Humanitarian organizations have denounced Italy for contravening international law by refusing to let in asylum seekers plucked from the Mediterranean sea.

New York City declares a state of emergency due to the huge influx of asylum seekers plunging the biggest city in the United States into a humanitarian crisis.

This edition of #Trending takes you through reactions to the UK’s controversial plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Britain has vowed to pursue its controversial policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda after the European human rights court issued last-minute injunctions to stop the deportation of the first group of migrants.

Britain’s plan to send the first group of asylum seekers to Rwanda has been stalled after the European human rights court issued last-minute injunctions to stop the deportation.

The United States will end a sweeping, pandemic-related expulsion policy that has effectively closed down the US asylum system at the border with Mexico, US health officials said on Friday, arguing it was no longer needed to protect public health.

International and human rights lawyers have called the legality of nationality and borders legislation into question.

Afghans had been promised entry into the US under a program known as ‘humanitarian parole’, but the backlog of applicants keeps growing, according to US-based legal aid groups.

Warsaw claims that Minsk was coordinating the migrant influx, saying the border crisis threatens the security of the entire European Union (EU), but latter rejected the accusations.

Since March 2020, US authorities along the border with Mexico have used an unlawful and xenophobic public health authority known as Title 42 to summarily expel migrants