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A small boat loaded with Afghan families smashed onto the rocks and sank off an island in the Aegean Sea on Tuesday, causing three immigrant women and five children to drown.
A ticket agent contractor who worked for Delta Air Lines in the U.S. Virgin Islands has pleaded guilty in a conspiracy to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States.
France's immigration minister said Wednesday that minors detained in a roundup of illegal immigrants in the English Channel port of Calais would not be expelled from France.
Spaceman Jose Hernandez said Monday the United States needs to legalize its undocumented immigrants — a rare, public stand for a U.S. astronaut on a political, hot-button issue.
Mexico's Health Department says it will launch a pilot program to encourage migrants working in the United States to sign up their families in Mexico for the Mexican government's low-income health insurance program.
A federal grand jury in the U.S. Virgin Islands has indicted two ticket agent contractors who worked for Delta Airlines and an airport employee on charges of conspiracy to smuggle illegal immigrants into the U.S.
Mexico's president is so excited about a NASA astronaut of Mexican descent that he invited him to dinner when the astronaut returns to Earth.
He toiled in California's farm fields alongside his Mexican migrant worker parents and didn't learn English until he was 12. Now Jose Hernandez, NASA astronaut, is about to rocket into orbit.
The government says an illegal immigrant sneaked into the U.K. by smuggling himself aboard a bus full of British border agents.
A survey by Mexico's National Human Rights Commission shows that thousands of mainly Central American migrants crossing the country to reach the United States are kidnapped for ransom every year.
Armed smugglers interrupted a U.S. Coast Guard operation to remove illegal Haitian migrants from an overloaded boat, holding 60 of the passengers at gunpoint as they escaped authorities, the U.S. Embassy said Thursday.
Italian lawmakers voted Wednesday to fine illegal immigrants up to euro10,000 ($13,670) and jail the people who house them, imposing stiff new penalties in an attempt to stem a flood of migrants on rickety boats from Africa.
Angry demonstrators hurled stones and tore down a sign at the Dominican Republic's embassy in Haiti on Friday to protest the decapitation of a Haitian in Santo Domingo.
Spanish authorities have arrested 29 people suspected of forging credit cards to finance an elaborate scheme to smuggle Cubans into the U.S. from Mexico, police said Wednesday.
A migrant encampment on tribal land with squalid living conditions was ordered to stay open by a federal judge Thursday even though its owner said he wouldn't be able to pay for repairs.
Mexican authorities are investigating a group of doctors who allegedly refused to treat an illegal Nicaraguan migrant whose leg later had to be amputated, a health official said Friday.
Some hefted their luggage on bamboo shoulder poles. Others carried their things in plastic buckets. All were migrant workers hurrying to get home Thursday before China's Lunar New Year festival — a holiday that triggers one of the world's biggest annual migrations of humans.
Organizers of central Mexico's annual parade of tricked-out "trocas," or trucks, say more migrants are returning to their homeland, and many are planning to stay for a while.
Even by the standards of Moscow's xenophobic thugs it was a horrific attack: A group of skinheads gunned down Tajik migrant Salokhiddin Azizov on a Moscow region street, cut off his head and emailed a picture of the gruesome trophy to rights groups.
Migrant remittances, a vital source of income for poor countries, could decline by up to 6 percent next year due to worsening economic conditions around the world, the U.N.'s trade chief said Friday.
The Sunday afternoon calm was broken by shouts from the small, mission-style house, watched over by a statue of the Virgin Mary.
A man pleaded guilty Thursday to running an organization that authorities said smuggled dozens of illegal immigrants per day through a live bombing range in southeastern California.
A harrowing boat journey across the Mediterranean left some 70 African migrants missing after rough seas capsized the craft, the U.N. refugee agency said Thursday, calling on Malta to release the eight survivors from detention.
An Egyptian medical official says border guards have shot dead a Sudanese migrant who was trying to cross illegally into Israel.
Mexicans working in other countries are sending less money home, threatening businesses, stalling construction and choking cash flow to hamlets where as much as half the population works in the United States.
Migrant kids: out of the fields into the classroomElizabeth Pineda climbs out from bed, her 4-year-old son Adrian asleep nearby. She lays out a tiny pair of shorts and a white T-shirt for his first day of school, gathers her purse and tiptoes outside. Her cousin will get the boy up and off to class in a few hours.
Fatal Sunshine: The Plight of California's Farm WorkersThe bountiful harvest of California strawberries, melons, grapes, peaches and nectarines overflows the nation's summer tables.
More unions favor legalizing workersThe dynamics of the farm labor population have changed since César Chávez and others began organizing workers in California's fields.
Greece Fails to Assist Unaccompanied Migrant ChildrenSome 1,000 unaccompanied migrant children who have entered Greece in 2008 without parents or caregivers struggle to survive without any state assistance, Human Rights Watch said in a new report issued today.
Report: China faces wave of unrest in 2009China faces surging protests and riots in 2009 as rising unemployment stokes discontent, a state-run magazine said in a blunt warning of the hazards to Communist Party control from an economic downturn.
A generation left behind by Filipino migrant workersDolores Gerong's one wish this Christmas is to be back in the Philippines with her three children.
The Most Radical Thing You Can Do | Rebecca Solnit | Orion MagazineWe are going to have to stay home a lot more in the future. For us that's about giving things up. But the situation looks quite different from the other side of all our divides.
The Immigration Debate Just Got a Little Funnier...The White Collar Job Market, near future... (You tube clip at the link.)
Welcome to Britain... but don't eat the fishMigrants will be given information packs warning them not to drink-drive or steal fish from rivers. The pamphlets will set out a series of rights and responsibilities to help arrivals "get to grips with what is expected of them, from national laws to local traditions".
Stop the Illegal Alien Invasion : America is Dying; Down with RacismPlease read all of the quotes.
83% of Undocumented Immigrants Say They Would Comply with Senate BillNobody bothered to ask the nation's 12 million undocumented immigrants what they would do once immigration reform legislation was passed -- until now.
Mexicans Schmexicans: Big Ag Enlists Robots to Pick High-Hanging FruitAs if the debate over immigration and guest worker programs wasn't complicated enough, now a couple of robots are rolling into the middle of it.
UK To (Functionally) Legalise Modern Domestic Slavery (Again)We may not have got a full apology from the government to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade but we've had pretty much everything else - "expressions of regret", apologies from Ken Livingstone, a service of remembrance in Westminster Abbey attended by …
Youth suicides soar in wake of Ecuador's exodusThe emigration of residents seeking better pay has left children lacking one or both parents -- and prone to killing themselves.
Success Story Chokes on Growth The thesis is that migrants workers come seeking their fortunes, are ruthlessly exploited by employers and wind up as prostitues or thieves. No, it isn't New York this time.
The Rise of Migrant MilitancyMilitant organizing by immigrants in New York City could show the way for a revitalized labor movement.
Before we become too indignant about the problem of illegal immigration from Mexico, lets consider the possibility that American apathy may, at least, be part of the problem.
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