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‘These people do it naturally’: Trump says undocumented workers are born to toil in fields; floats legal reentry plan for deported migrants

US President Donald Trump (Image credits: AP) US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, while speaking about the impact of his administration’s immigration policies on the agricultural sector, claimed undocumented migrants are more “naturally” inclined to perform hard labor — a statement that many have condemned as racist and dehumanising.During an interview with CNBC, addressing the […]

At least 27 migrants dead in shipwreck off Yemen: Security sources

DUBAI: A shipwreck off Yemen killed at least 27 migrants, with more than 100 still missing, two security sources in the southern province of Abyan told AFP on Sunday.“At this stage, the deaths of 27 people are confirmed, their bodies have been recovered,” one security source said, adding that “searches are ongoing”.A second source said […]

Undocumented El Salvador migrants arrested in sting: Police posed as teen girls online; flagged for deportation

Three men from El Salvador, currently in the US without legal status, were arrested in Houston, Texas, after being caught in a police sting targeting online predators. Officers from the Houston police department posed as teenage girls on the dating app Jaumo. Over the last ten days, they arrested Abner Ruiz, 37, Erick Menjivar, 30, […]

Major visa fraud busted: Indian-origin Chandrakant Lala Patel arrested for bribing cops to write fake robbery reports; got migrants U visas

Indian-origin businessman Chandrakant Lala Patel arrested in Louisiana for scheming massive visa fraud. An Indian-origin businessman in Louisiana, Chandrakant Patel, was arrested by the feds as a major immigration fraud that was going on for a decade was busted. Three current or former Louisiana police chiefs were also charged as they aided Patel in running […]

US deports 8 migrants to South Sudan: Legal challenges overruled by supreme court; critics call move unconstitutional

US President Donald Trump (AP) The Trump administration has deported eight migrants to South Sudan, a US department of homeland security official confirmed, after plans to initially send them to a base in Djibouti were called off.“A district judge cannot dictate the national security and foreign policy of the United States of America,” assistant secretary […]

What is Donald Trump’s ‘temporary pass’ for illegal migrants working at farms and hospitality?

Donald Trump said his administration is coming up with a kind of temporary pass for illegal aliens who have been working at farms and hospitality sector. After teasing a new program for farmers who might have entered the US illegally but whose arrest now would mean a loss for the industry, President Donald Trump revealed […]

Israel-Palestine conflict: En route Gaza, Greta Thunberg’s boat rescues 4 Sudanese migrants from Mediterranean Sea

A vessel en route to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid with climate activist Greta Thunberg on board has rescued several migrants from the Mediterranean Sea near Crete, an island in Greece. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, of which Greta is a member, launched the vessel named Madleen, which had received a distress signal from a boat […]

16 Mexican migrants detained near San Diego in third major boat interception in months

The US Coast Guard intercepted a 25-foot sailboat carrying 16 Mexican nationals off the coast of California on Saturday and handed them over to border patrol, the agency said.The overcrowded boat was first spotted by a Coast Guard lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft about 54 miles off the coast of Point Loma near San Diego. A […]

The number of migrants reaching the UK in small boats in a single day hits a 2025 high

Representative image (AI) LONDON: UK government figures Sunday showed that more than 1,100 migrants arrived in the country on Saturday in small boats from France across the English Channel, the highest number recorded on a single day so far this year. The latest Home Office figures show that 1,194 migrants arrived in 18 boats on […]

Nearly 200 migrants in small boats rescued in Channel

Representative Image (AI-generated) Nearly 200 migrants trying to cross the Channel from France to Britain in small boats were rescued between late Friday and late Saturday, French coastal authorities said.A total 184 people were picked up in four different rescue operations, the maritime prefecture for France’s Channel and northern region said in a statement on […]