There is a vast network of detention sites across the US, holding more than 20,000 migrant children, who have complained of cold temperatures, sickness, neglect, lice and filth, among other issues.

Activists are expressing deep concern over the UK government's treatment of immigrant communities, who they say are often deported unlawfully and under the most inhumane of circumstances.

After a relatively quiet time on the Lampedusa island with only a few tens of migrant boat landings per day recorded last year, the number of asylum seekers arriving by sea in Italy has started to pick up again over the past months, to the point that Italian authorities are alarmed by developments in the area.

Biden administration has been under fire over growing humanitarian crisis at the US-Mexico border, with an influx of refugees fleeing Central and South America

The judges reversed a lower court’s verdict that had prohibited Agusto Niz-Chavez from following his request to annul the potential expulsion based on the length of his stay in the country.

What once counted in the hundreds of children who remained in the border patrol hands when they were cruelly separated from their parents by the Donald Trump regime, now they are counted by the thousands. The number tripled in just a few weeks. According to an internal CBP report, there are more than 3,400 unaccompanied migrant children are in cages.

The UK is continuing to use its hostile environment policy to encourage migrants to leave Britain, and discourage people fleeing war and prosecution from coming to the UK.

The UN agencies for refugees and for migration said they were "deeply saddened" by the tragedy.

Critics of the European Union’s recent €100m deals for drone surveillance over the Mediterranean Sea accuse the EU of condemning migrants to death and evading its responsibilities toward people in distress.

At least 11 migrants from Africa died when their boat sank off Tunisia on Sunday, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa, a Tunisian security official said.