How did the migrant caravan approaching the U.S. snowball in size from several hundred to more than 7,000? More than 7,000 migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala grouped together this week to travel toward ...
A Guatemalan border town held several thousand migrants by October 18, a portion of whom decided to continue forward and crossed illegally into Mexico on Thursday night. A caravan of an estimated 5,000 Central American ...
How the EU Redefined Imperialism During the days of Empire, the rich countries of Europe exploited the resources of the poorer nations of the world through conquest. These days, there is a new system; no ...
Trump has lowered the total number of refugees allowed into the U.S. each year since he took office, and now his 2019 quota is the lowest on record. On Thursday the White House announced the ...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released a report detailing the dangers inherent in the proposed U.S.-Mexico wall. Other environmental groups joined with ACLU to condemn the proposed border wall, saying it is politically motivated ...
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says they have reliable information that human traffickers are posing wearing clothes with the UNHCR logo at smuggling hubs and disembarkation points in Libya. UNHCR workers are often present at ...
Republican Senator John McCain died on Saturday at the age of 81. While the nation mourns the loss of this great patriot and independent Republican politician and failed presidential candidate, I implore you to remember ...
On Friday, Australia’s former finance minister Scott Morrison was named the country’s new prime minister. He was elected after winning the Liberal Party’s internal ballot 45-40 over former Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton. Another candidate, ...
Activists of the Occupy movement push Philadelphia mayor to end Preliminary Arrest Reporting Service Agreement with ICE; protesters seek to tackle the stop-and-frisk program next. The occupation of City Hall since protesters moved the encampment ...
A Mexican journalist and his son risk deportation due to his criticism of the U.S. government’s immigration policy. Mexican journalist, Emilio Gutierrez-Soto, and his son, Oscar, are currently facing serious ordeals at the hands of ...
For the last five years, there has been an upsurge in the rate of illegal immigration into Europe by Africans. The immigrants have continued to endure the dangerous journey through the Sahara desert and risk ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reunited around 1,442 of the 2,551 separated migrant children with their parents in immigration detention by the July 26 deadline, as mandated by a federal judge in ...
Earlier this week Citizen’s Truth received confirmation regarding upcoming humanitarian action at the United States and Mexico border after multiple reports of continued separation of families surfaced in several outlets. Grannies Respond and Veterans Service ...
In a reversal of recent policy, Italy has announced it will allow migrant rescue ships to dock at its ports, at least for the next five weeks. After a discussion between Italian Foreign Minister Enzo ...
The border area between the U.S. and Mexico is home to some of North America’s greatest biodiversity and rich terrain which includes forests, grasslands and salt marshes. The land is home to more than 1,500 ...
Earlier today Citizen’s Truth received exclusive confirmation regarding upcoming humanitarian action at the United States and Mexico border. Grannies Respond formed after news of families being separated at the border became a national story, per ...
U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego ordered that the Trump administration not deport any immigrant parents for the next seven days. Issued on Monday, the order is in response to a lawsuit filed ...
July 18th will mark 100 years since the birth of Nelson Mandela – South Africa’s anti-apartheid hero, global icon and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Mandela, who died in 2013, bore the brunt of the ...
Mexico’s president-elect, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, will assume power as Mexico’s new president on December 1 and according to his future chief of public security, one of the first items on his agenda is to ...
Italy’s interior minister is Europe’s answer to President Donald Trump with an even more hardline stance on immigration than his American counterpart. Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who took the position in June, said that he ...
(FactCheck.org, by Lori Robertson) With the controversy over family separations, much of the political rhetoric in recent weeks has focused on illegal immigration. We thought it would be helpful to take a step back and look ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has surrendered to pressure from her party alliances and accepted a more restrictive immigration policy at the nation’s borders. This follows a week of tense internal negotiations with the German conservative ...
The Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Indianapolis is protesting Trump’s immigration policies in an innovative way. They placed the statues of Jesus, Mary and Joseph in a chain-link fence outside the church building. The dean ...
