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Refugees

Government & Politics

Fate of migrants entwined in Brexit talks as EU holds out on deal

August 20, 2020 Gabriela Baczynska  

(Reuters) The European Union has so far rebuffed British calls for talks on a deal to allow London to send unwanted migrants back to Europe from 2021, and could use the issue as potential leverage in wider Brexit negotiations, diplomats and officials […]

Health & Medicine

Suspect in Berlin highway attack moved to psychiatric jail

August 19, 2020 Kirsten Grieshaber  

(AP) German authorities on Wednesday ordered a 30-year-old man accused of deliberately driving his car into other vehicles along a major Berlin highway and injuring six people moved to a psychiatric jail, as investigators continue to probe the man’s motives. Officials said […]

Immigration

Majority of migrants crossing sea to get to EU not in need of protection, says UN envoy (LINK ONLY)

August 18, 2020 EoI News  

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Children & Teens

Kent unable to take in more unaccompanied child refugees, council says (LINK ONLY)

August 17, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

Migrants: Record number of Channel crossings in August

August 17, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(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

August 17, 2020 Fethi Belaid  

(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

August 16, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(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

August 16, 2020 Konstantin Testorides  

(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)

August 15, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

Calais superstore ‘fuelling Channel crisis by flogging life jackets, paddles and bilge pump to migrants’ (LINK ONLY)

August 15, 2020 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

More than 1,000 migrants arrive in UK in 10 days after Channel crossings (LINK ONLY)

August 15, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

Royal Navy called in to help tackle Channel migrant crisis (LINK ONLY)

August 15, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

Migrants increasingly reaching Italy by sea from Tunisia

August 15, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(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

August 13, 2020 John Hadoulis  

(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

August 12, 2020 Costas Pitas  

(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

August 12, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(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)

August 12, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

North Macedonia: Police find 148 migrants in trucks

August 12, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(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

August 11, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(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)

August 11, 2020 EoI News  

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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)

August 11, 2020 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

UK and France working ‘at pace’ on plan to halt migrant Channel crossings (LINK ONLY)

August 11, 2020 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Asylum seekers launch legal challenge against their removal from UK (LINK ONLY)

August 11, 2020 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Migrant crossings: Use of navy ships to stop boats ‘dangerous’

August 10, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(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)

August 10, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

Further 65 migrants picked up in English Channel

August 9, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(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)

August 9, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

North Macedonia police find 94 migrants hidden in truck

August 9, 2020 Konstantin Testorides  

(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)

August 8, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

Polish border guards detain 34 people from Middle East found in a lorry

August 8, 2020 Alicja Ptak and Marcin Goclowski  

(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

August 8, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(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)

August 7, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

Migrants adrift after camp at France-Italy border shut

August 7, 2020 Claudine Renaud  

(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)

August 6, 2020 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Inquiry launched into huge rise in migrant crossings (LINK ONLY)

August 6, 2020 EoI News  

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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)

August 4, 2020 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Greece sees fewer migrant arrivals from Turkey, partly due to pandemic, minister says

August 4, 2020 Renee Maltezou  

(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

August 4, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(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)

August 3, 2020 EoI News  

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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)

August 1, 2020 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Italian island runs out of room to quarantine new migrants

August 1, 2020 Frances D'Emilio  

(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

July 31, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(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

July 31, 2020 Andrea Bernardi, Ella Ide and Alexandria Sage  

(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 […]

Immigration

Refugees freed from Greek camp ‘hell’ left homeless

July 31, 2020 Marina Rafenberg  

(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

July 31, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(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

July 30, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(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

July 30, 2020 Joseph Nasr  

(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

July 30, 2020 Ella Ide  

(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

July 29, 2020 Wafaa Essalhi  

(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

July 29, 2020 Alberto Pizzoli and Ella Ide  

(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 […]

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