Essex lorry container deaths: 39 bodies including one teenager found in shipping container
Relations October 23, 2020 0 COMMENTSShare This The bodies of 39 people have been found in a lorry container in Essex. The vehicle, registered in Bulgaria, was found shortly before 01:40 BST at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, police said. Everyone inside the container, 38 adults and one teenager, died, Essex Police said. The lorry driver, a 25-year-old man from […]
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Poor facilities and horrifying’ conditions at Texas migrant detention facility
Relations July 2, 2020 0 COMMENTSShare This .S Texas (Express Daily) – Controversy broadsided the embattled U.S. Border Patrol agency Monday, as a high-profile U.S. Congresswoman touring detention facilities called conditions “horrifying” and as current and former agency staffers were alleged to have posted offensive comments about the lawmaker and migrants on a private Facebook page. Migrants held at a […]
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Italy migrant boat: Rescue captain accused of trying to sink police boat
Relations June 29, 2020 0 COMMENTSShare This Italy’s far-right deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini has accused the captain of a ship carrying rescued migrants of trying to sink a police boat. Carola Rackete was arrested at the Italian port of Lampedusa after a two-week stand-off with police at sea. Her vessel, Sea-Watch 3, was banned from docking, but it eventually […]
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Poor condition of migrant kids in jail:Attorneys ask court to intervene against U.S. over migrant kids’ detention conditions
Relations June 27, 2020 0 COMMENTSShare This (Express Daily) – A 17-year-old Honduran migrant described babies sleeping on a cold floor. A teen mother said her sick baby was unable to open her eyes for two days but no one responded to her pleas for help. Another teenager took charge of a 5-year-old stranger because the small child was very […]
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One more tragedy:Photo of drowned migrants triggers fight over Trump asylum policies:
Relations June 27, 2020 0 COMMENTSShare This U.S (Express Daily) – A harrowing photo of a Salvadoran migrant and his young daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border became the focus on Wednesday of a U.S. political debate over President Donald Trump’s asylum policies. The picture of Oscar Alberto Martinez, 25, and his 24-month-old daughter Angie […]
READ MOREIncreasing Challenges of Migrant children: Democrats agree $4.5bn aid for migrants at border
Relations June 26, 2020 0 COMMENTSShare This U.S (Express Daily): Democrats in the US House of Representatives have approved $4.5bn (£3.5bn) in humanitarian aid for the southern border. Several migrant deaths, coupled with reports of “severely neglected” children at a Texan border patrol station, have helped shape the debate. But the bill faces a tough path through the Republican-controlled Senate. […]
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U.S. District judge halted Trump policy of sending asylum seekers back to Mexico:
Editor Express Daily April 9, 2020 0 COMMENTSShare This (Express Daily) – A U.S. judge on Monday halted the Trump administration’s policy of returning asylum seekers back across the southern border to wait out their cases in Mexico, stopping a program the government planned to expand to stem a recent flood of migrants. The ruling is slated to take effect on Friday, […]
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