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US judge blocks new immigration law in Texas
A federal judge on Thursday blocked a new Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S., dealing a victory to the Biden administration with a broad rejection of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s immigration enforcement effort. U.S. District Judge David Ezra’s preliminary injunction pausing a law that…
Lords checkmate Rwanda plan!
The U.K.’s Upper House has passed five amendments on the Rwanda bill. If the amendments are ratified, it would make it harder for the lower house to declare Rwanda a “safe” country. It would therefore require the government to comply with domestic and in international laws. The amendments would also severely affect the main purpose…
Departure of 613 non-procedural migrant workers postponed
The Class I Immigration Office at the Special Immigration Checkpoint (TPI) of Soekarno-Hatta (Soetta) Airport in Tangerang was able to postpone the departure of 613 non-procedural Indonesian migrant workers (PMIs). Of the hundreds of non-procedural PMIs, their departure through the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport was prevented from January to March 2024. “The total number of non-procedural…
Trump’s claims of a migrant crime wave are not supported by national data
When Donald Trump speaks at the southern border in Texas on Thursday, you can expect to hear him talk about “migrant crime,” a category he has coined and defined as a terrifying binge of criminal activity committed by undocumented immigrants spreading across the country. “You know, in New York, what’s happening with crime is it’s…
UK to pay at least £370M to Rwanda under migration partnership
The National Audit Office (NAO), in a report published Friday, revealed the UK government will pay at least £370 million to Rwanda under their obligations in the Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP). As the UK’s independent public spending watchdog, the NAO audits and reports the government’s financial accounts in order to help improve public…
Colombian ferry strike halts migration to US via treacherous border crossing
A strike by ferry companies in two northern Colombian towns has halted migrant flows through a treacherous border crossing to Panama that has become a vital stage of the migration trail to the US. About 3,000 migrants are held up in Necoclí and Turbo waiting for the restart of ferry services to the western side of…