Some 1,400 African migrants—including whole families and asylum-seekers—were rounded up by riot police in a series of raids in Algiers, and apparently face summary deportation.
A joint security force bringing together the three nations of Central America's Northern Triangle officially began operations to fight narco-gangs and organized crime.
Joe Arpaio and Rudolph Giuliani, short-listed for Homeland Security secretary, both have extensive experience in running detainment camps for undocumented immigrants.
With two months still to go, deaths of refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean so far this year have hit a record high, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
A federal judge ordered Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio to be tried for criminal contempt over continuing his immigration patrols in defiance of court orders in a civil rights suit.
UN humanitarian agencies in Iraq are bracing for a displacement catastrophe of massive proportions as the US-led offensive to retake Mosul from ISIS is launched.
An administrative court in Lille, France, rejected requests from almost a dozen aid groups and permitted the closure process of the "Jungle" migrant camp near Calais to continue.
Australia is using the island of Nauru as an “open-air prison,” putting refugees and asylum seekers through an abusive processing system as a means to prevent immigration.
Thousands of displaced Syrians are trapped between sand berms on the border with Jordan, denied entry—facing hostile soliders on either side, receiving no aid.
A federal appeals court affirmed an Indiana district court ruling that blocked the state government's effort to prevent resettlement of Syrian refugee families in the state.
Low voter turnout invalidated the referendum in which Hungarians voted to oppose any EU mandatory placement of refugees—but President Viktor Orbán remains intransigent.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Macedonia to end its pattern of expelling and detaining migrants in defiance of international standards.
