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EU pledges crackdown on ‘brutal’ migrant smuggling during visit to overwhelmed Italian island
Rescued migrants disembark from a boat on the Italian island of Lampedusa during the evening of Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. Tensions on the small island were rising Saturday, as both residents and migrants chafed at the long wait times to transfer people from the crowded reception center to the Italian mainland. Nearly 7,000 migrants arrived on Lampedusa from Tunisia this week, and the Red Cross said that 3,800 remained on the island on Friday. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)
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Saudi Arabia border guards fired on and killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants, rights group says
FILE PHOTO: A Saudi flag flutters atop Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey October 20, 2018. REUTERS/Huseyin Aldemir/File Photo
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Freedom or Death - The Outlaw Ocean, episode 10
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Uncertainty clouds U.S. transition at Mexico border as new rules take effect
Camping out in the gap between the two border fences separating Tijuana and San Diego, migrants wait to be processed by U.S. officials on Thursday, May 11, 2023. Title 42, the federal policy that had limited illegal immigration into the U.S. for more than three years, expired at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
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Migrants crossing dense Darien jungle at Colombia-Panama border find increasingly organized route
Haitian migrants wade through water as they cross the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of reaching the U.S., Tuesday, May 9, 2023. Pandemic-related U.S. asylum restrictions, known as Title 42, are to expire Thursday, May 11. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
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Migrants rush across U.S. border in final hours before Title 42 expires
Migrants wait along the border wall at gate 42 to surrender to US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol agents for immigration and asylum claim processing upon crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States on the US-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas on May 11, 2023. The US on May 11, 2023, will officially end its 40-month Covid-19 emergency, also discarding the Title 42 law, a tool that has been used to prevent millions of migrants from entering the country. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
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Police clear refugee camps, arrest dozens in Tunisia as crackdown continues
Migrants shout in front of the UNHCR headquarters in Tunis after the police dismantled a camp for refugees from sub-Saharan African countries, on April 11, 2023. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP) (Photo by FETHI BELAID/AFP via Getty Images)
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At least 40 dead in fire at Mexico migrant centre near U.S. border
Image taken from a video showing ambulances and rescue teams staffers outside an immigration center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. At least three dozen migrants have died in a fire at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico near the U.S. border, according to a newspaper report. Images from the scene showed rows of bodies lying under shimmery silver sheets outside the facility in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas. Ambulances, firefighters and vans from the morgue could also be seen. (AP Photo)
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At least 73 migrants presumed dead after shipwreck off Libya, UN agency says
FILE PHOTO: Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Antonio Vitorino visits an information booth at the border checkpoint where people are crossing the border from Ukraine to Poland, after fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Medyka, Poland, March 10, 2022. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo
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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