Mass Migration - Page 19

The Italian island of Lampedusa saw a record-breaking number of migrant boats land this weekend, with 50 landings taking place within the space of just 24 hours.

A video of heavyweight champion Tyson Fury lambasting the government’s failure to get a grip on the illegal boat migrants crisis in the English Channel has gone viral, partly driven, ironically, by critics of the boxer’s views.

The cost of the UK’s asylum system has reportedly eclipsed £2 billion per year amid record numbers of boat migrants crossing the Channel.

An alleged people-smuggler was arrested by police in North Macedonia this week after authorities found 26 illegal immigrants in the back of his truck, which was heading to the country’s border with Serbia.

Boris Johnson’s government failed to reduce migration after leaving the EU, with a record 1.1 million visas granted to foreigners last year.

A report from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has claimed that around 300,000 non-Ukrainian migrants have arrived in the EU among those supposedly fleeing the conflict in Ukraine.

A survey of police across Sweden has revealed that a majority of officers want the government to deport more foreign criminals and abolish discounts on prison sentences.

Two North African migrants, one already subject to a deportation order, were arrested this week after ramming a French police vehicle and injuring four officers.

Two Bulgarian police officers were killed early Thursday as they tried to stop a bus containing migrants who had entered the country illegally, a senior interior ministry official said.

The flood of illegal immigrants crossing the English Channel constitutes a “national emergency”, Nigel Farage has said.

An African migrant was arrested by Italian police on Sunday after being caught on film raping a Ukrainian woman in broad daylight. 

A new record was set for daily crossings of the English Channel on Monday, with nearly 1,300 illegal migrants being brought ashore.

A man wielding a shotgun in the centre of the French city of Saint-Quentin was shot and injured this week after firing toward police while yelling “Allahu akbar!” Investigators have not ruled out a possible terror motive.

A member of Sweden’s populist Sweden Democrats (SD) was branded racist this week after a tweet joking that a subway train decorated in SD colours was a “repatriation train” taking migrants to Kabul.

An illegal migrant from Algeria who had only been in France for seven months was sentenced to four months in prison after robbing and chasing tourists on the Paris metro armed with a box cutter.

The British government has registered over 50 illegal migrants over the age of 30 as children according to a freedom of information request.

Eleven Moroccan children were rescued by Spanish authorities near the exclave of Ceuta this week after they attempted to cross the Strait of Gibraltar alone in a small boat.

The Italian Interior Ministry figures show that illegal migrant arrivals are up more than 40 per cent so far this year.

Jaswant Singh Chail, who got into the grounds of Windsor Castle with a crossbow told police he wanted to “kill the queen,” prosecutors said.

Four migrants escaped a Swedish detention facility over the weekend after using a tool to tunnel a hole through the facility’s wall.

The Royal Navy will reportedly relinquish its role in managing the migrant boat crisis, which has seen over 20,000 land this year.

The number of illegal boat migrants who have crossed into Britain via the English Channel is now twice the figure for the same time last year.

A 25-year-old woman claims to have been dragged off the street in Paris and raped earlier this week by a man she described as having an “African-type” appearance in what is just the latest public rape attack within a week.

The Italian Interior Ministry has released new statistics showing that, since the start of 2022, over 45,000 migrants have illegally entered the country as new boat landings continue on Italian shores.

An Italian member of parliament from populist Matteo Salvini’s League party was hospitalised this week after a migrant threw missiles at moving vehicles along a major Italian motorway.

Politically correct police officers and local officials who failed to tackle mostly Muslim, South Asian heritage rape gang groomers dismissed their victims as “child prostitutes” and “troublemakers”, a survivor has revealed.

Afghan refugees have reportedly refused to move to Scotland or Wales for fear that the countries are “too cold” and don’t speak English.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that Italy cannot expel a migrant from its reception system, even if the migrant in question has been accused of violence.

German police have identified four shisha-smoking Iraqi migrants as suspects in a forest fire in Saxony that took place last month and devastated the Saxon Switzerland National Park.

A 34-year-old Afghan migrant accused of sexually assaulting two underage girls at an Italian beach has been released by a judge just a day after his arrest.

Swedish academics have denounced a proposal by a government minister to limit the number of non-Scandinavian residents in neighbourhoods as “state racism.”

A “child” migrant accused of raping and trying to murder a nine-year-old girl in Sweden has been revealed to be at least 15 rather than his recorded age of 13 – old enough to face criminal prosecution.

Salman Rushdie’s agent has said “the news is not good” in an update on his condition after being stabbed on stage in New York.

MADRID (AP) – A plane provided by the Spanish government has brought 294 more Afghan refugees via Pakistan to Spain, authorities said Thursday, bringing to 3,900 the number evacuated by Madrid since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last year.

People-smugglers have been accused of abandoning a Bangladeshi migrant the Albanian wilderness where he died of a “brain stroke” while trying to enter the European Union illegally on the Balkan migrant route.

Germany has agreed to take as many as 3,500 migrants from Italy in the first use of a European Union migrant redistribution scheme.