Immigration
Hundreds of ‘discarded migrant boats’ found at Dover warehouse (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Greece braces for rise in refugees as relations with Turkey worsen (LINK ONLY)
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Migrants return to ‘Balkan route’ to chase European dream
(AFP) The first rays of the morning sun reveal entire families lying on the railway line or in abandoned wagons but when Greek police patrols appear, they evaporate into nearby fields. Among them is Abdullah, a 20-year-old Syrian, waiting for a train […]
Immigration
Channel migrants: Five boats carrying 65 migrants intercepted
(BBC) Five boats carrying 65 migrants have been intercepted while attempting to cross the English Channel. The Home Office said 58 males and seven females were picked up between 07:30 and 22:30 BST on Saturday. On Friday, 125 migrants in nine boats […]
Government & Politics
Cyprus: Virus-infected migrants may be crossing into south
(AP) Asylum-seekers infected with coronavirus could be seeping through the porous cease-fire line in the ethnically divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus, the country’s health minister warned Sunday. Minister Constantinos Ioannou pointed to “a problem” after a number of migrants who recently crossed […]
Immigration
North Macedonia police discover 55 migrants in truck, car
(AP) Police in North Macedonia say they have found 55 migrants in two separate incidents. One migrant was injured when the truck carrying him and 42 others hit a concrete pillar at a toll station. Both incidents took place Friday, police announced […]
Immigration
Channel migrants: Nine boats arrive with 125 men and women on board
(BBC) Nine boats carrying 125 migrants have been intercepted on their way to the UK as searches continue for more vessels. The Home Office said Border Force dealt with several incidents on Friday after being alerted to small boats in the Channel. […]
Crime
Six traffickers arrested for sailing migrants to Italy
(AP) Greek police have arrested six people who were trafficking migrants from Greece to Italy using sailboats and were searching for five more suspects, police said Saturday. One suspect was arrested Friday offshore from the island of Corfu, the Greek island closest […]
Government & Politics
Priti Patel accused of ‘fake news’ over Channel migrant boats
(BBC) The home secretary has been accused of creating “fake news” with her criticism of French efforts to stop migrants crossing the English Channel. Calais MP Pierre-Henri Dumont disputed Priti Patel’s claim that French authorities were not stopping boats. “It’s not true […]
Children & Teens
Driver Ousseynou Sy, 47, found guilty of attempted murder
(ANSA) A man who hijacked and later torched a school bus with 50 children, two teachers and a janitor aboard near Milan in March 2019 on Wednesday got 24 years in jail for attempted murder. Ousseynou Sy, 47, was found guilty and […]
Government & Politics
Row over maritime laws in bid to stop migrant crossings, MPs told (LINK ONLY)
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Terror suspect wages court fight for info in bid to stave off deportation
(Canadian Press) A terrorism suspect is waging a new court fight against the federal government for information he says he needs to mount a full argument against deportation to his native Egypt and possible torture. It is just the latest twist in […]
Demonstrations
Italy: Town residents protest housing migrants with virus
(AP) Residents of a southern Italian town on Monday kept up their protest against more than a dozen rescued migrants with the coronavirus being isolated in a local apartment building. A day after blocking a nearby state road, dozens of Amantea residents […]
Immigration
Record migrant numbers cross English Channel in small boats
(BBC) A record number of migrants crossed the Channel on the day the home secretary announced a “new operation[al] approach” to dealing with small boat crossings. The Home Office said 180 migrants made the crossing to the UK on Sunday in 15 […]
Government & Politics
UK and France agree to create intelligence cell amid surge in migrant crossings (LINK ONLY)
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Migrants with severe hypothermia rescued from capsized boat in Channel (LINK ONLY)
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Over 500 migrants reach Italy’s Lampedusa in two days
(AFP) More than 500 migrants have arrived on Lampedusa over the past two days, the UN’s migration agency said Friday, as people take advantage of calm seas to attempt the perilous Mediterranean crossing to Europe. Since the start of summer, the island […]
Government & Politics
Patel: No new target date for migrant crossings to be ‘infrequent phenomenon’ (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Channel migrants: Man arrested after boat intercepted
(BBC) A man has been arrested after a small boat carrying migrants was intercepted in the Channel. The Home Office said a Border Force cutter intercepted a vessel carrying 10 men who said they were Somali, Sudanese and Yemeni on Tuesday. A […]
Immigration
Migrants stranded on livestock ship brought to Malta Group of 50 were rescued by the MV Talia on Saturday
