Last year marked a tragic milestone in global migration as the United Nations migration agency reported a staggering death toll of 8,565 individuals on migration routes, rendering 2023 the deadliest year on record for migrants.

UN agency for migration declares 2023 as the most fatal year for migrants

Six migrant women have been rescued from the back of a refrigerated lorry in France after they text-messaged a BBC reporter - setting off a desperate cross-border search.

France: Six migrant women trapped in lorry rescued after distress texts to reporter

The city of El Paso, Texas, is finding itself on the brink of a crisis as an unprecedented surge of migrants floods the US-Mexico border. This humanitarian catastrophe has been exacerbated by the tragic death of an infant, along the border road near the Mariposa Port of Entry.

Texas' El Paso at 'breaking point', infant dies in heartbreaking incident amid soaring migrant influx

Mexican authorities found 175 migrants crowded in a truck trailer in the southern state of Chiapas, news agency Reuters reported citing the National Migration Institute (INM).

Mexican officials find 175 migrants crammed in a truck trailer near southern border

Bodies of around 210 migrants have been recovered by the Tunisian Coast Guard in little less than two weeks. The bodies washed up on the country's central coastline, with the authorities saying they were migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and had been attempting to enter Europe.

Over 210 migrant bodies recovered on Tunisian coast in less than two weeks

In 2022, more than 45,000 migrants were reported to have crossed the English Channel from mainland Europe to the UK, breaking the record of the previous year with more than 17,000, as per the government figures published on Sunday.

In 2022, more than 45,000 migrants crossed English Channel to reach UK from Europe

France will suspend the plan to welcome 3,500 refugees currently in Italy after Rome's refusal to let a charity ship disembark 234 migrants rescued at sea, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Thursday.

France suspends plan to welcome 3,500 refugees currently in Italy: Interior Minister

On Monday (5 September), in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, authorities found two buses carrying close to 180 migrants, including a child, from Central America and Cuba.

Mexico intercepts buses carrying around 180 migrants

The migrant crossover across the English Channel is swelling up, breaking new records in the process. Reportedly, on Monday, a record number of 1,300 migrants crossed the Channel in 27 small boats, beating the previous record of 1,185 set in November last year.

Over 1,300 migrants cross into the UK in a single day, setting an influx record

France President Emmanuel Macron told Britain to 'get serious' about the migrant issue or be ready to remain out of the talks over curbing flow of migrants escaping war and poverty across the Channel.

Macron tells UK to 'get serious' over English Channel migrant issue

Taliban’s new government in Afghanistan has warned a possible influx of refugees if the US and European envoys continue slapping sanctions on the terrorist organisations.

Taliban urge US, EU to 'end existing sanctions' to avoid refugee crisis

An impromptu border camp that roiled the US government was cleared of thousands of Haitian migrants by Friday, with most remaining in the United States for now and others expelled on deportation flights or returned to Mexico.

US border camp cleared of Haitians, thousands more on the move

Amnesty International said on Thursday that migrants held in Libyan detention camps are subject to horrific sexual violence at the hands of guards, including being forced to barter sex for clean water, food and access to sanitation.

Sex for clean water: Migrants in Libyan camps subject to horrific sexual violence, says Amnesty

Britain has announced it will seek harsher sentences for migrants caught entering the country without permission amid a record-breaking surge in arrivals over the English Channel.

UK announces harsher sentences for Channel migrants

President Joe Biden said last month that he makes “no apology” for undoing some of the hard-line Trump-era immigration policies. According to a study, the Biden administration’s proposed immigration bill would increase annual green card numbers by 35%.

If US immigration doesn't improve, China will overtake its economy: Study

The Biden administration warned Tuesday that the United States expected to make more apprehensions along the southwestern border this year than at any time in the past two decades, underscoring the urgency for the White House to develop solutions for the chronic problems with immigration from Central America.

Surge in migrants defies easy or quick solutions for Biden

The Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrado has ordered for the national army to be deployed along its southern border to put a stop to the incoming migrant caravan.

Mexico deploys military to block migrant caravan; blames US election

Hundreds of migrants are stuck in detention centres un Saudi Arabia, and Ethiopia has admitted that it is not doing enough to assist the migrants out of the detention centres.

'We are not doing enough': Ethiopia admits not helping enough to assist migrants in Saudi

Altogether 180 migrant workers reached Jharkhand from Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Saturday by a state-sponsored charter flight, expressing relief from over two-month-long hardships due to lockdown.

After Leh, Jharkhand government flies 180 migrants from Andaman in charter flight

The Shiv Sena on Monday said it is the Centre's responsibility to make arrangements for sending migrant labourers to their native places in the wake of the lockdown enforced to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Shiv Sena pushes for evacuation of migrants, says Centre should arrange for workers to go home

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday termed as unfortunate the gathering of migrant workers outside the Bandra railway station and stressed such incidents should not recur in the face of the COVID-19 crisis.

Take steps to avoid a repeat of Bandra railway station gathering: Sharad Pawar to govt

Migrants trickled through permeable borders to Greece from Turkey on Sunday as thousands gathered on the country's frontier seeking entry after Ankara relaxed curbs on their movement.

Migrants head to Greece as Turkey opens floodgates

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday (January 2) that up to 250,000 migrants were fleeing from the northwestern Syrian region of Idlib towards Turkey, adding that Ankara was trying to prevent them from crossing its border.

250,000 migrants fleeing from Syria's Idlib towards Turkey: Tayyip Erdogan

Advocacy groups sued the Trump administration on Tuesday in an effort to block a rule published last month that expands the number of migrants who can be subject to a sped-up deportation process without oversight by an immigration judge.

Groups sue to block Trump administration's expansion of rapid deportations