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Florida's Idea to Replace Migrant Labor: Child Labor

GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, state Legislature pushing bill to loosen child labor laws, allow overnight shifts

(Newser) - Long before President Trump returned to the White House, Florida began cracking down on companies hiring undocumented immigrants. Now, a new dilemma: Who will take on the lower-paying jobs in the state that those immigrants held? The state Legislature has an idea: loosening labor laws so kids can slip into...

Human Smugglers at the Border Turn to TikTok

Social media is helping them expand their reach to those looking for a way into the US

(Newser) - The videos roll through TikTok in 30-second flashes. Migrants trek in camouflage through desert terrain. Dune buggies roar up to the US-Mexico border barrier. Families with young children pass through gaps in the wall. Laced with emojis, the videos posted by smugglers offer a simple promise: If you don't...

Critics Decry 'Cruel' DHS Move Against 532K Immigrants

Homeland Security to revoke legal protections for Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans

(Newser) - The Department of Homeland Security said Friday it will revoke legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans, setting them up for potential deportation in about a month. The order applies to about 532,000 people from the four countries who came to the United States...

UK, Germany Issue US Travel Warnings
UK, Germany Issue
US Travel Warnings
Mar 21, 2025 10:45 AM CDT

UK, Germany Issue US Travel Warnings

Nations are wary of their citizens visiting US amid Trump administration moves

(Newser) - Two US allies have adjusted their travel recommendations for the United States, and not in an encouraging direction. The Hill reports that on Thursday, the United Kingdom updated its guidance for travel to the US, with the government warning its citizens to "comply with all entry, visa, and other...

First Migrant Death Tied to 2034 World Cup Is Logged

Human rights groups have been warning about 'exploitation' of migrants building venues for Saudis

(Newser) - Saudi Arabia is hard at work erecting Aramco Stadium, one of nearly a dozen new venues being built in advance of the FIFA World Cup being hosted there in 2034. Now, however, the death of a migrant worker at that site has reinvigorated pushback against what human rights groups say...

Trump Resumes Immigrant Family Detention

2 facilities are planned for family detentions

(Newser) - The Trump administration resumed family detention of immigrants last week in a South Texas facility after a Biden-era pause, a legal nonprofit group providing services to migrant families said Wednesday. Fourteen immigrant families with children as young as one year old were in the detention facility in Karnes County, Texas,...

White House Dismisses Report on Ukrainian Refugees

Reuters says 240K refugees may lose legal status, but press chief calls it 'fake news'

(Newser) - The White House is pushing back against a report in Reuters that the Trump administration plans to revoke the legal status of 240,000 Ukrainian refugees who fled the Russian invasion to come to the US. "This is more fake news from Reuters based on anonymous sources who have...

Dad of 4 Preps for Deportation After 24 Years in US

Washington Post tells story of Guatemalan native, 39, set to be sent back after two decades

(Newser) - Nearly a quarter century ago, a teenage Eulogio Hernandez Box arrived to the US from Guatemala, building a life for himself in Ohio that grew over the decades to include a wife and four sons. Despite entering the country illegally, Box hasn't appeared, at least on the surface, to...

FEMA Fires CFO, 3 Others Over NYC Migrant Shelter Payments

City officials refute accusations that disaster relief funds were diverted to pay for migrants in hotels

(Newser) - On Tuesday, President Trump went on an online tear against the Federal Emergency Management Agency, calling the agency a "disaster" that "should be terminated" and noting that it was "under review and investigation." More official repercussions followed, with an announcement from the Department of Homeland Security...

Pope Delivers a Rebuke to JD Vance
Pope Takes Issue
With JD Vance
Feb 11, 2025 11:44 AM CST

Pope Takes Issue With JD Vance

Francis calls out vice president's theological defense of mass deportation in rare rebuke

(Newser) - Pope Francis issued a major rebuke on Tuesday to the Trump administration's plans for mass deportation of migrants, warning that the forceful removal of people purely because of their illegal status deprives them of their inherent dignity and "will end badly." Francis took the remarkable step of...

