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Migrants wade across the Rio Grande from Mexico and cross through barbed wire to reach Eagle Pass, Texas where they are met with Border Patrol agents. The city has seen an influx of migration. In the last 11 months, at least 1.8 million people have reached the southern US border. IMAGES
Border force staff go about their days and boats navigate in and out at the port of Dover after at least four people died when a small boat apparently packed with migrants capsized in freezing temperatures in the Channel overnight, according to the UK government. Dozens of others were plucked from the waters of one of the world's busiest shipping lanes in a large-scale rescue operation involving UK and French emergency services. IMAGES
Italy allows vulnerable migrants off the German-flagged Humanity 1 from the charity SOS Humanity. Sources close to firebrand minister Matteo Salvini warned that those not eligible to remain would be forced back into international waters. IMAGES
At least 10,000 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, are stranded in Necoclí, a port town on the Colombian coast near Panama. According to the local ombudsman, the migrants are held up waiting for boats to take them to the border with the Central American country, in the hope of eventually reaching the United States. IMAGES
Migrants rescued by a ship chartered by NGOs disembark in Sicily and are taken care of by the authorities. The Ocean Viking, chartered by SOS Méditerranée in partnership with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), rescued 114 people on December 16, including minors and two newborns who were on an inflatable boat in distress in international waters off the coast of Libya. IMAGES
Images of the port of Calais in northern France the day after at least 27 migrants trying to reach England drowned off the coast when their boat sank, the deadliest disaster since the Channel became a hub for clandestine crossings. IMAGES