected status that has America’s healthcare sector the most worried.

NPR
The Gate of Grief: Surviving One of the Deadliest Shipwrecks on the Eastern Route Hundreds of survivors have been rescued from the Gulf of Aden after journeys that have claimed many more lives. Photo: IOM 2026
Global 02-Jul-2026

The Gate of Grief: Surviving One of the Deadliest Shipwrecks on the Eastern Route

The waters between the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula have carried many names over centuries. One has endured: Bab el-Mandeb, meaning the Gate of Grief. It is a name forged through countless journeys marked by loss, uncertainty, and human struggle...

IOM Storyteller
At Border Mass 250, US bishops urge immigration reform, emphasize migrant dignity Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Phoenix Bishop John P. Dolan, and Bishop James A. Misko of Tucson, Arizona, lead a procession following Border Mass 250, at Sacred Heart Church in Nogales, Arizona, June 26, 2026. (OSV News/Bob Roller)
Americas 30-Jun-2026

At Border Mass 250, US bishops urge immigration reform, emphasize migrant dignity

During a June 26 Mass just blocks north of the U.S.-Mexico border with Spanish-language hymns and prayers in English, Bishop James Misko of Tucson, the main celebrant, called on Catholics to honor the dignity of immigrants.

NCR Online
How decades of US immigration law shaped the Filipino diaspora — and San Diego Philippine President Manuel Roxas takes the oath of office from Chief Justice of the Philippines, Manuel Moran, during the Philippine Independence ceremony at the Luneta, Manila, P. 1. July 4, 1946.. U.S. Signal Corps via Ricardo Trota Jose
Americas 29-Jun-2026

How decades of US immigration law shaped the Filipino diaspora — and San Diego

It was the Fourth of July, and crowds had filled the streets of Manila. Planes thundered overhead. Soldiers marched through the Philippines’ capital city, carrying the United States’ flag.

KPBS
Germany: Asylum seeker denied protected status for repeated criminal violations File photo: The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in Nuremberg is Germany’s central authority for asylum, migration, and integration | Photo: Christoph Hardt/Geisler-Fotopress/picture alliance
Global 29-Jun-2026

Germany: Asylum seeker denied protected status for repeated criminal violations

Germany’s Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig announced that they would not grant subsidiary protection or asylum to someone who had committed repeated legal violations and may pose a danger to the public.

InfoMigrants
Migrants in Tunisia: The Chilling Reality of Phantom Children Nawaat
Global 29-Jun-2026

Migrants in Tunisia: The Chilling Reality of Phantom Children

Without legal status, school or healthcare, thousands of migrant children are growing up in the blindspot of the Tunisian government. Ever since the suspension of the right to asylum and under pressure of growing violence, the reality that these children face—begging, human trafficking, arbitrary detention, forced deportation...

Nawaat
For Haitian women in Florida, the loss of TPS is more than an immigration law issue Uncertainty about the continuation of temporary protected status, or TPS, is a major source of stress for Haitian migrants, especially women. This photo was taken at a candlelight vigil in Miami in February 2026 for Haitians living under the TPS program. Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images
Americas 26-Jun-2026

For Haitian women in Florida, the loss of TPS is more than an immigration law issue

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 25, 2026, that the Trump administration may revoke the temporary protected status of 350,000 Haitians.

The Conversation
’The greatest opportunity for rural areas’: Spain hopes its migrants can revitalize isolated villages People queue to submit documents at a Government migration office to regularise their migration status in Almeria, southern Spain, April 20, 2026. | Photo: Nacho Doce, Reuters
Global 26-Jun-2026

’The greatest opportunity for rural areas’: Spain hopes its migrants can revitalize isolated villages

A growing number of immigrant workers has helped turn Spain into the world’s fastest-growing advanced economy over the past two years. Now the government is betting on its immigrant population to revitalize its rural areas.

InfoMigrants
Charting More than 250 Years of U.S. Immigration History Shortly before the U.S. joined World War II, HIAS is seen here helping teach Jewish refugees English. HIAS has helped millions of refugees resettle into the United States over the last 145 years.
Americas 25-Jun-2026

Charting More than 250 Years of U.S. Immigration History

As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250-year anniversary since it declared independence on July 4, 1776, we’re looking back at the country’s varied history of immigration. The U.S. was founded on open borders for white Europeans...

