Migrant caravan articles

  • Where Highly Educated Migrants Come From

    Where Highly Educated Migrants Come From Voters in India are getting set to head to the polls this weekend, in what has been dubbed the world’s biggest election. Nearly 1 billion people are eligible to determine whether Narendra Modi, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), will rule the country for a third consecutive term. Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports that,according to data from a Statista Consumer Insights survey, one of the major challenges facing the country...
  • Move-in day for migrant families

    LOWELL — A warm and sunny Tuesday morning greeted the arrival of the latest and largest group of migrant families to move from a site in Bedford into the Inn & Conference Center on Warren Street.
  • These are the border officers that migrants fear – and they are not the Americans

    The rust-colored barrier soars into the cloudless blue sky, a solid and almost impassable marker of the border between Mexico and the United States. But then it stops, when the rough, hilly terrain becomes a mountain, or a large boulder blocks the way. These are the spots well known by human smugglers, who bring migrants in vans, show them the gaps, tell them to head north and to call 911 if they can’t find US Border Patrol officers to hand themselves in. A few months ago, sometimes hundreds of...