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President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen looks on during her joint press conference with Finnish Prime Minister Petter Orpo at the Lappeenranta airport, eastern Finland, Friday April 19, 2024. President von der Leyen and Prime Minister Orpo visited the eastern border region of Finland on Friday and discussed what Finland and the EU can do to prevent instrumentalised migration to Finland's eastern border. (Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva via AP)

European Union official von der Leyen visits the Finland-Russia border to assess security situation

The head of the European Union’s executive branch says that Finland’s decision to close its border crossings with Russia over a surge in migrants is a security matter for the whole 27-member bloc to consider.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before the House Committee on Homeland Security during a hearing on "A Review of the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Dubious claims about voting flyers at a migrant camp show how the border is inflaming US politics

Police officers stand near a building that is being searched in Solingen, Germany, Wednesday April 17, 2024. The Duesseldorf public prosecutor's office has arrested ten suspects in a large-scale raid against an international smuggling gang in eight federal states. More than 1000 officers from the federal police and the public prosecutor's office have been involved in the operation since the early morning. A total of 101 residential and business premises were searched. (Gianni Gattus/dpa via AP)

10 detained in large-scale raid in Germany targeting human smuggling gang that exploits visa permits

Immigrants line up to attend a city council hearing on disparities in immigration services for Black immigrants at City Hall in New York on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

Black immigrant rally in NYC raises awareness about racial, religious and language inequities

Festivalgoers attend the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on Sunday, April 14, 2024, in Indio, Calif. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Visa fees for international artists to tour in the US shot up 250% in April. It could be devastating

Migrants rescued from the English Channel by rescue boat

Migrants were rescued on Tuesday while crossing the English Channel and brought to Dover, hours after the U.K. approved the migrant deportation bill.

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Police clear out a migrant camp in central Paris. Activists say it’s a pre-Olympics sweep

Mayorkas back on Capitol Hill a day after Senate rejects impeachment articles against him

Many say Biden and Trump did more harm than good, but for different reasons, AP-NORC poll shows

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The UK government finally passes bill to send migrants to Rwanda. What took so long?

The British Parliament has finally passed legislation to send some migrants to Rwanda under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s controversial plan aimed at deterring risky English Channel crossings by people desperate to reach the U.K.

FILE - A man walks by the fence at the Pournara migrant reception center in Kokkinotrimithia outside of capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on Jan. 24, 2024. Cyprus says it’s suspending processing all asylum applications by Syrian nationals because of large numbers of refugees from the war-torn country that continue to reach the island nation by boat, primarily from Lebanon. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Cyprus suspends processing of Syrian asylum applications as boatloads of refugees continue arriving

Cyprus says it’s suspending processing all asylum applications by Syrian nationals because of large numbers of refugees from the war-torn country that continue to reach the island nation by boat, primarily from Lebanon.

Ed Hummel fills out his ballot at a polling site in Manhattan, New York, Tuesday, April 2, 2024. New York is among four states casting their ballots in the 2024 presidential primary; both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump already have enough delegates to secure their parties' nominations. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Noncitizen voting isn’t an issue in federal elections, regardless of conspiracy theories. Here’s why

Former President Donald Trump is turning to one of his favorite themes, the specter of immigrants improperly voting in federal elections.

Migrants wait between border walls separating Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, to apply for asylum with U.S. authorities, Friday, April 12, 2024, seen from San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

US border arrests fall in March, bucking seasonal trends amid increased enforcement in Mexico

Arrests for crossing the U.S. border illegally fell slightly in March, bucking a usual spring increase amid increased immigration enforcement in Mexico.

FILE - People gather for a news conference of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition outside the state Capitol, Tuesday, March 19, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed a bill that would require law enforcement agencies to communicate with federal immigration authorities if they discover people are in the the country illegally, and would broadly mandate cooperation in the process of identifying, catching, detaining and deporting them. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

Tennessee governor signs bill requiring local officers to aid US immigration authorities

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed a bill that would require law enforcement agencies to communicate with federal immigration authorities if they discover people are in the the country illegally.

