(BBC) Four small boats with 132 people on board crossed the English Channel on Saturday, the Home Office said. The Home Office has released figures showing that 28,526 people made the crossing from France in small boats [in] 2021, treble the number […]
(Kathimerini) Ankara has taken its allegations of human rights violations by Greece to the United Nations, accusing it of pushbacks and refugee and migrant deaths in the Aegean. The Turkish allegations are included in the letter sent by the permanent representative of […]
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(AP) Hungary’s foreign minister on Wednesday praised Egypt’s efforts to stem the flow of Europe-bound migrants through its Mediterranean Sea shores. Speaking at a news briefing in Cairo, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto urged the European Union to step up support, including funding, […]
(Breitbart) A French teen who was subjected to a torrent of death threats in 2020 for her criticism of Islam on social media was allegedly sexually assaulted by an illegal migrant in Lyon over the weekend. French teen Mila, who was subjected […]
(AP) The U.N. refugee agency on Monday voiced alarm at increasing reports of “horrific incidents” where asylum-seekers and migrants trying to slip into Greece and other European countries are allegedly being forced back. Athens denied the claims, and said the UNHCR appeared […]
(AFP) Cyprus struck a deal Monday with the European Union to help it handle a large migrant influx to the divided Mediterranean island, which Nicosia says is the highest per capita in the EU. The agreement will make it easier for Cyprus […]
(AP) Turkey “has much to gain” if it works with the European Union to stem migrant arrivals from its airports and shores to the ethnically divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus, a top EU official said Sunday. European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas […]
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(Fox) A Pentagon inspector general report released this week found that officials identified at least 50 Afghan evacuees who were brought to the United States in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan whose information indicated “potentially significant security concerns” — […]
(Hill) The Biden administration is considering offering temporary protected status (TPS) to Afghans already in the United States, three sources familiar with the matter told the Hill, as the clock winds down on how to find a way for thousands to legally […]
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(AP) The chief of the European Union’s Frontex border agency said Wednesday that the repatriation of migrants is Cyprus’ “most urgent need” and that his organization is ready to facilitate flights to return home people who had asylum claims rejected in Cyprus. […]
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(AFP) The small Mediterranean island of Cyprus has an outsized problem with irregular migration, says the interior minister of the EU member state located closest to the Middle East. “For us, this is a state of emergency,” Nicos Nouris told AFP, adding […]
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(Reuters) Afghan refugees held in the United Arab Emirates for months since fleeing Afghanistan last year protested for a third day on Friday, calling for resettlement in the United States. The demonstrations by hundreds of Afghans began on Wednesday at the centre […]
(AFP) European Commissioner Ylva Johansson on Friday offered to deploy the EU’s border agency to Senegal to help combat migrant smuggling, following a surge in perilous crossings to Spain’s Canary Islands. At a news conference in the Senegalese capital Dakar, Johansson said […]
(Reuters) Hundreds of Afghans have launched a rare protest at a United Arab Emirates facility where they have been housed since fleeing their homeland last year, holding banners pleading for freedom and demanding to be sent to the United States to be […]
(AP) The repatriations of migrants who have had their asylum applications rejected is essential to easing overcrowding and reducing violence at a migrant reception camp, Cyprus’ interior minister said Wednesday. Minister Nicos Nouris told state broadcaster CyBC that 35 migrants suffered minor […]
(AP) Four people have been arrested on the Greek island of Lesbos after violence broke out during a protest against plans to build a new migrant camp, authorities said Tuesday. Following a peaceful march to the site in heavy rain Monday, a […]
(WMTV) A 40-year-old man who openly shared his experiences of coming to Wausau from Afghanistan as part of the refugee resettlement project has been arrested following an investigation in[to] sexual assault. Police are recommending Matiullah Matie be charged with fourth-degree sexual assault. […]
(AP) Hundreds of people marched through central Athens on Sunday to protest what they say are Greece’s pushbacks of migrants and refugees at the border with Turkey. The marchers carried an inflatable dinghy, like those migrants use to cross the sea from […]
