Tag: migrant

New York Opens Another Hotel for Bused-In Illegal Immigrants

The number of illegal immigrants seeking asylum in New York City has waned in recent weeks. However, Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday the nation’s largest city is still getting enough to open yet another relief center. The third Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center will soon open 175 rooms at the Hotel Wolcott in Midtown…


At Least 6 Dead After Migrant Boat Sinks Off Turkish Coast

ISTANBUL—Six people including children drowned when a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon destined for Italy sank off the coast of southwestern Turkey, the Turkish coast guard said on Tuesday. In a statement, the coast guard said a total of 73 migrants from four life boats were rescued on Tuesday while search and rescue operations for…


Coast Guard: 2 Dead, 5 Missing After Illegal Migrant Boat Capsizes

KEY WEST, Fla.—Two people died and five were missing after a boat believed to be carrying migrants attempting to enter the U.S. illegally capsized off the coast of the Florida Keys, the Coast Guard said. Eight people were rescued, the Coast Guard said in a news release Friday. The agency described the boat as a…


Coast Guard: 2 Dead, 5 Missing After Migrant Boat Capsizes

KEY WEST, Fla.—Two people died and five were missing after a boat believed to be carrying migrants attempting to enter the United States illegally capsized off the coast of the Florida Keys, the Coast Guard said. Eight people were rescued, the Coast Guard said in a news release Friday. The agency described the boat as…


Texas Trailer Smuggling Death Toll Rises to 53

SAN ANTONIO—In the chaotic minutes after dozens of illegal immigrants were found dead inside a tractor-trailer sweltering under the Texas sun, the driver tried to slip away by pretending to be one of the survivors, a Mexican immigration official said Wednesday. The driver along with two other men from Mexico remained in custody as the…


Death Toll Rises to 53 After Illegal Immigrants Found Dead in Abandoned Truck in Texas

SAN ANTONIO—In the chaotic minutes after dozens of illegal immigrants were found dead inside a tractor-trailer sweltering under the Texas sun, the driver tried to slip away by pretending to be one of the survivors, a Mexican immigration official said Wednesday. The American truck driver, along with another U.S. citizen and two other men, remained…


Alleged Truck Driver Posed as Victim After Texas Illegal Immigrant Deaths

SAN ANTONIO/MEXICO CITY—The alleged driver of a truck carrying dozens of migrants who died in the suffocating heat in Texas this week initially tried to pass himself off as a victim to escape authorities before he was arrested, U.S. and Mexican officials said on Wednesday. The death toll in the incident rose to 53 as…


Greece: Coast Guard Rescues Migrant Mother Who Gave Birth on Uninhabited Islet

LESBOS, Greece—Authorities in Greece say a woman from Eritrea has given birth on an uninhabited rocky islet after traveling with other migrants from nearby Turkey. A coast guard official said 29 Eritreans—24 men and five women—were spotted Wednesday during a patrol near the eastern Greek island of Lesbos. One of the women had just given…


Death Toll in Migrant Boats Disaster Off Tunisia Rises to 20

TUNIS—The death toll from African migrant boats that sank off Tunisia at the weekend rose to 20 people on Monday, a judicial official said, the latest migrant boat disaster off Tunisia. The coast guard recovered three more bodies on Monday, said Mourad Turki, spokesperson for Sfax Courts. Seventeen bodies were been recovered at the weekend…


US on Track to Hit 1 Million Illegal Immigrant Encounters so Far This Year: Border Patrol

The United States is on track to reach more than 1 million illegal alien encounters so far in the fiscal year 2022, the head of the Border Patrol, Raul Ortiz, said on March 29. “Probably in the next two or three days we’ll get over a million encounters or apprehensions along the southwest border,” Ortiz said at the…