HIAS
Book Reveals Stephen Miller’s Control Of U.S. Immigration Policy White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller speaks to press outside of the White House on April 14, 2025. A new book confirms that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller controls the Trump administration’s immigration policies. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Americas 25-Jun-2026

Book Reveals Stephen Miller’s Control Of U.S. Immigration Policy

A new book confirms that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller controls the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan...

Forbes
’An unprecedented event’: Nearly 1,000 migrants in Paris face heatwave on the curb Beneath the elevated metro line at Stalingrad in Paris, nearly a thousand displaced people are coping with the heat by resting on makeshift mattresses or in their tents on June 22, 2026, amid a heatwave | Photo: InfoMigrants
Global 25-Jun-2026

’An unprecedented event’: Nearly 1,000 migrants in Paris face heatwave on the curb

Beneath the elevated metro tracks between the Jaurès and Stalingrad stations in Paris, nearly a thousand migrants are currently battling scorching temperatures. Whether shirtless to cool off or covered up to shield themselves from the sun...

InfoMigrants
More bodies washed ashore from migrant shipwreck off Libya Members of the Search and Rescue Department of Libyan Coastal Security on June 23, 2026 use a white cloth to wrap a body believed to be an undocumented migrant washed ashore in eastern Libya | Photo: Search & Rescue Unit of Libyan Coastal Security/Reuters
Global 24-Jun-2026

More bodies washed ashore from migrant shipwreck off Libya

The bodies of 11 people, believed to be migrants, have been washed ashore from last week‘s shipwreck off Libya, bringing the known death toll to at least 26...

Info Migrants
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Events 24-Jun-2026

Mother Cabrini: First U.S. citizen canonized a saint dedicated life to New York’s Italian immigrants A statue of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, patron of immigrants, is seen after its unveiling Oct. 12, 2020, in the Manhattan borough of New York City. (OSV News photo/Carlo Allegri, Reuters)
Americas 19-Jun-2026

Mother Cabrini: First U.S. citizen canonized a saint dedicated life to New York’s Italian immigrants

Before the great wave of Hispanic immigration that swept the U.S. in the last several decades, historians spoke of four main periods of Catholic immigration linked to four ethnic groups: the Irish (peaking in the 1850s), the Germans (1880s), the Italians (early 1900s), and the Poles and other Slavs (1920s)...

OSV News
Florida could soon ban undocumented students from public universities, colleges A student walks on the Valencia College West Campus, on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. Florida’s public colleges and universities could soon ban undocumented immigrant studetns from enrolling (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/ Orlando Sentinel).
Americas 19-Jun-2026

Florida could soon ban undocumented students from public universities, colleges

Florida could soon ban undocumented students from enrolling in state universities and colleges, moves that would make it the fourth state and by far the largest to shut these immigrants out of at least some publicly financed higher education options.

Orlando Sentinel
59 migrants rescued off Crete as prices in boat crossing via Libya reportedly drop File photo: Migrants disembark from a vessel at the port of Kaloi Limenes, on the island of Crete, Greece, February 21, 2026 | Photo: Stefanos Rapanis / Reuters
Global 19-Jun-2026

59 migrants rescued off Crete as prices in boat crossing via Libya reportedly drop

Last month, nearly 400 people were rescued in waters near Crete over a two-day period. A report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime revealed that a key factor driving up the number of irregular sea crossings towards the southern Greek island...

InfoMigrants
Haitians in Ohio with temporary protected status prepare for upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision Members of the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio, from left, Lindsay Aime, James Fleurijean, Viles Dorsainvil, and Rose-Thamar Joseph, stand for worship at Central Christian Church, on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Americas 18-Jun-2026

Haitians in Ohio with temporary protected status prepare for upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision

The future of Haitians living in Ohio with temporary protected status hangs in the balance of a United States Supreme Court decision that could come as soon as this week or next.

Ohio Capital Journal
Immigration Authorities Kept an 8-Year-Old US Citizen in a Brooklyn Shelter for Nearly Seven Months “He appears sad, isolated, reluctant to engage, and often unwilling to speak,” an advocate for the boy wrote to federal officials months into his detention. | Photos: Nadezhda1906/Getty Images; eric1513/Getty Images | Illustration: Leor Stylar
Americas 18-Jun-2026

Immigration Authorities Kept an 8-Year-Old US Citizen in a Brooklyn Shelter for Nearly Seven Months

A lawsuit accuses federal officials of ignoring evidence that the boy, born in Mexico, held US citizenship through his mother.