(Times of Malta) Migrants who have spent the past three days aboard a ship built to house animals were brought to Malta late on Tuesday night. Sources said that the roughly 50 people aboard the MV Talia were transferred to an Armed […]
Government & Politics
Germany lambasts ‘shameful’ handling of migration by EU
(AFP) It is “shameful” that the European Union has still not found a solution for the care of asylum seekers five years after the migration crisis, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, whose country holds the EU presidency, said Tuesday. Seehofer was speaking […]
Children & Teens
Greece relocates group of young refugees to Portugal
(Reuters) Greece moved 25 unaccompanied minors from overcrowded migrant camps to Portugal on Tuesday as part of a relocation programme to EU countries. The boys, all aged between 15 and 17, had lived in refugee camps on outlying Greek islands. They have […]
Government & Politics
Fewer medical graduates from Muslim countries entering US in Trump era
(AFP) The number of foreign medical graduates from Muslim-majority countries coming to the United States to become doctors has declined by 15 percent under the Trump administration, exacerbating shortages in America’s physician workforce, a study said Monday. International medical graduates represent about […]
Government & Politics
Italy to take in 180 migrants rescued in Mediterranean
(AFP) Italy on Sunday authorised charity vessel Ocean Viking to transfer 180 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean to a ship in Sicily for quarantine, the ship’s operator and the government said. Those on board exploded with joy at the announcement that their […]
Crime
Sweden: Afghan dies after knife brawl between rival migrants
(Breitbart) An Afghan migrant has died after being stabbed in a brawl in central Stockholm. Another two Afghans were knifed as well. The first stabbing took place at the Kungsträdgården park in the centre of the city on Wednesday night. Two more Afghans […]
Government & Politics
Italy says could take rescued migrants Monday
(AFP) Italy is carrying out tests on 180 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean with a view to transferring them to a quarantine vessel in Sicily, an interior ministry source said Saturday. The migrants have been on the Ocean Viking ship operated by […]
Immigration
Suicide attempts, fights aboard rescue boat carrying 180 migrants
(AFP) After suicide attempts, fights erupting on board, and migrants jumping into the sea, charity SOS Mediterranee launched an emergency alert on Friday, demanding to be allowed to immediately disembark at a safe port. The humanitarian group, whose vessel the Ocean Viking […]
Clerics & Preachers
Erdogan’s spies track regime opponents on German soil
(Asharq al-Awsat) Hussein Demir, a former law professor at the University of Ankara, sat inside a Turkish cafe in the Spandau district of Berlin, with his friend Omar, a Turkish businessman, drinking coffee and whispering. As I joined them, the conversation moved […]
Health & Medicine
Migrants test positive for coronavirus after arriving in Italy
(AFP) Eight migrants who disembarked in Sicily this week after being rescued in the Mediterranean by a charity boat are in quarantine after testing positive for coronavirus, the group Mediterranea said. The eight migrants were part of a group of 43 people […]
Immigration
Migrant crossings surge during coronavirus lockdown (LINK ONLY)
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Judge rules that man once jailed for terrorism crimes must be freed from immigration center
(Democrat and Chronicle) A federal judge has ruled that a man once convicted of terrorism-related crimes must be released, and the government’s case to jail him indefinitely has been constructed on slipshod evidence and informants’ lies. On Monday, Rochester-based U.S. District Judge […]
Immigration
‘I’m going to jump’: Tensions on Ocean Viking migrant rescue ship
(AFP) The young Sudanese man cast off his T-shirt and cried desperately out to sea: “I swear to you, I’m going to jump. I don’t know how to swim but I can’t stay here anymore!” After just over a week at sea, […]
Government & Politics
U.N. agency urges Hungary to repeal tightened asylum rules
(Reuters) The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has called on Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government to repeal a tightening of the Hungarian asylum system, provisions of which it says could violate international laws. Hungary shut so-called migrant transit zones on its borders […]
Crime
Arrests after five migrants found on fishing boat
(BBC) Four men have been arrested during a people smuggling investigation after five migrants were found on board a fishing boat in France. The five, thought to be Albanian, were found on the boat as it was about to leave Cherbourg on […]
Crime
Police name man shot dead by officers after Glasgow knife attack (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Kent: Five migrant boats intercepted in Channel
(BBC) Five boats carrying 62 suspected migrants have been intercepted off the Kent coast. Border Force officials … were alerted to the first craft in the Channel at about 05:30 BST, the Home Office said. Those on board have been handed over […]
Government & Politics
Parliament votes against lifting MP’s immunity from hate speech prosecution The Finns Party [MP] described asylum seekers as an 'invasive species.'
