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Refugees

Demonstrations

Marchers in Athens protest reported Greek migrant pushbacks

February 6, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AP) Hundreds of people marched through central Athens on Sunday to protest what they say are Greece’s pushbacks of migrants and refugees at the border with Turkey. The marchers carried an inflatable dinghy, like those migrants use to cross the sea from […]

Government & Politics

EU nations agree step-by-step approach to migration reform

February 3, 2022 Sylvie Corbet and Lorne Cook  

(AP) European Union interior ministers on Thursday agreed to create a new decision-making body amid efforts to beef up the 27-nation bloc’s borders, and to kick-start desperately needed reforms to the EU’s malfunctioning asylum system on a step-by-step basis. The EU has […]

Government & Politics

Home Office admits cost of housing asylum seekers in hotels almost four times figure given to MPs (LINK ONLY)

February 3, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Patel: Macron’s criticism of British immigration system ‘just wrong’ (LINK ONLY)

February 2, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Government spending £1.2 million a day housing asylum seekers in hotels (LINK ONLY)

February 2, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Macron takes aim at migration with eye on French election

February 2, 2022 Sylvie Corbet  

(AP) French President Emmanuel Macron is taking aim at migration — a core issue in the country’s presidential campaign — by pushing to strengthen the European Union’s external borders against people illegally entering the bloc’s passport-free area. Macron is expected to run […]

Government & Politics

Let asylum seekers apply from France or there’s no Channel migrants deal, say Macron allies (LINK ONLY)

February 1, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Bern and Vienna vow to boost cooperation on migrants and terrorism

February 1, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(Swiss Info) Switzerland and Austria want to strengthen cooperation on migration and security, they said on Tuesday. This came at a meeting in Vienna between Swiss Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter and her new Austrian counterpart Gerhard Karner. Their talks focused on European […]

Government & Politics

Cyprus streamlines migrant returns with EU help

February 1, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AP) The European Union and [its] border agency Frontex have helped Cyprus streamline procedures to return migrants who have had their asylum applications rejected amid soaring numbers of arrivals, the country’s interior minister said Tuesday. The Standard Operation Procedures for Returns have […]

Demonstrations

About 500 persons demonstrate against centre for asylum seekers in Sint-Laureins

January 30, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(Brussels Times) About 500 people demonstrated on Saturday afternoon in Sint-Laureins, East Flanders, against a plan to set up a centre for asylum seekers in the Godshuis, a former monastery that has been empty for many years, Belga news agency reports. The […]

Crime

Kos: Four arrested for migrant smuggling

January 28, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(Kathimerini) Coast guard[s] on Kos have arrested four people — two Greeks and two non-nationals — on suspicion of smuggling migrants from the Turkish coast to the island for €4,000 a person. The arrests followed the discovery of a speedboat on January […]

Government & Politics

Channel migrants: Navy ships would be ‘migrant honeypot’

January 26, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(BBC) Royal Navy vessels would be a “honeypot” for migrants crossing the English Channel as they would make the journey safer, MPs have been told. The Ministry of Defence is to begin working with the Home Office to address Channel crossings, which […]

Government & Politics

White House plans expedited resettlement for Afghan refugees

January 26, 2022 Stef W. Kight and Jonathan Swan  

(Axios) President Biden’s advisers are crafting a plan to accelerate bringing potentially thousands of Afghans to the U.S. from Qatar, according to a source with direct knowledge of the administration’s internal deliberations on the subject. Why it matters: As U.S. military leaders plan […]

Immigration

Poland begins work on new EU-Belarus border wall

January 25, 2022 Bernard Osser  

(AFP) Polish contractors began work on Tuesday on a 353-million-euro wall along the Belarus border aimed at deterring migrant crossings following a crisis in the area last year. The 5.5-metre-high wall will run along 186 kilometres (115 miles) of the border — […]

Children & Teens

Afghan refugee convicted of assaulting girl, 3, at Quantico

January 24, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AP) A federal jury has convicted an Afghan refugee housed at Quantico Marine Corps Base after he fled the country with a sexual assault. The jury in U.S. District Court in Alexandria on Friday found Mohammed Tariq, 24, guilty of abusive sexual […]

