Children & Teens
Kent unable to take in more unaccompanied child refugees, council says (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Immigration
Migrants: Record number of Channel crossings in August
(BBC) More than 1,200 migrants have made the crossing across the English Channel in small boats already in August, a record for a single month. Eight vessels carrying 112 people were intercepted by Border Force patrols on Sunday. On Saturday, 65 people […]
Government & Politics
Italy wants no more illegal migrants, minister tells Tunisia
(AFP) Italy has no more room for illegal migrants, its foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said Monday on a visit to Tunisia, from where many of them cross the Mediterranean Sea. After a meeting with the Tunisian President Kais Saied, Italy’s top […]
Crime
Police foil reprisal operation by Chechens in French town
(AFP) France’s interior minister on Sunday vowed that no community would be allowed to take the law into its own hands after police thwarted a bid by Chechens to violently avenge an alleged assault on a member of their community. Three men […]
Immigration
North Macedonia police find 80 migrants, arrest truck driver
(AP) Police in North Macedonia said Sunday they have found 80 migrants during a routine check in the central part of the country and arrested a truck driver for suspected migrant smuggling. Police said in a statement that 79 Pakistanis and an […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Priti Patel in racist French storm: Home secretary enrages Paris (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Calais superstore ‘fuelling Channel crisis by flogging life jackets, paddles and bilge pump to migrants’ (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
More than 1,000 migrants arrive in UK in 10 days after Channel crossings (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Royal Navy called in to help tackle Channel migrant crisis (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Migrants increasingly reaching Italy by sea from Tunisia
(AP) The number of migrants reaching Italy by sea shot up from the previous 12-month period, but in contrast to recent years, the majority of the arrivals didn’t need rescue and made it to shore by themselves. According to Interior Ministry figures […]
Health & Medicine
Greece reports first coronavirus case in island camp
(AFP) Greece on Thursday reported its first novel coronavirus infection in one of its overcrowded asylum seeker camps. A 35-year-old man from Yemen living at the camp of Vial on the island of Chios tested positive late on Wednesday, a migration ministry […]
Immigration
UK Royal Air Force sends plane to help monitor migrant crossings
(Reuters) Britain’s Royal Air Force has sent a maritime patrol aircraft to help support border control operations in the English Channel after an increase in migrants seeking to cross from France. Taking advantage of hot weather and calm sea conditions, hundreds of […]
Immigration
Channel migrants: Six boats carrying 71 migrants intercepted
(BBC) Six small boats carrying 71 migrants have been intercepted in the Channel. The Home Office said Border Force and partner agencies dealt with several incidents off the UK coast on Wednesday. Dan O’Mahoney, the newly appointed “clandestine channel threat commander,” said […]
Government & Politics
Asylum seeker removal flight takes off despite last-minute court actions (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
North Macedonia: Police find 148 migrants in trucks
(AP) Police in North Macedonia say they have discovered 148 migrants crammed into trucks in two separate operations in central and northern parts of the country, and have arrested two men on suspicion of trafficking migrants. Police said their patrol stopped a […]
Government & Politics
Volunteers in Bristol sought to host asylum seekers in homes
(BBC) People in Bristol have been urged to host asylum seekers in their homes to prevent them living on the streets. During the coronavirus pandemic, the city council has housed a number of them in hotels across Bristol but the arrangement was […]
Immigration
Nearly half of British public have little or no sympathy for migrants crossing Channel from France, survey finds (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Channel crossings: Priti Patel was warned government policies were pushing migrants into dangerous voyages nine months ago (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
UK and France working ‘at pace’ on plan to halt migrant Channel crossings (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Asylum seekers launch legal challenge against their removal from UK (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Migrant crossings: Use of navy ships to stop boats ‘dangerous’
(BBC) Using Royal Navy ships to help stop migrants crossing the English Channel is “dangerous” and “won’t change anything,” a Calais politician says. On Saturday the Home Office asked defence chiefs for help to make crossings in small boats “unviable.” The Home […]
Government & Politics
Johnson: Migrant crossings ‘bad, stupid, dangerous and criminal’ (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Further 65 migrants picked up in English Channel
(BBC) A further four boats carrying 65 migrants have been picked up in the English Channel, the Home Office said. Border Force patrols found the boats travelling towards the UK on Sunday, a day after at least 151 migrants on 15 boats […]
Government & Politics
More than 4,000 migrants reach UK by small boats in 2020 (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
North Macedonia police find 94 migrants hidden in truck
(AP) Police in North Macedonia say they have found 94 migrants packed into a truck in … the country’s southeast. A police patrol stopped the truck with Macedonian national license plates late Saturday near the town of Radovish, 110 kilometers (68 miles) […]
Government & Politics
French demand £30m to stop migrants crossing Channel (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Polish border guards detain 34 people from Middle East found in a lorry
(Reuters) Polish border guards have detained 34 people from the Middle East, including four women and four children, who were traveling in a trailer of the lorry that came from Turkey via Slovakia, authorities said on Saturday. They were detained on Friday […]
Government & Politics
Home Office seeks military help over migrant crossings
