(AP) Accompanied by a cloud of mosquitos, Police Capt. Konstantinos Tsolakidis and three other border guards set out on a boat patrol along the Evros River that forms a natural frontier between Greece and Turkey. The route takes them through a maze […]
(AFP) If the UK government has its way, the tens of thousands of migrants arriving on England’s southeastern shores each year, after crossing the Channel in small boats, will face swift deportation to Rwanda. Although the controversial plan is on hold amid […]
(AP) Spanish prosecutors have dropped their investigation into the deaths of more than 20 migrants last June at the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave city of Melilla, saying in a statement Friday they found no evidence of criminal misconduct by […]
(Military Times) The services racked up about $270 million in needed repairs after housing more than 80,000 Afghan refugees at U.S. military bases between summer 2021 and 2022, according to a report released Wednesday by the Defense Department’s inspector general. The Afghans, […]
(Fox) Senate lawmakers from both parties are making a last-minute push to include a pathway to permanent legal status in the U.S. for evacuees from Afghanistan who were brought to the U.S. after the withdrawal in 2021. An amendment introduced Wednesday by […]
(Sky News) Disused cruise ships could be used to house asylum seekers — while the government expects to spend £3.5bn on people who have come to the UK to find sanctuary from persecution this fiscal year, the home secretary has said. Suella […]
(AP) Police in North Macedonia said Wednesday they had arrested nine people, including a police officer, on suspicion of smuggling dozens of migrants through the country. The nine, who are all Macedonian nationals and include two minors, were arrested during raids on […]
(Fox) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Wednesday that it has deported an Afghan national who was paroled into the U.S. last year, and pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of a 3-year-old girl. Tariq Mohammad Intezar, a 25-year-old Afghan, was paroled into […]
(CNN) The Afghan Adjustment Act will not be included in the omnibus spending bill, a source familiar told CNN. Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, continued to oppose the act at the committee level, the source said. CNN previously reported that roughly […]
(AFP) Cyprus on Monday transferred 48 asylum seekers to Germany under a voluntary pilot scheme that will eventually see 500 relocated to help cope with a surge in migrants, authorities said. The Cypriot interior ministry said the 48 applicants for international protection […]
(BBC) The government’s plan to deport migrants to Rwanda is lawful, the High Court has ruled. The court ruled on Monday that the scheme did not breach the UN’s Refugee Convention or human rights laws. But the cases of eight asylum seekers […]
(BBC) A man has been charged after four people died in the Channel when a migrant boat got into trouble. Thirty-nine people were rescued when a dinghy ran into difficulties off the Kent coast on Wednesday, but four died. Ibrahima Bah, 19, […]
(AP) Baran Ramadan Mesko had been hiding with other migrants for weeks in the coastal Algerian city of Oran, awaiting a chance to take a boat across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. Days before the 38-year-old Syrian Kurd was to begin the […]
(AP) Four Turkish nationals have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling migrants after a boat with nearly 100 people on board was found in trouble off an island near Athens, Greek authorities said Friday. The coast guard said that the four had […]
(Breitbart) More Senate Republicans are getting behind a plan that would give green cards to tens of thousands of Afghans brought to the United States by President Joe Biden’s administration amid allegations of widespread vetting failures. In the hopes of cramming the green […]
(BBC) Plans to ban migrants from claiming asylum in the UK will save lives, the home secretary has insisted. Suella Braverman said a new law preventing illegal entrants from applying would deter people from crossing the Channel in small boats. She added […]
(Reuters) The European Union must do more to protect its borders and to halt the departure of migrant boats from north Africa, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday. Meloni was speaking to the Italian parliament ahead of an EU summit […]
(Hungary Today) In 2015, Salah Abdeslam, one of the perpetrators of the 2015 Paris attacks and its sole survivor, brought several migrants from Hungary to Western Europe, where they were all involved in terrorist attacks. As revealed in a recent article in […]
(BBC) Fewer than 100 people who crossed the English Channel in small boats have been arrested for arriving illegally in the UK under a new power to deter them. The figure represents 0.3% of those who have crossed since the law was […]
(BBC) Recent disorder in Leicester showed why “robust strategies that support integration” were needed, the city’s bishop has said in the House of Lords. Making his maiden speech on Friday during a debate on immigration, Bishop Martyn Snow said more support was […]
(BBC) Five men have been jailed for a “ruthless” people-smuggling operation involving nearly 2,000 people. In one case nine people, including five children, were found in a distressed state in a lay-by after being brought from Europe in the back of a […]
(Reuters) Ministers from Britain, Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands on Thursday agreed plans to step up co-operation to tackle irregular immigration across Europe and try to stop people smugglers working in the English Channel. Britain’s interior minister Suella Braverman met her […]
(Breitbart) An Algerian illegal migrant has been arrested in Vigneux-Sur-Seine after allegedly murdering a 65-year-old French man who let him live in his home. The 65-year-old was found dead early Tuesday morning in his home and is said to have been beaten to […]
(Euronews) French police say they have arrested six people on suspicion of smuggling Middle Eastern migrants across the English Channel. The criminal gang had allegedly organised the transportation of Afghan and Pakistani migrants to the United Kingdom. According to police sources, the […]
(AP) Bulgaria rejected accusations that its border guards shot a Syrian refugee in October after a video released Monday showed a man being fired at on [the] European country’s border with Turkey. The footage of an asylum-seeker being hit with live ammunition […]
