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Abu Wadei posing with an M4 carbine, Facebook account @Abo Wadie Alkassas

Hamas-supporting Gazan arrested in UK after arriving on migrant boat

By Mathilda Heller

THE POPULATION and Immigration Authority office in Jerusalem yesterday.

Ten Indian foreign workers rescued from Palestinian village

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Afghanistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Amir Khan Muttaqi in Kabul, Afghanistan January 26, 2025.

Taliban and Iran's top diplomats meet to tackle migrants, water rights, and security

US President Donald Trump attends a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket, in Brownsville, Texas, US, November 19, 2024.

Trump slaps retaliatory measures on Colombia after it turns away deportation flights

By REUTERS

Crew members of the Geo Barents migrant rescue ship, operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), distribute life jackets to a group of 61 migrants on a boat during a rescue operation in international waters off the coast of Libya in the central Mediterranean Sea September, 2023.

Boat carrying Egyptian migrant capsizes off Libyan coast, 12 dead

By THE MEDIA LINE STAFF

Crew members of the Geo Barents migrant rescue ship, operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), distribute life jackets to a group of 61 migrants on a boat during a rescue operation in international waters off the coast of Libya in the central Mediterranean Sea September, 2023.

UN refugee chief tells countries to drop ineffective border controls

By REUTERS

Customs and border protection officer Joseph Arcia and his partner Goose, a six year-old golden retriever, patrol incoming traffic to the United States from Mexico as they work along the San Ysidro border in San Diego, California, U.S., May 29, 2024.

Palestinian migrants with possible terror ties detained by San Diego border agents

By Mathilda Heller

Rescuers work at the beach where bodies of refugees were found after a shipwreck, in Cutro, the eastern coast of Italy's Calabria region, Italy, February 26, 2023, in this screen grab taken from a Reuters TV video.

So close to death: NGO captain recounts migrant sea rescue

By REUTERS

Crew members of the Geo Barents migrant rescue ship, operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), distribute life jackets to a group of 61 migrants on a boat during a rescue operation in international waters off the coast of Libya in the central Mediterranean Sea September, 2023.

Greek court dismisses charges against Egyptians in deadly shipwreck case

By THE MEDIA LINE

Migrants, part of a group of 61 migrants on a wooden boat, are rescued by crew members of the Geo Barents migrant rescue ship, operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), in international waters off the coast of Libya in the central Mediterranean Sea September 28, 2023.

IOM reports 80,000 migrants voluntarily returned from Libya since 2015

By THE MEDIA LINE STAFF

Immigrants awaiting approval of their entry into the U. S. crowd the lunchroom for their noonday meal at Ellis Island, 1923. The next year the U.S. would adopt legislation severely restricting immigration.

How a 100-year-old law changed American immigration policy until this day - opinion

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

Rohingya refugees stand on a capsized boat as a rescuer throws a rope to rescue them in the waters of West Aceh, Indonesia, March 21, 2024.

Over 70 Rohingya dead or missing after boat capsizes off Indonesia's Aceh

By REUTERS

An Israeli tank at a staging area near the Israeli border with Syria, in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, on January 9, 2024

Israel's population closing in on 10 million in 2024 demographic update

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A German police officer holds wristbands used to tag suspected illegal migrants after they were detained by German police during their patrol along the German-Polish border to prevent illegal migration, in Forst, Germany, September 20, 2023.

EU border agency says stopping migration is impossible

By REUTERS

A general view of Dubai Downtown showing world's tallest building Burj Al Khalifa, in Dubai United Arab Emirates, December 31, 2022.

Powered by immigrants, Dubai's housing market continues to surge

By JACOB WIRTSCHAFTER/THE MEDIA LINE

Anne Frank, as illustrated by Google Doodles' Thoka Maer

After migrant parent pressure, Anne Frank daycare center to be renamed - report

Eritrean asylum seekers who oppose the regime in Eritrea and pro regime activists clash with Israeli police in south Tel Aviv, September 2, 2023.

Suspect arrested for murder of Sudanese national

By MICHAEL STARR

Massimo Sestini’s entry, which took second place in the General News slot, is a colorful overhead shot of refugees packed into a boat off the Libyan coast, prior to being rescued by an Italian naval frigate.

New UN migration chief worried boat deaths becoming 'normalized'

By JOANIE MARGULIES