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Refugees

Government & Politics

Rwanda says UK asylum seekers to arrive ‘in next few weeks’

May 19, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) The first batch of asylum seekers sent to Rwanda from the UK under a controversial new deal will likely arrive in the East African nation “in the next few weeks,” officials in Kigali said Thursday. Since being announced last month, the […]

Government & Politics

Britain, Rwanda defend asylum-seekers plan at UN agencies

May 19, 2022 Jamey Keaten  

(AP) Britain and Rwanda on Thursday faced down two United Nations agencies that have sharply criticized their controversial plan in which Britain expects to send some asylum-seekers from the U.K. to the African country. In an interview with the Associated Press before […]

Children & Teens

Syrian migrant suspected of raping 15-year-old Ukrainian refugee girl

May 17, 2022 Chris Tomlinson  

(Breitbart) A 19-year-old Syrian migrant has been accused of rape by a 15-year-old Ukrainian refugee girl but has not been kept in custody, in what some are claiming is a scandal. The alleged rape took place in the late evening last Wednesday […]

Government & Politics

Channel crossings continue for a fourth consecutive day (LINK ONLY)

May 17, 2022 EoI News  

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Immigration

Channel crossings exceed 8,000 for the year (LINK ONLY)

May 16, 2022 EoI News  

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Immigration

Passengers on German train overpower knife attacker

May 13, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AP) An off-duty police officer and two other passengers on a regional train in Germany overpowered [an] Iraq-born man who wounded five people including the officer with a knife on Friday, authorities said. A top law enforcement official said the 31-year-old attacker […]

Immigration

Erdogan opponents allege Greek border pushbacks

May 12, 2022 Marina Rafenberg  

(AFP) For years Greece has been accused of illegally pushing asylum-seekers back to Turkey, a practice it strenuously denies. But according to witnesses and rights groups, the summary deportations are also hitting vulnerable opponents of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Kurdish writer […]

Crime

Austria police smash int’l ring smuggling Syrians

May 12, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Police have smashed a group believed to have smuggled tens of thousands of Syrians with two of them found suffocated in a van last year, Austria’s interior ministry announced on Thursday. A total of 205 people suspected to be linked to […]

Government & Politics

Linton-on-Ouse asylum centre an ‘open prison in middle of nowhere’

May 10, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(BBC) Villagers have branded a planned asylum centre on an ex-RAF station site an “open prison in the middle of nowhere.” The Home Office wants to place up to 1,500 male asylum seekers at Linton-on-Ouse near York. Residents have flooded the prime […]

Government & Politics

Rwanda plan ‘sends clear signal but will take time,’ says Patel (LINK ONLY)

May 9, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

First refugees to be told this week of their relocation to Rwanda (LINK ONLY)

May 9, 2022 EoI News  

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Crime

Geddes man from Iraq sentenced to 4 years for lying about membership in Iran-backed militia

May 7, 2022 Anne Hayes  

(Syracuse.com) A Geddes man with Iraqi citizenship was sentenced Friday to four years in federal prison for lying to immigration officials regarding his connection to an Iran-backed militia while applying for a green card, federal prosecutors said. Chasib Hafedh Saadoon Al Fawadi, […]

Demographics

St. Louis seeking to boost population with Afghan refugees

May 7, 2022 Jim Salter  

(AP) Inamullah Niazai sits on the front porch step of his red-brick St. Louis home and smiles at the bustle of activity around him — his mother and father chatting in the front yard, his two young daughters munching chocolate ice cream […]

Government & Politics

Only 300 migrants face being sent to Rwanda each year (LINK ONLY)

May 6, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Plan to send failed asylum seekers to Rwanda will get under way next week (LINK ONLY)

May 6, 2022 EoI News  

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Children & Teens

Babies wrapped in blankets brought to safety after Channel crossings (LINK ONLY)

May 6, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Villagers decry UK plan to house 1,500 asylum seekers

May 6, 2022 Valentine Graveleau  

(AFP) The village of Linton-on-Ouse is usually a sleepy place, but its residents are up in arms at a UK government plan to house up to 1,500 asylum seekers, whose numbers will dwarf local residents. In mid-April, 43-year-old Steve says he was […]

