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Elk

Scientists map more than 100 big game migration routes across the West

Apr 15, 2022

As the West grows so does its infrastructure, but for elk, deer and other migrating big game, roads and housing developments are barriers. A new U.S. Geological Survey report details these migration routes to help ensure they persist.

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World

From Kabul to Virginia: An Afghan family is starting over in America

Jan 25, 2022
In only a matter of days, the lives of an Afghan family changed forever. After the Taliban took control of Kabul, they were forced to start over in a foreign country.
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Sadaf Sharifzada, 16

An Afghan girls soccer team rebelled to play the game they love. Now they're refugees

Jan 05, 2022
The teenagers on the Afghan girls national soccer team lean on each other as they adjust to a new life in Portugal, where they fled after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
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Migrants aiming to cross into Poland camp near the Bruzgi-Kuznica border crossing on the Belarusian-Polish border on Nov. 17.

Syrians say Belarus deported them even though they're wanted by Assad's regime

Dec 24, 2021
After luring asylum-seekers to the EU as a political stunt, Belarus has now sent people back to the dangerous place they were escaping, rights groups and migrants tell NPR.
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Gegrand Joseph (front), a Haitian who hiked across the Darién Gap five years ago, was deported by the Trump administration and is tackling this same patch of jungle a second time to get back to the U.S.

A once-remote patch of rainforest is now packed with migrants trying to reach the U.S.

Nov 19, 2021
More than 100,000 people have crossed the Darién Gap jungle from Colombia to Panama so far this year. The environmental impact and threats from cartels are many.
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Infrastructure Bill Would Pave Path For More Wildlife Bridges, Tunnels

Sep 21, 2021

The $350 million investment would reduce the number of expensive and deadly wildlife-vehicle collisions – an issue that's especially acute in more rural Western states.

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World
Carmen Monzón, one of the assistants at San Pedro church soup kitchen, organizes lunch bags in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.

In Canary Islands, Tensions Are High Over African Migration

Mar 26, 2021
The Spanish islands saw a big increase last year of people trying to migrate to Europe by boat. After sheltering many of them in hotels, the authorities have set up camps and stepped up deportations.
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Animals
Millions of monarch butterflies arrive each year in Mexico after travelling, in some cases, thousands of miles from the United States and Canada.

Climate Change, Deforestation Threaten Monarch Butterfly Migration

Feb 26, 2021
The population of monarch butterflies that migrated south to Mexico to hibernate fell 26% from a year earlier.
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New Migration Maps Serve As Tools To Help Big Game In West

Nov 30, 2020

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — New maps of big game migrations in the Western U.S. will help identify where human development is getting in the way of animals on the move.

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Coronavirus Live Updates
Guatemalan immigration officials use protective equipment as a preventive measure against the new coronavirus as they receive Guatemalan migrants deported from the U.S., at the Air Force base in Guatemala City on March 12.

Migrant Advocates Call For More Testing Before Deportations

May 02, 2020
At least 100 Guatemalans infected with the coronavirus were deported from the U.S. from mid-March through mid-April. And advocates say Mexico has not been testing Central American deportees.
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World
Members of the Mexican National Guard and officers of the Migration Institute detain a Central American migrant heading in a caravan to the U.S. in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas State, Mexico, on Jan. 23.

Migrants In Mexico Face Crackdown, But Officials Say They're Being 'Rescued'

Jan 29, 2020
Much of Mexico's official language regarding migration remains euphemistic, critics say, even as migration policies have grown harsher. More than 2,000 Central Americans have been deported this month.
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National

U.N. Expert Clarifies Statistic On U.S. Detention Of Migrant Children

Nov 20, 2019
"I didn't know at that moment that it was [from] 2015," a U.N. rights expert says. "If I would have known that, I would not have mentioned it, because that's some time ago."
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Report: 50,000 People From California Moved To Nevada From 2017 to 2018

Nov 15, 2019

More than 50,000 people moved from California to Nevada between July 2017 and July 2018, the second-highest amount in the past 10 years, according to newly released U.S. Census Bureau estimates.

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Goats and Soda
Rosine Mbakam, left, says she chose to shoot all images and sound herself to maintain an equal relationship with the subjects of her films.

