Health & Medicine
Authorities had four warnings about Reading attacker’s mental health (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Immigration
‘Please help us’: Migrants, exposed to freezing Bosnia winter, await chance to reach EU
(Reuters) Hundreds of migrants are taking shelter in abandoned buildings in and around the northwestern Bosnian town of Bihac, wrapping up as best they can against the snow and freezing weather and hoping eventually to reach EU member Croatia across the border. […]
Government & Politics
EU watchdog opens investigation into border agency Frontex Organization faces allegations of harassment, misconduct and migrant pushbacks.
(Politico) The EU’s anti-fraud watchdog, OLAF, has opened an investigation into Frontex, the bloc’s border agency, over allegations of harassment, misconduct and migrant pushbacks, according to four EU officials. OLAF investigators have been interviewing members of the Warsaw-based agency “since the start […]
Crime
Vienna govt to hold security meeting after ‘Allahu akbar’ rioters torched Christmas tree
(Breitbart) The Vienna government will be holding a security meeting next week following a riot in a migrant-populated district on New Year’s Eve that saw a Christmas tree set on fire by Muslims. The rioting took place at Reumannplatz in the heavily […]
Immigration
Channel migrants: More than 150 migrants enter UK on small boats
(BBC) More than 150 migrants arrived in England after attempting to cross the Channel at the weekend. On Saturday, Border Force dealt with 103 people on six boats, while the French authorities stopped three vessels from entering UK waters. One boat, with […]
Government & Politics
Priti Patel sets up secret new high-tech command HQ in war on people smugglers (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Channel migrants: Coastguard rescues ‘about 30’ suspected migrants
(BBC) About 30 suspected migrants have been rescued from a small boat “in difficulty” off the East Sussex coast. The coastguard said a report was received that a vessel was in trouble 23 miles south of Beachy Head just after midday. Eastbourne […]
Clothing
PVV releases election program: ‘country without headscarfs, but with traditional Dutch coziness’
(NL Times) The Freedom Party (PVV) presented its election program on Saturday. The party’s points of view are explained in over 50 pages, with keywords such as culture and traditions, care and safety, and climate realism. In the preface, the party leader […]
Immigration
Migrant entries into EU drop to lowest levels since 2013
(AP) The number of attempts by migrants to enter the European Union without authorization dropped to its lowest level in seven years in 2020, the EU border and coast guard agency Frontex said Friday. Frontex said it detected around 124,000 “illegal border […]
Government & Politics
Pressure grows on Italy to abolish migrant quarantine ships Italy has isolated thousands of asylum seekers on ferries over the course of the pandemic.
(Politico) Rome is facing pressure to abolish its offshore quarantine system for migrants and refugees following a series of alarming incidents, including several deaths, over the past year. Since May, the Italian government has isolated asylum seekers on ships after they arrive, […]
Immigration
4 die as migrant boat reaches Spain’s Canary Islands
(AP) Three men died in a boat carrying more than 40 migrants and another died upon reaching shore on Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands on Tuesday, authorities said. They were the first deaths of migrants arriving on the islands in 2021, a […]
Government & Politics
Bosnia must act to help hundreds of homeless migrants: EU
(AFP) The European Union’s foreign policy chief on Tuesday called on Bosnia to assume responsibility for hundreds of Bosnian migrants left sleeping out in the cold after their camp burned down. In a damning summary of the crisis there, the EU’s High […]
Government & Politics
Portugal leads drive for EU consensus on migration policy
(AP) Portugal started consultations Tuesday with other European Union countries to find common ground for a new policy on migration, which has caused humanitarian crises and deep political divisions in the bloc over how to respond. Portugal, which holds the EU’s rotating […]
Immigration
Canary Islands sees more than eight-fold increase in migrants in 2020
(Reuters) The number of undocumented migrants arriving in Spain’s Canary Islands on rickety boats was more than eight times higher in 2020 than the previous year, the Spanish Interior Ministry said on Monday. As north and sub-Saharan Africans grew desperate after losing […]
Immigration
Sweden took in three times as many asylum seekers as Scandi neighbours combined in 2020
(Breitbart) In the first eleven months of 2020, Sweden took nearly three times as many asylum seekers as its Scandinavian neighbours Norway, Finland and Denmark combined. Asylum claims have generally decreased compared to previous years due to the restrictions imposed by many […]
