One Houston family whose story highlights the challenges even those with legal documentation are facing under the new directives.

The U.N. migration agency says two vessels carrying migrants from Africa sank in the Red Sea off the coast of Djibouti, killing 45 people.

Hundreds of anti-migrant protestors have marched through the streets of a Tunisian town where many migrants are living while waiting to try and travel by boat to Europe.

Hundreds of migrants stormed across the border into El Paso, Texas, overwhelming Texas National Guard soldiers as they breached razor-wire barricades in a bid to push further into the United States.

On Thursday, there was a heavy presence of local, state, and federal authorities on the United States border with Mexico in Brownsville.

The move clears a pathway for those people to get a special visa to stay in the country that they otherwise would not have received.

Authorities say 53 people have died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer in the sweltering Texas heat, one of the worst tragedies to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico to the U.S. The deaths were the latest in what has become a global series of mass deaths occurring during human trafficking attempts.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued an executive order Wednesday that will restrict ground transportation of migrants who he claims pose a risk of carrying the coronavirus into Texas communities.