Former EU border force chief and current Member of European Parliament Fabrice Leggeri faces a judicial investigation in France over complaints logged by far-left open borders activists over alleged pushbacks of migrant boats in the Mediterranean.
The EU’s Frontex border agency said illegal migrant crossings of the West African route to the Canary Islands have hit a record high.
The former head of the EU’s border enforcement agency will run for the EU Parliament for the French anti-mass migration National Rally party.
The head of the EU’s Frontex border agency backed an open borders approach, claiming that it is impossible to stop illegal migration.
Illegal migration into the European Union has hit its highest level since 2016 after surging by 17 per cent over last year, Frontex reported.
EU border agency sending officers and equipment to Finland to help amid suspicion that Russia is behind an influx of migrants.
A group of northern Euro nations has agreed to work together, saying they will share deportation flights and organise voluntary repatriations.
BRUSSELS (AP) – The number of attempts by migrants to enter the European Union without authorization reached around 330,000 last year, the highest number since 2016, the EU’s border and coast guard agency said Friday.
The EU aims to increase its ability to deport illegal migrants, the bloc’s Home Affairs commissioner has claimed amid a growing wave of illegal immigration into the bloc.
Even before counting Ukrainian refugees, Europe saw migrant arrivals at levels not seen since the 2015-16 crisis this year.
The UK has come to an agreement with several EU nations on illegal migration, which may see UK Border Force agents deployed throughout Europe.
Frontex claimed activities of migrant taxi NGO ships in the Mediterranean act as a pull factor for migrants considering the deadly journey.
Frontex reports there have been over 275k illegal crossings into the EU so far this year, figures not seen since the migrant crisis in 2016.
The EU´s border agency said the number of illegal migrants spiked to more than 275,000 in the January through October period this year.
Frontex, the European Union border agency, has announced that so far this year nearly 230,000 migrants have arrived illegally in the EU, the largest number since 2016.
The EU is now in the “contingency planning” stages regarding a potential coming migrant surge, a Commissioner for the bloc has confirmed.
Europe’s border force is reported as bracing itself for more “waves” of mass migration, as the developing world goes hungry as a result of the war in Ukraine.
Fabrice Leggeri, the former head of the European Union border agency Frontex, has claimed that some want it to become a humanitarian group.
The EU border agency reported illegal immigrant activity in the western Balkans surged by 167% in the first five months of 2022.
The EU border agency has said more Ukrainian refugees are returning to their country than leaving it despite the ongoing conflict with Russia.
The number of migrants trying to enter the EU illegally in the first three months of this year has risen to its highest level since 2016.
The European Union border agency Fontex has reported that illegal arrivals into the European Union in January of this year have increased by 78 per cent compared to the same time in 2021. Frontex reported on Tuesday that the number
According to the European Union border agency Frontex, illegal migration increased by 70 per cent in the first ten months of 2021 compared to the prior year.
Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi revealed that his country has seen a six-fold increase in migrant landings since 2019, and called for help from the European Union in dealing with the ongoing crisis.
CALAIS, France (AP) – The EU’s border agency will dispatch a plane to monitor the shores of the English Channel for migrant activity after 27 people died when their overcrowded, inflatable boat sank en route to Britain, the deadliest migration
The EU border agency Frontex reported that in the first ten months of 2021, illegal crossings into the bloc have increased by 70 per cent.
The European Union border agency Frontex has claimed that the number of migrants entering its territory increased by 68 per cent in 2021, with numbers in Italy nearly doubling.
The failure of the EU to enact an effective deportation system has led to increased illegal immigration, the European Court of Auditors said.
The European Union border agency Frontex is preparing for a surge of Afghan asylum seekers to make their way to Europe.
Lithuanian Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite has ordered border guards to repel, with force if needed, illegal migrants as the European Union border agency has claimed Belarus is helping illegals cross.
The number of illegal migrants entering European Union member states has increased by 59 per cent in the first six months of this year, as a new route has opened along the border with Belarus.
The EU said the number of people seeking protection hit its lowest level last year since 2013, but that was due mostly to coronavirus.
Frontex is incapable of fully carrying out its assigned mission to protect the bloc’s borders according to the European Court of Auditors.
As the world begins to travel again, Europe is sending migrants a loud message: Stay away!
The European Union border agency Frontex has moved to discuss recent aggression from the Turkish paramilitary coastguard at an extraordinary meeting of the agency’s directors this week.
ROME — Pope Francis denounced the indifference of those who “prefer to look the other way” rather than assist migrants attempting to cross from Africa into Europe.
BRUSSELS (AP) – An inquiry into claims that the European Union’s border and coast guard agency was involved in illegally pushing back migrants has found no link to Frontex in any of the incidents but has been unable to establish what happened in five cases, according to the official report into the allegations.
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has called on the European Union to investigate allegations that migrants are being forcibly deported before they can claim asylum.
Frontex, the European Union’s border agency, has announced the suspension of its operations in Hungary after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) claimed that the Hungarian government had failed to protect migrants.
The number of illegal migrants entering Europe decreased by 13 per cent in 2020, the lowest number since 2013 and caused mainly by the Chinese coronavirus travel restrictions.