Immigration
After criticism, Bosnia sets up tents for freezing migrants
(AP) Trying to resolve a humanitarian disaster, the Bosnian military set up tents Friday for hundreds of migrants who have been stuck in a burned-out refugee camp that has no facilities to fend off freezing winter weather. Bosnia has faced international criticism […]
Immigration
Channel migrants: More than 8,000 people make crossing in 2020
(BBC) The number of migrants reaching the UK by boat was four times greater in 2020 than 2019, official figures show. At least 8,400 people made the crossing in 2020 while last year 1,844 did. Despite freezing temperatures, 33 migrants reached the […]
Immigration
Migrants stranded in open air in Bosnia after relocation fails
(Reuters) Hundreds of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East were left stranded in the open air on Wednesday when an attempt to relocate them to another site in Bosnia after fire wrecked their temporary camp failed, police and migrants said. […]
Immigration
Nearly 2,200 migrants died trying to reach Spain in 2020: NGO
(AFP) Nearly 2,200 migrants died trying to reach Spain by sea this year, the vast majority of them on their way to the Canary Islands, a migrant rights group said Tuesday. [Migrant] arrivals in the archipelago have increased this year as they […]
Health & Medicine
Almost half of Swedish coronavirus ICU patients are migrants
(Breitbart) Nearly half of those in intensive care units (ICU) due to complications from the Wuhan coronavirus across Sweden are from migrant backgrounds. A total of 46 per cent of those in ICUs in Sweden are from migrant backgrounds according to a […]
Immigration
Sweden: Asylum seeker interpreter told migrant not to ‘smear Islam’
(Breitbart) Interpreters in Sweden for asylum seekers and other migrants have been accused of major misconduct with one interpreter telling an asylum seeker not to “smear Islam.” Interpreters in Sweden fall into two categories, those with official government authorization and those without, […]
Immigration
France facing new wave of ultra-conservative migrants from Afghanistan
(Breitbart) France faces a new wave of asylum seekers from Afghanistan, with many coming from conservative areas and some openly supporting groups like the Taliban. Over the last five years, the number of Afghans arriving in France has increased fivefold from just […]
Immigration
Thousands of migrants left without shelter after Bosnia camp burned down
(Reuters) More than a thousand migrants from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were left to sleep in the cold after their camp in northwestern Bosnia burned down amid a dispute among Bosnian politicians over where to house them. On Wednesday, […]
Immigration
Police blame residents for fire at Bosnia migrant centre
(Reuters) A fire at a migrant centre housing about 1,200 people in northwestern Bosnia on Wednesday was probably set by migrants displeased with its temporary closure, police and a United Nations official said. Police in the town of Bihac said the fire, […]
Government & Politics
Britain recalls Border Force cutter due to fears of surge in migrants crossing border (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
French believe 100 syndicates run migrant routes across Channel (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Migrants trying to reach UK may jump on queuing lorries in France, says Border Force head (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Migrants in EU border areas to see social media ads warning against voyage to UK (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Home Office admits it has ‘lost’ 37,000 migrants in Britain (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Calais: Govt offering migrants nearly €2,000 to go back to home countries
(Breitbart) The French Office for Immigration and Integration (OFII) is offering €1,850 to migrants in Calais to return to their home countries instead of trying to enter Britain illegally. The offer of cash would also include a free one-way aeroplane ticket to […]
Immigration
Cops race to Army barracks where hundreds of refugees held after asylum seeker ‘grabbed knife and terrified staff’ (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Home Office to deploy ‘stealth squad’ of speedboats and jet skis to catch Channel migrants (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Top EU court finds Hungary guilty of breaking asylum rules
(Reuters) Hungary has broken EU laws on protecting vulnerable migrants and refugees by denying them a right to apply for asylum and forcibly deporting people to the Serbian border, the Court of Justice of the European Union said on Thursday. Hungary said […]
Children & Teens
Germany takes in sick kids, others from Greek migrant camps
(AP) A plane carrying 88 asylum-seekers, including 19 sick children, arrived in Germany on Thursday as part of the country’s pledge to take in migrants from camps in Greece, the Interior Ministry said. The charter flight was the last as part of […]
