Top Biden administration officials huddled with Mexico’s president in urgent talks Wednesday to slow the record pace of illegal crossings at the U.S. southern border, just as congressional negotiators raced to reach a deal to tighten America’s immigration laws. Mexican President discusses border issue with top U.S. officials. U.S. has agreed to keep legal border crossings open. Watch the video to know more!

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Top Biden administration officials huddled with Mexico’s president in urgent talks Wednesday to slow the record pace of illegal crossings at the U.S. southern border, just as congressional negotiators raced to reach a deal to tighten America’s immigration laws.

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US-Mexico agree on slowing down migration; Mexican President Obrador says, 'need to find root cause'

A group of top US officials are set to visit Mexico soon as deliberations on Capitol Hill continue over how to enforce immigration regulations at the two countries' shared border.

Biden administration to visit Mexico for border talks

One US border crossing has been closed due to thousands of migrants who have been riding atop railroad cars in Mexico this week or waiting in mile-long lineups beside the tracks to hitch a ride to the United States. Additionally, Mexico's main railroad has been forced to suspend dozens of freight trains.

US: Mexico suspends main cargo train system due to migrant crisis

Italian President Sergio Mattarella during a meeting with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier called the European Union rules on the distribution of migrants “prehistoric” as the debate raged on Friday (September 22), about how to manage the surge of migrant boat arrivals from North Africa.

Italian president calls EU rules on sharing migrants ‘prehistoric’, urges for reforms

Thousands of migrants streamed across the US border with Mexico into Eagle Pass, Texas on Wednesday. This has forced the overwhelmed city to declare a state of emergency. The mayor of the city has also declared a local disaster.

US: Over 11,000 migrants surge across border in Texas; over 2,200 caught illegally crossing border

France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Tuesday (September 19), his government will not welcome any migrants coming from Italy's tiny Lampedusa island which saw the arrival of a record number of aliens last week.

France flat out refuses to 'welcome' migrants from Lampedusa

The Italian island of Lampedusa is grappling with the new wave of migrant crisis. The island has been a witness to a record number of migrant landings, a vast majority of them arriving via sea from North Africa, Italy.

Italy migrant crisis: EU Chief, Italy PM Giorgia Meloni visit Lampedusa island

A report by the Guardian, on Friday (September 1) said that the United Kingdom government has placed more than 100 lone asylum-seeker children in recent weeks. This comes months after the British High Court ruled that the government’s “routine” housing of unaccompanied child asylum seekers in hotels is unlawful.

UK Home Office places more than 100 asylum-seeker children in hotels, defies high court ruling: Report

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is going back to the issue that had earlier given a spike in the popularity. He is expected to travel the Port of Dover - this is the first point of entry for the migrants arriving on boats from Europe.

UK PM Rishi Sunak seeks to regain Tory trust, will visit Port of Dover

Big Apple is facing both a crippling labour crunch and a migrant crisis and is in a bid to fill in thousands of vacancies. Top New York city office holders had now called upon the federal government to fast track work for permits most of whom have arrived in New York over the past year.

Big Apple faces crippling labour crunch and a migrant crisis

Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Friday said the migrant crisis had nearly 'destroyed' his city while making a desperate plea to the Biden administration to help with the flow of immigrants in the city.

Democrat Mayor Eric Adams says migrant crisis has destroyed New York City, calls out Biden administration

A boat with around 400 migrants stuck in the middle of nowhere between Malta and Libya is slowly sinking. Alarm Phone, a website that helps refugees in need of rescue informed about the incident on Twitter saying it had received a call from the boat, late in the night.

Migrant boat with 400 on board slowly sinking between Libya and Malta

A migrant’s camp set up on the Mexican side of the border with the US was dismantled by the Mexico police on Sunday due to security reasons, a local official said. The camps had been set up by around 600 migrants mostly from Venezuela in the city of Ciudad Juarez.

Police dismantle Mexican migrant camps at US border citing 'security' as reason

As tens of thousands of refugees shiver in the cold on Turkey’s borders with Europe and a new phase of the brutal Syrian war erupts - Russia, Turkey, the European Union (EU) and the international community are being presented with the bill for a flawed, short-term approach to the nine-year-old conflict that largely lacked empathy for millions of victims and was likely to magnify rather than resolve problems.

War threatens to spill beyond Syria’s borders

UK and France signed an agreement worth $74 million to ramp up efforts to stop illegal migrants from making perilous journeys across the English Channel

UK and France sign deal on migrant crossings

The United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday (November 2) defended how his government handled Channel migrants. Sunak's remarks come amid building tensions to address the deteriorating conditions at a processing centre in southeast England.

Rishi Sunak defends UK government's handling of channel migrants, asylum claims

Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, has declared a state of emergency in response to a "crisis situation" brought on by an inflow of migrants. Since April, more than 17,000 people have entered the city from the southern border.

Migrant 'crisis' prompts New York City to declare emergency

New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency Friday in response to the continued arrival of illegal migrants from southern states.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams declares state of emergency amid migrant busing crisis

For the second time this week, a bus from Texas dropped down roughly 50 migrants outside Vice President Kamala Harris' apartment at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC on Thursday.

US: Bus carrying migrants arrives outside Kamala Harris' residence again

The Joe Biden administration on Monday released data that shows the number of migrant arrests along the US-Mexico border had crossed the two million mark in the first 11 months of the 2022 fiscal year that ends on September 30.

US arrests over 2 million migrants along the Mexico border, breaking previous record

According to the latest figures, over 18,000 migrants have already crossed the UK border and the numbers are expected to rise even further in the coming months due to warm weather and calm winds at the sea.

UK government faces flak for attending to migrant crisis

Belarus envoy to India Andrei Rzheussky has dismissed allegations that his country pushed migrants towards Poland and Lithuania saying "we did not provoke this crisis".

Belarus envoy dismisses allegations of migrants being pushed into EU

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