VOA immigration weekly recap, Oct 7-12

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].

Judges successful DACA lawsuit perceive arguments implicit Texas' ineligible lasting to sue

A large absorption of the arguments earlier the appeals sheet is whether Texas, the pb plaintiff, has the ineligible lasting to bring the suit and whether a Texas territory justice had the authorization to contented a nationwide ruling. VOA's migration newsman Aline Barros reports.

In Arizona, migration often not apical contented for voters

With conscionable weeks to spell earlier predetermination day, Arizona is 1 of the important battlegrounds successful the 2024 U.S. statesmanlike race. Both Vice President Kamala Harris and erstwhile President Donald Trump cognize that winning the southwestern authorities is cardinal to their way to the White House. VOA's migration reporter, Aline Barros, traveled to the authorities to inquire voters however migration is influencing their determination successful this election.

Trump points to caller numbers connected migrants with transgression pasts. Here's what they show

Republicans are pointing to recently released migration enforcement information to bolster their statement that the Biden medication is letting migrants who person committed superior crimes spell escaped successful the U.S. But the numbers person been misconstrued without cardinal context. The Associated Press reports.

Hurricane disinformation leads to danger, experts say

Hurricane Helene near much than 200 radical dormant and galore much injured oregon without power, and Hurricane Milton has near astatine slightest 14 dormant aft ravaging Florida, according to The Associated Press. Falsehoods person been spreading, including accusations that FEMA prevented Florida evacuations and claims that backing for tempest victims was alternatively fixed to undocumented migrants. Produced by Jocelyn Mintz.

Immigration astir the satellite

UN warns widening Middle East struggle threatens wellness of millions

United Nations quality rights officials said the widening struggle and subject escalation crossed the Middle East are putting "the lives and well-being of perchance millions of radical crossed the portion astatine risk" and diminishing prospects for peace. AFP reports.

Syrian refugees fly Lebanon, caput backmost to Syria

The United Nations says a quarter-million radical person fled Israeli attacks successful Lebanon implicit the past 2 weeks for the comparative information of Syria. Most of them are Syrians who went to Lebanon to flight their country's civilian warfare but are present backmost location with nary spot to stay. VOA's Heather Murdock has much from Istanbul with Yan Boechat and Diego Baravelli successful Hasakah, Syria.

Brazilian nun awarded UN exile prize for enactment with migrants

A Brazilian nun who has helped refugees and migrants for 40 years won the Nansen prize Wednesday, awarded each twelvemonth by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for outstanding enactment to support internally displaced and stateless people. Sister Rosita Milesi, 79, is simply a subordinate of the Catholic bid of the Scalabrini nuns, who are renowned for their work to refugees worldwide. Her parents were mediocre farmers from an Italian inheritance successful confederate Brazil, and she became a nun astatine 19. Reuters reports.

UN calls for safer migration from Horn of Africa to Gulf countries

The caput of the United Nations International Organization for Migration is calling for harmless migration to and from the Gulf countries arsenic the unsafe eastbound Horn of Africa way claims much lives. The alleged eastbound way runs from the Horn of Africa to Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf by mode of Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia and Yemen. Migrant workers, chiefly from Ethiopia but besides from different East African countries, question implicit the way successful hunt of jobs and economical opportunities. Produced by Jalene Gemeda and Eskinder Firew.

973 migrants transverse Channel into UK connected aforesaid time 4 die

A grounds 973 migrants crossed the English Channel successful tiny boats connected the aforesaid time during which 4 died portion attempting the travel from France to England, U.K. Home Office figures showed Sunday. The fig for Saturday is the highest single-day fig of migrants making the cross-Channel travel this year, surpassing the erstwhile precocious of 882 acceptable connected June 18. AFP reports.

Migrants waiting successful Mexico cultivate rootlike gardens

On Mexico's bluish border, migrants awaiting introduction to the United States person recovered an unexpected root of solace: cultivating their ain food. In this report, narrated by Veronica Villafane, Cesar Contreras shows however a assemblage plot successful Ciudad Juarez is sowing seeds of hope.

News Brief

— An probe conducted by Homeland Security Investigations successful Washington and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service's Washington Division led to the sentencing of 2 Chinese nationals connected October 3. Both individuals were sentenced to much than 4 years successful national situation for their engagement successful a strategy to defraud Apple Inc. of millions of dollars' worthy of iPhones. Haotian Sun, 34, a Chinese national surviving successful Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced to 57 months successful national prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release. He was besides ordered to wage $1,072,200 successful restitution to Apple and forfeit $53,610. Pengfei Xue, 34, a Chinese national residing successful Germantown, Maryland, received a 54-month situation sentence, 3 years of supervised release, and was ordered to wage $397,800 successful restitution, on with a forfeiture of $19,890.