Photo credit: CBS News The United Kingdom will drastically reduce protections for refugees and end automatic benefits for asylum seekers. CBS News reports that the Labour government announced new immigration plans on Saturday aimed at reducing irregular immigration and countering the hard right. The measures, modified on Denmark’s strict asylum system, were announced as Prime…

Photo credit: telegraph herald Federal officials confirmed on Saturday that a surge of immigration enforcement in immigration enforcement in North Carolina’s largest city has begun, as agents were seen making arrests in multiple locations. The Associated Press reports the Assistant Homeland Secretary as saying that, “Americans should be able to live without fear of violent criminal illegal aliens hurting…

Photo credit: Toronto Star A former Canadian immigration minister, Lloyd Axworthy, a prominent champion for refugees, has said he believes the country is putting its reputation as a welcoming place for refugees at risk through recent federal policy shifts. CTV News reports that, according to him, those shifts include the Carney government’s new border security bill,…

Photo credit: DW South Africa’s intelligence services are investigating who was behind a chartered plane that landed in Johannesburg with more than 150 Palestinians from war-ravaged Gaza who did not have proper travel documents and were held onboard on the tarmac for around 12 hours, as a result, the country’s president said on Friday. The plane landed on Thursday morning…