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First responders at the Tunnels Checkpoint near Jerusalem, where an off-duty soldier shot a Palestinian suspected of attempting to cross into Israel illegally, November 27, 2025. (Courtesy; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 28, 2025, 2:55 am
Off-duty soldier shoots Palestinian near Jerusalem who tried to enter Israel illegally
Police say off-duty soldier mistook effort to detain Palestinians entering Israel illegally as a security incident at the flashpoint site on Route 60
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Demonstrators holding signs and flags face California National Guard members standing guard outside the Federal Building as they protest federal immigration operations in Los Angeles, on June 9, 2025. (Apu GOMES / AFP)
June 10, 2025, 9:13 am
Defying mayor, Trump sends 2,000 more National Guard troops, 700 marines to quell LA protests
Local authorities say forces cause logistical issues for their own operations, while US president asserts city would have been ‘obliterated’ by migrant protests without support
By Lolita C. Baldor, TARA COPP, JASON DEAREN and Tim Sullivan
A copy of the file on Ulrich Schnaft that Israel's General Security Agency recently declassified shows a picture of the Nazi soldier turned Israeli army officer. (Israel State Archives via Haaretz)
June 4, 2023, 11:11 pm
Israel declassifies file on Nazi who enlisted in the IDF and spied for Egypt
Ulrich Schnaft’s capture underscores the challenges and vigilance of a counterintelligence body vetting countless undocumented immigrants while fighting a 4-front war
By ToI Staff
Migrants are helped ashore from a RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) lifeboat at a beach in Dungeness, on the south-east coast of England, on November 24, 2021, after being rescued while crossing the English Channel. (Ben STANSALL / AFP)
November 25, 2021, 11:14 am
At least 27 drown in English Channel’s deadliest migrant boat tragedy
Britain and France eye new measures to limit migration after incident; fatalities include minors, pregnant women
By Bernard BARRON, Sylvie MALIGORNE and Stuart Williams
Members of far-right groups light flares as they try to dominate the annual Independence Day march in Warsaw, Poland, on November 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
November 11, 2021, 10:12 pm
Far-right nationalists march in Poland amid border crisis with Belarus
‘We thank the defenders of Poland’s borders,’ placards read; Polish independence day overshadowed by thousands of riot police and troops turning back migrants trying to enter EU
By Vanessa Gera and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
Illustrative: A passenger walks at Son Sant Joan airport on the Spanish Balearic Island of Mallorca, Spain, Monday, July 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu)
November 7, 2021, 2:03 am
Mallorca police seek 12 people who fled plane after emergency landing
12 others arrested in incident that may be linked to illegal immigration, authorities say; one of those involved is believed to be Palestinian
By HAZEL WARD
Franklin Anchahua-Herrera sits for a portrait in a room that he shares with his father, August 17, 2021, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP/John Minchillo)
September 9, 2021, 10:30 am
Immigrant 9/11 cleanup crews seek residency as compensation for health problems
A congressional bill fast-tracking legal status for an estimated 1,000-2,000 people has stalled; 20 years on, only several dozen still protesting
By Claudia Torrens
Moti Kahana on a plane from Dubai to New Jersey in february 28, 2021. (Courtesy Moti Kahana)
March 1, 2021, 2:17 am
Stuck abroad, philanthropist hatches a modern Exodus to bring Israelis back home
Moti Kahana has spent years smuggling Jews out of dangerous places. Now, with Israel’s borders shut, he’s looking to the sea and recent history for a way to smuggle people back in
By Tal Schneider
In this file photo taken on June 11, 2018 a two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the US-Mexico border in McAllen, Texas (JOHN MOORE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
February 3, 2021, 5:29 am
Biden plans to undo ‘national shame’ of Trump child separations
Administration says president committed ‘to remedy this awful harm the Trump administration inflicted on families’
By Charlotte Plantive
British Police forensics officers work on a truck found to be containing 39 dead people, at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, east of London, on October 23, 2019. (Ben STANSALL / AFP)
December 21, 2020, 8:28 pm
2 people-smugglers found guilty of manslaughter in deaths of 39 migrants in UK
Victims, all Vietnamese nationals aged between 15 and 44, were found dead last October inside refrigerated container that had arrived by ferry from Belgium
By AP
US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after participating in a Thanksgiving teleconference with members of the United States Military, at the White House in Washington on November 26, 2020. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)
December 1, 2020, 8:44 am
Trump wages last major US Supreme Court fight, trying to alter makeup of House
Administration of outgoing US president argues that population census, used to determine states’ representation in Congress, should exclude undocumented immigrants
By AFP
Students protest against deportation of their classmates who were arrested alongside their parents by immigration authorities, outside Gabrieli school in Tel Aviv, November 7, 2019. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
November 8, 2019, 10:46 am
Hundreds of students, parents protest arrests of migrants’ children in Tel Aviv
Three kids were jailed in recent days along with their parents, and another student’s mother was detained ahead of planned deportation
By ToI Staff
US Vice President Mike Pence tours a detention facility on the Texas border, July 12, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)
July 13, 2019, 7:55 am
Pence tour of migrant center shows men crowded in cages
‘This is tough stuff,’ US vice president says; denounces comparison of facilities to ‘concentration camps,’ says they are ‘providing care that every American would be proud of’
By AP
Protesters hold signs during a demonstration outside of the San Francisco office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on July 12, 2019 in San Francisco, California. Over 150 activists staged a demonstration outside of the ICE offices in San Francisco to demand that immigrant detention centers at the southern border be shut down. Protests are being held in cities across the country. ( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)
July 13, 2019, 4:29 am
Trump says nationwide immigration arrests to begin Sunday
President says authorities will be ‘focused on criminals’ in upcoming raids expected to inflame heated debate on issue; concedes some families will be separated
By Elliot Spagat and Colleen Long
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen speaks at George Washington University's Jack Morton Auditorium in Washington, on March 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
April 9, 2019, 12:48 am
Trump’s Homeland Security shakeup expands amid immigration row
Multiple top department officials expected to resign after Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announces she is leaving, as White House attempts to clean house
By Colleen Long and Jill Colvin
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