Tag Archives: Migration

Belgium and Britain said on Tuesday they will cooperate more closely to fight illegal migration, days after France snubbed Britain and said it needed to get serious before talks on the matter could resume. France and Britain were already at loggerheads over immigration, post-Brexit trading rules and fishing rights and …

US Vice President Kamala Harris told Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador that relations were entering a “new era” as they agreed on Tuesday to deepen economic ties and invest in Central America to try to lower a record spike in migration. Harris said talks with Lopez Obrador billed as …

Britain is to announce plans for a “fully digital border” including the introduction of US-style electronic travel authorization to pre-check travelers to the UK, interior minister Priti Patel said Sunday. The minister will announce the plans in parliament on Monday as part of a wider overhaul of the country’s immigration …

Two children, four women, and a man drowned when a boat carrying them overturned off the Greek island of Lesbos on Tuesday, the coast guard said. Another 57 people were rescued in an operation that was still ongoing, the coast guard added. It did not provide further details on the …

A group of former U.S. ambassadors to Mexico representing both Republican and Democratic presidents have banded together to urge US President Donald Trump to treat trade and migration as separate issues, the diplomats wrote in an article. The article is signed by all six living ex-U.S. ambassadors to Mexico who …