Mexican detention center fire victims' families getting $8 million each
Security camera footage showed security personnel made no attempt to evacuate the migrants once the fire broke out.
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Security camera footage showed security personnel made no attempt to evacuate the migrants once the fire broke out.
British authorities said 755 people crossed the channel in small boats Thursday, the highest daily number this year.
A 3-year-old girl died while traveling aboard a bus from Texas to Chicago with a group of asylum seekers, officials said. An investigation into the death is underway.
She was believed to be traveling with her mother and father, an Illinois state health official told CBS News.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams says migrants could have to wait as long as two years before they are eligible to work due to a 1996 law, adding to a very large bill for sanctuary cities like his. Murad Awawdeh, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, joined CBS News to talk about the migrant crisis in New York City.
The five boroughs of New York City are currently hosting approximately 57,000 asylum seekers and the number continues to rise. Mayor Eric Adams sits down with "CBS Mornings" for a closer look at the humanitarian crisis growing there and what he hopes the Biden Administration will do to fix it.
In midtown Manhattan, asylum seekers are sleeping on the sidewalks outside the Roosevelt Hotel.
The move comes days after 2 Belarusian military helicopters briefly entered Polish air space, drawing accusations from Warsaw of a deliberate provocation.
After a migrant boat capsized in the Mediterranean last week, 41 people reportedly died, survivors told local Italian media on Wednesday.
Daily Border Patrol apprehensions of migrants along the Arizona desert have spiked by more than 100% in recent days, despite scorching temperatures surpassing 110 degrees Fahrenheit there, according to internal Border Patrol data obtained by CBS News. CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez traveled to Yuma, Arizona, where he spoke to volunteers trying to save migrants' lives.
Border Patrol agents in the Tucson, Arizona, sector have seen the number of migrants arriving daily soar to as many as 1,900, an increase of 134% from June.
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With shelters full, New York City officials may erect tents in the city's parks to accommodate migrants. Around 95,000 migrants have arrived in New York over the last 15 months. Max Rivlin-Nadler, a reporter for local New York City publication Hell Gate, joined CBS News to discuss the situation.
Among the migrants there were 277 children, 52 of which were unaccompanied minors, officials said.
The Texas governor's press office is denying Mexico's claim that two migrant deaths can be linked to new buoy barriers stretching 1,000 feet in one section of the Rio Grande. Omar Villafranca has more.
Dozens of asylum seekers are camping outside a New York City hotel being used as a relief center as they wait for a room. Eric Adams, the city's mayor, says they are simply out of space and city officials are asking the federal government for help. CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez has the latest.
The migrant crisis in New York City is worsening as many asylum seekers waiting to be processed are forced to sleep on sidewalks outside of Manhattan hotels. The mayors of several major U.S. cities, including New York City Mayor Eric Adams, have asked the Biden administration for federal assistance. Meg Oliver reports.
Since last spring, more than 95,000 migrants have arrived in New York City, according to the mayor's office.
Police in Lincolnton, North Carolina, are looking for a man suspected of deliberately hitting a group of migrant workers with an SUV outside a Walmart.
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a Biden administration policy aimed at reducing illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border. The policy required most migrants to first seek asylum in other countries as they made their way to the U.S., before applying for humanitarian refuge on U.S. soil. Ed O'Keefe reports.
The Biden administration rule penalizes migrants who don't request protection in another country before crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.
A new report from an independent federal court monitor has determined the death of an 8-year-old migrant girl while in U.S. Border Protection custody was a "preventable tragedy." The report also says her death raises "profound concerns" about the U.S. government's process for caring for migrants at the southern border. CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez has more.
In Texas, state officials are investigating allegations of inhumane treatment of migrants along the southern border. A state trooper with the Department of Public Safety claims officials near Eagle Pass have been ordered to push migrants back into the Rio Grande and to not give them water even in extreme heat. CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez joins to discuss the allegations.
The allegations involve officers and at least one migrant who was being housed at a police station on the city's West Side.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte negotiated for months over a package of measures to reduce the flow of new migrants arriving in the country of nearly 18 million people.