MEXICO CITY — After years of bowing to U.S. pressure to help slow migration, Mexico is drawing the line at a Texas law that would give the state a dramatically bigger role in border enforcement, including the right to deport undocumented migrants. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has denounced the measure as “draconian.” He says … Read more
BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday sharply condemned alleged plans by members of far-right groups who supposedly met recently at a mansion outside Berlin to devise a plot to deport millions of immigrants, even those with German citizenship, if the groups take power. The alleged plan, which was published in an article by … Read more
Noelia Sanchez was born in the rolling farmlands of southwest Missouri, where her Mexican parents worked as seasonal farmworkers in the 1950s. When she was 1, Noelia and her mother, Aurora, who had no work documents, were rounded up with dozens of other immigrants in a Texas town near the border. The U.S.-born child and … Read more
Moniza Kakar, a Karachi-based human rights lawyer, has been representing Afghan refugees in Pakistan’s courts since July 2022. In recent months, though, she’s noted a sharp increase in her caseload—in Karachi alone, more than 1,500 Afghans have faced arrest since September, 80% of whom were legally registered refugees. The uptick in the city comes as … Read more
Afghan former prosecutor Mohammad Abed Andarabi, photographed in Islamabad, Pakistan, says he and his family have moved locations multiple times, fearing arrest or deportation. (Saiyna Bashir for The Washington Post) October 5, 2023 at 2:00 a.m. EDT Comment on this storyComment KARACHI, Pakistan — There hasn’t been a single day over the past two years … Read more