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The government of Bulgaria has announced that it will be sending 350 troops to the border with Turkey, as the number of mostly Afghan migrants crossing illegally has tripled this year.

(AFP) — Afghanistan’s new Taliban government has warned U.S. and European envoys that continued attempts to pressure them through sanctions will undermine security and could trigger a wave of economic migrants.

GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell quietly shut down the Democrats’ effort to create an open-ended inflow of unskilled and culturally alien Afghans into Americans’ jobs, society and election booths. 

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) – Greece will increase the number of border guards on the country’s border with Turkey, fearing a spike in illegal migration linked to the crisis in Afghanistan, officials said Monday.

The ambassador of Afghanistan’s former Western-backed regime to Greece had admitted that “over 95 per cent” of supposed Afghan migrants in the EU member-state “arrive without documents”. 

Boris Johnson’s government plans visas for 5,000 foreign drivers to meet demand, despite coronavirus lockdowns having put many British people out of work  — with a senior Tory MP suggesting Afghans be used.

Former British defence minister Johnny Mercer has warned that Boris Johnson’s government has evacuated some Afghans “we really should have”, while many deserving cases have been abandoned.

United Nations representative Rossella Pagliuchi-Lor has urged British politicians to “consider keeping your borders open” and criticised pending government legislation against illegal immigration.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) on Tuesday made it clear that he is inviting Afghan migrants to his state with open arms amid concerns of measles outbreaks and terrorist sympathizers being among them as others commit visa fraud. 

Afghan interpreters airlifted to Britain are having to be guarded because of “Taliban sympathisers” among the evacuees, reports have revealed. 

Joe Biden is campaigning with Gavin Newsom after abandoning Californians in Afghanistan, Jessica Patterson, the California GOP chairwoman, said.

Blinken testifies on the botched Afghanistan withdrawal on Monday at 2 p.m. ET in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

An Afghan arrested in Sadiq Khan’s London after allegedly raping and murdering a child in Austria entered the country after crossing the Channel on a migrant boat, according to reports.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that she found it unacceptable that refugees were being used to apply pressure to Poland and other European Union members on the border with Belarus.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has marked the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks by saying that it proved “Christian civilisation” must be defended at all times, and vowing to stop mass migration from facilitating further terror.

The European Union border agency Frontex is preparing for a surge of Afghan asylum seekers to make their way to Europe.

A former Afghan special forces commando airlifted to Britain has been arrested in a dawn raid on a Manchester quarantine hotel, according to reports. 

President Joe Biden’s deputies are pulling unvetted Afghans through an emergency side door in the nation’s immigration laws — and are now asking Congress to let the tens of thousands of economic migrants get billions of dollars in American-funded welfare programs.

President Joe Biden’s deputies want Congress to flip immigration law on its head so they can convert Afghans into citizens without required vetting.

The former head of MI6 admitted that Muslim leaders in the UK have been “reluctant” to tackle the threat of Islamic extremism in their midst.

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has reiterated that he does not want to see a surge of Afghan migrants and praised Greece for reinforcing the external border of the European Union.

Public opinion has shifted 17 points against President Joe Biden’s loose migration policies, according to polls by Morning Consult for Politico.

Boats full of illegal immigrants have once again started landing on British shores after two weeks of weather conditions preventing crossings.

President Joe Biden is helping many poor Afghans who did not help the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan to now migrate into Americans’ communities and workplaces, according to a Washington Post report.

BERLIN (AP) – A 29-year-old Afghan man in Germany attacked and severely injured a 58-year-old landscape gardener who was working in a park in Berlin, allegedly because he didn’t like the fact that as a woman she was working, police said Sunday.

President Joe Biden’s Afghan evacuation was so chaotic that a legal firm in D.C. inserted hundreds of Afghans from a regional Afghan city into the main processing center in Qatar, according to the New York Times. 

The Chairman of the Scottish Afghan Society, a registered charity helping Afghan evacuees to settle into their new homes, is a Taliban loyalist who previously called for the deaths of American soldiers, according to reports.

The EU is set to establish a diplomatic presence in Kabul amid concerns over the influence of Communist China and Russia in Afghanistan.

Viktor Orbán said that Hungary will focus on Christian family values instead of relying on mass migration to deal with demographics. 

Three new polls show hardening public opposition to President Joe Biden’s policy of pulling roughly 1.6 million migrant workers, consumers, and renters — including at least 20,000 Afghans — into Americans’ workplaces and communities during 2021.

Por-migration groups want at least $8 billion — and a new citizenship law — to help fast-track at least 50,000 unvetted Afghan migrants into Americans’ jobs and voting booths, according to the Washington Post.

With figures showing Boris Johnson’s government has deported zero Channel boat migrants in 2021, two-thirds of local government authorities are refusing to further burden themselves by hosting Afghans evacuees. 

GOP Representative Peter Meijer (R-MI) has drafted a bill to raise and widen the huge inflow of migrants from Afghanistan into Americans’ communities, workplaces, and housing.

Ministers from across the European Union (EU) have presented a plan to support countries neighbouring Afghanistan to host those fleeing the Taliban, in order to stop a repeat of the 2015 migrant crisis.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has promised to take in at least 70,000 vulnerable people from Afghanistan, including human rights activists and journalists.

European Union member-states are gearing up to counter a possible migrant crisis from Afghanistan, according to a draft statement that is set to be officially released on Tuesday.