Meet The Filmmaker Reinventing How African Women Are Portrayed In Movies

Nov 10, 2019
Two deeply personal films from Cameroonian Rosine Mbakam won critical acclaim in the U.S. by grappling with how families maintain traditions in a time of global migration and generational change.
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Goats and Soda
Corn from a fall harvest in Guatemala.

In Guatemala, A Bad Year For Corn — And For U.S. Aid

Sep 30, 2019
Last spring, Trump froze almost $500 million in funding to three Central American countries to pressure them to stop the flow of migrants. The impact on farmers could end up increasing migration.
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Goats and Soda
Eulalio Barrera Barrera's family was one of 6,000 to receive a monthly stipend funded by USAID that was cut off last month because of President Trump's foreign aid funding freeze. Like many families in the program, he spent the last cash on chickens.

Trump Froze Aid To Guatemala. Now Programs Are Shutting Down

Sep 17, 2019
In April, the president put $450 million on hold for Guatemala as well as Honduras and El Salvador over what he described as the failure of their governments to stem the flow of migrants to the U.S.
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World
An honor guard stands at the coffin of assassinated German politician Walter Lübcke at his memorial service on June 13 in Kassel, Germany. Lübcke, a Christian Democrat, was outspoken in his pro-immigration views. His confessed killer is an avowed neo-N

A German Politician's Assassination Prompts New Fears About Far-Right Violence

Jul 01, 2019
Walter Lübcke, who supported Angela Merkel's open-door refugee policy, was shot in the head in June. Political leaders and experts on extremism suggest Germany's far-right party may share some blame.
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Social Democratic leader Mette Frederiksen walks with supporters after the election results at Christiansborg Castle in Copenhagen early on Thursday.

In Denmark's Election, A Shift To The Left — Unlike In Much Of Europe

Jun 07, 2019
Denmark's Social Democrats made a strong showing in this week's elections — but voter support came in part because of the increasingly hard line the party has taken on immigration.
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Latin America
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, pictured on Monday delivering a speech, has withdrawn his country from a United Nations compact on migration.

Brazilian President Bolsonaro Withdraws From U.N. Compact On Migration

Jan 09, 2019
Nearly 30 countries, including the U.S., had refused to sign the non-binding contract in December. Brazil's administration has promised to defend "national sovereignty."
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World
In this Sept. 1, 2015, file photo, a child waits in line at a migrant reception center in Brussels. Belgian migration minister Theo Francken said on Thursday he wants no part of a United Nations pact on safe and orderly migration, an international deal t

A U.N. Migration Pact Is Dividing Europe — And Has Become Fodder For Nationalists

Dec 10, 2018
The pact, set to be approved this week, is meant to help the European Union navigate its most politically sensitive issue. The pact is non-binding, but several countries have pulled support.
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Tourists walk outside of the Spanish former dictator Gen. Francisco Franco's tomb at the Valley of the Fallen, near Madrid.

Spain's Socialist Leader Sets A New Course On Migrants, Gender And Catalonia

Jul 09, 2018
After the conservative administration was forced out, Pedro Sánchez formed a cabinet with a record number of women, opened ports to refugees and even tweeted in Catalan.
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Parallels
Maria Lopez Santos sits in her home that was built using remittances from family members who worked as undocumented migrants in the U.S.

How A Guatemalan Village's Fortunes Rose And Fell With U.S. Migration And Deportation

Apr 04, 2018
Hundreds of people left San Jose Calderas for work opportunities in the U.S. They sent back money that helped the village prosper. Things changed when many of them were deported and had to come back.
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The Two-Way

90 Migrants Reported Dead After Boat Capsizes Off Libya

Feb 02, 2018
An estimated 246 migrants have died in January crossing the Mediterranean, part of what advocates call "an undeniable trend of tragedy in the Mediterranean."
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Moving Study: People Continuing To Move West

Jan 03, 2018

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tracking statistics from the moving company United Van Lines indicate that Americans are still heading west, while parts of the Northeast and Midwest are losing people.

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Western States Top Census' Fastest Growing List

Dec 21, 2017

Nevada and Idaho are the fastest growing states in the nation according to new Census data released Wednesday.

States in the western part of the U.S. took home all of the top rankings with Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Washington taking the top four slots.

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