Euronews
| Jun 5, 2013
Russian police have discovered an incredibly elaborate underground city hidden beneath a Moscow market, complete with factory, casino, cinema, food stores, a tiny chicken farm and a population of 200 illegal Asian workers to sew at the plant. Offi...
Associated Press
| Apr 23, 2013
How do hospitals save money when they're faced with treating uninsured and undocumented immigrants? Some of them put the patients on a plane back to their native countries. That's what one Iowa hospital did with two comatose immigrants injured in ...
Democracy Now!
| Apr 5, 2013
The Associated Press has dropped the term "illegal immigrant" from its influential stylebook, agreeing with campaigners who argued that while actions can be illegal, using the term for people is dehumanizing. Democracy Now! talks to one of the fou...
Vice
| Mar 31, 2013
When traveling from Central America to the United States through Mexico, immigrants are forced to battle drug cartels, corrupt police officers, and human traffickers, all before they even come close to the US border. People tend to assume that ...
The New York Times
| Mar 16, 2013
Smugglers, cops, and drones are engaged in a daily battle along the US and Mexico border. United States Border Patrol agents in Arizona's Tucson sector say the border is safer and more secure than ever, but can it withstand a potential new wave of...
The Young Turks
| Mar 7, 2013
WARNING: Strong Language. A Native American man criticized protesters at an Arizona rally against illegal immigration, calling them the real "illegals" for invading his country and killing Native Americans when Europeans first settled on US soi...
Democracy Now!
| Jan 31, 2013
US President Barack Obama has kicked off his second term with a major push for comprehensive immigration reform, backing a bipartisan Senate plan that includes a path to citizenship for some of the estimated 11 million undocumented people living i...
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 29, 2012
An unprecedented number of children from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras are migrating to the US. It is a harrowing, dangerous journey, but what is making them flee their home countries and what awaits them if they make it to the US?
Journeyman Pictures
| Dec 17, 2012
An ongoing source of controversy in America, gun laws are increasingly polarizing the Southern states and Washington. In Arizona, Tea Party supporting, heavily armed, vigilante groups are taking over. "The one thing we know about gun control is th...
Al Jazeera English
| Sep 14, 2012
The Caravan for Peace ends its journey across the US to raise awareness for victims of Mexico's war on drugs. Among other things, the campaigners are advocating alternatives to drug prohibition and to halt import of weapons across the US border. B...
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...Patrol officials say their current plans are to construct just one more mile of fence, in Texas. But as illegal immigration takes an increasingl...
— Jun 10, 2012 at 05:58 pm
...irregularly crossing into Israel, in violation of their basic rights." In May, a protest in Tel Aviv turned violent, leading to the arrests of 1...
Illegal immigration is migration into a country in violation of the immigration laws of that country. Illegal immigration raises many political, economic and social issues and has become a source of major controversy in more developed countries as well as moderately developed countries. United Nations signatories have agreed to exempt refugees from criminal charges upon such entry, which is in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights wherein is stated that "Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution".
In 2010, the International Organization for Migration estimated that 25.5 to 32.1 million people of the world's total 214 million international migrants are undocumented immigrants, though the IOM notes that it is difficult to make accurate estimates. Proposed economic models of illegal immigration include varying considerations and degrees of complexity.
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