White House trolls with mocking ‘ASMR’ video of shackled deportees
Official White House social media accounts posted what it called an ‘ASMR’ video of undocumented immigrant deportation.
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Afghan embassy says nationals face arrests, expulsions in Pakistan capital | Migration News
The embassy says Afghan nationals face forced relocations in Islamabad amid rising tensions between the neighbours. The Afghanistan embassy in Pakistan has warned that the government wants to remove all Afghan refugees from the capital, Islamabad, and the adjoining city of Rawalpindi. The embassy issued a strongly worded statement on Wednesday, saying Afghan nationals in … Read more
Guatemala agrees to increase number of US deportation flights it accepts | Migration News
In 2024, roughly 66,000 people were deported from the US to Guatemala. Under Trump, that number is expected to rise. The Central American country of Guatemala has agreed to ramp up the number of deportation flights it receives from the United States, after a visit from Secretary of State Marco Rubio. At a news conference … Read more
Guantanamo deportations: What’s Trump’s plan? Why is it controversial? | Donald Trump News
United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that seeks to repurpose Guantanamo Bay, a US prison in Cuba, into a detention centre for unauthorised immigrants. About 11 million such immigrants live in the US, where the total population is 341 million, according to estimates by the Pew Research Center. Debates about … Read more
Trump orders sanctions on Colombia after Petro blocks deportation flights | Migration News
President Gustavo Petro says Bogota will block US deportation flights until migrants are guaranteed ‘dignified treatment’. US President Donald Trump has promised to impose tariffs and visa restrictions on Colombia after Bogota turned away two US military aircraft transporting migrants being deported under Trump’s immigration crackdown. Washington will slap Colombia with 25 percent “emergency tariffs” … Read more
Trump admin to launch immigration raids on day one amid deportation push | Migration News
Several large cities are reportedly expected to be hit by Trump’s immigration authorities shortly after inauguration. Donald Trump’s top border official has said the new Republican administration will launch large operations to detain and deport undocumented immigrants beginning on the day of the United States President-elect’s inauguration on Tuesday. The incoming administration’s so-called “border czar”, … Read more
Can Germany’s AfD win more power in February’s general election? | The Far Right
The far-right party’s candidate for chancellor, Alice Weidel, tries to woo voters with her extreme views. Since its founding in 2013, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has become a major political force in Germany. The far-right party is polling second ahead of a general election next month. The party’s candidate for chancellor, Alice Weidel, … Read more
‘It’s the only way’: Migrants, army face-off along S Africa-Zimbabwe border | Migration News
Musina, South Africa – Every day, Fadzai Musindo walks across the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa – sometimes via the official border post but usually by taking the more dangerous informal route. Streams of men, women and children regularly cross the bridge separating the two countries, but for the 43-year-old mother of three, it … Read more
Panama reports sharp drop in irregular migration through Darien Gap | Migration News
The number of migrants and asylum seekers traversing the Darien Gap — the treacherous strip of jungle connecting South and North America — has fallen by nearly 41 percent in the last year. On Thursday, Panama’s right-wing President Jose Raul Mulino announced the decline, touting it as a success for the country’s efforts to limit … Read more
Why is Europe pausing Syrian asylum claims after al-Assad’s fall? | News
“Wir schaffen das!” or “We can do it!” said former German Chancellor Angela Merkel nine years ago, when she proclaimed that Germany and Europe had the capacity to grant asylum to people seeking refuge. Back then, her words offered hope to hundreds of thousands of Syrian people who were fleeing the country’s now-13-year-long civil war, … Read more