Migrants

US ICE official who worked at private prison firm will be agency's new acting head

"Dave Venturella will serve as acting ICE director following Todd Lyons' departure," the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, said in a statement.

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Masked law enforcement officers, including HSI and ICE agents, walk into an immigration court in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., May 21, 2025.
Donald Trump holds Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' hand as they speak with the media at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport on the day of the opening of a temporary migrant detention center informally known as "Alligator Alcatraz" in Ochopee, Florida, US, July 1, 2025.

Florida plans to close 'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention center - report

A spokesperson for DHS, asked about the New York Times report, said the agency continues to evaluate detention needs and requirements to ensure they meet the latest operational requirements.

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Migrants from Bangladesh stand in the woods near Velika Kladusa, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 30, 2020. Hundreds of migrants from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa set up makeshift camps in Bosnian woods near the border with Croatia, attempting to cross into the European Union where they h

Croatian police find bodies of four migrants near Slovene border, aid 15 others

The police determined that the migrants were taken in a cargo vehicle by an unknown driver and left at the Slovenian border after having been subject to "inhumane conditions" during the drive.

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Migrants aboard an overcrowded boat react as they are approached by the crew of the migrant search and rescue ship Sea-Watch 5, operated by the German NGO Sea-Watch, during a rescue operation in the Search and Rescue (SAR) zone in the central Mediterranean, off Libya, August 11, 2025.

Libya says 17 migrants perish at sea, nine missing feared dead

Libya is a transit route for migrants, many from sub-Saharan Africa, fleeing to Europe in the hopes of escaping conflict and poverty.

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Texas governor buses migrants to Chicago amid border security dispute

Abbott, who is seeking a third term in the November midterm elections, says the buses are needed because Democratic President Joe Biden has failed to secure the border with Mexico.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022ByREUTERS
Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks at the annual National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in Dallas, Texas, May 4, 2018

Hungary's FM reiterates claim George Soros fueling migrant crisis

Hungarian officials have often used antisemitic tropes to blame Soros for the migrant crisis.

JULY 4, 2022ByTZVI JOFFRE
Hungarian government poster portraying financier George Soros and saying "Don't let George Soros have the last laugh" is seen at a tram stop in Budapest, Hungary

Two suspects charged after death of 51 migrants in sweltering Texas truck

The deaths once again highlight the challenge of controlling migrant crossings for Biden.

JUNE 29, 2022ByREUTERS
A WORKER STANDS next to a newly built section of the US border fence at Sunland Park, New Mexico, opposite the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, on Wednesday. Picture taken from the Mexico side of the border.

What are Israel's Ukrainian refugees most in need of today? - interview

Emunah Spira, a graduate of TAU’s International MA program in Migration Studies, works closely with Ukrainian refugee in the midst of the crisis.

MAY 11, 2022ByALAN ROSENBAUM
MA program in Migration Studies, Emunah Spira

Tensions rise in Tripoli amid claims Lebanese Navy rammed migrant boat

"It is better to escape and drown than to live in a country that does not respect its citizens, where we starve every day."

APRIL 25, 2022ByTZVI JOFFRE
Relatives of people who died when a boat capsized off the Lebanese coast of Tripoli overnight, gather at the entrance of port of Tripoli, northern Lebanon April 24, 2022.

US eases border policy from Trump era for unaccompanied migrant children

In effect, this means that unaccompanied non-citizen children will not be expelled from the United States under CDC’s(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) order.

MARCH 12, 2022ByREUTERS
A Mission Police Dept. officer (L), and a US Border Patrol agent watch over a group of Central American asylum seekers before taking them into custody on June 12, 2018 near McAllen, Texas

Prehistoric Israel: 1.5 million-year-old bone shines light on ancient migration

Earliest evidence of ancient humans discovered in Israel points to human migration through Africa.

FEBRUARY 2, 2022ByJUDITH SUDILOVSKY
A top (a), rear (b), bottom (c) and front (d) view of the vertebra discovered at 'Ubeidiya

Some 30 migrants rescued, one dead as dinghy capsizes in Channel

Human traffickers typically overload the dinghies, leaving them barely afloat and at the mercy of waves as they try to reach British shores.

JANUARY 14, 2022ByREUTERS
Migrants arrive into the Port of Dover onboard a Border Force vessel after being rescued while crossing the English Channel, in Dover, Britain.

Bodies of drowned migrants wash up on Libyan shore

More than a dozen migrants drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean to find better opportunities in Europe.

DECEMBER 26, 2021ByREUTERS
A RHIB (rigid hulled inflatable boat) from the German NGO migrant rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 returns to the ship after rescuing twelve migrants from a wooden boat in international waters north of Libya, in the western Mediterranean Sea, August 2, 2021.

At least 53 people killed in Mexico trailer accident - emergency services

The truck transporting migrants turn over, killing at least 53.

DECEMBER 10, 2021ByREUTERS
A trailer crash in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas killed at least 49 people, most of them migrants from Central America, officials said on Thursday.