New York Focus
African migrants with deep roots in South Africa flee xenophobic attacks Passengers wait to be checked in as Ghana repatriates hundreds of its citizens from South Africa following instances of violence against migrants from other sub-Saharan African countries, amid a wave of protests against illegal immigration, at O.R. Tambo International Airport in Kempton Park, South Africa, May 27, 2026. (Photo: REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko)
Global 18-Jun-2026

African migrants with deep roots in South Africa flee xenophobic attacks

When 33-year-old Princess Adjei set up her hair salon in downtown Durban in November, she had lived inSouth Africa since moving from Ghana as a toddler...

Daily Maverick
California man pleads guilty in migrant smuggling scheme that held victims for ransom A U.S. Border Patrol truck parked on the beach at the Border Field State Park near the U.S.-Mexico border in Imperial Beach, California, on Oct. 11, 2023. (Sam Ribakoff/Courthouse News)
Americas 17-Jun-2026

California man pleads guilty in migrant smuggling scheme that held victims for ransom

A 20-year-old woman and a father of four who were supposed to be smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border were held hostage and later disappeared after their families paid thousands of dollars for their release.

Courthouse News
Over 2,700 migrants leave South Africa in one week DW
Global 17-Jun-2026

Over 2,700 migrants leave South Africa in one week

Thousands of Malawians stranded in makeshift camps are being bussed home as South Africa accelerates deportations. A June 30 deadline set by anti‑migrant groups has prompted African governments to evacuate citizens.

DW
Tunisia carries out more ’voluntary returns’ of sub-Saharan migrants Undocumented migrants from sub-Saharan African countries queue at Tunis-Carthage International Airport on June 16, 2026, before their repatriation to their countries of origin | Photo: Mohamed Hammi/Sipa Press
Global 17-Jun-2026

Tunisia carries out more ’voluntary returns’ of sub-Saharan migrants

Close to 100 sub-Saharan African migrants have been deported from Tunisia under a ’voluntary return’ scheme. Critics argue that tightened rules, harassment and racism migrants face in Tunisia...

InfoMigrants
Sweden votes in favor of controversial ’snitch law’ for undocumented migrants Protesters gather on Norrbro bridge in central Stockholm on June 14, 2026, opposing Sweden’s controversial "snitch law". The measure could affect an estimated 30,000–50,000 undocumented migrants in Sweden | Photo: Joel Lindhe / ZUMA Press Wire
Global 16-Jun-2026

Sweden votes in favor of controversial ’snitch law’ for undocumented migrants

Hundreds protest on Stockholm’s Norrbro bridge as parliament votes on Monday on the controversial "snitch law" requiring some Swedish authorities to report undocumented migrants to police...

InfoMigrants
Immigrant moms worry their babies could be left stateless as they await Supreme Court decision on birthright Some immigrant moms worry that if birthright citizenship goes away, their babies will be cut off from essential services including everything from health care to food. Adriana Cardona-Maguigad| WBEZ
Americas 15-Jun-2026

Immigrant moms worry their babies could be left stateless as they await Supreme Court decision on birthright

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule by early July on whether babies born in the U.S. to immigrant parents without legal or permanent status should continue to get automatic U.S. citizenship.

WBEZ
Religious leaders warn against World Cup’s impact on migrants and the poor A street parade organized by the Mexican Ministry of Tourism celebrates the 2026 World Cup at Alameda Central in Mexico City. (Wikimedia Commons/ProtoplasmaKid)
Americas 10-Jun-2026

Religious leaders warn against World Cup’s impact on migrants and the poor

In a joint appeal published in May, Dominican justice and peace promoters from the three host countries welcomed the World Cup as "a moment for sport" and "an opportunity for our common humanity," while warning about human trafficking...

National Catholic Reporter
Trump’s war on immigrants Protesters rally at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau on Jan. 29, 2026 to condemn U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the killings of Minneapolis residents Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and other deaths in ICE custody, and call on the Alaska congressional delegation to vote against further federal funding for the agency. (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)
Americas 09-Jun-2026

Trump’s war on immigrants

Our country has gone through several convulsions against immigrants, none having left a legacy of honor and some having made their imprint on Alaska’s own history...

Alaska Beacon
An uncertain win for immigrants seeking to stay in US Immigrants wait for their appointments at the Annandale Immigration Court in Annandale, Va., on May 26, 2026. A federal judge on Friday, June 5, 2026, invalidated policies the Trump administration enacted last year that halted asylum grants, as well as the processing of immigration benefits for people from 39 countries. (Salwan Georges/The New York Times)
Americas 08-Jun-2026

An uncertain win for immigrants seeking to stay in US

A day after a federal judge struck down Trump administration policies that had frozen applications for many immigrants seeking to stay in the country, there was renewed hope that a six-month logjam might be easing.

