Migrant Crisis - Page 9

The socialist regime of Venezuela denied the existence of the country’s migrant crisis, describing it as “invented,” during a dialogue at the United Nations on Monday.

Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Carlos Faría addressed the United Nations on Saturday to read an “open letter to humanity” signed by socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro in which he claimed that 60 percent of the Venezuelan migrants that have fled from his authoritarian socialist regime have “returned.”

The number of illegal migrants arriving in the United Kingdom after crossing the English Channel by boat has now surpassed 30,000. The 30,000 threshold was broken on Thursday according to figures from the Home Office, the government department with broad

The local government in Hanover, Germany will be reserving a third of newly-advertised jobs exclusively for migrants in order to increase the proportion of people with foreign backgrounds working for the city.

French president Emmanuel Macron has proposed creating a bill next year to reform France’s immigration and asylum policies, including a proposal to redistribute migrants to rural areas facing demographic decline.

A report published this week by Save the Children has claimed that minor migrants travelling along the Balkan illegal immigration route have been subjected to “horrific” violence by people-smugglers, border police, and others.

The Home Office is refusing to comment on the illegal migrant crisis after a new yearly record was set this week due to the Queen’s death.

A 30-year-old Afghan asylum seeker was shot dead in the city of Ansbach, Germany on Thursday after stabbing random people at a railway station, reportedly while yelling “Allahu Akbar!”

The Belgian government has created a new asylum centre to facilitate the deportation of fake refugees who have already applied for asylum in another European country.

Britain’s new Home Secretary is reportedly mulling the implementation of more measures designed to curb the ongoing English Channel migrant crisis.

A survey published this week has shown that the vast majority of “refugees” living in Sweden have vacationed in the country they fled from — though hardly any wish to ever return permanently.

Portland, Maine, is facing an ongoing migrant crisis that threatens to overflow the city’s housing capacity and drain its funds. 

With illegal boat migrant landings happening in numbers equal to previous crisis peaks this month, it is estimated that as many as 100,000 could enter Italy by the end of 2022.

The number of illegal migrants that crossed the English Channel in August is more than all of last year, Ministry of Defence figures showed.

CARACAS – The Interagency Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela (R4V) announced on Monday that the number of Venezuelan migrants that have so far fled from their country and its socialist regime had reached 6,805,209 by August 5, more than 20 percent of the nation’s population.

The Italian island of Lampedusa saw a record-breaking number of migrant boats land this weekend, with 50 landings taking place within the space of just 24 hours.

A homeless Moroccan living in France illegally was arrested this week in the city of Limoges after allegedly robbing a blind woman near a railway station.

A video of heavyweight champion Tyson Fury lambasting the government’s failure to get a grip on the illegal boat migrants crisis in the English Channel has gone viral, partly driven, ironically, by critics of the boxer’s views.

Police from corruption-riddled Albania are to be stationed in Britain to help deport illegal boat migrants from the Muslim-majority country.

The cost of the UK’s asylum system has reportedly eclipsed £2 billion per year amid record numbers of boat migrants crossing the Channel.

An alleged people-smuggler was arrested by police in North Macedonia this week after authorities found 26 illegal immigrants in the back of his truck, which was heading to the country’s border with Serbia.

The Greek government has decided to extend the border wall with Turkey so that the fence will cover the entire length of the land frontier with the hostile Islamist-led country.

A report from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has claimed that around 300,000 non-Ukrainian migrants have arrived in the EU among those supposedly fleeing the conflict in Ukraine.

A survey of police across Sweden has revealed that a majority of officers want the government to deport more foreign criminals and abolish discounts on prison sentences.

The number of illegal immigrants arriving in Italy is growing, with new figures showing over 50,000 illegals have entered the country so far this year as numbers have continued at a high rate so far in August.

Two North African migrants, one already subject to a deportation order, were arrested this week after ramming a French police vehicle and injuring four officers.

Two Bulgarian police officers were killed early Thursday as they tried to stop a bus containing migrants who had entered the country illegally, a senior interior ministry official said.

A surge in the number of migrants entering Ireland has resulted in it seeing its highest population growth since the 2008 banking crash.

The flood of illegal immigrants crossing the English Channel constitutes a “national emergency”, Nigel Farage has said.

A new record was set for daily crossings of the English Channel on Monday, with nearly 1,300 illegal migrants being brought ashore.

A man wielding a shotgun in the centre of the French city of Saint-Quentin was shot and injured this week after firing toward police while yelling “Allahu akbar!” Investigators have not ruled out a possible terror motive.

A member of Sweden’s populist Sweden Democrats (SD) was branded racist this week after a tweet joking that a subway train decorated in SD colours was a “repatriation train” taking migrants to Kabul.

A 28-year-old man from Mali has been indicted for raping prostitutes in the no-go Paris suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis last month and robbing them afterwards.

An illegal migrant from Algeria who had only been in France for seven months was sentenced to four months in prison after robbing and chasing tourists on the Paris metro armed with a box cutter.

The British government has registered over 50 illegal migrants over the age of 30 as children according to a freedom of information request.

GENEVA (AP) – Europe’s embrace of millions of Ukrainians who fled Russia’s invasion showed that it’s possible to welcome large numbers of asylum seekers, and the approach should be replicated to receive those fleeing other nations, the head of the UN refugee agency said.