Two Zimbabwean startups, Flexid and Uhuru Wallet, recently launched a platform that offers digital identity and remittance services to migrants living and working in South Africa. The two startups hai...
Tag: Migrants
Americans’ Satisfaction With U.S. Immigration At Lowest Point In Decade
Topline Americans are less satisfied with the level of immigration into the U.S. than they have been at any point since 2012, according to a new Gallup poll, as the crisis at the border that’s caused ...
Is The Next Stop For Migrants Over America’s Southern Border: Canada?
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 01: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address during … [+] a joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol’s House Chamber (Photo by Jim Lo Sc...
Cruise Ships Rescue Migrants From Boats Off Florida Coast
Topline About two dozen migrants were rescued by a pair of Carnival Cruise Line ships northwest of Cuba on Monday, according to the company, complementing a recent surge of migrants landing along the ...
Biden Preparing For Record Levels Of Migrants At Southern Border—Here’s Why
Topline The Biden Administration is reportedly preparing for as many as 14,000 migrants to attempt unauthorized crossings of the southern border every day as soon as next week, when a controversial Co...
Judge Ends Trump-Era Title 42 Policy Used To Expel Migrants
Topline A federal judge on Tuesday struck down the CDC’s Title 42 border policy, which both the Trump and Biden administrations used to expel asylum-seekers by citing concerns about the spread o...
Migrants May Be Eligible For Crime Victim Visas
Topline A Texas sheriff declared that 49 migrants flown from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard last month in a move funded by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) are crime victims, according to multipl...
Delaware Prepares For Migrants After Threats GOP Should Target Biden’s Home State
Topline The state of Delaware is preparing for the arrival of a flight of migrants leaving from Texas, according to local officials, potentially the latest move by Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis to del...
De Santis And Abbot Shuttling Migrants North To Make A Point
Governor Ron DeSantis is leading the campaign of shipping migrants northbound to underline the … [+] problems on America’s southern border. (Photo by Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images) Gett...
DeSantis Tactic Of Sending Migrants To Martha’s Vineyard Likely Didn’t Violate Smuggling Laws, Experts Say
Topline Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) took credit Wednesday for transporting undocumented migrants who arrived to the U.S. from Venezuela to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts—a move that some speculate...
DeSantis Claims Credit As Dozens Of Venezuelan Migrants Arrive In Martha’s Vineyard
Topline Around 50 migrants from Venezuela arrived in Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday after being flown into the affluent Massachusetts island resort by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis—part of a wider eff...
Record Number Of Migrants Died At Southern Border Over Past Year, Report Says
Topline Nearly 750 migrants have died along the southern border during fiscal year 2022, according to Department of Homeland Security data obtained by CNN–a number that shatters the previous ann...
Texas Now Busing Migrants To New York City—Mayor Adams Warns City Services Stretching Thin
Topline Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced Friday that his state is now busing migrants seeking asylum in the United States to New York City, marking an expansion of a program that’s dropped t...
D.C. Mayor Requests National Guard Help As Texas And Arizona Bus Migrants To City
Topline D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) requested an indefinite activation of the D.C. National Guard on Thursday to respond to a migrant surge she labeled a “humanitarian crisis,” a situation caused by ...
Biden Extends Deportation Relief For Over 300,000 Venezuelans—But Not For Recent Migrants
Topline Federal immigration officials on Monday extended a set of temporary protections for Venezuelans who entered the United States before March 2021, but chose not to offer protection to more recen...
Border Patrol Agents Did Not Whip Del Rio Migrants, Report Finds
Topline A group of horse-mounted Border Patrol agents responding to a surge of Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas, last year behaved inappropriately but did not strike any of the migrants with their r...
At Least 46 Migrants Found Dead Inside Abandoned Truck Near San Antonio
Topline At least 46 people believed to be migrants were found dead inside and near an abandoned tractor-trailer near San Antonio, Texas, on Monday, a tragedy that appears to be linked to efforts to sm...
Texas Gov. Abbott Sued Over Rounding Up Migrants
Topline Attorneys for migrants detained under Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) “Operation Lone Star” have filed a federal lawsuit to end the practice, claiming Abbott is exceeding his au...
America Is Losing Its Allure To Tourists And Migrants And Hollywood Has To Take Some Of The Blame
NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 06: Rose petals drop over the Statue of Liberty during the Commemorating 70th … [+] Anniversary of D-Day on June 06, 2014 in New York City. Three helicopters have showe...
CDC Ends Trump-Era Pandemic Asylum Restrictions At Border As White House Says ‘Influx’ Of Migrants Expected
Topline The Biden administration on Friday repealed a public health order imposed by former President Donald Trump allowing Border Patrol to limit the number of asylum seekers due to health risks — an...
CDC will end Title 42 used to expel migrants during Covid
Pedestrians wait to cross into the U.S. at the San Ysidro Port of Entry border crossing bridge in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sunday, March 20, 2022. Cesar Rodriguez | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Centers for...
Poland, neighbors ready for influx of migrants
People evacuated from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic walk toward the Russian Emergency Ministry camp in the village of Veselo-Voznesenka on the Azov Sea coast, on February 19, 202...
AP Cancels Sale Of NFT Of Migrants Floating In Overcrowded Boat In Mediterranean
Topline The Associated Press on Thursday canceled a planned sale of a non-fungible token of a video of “migrants drifting in an overcrowded boat in the Mediterranean” after backlash on Twitter to a po...