More than 45,000 illegal immigrants entered the UK last year by crossing the English Channel in small boats, according to government figures released on Sunday. Britain has attempted to pay France to stop the crossings, as legal action stymied its plan to deport the migrants to Rwanda. Two boats carried …
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The Turkish government will limit the foreign population of certain neighborhoods to 20% as of July, effectively shutting off 1,200 of these neighborhoods to further immigration, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu announced on Saturday. With economic pressures rising and Turkey already hosting millions of Syrians, Soylu said that border security and …
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German courts are no longer required to ensure a deportee being sent home can earn a sustainable livelihood there, the Federal Administrative Court ruled on Thursday. The ruling, handed down in Leipzig, reversed an earlier decision. While authorities are still required to determine whether a deportee can meet their “most …
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The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Friday that Title 42, a restriction on immigration imposed by former President Donald Trump, ostensibly to prevent Covid-19 entering the US via the Mexican border, will expire in May. Homeland Security officials are anticipating as many as 18,000 migrants to …
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Zachary Taylor Blood, a Texas native, has pleaded guilty to one count of alien smuggling after his plan to transport two Mexican migrants to the city of San Antonio was thwarted by US Border Patrol (BP) officials at the internal checkpoint around 70 miles north of the US-Mexico border. The border …
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Expulsions under the “Remain in Mexico” program will resume as early as next week, media outlet Axios reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified government officials. Migrants will be forced to wait in Mexico while waiting months or years for immigration court hearings to determine whether they will be granted asylum in …
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On Tuesday morning, footage shot from the scene showed dozens of men, some wielding sticks, approaching the demarcation line. Other clips showed a vehicle on the Polish side of the border shooting jets of water into the air, and what appeared to be clouds of smoke and light rising from …
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Speaking to French news channel La Chaine Info, Filippo Grandi condemned what he called a “manipulation” orchestrated by the authorities in Belarus, while also blaming the EU and its treatment of migrants in recent times. “Any manipulation of people in distress, even by exploiting their wishes, their desires for a …
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Regional police spokesperson Tomasz Krupa said 50 people crossed the border “by force” near the village of Starzyn shortly after 8pm local time on Saturday. Police detained 22 would-be asylum seekers, all of whom are Iraqi nationals, he added. The Polish Border Guard later said all of the 50 intruders …
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Speaking at a meeting of ministers in Minsk on Thursday, Lukashenko “noted that a dangerous pattern has emerged whereby there are attempts to transfer weapons and ammunition to migrant encampments on the border with Poland to provoke a conflict,” an official statement reads. According to the Belarusian leader, the guns, which …
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