The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) was informed about possible improprieties in the approval of asylum applications at its branch in the northern city of Bremen earlier than it admitted, German media reported on May 21. The news magazine Der Spiegel reported that emails it had seen suggested that BAMF head Jutta Cordt had received internal information …
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Senior German conservatives want to set up new “values lessons” for refugee children in German schools, according to a newspaper report. The standards are to be held above cultural or religious views. German conservatives are set to push for new lessons that would teach both German language and values to children of refugees, the Rheinische Post newspaper reported in its Monday …
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Thousands of Syrian women are believed to be incarcerated in the Assad regime’s prisons. Little is known about their fate, but those who manage to escape tell tales of horror. Muna Muhammad remembers every tiny detail. The stench in the cells, the pain, her torturers. “He pulled a black plastic bag over my head and …
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Police moved in on the biggest migrant camp in Paris on May 30 where 1,700 people lived in makeshift tents alongside a canal. The migrants will be housed temporarily at more than 20 sites across the Paris region while the authorities check their identities, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said. CRS riot police were deployed at dawn, …
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The European Union has found itself in an internal crisis as Italy blocked the second batch of the 3 billion euros that the bloc promised to pay Turkey for supporting the Syrian refugees. Speaking to journalists in a closed-door briefing in Brussels, an EU official said Italy has demanded that the bloc agree on a …
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US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis has confirmed that two military bases will be used as temporary camps to house migrants who illegally enter the US. Speaking in Alaska, Secretary Mattis named the Texas bases but did not say whether they would house migrant children or families held together. The Pentagon said last week it planned …
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Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini called on Malta to take in a rescue vessel carrying more than 200 migrants, and insisted the NGO-operated ship be impounded and its crew detained. “For the safety of the crew and passengers we have asked Malta to open its ports,” the leader of the far-right League tweeted, claiming the vessel is in …
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US President Donald Trump has backed down and abandoned his policy of separating immigrant families on the US-Mexico border, after images of children in cages sparked outrage at home and abroad. Mr Trump signed an executive order requiring that immigrant families be detained together when they are caught entering the country illegally for as long …
The Hungarian government has stepped up its anti-immigration measures with plans to introduce a 25% tax on aid groups it says support migration. Viktor Orbán’s administration has been among the most hostile to immigration in Europe. His Fidesz party was re-elected in a landslide victory in April, promising to crack down on non-governmental organisations it says …
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President Donald Trump has said he will not allow the US to become a “migrant camp”, as he stood by his administration’s immigration crackdown. “The United States will not be a migrant camp,” he said at the White House. “And it will not be a refugee-holding facility – it won’t be.” Photos over the weekend …
