Fact check: Can Trump use a 1798 law to carry out mass deportations? | US Election 2024 News

Fact check: Can Trump use a 1798 law to carry out mass deportations? | US Election 2024 News

A cornerstone of former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign has been his promise to carry out the largest deportation operation in United States history. The details of how he would carry out the plan have been unclear. But at recent rallies, Trump has said he will use an 18th-century law…

Baby dies as asylum seekers’ boat sinks off French coast | Migration News

Baby dies as asylum seekers’ boat sinks off French coast | Migration News

European Union leaders have called for new legislation to ‘speed up returns’ of asylum seekers from the 27-nation bloc. A baby has died after a boat carrying asylum seekers towards the United Kingdom sank in the English Channel off the coast of France, the authorities said. The local coastguard in…

US shields Lebanese citizens from deportation amid Israel’s war | Israel attacks Lebanon News

US shields Lebanese citizens from deportation amid Israel’s war | Israel attacks Lebanon News

Around 11,000 Lebanese nationals in the US can stay for 18 months and file for work permits under new status. The United States is granting temporary immigration protections for thousands of Lebanese nationals as Israel continues a devastating month-long assault on their home country. The protections include offering Temporary Protected…

Poland to temporarily suspend asylum rights amid Belarus border tensions | Migration News

Poland to temporarily suspend asylum rights amid Belarus border tensions | Migration News

The move aims to curb a border crisis that Warsaw says has been orchestrated by Minsk and its ally Russia. Poland is set to temporarily suspend the right to asylum as part of a broader strategy aimed at reducing irregular migration, driven by escalating tensions with Belarus. The Polish government…

Trump calls for death penalty for migrants who kill US citizens, police | US Election 2024 News

Trump calls for death penalty for migrants who kill US citizens, police | US Election 2024 News

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for the death penalty for migrants who kill United States citizens or members of law enforcement, as part of an incendiary rally in Aurora, Colorado. In his Friday night speech, Trump, a former president, repeated false and misleading claims about immigrants in the…

Fate of US ‘Dreamers’ before an appeals court, again | Migration News

Fate of US ‘Dreamers’ before an appeals court, again | Migration News

The hearing is latest in years-long legal battle over Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. A United States federal appeals court is considering the fate of a programme that currently allows more than half a million undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children to live and work…

EU officials blast Hungary’s Orban over Ukraine stance, democratic decline | European Union News

EU officials blast Hungary’s Orban over Ukraine stance, democratic decline | European Union News

Lawmakers belt out antifascist anthem, prompting European Parliament president to declare: ‘This is not Eurovision’. Top European Union officials have slammed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over democratic backsliding at home and his Russia-friendly stance that has blocked military and financial aid to Ukraine. Orban, whose country currently holds the…

Trump blames murders in US on immigrants with ‘bad genes’ | Donald Trump News

Trump blames murders in US on immigrants with ‘bad genes’ | Donald Trump News

White House condemns Republican candidate and former president’s remarks as ‘hateful’ and ‘disgusting’. US presidential contender Donald Trump has sparked uproar with more anti-immigrant rhetoric, claiming there are thousands of immigrants with murder convictions spreading “bad genes” in the United States. Trump made the comments in a radio interview with…

Toddler ‘trampled to death’ as migrants try to cross English Channel | Migration News

Toddler ‘trampled to death’ as migrants try to cross English Channel | Migration News

At least four people, including a two-year-old, die in two attempts to cross the channel on crowded boats. A two-year-old has been crushed to death and three other people have been killed in two attempts to cross the English Channel using overcrowded boats, French authorities say. “A child was trampled…

‘No place to go’: As Israel bombs Lebanon, African migrants feel abandoned | Israel attacks Lebanon News

‘No place to go’: As Israel bombs Lebanon, African migrants feel abandoned | Israel attacks Lebanon News

Soreti*, an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker living in Lebanon, says she feels lucky to be alive. She was not home when Israeli air strikes struck buildings in her neighbourhood in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on September 23. “It was a massacre,” the 34-year-old said from a private home…