Religious Groups Push Back on Migrant Raids

Federal lawsuit seeks to roll back giving immigration agents more access to houses of worship

(Newser) - More than two dozen Christian and Jewish groups representing millions of Americans—ranging from the Episcopal Church and the Union for Reform Judaism, to the Mennonites and Unitarian Universalists—filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging a Trump administration move giving immigration agents more leeway to make arrests in houses of...

Colorado Complex That Caught Trump's Attention to Close

As nominee, he'd promised to use 1798 law to carry out 'Operation Aurora' there

(Newser) - A Colorado apartment complex where armed members of a Venezuelan gang were caught on video entering a unit last summer is expected to close in about a month under an emergency court order, city officials said Monday. The city of Aurora had pursued a lawsuit to declare all but one...

Migrants About to Be Detained? There's an App for That

App out of Mexico will let people warn family, consulates if detention in US seems imminent

(Newser) - Mexico is developing a cellphone app that will allow migrants to warn relatives and local consulates if they think they're about to be detained by the US immigration department, a senior official said Friday. The move is in response to President-elect Trump's threats to carry out mass deportations...

Texas' $100K Billboard Campaign Warns Migrants of Rape

Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered 40 signs in 4 languages to go up in Mexico, Central America

(Newser) - Gov. Greg Abbott, who once pledged to "eliminate all rapists" from his state of Texas, is now warning migrants that traffickers could rape and abuse them if they try to make their way to the United States. Per the Washington Post , Abbott is doing so via 40 or so...

Deportations Haven't Been This High in a Decade

More than 270K were deported this year, ICE says

(Newser) - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported more than 270,000 people to 192 countries over a recent 12-month period, the highest annual tally in a decade, according to a report released Thursday that illustrates some of the financial and operational challenges that President-elect Trump will face to carry out his...

Trial Kicks Off for Laken Riley's Alleged Killer

Jose Ibarra is accused of murdering Georgia nursing student in February

(Newser) - Opening statements are expected Friday in the trial of a man accused of killing a Georgia nursing student, in a case that helped fan the immigration debate during the last election cycle. Jose Ibarra is charged with murder and other crimes in the February killing of Laken Hope Riley, whose...

Weeks Before US Election, 2K Migrants Depart for Border

Group left southern Mexico, where an estimated 40K are stranded

(Newser) - A group of about 2,000 migrants left Mexico's southern border on Sunday, hoping to reach the country's north and ultimately the United States. The development comes weeks before the US presidential election, in which immigration has been a heated issue. Some migrants, like Venezuelan Joel Zambrano, believe...

Poland to Suspend Right to Asylum
Poland to Suspend
Right to Asylum
Oct 12, 2024 11:30 AM CDT

Poland to Suspend Right to Asylum

PM Donald Tusk says temporary halting is to curb alleged abuse by Belarus, Russia

(Newser) - Poland's leader said Saturday that he plans to temporarily suspend the right to asylum as part of a new migration policy, pointing to its alleged abuse by eastern neighbor Belarus and Russia. Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that "the state must regain 100% of the control over who...

Those Springfield Rumors Reach the UN

In speech to General Assembly, Haitian official thanks residents helping his nation's migrants

(Newser) - A strange moment in American politics emerged at the UN General Assembly on Thursday, courtesy of a top Haitian official. Edgard Leblanc Fils, the president of Haiti's transitional council, spoke to world leaders about gang violence in his country and bemoaned the large number of citizens fleeing the violence....

Ohio Gov Sends State Troopers to Springfield After Threats

Ohio governor says threats against city so far seem to be 'hoaxes,' but he wants to reassure parents

(Newser) - As the GOP machine, including Donald Trump and running mate JD Vance, continues to push unsubstantiated claims that Haitian immigrants are stealing and eating locals' pets in Springfield, Ohio, the state's governor is shoring up security for the city. On Monday, GOP Gov. Mike DeWine announced he was sending...

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