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UK Lawmaker Blames Weather for Cross-Channel Illegal Migrant Surge

The record number of illegal migrants crossing the English Channel so far this year can be attributed to one factor – the weather. So said the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper on Tuesday when pushed to answer just why the country’s porous border is being so easily crossed by multiple boat arrivals from France.

Migrants board a smuggler's boat in an attempt to cross the English Channel, off the beach

Exclusive — Founder of Spain’s Vox Party: ‘Window of Opportunity’ Is Now to Topple Iran’s ‘Killing Machine’

Responding to a new and unprecedented Dutch intelligence report linking Tehran to assassination attempts on European soil against dissidents — including himself — the founder of Spain’s right-populist Vox Party warned that Iran’s regime is escalating its terror campaign abroad even as it weakens at home, urging the West to seize a rare opportunity to topple the regime by tightening sanctions and supporting the Iranian people and organized resistance.

ISJ President and former European Parliament Vice President Dr. Alejo Vidal-Quadras speaks