Workers tend to cows in the milking parlor at the Flood Brothers Farm, Monday, April 1, 2024, in Clinton, Maine. Foreign-born workers make up fully half the farm's staff of nearly 50, feeding the cows, tending crops and helping collect the milk — 18,000 gallons every day. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

How immigrant workers in US have helped boost job growth and stave off a recession

Millions of jobs that new immigrants have been filling in the United States appear to solve a riddle that has confounded economists for at least a year: How has the U.S. economy managed to prosper, adding hundreds of thousands of jobs, month after month, at a time when the Federal Reserve has aggres

In this combination photo, President Joe Biden speaks in Milwaukee, March 13, 2024, left, and former President Donald Trump speaks in New York, Jan. 11, 2024. (AP Photo)

Many say Biden and Trump did more harm than good, but for different reasons, AP-NORC poll shows

A new poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that more than half of U.S. adults think Joe Biden’s presidency has hurt the country on cost of living and immigration.

Dominican authorities launch probe after an immigration officer is accused of raping a 14-year-old

Authorities in the Dominican Republic say they have launched an investigation after an immigrations officer was accused of raping a 14-year-old girl.

FILE - Migrants rest at a makeshift shelter, Jan. 6, 2023, in Denver. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced a major shift Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in the city's response to the migrant crisis, extending support to six months but with only 1,000 spaces. The mayor's pivot follows failed attempts to get federal aid and deep cuts to the city's budget as Denver served nearly 41,000 migrants since the end of 2022. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert, File)

Denver makes major shift in migrant response by extending support to six months but limiting spaces

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced a major shift Wednesday in the city’s response to the migrant crisis.

Olivia Orozco Lopez cries as she holds a portrait of her late daughter Celestina Carolina during an interview in the Culvilla hamlet of Tejutla, Guatemala, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Carolina died asphyxiated alongside 50 other migrants in a smuggler's trailer truck in San Antonio, Texas in June 2022. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Desperate young Guatemalans try to reach the US even after horrific deaths of migrating relatives

In the small town of Comitancillo in Guatemala’s mostly Indigenous highlands, two murals memorialize the nearly two dozen local migrants who died in mass tragedies en route to the United States recently.

European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson, is embraced after Members of European Parliament participated in a series of votes during a plenary session at the European Parliament in Brussels, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Lawmakers are voting Wednesday on a major revamp of the European Union's migration laws aiming to end years of division over how to manage the entry of thousands of people without authorization and deprive the far-right of a vote-winning campaign issue ahead of June elections. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

EU lawmakers approve an overhaul of migration law, hoping to deprive the far right of votes

Lawmakers have approved a major revamp of the European Union’s migration regulations. The reforms are meant to end years of division over how to manage the entry of people without authorization and to deprive the far right of a vote-winning campaign issue ahead of June elections.

FILE - President Joe Biden talks with the U.S. Border Patrol and local officials as he looks over the southern border, Feb. 29, 2024, in Brownsville, Texas, along the Rio Grande. Democrats are trying to outflank Republicans and convince voters they can address problems at the U.S. border with Mexico as immigration likely becomes a major issue in elections that will decide control of Congress. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Democrats lean into border security as it shapes contest for control of Congress

Democrats are trying to outflank Republicans and convince voters they can address problems at the U.S. border with Mexico as immigration has become a major issue in elections that will decide control of Congress.

FILE - Central American migrants ride atop a freight train during their journey toward the US-Mexico border, in Ixtepec, Oaxaca State, Mexico, April 23, 2019. Oaxaca is a key route for migrants seeking to cross Mexico to reach the U.S. border, and accidents involving migrants there are common. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

3 migrants, including 2 from Cameroon, died in a truck accident in southern Mexico

Three migrants died in a highway accident in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca, authorities say. At least two of the dead — a man and a woman — are from the African nation of Cameroon, and the identity of the third is being checked.

