Immigration
Record year sees more than 28,300 people cross English Channel to the UK (LINK ONLY)
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Refugees
Immigration
Over 4,000 migrants died trying to reach Spain in 2021: NGO
(AFP) Over 4,000 migrants died or disappeared trying to reach Spain by sea in 2021, twice as many as in the previous year, a migrant rights group said Monday. Migrant arrivals in Spain’s Canary Islands in the Atlantic have increased since late […]
Academics & Education
Detroit-area teacher who fled Egypt alleges Islamic-led charter fired him for being gay
(Deadline Detroit) Mohamed Abdou came to the U.S. for the freedom to be himself. As a suspected gay man in Egypt, he faced a litany of horrors, including death threats, beatings and anal virginity tests — a practice in which military doctors […]
Immigration
Police in French city of Calais clash with migrants 15 gendarmes hospitalized after attempt to clear encampment erupts in hour-long brawl described as 'a scene of war'
(Anadolu) Police in the northern French city of Calais clashed with migrants Thursday morning as the officers stood at the ready, securing an area that is often an exit point for asylum seekers fleeing through the Channel Tunnel to the UK. Fifteen […]
Government & Politics
Home Office splash £100,000 on fast food and supplies for Channel migrants (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Sweden grants over 27,000 citizenships to Syrians in 2021 Total of 85,000 migrants get Swedish citizenship in 2021, says Swedish Migration Agency
(Anadolu) Sweden granted at least 27,340 citizenships to Syrians in 2021, the country’s migration agency said on Friday. According to [the] Swedish Migration Agency’s report, 85,000 people were granted Swedish citizenship during the year. At least 4,067 Somalis and 3,471 Eritreans also […]
Immigration
Migration back to the forefront of EU politics in 2021
(Euronews) Migration once again became a key issue for Europe this past year as tensions flared up at the EU’s border with Belarus. Hundreds of migrants gathered at the bloc’s border as the EU accused Belarus of waging a hybrid war and […]
Government & Politics
Italian minister talks migration with Tunisian president
(AFP) Italy’s top diplomat Luigi Di Maio discussed clandestine migration with Tunisian President Kais Saied on Tuesday, in his first visit to the North African country since the president’s July 25 power grab. The foreign minister praised Tunisian efforts to stem the […]
Immigration
Risky migrant crossings in yachts gain traction
(Kathimerini) An estimated 11,900 refugees and migrants crammed onto 120 yachts or sailboats are believed to have made it from Turkey to Italy via Greece this year, as the method has been gaining popularity among migrant smuggling rackets on the other side […]
Crime
Iraqi ISIS suspect remanded in prison in Athens
(Kathimerini) A 40-year-old Iraqi man was remanded in prison on Monday after he testified before a prosecutor about his alleged involvement in the ISIS terrorist organization. The man was arrested by counterterror officers in central Athens last week on suspicion of involvement […]
Crime
Greece: 3 charged with murder after migrant boat deaths
(AP) Three people have been charged with murder in Greece following the death of 16 migrants who were killed when a boat transporting them from Turkey to Italy capsized, authorities said Monday. The suspects were among 63 people rescued following the tragedy […]
Immigration
At least 30 dead in migrant boat accidents in Greece
(AFP) Greek coast guards scoured for survivors in the Aegean Sea on Saturday after the latest in a series of migrant boat accidents that have killed at least 30 people in just days. Late Friday, the coastguard found 16 bodies, including those […]
Immigration
67 people cross English Channel on Christmas Day (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Migrants camped in Belarus warehouse still hope to get to EU
(Reuters) Sleeping on mattresses in a Belarusian warehouse, hundreds of Middle Eastern migrants are still clinging to the hope of a future in western Europe as the year draws to a close. The nearly 600 migrants, from countries including Iraq, Turkey, Iran […]
Crime
‘Migrant smuggler’ arrest points to bigger racket
(Kathimerini) Greek intelligence and counterterror authorities had been keeping a close eye on a 39-year-old Iraqi suspected of large-scale migrant smuggling before the official launch of the operation against him earlier this month, Kathimerini has learned. According to court records, Thakir M. […]
Crime
Alleged jihadist arrested in Greece
(AFP) Greek counter-terrorism authorities have arrested a 40-year-old Iraqi man on suspicion of belonging to the Islamic State group (IS), police said Thursday. The man arrived in Greece from Syria, a police official told AFP, adding that he will appear before a […]
Government & Politics
Lithuania extends migrant detention limit to a year
