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Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a group of 13 Honduran migrants–including six children–as they attempted to illegally cross the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas.

An American man in a same-sex marriage with a Japanese citizen has filed a lawsuit in the country demanding legal residence through his husband, the Asahi Shimbun reported Thursday.

Seven individuals have been charged with murdering a 21-year-old man to death in Maryland, six of whom are illegal aliens who have been living in the United States.

An alleged sniper for the Islamic State (ISIS) has been indicted in federal court, the Department of Justice announced on Thursday, years after he was able to obtain American citizenship by arriving in the United States on the “Diversity Visa Lottery.”

Immigration officers rounded up at least 39 foreign nationals suspected of human rights violations in their home countries. Offenses include forced abortions, kidnapping, murder, civilian torture, massacres, mutilations, recruitment of child soldiers, and more.

Immigration officers removed 120 Cuban nationals from the U.S. in what is being called the largest single-plane removal of Cubans to their country of origin.

Hungary’s prime minister said Thursday that economic incentives for families, not immigration, are the answer to low birth rates and a decreasing population.

Food processing corporation Koch Foods Inc. is suing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency after raids which they say were “illegal,” claiming that they did not knowingly hire unauthorized workers.

El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents rescued two migrants, arrested two, and deterred four others from entering the U.S. The agents also found the body of one migrant who drowned in the American Canal on the Texas-Mexico border.

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Thursday took aim at GOP members of Congress, calling them “weak” for allowing Trump to divert funding meant for their states to build the wall at the southern border.

Italian NGO Mediterranea Saving Lives has complained of “revenge” after their ship, the Mare Jonio, was seized in Italian waters this week.

Tough qualification rules and a preferrence for skilled workers has seen the number of migrants granted permanent residency in Australia fall to its lowest level in a decade.

Increasing illegal and legal immigration to the United States is the most unpopular position a 2020 presidential candidate can make, as well as giving illegal aliens the right to vote, according to a new poll.

Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rick Scott (R-FL) are asking President Trump to give refuge in the United States to Bahamians hit by Hurricane Dorian.

Democrat Dan McCready, running against State Sen. Dan Bishop (R) in North Carolina’s 9th District special election, says it was the “right call” for Gov. Roy Cooper (D) not to ban sanctuary cities across the state. 

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, a non-profit based in Chicago that helps separated migrant children, announced Wednesday that they had both received a $1 million gift from Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively.

Prosecutors in the Southern District of Texas arrested a Bangladeshi national and charged him with smuggling fellow countrymen to the U.S. The arrest follows a guilty plea last week from one of his co-conspirators.

Mark Esper on Tuesday informed Congress he was diverting $3.6 billion from military construction projects to build 175 miles of border wall.

The “abuses of ICE” resemble “the auction block during slavery,” said Ayanna Pressley in an interview with Pod Save America.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a pair of alleged human smugglers reportedly attempting to move two migrants locked in their trunk through an immigration checkpoint in South Texas.

The Swedish capital of Stockholm has seen a surge in the number of residents with little to no education or jobs skills, largely due to mass migration.

Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer is urging President Donald Trump to provide more American health care to illegal migrants.

San Diego and El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents, CBP Air and Marine Operations (AMO) aircrews teamed up to rescue five migrants facing death from heat and dehydration in the California Desert. The rescues occurred during two separate incidents in late August.

Migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos has called on European Union member states to take migrants directly from countries in Africa, citing current talks with Rwanda.

The Pentagon has told Congress that it will build 11 sections of the southern border wall with $3.6 billion in funds allocated by Congress to other construction projects.

A “servant class” that serves the needs of the country’s top one percent is among one of the fastest-growing job markets in the United States, economic analysis finds. 

The nation’s chicken-processing companies created a covert cartel to suppress wages paid to many Americans and immigrants, accorkding to a lawsuit by the Handley Farah & Anderson law firm in Washington D.C.

Middle-class wages in California have risen by 1 percent in the last 40 years, says a study by the establishment California Budget and Policy Center. 

Pope Francis has announced his intention to elevate the head of the Vatican’s immigration department to the rank of cardinal.

Ten migrant transport NGO vessels are now operating in the Mediterranean as the left-wing establishment Democratic Party looks to reopen Italy’s ports.

Why would the federal government give financial incentives to hire foreign students over American students? It doesn’t make sense, but it is in fact happening. I intend to change this, and I have introduced legislation to do so.

A tightened labor market in President Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” economy is helping disabled Americans reintegrate into the United States workforce.

The federal government is reversing course and will allow a group of roughly 1,000 sick illegal-immigrants to keep getting U.S. medical treatment. 

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a Honduran migrant mother and her two small boys from the swift currents of the Rio Grande.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — About 1,500 asylum-seekers were being transported from Greece’s eastern Aegean island of Lesbos to the mainland Monday as part of government efforts to tackle massive overcrowding in refugee camps and a recent spike in the number of people arriving from the nearby Turkish coast.

A group of Americans are getting $7.5 million from investors to help pick strawberries with a multi-armed, electronic-eyed robot, so helping reduce the need for migrant workers to stoop for strawberries in sun-scorched fields.