Migrants - Page 48

Deaths of British-born people outstripped deaths to British born mothers for only the third time since records began in 1838.

Berliners have expressed disbelief after a Syrian migrant who stormed a synagogue with a knife yelling “Allah hu Akbar!” was freed from jail only a day later.

Ahead of Poland’s national elections on October 13th, Polish lawmaker Dominik Tarczyński has said the global left want the country’s conservative government to fail because it supports U.S. leader Donald Trump.

Poland’s conservative-populist government has rejected received opinion that “the economy, stupid” must be centre stage in any election campaign, putting national identity and public safety first as the country heads to the polls on October 13th.

President Erdogan of Turkey and Hezbollah politicians in Lebanon are threatening the EU to submit or watch as their countries “open the gates” for millions of illegal migrants. 

Border agencies stopped 52,000 migrants at the border during September, down from 144,000 migrants in May, according to Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner at Customs and Border Protection.

German interior minister Horst Seehofer travelled to Turkey and Greece this week to meet with government leaders to prevent a new migrant crisis.

ROME (AP) – Italy’s president has paid homage to two officers killed in the line of duty in the northern city of Trieste.

Pope Francis unveiled a massive bronze sculpture depicting 140 migrants in Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican Sunday, the first sculpture to be installed in the piazza in over 400 years.

The number of people in Sweden treated for gunshot wounds soared 20 per cent in 2018 and has more than doubled compared to 2012.

A gang of North African youths from Algeria robbed an Italian Senator of the Five Star Movement (M5S) along with a judge at Rome’s central Termini railway station.

The Polish ambassador in Rome has rejected the new European Union migrant redistribution agreement, stating that no migrants will be accepted in Poland.

Around 50 illegal migrants have set up a makeshift camp in Rome’s Colle Oppio park, only steps away from the iconic Roman Colosseum.

California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke said the actions of Border Patrol agents can increase or reduce a child’s risk of disease.

President Donald Trump is giving states, cities, counties, and towns the legal power to prevent groups from dumping foreign refugees into their communities. 

“It is no exaggeration to say that the stability and civilian nature of Libya is a critical matter, not only for Libya’s stability but the region and the world,” Falez Mustafa Serraj, president of the internationally-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) of Libya, told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.

A citizen-led group has taken to the Slovenian-Croatian border in an effort to help bolster the presence of law enforcement agents preventing illegal mass migration.

Hungarian foreign minister Peter Szijjártó has warned that the European Union is once again trying to “cram mandatory migrant quotas down the throats of European countries”.

ABOARD THE OCEAN VIKING (AP) – A ship carrying 182 migrants picked up in the Mediterranean Sea said Sunday that Italy has granted permission for its passengers to disembark in Sicily.

Former Italian mayor Domenico Lucano could face house arrest as he and several others are on trial for aiding illegal migration.

As 2,700 migrants face expiration on their “transit apartments,” the Green Party in Gothenburg has demanded they be allowed to live in their residences permanently.

PARIS (AP) – France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron has visited a new adult school she helped found in a poor Paris suburb.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) – Greece’s migration policy minister says the European Union’s Mediterranean states are in a better position to convince other EU partners to help them cope with migrant arrivals.

A Gambian migrant has been imprisoned forcing his way into an 11-year-old girl’s bedroom and subjecting her to a “horrifying” rape in Bradford, England. 

Earlier this week the Swedish government deported 50 Afghan migrants, the largest deportation of its kind in a single day.

New statistics have revealed that France is now tied with Germany for new asylum applications this year, with over 90,000 migrants attempting to claim asylum in France.

Underage migrants from Muslim-majority Albania and Kosovo often end up in leftist government areas due to higher benefits, according to a report.

ABOARD THE OCEAN VIKING (AP) – An NGO migrant transport with 82 migrants aboard says it has been given permission to dock at a tiny Italian island.

President Donald Trump can claim credit for pushing poverty among black American adults to record lows, according to data in the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2018 economic report.

Nearly 600,000 illegal aliens will successfully enter the United States through the southern border this year, according to latest projections based on federal data.

The Department of Homeland Security is discarding a 1994 rule which says officials must provide work permits to asylum seekers within 30 days of their request.

The nation’s chicken-processing companies created a covert cartel to suppress wages paid to many Americans and immigrants, accorkding to a lawsuit by the Handley Farah & Anderson law firm in Washington D.C.

VILLEURBANNE, France (AP) – Police detained an Afghan man seeking asylum in France after one person was fatally stabbed and nine others injured Saturday outside a subway station in a suburb of Lyon, authorities said. The reason for the attack was unclear.

A Swedish municipality that took in one of the highest numbers of asylum seekers per population faces a crisis as natives move out and decimate the local tax base.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Greece’s prime minister and his national security advisers decided Saturday to transfer refugees from overcrowded migrant camps on its eastern islands to the mainland and accelerate the deportation of rejected applicants for asylum without giving them the right to appeal.

At least 500 migrants have landed on the Greek island of Lesbos this week from Turkey in a single day, as conditions on the islands in the Aegean continue to deteriorate.