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 …
Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets. One teenager told an advocate who visited that she was helping …
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Child refugees are being abused, detained and illegally sent back to Italy by French border guards, according to a new report from Oxfam. Some children as young as 12 were being held overnight in cells without food, water or blankets, or access to an official guardian, the report states. French police routinely stop unaccompanied children and put them on trains back to …
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A rescue vessel carrying 629 migrants is stranded in the Mediterranean after Italy’s new interior minister refused permission for it to dock. Matteo Salvini, leader of the right-wing League, said Malta should accept the Aquarius but he was rejected. Malta says the German charity SOS Méditerranée picked up the migrants in Libyan waters, which means …
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The UN migration agency said on May 6, that 40 migrants have drowned and 16 others are being presumed dead as they are still missing in Yemen’s shores. “Tragedy struck migrants trying to cross from the Horn of Africa to find employment in Yemen and the Gulf, when their vessel capsized in high waves as it approached …
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