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UK’s Afghan Limbo: Thousands Stuck Without Status or Path Forward

As of August 2025, Afghan asylum approvals fell to 37% while returns are impossible and resettlement routes tightened, leaving thousands…

14,000 US-bound Returns: UN Findings Highlight Border Crackdown Impact

Record low border apprehensions in mid-2025 follow strict policies: zero parole, expedited removals, CBP One scheduling, and Mexican cooperation. Analysts…

Katrina at 20: Long-Term Impacts on Immigrant Communities and Displacement

Twenty years after Katrina, New Orleans is about 100,000 people smaller and more demographically shifted. Immigrant workers powered reconstruction but…

What Mass Deportation Could Do to a Community in 2025 and Beyond

A July 1, 2025 bill allocates $170 billion to expand U.S. immigration enforcement, enabling 116,000 detention beds and faster deportations.…

International students plan to stay home amid protests, fear of crackdown

U.S. enforcement since January 2025 has produced at least 1,300 student visa revocations and arrests, chilling campus protest participation. Canada…

Rohingya Refugees in India: Captivity at Sea and Deportations Reach Crisis Point

Reports from May 2025 allege Indian authorities forcibly expelled Rohingya—including at-sea pushbacks from the Andaman Islands—and removed others to Bangladesh…

Florida official: Alligator Alcatraz to have no detainees in coming days

Judge Kathleen Williams ordered Alligator Alcatraz closed within 60 days for environmental violations and inhumane conditions; rapid transfers cut detainee…

Church World Service in U.S.–South Africa Visa Row Over Afrikaner Refugee Resettlement

Executive Order 14204 created an Afrikaner-focused refugee pathway managed by CWS; visa refusals for 30 Kenyan staff in South Africa…