San Juan Daily Star
Walking the Migrant Trail Photo courtesy of Ken Jones.
Americas 05-Jun-2026

Walking the Migrant Trail

There is nothing like walking quietly with a group of committed people through the hot Arizona desert to bring home the deadly reality faced by migrants coming to the U.S. through its southern border.

Counter Punch
US bishops release prayer service commemorating immigrants, enslaved with call to action A migrant is pictured in a file photo swimming across the Rio Bravo in Matamoros, Mexico, to help other asylum-seekers turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents. (OSV News photo/Daniel Becerril, Reuters)
Americas 03-Jun-2026

US bishops release prayer service commemorating immigrants, enslaved with call to action

As the U.S. marks its 250th anniversary, the nation’s Catholic bishops have released a prayer service text commemorating its immigrants and refugees, as well as those trafficked under historic and modern forms of slavery in the U.S.

Catholic Review
Mauritania: Over 100 migrants rescued at sea From file: Irregular migrants usually use so-called cayucos to travel thousands of kilometers over the Atlantic, aiming to reach Spain’s Canary Islands | Photo: Antonio Sempere / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS
Global 03-Jun-2026

Mauritania: Over 100 migrants rescued at sea

The Mauritanian coast guard said that it saved 110 migrants after the engine of their rickety boat broke down. Among those rescued were 12 women and three children. The boat had reportedly set off from The Gambia, presumably heading for Spain’s Canary Islands.

InfoMigrants
Determined and driven: The people who show up each Sunday to demand closure of ’Alligator Alcatraz’ Joshua Ceballos / WLRN 72-year-old Steve Espinosa of Naples has joined the Freedom Vigil outside Alligator Alcatraz six times in the past few months.
Americas 02-Jun-2026

Determined and driven: The people who show up each Sunday to demand closure of ’Alligator Alcatraz’

[...] They have come from various churches and faith traditions in South Florida to hold "Freedom Vigils" for nearly a year to pray and demonstrate against what they say are inhumane conditions inside the immigrant detention center...

WLRN
Pope Leo XIV’s common ministry with Mother Cabrini: a heart for migrants and refugees A combination photo shows Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican before his weekly general audience May 20, 2026, and a portrait of St. Frances Cabrini on display at St. Frances Cabrini Shrine in the Upper Manhattan section of New York City March 3, 2024. (OSV News photo/CNS, Lola Gomez, Gregory A. Shemitz)
Global 02-Jun-2026

Pope Leo XIV’s common ministry with Mother Cabrini: a heart for migrants and refugees

When Pope Leo XIV goes to Pavia, Italy, on June 20 to venerate St. Augustine’s remains, he’s scheduled to take a half-hour detour to also venerate another saint.

OSV News
La UE autoriza la creación de "centros de retorno" en el extranjero para migrantes irregulares Los migrantes suben a un autobús con destino a la comisaría de Playa de las Américas y posteriormente a un centro de detención temporal, tras una operación de rescate cerca de Tenerife, España, el 4 de julio de 2023. © Desiree Martin, AFP
Global 02-Jun-2026

La UE autoriza la creación de "centros de retorno" en el extranjero para migrantes irregulares

La Unión Europea alcanzó el lunes un acuerdo para permitir que los Estados miembros envíen a migrantes obligados a abandonar el bloque a centros de retorno ubicados en terceros países...

France 24
International arbitrators reject $134M claim by Rwanda against UK for scrapped migrant deal Exterior view of the Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Feb. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
Global 01-Jun-2026

International arbitrators reject $134M claim by Rwanda against UK for scrapped migrant deal

A panel of international arbitrators has rejected a multimillion-dollar claim by Rwanda against the United Kingdom linked to a refugee resettlement deal that Prime Minister Keir Starmer scrapped immediately after taking office in 2024.

Associated Press
When ICE ramped up enforcement, US‑born workers didn’t see any economic gains Despite the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, U.S.-born workers aren’t seeing more jobs or higher wages, including in sectors with a high share of immigrant labor. AP Photo/Richard Vogel
Americas 29-May-2026

When ICE ramped up enforcement, US‑born workers didn’t see any economic gains

resident Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to strengthen the labor market. His immigration platform – including a pledge to conduct the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history – was central to that promise.

The Conversation


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