(Reuters) Migrants who cross into Lithuania from Belarus can be detained for up to a year, the Lithuanian parliament decided on Thursday, increasing an initial six-month detention limit. Eighty-one lawmakers backed the lengthening of the six-month detention period, which was introduced in […]
Immigration
Another 160 people intercepted while trying to cross the Channel (LINK ONLY)
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Employment
Migrants could be electronically tagged to deter people from crossing Channel (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Channel migrant crossings to UK more than triple in 2021
(AFP) Arash took his first steps on English soil on a cloudy, drizzly day in May, after attempting a perilous crossing of the Channel from northern France. UK border police intercepted the inflatable dinghy on which he and others spent five hours […]
Children & Teens
Danish ex-minister ousted from parliament after impeachment
(Reuters) Former immigration minister Inger Stojberg, a main architect behind some of Denmark’s tough immigration policies, was voted out of parliament on Tuesday by her fellow lawmakers following her conviction in a rare impeachment case earlier this month. Stojberg was handed a […]
Government & Politics
Orban: Hungary will defy EU court ruling on asylum policy
(AP) Hungary will not change its immigration policies despite a recent ruling from the European Union’s top court that found them in contradiction with the bloc’s laws, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Tuesday. Orban’s announcement came as Hungary’s anti-immigration government is locked […]
Crime
Channel migrants: Court of Appeal overturns asylum seeker convictions
(BBC) Four Iranian men who crossed the English Channel in small boats have had their convictions for immigration offences quashed. The Court of Appeal said it had not been proven they intended to enter the UK illegally. The men were intercepted by […]
Government & Politics
Lithuania says migrant numbers from Belarus could soon increase
(Reuters) [The] Lithuanian Interior Ministry said Belarus authorities have ordered migrants to be cleared from a warehouse near the Polish border and from Minsk, which could lead to renewed attempts to push the migrants in large numbers into the European Union. At […]
Immigration
Migrant crossings: More than 270 people cross the Channel on Sunday
(BBC) More than 270 people crossed the English Channel in small boats on Sunday, the Home Office confirmed. It comes after more than 900 people crossed on Thursday and Friday. Border Force officials brought 274 people in 11 boats into the Port […]
Immigration
Migrant crossings: More than 900 cross Channel in two days
(BBC) More than 900 people have crossed the Channel in small boats over two days, the Home Office has confirmed. On Thursday 559 people were picked up off the Kent coast after making the crossing in 19 boats, and on Friday 358 […]
Government & Politics
Gov’t to expand border fence with Turkey by 26km, minister says
(Kathimerini) The government will expand the border fence with Turkey in the country’s northeast by 26km, Civil Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos told MPs on Friday. Addressing the Parliamentary Committee on National Defense and Foreign Affair[s], he said in addition to repairing the […]
Immigration
Afghans push through snowy Alps toward new lives in Europe
(AP) When suicide attackers and gunmen massacred crowds flocking to Kabul’s airport, they also severed the escape route that Ali Rezaie hoped would take him to a new life abroad, far from the Taliban and their suspicions of well-educated, middle-class people who […]
Government & Politics
Four months after withdrawal, Biden admin doesn’t know identities of Afghan refugees resettled in US GOP lawmakers want full accounting of failed vetting efforts
(Free Beacon) More than four months after the Biden administration airlifted nearly 75,000 Afghans out of the war-torn country, it still does not know the identity or backgrounds of many who have since been resettled in the United States, according to three […]
Immigration
Migrants push past outnumbered French police to make perilous Channel crossing
(Reuters) In the early hours of Thursday on a beach in northern France, a small group of police with torches tries to stand in the way of dozens of migrants heading for the sea carrying a grey dinghy. It’s tense. The police […]
Government & Politics
Virus and migrant worries spur EU to toughen border rules
(AP) The European Union on Tuesday launched a major revamp of the rules governing the movement of people and goods into and around Europe as coronavirus restrictions and fears over a “hybrid attack” from Belarus using migrants are placing increasing strains on […]
Children & Teens
Ex-Danish minister convicted over 2016 asylum ruling Inger Støjberg’s policy on separating married asylum seekers ruled illegal.
