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News Articles: Migration

Police conduct a search operation at a makeshift camp of migrants who want to cross the English Channel to Britain near Dunkirk, northern France, Wednesday, May 27, 2026.

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  • Europe

EU strikes migration deal for more deportations and detention centers abroad

The European Union has moved forward with an overhaul of its migration policy, aiming to ramp up deportations and build detention centers abroad. Critics compared the regulation to the immigration strategy of the Trump administration.

June 02, 2026
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  • The Associated Press
Hummingbirds consume an average of two to three times their weight in nectar each day. (Steve Byland/Dreamstime/TNS)

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  • Animals

Hummingbirds are almost back in GA for 2026. Here’s when to put out your feeders

Little fluttering, ruby-throated creatures are coming to Georgia this month. Hummingbirds can travel more than 3,000 miles during migration and in March, folks in Georgia get to see their tiny wings fly around once more. But when should you put our feeders? And how else can you attract hummingbirds? Here’s what to know:

March 09, 2026
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  • Chelsea Madden and
  • The Telegraph
A Canada goose escorts goslings as they walk to a pond at Water Works Park, Thursday, May 4, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa.

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  • Animals

Come along with some geese as they migrate back from their southern winter havens

Geese's iconic "V" formations and trademark squawks can be seen and heard overhead as they go back and forth to the south through the year. But what does it take for such a long trip?

March 09, 2026
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  • Ayana Archie
Outreach team members of an International Rescue Committee (IRC), an international humanitarian group, stand outside Milano Centrale railway station at night. The station remains a critical hub for migrants and homeless individuals seeking temporary refuge from the winter cold.

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  • World

In the shadow of the Olympics, migrants search for a welcome in Milan

As Italy cracks down on migration, Milan takes a different path — offering shelter and integration to asylum seekers even as the central government tightens borders and funds deterrence abroad.

February 23, 2026
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  • Ruth Sherlock

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  • World

Greetings from the Mediterranean, where dolphins swim alongside a migrant rescue ship

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

October 08, 2025
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  • Ruth Sherlock
A replica of Anne Frank's bedroom that she shared with Fritz Pfeffer, a dentist in his 50s.

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  • Religion

Exhibit takes visitors inside the annex where Anne Frank lived

For the first time, a re-creation of the annex where Anne Frank and her family hid is available outside of Amsterdam. Visitors in New York said its themes reverberated in today's political climate.

March 27, 2025
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  • Sarah Ventre
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks in Washington, D.C.

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  • Latin America

Three things to know about Rubio's first international trip

Marco Rubio heads to Latin America on his first trip as secretary of state, including Panama, where President Trump wants control of the canal.

February 01, 2025
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  • Michele Kelemen and
  • Eyder Peralta
A common noctule bat.

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  • Science

Bats catch a lift from storm winds on long-distance migrations

Migrating hundreds and hundreds of miles is hard work for the common noctule bat. But this European species makes its marathon journey a little bit easier by paying attention to the weather.

January 04, 2025
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  • Jonathan Lambert
A boat with 57 migrants onboard arrives at La Restinga port on the Canary island of El Hierro, on September 14, 2024.

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  • World

A record number of migrants reached the Canary Islands by sea in 2024, Spain says

The number beats the previous record, set in 2023, as a recent report also points at a peak in the number of deaths recorded in the dangerous Atlantic migration route.

January 03, 2025
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  • Miguel Macias
This photograph shows a boat that arrived with 41 people on board, including two minors, on the Canary island of Tenerife in July 2023.

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  • World

More than 10,000 migrants died in 2024 trying to reach Spain by sea, aid group says

The migration route that connects West African nations with the Spanish Canary Islands remains the deadliest in the world, according to a Spanish aid organization.

December 27, 2024
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  • Miguel Macias
Butterflies sit on a pine tree at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove, Calif. Researchers say that the population of western monarch butterflies is well below what it used to be.

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  • Science

How do you protect a species that lives across a continent? Monarch butterfly decision may soon try

The monarch butterfly is widely recognized and widely dispersed across North America and it's in trouble. Federal officials decide soon whether it gets protection under the Endangered Species Act.

November 20, 2024
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  • Nathan Rott
Pat Rush (right) with her brother in Arkansas circa late 1930s.

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  • National

The story of the American migrant — from Dust Bowl to a new life

Pat Rush and her family left Arkansas in the wake of one of the largest migrations in U.S. history, in the hope of making a better life for themselves out west.

October 24, 2024
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  • Joe Richman
Vice President Harris visits the U.S.-Mexico border with Border Patrol Tucson Sector chief John Modlin in Douglas, Ariz., on Sept. 27, 2024.

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  • Politics

At the border in Arizona, Harris lays out a plan to get tough on fentanyl

Vice President Harris is trying to shore up one of her biggest political liabilities. She focused her border security remarks on disrupting fentanyl smuggling.

September 28, 2024
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  • Deepa Shivaram
Thousands of Vaux’s Swifts gather overhead as they prepare to roost for the night at Chapaman Elementary  in Portland, Oregon. During the month of September, migrating swifts often use chimneys as roosts and are likely to return to the same roost year after year.

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  • National

In Portland, thousands gather to marvel at migrating birds’ nighttime routine

As Vaux’s Swifts migrate south, they roost together in a chimney, drawing crowds

September 14, 2024
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  • Deena Prichep
The offices of Resource Center Matamoros. The nonprofit works with asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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  • National

How a migrant aid group got caught up in a right-wing social media thread

A conservative group posted a social media thread showing flyers in a border encampment in Mexico urging migrants to vote for Joe Biden. Now, the woman caught up in it, speaks to NPR.

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May 15, 2024
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