‘Huge overhaul’ of UK’s asylum system to be announced

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Home secretary says she will make ‘no apology’ for tougher rules when she sets out new plan for immigration. Priti Patel will set out new plan for immigration on Wednesday. – Luke Dray / Stringer via Getty Images The home … Read More

Gran Canaria: Migrants sleep on the streets to avoid deportation

Migrants erect tents near Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, March 2021 | Photo: Reuters Frightened of being sent back to their country of origin, migrants are leaving their accommodation centers in Gran Canaria to sleep on the streets of the Spanish … Read More

Migrants resort to treacherous night hikes through snowy, frozen Alps from Italy to France

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Since October 1,500 have been intercepted – and some left with permanent injuries, such as amputated fingers, due to extreme cold. Migrants and asylum seekers are resorting to dangerous night hikes through the Alps to reach France, aid workers are … Read More

Over 50% of prisoners in Austria are foreigners

Austria’s right-wing FPÖ party says 50 percent of welfare recipients and 35 percent of unemployed are foreigners. Over 50 percent of all prisoners in Austria have a foreign background, according to data from the Austrian Judiciary. The shockingly high foreign prison … Read More

Austria: Antifa demonstrators try to block deportation of migrant criminals, including rapists

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Up to 50 people blocked a street and demanded a right to stay for those who were being deported despite convictions for rape, robbery, and other serious crimes. Refugee workers in Vienna tried to prevent the deportation of several rejected … Read More

Migrants’ journey to Europe turns deadly as boat capsizes in Mediterranean

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At least 41 refugees and migrants have drowned with more than 70 others rescued by a commercial vessel that took them to Sicilian port town Porto Empedocle. Migrants wearing lifejackets on a rubber dinghy are pictured during a rescue operation … Read More

Sweden: Violence from migrants has train operator threatening to cancel service in certain areas

In several incidents, the perpetrators of migrant background threatened the train staff, usually over missing train tickets. Afghans, Somalis, and Eritreans have been singled out as those responsible for a number of threatening incidents and violence that has befallen the … Read More

An Iraqi teenager trapped in Bosnia: ‘I need mama, I need school’

Frhan Hzam from Iraq and his children Hsan and Hubas speak with their mother who is in Germany, in a temporary home in the village near Velika Kladusa, Bosnia and Herzegovina January 30, 2021 | Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Thousands of … Read More

‘We do what the state doesn’t do’: Surviving a Paris squat filled with tents

Tents fill a squat in the Paris region | Photo: InfoMigrants Cold, hungry, forgotten: 250 migrants have turned a disused Paris office into their temporary home. In recent months, this type of abandoned building has become one of the only … Read More

UK prepares to welcome thousands of Hong Kongers fleeing national security law

How 2020 saw Hong Kong change forever. Hong Kong (CNN) The United Kingdom is preparing to welcome potentially tens of thousands of migrants from Hong Kong, with the opening of a new visa for residents of the former British colony this … Read More

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