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Texas Governor Abbott endangered lives with Christmas Eve migrant drop, White House says
Migrants, mostly from Venezuela, stand covered with blankets during a night of low temperatures in downtown El Paso, Texas, U.S., December 23, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
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Delaware braces for migrant flight in U.S. political standoff
People gather outside ahead of the arrival of migrants who have been flown from Texas via Florida at Delaware Coastal Airport in Sussex County, Delaware, U.S., September 20, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
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A migrant crisis is shaping up to be a winning issue for U.S. Republicans – again
Gary Mason
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Texas sheriff opens investigation into migrant flights sent to Martha’s Vineyard
FILE - Migrants, who arrived on a flight sent by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, gather with their belongings outside St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Wednesday Sept. 14, 2022, in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard. A Texas sheriff on Monday, Sept. 19 opened an investigation into two flights of migrants sent to Martha's Vineyard by DeSantis, but did not say what laws may have been broken in putting 48 Venezuelans on private planes last week from San Antonio. (Ray Ewing/Vineyard Gazette via AP, File)
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Tears, uncertainty as migrants depart Martha’s Vineyard amid political standoff
A man, who is part of a group of immigrants that had just arrived, flashes a thumbs up Wednesday Sept. 14, 2022, in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday flew two planes of immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, escalating a tactic by Republican governors to draw attention to what they consider to be the Biden administration's failed border policies. (Ray Ewing/Vineyard Gazette via AP)
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Migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by Florida governor say they were misled
Immigrants gather with their belongings outside St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Wednesday Sept. 14, 2022, in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday flew two planes of immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, escalating a tactic by Republican governors to draw attention to what they consider to be the Biden administration's failed border policies. (Ray Ewing/Vineyard Gazette via AP)
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Washington mayor declares public emergency over migrant arrivals from Texas, Arizona
FILE - Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks during a news conference March 15, 2022, in Washington. Two Republican border-state governors who are investing billions of dollars on immigration enforcement and hours at the podium blasting the Biden administration policies have found two unlikely allies: Democratic mayors Bowser of Washington, D.C., and Eric Adams of New York. The mayors' recent overtures for federal aid is a response to Texas and Arizona busing migrants away from the border, a months-old practice that has been long on political theater and short on practical impact. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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U.S. Border Patrol says eight migrants found dead in Rio Grande at Texas
FILE - A member of the Texas National Guard looks across the Rio Grande to Mexico from the U.S. at Eagle Pass, Texas, on Aug. 26, 2022. At least eight migrants were killed as dozens attempted a hazardous crossing of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas, officials said Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported that it responded to the report a day earlier. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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Almost 700 migrants rescued off the Italian coast, 5 found dead
This handout picture taken and released on July 23, 2022 by the NGO Sea-Watch shows a Sea-Watch 3 crew member on a lifeboat approaching an inflatable boat in distress with 120 people on board in the central Mediterranean. (Photo by NORA BORDING / SEA-WATCH / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO /Sea-Watch / NORA BORDING " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by NORA BORDING/SEA-WATCH/AFP via Getty Images)
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Migrants walk north from southern Mexico in protest
A man gives water to his daughter while taking part in a caravan as Venezuelans growing impatient of waiting for the humanitarian visa, cross the country to reach the United States, in Tapachula, in Chiapas state, Mexico June 24, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Torres
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At least 51 migrants found dead in truck in San Antonio, Texas
Police block the scene where a tractor trailer with multiple dead bodies was discovered, Monday, June 27, 2022, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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At least 12 African migrants dead, another 10 missing as four migrant boats sink off Tunisia
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Mexican authorities evict Tijuana migrant camp near border
Belongings of migrants are scattered, after Mexican authorities cleared a makeshift camp, where hundreds of migrants heading towards the U.S. border were staying, at the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, February 6, 2022. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes
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Mexico dismantles makeshift camp with thousands of migrants near Guatemalan border
FILE PHOTO: Central American migrants form a line while they wait for a QR code to register their migrant situation in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. Dec 29, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Torres/File Photo
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Bodies of 27 migrants wash ashore in Libya, Red Crescent says
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At least 55 migrants dead, dozens injured in truck crash in Mexico
TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, MEXICO - DECEMBER 09: Police officers work in the area after a traffic accident that killed migrants from Central America on December 9, 2021 in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. A truck accident leaves at least 49 people dead and dozens injured according to authorities. Most of the victims are believed to be migrants from Central American who were travelling on a truck that rolled over and crashed into a pedestrian bridge. (Photo by Alfredo Pacheco/Getty Images)
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Despite the perils of crossing the English Channel, many migrants still desperate to get to the U.K.
DUNKIRK, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 26: A refugee lights a fire to keep warm at daybreak in the new Jungle on November 26, 2021 in Dunkirk, France. At least 27 people including five women and a young girl died yesterday trying to cross the Channel to the UK in an inflatable dinghy in an incident in which the International Organisation for Migration described as the biggest single loss of life in the Channel since it began collecting data in 2014. There currently 1800 migrants and refugees currently living in Northern France. (Photo by Kiran Ridley/Getty Images)
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Inside the Darien Gap: Desperate Haitian migrants make a terrifying trek as U.S. efforts fail to deter them
A Haitian migrant carrying his son on his shoulders treks through the Darien Gap in Colombia on October 29, 2021. Yader Guzman/The Globe and Mail
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Europe must resist Belarus migrants’ ‘blackmail’, Austria says
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting in Minsk, Belarus, Monday, Nov. 22, 2021. Lukashenko on Monday chafed at the European Union for its refusal to hold talks on the influx of migrants on the country's border with Poland. (Nikolay Petrov/BelTA Pool Photo via AP)
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Mexican authorities discover more than 400 migrants in semi-trailers
A soldier stands guard by a cargo truck at the Attorney Generals Office after it was intercepted carrying migrants on the highway, in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz state, Mexico, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. About 500 migrants were riding in two cargo trucks when they were stopped and detained by the Criminal Investigation Agency and the National Immigration Institute, according to those two organizations. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
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French President Emmanuel Macron, Russian President Vladimir Putin discuss de-escalating Belarus border tensions
Trucks queue at motorway 65 on their way to the Polish-Belarusian border between Bialystok and Bobrowniki, Poland, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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Italian Coast Guard rescues 550 migrants from stormy seas
Migrants and refugees enter in the port of Roccella Jonica, Calabria region, southern Italy, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021. The Italian Coast Guard rescued Sunday morning off the cost Calabria over 250 young men and boys, mostly from Egypt. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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Belarus using asylum seekers in ‘hybrid warfare’ against EU
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Poland-Belarus border: Asylum-seekers trapped in Eastern Europe by Lukashenko’s political chess game
Migrants are surrounded by journalists in a forest near the Polish-Belarusian border outside Narewka, Poland November 9, 2021. The group of migrants was later guided out of the forest by Polish border guards and taken to a detention centre. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel