Venezuela’s SAIME identification and migrant services office announced on Thursday that Venezuelans who requested passports in consulates recently closed by socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro must now go to Caracas to pick them up — an impossible task for many.
Tunisian President Kais Saied has been criticised for stating illegal immigration is directed toward changing demographics.
NGOs rejected proposals to build border walls to stop illegal migration flows, likening walls and barriers to Brexit.
The trial for 24 NGO workers in Greece began this week as they face allegations of aiding human trafficking and people smuggling that took place between 2016 and 2018.
A migrant taxi has already likely violated the decree regulating NGO ship actions, and another says it will ignore any rules it doesn’t like.
Migrant taxi NGO ships dropped off over 500 in Italy over the weekend, despite promises from PM Giorgia Meloni to halt their activity.
Just two of the 17 NGO migrant “taxis” operating in the Mediterranean Sea are certified as search and rescue vessels, despite all claiming they engage in “rescue” operations.
The NGO migrant “taxi” ship Ocean Viking has called on France, Spain, and Greece – but apparently no African or Middle Eastern countries – to find them a port to drop off over 200 migrants after Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi refused access to Italian ports.
A pro-migrant NGO called on the German government to stop deporting migrants to neighbouring Poland, arguing the country treats them poorly.
A group of migrants illegally occupied a centre for Ukrainian refugees in Paris on Sunday over alleged double standards and unfair treatment.
The former head of a French NGO has been sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of trafficking in human beings.
A migrant taxi ship chartered by the British street artist Banksy has set sail for the Mediterranean Sea to pick up migrants again.
A pro-migrant group called the Réquisitions collective organised a large occupation of a Paris park involving around 300 migrants who demanded the French government give them housing.
A French court sentenced two pro-migration activists to two-month suspended prison sentences after they aided Afghans crossing the border illegally.
Father Antonio Zanotti, who is currently under investigation by Italian authorities for fraud, has been accused of sexually abusing a migrant under the care of his pro-migrant NGO.
Ten migrant transport NGO vessels are now operating in the Mediterranean as the left-wing establishment Democratic Party looks to reopen Italy’s ports.
A Belgian woman who invited migrants to set up a makeshift camp in her garden now claims she wants them to leave after incidents of aggression and violence.
Following a series of budgetary cuts as part of populist Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s security and migration decree, migrant helper associations claim they have been forced to lay off thousands of employees. The Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL)
Italian pro-migrant associations which operate asylum reception centres have blasted populist Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini for cutting funding.
Only days after ending migrant transport operations, NGO SOS Méditerranée has announced they will be replacing their current vessel with a new one to resume operations in the New Year.
Accusing Croatian police of violence against illegal immigrants, mass migration activists have demanded officers disobey orders relating to border protection or else face increasing pressure from foreign NGOs.
