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Migrants carry their belongings as they walk towards the Austrian border in Nickelsdorf from Hegyeshalom, Hungary September 25, 2015. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
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Recent months have seen more than a thousand asylum seekers brave freezing temperatures, fields of waist-deep snow and icy rivers to cross into Canada from the US by foot. Photograph: Paul Chiasson/AP
Woman in Canada Charged with Smuggling Asylum Seekers from US
A Canadian woman has been charged with human smuggling offences in connection with a recent wave of asylum seekers walking across the border from the US, police said Wednesday. Michelle Omoruyi, 43, was stopped near the Canada-US border last Friday and charged with...Caption:
Migrants wait to enter Hungary after the Hungarian police sealed the border with Serbia near the village of Horgos, Serbia. (Reuters)
Hungary’s Parliament Approves Measure to Detain all Asylum-Seekers
Budapest – The Hungarian parliament on Tuesday adopted a legislation to detain all asylum-seekers in container camps, with Prime Minister Viktor Orban saying the systematic detention will make all of Europe safer from terror attacks. Calling immigration the...Caption:
U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order he said would impose tighter vetting to prevent foreign terrorists from entering the United States at the Pentagon in Washington, U.S., January 27, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
UN Agencies Urge Trump to Allow Refugee Entry
Two United Nations agencies called on the Trump administration on Saturday to keep on offering asylum to people fleeing war and persecution, describing its resettlement program as vital. The United Nations refugee agency and International Organization for Migration...Caption:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts before she signs the condolence book at the Gedaechniskirche in Berlin, Germany, December 20, 2016, one day after a truck ploughed into a crowded Christmas market in the German capital. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke