The pre-dawn call by U.S. border agents to their Canadian counterparts was shocking: A group of nine people, most of them children, were about to enter Canada on foot. On Feb. 3 at 6:16 a.m., when the group was spotted, the border between Alberta and Montana was brutally uninviting, covered in snow, dark with a…
She first entered a church on a visit to Turkey. She remembers feeling a sense of calm so overpowering that she purchased a small Bible. She wrapped it in her clothes and smuggled it back to her hometown, Isfahan, in central Iran. Artemis Ghasemzadeh’s conversion from Islam to Christianity evolved over a few years starting…
The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday that it would dismiss a case against Elon Musk’s SpaceX, in which the rocket company had been accused of discriminating against people based on their citizenship status. In an unopposed motion filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, the Justice Department said it intended…
Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said. It is unclear how long the group, which was deported under the Trump…
On Thursday morning, a 24-year-old Afghan refugee drove into a union demonstration in central Munich, killing a 2-year-old girl and her mother and injuring nearly 40 other people. The police say they are investigating whether the driver, who confessed to a deliberate attack, acted alone. The attack happened just 10 days before federal elections that…
The Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), a Sikh American civil rights organisation, has expressed concerns over reports of raids by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and deportations of Indian and Sikh youths. Even as SALDEF has thoroughly investigated earlier reports regarding alleged presence of ICE staff at gurdwaras in the…
The times they are a changin, and that’s true for the illegal immigration trend in the US too. While Punjabi-speaking asylum-seekers formed 66% of all Indian illegal immigrants in the US from 2001 to 2022, Hindi-speaking undocumented Indians have surged past them in recent years. An analysis by two Johns Hopkins University researchers found that…
There has been a significant rise in asylum seekers to the US from India since 2018, shows a study by researchers from Johns Hopkins University. From 9,000 in 2018, it has risen to 51,000 in 2023. However, data from 2022, the latest US government data available, shows a 60% decline in the population of undocumented…
As Secretary of State Marco Rubio begins his first overseas trip on Saturday in Panama, Central American countries are largely reeling under the weight of President Trump’s confrontational approach, including threats of military force to reclaim the Panama Canal and coercing nations into accepting military planes filled with deported migrants. The visit comes during a…
Italian judges on Friday again denied the government’s request to hold asylum seekers in Albania while their cases are being processed, dealing another major setback to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s anti-immigration policy. It was the third ruling against the policy since Ms. Meloni’s right-wing government began carrying out the plan in October, which has become…