Tag: Migrants

The Belgian authorities will attempt to dissuade illegal migrants from settling in their country with a social media campaign.

“Abolishing ICE Would Mean Abolishing America’s Borders— and Opening the Floodgates to Crime, Drugs, and Terrorism,” says a statement from the White House.

POZZALLO, Sicily (AP) — About 400 migrants aboard two border patrol ships disembarked in a Sicilian port Monday after a half-dozen European countries promised to take some of them in rather than leave Italy alone to process their asylum claims.

The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show non-EU net migration is at its highest for 13 years, according to Migration Watch UK, which also claims EU net migration may have been undercounted by half a million since 2004.

President Donald J. Trump tripled down on claims mass migration caused the Brexit vote in an interview on Air Force One, saying the impact on cities like London and Paris is “sad” and praising Hungary for its tough border policies.

A homeless man who became a cause célèbre after dying in an underpass a short distance from Parliament had a place to stay and died from a spice overdose, according to an inquest.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has warned that the United Kingdom’s soft border with the Irish Republic is being exploited by people smugglers, as Prime Minister Theresa May “sells out” Brexit in order to keep it as open as possible.

Europe’s problems with criminal trafficking gangs and illegal immigration are getting worse, the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has warned, just days after the United Nations (UN) claimed that boat arrivals were “necessary” for the continent.

Despite frequent claims that the ‘far right’ should be seen as a threat on par with radical Islamic terrorism, recent figures show attacks on migrant centres by right-wing extremists have tumbled 70 percent in Germany.

Italian Carabinieri arrested a 43-year-old Moroccan living in Italy earlier this week after he entered a shop and threatened to blow himself up in a nearby church.

Italy’s deputy prime minister and minister of the interior Matteo Salvini has infuriated billionaire plutocrat George Soros, claiming he wants to flood Europe with migrant “slaves”.

(AP) — The Spanish government reports that the number of migrants reaching the country by sea is up more than 120 percent this year as the so-called Western Mediterranean route gained recognition as an alternative way to Europe.

A far-left migrant appointed Lord Mayor of Sheffield in May “banned” U.S. President Donald J. Trump from the city in a social media post on America’s Independence Day.

President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” economy is pressuring companies to raise wages for interns, create job-training programs, and open up opportunities for middle-ranking students, says a report by the Wall Street Journal. 

Ten out of every 12 rapists in Denmark are either migrants, foreigners, or come from migrant backgrounds, according to an investigation by Danish media.

Polish lawmaker Dominik Tarczyński has stuck to his guns following a frank interview on the migrant crisis with Cathy Newman, insisting his government will not take a single illegal migrant because that is what his party promised before the elections.

Denmark’s government has proposed a radical programme of assimilation in 25 “ghettos” heavily populated by people from a “non-Western” migration background.

A leaked confidential note from the French ambassador to Hungary has revealed praise for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s migrant policy, and has drawn ire from French president Emmanuel Macron.

The leader of the community of Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos has called on the government to do more to deal with the escalating tensions due to the migrant crisis, warning that citizens may try and take the law “into their own hands.”

Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó has blamed the “hypocrisy and political correctness” of EU leaders on migration for enabling terrorism in Europe.

Bulgarian prime minister Boyko Borissov has said the migrant crisis can be solved if the EU can seal its external border, detain illegal migrants already present, and deport them back to where they came from.

Progressive campaigner George Soros has met “secretly” with the new socialist, open-borders supporting Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez, according to a report by Spanish media.

Moves by Matteo Salvini to close Italy’s ports to NGOs collecting illegal migrants from smuggler boats and ferrying them to Europe are “game-changing”, according to the Hungarian government.

Angela Merkel has drawn up a raft of measures to tighten controls on the influx of migrants, according to a document submitted to her coalition partners Saturday as she battles for political survival.

BERLIN (AP) – Austria has taken over the rotating presidency of the European Union with a pledge to better secure the 28-nation bloc’s external borders.

Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó had to chide BBC anchor Emily Maitlis for “unbalanced, one-sided” journalism after she lost her temper and launched into a rant about the EU standing for “tolerance, diversity, and human rights”.

Three Turkish men have received short prison sentences for gang-raping a teen girl and dumping her on the street in Canterbury, England.

Slovak prime minister Peter Pellegrini backed the stance of his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orbán, against EU-mandated migrant quotas and George Soros-backed NGOs.

The latest population estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest Britain’s burgeoning population passed 66 million in 2o17, driven largely by immigration.

Italy’s new anti-establishment Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini jetted to Libya to strike a deal with the UN-backed government to combat people-smugglers and illegal immigration.

Marine Le Pen has warned that the EU is ‘immigrationist’ and cannot be trusted to control Europe’s borders, and says illegal migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean should be sent back to Africa.

President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance policy towards adult migrants who bring children with them has been temporarily stopped by a lack of resources, according to White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders. 

BRUSSELS (AP) — Spain is reporting that it has rescued at sea more than 600 people, more than half of them in the Strait of Gibraltar.

Candidates backed by Matteo Salvini’s anti-mass migration League (Lega) party have surged ahead of the competition in Italy’s municipal elections, confirming public support for his tough stance on NGOs ferrying migrants across the Mediterranean.

An Iraqi Kurdish migrant who used his shop to “seduce” two young girls before sexually abusing them has been sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment and faces deportation.