Demonstrations

Protest against migrant camp extension

January 23, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(Kathimerini) The municipal council of Orestiada in northeastern Greece is convening Tuesday to discuss controversial plans by the government to expand a migrant reception and identification center on the outskirts of the border village of Fylakio. The plan for the center is […]

Immigration

Liverpool bomber lied to stay in UK, documents released to BBC show

January 23, 2022 Dominic Casciani  

(BBC) New details have emerged about the Liverpool bomber Emad Al Swealmeen’s failed asylum attempts — and the false information he used to make his cases. A previously confidential 2015 asylum judgment, released to the BBC, reveals how his claim of being […]

Government & Politics

Migrants at Hungary border become part of election campaign

January 23, 2022 Justin Spike  

(AP) A group of migrants huddles beside a small, smoky fire inside an abandoned building in northern Serbia, the last moments of warmth before they set out into the driving snow toward the razor wire, cameras and sensors of Hungary’s electrified border […]

Government & Politics

All male migrants face detention if intercepted at sea (LINK ONLY)

January 22, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

EU nations urge stronger borders to ease migration pressures

January 21, 2022 David Keyton and Monika Scislowska  

(AP) Ministers from European Union nations under pressure from unauthorized border crossings asked Friday for more action to protect the bloc’s external borders as well as for rules to return migrants to their homelands or where they started their journeys. Interior ministers […]

Government & Politics

Home Office ‘burying bad news’ with plan to scrap daily Channel migrants data (LINK ONLY)

January 19, 2022 EoI News  

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Immigration

Migrant crossings: More than 150 people cross English Channel

January 19, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(BBC) More than 150 people were intercepted or rescued attempting to cross the English Channel on Tuesday, the Home Office said. Six boats, carrying 168 people, were found by Border Force officials and brought to the Port of Dover. French authorities intercepted […]

Government & Politics

Emmanuel Macron calls on Britain to change policies to tackle migrant crossings (LINK ONLY)

January 19, 2022 EoI News  

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Crime

Police arrest 29 for bringing people to EU on leisure boats

January 19, 2022 Colleen Barry and Paolo Santalucia  

(AP) Police in Italy, Albania and Greece on Wednesday arrested some 30 people accused of profiteering several hundred million euros to smuggle refugees and migrants into the European Union from Turkey on yachts and other leisure vessels. The coordinated action is believed […]

Immigration

Poland: Some 600 migrant crossings foiled this year

January 18, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AP) Poland’s Border Guard authorities say that almost 600 attempts by migrants at illegally crossing the border from Belarus have been foiled so far this year. The attempts have continued since their peak in the fall, but the number of registered tries […]

Government & Politics

Desperate No10 policy chiefs explored using sonic weapons to [stop] small dinghies crossing Channel (LINK ONLY)

January 17, 2022 EoI News  

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Children & Teens

French far-right hopeful Zemmour convicted of hate speech

January 17, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) A French court on Monday found far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour guilty of racist hate speech for a televised tirade against unaccompanied child migrants. Zemmour drew widespread [outrage] in September 2020 when he told the CNews channel that child migrants were […]

Government & Politics

Iraq says almost 4,000 repatriated from Belarus borders

January 16, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Baghdad has repatriated almost 4,000 of its citizens stuck on the Belarus borders with European Union members Poland, Lithuania and Latvia in recent weeks, Iraq’s foreign minister said Sunday. Since November 18, the Iraqi government has organised “10 flights from Baghdad […]

Immigration

More migrants rescued from Channel following crossing death (LINK ONLY)

January 15, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Macron rival Pecresse slams EU’s ‘sieve-like’ borders

January 15, 2022 Claire Gallen  

(AFP) French right-wing presidential hopeful Valerie Pecresse on Saturday slammed the EU’s “sieve-like” borders for allowing migrants to enter undetected and backed calls for barbed-wire fences to prevent them crossing illegally into the bloc. Pecresse, whom polls show as President Emmanuel Macron’s […]

Government & Politics

French presidential candidate says strong EU borders needed

January 14, 2022 Elena Becatoros and Angela Charlton  

(AP) French presidential candidate Valerie Pecresse stressed the need for strong European borders Friday, during a visit to Greece that will also see her visit a camp for asylum seekers on an Aegean island used by migrants to enter Europe from neighboring […]

Immigration

Near-freezing temperatures fail to stop 271 people crossing English Channel (LINK ONLY)