(Breitbart) A Libyan refugee faces trial in Paris this week after allegedly raping a woman at knifepoint after she hosted him in her home for several weeks. The trial of Libyan refugee Samir L., said to be in his late thirties, began this […]
(AP) An Austrian court has convicted three Afghan men for the rape and death of a 13-year-old girl whose body was found dumped next to a tree in Vienna last year in a case that shocked the Alpine nation. The Austria Press […]
(AFP) From the white cliffs above Dover, on England’s south coast, it’s possible to watch as migrants who have attempted to cross from northern France in small boats are brought ashore. On Monday, 426 were intercepted, according to government figures. On Tuesday, […]
(AP) Ethnically divided Cyprus ranks first among European Union member nations in the number of migrants it repatriates relative to its population of just over a million people, the country’s interior minister said Thursday. Nearly 7,000 migrants were sent back to their […]
(AFP) UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his counterpart in Tirana Edi Rama on Thursday agreed to do more to stem the flow of Albanians making small-boat crossings of the Channel. Albanians are now the largest single group among record numbers of migrants […]
(Reuters) A migrant paraglided from Morocco over a border fence into Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla and eluded authorities, officials said on Thursday. Two witnesses saw the paraglider drifting overhead while they were driving along the ring road surrounding the enclave […]
(AP) The European Union’s asylum agency said Wednesday that the number of people seeking asylum in Europe has hit a six-year high, with Syrian nationals once again seeking international protection more than people from any other country. The agency said that around […]
(Sky News) A group of more than 50 MPs has written to PM Rishi Sunak, urging him to introduce emergency legislation which will cut small boat crossings of the Channel. The group, which includes former cabinet ministers, called for the rapid implementation […]
(VOA) From refugees to elected office, 14 Somali Americans have won legislative seats across the U.S. this year. Some also have been elected to city councils, school boards and the boards of parks and recreation in their respective cities. The U.S. midterm […]
(AP) European Union interior ministers on Friday weighed proposals to ease tensions between France and Italy over migrants arriving on their shores without authorization, including a possible crackdown on charity-run ships doing search and rescue work in the Mediterranean Sea. In recent […]
(AP) One man was shot and wounded and a number of others were detained following reports of a clash between migrants in a northern Serbian town on the border with Hungary, police said on Friday. Police said they found a 20-year-old man […]
(Politico) The EU is working on a proposal to reduce a rising influx of migrants entering the bloc through the Western Balkans, Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson told POLITICO on Thursday. The Western Balkan migration route has become a growing concern for EU […]
(Politico) The European Commission is pushing to create guidelines for the NGO boats rescuing migrants off Europe’s shores as part of a plan to reduce the number of asylum seekers heading to the Continent. The plan, presented Monday by the European Commission, […]
(AFP) Most of the adult migrants rescued by the Ocean Viking NGO in the Mediterranean have been denied entry into France, which allowed the vessel to disembark after Italy blocked access to its ports, the interior ministry said Friday. The standoff has […]
(AP) Italian police arrested 12 people Thursday and have issued warrants for another six over their alleged roles in a high-speed migrant-smuggling ring that operated between Tunisia and Sicily. The suspects are alleged to have demanded payment of 3,000-5,000 euros ($3,100-$5,200) in […]
(Breitbart) A Syrian man faces trial in Vienna after allegedly nearly stabbing a fellow Syrian man to death because the latter was applying himself to learning German on a course they attended. The two Syrians, both with refugee status, attended a German […]
(AP) Austria, Hungary and Serbia on Wednesday held another top-level meeting dedicated to curbing migration, including by sending more than 100 police officers, vehicles equipped with night vision cameras and drones to the border with North Macedonia. Austria and Hungary also pledged […]
(AP) Suspected people smugglers fired shots at Hungarian police from a van carrying migrants on Monday during and after a car chase that ended without injuries in the country’s capital. Two men were taken into custody in Budapest by Hungary’s counterterrorism agents […]
(AFP) Britain agreed to pay France another 72.2 million euros ($74.5 million) to prevent migrant boat crossings in the English Channel under a new deal signed on Monday that underlines improving ties between the neighbours. Around 42,000 people — most of them […]
(AP) The European Union’s border agency said Monday that the number of illegal entries by migrants spiked to more than 275,000 in the January through October period this year. The figure is 73% higher than at the same time in 2021, and […]
(BBC) More than 40,000 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats so far this year, the BBC has calculated, the highest number since figures began to be collected in 2018. Last year 28,526 people reached the south of England, while in […]
(AP) Four Mediterranean European Union nations have issued a joint statement on a dispute over a deal for Europe to jointly help asylum-seekers. In their statement Saturday, Italy, Greece, Malta and Cyprus repeated their positions that they “cannot subscribe to the notion […]
(AFP) The foreign ministers of Britain and France on Friday said significant progress was being made on an ambitious new deal to thwart illegal migration on small boats across the Channel. “They welcomed progress made towards a significant new UK-France agreement and […]
(ANSA) Premier Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday criticized the decision by medical officials to allow around 250 people who were on board two NGO-run search-and-rescue ships to disembark in Catania on Tuesday on health grounds. The ships, the Humanity 1 and the Geo […]
(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) Mustafa Mousab Alowemer told a federal judge Tuesday that coming to the United States in 2016 from war-torn Syria where he witnessed dozens, if not hundreds, of atrocities as a child made him “feel like a human being, safe, conflict-free […]
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