Government & Politics
Morocco rebuffs EU request to re-admit third-country migrants
(Reuters) Morocco has rebuffed a European Union request to take back third-party nationals who reach Europe from the North African kingdom, its interior ministry said on Tuesday. EU migration commissioner [Ylva] Johansson visited Rabat this month to seek a readmission agreement allowing […]
Crime
Denmark to classify immigrants from Muslim countries separately in crime statistics
(Local) Denmark’s government is to separately classify people from or with heritage in primarily Muslim countries and regions in official statistics related to topics such as crime and employment. Immigration and integration minister Mattias Tesfaye has signalled his support for the statistical […]
Government & Politics
Two migrants a week are absconding from Kent Army barracks, exclusive figures reveal (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
From Africa to Europe … via the Canary Islands
(AFP) After a three-day boat trip from Western Sahara, Mohceine Ait Lamadane reached the Canaries and from there travelled to Italy, taking advantage of a system swamped by arrivals and slowed by the coronavirus. “I paid 2,000 euros ($2,430) for the crossing,” […]
Government & Politics
Germany to allow deportations of ‘suspect’ Syrians
(AFP) Germany said Friday it would allow deportation of Syrians to their war-ravaged homeland from 2021 if they are deemed a security risk, five years after a massive refugee influx. The EU’s biggest economic power and most populous member allowed in hundreds […]
Government & Politics
UK to deny asylum to refugees passing through ‘safe’ third country (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Greece accused of moving newly arrived asylum seekers off island and stranding them at sea (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
EU border chief wins support amid migrant pushback reports
(AP) The EU’s top migration official confirmed Wednesday that she retains confidence in the embattled head of Frontex, amid pressure on the bloc’s border and coastguard agency for an independent investigation of allegations it was involved in illegal pushbacks of migrants. Asked […]
Government & Politics
Greece says Turkish ‘student visa’ loophole used for trafficking
(Reuters) Greece urged Turkey on Tuesday to do more to thwart irregular crossings of migrants into its territory, saying recent arrivals, particularly from Somalia, appeared to be coordinated. More than half of arrivals on the Greek island of Lesbos from Nov. 1 […]
Children & Teens
Five children among Channel migrants arriving at Dover
(BBC) Five children, including a baby without socks or shoes, were among migrants who crossed the English Channel in small boats in near-freezing conditions. The Home Office said 111 people arrived in five boats, with the French stopping 35 people from making […]
Government & Politics
Dozens of migrants who crossed Channel in small boats will be deported this week (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Surrey imam who misrepresented himself to immigration officials jailed for sexual assault The victim wants Abdur Rehman Khan deported after he serves his three-year prison sentence
(CBC) The emotional wounds from a sexual assault at the hands of a Lower Mainland imam four years ago continue to affect the daily life of his victim, who says if immigration officials and the B.C. Muslim Association had intervened sooner, the attack […]
Crime
Patel warned over legality of ‘morally repugnant’ prosecutions of asylum seekers crossing Channel (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
To root out Islamism we must break up urban ghettos: Paris politician Pécresse
(Radio France) Valérie Pécresse, the president of the Ile-de-France region, which includes Paris, has denounced what she called “urban separatism” and said eradicating Islamism was impossible without breaking up France’s urban ghettos. “We can’t eradicate Islamism if we do not break up […]
Immigration
Vienna: Iraqi jailed for life over attacks on German ICE trains An Iraqi accused of trying to derail three German high-speed passenger trains in 2018 has been handed a life sentence by a court in Vienna. The jury ultimately rejected his denial of being an 'Islamic State' supporter.
(Deutsche Welle) Vienna’s regional court on Thursday sentenced a 44-year-old Iraqi to life in prison for attempting to derail high-speed passenger trains in Germany. The man had been living in the Austrian capital as a refugee with his wife and four children since 2013. The […]
Crime
Channel crossings: Suspected people-smuggling gang arrested in raids
(BBC) A suspected people-smuggling gang accused of bringing hundreds of people to the UK in small boats has been broken up, the Home Office says. A 36-year-old British Syrian man was detained at his flat in north-west London on Thursday morning, bringing […]