(Politico) Inger Støjberg, a former Danish immigration minister and high-profile government figure during Europe’s 2015 migration crisis, was sentenced to 60 days in jail on Monday after an order she issued in 2016 was ruled illegal. Støjberg had said that if a […]
Crime
Channel crossings: Smugglers are using ‘death trap’ boats, agency says
(BBC) Dangerous and unseaworthy boats are being used to smuggle people across the Channel to the UK from France, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has warned. The NCA said there had been a trend towards large inflatables of up to 10m (32ft) […]
Children & Teens
Belgium: Up to 70 per cent of ‘child’ migrants given age tests turn out to be adults
(Breitbart) Sammy Mahdi, Belgium’s secretary of state for asylum and migration, has stated that up to 70 per cent of “child” migrants submitted for age testing by the government turn out to be adults. Mahdi commented this week on the situation regarding […]
Crime
Arrested migrant trafficker on list of terror suspects
(Kathimerini) A 39-year-old Iraqi who was arrested in central Athens on Tuesday on migrant trafficking charges is on a list of Islamic terrorism suspects, state officials have confirmed to Kathimerini. Mohammed T. was arrested with an Egyptian, nicknamed “Abu George,” in an […]
Government & Politics
Macron calls for EU emergency response system to control borders
(Reuters) The European Union needs an emergency response mechanism that a member state can trigger when the bloc’s external borders are under threat, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday. Migration crises along the EU’s eastern flank this autumn underlined Europe’s need […]
Government & Politics
Lithuania to pay migrants to return home
(AFP) Lithuania said Thursday it would offer migrants a greater cash incentive to return home, as the Baltic state struggles to repatriate thousands who crossed into the EU member from Belarus. Each migrant who voluntarily opts to go back to their country […]
Government & Politics
Flagship immigration reforms clear the Commons amid chaotic scenes (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Smugglers who made a hefty profit from transporting migrants jailed
(Radio France) Three people smugglers were handed between one- and four-year jail terms by a court in Boulogne-sur-Mer in the north of France on Monday. According to the France [Bleu] Nord news site, the three smugglers were handed jail terms for their […]
Government & Politics
Belarus denies aggravating migrant situation at Polish border
(Reuters) Belarus on Tuesday said its security services did not aggravate the migrant situation at the border by throwing firecrackers or taking other actions as Poland claimed the previous day. The Belarus State Border Committee rejected the allegation by Polish Border Guard […]
Immigration
On Polish-Belarus border, migrant crossings decrease but tension remains
(Reuters) Fewer migrants are trying to cross the frontier between Poland and Belarus, but the Polish Border Guard told journalists visiting the previously off-limits border zone on Monday that it still faces provocations from Belarusian forces. Reuters was among a group of […]
Crime
Barber told woman he wanted to make her a ‘perfect Muslim wife’ and then treated her like a dog (LINK ONLY)
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Christians
Francis hits out at EU migration divisions at start of Greek visit
(AFP) Pope Francis on Saturday blamed the EU’s nationalist divisions for a lack of coordination on migration as he began a landmark trip to Greece, aiming to improve complicated relations with the country’s Orthodox Church. Francis said that Europe was “torn by […]
Government & Politics
Biden DHS withholds Afghan refugee report White House estimates up to 95,000 Afghans will be resettled in U.S.
(Free Beacon) The Biden administration has yet to present to Congress a report detailing the number of Afghan refugees in the United States and on overseas military bases — in violation of a law that required those disclosures by Dec. 1. A […]
Government & Politics
Channel crossings: UK offer to patrol French beaches ‘still on table’
(BBC) An official appointed to prevent migrants crossing the English Channel says an offer to put UK officers on French beaches “remains on the table.” French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Thursday it “cannot accept” the presence of UK police or […]
Immigration
Many more Afghans seek EU asylum after Taliban takeover Citizens of Afghanistan were by far the biggest group of people applying for asylum in the EU, Switzerland and Norway in September 2021.
(Deutsche Welle) Over 17,000 Afghans filed asylum claims in the European Union, Switzerland and Norway in September of 2021, compared to around 10,000 in August, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) said on Friday. This represents a 72% increase compared to August, […]
Government & Politics
France rejects joint Channel border patrols with UK
(AFP) French Prime Minister Jean Castex told his British counterpart Boris Johnson that the UK held “a large part of the solution” to the Channel migrant crisis and rejected the idea of joint border patrols, according to [a] letter seen by AFP […]
Crime
Deaths in English Channel linked to money laundering in UK, MP says (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
EU to make it harder for migrants to enter from Belarus
(AP) Top European Union migration officials offered Wednesday to ease the asylum-evaluation rules for Poland, Lithuania and Latvia in response to what the EU has called a “hybrid attack” by Belarus to destabilize the bloc using migrants and refugees. The move would […]
Government & Politics
Channel migrants: Pushing back boats will increase danger, MPs warn
(BBC) UK plans to turn back people attempting to cross the Channel are dangerous and probably unlawful, MPs have warned. Home Secretary Priti Patel said last week the tactic would help deter smuggling gangs, following the deaths of 27 people in a […]