News about immigration

Six hurt as Australia breaks up immigration camp protest Australia said Tuesday a week-long protest by asylum-seekers at one of its immigration detention centres had been broken up with six people injured.
04 June 2014 08:54
At least 36 immigrants die in Libya shipwreck: navy At least 36 immigrants died and 42 are reported missing after a makeshift boat was wrecked off Libya's coast, a naval spokesman told AFP.
12 May 2014 14:26
Children call Australian immigration detention 'hell' Children held in immigration detention in Australia have described conditions as "hell" with a human rights inquiry Monday detailing many banging their heads, biting themselves and wetting their beds.
25 March 2014 12:09
Pussy Riot moving to Kazakhstan? Two members of the scandalously notorious Pussy Riot punk band Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina are thinking about moving to Astana, Kazakhstan.
12 March 2014 13:50
Museum takes possession of long-lost Nazi diary The US Holocaust Memorial Museum took possession Tuesday of a Nazi war criminal's long-lost diary and posted it online to help researchers decipher the thinking behind Adolf Hitler's "final solution."
19 December 2013 10:28
Morocco unveils scheme to recognise illegal immigrants Morocco has unveiled details of an "exceptional operation" to give official papers to some of its 25,000-40,000 illegal immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, many of whom hope to reach Europe.
13 November 2013 10:48
Britain red-faced over bungled 'sham marriage' raid British immigration officials admitted Friday that they mistakenly raided the wedding of an Italian man and his Chinese bride because they believed the marriage was a sham.
10 November 2013 21:09
Immigration and US spying row gatecrash EU summit European immigration and a row over US eavesdropping are set to dominate an EU leaders' summit beginning in Brussels, after a deadly shipwreck off Italy shocked the continent.
24 October 2013 14:39
Hollande under fire for 'emotional' response to Roma girl French President Francois Hollande has been attacked from all sides for offering a deported Roma schoolgirl the chance to return to France without her family.
21 October 2013 16:02
British vans telling migrants to 'go home' ruled inoffensive Britain's advertising watchdog said Wednesday that government posters urging illegal immigrants to "go home or face arrest" were not offensive despite hundreds of complaints.
09 October 2013 16:27
Next Norwegian government to get tough on immigration Norway's incoming government will get tough on immigration, future prime minister Erna Solberg, said Monday as she presented the main policies of the minority coalition she is forming with a populist right-wing party.
02 October 2013 10:00
Dominican army deports 47,700 Haitians in 13 months The Dominican army deported some 47,700 Haitians since August 2012 who entered the country illegally.
29 September 2013 21:36
Facebook's Zuckerberg backs US immigration reform Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has taken his backing for US immigration reform public.
08 August 2013 10:21
UN concern at Australia's PNG boatpeople plan The United Nations on Friday said it was "troubled" by Australia's decision to send asylum-seekers arriving by boat to Papua New Guinea given conditions there failed to adequately protect refugees.
26 July 2013 11:00
Australia's Abbott plans military solution to boatpeople Australia's conservative opposition unveiled plans Thursday for a military-led response to repel boatpeople, branding the problem a "national emergency".
25 July 2013 12:49
Indonesia searches for missing Australia-bound boatpeople Rescuers searched the seas off Indonesia's Java island Wednesday for possibly dozens of asylum-seekers missing after their Australia-bound boat sank, leaving at least three dead, with 157 saved.
24 July 2013 13:35
Nauru refugee riots follow Australian crackdown Buildings were razed as hundreds of asylum-seekers escaped detention during riots at an Australian refugee facility on Nauru.
21 July 2013 13:41
Pope visits Italy refugee island Pope Francis arrived on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, a key destination of tens of thousands of would-be immigrants from Africa, in a visit the Vatican hopes will raise awareness of their plight.
09 July 2013 11:31
US Senate passes comprehensive immigration reform In a vote hailed by US President Barack Obama, the Senate on Thursday passed comprehensive immigration reform that would put 11 million undocumented people on a path to earning citizenship.
29 June 2013 10:38
In US, Asian immigrants better off than whites: study Asian immigrants tend to live in highly segregated enclaves in the United States and their income level is often higher than that of white Americans.
26 June 2013 10:37
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