Migrants whose asylum claims have been rejected in the United Kingdom are being offered a relocation incentive of £3,000 ($3,800) to settle in Rwanda

At least 8,565 people died on migration routes worldwide in 2023, making it the deadliest year since records began a decade ago, the UN's International Organization for Migration said Wednesday.

An EU plan to use an automatic fingerprinting system and facial recognition software on irregular migrants and asylum-seekers is problematic and should not become a precedent for other laws, the bloc's data protection chief said Friday.

At least two people died when a boat carrying migrants capsized Wednesday off the Greek island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea, port police said, while up to 16 people were missing.

At least 6,618 migrants died or disappeared while trying to reach Spain by sea in 2023, when record numbers headed for the Canary Islands, a migrants rights group said on Tuesday. This "shameful" figure is almost three times the number recorded in the previous year -- 2,390 -- and the highest since charity Caminando Fronteras,…

The kidnappers of 32 migrants who were rescued in northern Mexico sought to extort money from their relatives in the United States, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursday.

The Republican governor of Texas signed a bill on Monday that would allow state police to arrest and deport migrants who cross illegally into the United States from Mexico. The move by Governor Greg Abbott sets up a potential legal clash with the federal government, which generally sets and enforces immigration laws. Abbott, speaking at…

Hundreds of migrants who cross into the United States from Mexico each day are being herded into open-air camps, where they have no access to food or water. And some are left to sleep on the open ground in a desert riddled with scorpions and snakes, activists say. Campaigners say many will be there for…

Three people were killed and another wounded in a shooting between migrants on Friday near Serbia's border with Hungary, state-run television RTS reported.

As displacing conflicts and dire socio-economic conditions continue to drive mass migration in the Sahel region especially, average citizens are risking it all through the wilderness to get to Europe. But beyond criminalising desperate migration, there is need for concerted efforts to discourage more citizens still preparing for the ‘journey of no return’, NGOZI EGENUKA…

Calls for compassion for migrants suffering in North Africa and those attempting to reach Europe or die trying will be at the heart of Pope Francis's visit to Marseille this week.

A Greek coastguard patrol boat picked up 15 migrants, one of whom had died, on the Aegean islet of Farmakonisi on Tuesday, port police said.