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Migrants who crossed from Morocco into Spain line up for food distribution on a beach in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, August 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Sempere)
August 4, 2026, 9:29 am
Hundreds of underage migrants stuck in Ceuta after border breach
Spanish authorities legally required to care for minors, though city migrant center now full, forcing many to beg on streets; misinformation, failures on border paved way for rush
By Bernat Armangue, Joseph Wilson and AKRAM OUBACHIR
Migrants walk along the Huixtla highway in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, October 22, 2024, hoping to reach the country's northern border and ultimately the United States. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)
October 24, 2024, 9:07 am
As US election nears, Jewish groups decry ‘xenophobia, fear and lies’ about immigrants
Thinly-veiled criticism of Trump, signed by Reform and Conservative rabbinic associations and 500 clergy, urges candidates to ‘reject the impulse to seal our borders’
By Ron Kampeas
'Mohammed,' an asylum seeker from Gaza, stands on the port of Samos in Greece on April 17, 2024. (Eliyahu Freedman/Times of Israel)
June 11, 2024, 9:11 am
On a Greek isle, Gazans who fled before October 7 seesaw between hardship and hope
Palestinians were among the largest groups fleeing to Europe before the war. Now, more may be clamoring to leave as the EU eases their way, but getting there is harder than ever
By Eliyahu Freedman
Railway tracks lead to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)
January 5, 2024, 4:22 pm
Poland probes TV commentators’ call to send migrants to Auschwitz, tattoo their arms
Several companies pull advertising from right-wing private channel TV Republika after guest says immigrants can be housed in the barracks of former death and concentration camps
By Vanessa Gera
A rubber dinghy with no one on board but carrying identity papers of foreign nationals, that washed up on the shore near Netanya, October 1, 2023. (Israel Police)
October 1, 2023, 1:15 pm
Dinghy carrying 8 foreign nationals’ ID papers, but no people, washes up in Netanya
Police find documents of Somali citizens, reportedly also Turks, along with personal effects of several others; search launched to find missing occupants
By ToI Staff
From left, senior Trump advisers Jared Kushner, Stephen Miller, and counselor Hope Hicks, walk to board Marine One with US President Donald Trump at the White House, September 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
June 28, 2023, 7:38 pm
Ex-Trump aide Stephen Miller pushed blowing up migrant boat with a drone
Former administration official recalls conversation Miller had with Coast Guard admiral in new book, though latter says it never happened
By ToI Staff
Mourners gather around the coffins of four out of eight Palestinian migrants who died off the Tunisian coast, during their funeral at a mosque in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 18, 2022. (AP/Fatima Shbair)
January 6, 2023, 12:04 pm
As young Gazans die at sea, anger rises over Hamas leaders’ extended sojourns abroad
In recent months, high-profile officials have quietly decamped to upscale hotels in Beirut, Doha and Istanbul, stirring resentment among residents of the impoverished Strip
By AP and ToI Staff
Palestinians carry the bodies of four Palestinian migrants who died off the Tunisian coast, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 18, 2022. (AP/ Fatima Shbair)
December 18, 2022, 10:52 pm
At mass funeral, furious Gazans blame Hamas for drowning of migrants
Mother of Palestinian who died at sea trying to reach Europe slams terror group’s leaders for living luxuriously while youth make risky journey to flee hardship in Strip
By WAFAA SHURAFA and Fares Akram
Security guards stand in front of the gate near the migrant processing centre in Dover, England, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. (AP/Kin Cheung)
November 1, 2022, 8:26 pm
UK counterterror police takes over probe of migrant center firebombing
Top police official says attack on facility in Dover that processes migrants crossing Channel from northern Europe was targeted, but may not reach threshold of terrorism
By AFP
Illustrative: This photo provided by the Hellenic Coast Guard and taken from a vessel shows a ship with migrants near the southern island of Crete, Greece, on October 29, 2021. (Hellenic Coast Guard via AP)
August 10, 2022, 2:15 pm
Around 50 missing after migrant boat sinks near Greek island
Greek rescue effort hampered by strong winds; passengers were traveling from Turkey to Italy on shipwrecked vessel
By AFP
Britain's Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, meets refugees as he visits HTB to learn more about Holy Trinity Brompton's (HTB) work to support refugees and asylum seekers at St Luke's Church, in London, on March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
April 14, 2022, 1:45 pm
UK criticized for planning to send asylum seekers to Rwanda
The plan, referred to by the British government as an ‘economic development partnership,’ would see refugees arriving in UK flown to Rwanda while their asylum claims are processed
By Jill Lawless
Syrian Kurd Bushra, who only gave her first name, poses for a photograph in Minsk, Belarus, Sept. 22, 2021 (Bushra via AP)
December 21, 2021, 10:18 am
New Syrian migrants seek Europe, driven by post-war misery
Though horrors of war have abated, many have lost hope in a future at home amid poverty and corruption, while some still fear for their personal safety
By Sarah El Deeb and CHRISTOPH NOELTING
Employees walk in the new EU-funded Reception and Identification Center for asylum seekers on the island of Samos, Greece, on September 18, 2021, during its inauguration. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP)
September 18, 2021, 11:58 pm
Greece inaugurates first ‘closed’ camp for asylum seekers awaiting deportation
EU-funded facility will house migrants whose claims have been rejected and who are to be sent back to Turkey; Greek government says new sites are an upgrade
By Mina Oikonomou
The body of a young man covered with an emergency blanket after being recovered by Spanish police from waters near the border between Morocco and Spain's north African enclave of Ceuta, May 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
July 14, 2021, 4:11 pm
UN: Deaths at sea of Europe-bound migrants have nearly doubled
International Organization for Migration says the 1,146 fatalities recorded in January-June may be even higher due to unreported shipwrecks
By Renata Brito
Nuns, asylum seekers and foreign workers wait in line to receive their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in Tel Aviv, February 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
February 9, 2021, 5:15 pm
Foreign nationals, asylum seekers get COVID-19 vaccines in Tel Aviv
Initiative by city hall and hospital aims to help Israel ‘vaccinate everybody within the nation’s borders’
By Alon Bernstein and Ariel Schalit
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