Migration Matters

News Sanctions will only increase irregular migrants to US: Nicaraguan president Reacting to the executive order signed by US President Joe Biden, which effectively outlaws American economic dealings with Nicaragua's gold industry, as well as the US Treasury Department's sanctions against Nicaraguan mines, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, said that these will only serve to increase the number of irregular migrants who cross the border into the US. Mexico begins repatriatin

News Mexican president calls for US-Venezuela migration agreement President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of Mexico called for the United States to raise quotas for Venezuelan migrants to enter the latter country. Obrador’s statement comes after a US plan to airdrop humanitarian aid for up to 24,000 Venezuelans, in a bid to stem the rising tide of Venezuelan migrants fleeing economic collapse in their homeland. Germany sets foundation for migration policy reforms According to s

News Over 150,000 refugees cross deadly Darién Gap en route to the USA The Panamanian National Migration Service states that over 150,000 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, have traversed the dangerous Darién Gap wilderness to enter Panama from Colombia, en route to the southern US border, the highest recorded so far. Sicily crackdown on rising exploitation of immigrant agricultural labor Sicilian agricultural labor unions and watchdogs of the agriculture-mafia nexus are striving

News U.S. allocates $240 million for migrants across Americas U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, announced $240 million in new humanitarian assistance to help meet the needs of refugees across the Western Hemisphere. This comes when Washington’s foreign policy has largely focused on Ukraine in 2022. Central Europe to adopt new measures to stem illegal immigration Leaders of Hungary, Serbia and Austria pledged new measures to control the flow of illegal immigrants into t

News Panama: Officials say increase in irregular migration is likely Panamanian news sources state that over 158,000 irregular migrants entered the country this year, potentially generating US$35 million for the criminal groups that charge to smuggle them across borders, and that the numbers are likely to grow in coming months. UK: Government changes stance on Albanian asylum seekers The UK's Home Office confirmed that a recently announced scheme to expedite asylum applicatio