(BBC) Defence chiefs are considering a request from the Home Office for help to deal with migrants attempting to cross the English Channel. The government is looking at using boats to “prevent people from leaving,” Schools Ministers Nick Gibb said. It comes […]
Government & Politics
Only one in 40 migrants who arrive in UK on small boats are sent back across the Channel (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Migrants adrift after camp at France-Italy border shut
(AFP) Sudanese migrant Soulaimen has been sleeping on the beach in the Italian border town of Ventimiglia for 10 days now. With his only shelter a sleeping bag and pasta meals donated by a charity, the 20-year-old is getting by as best […]
Government & Politics
New record set for number of migrants crossing the Channel in a day (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Inquiry launched into huge rise in migrant crossings (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Illegal migrants are being offered passage across the Channel in small boats for as little as £500, reveals National Crime Agency (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Greece sees fewer migrant arrivals from Turkey, partly due to pandemic, minister says
(Reuters) Greece has seen fewer migrants and refugees arriving from Turkey, numbering in the hundreds in the last four months, mainly due to increased border checks and partly due to the coronavirus pandemic, a government minister said on Tuesday. But Turkey is […]
Immigration
Channel migrants: Eight boats attempt crossing to UK
(BBC) Eight boats have been stopped in the Channel and 120 migrants brought to the UK, the Home Office has said. Border Force intercepted three boats in the early hours and later encountered a further five, a government spokesman said. One vessel […]
Immigration
Royal Navy will have to be deployed for Channel migrants to be returned to France, says Border Force union (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Ex-Border Force chief warns migrant Channel crisis could repeat 2,000-a-night attempts of two decades ago (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Italian island runs out of room to quarantine new migrants
(AP) About 250 Tunisian migrants in several small boats have reached a tiny Italian island that has run out of room to quarantine them as required by Italy’s anti-coronavirus measures, local officials said Saturday. The Sicilian newspaper Giornale di Sicilia quoted Lampedusa […]
Immigration
Channel migrants: More boats follow busiest day on record
(BBC) “Multiple” migrant boats have been picked up by Border Force in the English Channel, the coastguard said. One vessel landed on a beach near to a nuclear power plant in Dungeness, Kent, police have confirmed. French authorities said they rescued 58 […]
Government & Politics
Italy’s Lampedusa new target of far-right anger over migrants
(AFP) Out in the Mediterranean, under a baking sun, fisherman Ezio Billeci comes across a boat of vulnerable migrants and calls for help, but for hours the only response he gets from Italian authorities is to “stand by.” The episode off the […]
Books
Germany: SPD formally expels former Berlin senator Thilo Sarrazin An arbitration committee upheld the Social Democrats' decision to expel Sarrazin over Islamophobic rhetoric. The ruling marked the party's third attempt to oust him after almost a decade fighting in court.
(Deutsche Welle) Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) have finally managed to expel controversial politician turned author Thilo Sarrazin, who has published a series of books over the last decade bearing little resemblance to the party’s stated positions. Sarrazin’s books criticizing the lack of […]
Immigration
Refugees freed from Greek camp ‘hell’ left homeless
(AFP) When Amir Hussein was finally allowed to leave the horrific migrant camp of Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos, it was supposed to be the end of a year-long odyssey. “After (experiencing) hell in Moria, we had not expected to […]
Children & Teens
22 migrant kids with medical needs go to Germany from Greece
(AP) Another 22 children with medical needs who have been living in migrant camps in Greece arrived in Germany on Friday along with their close relatives, the German government said. In all, 90 people were on board a flight that landed at […]
Immigration
Record migrant numbers cross English Channel in small boats
(BBC) More than 200 migrants have crossed the English Channel in 20 boats according to the Home Office — a record number for a single day. There were also reports that about 30 people made the crossing on small boats, landing on […]
Employment
COVID-19 pandemic derails Germany’s push for migrant integration
(Reuters) Nigerian Iyke Anakua had been working for 14 months as a welder, a job he got through a recruitment agency in Berlin, when he received news in mid-March that he would be made redundant. “I waited so long for a job […]
Government & Politics
Italy Senate paves way for Salvini migrant trial
(AFP) Italy’s Senate voted on Thursday to strip far-right chief Matteo Salvini of his parliamentary immunity, paving the way for him to face trial, for a second time, over allegedly illegally detaining migrants at sea. Salvini, a senator, now looks set for […]
Health & Medicine
Police clear migrant camp outside Paris at high virus risk
(AFP) French police on Wednesday evacuated some 1,500 migrants from a camp north of Paris where crowded living conditions and a lack of water and sanitation exposed them to a high risk of coronavirus infection. The migrants were taken from the camp […]
Government & Politics
Italy warns of migrant strain as virus repercussions felt
(AFP) Italy’s interior ministry on Wednesday said it was finding the migrant situation “much more complex” than in previous years, and was upping returns to Tunisia as it struggled to house new arrivals. “The coronavirus emergency and the consequent very serious economic […]
Health & Medicine
Malta says 65 rescued migrants test positive for COVID-19
(Reuters) Sixty-five migrants who were in a group of 94 people rescued at sea and taken to Malta on Monday have tested positive for COVID-19, Malta’s health ministry said on Tuesday. It was the single largest cluster of positive cases detected on […]
Government & Politics
In shift, Tunisians top migrant groups reaching Italy by sea
(AP) More boats carrying Tunisian asylum-seekers reached a tiny southern Italian island Monday, part of a steady stream from the economically struggling North African country that is sorely testing Italian small town mayors’ ability to stop them escaping by the hundreds from […]