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A severe economic downturn in Cuba has fuelled record migration to the United States, with boat crossings on the rise. The situation amounts to a “humanitarian crisis”, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on Monday, which added that US Border Patrol had issued instructions to delay some landings until federal resources arrive. Citing the resources needed to …
African women aboard the Topaz Responder run by the Maltese organization Migrant Offshore Aid Station and the Red Cross after a rescue operation off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea on Nov. 3. My message to girls back in Nigeria is, ‘Don’t come.’ — Anna, a Nigerian woman who said she was forced into prostitution Seventeen members of the …