In a highly controversial move, Italy’s government has issued a hard-line security decree that will make it easier to expel refugees and strip them of Italian citizenship.
TEHRAN, September 11 - A former employee at an immigration detention center for minors in Arizona has been convicted of sexually abusing children detained in the facility, U.S. Attorneys announced Monday.
TEHRAN, September 05 -Those wondering why Swedish politics are set to lurch to the right in Sunday’s election need look no further than Ljusnarsberg, a tiny central county of dense pine forests and glistening lakes.
TEHRAN, August 17 - The German cabinet will soon decide on a proposal to make it easier for skilled workers from outside the European Union to move to Germany to take a job, a paper seen by Reuters shows, as Germany seeks to alleviate chronic labor shortages.
TEHRAN, July 21 -Canada’s immigration detention system relies on faulty information and is stacked against detainees, many of whom lack lawyers and are penalized for having severe mental illness, an audit as found.
TEHRAN, July 03 -A federal judge Monday ordered the Department of Homeland Security to determine whether to grant asylum-seekers parole from immigration detention on an individual basis.
TEHRAN, July 02 - Despite temperatures that soared above 90 the "Families Belong Together" rally drew tens of thousands of people to Washington this weekend, including some who needed a stroller or some shoulders to sit on.
TEHRAN, June 30 -An emerging coalition of politicians, activists and pro-immigrant protesters are calling for the abolition of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over border abuses.
TEHRAN, June 28 - Before deporting him in shackles last week, U.S. immigration agents handed Honduran asylum-seeker Melvin Garcia his few possessions and a small blue wallet belonging to Daylin, the 12-year-old daughter they had taken from him.
TEHRAN, June 22 - Senior Republican Party lawmakers in the US House of Representatives have delayed at least until next week votes on an immigration bill that was painstakingly negotiated over the last several weeks but has failed to attract enough support for passage in the lower chamber of Congress.
TEHRAN, June 17 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seeking talks with some EU member states on migrant policy before a leaders summit at the end of the month, a government spokesman said, in a last-ditch bid to avert a coalition crisis erupting this week.
TEHRAN, May 21 - Britain has become more welcoming to migration since it voted to leave the European Union, environment minister and leading Brexit campaigner Michael Gove said on Monday.
TEHRAN, May 15 - Bosnia is struggling to cope with the arrival of thousands of migrants and refugees, many of whom are sleeping in parks in the capital and other towns as they seek passage into western Europe.
TEHRAN, April 13 - An Indian man died on Friday at a Japanese immigration detention center in an apparent suicide, the latest death in a system widely criticized over medical standards, monitoring of detainees and mental health care.
TEHRAN, February 15 - A bipartisan group of US senators in Congress have unveiled a compromise plan to protect so-called "Dreamers" and boost border security, defying President Donald Trump's demand to embrace his more hardline plan.
TEHRAN, February 1 - Students at the University of Paris occupied a campus building Tuesday, calling on the government to support and grant asylum to all migrants regardless of their reasons for coming to France.
TEHRAN, June 13, YJC - German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is in Mexico, says walls will not resolve migration issues, indirectly criticizing United States President Donald Trump’s plans to set up a wall on the border with the Latin American country.
TEHRAN, June 1, YJC - The anti- immigration Sweden Democrats party is the country's second largest, a reference poll suggests, two years after Sweden took in the highest number of refugees per capita in Europe.
TEHRAN, May 30, YJC - The Texas House of Representatives has become the scene of clashes between lawmakers and a group of protesters who objected to the state’s adoption of US President Donald Trump’s so-called “sanctuary cities” anti- immigration directive.