“I wish the injured policewoman a speedy recovery,” Kurz said after the attack on Wednesday, as quoted by Austrian media. It’s unacceptable when people come to us for protection, but neither abide by our laws nor accept our values. Incidents like this show why there must be no stop to …
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Speaking to Sky News on Wednesday, Home Office minister Victoria Atkins said it was clear that people arriving on British shores to claim asylum had passed up the opportunity to apply for asylum in other safe countries, notably in the EU. Atkins stated that migrants should be applying for asylum in the first safe …
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Asylum seekers whose requests were denied under a Trump-era policy will be allowed to return to the US to have another shot, the DHS said on Tuesday. The policy required the migrants to wait in Mexico as their cases wound through the American legal system. Registration for those who meet …
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Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a three-page legal opinion on Wednesday, revoking decisions by his predecessors Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions that restricted people who claimed they or their family members were victimized by gang or domestic violence from claiming asylum in the US on those grounds. Garland claimed that …
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Leading Danish politician Morten Messerschmidt has said out-of-touch historical agreements on migration should be torn up and renegotiated, after Denmark drew fire internationally for passing legislation paving the way for processing asylum seekers in a third-party country. The Danes are planning to send their would-be migrants more than 4,000 miles …
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The government currently pays to house as many as 6,000 people in hotels as they await decisions on their claims to asylum. But a joint investigation by the Observer and ITV News that private contractors hired to operate the facilities have been accused of serious abuses against their wards. The …
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning to screen up to 300 people a day at two border crossings starting February 19, and an unspecified lesser number at a third, but declined to name the locations, fearing that might encourage a “rush,” AP reported on Friday. Announcing the plan, …
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“Assange is a journalist and deserves a chance, I am in favor of pardoning him,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters on Monday, saying “we’ll give him protection.” “Our tradition is protection,” Obrador added. Earlier on Monday, Judge Vanessa Baraitser refused to extradite Assange to the US, where he …
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The scandal around the deportation of 50 Jamaicans (only 13 of whom eventually landed on the Caribbean island) has barely subsided, but now the British Home Office is facing another series of accusations, this time referring to the alleged breaches of law in processing the supposed victims of human trafficking …
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The grandson of the first President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev Aysultan Nazarbayev, who was trying to commit suicide and received a year of probation for assaulting a police officer in London, asked the UK for political asylum. He said this on his page in Facebook. The grandson of the former …
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