Category: migration

LIVE NOW: Panel: The Ukraine War and Its Impacts on Migration

A series of missile strikes this past weekend by Russia against Ukrainian cities, including Lviv, the western city that has been housing a large number of the internally displaced Ukrainians, has increased the likelihood of a new wave of Ukrainian migrants. But other factors—including potential energy disruptions in Ukraine this winter and in food and…


Panel: The Ukraine War and Its Impacts on Migration

A series of missile strikes this past weekend by Russia against Ukrainian cities, including Lviv, the western city that has been housing a large number of the internally displaced Ukrainians, has increased the likelihood of a new wave of Ukrainian migrants. But other factors—including potential energy disruptions in Ukraine this winter and in food and…


Minimum Wage Increase Will Crush California’s Small Business: President of ‘The Huey Report’

California is seeing a substantial exodus of residents to places like Idaho, Florida, and Texas. Craig Huey, president of The Huey Report, said that California government policies are crushing small businesses and that the new minimum wage increase will only make things worse. “It was the land of opportunity and a land of sparking new innovations…


Labor Government Raises Migration Cap to Tackles Skills Shortages

The Labor government will lift the migration cap to a record 195,000, extend the relaxation of restrictions for students and increase post-study works rights to ease widespread critical skills shortages. These changes are among the 36 outcomes from the Jobs and Skills ending on Friday at Parliament. The summit brings together industry leaders, employers, unions…


Labor Government Raises Migration Cap to Tackle Skills Shortages

The Labor government will lift the migration cap to a record 195,000, extend the relaxation of restrictions for students and increase post-study works rights to ease widespread critical skills shortages. These changes are among the 36 outcomes from the Jobs and Skills ending on Friday at Parliament. The summit brings together industry leaders, employers, unions…


Upskill Not at Migration Expense: Australian Treasurer

Increasing the migration cap to help ease Australia’s skills shortages cannot come at the expense of training up the workforce, Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers says. The Business Council of Australia is urging the government to boost the permanent migration cap to 220,000 temporarily to make up for the shortfall in migration during the pandemic. Chalmers…


US Coast Guard Stops a Total of 84 Cuban Migrants at Sea Over a 3-Day Span

By David Goodhue From Miami Herald MIAMI—The U.S. Coast Guard stopped a total of 84 people from Cuba migrating by sea off the Bahamas and the Florida Keys last week. A Coast Guard cutter, the Paul Clark, returned the people to Cuba on Wednesday, the agency said. They were stopped on the ocean between Sunday,…


US Border Within Reach as Thousands of Cubans Flee to Nicaragua

SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia—Outside the José Martí International Airport in Havana, a crowd of agitated Cuban residents is waiting to travel to Nicaragua, which has become a regular occurrence because of skyrocketing demand for flights and sporadic cancellations that began last November. The scene paints a vivid portrait of people willing to do anything to escape the nation’s…


Canadians Moving to Smaller Communities Amid the Pandemic: StatsCan

Canadians are continuing to leave large, urban centres amid the pandemic, choosing instead to live in smaller communities near big cities, according to a new report from Statistics Canada. “A record number of people have opted to relocate outside the biggest CMAs [census metropolitan areas],” said the report released Jan. 13 by StatCan’s Centre for…


Texas Is Top Destination for Migration, While California Loses Out Most, Even Runs Out of U-Haul Trucks: U-Haul Report

Texas is the top destination for one-way U-Haul rental trips in 2021, while California topped the list for outward migration and even ran out of U-Haul trucks for people wanting to leave the state, a new report from U-Haul shows. The moving and storage rental company has a “U-Haul Growth Index,” which calculates the net gain or…