Migrants

Migrants share tutorials for human smuggling on social media - report

Video tutorials on social media show migrants using risky methods to enter the UK, sparking safety concerns and highlighting the dangers of truck smuggling.

Migrants try to board smugglers' boats in an attempt to cross the English Channel off the beach of Gravelines, northern France on September 27, 2025; illustrative.
People stand at the Kapikoy Border Gate, between Turkey and Iran, in Van province, Turkey, January 14, 2026.

Iranians arrive in Turkey through border gate as crackdown persists

Migrants disembark from a British Border Force vessel as they arrive at the Port of Dover, in Dover, Britain, December 29, 2024.

UK secures migrant return deal with Angola, Namibia as DRC faces visa curbs

US President Donald Trump speaks with members of the media following a call with military service members, on Thanksgiving, in Palm Beach, Florida, US, November 27, 2025.

Trump policy doc. says Europe risks 'civilizational erasure', aims to avoid Mideast 'forever wars'


Hungary's FM reiterates claim George Soros fueling migrant crisis

Hungarian officials have often used antisemitic tropes to blame Soros for the migrant crisis.

Hungarian government poster portraying financier George Soros and saying "Don't let George Soros have the last laugh" is seen at a tram stop in Budapest, Hungary

Two suspects charged after death of 51 migrants in sweltering Texas truck

The deaths once again highlight the challenge of controlling migrant crossings for Biden.

A WORKER STANDS next to a newly built section of the US border fence at Sunland Park, New Mexico, opposite the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, on Wednesday. Picture taken from the Mexico side of the border.

What are Israel's Ukrainian refugees most in need of today? - interview

Emunah Spira, a graduate of TAU’s International MA program in Migration Studies, works closely with Ukrainian refugee in the midst of the crisis.

MA program in Migration Studies, Emunah Spira

Tensions rise in Tripoli amid claims Lebanese Navy rammed migrant boat

"It is better to escape and drown than to live in a country that does not respect its citizens, where we starve every day."

 Relatives of people who died when a boat capsized off the Lebanese coast of Tripoli overnight, gather at the entrance of port of Tripoli, northern Lebanon April 24, 2022.

US eases border policy from Trump era for unaccompanied migrant children

In effect, this means that unaccompanied non-citizen children will not be expelled from the United States under CDC’s(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) order.

A Mission Police Dept. officer (L), and a US Border Patrol agent watch over a group of Central American asylum seekers before taking them into custody on June 12, 2018 near McAllen, Texas

Prehistoric Israel: 1.5 million-year-old bone shines light on ancient migration

Earliest evidence of ancient humans discovered in Israel points to human migration through Africa.

 A top (a), rear (b), bottom (c) and front (d) view of the vertebra discovered at 'Ubeidiya

Some 30 migrants rescued, one dead as dinghy capsizes in Channel

Human traffickers typically overload the dinghies, leaving them barely afloat and at the mercy of waves as they try to reach British shores.

 Migrants arrive into the Port of Dover onboard a Border Force vessel after being rescued while crossing the English Channel, in Dover, Britain.

Bodies of drowned migrants wash up on Libyan shore

More than a dozen migrants drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean to find better opportunities in Europe.

 A RHIB (rigid hulled inflatable boat) from the German NGO migrant rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 returns to the ship after rescuing twelve migrants from a wooden boat in international waters north of Libya, in the western Mediterranean Sea, August 2, 2021.

At least 53 people killed in Mexico trailer accident - emergency services

The truck transporting migrants turn over, killing at least 53.

 A trailer crash in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas killed at least 49 people, most of them migrants from Central America, officials said on Thursday.

Religious clergy urge aid for asylum seekers on Polish-Belarusian border

Thousands of migrants and asylum seekers have are facing dire circumstances on the Eastern European border after becoming trapped in an international spat.

 Polish soldiers and police watch migrants at the Poland/Belarus border near Kuznica, Poland, in this photograph released by the Territorial Defence Forces, November 12, 2021.