Some 200 displaced Syrians approached the Israeli border on Tuesday, some of them waving white flags, in an apparent effort to reach out to the Jewish state for assistance as forces loyal to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad moved into the area as part of a military operation against rebel-held areas in the country’s southwest.
The Belgian authorities will attempt to dissuade illegal migrants from settling in their country with a social media campaign.
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.
The combination of tougher border controls and a determination to only take the best candidates has crashed Australia’s migrant numbers to a 10-year low.
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”.
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.
Al-Arabiya ran an article on Tuesday in which Yemeni refugees staying on South Korea’s Jeju Island spoke about their “asylum struggles,” particularly their efforts to move from the island to the South Korean mainland.
BEIRUT — The Syrian government on Tuesday called on refugees to return, saying it has successfully cleared large areas of “terrorists.”
NEW YORK — The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Thursday to discuss the Syrian army’s Russia-backed offensive against rebel groups in southern Syria that has forced some 300,000 people to flee ot the Jordanian and Israeli borders, diplomats said.
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.”
A total of 1,898 refugees were admitted into the United States in June, bringing the number of refugees admitted during the first nine months of FY 2018 to 16,229.
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”.
GENEVA – Civilians fleeing attacks on rebel-held towns in southern Syria are being used as “pawns”, the UN rights chief said, lamenting reported demands for payment at government checkpoints and jihadist’s blocking movement.
Slovak prime minister Peter Pellegrini backed the stance of his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orbán, against EU-mandated migrant quotas and George Soros-backed NGOs.
Israel is preparing for the possibility that an onslaught by the forces of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad could see tens of thousands of Syrian refugees heading for the Israel border. The IDF is gearing up to prevent a mass breach of the frontier, but also to provide humanitarian aid to the displaced, military sources said Thursday.
Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen spent Wednesday visiting Venezuelan refugees in the Amazon city of Manaus, Brazil, listening to their stories of escaping the repressive socialist regime in Caracas and promising support from the American people.
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.
Population Research Institute President Steven Mosher explained to Breitbart News Sunday host Amanda House this week that China has refused to take any refugees from dangerous parts of the world to preserve its “ethnically based empire.”
The South Korean resort island of Jeju provides a fascinating case study in refugee politics as the small island wrestles with an unexpected surge of refugees from Yemen’s civil war.
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.
Refugees fleeing from violence in Central and South American nations like Venezuela, Honduras, and Nicaragua are pouring into Mexico, with an eye toward applying for asylum in the United States or reuniting with family members who live in America.
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.
An investigation into Germany’s Federal Agency for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has found that career criminals with records of murder, rape, and drug dealing have been allowed to stay in the country under the asylum law.
Austria has said it will close its border with Italy if Germany begins turning back some migrants at its border with Austria, while Italy and Malta have rejected another migrant ferry — but Spain’s new leftist government is going in the opposite direction and relaxing migration controls.
A 22-year-old asylum seeker from Mali has been found guilty in a German court of strangling a Romanian woman to death after robbing her.
Europe needs more mass migration from the Global South because it “enriches our cultures and societies”, according to Leo Varadkar, who announced he will import more asylum seekers to Ireland after meeting Hillary Clinton.
The Italian government has announced that it may take in migrants from two NGO ‘rescue’ ships, but may seize the vessels for allegedly flying the Dutch flag illegally.
Anti-mass migration national leaders in Central Europe and Italy are openly defying Germany’s Angela Merkel, who is facing political oblivion amid an asylum scandal and threats by Bavarian conservatives to walk out of her coalition government.
