Newly leaked documents reveal that 1-year-old migrants were kept in US hotels before deportation. Obtained by The Associated Press, the documents show that Hampton Inn & Suites hotels in Texas and Arizona were used 186 times by a private contractor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold minors. ICE …
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Italy To Allow 180 Migrants To Leave Ship: Charity
Italy has authorised charity vessel Ocean Viking to disembark 180 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean in Sicily, ship operator SOS Mediterranee said on Sunday. “We have received instructions from the Italian maritime authorities to disembark those on board in Porto Empedocle,” a spokesman for the charity told AFP, which has …
Read More »Turkey: Up to 60 migrants feared dead after boat sinks
Up to 60 migrants may have been trapped in a boat that sank in an eastern lake last week, Turkey’s interior minister said Wednesday. Turkey launched a search-and-rescue mission involving helicopters and boats after the boat carrying migrants across Lake Van was reported missing on June 27. So far rescue …
Read More »Trump says ‘low IQ’ Biden will give health care to illegal immigrants
US President Trump warned voters on Sunday that electing ‘low IQ’ Joe Biden in November would result in the United States being overrun by illegal immigrants as recent polls give the Democrat a significant edge. ‘THE VAST SILENT MAJORITY IS ALIVE AND WELL!!!’ Trump tweeted on Sunday. ‘We will win …
Read More »At least six migrants died, 93 rescued off Libya’s coast
A woman who gave birth at sea was among 93 migrants rescued off Libyan shores as they tried to reach Europe, but six others died along the way, the UN’s migration agency said. The survivors were brought back overnight to the port city of Khoms, 120km (75 miles) west of …
Read More »US Supreme Court ruling boosts Trump’s power to deport immigrants
Court ruling bolsters power of Trump’s administration to quickly deport people seeking asylum without judicial review. The United States Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration can deport some people seeking asylum without allowing them to make their case to a federal judge. The court’s 7-2 ruling applies …
Read More »UN: Libyan coast guard intercepts 71 Europe-bound migrants
Libya’s coast guard intercepted 71 migrants hoping to make it to Europe, including four women and two children and returned them to the capital Tripoli, the U.N. migration organization said Thursday. The International Organization for Migration tweeted that the migrants, who were stopped late Wednesday, were given food and emergency …
Read More »Rescue migrants stranded on chartered Maltese pleasure boats
More than 400 migrants are living aboard pleasure cruise vessels bobbing in the sea off Malta, many of them for weeks now. But for them, it’s no pleasure, only uncertainty over their fate and they aren’t cruising anywhere. Rescued from human traffickers’ unseaworthy boats in several operations in the central …
Read More »British coastguards rescue more than 120 migrants on 7 boats in Channel
British coastguards rescued more than 120 migrants trying to cross the English Channel on seven small boats, French maritime authorities said on Friday. The rescue took place in the night from Thursday to Friday, according to a spokesman for the Maritime Prefecture for the Channel and the North Sea. Border …
Read More »Greece plans to deport migrants who arrived after March 1
Greece will transfer migrants who arrived on its territory illegally after March 1 to the northern city of Serres and plans to deport back to their own countries, Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi said late on Wednesday. Thousands of migrants have made for Greece since Ankara said on Feb. 28 …
Read More »Greek troops fire tear gas at migrants gathering again at Turkish border
Greek riot police and troops fired tear gas early on Wednesday at hundreds of migrants as they made another attempt to cross the border from Turkey into Greece. The air was thick with smoke on both the Greek and Turkish sides of the Kastanies border crossing, and fire engines were …
Read More »Greek police fire teargas at protesting migrants, refugees on Lesbos
Greek police fired teargas to disperse migrants and refugees protesting on Monday about conditions in migrant camps on the island of Lesbos and the slow pace of processing asylum requests. Violence broke out near the Kara Tepe camp, a police official said, after hundreds of people marched from the island’s …
Read More »‘People are not animals’; stranded migrants freeze in Bosnian forest
Hundreds of migrants and refugees stuck in a makeshift camp in a Bosnian forest are struggling to survive in subzero temperatures as snow weighs down on their tents, spurring fears that some may die unless they are resettled soon. A senior human rights envoy who visited the camp on Tuesday …
Read More »Greece to ‘shut the door’ to migrants not entitled to asylum, PM says
Greece said on Friday it was deploying more border guards to “shut the door” to migrants not entitled to stay, the latest sign of a hardening stance against asylum seekers since a new surge in the number of arrivals. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told parliament he had approved the hiring …
Read More »Police find 12 migrants alive in a refrigerated truck in Belgium
Belgian police found 12 migrants alive in a refrigerated truck at a motorway parking area in northern Belgium on Wednesday after the driver alerted authorities, a federal police spokeswoman said. The driver, who was transporting fruit and vegetables, called the police who found 12 adult men of Syrian and Sudanese …
Read More »French police eject 800 migrants from Dunkirk makeshift camp.
French police have cleared more than 800 migrants from a makeshift camp that sprung up outside a gymnasium near the northern port of Dunkirk last spring. The move on Tuesday followed a court ruling that the camp had become a health and security hazard, AFP said. The mayor of Grande-Synthe …
Read More »Italian police seize German rescue ship, will disembark over 100 migrants.
Italian police on Monday seized a German migrant rescue ship that had been stranded at sea for a week and will disembark more than 100 migrants soon, according to a police spokesman. The ship’s captain had earlier set course for the port of Pozzallo, on the island of Sicily, sparking …
Read More »Richard Gere visits migrants stuck at sea in the Mediterranean.
Actor Richard Gere is visiting rescued migrants on board a humanitarian ship that has been stuck in the Mediterranean Sea for over a week. The Hollywood star took food and supplies by boat Friday to 121 people aboard the Open Arms, a rescue ship floating in international waters near the …
Read More »Fifteen migrants killed in southeastern Turkey bus crash
Fifteen illegal migrants were killed and more than 20 injured in a minibus crash in southeast Turkey on Thursday, a local governor said. The minibus carrying the migrants went off the road and rolled into a ditch in the province of Van. Footage from the scene showed the minibus in …
Read More »Boat with dozens of migrants capsizes off Tunisia coast
Dozens of African migrants capsized off the coast of Tunisia after setting off for Europe from Libya, a government source and the Tunisian Red Crescent have said. Some of the four initial survivors told the Tunisian coast guard on Thursday the boat had sunk off the town of Zarzis the …
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