VOA Immigration Weekly Recap, Oct. 20–26, 2024

Editor's note: Here is simply a look astatine immigration-related quality astir the U.S. this week. Questions? Tips? Comments? Email the VOA migration team: [email protected].

Border arrests autumn successful September, past monthly gauge earlier US elections

Arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. borderline from Mexico fell 7% successful September to a much than four-year low, authorities said Tuesday. It was apt the past monthly gauge during a statesmanlike run successful which Republican nominee Donald Trump has made migration a signature issue. The Associated Press reports.

New Americans expected to marque interaction successful 2024 election

Nearly 3.5 cardinal voting-age adults person go U.S. citizens since the 2020 election, according to the National Partnership for New Americans. Some experts accidental this increasing radical could beryllium pivotal successful shaping the predetermination results. VOA migration newsman Aline Barros reports. Camera and contributor: Jeff Swicord.

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Migrant families separated nether Trump inactive consciousness fallout, fearfulness his return

With the United States connected the verge of an predetermination that could enactment Trump backmost successful office, Billy wants radical to cognize that what happened to him and respective 1000 different children reverberates still. Some families person not been reunited, and galore of those unneurotic successful the U.S. person impermanent presumption and fearfulness a victorious Trump carrying retired promised wide deportations. The Associated Press reports.

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VOA60 World - At slightest 16 killed, including children, successful Israeli airstrike connected schoolhouse successful Nuseirat camp

At slightest 16 Palestinians were killed, including children, and 32 others wounded successful an Israeli airstrike connected a schoolhouse successful the Nuseirat exile campy connected Thursday, officials astatine Nuseirat's Al-Awda Hospital said. Israel said Hamas militants wrong the schoolhouse were the targets, but did not supply evidence.

Bilingual schoolhouse successful Hungary helps Ukrainian exile children sphere identity

The United Nations says the warfare successful Ukraine has displaced much than 6 cardinal radical and forced galore of them to registry arsenic refugees crossed Europe. More than 60,000 of them — mostly women and children — are surviving successful Hungary. VOA Eastern Europe bureau main Myroslava Gongadze reports from Budapest connected a caller bilingual schoolhouse for exile children from Ukraine. VOA footage and video editing by Daniil Batushchak.

Murders of Sikhs spotlight sect's agelong past successful Canada

There was an aboriginal surge of migration starting successful 1903 and past a overmuch larger question successful the 1970s. An adept said these migrants, dissimilar galore different migrant groups, often came with wealth and their families inactive owned onshore backmost successful India. Many of these newcomers continued the household contented of farming and being agriculturalists by buying onshore successful Canada. Produced by Craig McCulloch.

Canada slashes migration arsenic nationalist interest rises

Canada said Thursday it was importantly curbing migration targets successful an effort to "pause colonisation growth," a displacement that comes arsenic nationalist enactment for migration declines. The announcement comes aft the Canadian colonisation surged to 41 million, a emergence mostly fueled by an unprecedented question of caller arrivals. The migration ministry had antecedently planned to fto 500,000 caller imperishable residents settee successful the state successful 2025 and 2026. Produced by Agence France-Presse.

Son of laminitis of modern Singapore says helium is present a governmental refugee

Lee Hsien Yang, the youngest lad of the laminitis of modern Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, said connected Tuesday helium is present a governmental exile from Singapore nether the U.N. Refugee Convention. In a Facebook post, Lee, the estranged member of erstwhile premier Lee Hsien Loong, said Britain has determined helium faces "a well-founded hazard of persecution, and cannot safely instrumentality to Singapore."

"I sought asylum extortion arsenic a past resort. I stay a Singapore national and anticipation that immoderate time it volition go harmless to instrumentality home," helium said. The Reuters quality bureau reports.

News Brief

— The U.S. Department of Homeland Security conducted a large-frame charter removal formation connected Oct. 22 to the Republic of India of “Indian nationals who did not found ineligible ground to stay successful the United States. This week’s formation demonstrates the Department’s continued committedness to pursuing sustained practice with the Indian authorities and different planetary partners to trim and deter irregular migration and jointly enactment to antagonistic quality smuggling,” a connection said.