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A senior National Security Council advisor on migration issues is leaving as the White House faces fierce criticism over the situation at the Southern Border.

Robert Alexander/Getty ImagesJoe Biden’s top adviser on migration issues will leave the White House next week amid escalating tensions between states and the feds over the border, and ongoing chaos around border restrictions, according to NBC News. The departure of Katie Tobin, the senior director of transborder matters to the National Security Council, had been planned for months. Over her three years in the position, Tobin was integral to developing the White House's immigration st...

The Georgian embassy in South Korea has rejected a false claim that surfaced on Facebook alleging that South Koreans are the only foreigners who enjoy visa-free travel to the country. The posts boasted that the ex-Soviet nation "gifted" the privilege to thank Seoul for calling it by its preferred name Georgia, rather than the Russian-favoured Gruziya. However, citizens from 95 countries can visit Georgia visa-free for one year, not just South Koreans. The embassy explained that the inc...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who seeks to reduce the number of asylum seekers and stem support for the far-right, hopes to move closer towards a national consensus on a tougher migration policy at a meeting on Monday with the heads of Germany's 16 states. In recent weeks, Scholz's government has agreed measures to make it easier to deport migrants and to make the country a less attractive destination in the first place, in stark contrast to Berlin's perceived open-door policy under fo...

At the Palenque Summit in Mexico City, Latin American leaders blamed coercive U.S. policies for the migration crisis.

At the Palenque Summit in Mexico City, Latin American leaders blamed coercive U.S. policies for the migration crisis.

At the Palenque Summit in Mexico City, Latin American leaders blamed coercive U.S. policies for the migration crisis.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany needs to start deporting “on a large scale” migrants who don't have the right to stay in the country, adding to increasingly tough talk on migration since his coalition performed badly in two state elections earlier this month. Scholz's comments in an interview with weekly Der Spiegel were published Friday, as a leading German opposition figure called for the center-left chancellor to dump his quarrelsome coalition partners and instead...

Pope Francis on Saturday condemned "belligerent nationalisms" and called for a pan-European response to migration to stop the Mediterranean, where thousands have drowned, from becoming "the graveyard of dignity". Francis spoke out in favour of welcoming migrants, in a long speech that concluded a Church conference on Mediterranean issues in Marseille, a French port that for centuries has been a crossroads of cultures and religions. Francis was welcomed at the windy portside...

Pope Francis said on Friday that migrants who risk drowning at sea "must be rescued," calling it "a duty of humanity, a duty of civilisation". Speaking at the start of a trip centred on migration issues in the Mediterranean, he said that impeding such rescues is "a gesture of hate". He spoke at an inter-religious prayer service at a monument dedicated in the port city of Marseille to those lost at sea.