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  G7 Summit: World leaders adopt action plan to break migrant smuggling and human trafficking network

  World | June 18, 2025 4:10 IST

  The leaders noted that migrant smuggling is closely linked to other serious criminal activities such as money laundering, corruption, drug trafficking, and human trafficking.

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  Supreme Court slams Assam government for not deporting persons declared as foreigners

  India | February 04, 2025 14:02 IST

  The court dismissed Assam’s claim that deportation was impossible due to undisclosed foreign addresses and directed the government to begin deportation of 63 detainees within two weeks.

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  'El Salvador offered to accept American deportees and violent criminals': US Secretary of State

  World | February 04, 2025 8:59 IST

  Marco Rubio visited El Salvador on Monday after visiting Panama, from where a flight of 43 migrants left for Columbia. After El Salvador, he will visit Costa Rica, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic.

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  Sam Pitroda stokes controversy again, calls for settling illegal migrants in India, BJP slams remark

  India | January 28, 2025 16:48 IST

  Congress leader Sam Pitroda stirs controversy by advocating for illegal migrants to settle in India. His remarks, made ahead of the Delhi Assembly Elections 2025, have fueled the debate on illegal immigration, with BJP slamming Congress for "irresponsible" statements.

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  Trump revokes policies limiting migrant arrests at sensitive locations like schools, churches in US

  World | January 22, 2025 6:41 IST

  The new move reverses guidance that for over a decade has restricted two key federal immigration agencies -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection -- from carrying out immigration enforcement in sensitive locations.

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  Tamil Nadu: 31 Bangladeshi nationals arrested for illegally staying in Tirupur

  January 13, 2025 23:58 IST

  ATS teams conducted searches in rented rooms in various parts of Tiurpur in Coimbatore, following which 28 illegal migrants were arrested from Rural Palladam area and others from Veerapandi and Nallur.

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  Indians, who stayed in US illegally, deported by chartered flight: Biden's latest action on migrants

  World | October 27, 2024 10:47 IST

  In fiscal year 2024, the DHS removed or returned over 1,60,000 individuals and conducted more than 495 international repatriation flights to over 145 countries.

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  Five migrants die while crossing English Channel hours after UK passes Rwanda deportation bill

  World | April 23, 2024 18:46 IST

  The UK Parliament on Tuesday finally passed British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's latest bid to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda as a means to stop illegal immigration. The move had been widely criticised by human rights organisations and some among Sunak's own Conservative Party.

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  20 killed, including children, as migrant boat sinks near Turkey's coast

  World | March 15, 2024 17:42 IST

  Four migrants were rescued and admitted to a hospital on Friday, while authorities are conducting search operations to locate others. Most migrants from the Middle East and Africa often leave Turkey to try to reach Greece in search of a better life in European countries.

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  Indians stuck at French airport for human trafficking probe reach Mumbai, 25 still in France

  World | December 26, 2023 11:37 IST

  A charter plane grounded in France for a human trafficking investigation landed in Mumbai with 276 Indians. The passengers had been heading to Nicaragua but were instead blocked inside a rural French airport for four days in an exceptional holiday ordeal.

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  Mexico: 16 migrants killed, 29 injured in bus crash in Oaxaca

  World | October 07, 2023 6:58 IST

  Mexico often witnesses fatal accidents as the migration agents attempt to take illegal migrants to the US resorting to unlawful means. Recently, 10 Cuban migrants died and 17 others got seriously injured in a freight truck crash in Mexico.

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  Greece: 18 bodies found in forested area near Alexandroupolis city amid devastating wildfires

  World | August 22, 2023 20:44 IST

  There are no reports of missing people in the area, causing authorities to examine the possibility that the victims are migrants who entered Greece from the nearby border with Turkey.

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  27 migrants found dead in Libyan desert at border after possible expulsion from Tunisia

  World | August 10, 2023 17:23 IST

  Tunisia has been alleged to have forcefully expelled migrants from their territory and dumping them in the desert areas without food and water.

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  Italy: 41 migrants killed in shipwreck near Lampedusa Island

  World | August 09, 2023 17:20 IST

  According to reports, more than 1,800 people have lost their lives so far this year in the crossing from North Africa to Europe.

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  300 migrants bound to Spain's Canary Islands go missing at Atlantic Ocean

  World | July 10, 2023 9:25 IST

  At least 559 irregular migrants died on their way to Spain's Canary Islands last year, as claimed by the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM).

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  Mexico: At least 39 migrants killed in fire at migration office in Ciudad Juarez I UPDATES

  World | March 28, 2023 16:37 IST

  Notably, Ciudad Juarez is a major crossing point for migrants entering the United States. Its shelters are full of migrants waiting for opportunities to cross or who have requested asylum in the United States and are waiting out the process.

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  'For popularity, creating unrest': Cops reveals accused's motive who created fake videos of migrants

  March 07, 2023 20:31 IST

  As per the initial probe in the matter, cops said that the accused created these videos for gaining popularity and to create unrest among the migrant workers, Tamil Nadu Police said.

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  US: Migrants from Texas dropped near Vice President Kamala Harris' home on frigid Christmas Eve

  World | December 26, 2022 7:41 IST

  Republicans argue Biden and Harris, designated the administration's point person on the root causes of migration, have relaxed restrictions that induced many people to leave their countries of origin.

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  Jammu and Kashmir: Militants shoot, injure two migrant workers in Pulwama

  India | September 24, 2022 21:01 IST

  The police and security forces have cordoned off the area in a bid to nab the attackers.

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  Boat carrying Haitian migrants sinks off Bahamas, 17 killed

  World | July 25, 2022 7:16 IST

  Boat capsizes in the Bahamas: The dead included 15 women, one man and an infant. The people rescued were taken for observation by health workers.