Mass Migration - Page 75

(REUTERS) – Six migrants died and up to 100 more were missing and feared dead after their rubber boat sank in the Mediterranean on Thursday, the president of the Italian unit of aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said.

(REUTERS) – About 550 migrants, most of them from West Africa, were pulled to safety from boats in the Mediterranean on Monday in five operations during which rescuers also recovered five dead bodies, Italy’s coast guard said.

(REUTERS) – A group of migrants who had marched for two days from the Serbian capital Belgrade were stopped on Sunday at the border with Croatia, a European Union member which said would not allow illegal crossings.

“I want to go back to Syria. There is war in my country, but we’ve been living for seven months in Greece like prisoners.”

The British government has paid out more than £14 million in three years to migrants, who were thought to be in the UK illegally, after courts decided they had been detained unfairly.

(REUTERS) – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Wednesday threatened to block the European Union’s next budget with a “veto” should Eastern European countries fail to take in their share of refugees.

The number of ‘child’ migrants the UK is expected to take in the next 3 weeks, thanks to a new loophole in immigration law, has shot up from 450 to 650, with 200 having already arrived in the past week.

The entrance to the immigration centre welcoming busloads of ‘child’ migrants every day from Calais has been obscured by a 15ft high scaffolding and canvas fence, hiding the identities of new arrivals.

(REUTERS) – The European Union should implement visa-free travel for Turks by the end of the year and stop insisting Turkey change its anti-terrorism laws or Ankara may cancel its side of a deal to readmit illegal migrants, Turkey’s EU minister told Reuters.

A prominent Green party politician has said Germans worried about mass immigration should learn Arabic to communicate with new arrivals from the Middle East, like Americans should learn Spanish to talk to Mexicans.

(REUTERS) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that Germany needed to make a national effort to deport migrants who do not have the right to stay in the country.

(REUTERS) – The birthrate in Germany reached the highest level in 33 years last year, boosted mainly by babies born to migrant women, the Federal Statistics Office said on Monday.

The UK began accepting migrant youths from Calais on Monday after campaigners and a former archbishop lobbied local authorities to take advantage of a new loophole in immigration law.

(REUTERS) – Five Slovaks are facing charges of smuggling at least 300 illegal migrants last year from Hungary to western Europe, mostly to Germany and Italy, Slovakian police said on Friday.

About 70 sub-Saharan African migrants forced their way over a barbed wire barrier into Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla on Thursday.

Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton discussed the latest WikiLeaks revelations on Thursday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM, including the document revealing Hillary Clinton’s support for “open borders.”

An Italian judge sentenced three men to 20 years each in jail on Wednesday for their role in packing hundreds of migrants into a boat in which 49 suffocated in the Mediterranean last August, a legal source said.

The Home Office is reportedly attempting to censor a report which criticises the government’s failure to manage the impact of immigration, integrate minorities, and tackle radical Islam.

The mayor of a small German town has been assaulted and beaten unconscious after receiving threats because he planned to settle migrants in the area.

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted on Saturday that she had not reversed course on her policy on migrants, two weeks after she said she wished she could turn back the clock to better prepare Germany for last year’s influx.

LONDON, Sept 30 (Reuters) – British house prices rose more slowly in September than in August, according to figures from mortgage lender Nationwide, adding to signs of a cooling in the housing market after voters decided in June to leave the European Union.

Child brides as young as 14 are being reunited with their older, migrant husbands in Denmark after immigration services claimed that upholding Danish law breached their “human rights”.

UKIP’s leader in the London Assembly has slammed the city’s Mayor for pushing for a “destructive and divisive” separate immigration system for the capital after the UK leaves the EU and takes back control of its borders.

The European Union (EU) is “destroying” the continent by forcing member states to accept mass Muslim immigration with quotas, the Hungarian Prime Minister has warned days before his nation holds a referendum on the policy.

(REUTERS) – The European Union’s executive said on Wednesday that emergency border checks introduced within Europe’s passport-free travel zone by countries including Germany and Sweden to stem a migrant influx were still justified even though arrival numbers have eased.

Jeremy Corbyn will commit Labour to fighting the next election on a platform of continued open door immigration from Europe, as controlling numbers can “fan the flames of fear” and make it “more difficult to take a holiday in Europe” for the middle classes.

President Francois Hollande said on Monday that France will completely shut down “the Jungle” migrant camp in Calais and called on London to help deal with the plight of thousands of people whose dream is ultimately to get to Britain.

(REUTERS) – Hundreds of migrants trying to make their way to Britain from Calais in northern France clashed with French riot police on Wednesday, Reuters witnesses and police said.

LESBOS (GREECE) (AFP) – Greece on Wednesday managed to find shelter for some 5,000 migrants on the island of Lesbos two days after a fire ravaged part of the main asylum seekers’ camp, officials said.

Migrants in Lesbos, Greece had fought running battles and burnt down the island’s largest camp, leaving thousands homeless after they were forced to flee.

A Muslim migrant in Spain has gone on trial, accused of murdering with a “religious motivation” six Christian migrants, including a pastor, on a voyage across the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe.

FRANCONVILLE (FRANCE) (AFP) – French Presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy said that once immigrants are granted citizenship in France they “should live like the French”.

(REUTERS) – Billionaire investor George Soros said in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal that he would invest $500 million to meet the needs of migrants and refugees.

A charity backed by the Swedish government has launched a campaign denouncing the assimilation of migrants and telling natives to “integrate” with foreign “cultures and languages”.

(REUTERS) – On a recent evening on Hungary’s border with Serbia, a fleet of police trucks raced along the dusty boundary.

(REUTERS) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday the European Union’s Bratislava summit had failed to change the bloc’s immigration policy, which he called “self-destructive and naive.”