Mediterranean migrant route - Page 2

Just under two-thirds of Italians support the immigration policies of firebrand Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

The NGO migrant “taxi” ship Ocean Viking has called on France, Spain, and Greece – but apparently no African or Middle Eastern countries – to find them a port to drop off over 200 migrants after Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi refused access to Italian ports.

The German-based migrant taxi NGO Sea-Watch has announced it is preparing to launch its fifth vessel to the Mediterranean.

Italy’s new Minister of the Interior has announced he will be looking to stop migrant taxi NGO ships ferrying illegal aliens to Italy, stating he will use the decrees previously enacted by populist Lega leader Matteo Salvini when he held the post.

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.

Italian authorities arrested two Bangladeshi people smugglers accused of torturing migrants in Libya in order to get money from the migrants. 

A German migrant taxi NGO has claimed the EU has worked to allow Libyan authorities to return migrants to North Africa from EU waters. 

The body of a man allegedly shot and killed by people smugglers was found on a trafficker’s boat by a migrant taxi NGO.

Italy has seen over a thousand migrants arrive on Sicily Lampedusa in a day, once again overwhelming migrant reception centres.

Two Syrian children, aged just one and two years old, were found dead after dying of thirst aboard a people smuggler boat.

With illegal boat migrant landings happening in numbers equal to previous crisis peaks this month, it is estimated that as many as 100,000 could enter Italy by the end of 2022.

The number of illegal immigrants arriving in Italy is growing, with new figures showing over 50,000 illegals have entered the country so far this year as numbers have continued at a high rate so far in August.

The European Union is set to give Morocco around half a billion euros to help stem the tide of illegal immigration despite claims that the Moroccan government has relaxed surveillance of the Canary Island migrant route. The European Union and

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

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.

Dozens of migrants are missing and feared to be dead after a boat smuggling them into Europe capsized off the coast of Greece.

Populist Matteo Salvini has claimed that just 15 per cent of the illegal immigrants who came to Italy in 2021 were granted refugee status.

July saw more illegals arrive on Italian territory than all of 2019, as landing continue in areas like the overwhelmed island of Lampedusa.  

Italian populist League (Lega) leader Matteo Salvini has called for tougher border control to reduce illegal migrant landings following the collapse of the technocratic “national unity” government earlier this week.

The Italian government is set to end the use of quarantine ships for migrants arriving in Italy by sea as migrant arrivals rise. While just two of the original five quarantine ships are still in use by the government, Italy

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has revealed an estimated 600 people have been led by smugglers to their deaths in the first three months of this year, a surge in numbers compared to prior years. According to the IOM,

Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese has warned that Italy may face a surge of new illegal migrant arrivals as a food crisis looms due to a lack of grain shipments from Ukraine.

Since the start of the year, Italy has seen over 17,000 illegal immigrants arrive in its territory, up 28.5% from the same period last year.

Over 3,000 people are said to have gone missing or died at sea trying to reach Europe over the course of last year, according to the UNHCR.

Lebanese rescue teams searched the Mediterranean for survivors Monday after an overloaded people-smuggling boat capsized.

Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese has reported that so far this year, at least 6,701 migrants have arrived in Italy by sea, with around half of the migrants needing to be rescued. According to Minister Lamorgese, 3,323  of the 6701 migrants were

As many as ten per cent of the women who attempted to reach Spain illegally by boat in 2021 were killed, double the death rate of male migrants, according to statistics compiled by a Spanish NGO.

The number of migrants that arrived illegally in Italy in January has nearly tripled compared to the same period last year.

Libyan authorities intercepted 30,990 migrants heading for Europe in 2021 according to UN statistics, a trebling of the year prior.

A migrant taxi ship chartered by the British street artist Banksy has set sail for the Mediterranean Sea to pick up migrants again.

Nearly one-third of occupants in Italian prisons are migrants, with the latest official data showing over 17,000 prisoners came from abroad.

35,000 illegal migrants landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa in 2021, an all-time record for arrivals.

The German migrant taxi NGO Sea-Watch has picked up 446 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea over the Christmas weekend.

Coast guard divers searched the hull of a submerged sailboat for passengers possibly trapped inside Friday.

Around 800 migrants are on three different NGO migrant “taxi” ships are awaiting port access after being picked up in the Mediterranean. 

The first witnesses in the trial of former Italian deputy prime minister and minister of the interior Matteo Salvini have been heard, with Admiral Sergio Liardo claiming that Salvini was not alone in responsibility for blocking an NGO migrant taxi in 2019.