Government & Politics

EU lawmakers delay approval of border agency’s budget over illegal pushbacks European Parliament postpones decision due to ongoing investigation against Frontex

May 4, 2022 Agnes Szucs  

(Anadolu) EU lawmakers on Wednesday withheld approval on the EU border and coast guard agency’s (Frontex) budget over “illegal pushbacks of migrants” as they signed off [on] the bloc’s budget for 2020. With 492 votes in favor, 145 against, and eight abstentions, […]

Children & Teens

Number of child asylum seekers in EU soared in 2021, with many from Afghanistan

May 4, 2022 Anait Miridzhanian  

(Reuters) The number of unaccompanied children who sought asylum in the European Union in 2021 jumped by 72% as the number of refugees arriving from Afghanistan rose sharply, the bloc’s statistics office said on Wednesday. Overall, however, the number of asylum seekers […]

Crime

UK arrests suspected migrant boat ‘kingpin’

May 4, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) The UK’s National Crime Agency announced Wednesday it had arrested the suspected leader of an international criminal operation supplying small boats to people smugglers taking migrants across the Channel. The numbers of migrants crossing the busy shipping lane from northern France […]

Government & Politics

Channel migrants: At least 350 intercepted in two days

May 2, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(BBC) At least 350 migrants have been brought ashore from the English Channel in the past two days, according to witnesses and official figures. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said it found seven boats carrying 254 migrants on Sunday — witnesses said […]

Immigration

‘More than 200 people arrive in Dover after 11-day pause in Channel crossings’ (LINK ONLY)

May 1, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

EU border agency boss quits over alleged mismanagement

April 29, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Fabrice Leggeri, a figurehead for impenetrable European frontiers who was frequently accused of tolerating illegal “pushbacks” of migrants, has resigned as head of Frontex, the border agency said Friday. The Frontex board made the announcement after holding a two-day meeting “in […]

Government & Politics

‘Too soon to tell’ if Rwanda deal is deterring Channel crossings (LINK ONLY)

April 29, 2022 EoI News  

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Crime

Cyprus detains 2 for smuggling after 24 Syrians land in boat

April 29, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AP) Cyprus police on Friday detained two men on suspicion of helping two dozen Syrian asylum-seekers reach the east Mediterranean island nation aboard a rigid-hulled inflatable boat. A court ordered the two men — aged 30 and 28 — held in police […]

Government & Politics

Number of migrants crossing Channel falls to zero since Rwanda scheme was announced (LINK ONLY)

April 28, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Priti Patel will hire private jets to send illegal migrants to Rwanda after ‘woke’ airline chiefs refuse to run flights (LINK ONLY)

April 27, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Vast majority of Afghans turned away by U.S. entry program

April 27, 2022 Rebecca Beitsch  

(Hill) The Biden administration has denied roughly 85 percent of the applications it has processed from Afghans seeking to come to the U.S. through a program that allows for temporarily waiving immigration requirements. New figures obtained by the Hill show the administration […]

Fasting

North Texas group using billboard to educate people about Ramadan WhyIslam is hoping the billboard will help dispel misconceptions about the Islamic faith, organizers said.

April 26, 2022 Teri Webster  

(Dallas Morning News) WhyIslam Dallas, an Islamic group based in Plano, is using a billboard in Dallas to help educate people about Ramadan as part of a program that will also provide holiday gifts to 300 refugee families. The billboard is located […]

Crime

North London barber who used shop as front for people smuggling plot convicted (LINK ONLY)

April 25, 2022 EoI News  

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Crime

Police find 18 migrants in North Macedonia, nab car driver

April 25, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AP) Police in North Macedonia say a patrol discovered 18 migrants in the south of the country and arrested the driver after a brief chase. A police statement released Monday said the 18 migrants, 14 Syrians and 4 Pakistanis, were discovered late […]

Health & Medicine

Somali man on trial in Germany over fatal stabbings

April 22, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) A Somali man went on trial in Germany on Friday accused of stabbing three people to death and injuring several others, with prosecutors seeking to have him placed in psychiatric care. The suspect, an asylum seeker with a history of mental […]

