EU police launches centre to step up illegal migration fightThe EU police agency Europol on Tuesday launched a new centre to step up the fight against criminal networks illegally smuggling migrants a...
25 Mar, 2026, 11.48 AM IST
Greece seeks to toughen punishment for migrant smugglingGreece's migration ministry on Saturday said it had submitted a new bill to parliament aimed at toughening penalties for migrant traffickin...
24 Jan, 2026, 04.13 PM IST
UK to seize phones, SIM cards in new crackdown on illegal migrationLaw enforcement agencies can now seize electronic devices like mobile phones and SIM cards from illegal migrants without needing to arrest ...
05 Jan, 2026, 07.37 PM IST
Four dead after wooden boat believed to be ferrying migrants into the US capsizes off San DiegoA migrant boat capsized near San Diego in stormy seas. At least four people died and four were hospitalized. The vessel, a panga, was found...
16 Nov, 2025, 07.30 AM IST
New UK law to target gangs pushing illegal migration with social media advertsThe UK is set to introduce a new law targeting criminal gangs using social media to promote illegal immigration, including dangerous small ...
04 Aug, 2025, 09.50 AM IST
TikTok becomes a tool of choice in cat-and-mouse game between migrant smugglers and authoritiesAt a time when legal pathways to the US have been slashed and criminal groups are raking in money from migrant smuggling, social media apps...
17 Mar, 2025, 10.51 AM IST
Indian family freezes at Canada-US border: Trial to begin in human smuggling caseFederal prosecutors in Minnesota have opened a trial against Harshkumar Patel and Steve Shand, charged with smuggling Indian migrants into ...
18 Nov, 2024, 11.41 AM IST
A new $72,000 migrant smuggling route to the US starts with a charter flight, and many Indians are waiting to boardIndian nationals on a Legend Airlines flight faced challenges in El Salvador as they attempted to reach the U.S. via Mexico. The incident s...
25 Jun, 2024, 11.33 AM IST
Gold smugglers target hapless Telangana labourers in GulfSince the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous individuals from rural areas of Telangana have ventured to Gulf countries in search o...
11 Sep, 2023, 05.25 PM IST
Dozens saved by Italy from migrant shipwrecks; some, clinging to rocks, plucked to safety by coptersAll 34 migrants who endured two nights on the reef were rescued, said Federico Catania, a spokesperson for the Alpine assistance group whos...
07 Aug, 2023, 06.37 AM IST
No trace of boat with 500 migrants, rescue group says after an alarm sparked Mediterranean searchEmergency raised the possibility that the migrants were brought back to Libya, the launching point for many of the smugglers' unseaworthy b...
26 May, 2023, 11.23 PM IST
Italy estimates 680K migrants might cross sea from LibyaThe International Organization for Migration and humanitarian groups say passengers whose vessels are turned back by the Libyan coast guard...
12 Mar, 2023, 09.45 PM IST
EU nations: Migrant departures should be stopped abroadTop officials from Spain, Greece, Italy, Malta and Cyprus — who receive most migrant arrivals from the bloc’s southern and southeastern bor...
08 Oct, 2022, 11.21 PM IST
53 migrants dead, 54 injured in truck crash in south MexicoThe federal Attorney General's Office said the preliminary estimate lists 53 dead, with three of the injured in critical condition. Luis Ma...
10 Dec, 2021, 08.47 AM IST
Channel deaths fuel UK-France tensions over migrant boatsUK officials criticise France for rejecting their offer of British police and border officers to conduct joint patrols along the channel co...
25 Nov, 2021, 05.40 PM IST
Migrant smugglers see boost from US pandemic border policyU.S. President Donald Trump's administration in March announced that it would begin to quickly expel nearly all migrants caught at the bord...
12 Nov, 2020, 10.09 PM IST
UN asks SE Asian nations to abandon migrant "push back" policyUN today called the "push back" migrant ships policy of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia as "incomprehensible and inhumane".
15 May, 2015, 07.38 PM IST