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French citizen dead in US custody: immigration agency

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 02 02:40 PM

HOUSTON, United States - A French citizen and native of Angola has died in the custody of US immigration agents, they said on Wednesday, the latest in a number of deaths during a US crackdown on illegal immigrants.    Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: October 28, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 29 12:16 AM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »

US proposes collecting DNA samples from detained immigrants

Daniel Trotta, Reuters
Posted at Oct 22 07:06 AM

The Trump administration on Monday proposed taking DNA samples from immigrants detained by U.S. authorities, raising privacy concerns especially for asylum-seekers and minor offenders whose genetic information would go into an FBI database. Read more »

NBC's 'Superstore' tackles US crackdown on immigrants

Yong Chavez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 22 09:06 AM

NBC’s “Superstore” is coming back for its fifth season this month.   Read more »

Mexican authorities rescue 24 kidnapped migrants

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 06 06:11 PM

Mexican authorities on Friday rescued 24 Central American migrants, including nine children, who had been held hostage for nearly three weeks in the crime-ridden state of Guanajuato, officials said. Read more »

US cities brace for immigration raids, say they will not participate

Reuters
Posted at Jun 22 06:37 PM

WASHINGTON - U.S. cities expecting to be hit by a wave of immigration raids intended to deport recently arrived families who are in the United States illegally said on Friday they would not cooperate with federal authorities. Read more »

New York latest state to approve driver's licenses for illegal immigrants

Alex Dobuzinskis, Reuters
Posted at Jun 18 12:26 PM

Illegal immigrants to the United States will be able to obtain driver's licenses in New York under a bill passed by the state legislature on Monday and signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo. Read more »

Pinay in San Francisco recognized for work helping immigrants

Rommel Conclara, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 13 09:08 PM

Carla Laurel says it is important to extend a hand to Filipinos who arrive in America looking to build a new life. Read more »

6 illegal aliens nabbed in Mindanao

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 26 04:26 PM

The Bureau of Immigration said Sunday its agents have arrested 6 illegal immigrants in separate operations in Mindanao. Read more »

Guatemalan migrant toddler dies weeks after U.S. detention

Reuters
Posted at May 16 01:06 PM

WASHINGTON - A 2-1/2-year-old Guatemalan migrant boy who was detained last month at the U.S.-Mexico border but released from U.S. custody with his mother during treatment for an illness has died in hospital, authorities said on Wednesday. Read more »

Trump declares emergency for border wall, House panel launches probe

Roberta Rampton and David Morgan, Reuters
Posted at Feb 16 07:55 AM

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency in a bid to fund his promised wall at the US-Mexico border without congressional approval, an action Democrats vowed to challenge as a violation of the US Constitution.   Read more »

Palace questions Noy’s claim on Chinese workers in PH

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 24 02:55 PM

MANILA - Malacañang on Thursday questioned former President Benigno Aquino III’s basis for saying that Chinese workers may be getting jobs that should otherwise be given to Filipinos. Read more »

US vet cancels project to raise money for border wall

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 12 08:39 AM

WASHINGTON, United States - An Iraq war veteran canceled his plan to crowdsource $1 billion to help President Donald Trump build a wall on the Mexico border Friday after raising only $20 million and drawing questions about his online activities.   Read more »

Cities to work together to tackle migration ahead of UN pact

Ulf Laessing, Reuters
Posted at Dec 09 09:37 AM

MARRAKESH - Officials from more than 70 cities from around the world on Saturday pledged to work closer together to tackle migration flows, supporting a United Nations pact which a rising number of countries have pulled out from. Read more »

Mexico new president vows to end 'rapacious' elite in first speech

Lizbeth Diaz and Anthony Esposito, Reuters
Posted at Dec 02 08:17 AM

Veteran leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was sworn in as Mexican president on Saturday, vowing to see off a "rapacious" elite in a country struggling with corruption, chronic poverty and gang violence on the doorstep of the United States. Read more »

Mexico asks US to investigate use of tear gas at border

Reuters
Posted at Nov 27 08:08 AM

Mexico's foreign ministry presented a diplomatic note to the U.S. government on Monday calling for "a full investigation" into what it described as non-lethal weapons directed toward Mexican territory on Sunday, a statement from the ministry said. Read more »

Trump urges Mexico to send migrants home after border clash

Susan Heavey and Lizbeth Diaz, Reuters
Posted at Nov 27 08:06 AM

President Donald Trump said on Monday Mexico should send Central American migrants seeking asylum in the United States back to their homelands, a day after U.S. authorities shut the country's busiest border crossing and fired tear gas into a crowd there. Read more »

US shuts border post as migrants try to cross from Mexico

Yemeli Ortega and Sandy Huffaker, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 26 07:14 AM

US officials closed a border crossing in southern California on Sunday after hundreds of migrants, part of the "caravan" condemned by President Donald Trump, tried to breach a fence from the Mexican city of Tijuana, authorities announced. Read more »

The Day in Photos: 22 November 2018

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 23 12:29 AM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »

Canada planning to increase expulsions of illegal immigrants: report

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 01 06:23 AM

Faced with an influx of asylum seekers from the United States, Canada is planning to substantially step up deportations of illegal migrants, Canada's public broadcaster reported Wednesday.   Read more »