Government & Politics

Denmark in talks with Rwanda on transfer of asylum seekers

April 20, 2022 Nikolaj Skydsgaard  

(Reuters) Denmark is in talks with Rwanda about setting up a new procedure for transferring asylum seekers to the East African nation, mirroring a similar move by Britain announced last week. A deal with Rwanda would make Denmark the first European Union […]

Immigration

Greece: Syrian asylum-seekers found on sailboat near Athens

April 19, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AP) Greek authorities say they are searching for the captain of a small Polish-flagged sailboat found moored in a bay on the island of Salamina, near the country’s largest port of Piraeus, carrying five Syrian nationals who had been smuggled into the […]

Immigration

Frontex sees big rise in EU migrant entries, no Ukraine link

April 19, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AP) The number of migrants trying to enter the European Union without authorization in the first three months of this year has risen to its highest level since 2016, even excluding refugees arriving from Ukraine, the EU’s border and coast guard agency […]

Government & Politics

Cyprus plans surveillance system to stem migrant crossings

April 19, 2022 Menelaos Hadjicostis  

(AP) Cyprus will install an electronic surveillance system along the buffer zone that divides the island nation along ethnic lines, to stem a surge in illegal immigration through the breakaway north, the government said Tuesday. Government spokesman Marios Pelekanos announced the plan […]

Government & Politics

Law change to allow deportation of potential terrorists, refugees on the cards

April 17, 2022 Gill Bonnett  

(Radio NZ) The government is looking into whether it will change the law to make it possible to send would-be terrorists, or refugees who have been serious offenders, back to their home countries. And former justice minister Andrew Little has defended how […]

Immigration

Greek police: Migrant shot dead while crossing from Turkey

April 17, 2022 Costas Kantouris and Demetris Nellas  

(AP) A migrant was killed by gunfire at the Greece-Turkey border while she and several others attempted to cross a river separating the two countries, Greek police said Sunday. It wasn’t immediately clear who fired the shot that killed the woman on […]

Immigration

More than 6,000 migrants have crossed Channel to UK in small boats this year (LINK ONLY)

April 16, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Johnson puts Navy in charge of Channel as he defends Rwanda migration plan (LINK ONLY)

April 14, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Tens of thousands of asylum seekers could be sent to Rwanda, says Johnson (LINK ONLY)

April 14, 2022 EoI News  

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Immigration

Hundreds cross English Channel as PM announces Rwanda migration plan (LINK ONLY)

April 14, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

UK to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing (LINK ONLY)

April 13, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

5,000-plus migrants thought to have reached UK this year after crossing Channel (LINK ONLY)

April 13, 2022 EoI News  

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Children & Teens

Women and children among latest small boat arrivals in the UK (LINK ONLY)

April 13, 2022 EoI News  

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Crime

Police on Rhodes arrest suspected migrant traffickers

April 11, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(Kathimerini) Police on Rhodes announced on Monday that they arrested four foreigners suspected of involvement in a criminal organization that trafficked migrants to the island. Those arrested come from Lebanon, Egypt and Syria. The group allegedly collected migrants from beaches and transported […]

Government & Politics

Rights group: Greece used migrants to expel asylum seekers

April 7, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AP) Human Rights Watch on Thursday accused authorities in Greece of allegedly using migrants to help carry out summary, illegal deportations of asylum seekers at the country’s border before they are able to register their claims. The New York-based rights group based […]

Government & Politics

Silence over why mall attacker’s request to leave NZ ignored

April 7, 2022 Gill Bonnett  

(Radio NZ) Government agencies which battled to detain and deport the LynnMall attacker Ahamed Samsudeen are remaining silent on why they did not agree to his request to lose New Zealand residence. Officials were moving to cancel Samsudeen’s refugee status and detain […]

Crime

Greece: 2 arrested from sailboat in distress with 70 aboard

April 5, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AP) Two people were arrested on suspicion of migrant smuggling and endangering lives for steering a sailboat carrying 68 others that ran into trouble off Greece’s western coast last week, the coast guard said Tuesday. The coast guard said the two — […]

Government & Politics

‘Outsourcing’ of migrants to Rwanda edges closer (LINK ONLY)

April 5, 2022 EoI News  

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