Left-wing Berlin wants to ban words such as ‘foreigner’ and ‘asylum seeker’

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Such words as ‘foreigner’ and ‘asylum seeker’ are, according to a new handbook, discriminatory. Officials in Berlin’s left-wing government have a new handbook which states that they can no longer label people as “foreigners” or “asylum seekers”, with both of … Read More

UK ponders using retired cruise ships to process asylum seekers offshore

The UK government is considering using cruise ships, possibly similar to this one docked near Athens this week, to process asylum seekrs – Petros Giannakouris/AP The UK government is considering plans to move arriving asylum seekers offshore to small islands … Read More

Migrants displaced by Lesbos fire say conditions at new camp are inhumane

Greek authorities have moved almost all of the 12,000 displaced migrants and refugees on Lesbos island into a new camp after the Moria camp where they were living was destroyed by fire. Since the fire that engulfed Moria camp on … Read More

‘Anti-Migrant’ Protesters Set Fire, Throw Stones at MSF Clinic in Greece

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned that “violent riots” outside a new government coronavirus clinic set up to provide care to migrants, asylum seekers and refugees amid the coronavirus pandemic represent a growing “anti-migrant” movement in Greece. MSF … Read More

Germany has taken nearly 10,000 migrants under EU-Turkey deal since 2016, report

Some of the Syrians who have received subsidiary protection in Germany| Photo: picture-alliance /dpa / H. Schmidt The German newspaper Die Welt reported that Germany accepted almost 10,000 migrants and asylum seekers between 2016 and March 2020 under the EU-Turkey … Read More

Direct Provision: Ireland’s controversial system for accommodating asylum seekers to end

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One of the promises Ireland’s new coalition government has made is a commitment to abolish Direct Provision, the state’s controversial system for accommodating asylum seekers. But what new regime will be put in place to protect those seeking shelter on … Read More

Supreme Court hands Trump administration win on deportation powers

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday for the Trump administration in a key immigration case, determining that a federal law limiting an asylum applicant’s ability to appeal a determination that he lacked a credible fear of persecution from his home country does not … Read More

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