(AP) European Union interior ministers on Thursday agreed to create a new decision-making body amid efforts to beef up the 27-nation bloc’s borders, and to kick-start desperately needed reforms to the EU’s malfunctioning asylum system on a step-by-step basis. The EU has […]
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(AP) French President Emmanuel Macron is taking aim at migration — a core issue in the country’s presidential campaign — by pushing to strengthen the European Union’s external borders against people illegally entering the bloc’s passport-free area. Macron is expected to run […]
(AFP) French far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour on Wednesday suggested criminals in high-rise housing estates are fighting alongside jihadists in a “civilisational battle” pitting immigrants against traditional French culture. The 63-year-old, who has often used the hundreds of people killed by jihadists […]
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(Swiss Info) Switzerland and Austria want to strengthen cooperation on migration and security, they said on Tuesday. This came at a meeting in Vienna between Swiss Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter and her new Austrian counterpart Gerhard Karner. Their talks focused on European […]
(AP) The European Union and [its] border agency Frontex have helped Cyprus streamline procedures to return migrants who have had their asylum applications rejected amid soaring numbers of arrivals, the country’s interior minister said Tuesday. The Standard Operation Procedures for Returns have […]
(Brussels Times) About 500 people demonstrated on Saturday afternoon in Sint-Laureins, East Flanders, against a plan to set up a centre for asylum seekers in the Godshuis, a former monastery that has been empty for many years, Belga news agency reports. The […]
(Kathimerini) Coast guard[s] on Kos have arrested four people — two Greeks and two non-nationals — on suspicion of smuggling migrants from the Turkish coast to the island for €4,000 a person. The arrests followed the discovery of a speedboat on January […]
(BBC) Royal Navy vessels would be a “honeypot” for migrants crossing the English Channel as they would make the journey safer, MPs have been told. The Ministry of Defence is to begin working with the Home Office to address Channel crossings, which […]
(Axios) President Biden’s advisers are crafting a plan to accelerate bringing potentially thousands of Afghans to the U.S. from Qatar, according to a source with direct knowledge of the administration’s internal deliberations on the subject. Why it matters: As U.S. military leaders plan […]
(AFP) Polish contractors began work on Tuesday on a 353-million-euro wall along the Belarus border aimed at deterring migrant crossings following a crisis in the area last year. The 5.5-metre-high wall will run along 186 kilometres (115 miles) of the border — […]
(AP) A federal jury has convicted an Afghan refugee housed at Quantico Marine Corps Base after he fled the country with a sexual assault. The jury in U.S. District Court in Alexandria on Friday found Mohammed Tariq, 24, guilty of abusive sexual […]
(Kathimerini) The municipal council of Orestiada in northeastern Greece is convening Tuesday to discuss controversial plans by the government to expand a migrant reception and identification center on the outskirts of the border village of Fylakio. The plan for the center is […]
(BBC) New details have emerged about the Liverpool bomber Emad Al Swealmeen’s failed asylum attempts — and the false information he used to make his cases. A previously confidential 2015 asylum judgment, released to the BBC, reveals how his claim of being […]
(Jewish News) JNF UK has been censured by the Board of Deputies over its failure to “disavow” the “inflammatory and bigoted remarks” of its chair Samuel Hayek after a heated debate during Sunday’s plenary. Two-thirds of deputies voted in favour of a resolution […]
(AP) A group of migrants huddles beside a small, smoky fire inside an abandoned building in northern Serbia, the last moments of warmth before they set out into the driving snow toward the razor wire, cameras and sensors of Hungary’s electrified border […]
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(AP) Ministers from European Union nations under pressure from unauthorized border crossings asked Friday for more action to protect the bloc’s external borders as well as for rules to return migrants to their homelands or where they started their journeys. Interior ministers […]
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(BBC) More than 150 people were intercepted or rescued attempting to cross the English Channel on Tuesday, the Home Office said. Six boats, carrying 168 people, were found by Border Force officials and brought to the Port of Dover. French authorities intercepted […]
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(AP) Police in Italy, Albania and Greece on Wednesday arrested some 30 people accused of profiteering several hundred million euros to smuggle refugees and migrants into the European Union from Turkey on yachts and other leisure vessels. The coordinated action is believed […]
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