(Yle) Finns Party MP Juha Mäenpää will not be prosecuted for inciting ethnic hatred after a vote in parliament on lifting his immunity as a legislator fell short of the required five-sixths majority. The proposal to lift his immunity was supported by […]
Government & Politics
Greek, Turkish leaders speak after months of tension
(AP) The leaders of Greece and Turkey spoke by phone Friday, the prime minister’s office says, after months of increasing tension between the two countries. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan focused on the consequences of the […]
Government & Politics
Hungary worries virus could spur more migration to Europe
(AP) The Hungarian government is “very concerned” that the coronavirus pandemic will trigger more waves of migrants trying to reach Europe from poorer nations where the disease will have a greater impact, the country’s foreign minister said Friday. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter […]
Immigration
Migrants detained after landing on Kent beaches
(BBC) More than 20 migrants have been detained after landing in two boats on Kent beaches, the Home Office says. Another boat was also intercepted on Thursday in the Channel, with 13 men and one woman on board saying they were Syrian […]
Government & Politics
Rights of asylum seekers trampled in Hungary, EU judge observes
(Courthouse News) An EU magistrate condemned Hungary’s refugee policies Thursday, detailing a system where immigrants are made to sleep in shipping containers on the border for months while seeking asylum. Under the EU’s Reception Conditions Directive, people claiming asylum must have access […]
Children & Teens
Female genital mutilation: Report shows 68,000 victims in Germany A report estimates that the number of victims of female genital mutilation in Germany has increased by 44% since 2017, and nearly 15,000 girls may be at risk. The minister responsible linked the increase to migration.
(Deutsche Welle) The amount of women and girls in Germany who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) has increased to 68,000, the families minister announced Thursday. The increase, up 44% from the last estimated total calculated in 2017, was attributed to greater […]
Immigration
Six migrant boats intercepted off Kent coast
(BBC) Six boats carrying 82 migrants have been intercepted by Border Force vessels off the Kent coast. The first boats were spotted at about 06:30 BST on Wednesday, the Home Office said. Three women were among those onboard the small boats crossing […]
Immigration
Political stagnation and virus galvanise Maghreb migrants
(AFP) “Here, I don’t exist — I die little by little,” said Hamid, a young Algerian, his gaze fixed on Mediterranean waters he sees as his route to a better future. “My only hope is to leave for Europe.” Like thousands of […]
Academics & Education
Edmonton school trustee resigns over comments about refugee students Cheryl Johner's comments 'unacceptable, racist and wrong,' board chair says
(CBC) Edmonton public school trustee Cheryl Johner has resigned from the board, less than a day after making comments about refugee students during a debate on police officers in schools. “My comments were inappropriate and immediately regrettable,” Johner, trustee for Ward A […]
Government & Politics
EU says engagement needed to build trust with Turkey after migration dispute
(Reuters) The European Union wants to rebuild trust with Turkey, its top diplomat said on Wednesday, after a standoff in March in which thousands of migrants attempted to force their way into Greece, triggering clashes on their border. Before the coronavirus pandemic […]
Immigration
Authorities don’t have solid proof that man once jailed for terrorism is now a threat
(Democrat and Chronicle) The upper echelons of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security paint Adham Amin Hassoun as a terrorist so dangerous he should not be set free on American soil. That said, federal officials have a dilemma with Hassoun, […]
Health & Medicine
Reading terror suspect was classified as ‘high mental health risk’ amid fears he was not getting help he needed (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Cyprus probes alleged groping of girls at migrant center
(AP) Cyprus’ interior minister said Tuesday that he asked police to launch a criminal investigation into allegations that girls staying at a migrants’ reception center were sexually harassed by other residents. Interior Minister Nicos Nouris told state broadcaster CyBC that he takes […]
Immigration
Channel migrants: Border Force intercepts 28 people
(BBC) Twenty-eight migrants in dinghies and a kayak have been intercepted in the Channel. The Border Force found the people in three vessels between 07:40 and 11:30 BST on Sunday. There were 24 males and four females, but the Home Office no […]