FILE - Finnish border guards walk at Vaalimaa border check point between Finland and Russia in Virolahti, Finland, on Dec. 15, 2023. Finland will extend the closure of its border crossing points with Russia beyond the current April 14 deadline “until further notice” due to a high risk of organized migration orchestrated by Moscow, the Finnish government said on Thursday, April 4, 2024. (Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva via AP)

Finland will keep its border with Russia closed until further notice over migration concerns

Finland says it will extend the closure of its border crossing points with Russia beyond the current April 14 deadline “until further notice” due to a high risk of organized migration orchestrated by Moscow.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Mich., Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

What we know: Trump uses death of Michigan woman to stoke fears over immigration

Donald Trump traveled to Michigan and Wisconsin and used the recent death of a 25-year-old Michigan woman killed by a man who immigration officials say entered the country illegally to hammer President Joe Biden over his handling of the U.S.

Demonstrators gather outside federal court buildings in New Orleans on Wednesday, April 3, 2024, to protest a Texas law known as SB4. Texas officials appeared before a three-judge federal appeals panel to defend a state law that would allow police to arrest migrants for illegally entering the United States, a week after the same three judges put the law on hold. (AP Photo by Kevin McGill)

Texas asks court to decide if the state’s migrant arrest law went too far

A attorney defending Texas’ plans to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally has told a panel of federal judges that the law may have “went too far” but that will be up the court to decide.

FILE - Haitian migrants wade through water as they cross the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of reaching the United States, May 9, 2023. Colombia and Panama are failing to protect hundreds of thousands of migrants who are crossing the Darien jungle on their way to the U.S. and have become increasingly vulnerable to robberies and sexual violence, Human Rights Watch said in a report published Wednesday, April 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)

Panama and Colombia fail to protect migrants on Darien jungle route, Human Rights Watch says

Human Rights Watch says Colombia and Panama are failing to protect the hundreds of thousands of migrants who cross the Darien jungle on their way to the United States and have become increasingly exposed to robberies and sexual violence.

FILE - Female migrants exit the Pournara migrant reception center following fighting between rival groups inside the camp near the village of Kokkinotrimithia, on the outskirts of the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. The president of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides says on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, he has personally asked the head of the European Union's executive arm to intercede with Lebanese authorities so that they could put a stop to boat loads of Syrian refugees from heading to the east Mediterranean island nation. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Cyprus president asks EU Commission chief to get Lebanon to stop migrants from leaving its shores

The president of Cyprus says he’s personally asked the head of the European Union’s executive arm to intercede with Lebanese authorities to stop boatloads of Syrian refugees from heading to the east Mediterranean island nation.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks, Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at a rally in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)

Trump accuses Biden of causing a border ‘bloodbath’ as he escalates his immigration rhetoric

Donald Trump has again used language denounced by Democrats to hammer President Joe Biden over his handling of the U.S.

Audience members listen to community organizer Maria Acosta speak during an Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice informational meeting, Wednesday, March 27, 2024, in Des Moines, Iowa. A bill in Iowa that would allow the state to arrest and deport some migrants is stoking anxiety among immigrant communities about how it would be interpreted and enforced. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Migrants in Iowa wonder whether to leave over a bill that could see some arrested and deported

A bill in Iowa that would allow the state to arrest and deport some migrants is stoking anxiety among immigrant communities.

Kedian William, 38, of Jamaica, hands a phone charger to volunteer Pedro Rios while waiting between two border walls in San Diego for agents on Friday, March 29, 2024. A federal judge on Friday sharply questioned the Biden administration's position that it bears no responsibility for housing and feeding migrant children while they wait in makeshift camps along the U.S-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

Judge questions Border Patrol stand that it’s not required to care for children at migrant camps

A federal judge sharply questions the Biden administration’s position that it bears no responsibility for housing and feeding migrant children who are waiting for agents in makeshift camps.

State Rep. Jesse Petrea, R-Savannah, speaks in favor of immigration bill HB 1105 at the House of Representatives in the Capitol in Atlanta on Sine Die, the last day of the legislative session, Thursday, March 28, 2024. The measure would require local sheriffs to work with the federal government when someone in custody is discovered to be in the country illegally. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Georgia bill aimed at requiring law enforcement to heed immigration requests heads to governor

A Georgia bill that aims to require local jailers to work with immigration authorities is headed to the governor’s desk for his signature.

