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Countries in the Americas are reeling as the flow of migrants reaches historic levels, but a U.N. officials says international “funds simply aren’t there” for humanitarian needs MEXICO CITY -- Countries in the Americas are reeling as the flow of migrants reaches historic levels, but international “ funds simply aren’t there” for human itarian needs, a United Nations official said. Ugochi Daniels, deputy director of operations for the International Organization for Migration, said a larger and coordinated regional effort is necessary for a longer term solution to the steady movement of vulnerable people toward the United States. But other global crises — among them the war in Ukraine, conflict in Sudan, Morocco’s earthquake — have pulled global funds away, Daniels said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press. The U.N. estimated that this year through August, it needed $55.2 billion to take on compounding global crises, but it received funds for only 71% of that. A growing ...

President Joe Biden's administration said it's reached a critical agreement with Mexican officials to address the migration as Title 42 restrictions end. President Joe Biden's administration said it's reach ed a critical agreement with Mexican officials to address the "humanitarian situation caused by unprecedented migration flows" as Title 42 restrictions end. After U.S. Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Tuesday, Mexican officials confirmed they will continue to accept migrants from at least four countries who are sent by the U.S. back across the border. Migrants trying to reach the United States rest on a bank of the Rio Bravo river, at the border between Mexico and the United States, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico April 26, 2023. Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters The move comes after the Biden administration had announced a series of actions, including deploying U.S. troops to the southern border...

The United States, Panama and Colombia will launch a 60-day campaign aimed at halting illegal migration through the treacherous Darien Gap, where the flow of migrants has multiplied this year PANAMA CITY -- The United States, Panama and Colombia announced Tuesday that they will launch a 60-day campaign aimed at halting illegal migration through the treacherous Darien Gap, where the flow of migrants has multiplied this year. Details on how the governments will try to curb the flow of migrants that reached nearly 90,000 in just the first three months of this year through the dense, lawless jungle were not provided in the joint statement. The ambitious announcement came as the Biden administration nervously awaits the expected end of a pandemic-related rule May 11 that has suspended rights to seek asylum for many. Without that instrument of dissuasion at the U.S. border, there is concern migrant arrivals could again become unmanageable. The joint statement said the countries will also us...

Italy’s chief diplomat has held talks Sunday with Egyptian officials in Cairo that focused on ties between the two countries, migration, and the political stalemate in the conflict-stricken Libya CAIRO -- Italy’s chief diplomat held talks Sunday with Egyptian and Arab League officials in Cairo that focused on regional security and the conflict in neighboring Libya, as well as sensitive bilateral issues. Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said he raised with Egypt's president the case of Giulio Regeni, an Italian graduate student who was kidnapped, tortured, and killed in Cairo in 2016, and that of Patrick George Zaki, an Egyptian activist studying in Bologna who had been detained for nearly two years. “I asked for and received assurances for strong cooperation on the Regeni and Zaki cases,” Tajani wrote on Twitter. Later in the day, he told a joint news conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry that Cairo “is ready to remove roadblocks” to resolve both cases. He did not...