January 13, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Home Office tells Afghan and Yemeni asylum seekers they can return safely (LINK ONLY)

January 13, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Latvia, Lithuania, Poland rapped over Belarus border methods

January 13, 2022 Lorne Cook  

(AP) Latvia, Lithuania and Poland continue to use questionable methods to keep out migrants trying to enter from Belarus and are denying access to aid groups trying to help people stuck in border areas, senior U.N. refugee agency and European Union officials […]

Immigration

Channel migrants: Three boats with 96 people make the crossing

January 11, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(BBC) Almost 100 migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats on Monday, the Home Office has confirmed. Some 96 people crossed in three boats, with the French authorities preventing one boat with 56 people on board from making the journey. The […]

Government & Politics

France to push for EU-wide UK migration treaty over Channel crossings (LINK ONLY)

January 10, 2022 EoI News  

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Immigration

English Channel: Number of migrants rescued off Calais coast trebled last year, says France

January 10, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(Euronews) The number of migrants rescued off the coast of Calais and taken in by the French state tripled in 2021, the country’s Office for Immigration and Integration (OFII) said on Monday. “The number of people shipwrecked off the coast of Calais […]

Immigration

‘No path ahead but the sea’: Lebanese join migrant flow to EU

January 10, 2022 Hashem Osseiran  

(AFP) If he wasn’t making good money smuggling irregular migrants to the European Union by sea, Ibrahim himself might have joined the growing exodus from crisis-hit Lebanon. “If I didn’t work in this profession, I would have left, just like so many […]

Government & Politics

Home Office tells asylum seeker he can return to Syria safely (LINK ONLY)

January 9, 2022 EoI News  

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Immigration

Migrants crossing Channel in boats add £1million a day to cost of Britain’s asylum system (LINK ONLY)

January 8, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Opposition mounting to new Chios migrant camp

January 8, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(Kathimerini) A growing number of residents on the eastern Aegean island of Chios are opposing the planned creation of a closed camp for migrants. Reactions culminated during Thursday’s public holiday, when several hundred residents gathered at the port to prevent machinery that […]

Immigration

Quantico rings up $188 million bill for Afghan refugees housed in tents

January 7, 2022 Travis Tritten  

(Military.com) Thousands of Afghans briefly called Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia home after fleeing a Taliban takeover in August. The last of those 3,755 refugees were resettled elsewhere in the U.S. just days before Christmas, leaving only an empty, impromptu village […]

Immigration

Hungarian border police fire shots at speeding truck carrying migrants

January 7, 2022 Krisztina Than  

(Reuters) Hungarian police fired shots at a truck carrying around 30 people presumed to be illegal migrants on Thursday after it drove through a checkpoint at the border with Austria without stopping, police said. The Gyor-Moson-Sopron county police said police patrols at […]

Government & Politics

Taxpayers forking out on £125-a-night hotel rooms for Channel migrants, leaked data reveals (LINK ONLY)

January 7, 2022 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Rees-Mogg: France is safe for refugees — except those who ‘don’t like garlic’ (LINK ONLY)

January 6, 2022 EoI News  

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Immigration

Chios residents block ship carrying new migrant center construction machinery

January 6, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(Kathimerini) Residents and local officials on the island of Chios have blocked a ship carrying construction machinery for the new planned migrant “closed controlled access center” from docking on Thursday. Residents of the island had also blocked the ship from docking at […]

Government & Politics

Lithuania will not extend state of emergency at Belarus border

January 5, 2022 Andrius Sytas  

(Reuters) The Lithuanian government on Wednesday decided against extending a state of emergency along the country’s border with Belarus and at camps hosting migrants who had arrived from the country, Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said. EU member states accuse Belarus of encouraging […]

Crime

Migrant arrested after attempt to shove man under subway train

January 5, 2022 Chris Tomlinson  

(Breitbart) A 25-year-old Tunisian migrant was arrested by police in Paris after allegedly shoving a man onto the tracks of the city’s metro before smashing various items while yelling “Allahu Akbar.” The incident took place on Monday night at around midnight at […]

Immigration

English Channel crossings: Girl in pink onesie among first arrivals of 2022 (LINK ONLY)

January 4, 2022 EoI News  

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Immigration

Record year sees more than 28,300 people cross English Channel to the UK (LINK ONLY)

January 4, 2022 EoI News  

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