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In the Opéra district of Paris, police use tear gas on several occasions to disperse hundreds of demonstrators gathered in support of the "Solidarity March", to defend the rights of undocumented migrants exposed to coronavirus in detention centres. The demonstration was banned by the police prefecture, which invoked the decree prohibiting gatherings of more than 10 people because of Covid-19. IMAGES
Migrants who have recently made it to the US arrive in buses from detention centers to reunite with family members for the first time after being separated at the US-Mexico border near Brownsville’s bus station, in Texas. IMAGES
NGO workers and migrants lay flowers for the at least 39 people who died at a Mexican immigration detention centre in Ciudad Juarez near the US border. Migrants are believed to have lit the fire as a demonstration because they feared they would be deported, according to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. IMAGES
Images showing a boat belonging to the Italian coastguard in the harbour of Lampedusa island in Sicily, after they rescued migrants in the Mediterranean sea. IMAGES
67 migrants aboard a wooden boat are rescued by the humanitarian boat Ocean Viking. It had been drifting for two days in the Mediterranean Sea. IMAGES
The German NGO Sea Watch rescued around 100 migrants off of Libya on Wednesday, saying the Libyan coastguard would have turned them back to shore if the humanitarian group had not intervened. IMAGES