Immigration
Italy's lawmakers to debate contested immigration crackdown
Italy’s lawmakers are beginning work on part of the right-wing government’s plan to discourage migrants who risk voyages in smugglers’ unseaworthy boats to reach Europe
CORRECTION Guatemala Migrants
Chinese Christian asylum seekers reported heading to US
A religious freedom activist says more than 60 asylum-seeking members of a Chinese Christian church who were detained last week in Thailand are en route to the United States
Mexican judge orders five held on homicide in migrant fire
A Mexican judge ordered three Mexican immigration officials, a private security guard and a Venezuelan migrant be held for investigation in connection with a fire last week at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico that killed 40 migrants
Mexico Migrant Deaths
38 dead in Mexico fire after guards didn't let migrants out
When smoke began billowing out of a migrant detention center in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, Venezuelan migrant Viangly Infante Padrón was terrified because she knew her husband was still inside
Deadly fire highlights immigration pressures on Mexico
The fire that killed at least 40 people at an immigration detention center in Mexico happened as Western hemisphere countries face pressure to address the extraordinary number of people fleeing their homes
Reports: Dozens feared dead at migrant facility in Mexico
A Mexican newspaper reports that at least three dozen migrants died in a fire at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico near the U.S. border
39 dead in fire at Mexico migrant center near US border
A fire in a dormitory at a Mexican immigration detention center near the U.S. border left more than three dozen migrants dead
Mexico: Migrants lit mattresses in fire that killed 39
Mexico’s president says migrants set fire to mattresses in an immigration detention center where 39 died in protest after learning they would be deported