Apr 20 EU struggles for plan to deal with migrants after deadly ship disaster By Marina Lopes An estimated 700 migrants drowned to death after a ship taking them to Europe from Libya capsized in the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday night. Rescuers led by the Italian Coast Guard are still searching for bodies and the death count… Continue reading
Sep 26 Watch Wave of child migrants pose challenges for Florida schools By April Brown For the many unaccompanied minors who have crossed into the United States from Central America fleeing violence and poverty, most end up waiting months, or even years, as their cases go through court. While they wait for the backlogged immigration… Continue watching
Sep 15 Watch News Wrap: Shipwrecks off Malta and Libya kill more than 700 migrants By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, more than 700 immigrants hoping to reach Europe from Africa and the Middle East were killed in two shipwrecks last week. The death toll reportedly equals all migrant deaths for the entire year of 2013. Continue watching
Jun 30 Watch President Obama pushes immigration reform without Congress By PBS News Hour President Obama says that until Congress does something about immigration reform, he will pursue the matter on his own. In the White House Rose Garden, the president said he was directing more agents to the U.S. border to respond to… Continue watching
Jun 30 Watch President Obama pushes immigration reform without Congress By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 05 Border Patrol resources stretched thin as children illegally enter U.S. alone By Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Border Patrol agents could arrest as many as 90,000 children trying to illegally cross the Mexican border alone this year, more than three times the number of children apprehended in 2013, according to a draft internal Homeland Security… Continue reading
Dec 03 Watch African migrants risk their lives for chance to be smuggled into Europe African migrants risk their lives for chance to be smuggled into Europe… Continue watching
Oct 04 Watch Legal, financial perils don’t end for African migrants after they reach Europe Legal, financial perils don't end for African migrants after they reach Europe… Continue watching
Oct 04 Watch Italy mourns ‘day of tears’ for shipwrecked migrants, calls for help from Europe Of the 500 African migrants who were on board a ship that sank off the coast of Italy, it's estimated that more than 300 have died. Jonathan Rugman of International Television News reports on the events of the tragedy and… Continue watching
Oct 03 Watch News Wrap: Ship with African migrants sinks en route to Europe, killing 114 In our news wrap Thursday, at least 114 people died after a boat crowded with hundreds of migrants from Africa sank off Italy. Also, Secretary of State John Kerry defended the option of diplomacy with Iran on its nuclear program… Continue watching