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

The Irish government has suspended visa-free travel for refugees from safe European countries for the next 12 months but has made exemptions for Ukrainian refugees. The Irish government announced the policy change, which will require refugees in safe European countries

President Joe Biden’s federal agencies are making it even easier for Afghans to arrive in the United States despite vetting failures noted by federal officials. 

After promising to take in a limitless number of arrivals from Ukraine, Ireland’s asylum system has crumbled under a massive migrant surge, with the country announcing that it has run out of accommodation on Wednesday.

Around half of the Ukrainians who fled Russia’s invasion of their country have now returned to Ukraine as the number of Ukrainians entering the European Union has fallen to levels seen prior to the war. European Union home affairs commissioner

Pro-migration groups are using the record death rate among illegal migrants to demand they be hired by the government to safely import more of the coyote-delivered migrants.

The United Nations (U.N.) recently released data showing that the number of Chinese nationals seeking political asylum abroad spiked tenfold from 2012 — when Xi Jinping took office as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) — to 2021, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Tuesday.

Comedian Ben Stiller met fellow actor and current president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Monday to return attention to the ongoing, eight-year-old war between that country and Russia on the occasion of World Refugee Day.

Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) sent a letter to the United Nations, demanding information about refugee travel loans, which he says boosts mass migration.

The EU border agency has said more Ukrainian refugees are returning to their country than leaving it despite the ongoing conflict with Russia. 

The military forces of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) announced on Wednesday that a joint military operation against Islamist insurgents in eastern Congo will be extended into a “third phase” because the enemy has not been “eradicated.”

Afghan refugees dumped into California are struggling to find housing and other help needed to get settled in a new country.

Pope Francis urged a greater welcome for migrants Monday, appealing for a “a broader international awareness” regarding the phenomenon of migration.

House and Senate Republicans who voted to give $40 billion in additional American taxpayer funding to Ukraine also helped rubber stamp $900 million to fund President Joe Biden’s mass immigration priorities. 

An Afghan migrant who worked as security at German asylum accommodation has been accused of sexually abusing two Ukrainian refugee children aged six and seven.

Some have expressed concern that a British reception scheme for Ukrainian refugees may be exploited, putting women at risk of abuse.

A German court has ruled that deportation orders are valid even if migrants are unable to secure a sustainable livelihood in the long term after returning to their county of origin.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has released figures claiming that over five million Ukrainians have fled their country since the start of the Russian invasion in February. According to the UNHCR, a total of 5,034,439 Ukrainians have fled

ROME — Pope Francis met privately with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in the Vatican Thursday, honoring him with a St. Martin medallion for Hungary’s generous reception of Ukrainian refugees.

Pope Francis thanked the people of Poland Wednesday for their generous reception of Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country.

The Reuters news agency reported on Monday that the administration of President Joe Biden has scheduled a meeting with representatives of the Communist Party of Cuba to discuss “migration concerns” – namely, to convince the regime to take back members of an ethnic group that, in America, disproportionately votes Republican.

While millions of Ukrainians have fled their country since the start of the Russian invasion, nearly a million have now gone home.

Pope Francis accused the West of racism Friday, insisting migrants are “subdivided” by skin color and country of origin.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine’s border guard agency says that about 2,200 Ukrainian men of fighting age have been detained so far while trying to leave the country in violation of martial law.

Dozens of people have reportedly died after a missile strike hit a train station in the city of Kramatorsk. (Warning: Contains graphic image.)

Japan’s government, which currently observes strict bans on foreign entries, made a rare exception to this policy on Tuesday when it welcomed 20 Ukrainians fleeing their country’s latest war with Russia into Tokyo on a government plane accompanying Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa upon his return from a recent trip to Poland.

EU Interior Ministers have agreed to a ten-point plan to help settle the millions of Ukrainian refugees who have fled the Russian invasion.

The U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday more than 4 million refugees have now fled Ukraine since Russia launched its war.

President Joe Biden is asking Congress for more American taxpayer money to bring hundreds more Afghans to the United States even as his own Department of Defense has concluded that the administration failed to vet a number of Afghans resettled in the U.S. since last year. 

President Joe Biden promised to take in 100,000 people displaced from Ukraine after the Russian invasion and those who favor high numbers of refugees see it as a promising development that could lead to more overall entries.

A video of an Irish journalist questioning a number of men claiming to be ’60’ year old refugees from Ukraine has gone viral online, with the footage prompting questions in regards to the ongoing refugee crisis.

Politicians, activists, and celebrities in London protested against the Ukraine war and celebrated diversity and multiculturalism.

Ukrainian refugees in Poland are reportedly hesitant to get on buses to Sweden, fearing their children may be taken from them by Swedish social services and expressing concerns over shootings.

House and Senate Democrats, as well as refugee contractors, are urging President Joe Biden to quickly fast-track Ukrainians into the United States using the same tools the administration used to import over 85,000 Afghans since mid-August 2021.

President Joe Biden is opening the nation’s doors to 100,000 Ukrainian migrants and refugees, alongside the massive inflow through other illegal and legal routes.

Twenty North Korean women working for a clothing company in Shanghai vanished from their dormitory along with their manager in February, a potentially awkward case kept very quiet by both Chinese and North Korean officials until Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported it on Wednesday.

President Joe Biden’s deputies will import favored groups of Ukrainian migrants, according to an NBC report.

A number of Ukrainian refugee women taken in by multicultural Sweden still fear for their safety, after at least two separate groups of men tried to gain access to their living quarters.

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian survivors of one of the most brutal sieges in modern history were in the final minutes of their train ride to relative safety.

Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion of their country are being allowed to seek asylum in the U.S. but Russians are being rejected.