FILE - Cars and trucks line up to enter the U.S. from Mexico at a border crossing in El Paso, Texas, March 29, 2019. Most Americans think the U.S. has been significantly changed by immigrants over the past five years and while many agree immigrants contribute to the economy, there are broad concerns that even legal immigration brings risks as well, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, conducted March 21-25, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Many Americans say immigrants contribute to economy but there’s worry over risks, AP-NORC poll finds

Americans are more worried about legal immigrants committing crimes in the U.S. than they were a few years ago, a change driven largely by increased concern among Republicans.

A sign celebrating Sine Die is seen at the Capitol in Atlanta on Sine Die, the last day of the legislative session, Thursday, March 28, 2024. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

On last day of Georgia legislative session, some bills pass and others die

Georgia’s two-year legislative session has ended. Thursday was the last day for bills to pass both the House and Senate or die as this term ends.

Migrants walking on the highway carry a cross that reads in Spanish "Christ Resurrected" during Holy Week as they move through Tapachula in Mexico's Chiapas state, Monday, March 25, 2024. Migrants stranded on the border with Guatemala departed on Monday for Mexico City in what they are calling "The Migrant Way of the Cross" to call for better migratory policies. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)

About 2,000 migrants begin a Holy Week walk in southern Mexico to raise awareness of their plight

About 2,000 migrants have begun walking in southern Mexico in what has become a traditional demonstration during Holy Week before Easter to draw attention to their plight.

FILE - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris addresses youth gathered on Black Star Square in Accra, Ghana, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu, Pool, File)

Biden and Harris discuss migration in separate White House meetings with Guatemalan leader Arévalo

The White House says President Joe Biden discussed migration with President Bernardo Arévalo of Guatemala after the Central American leader held similar talks with Vice President Kamala Harris.

The Mayor of New York, Eric Adams, talks to the press in front of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe after a visit to the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Oct. 4, 2023. Mayor Adams nixed a planned Sunday, March 24, 2024 trip to the U.S.-Mexico border over security concerns. Adams was slated to depart Saturday night to visit Brownsville and McAllen, Texas. The Democrat was expected to meet with U.S. immigration leaders as his city struggles to house new migrants seeking asylum. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, file)

New York City’s mayor cancels a border trip, citing safety concerns in Mexico

New York City’s mayor has nixed a planned trip to the U.S.-Mexico over security concerns. Mayor Eric Adams was slated to depart Saturday night to visit Brownsville and McAllen, Texas.

FILE - Border Patrol agents ask asylum-seeking migrants to line up in a makeshift, mountainous campsite after the group crossed the border with Mexico,Feb. 2, 2024, near Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif. The number of arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. southern border with Mexico nudged upward February over the previous month. But at a time when immigration is increasingly a concern for voters, the numbers were still among the lowest of Joe Biden's presidency. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Arrests for illegal border crossings nudge up in February but still among lowest of Biden presidency

The number of arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. southern border with Mexico nudged upward February over the previous month.

FILE - A Tyson food product is displayed in Montpelier, Vt., Nov. 18, 2011. Conservatives in mid-March 2024, have been calling for a boycott of Tyson Foods over false claims that the company is hiring 52,000 people who entered the U.S. illegally. But the company, which requires all of its employees to be authorized for work in the U.S., is not currently hiring for that number of positions. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

FACT FOCUS: Tyson Foods isn’t hiring workers who came to the U.S. illegally. Boycott calls persist

Conservative influencers and politicians are calling for a boycott of Tyson Foods after false claims spread online saying the multinational meat producer is planning to hire 52,000 people who came to the U.S. illegally.

Terrell County Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland walks to his truck after opening a gate leading to Bone Water Crossing on the Rio Grande River, Thursday, March 21, 2024, in Terrell County, Texas. (AP Photo/Erik Verduzco)

Law enforcement officials in Texas wonder how they will enforce migrant arrest law

The nine hours that Texas was allowed to arrest and deport migrants who illegally enter the U.S. provided a glimpse at what sort of obstacles law enforcement agencies in the state face.