Due to the massive crises of deportation and family separation facing America’s Latino immigrant community, it’s easy to forget that in addition to these incredibly pressing dangers and the imminent threat of persecution from various ...
Last Friday, 14 members of the European Union (EU) said they had reached an agreement with Germany over the return of asylum seekers. The countries included are Portugal, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Finland, ...
As the crisis confronting immigrants attempting to enter the US continues to reach greater and greater proportions, it is important to understand why this mass migration is occurring and the role the United States government ...
On Sunday, leaders of Germany, France, and other European Union (EU) states will hold a so-called mini-summit in Brussels to discuss migration issues that have divided the region. “I am convening an informal working meeting ...
On Wednesday afternoon, President Trump signed an executive order ending the policy that has separated children from their parents when they have illegally entered the US southern border. The new bill permits parents and children ...
Over 68 million people worldwide were forced to flee their homes due to war, persecution, and violence in 2017 according to the latest report from the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR). That translates to one person every ...
There has been a national uproar over President Trump’s decision to separate the children of unauthorized immigrants from their parents and detain them in holding facilities along the U.S. – Mexico border. With conservative news outlet ...
ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.” (ProPublica, by Ginger Thompson) The desperate sobbing ...
In light of the increase in unaccompanied immigrant children held by the Department of Health and Human Services (H.H.S.), the Trump administration is finalizing plans to construct a tent city that could shelter up to ...
The Hungarian government and Prime Minister Victor Orban have drafted a new law to combat migrant asylum-seekers moving into the EU and to criminalize the aide workers assisting them in Hungary. If passed in its ...
More than 50 additional prosecutors and judges have been assigned to work along the US-Mexico border on immigration cases which have surged under President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ zero-tolerance policy for illegal border ...
Three Spanish firefighters returned to Greek courts this week, where they were acquitted from charges of human trafficking and smuggling across international borders. The three men, founding members of the Spanish Professional Emergency Aid Association ...
As the Trump administration and its allies in law enforcement and border patrol continue to escalate tensions at the U.S. – Mexico border, thousands of children are caught in the crossfire. Children of immigrants fleeing ...
The German government has pledged to accept more than 10,000 refugees from the Middle East and North Africa. The country’s acceptance of refugees is a commitment to resettling those considered particularly vulnerable. The European Union ...
President Donald Trump issued an executive order in January 2017 instructing immigration officers to detain and arrest any and all undocumented immigrants in the United States. This order has had far-reaching and disastrous effects for ...
I do not follow President Donald Trump on Twitter, if for no other reason than I don’t want to be counted among his followers. Seeing as he’s President, though, and his words matter—perhaps they should ...
Every March, a diverse and inventive group of people converge in Austin, Texas to attend South By Southwest (SXSW), an event best known as a music festival founded in 1987. Since then, however, it has ...
The Mexican government is forcing retaliation from President Donald Trump, as Mexico is not only allowing their own citizens to enter the United States illegally, but are also helping other nations’ migrants do it, too. ...
WHAT’S THE STATE OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN AMERICA? Check out this podcast! Listen⇒KVoice of Resistance This is your Resistance Podcast! On this episode we talk Women’s rights to abortion in America. We discuss how Mississippi’s ...
A struggling economy and the promise of an Italian basic income likely propelled the populist Italian party, M5S to win the largest percentage in the Italian election last Sunday. But M5S get enough votes to ...
As the Muslim population in Europe grows, how well are immigrants adapting to their new land and how strong is the anti-Muslim sentiment across Europe? Two new reports came out recently that documented anti-Muslim crimes ...
Italian politics faces a pivotal day on March 4. Italians will elect a new national government, that is if any party wins enough seats in the Italian election to form a government. Despite having multiple ...
The kickback scheme was allegedly hashed out over weeknight drinks at a steakhouse in a border county in south Texas. Amid surf and turf and expensive scotch, a Hidalgo County official said he would meet ...
Trump’s State of the Union address was the second longest in history, but was it accurate? It is said and done. President Donald Trump on Tuesday night delivered his first annual State of The Union ...