Lodi Mayor Sara Casanova on October 15 stood by controversial new regulations in the northern city that have seen the children of many migrants unable to have access to school canteens and school bus services. “The regulation will certainly remain in force,” Casanova told ANSA. “The law must always be valid for everyone”. The regulation …
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Rough sleeping will be banned in Hungary from October 15 when the government’s law on homelessness comes into force, giving police the power to remove homeless people from the streets and destroy any shelters they may have built. The law, banning “habitual residence in a public space”, was passed by parliament in June and has been called “cruel” …
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that separating migrant families at the border could deter illegal immigration and that he was considering several options to tighten border security. In June, Trump abandoned his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents on the U.S.-Mexico border after images of youngsters in cages sparked outrage at …
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Italy’s far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has ordered hundreds of refugees to be moved out of Riace, a small town in Calabria celebrated around the world as a model of integration. The decision, which follows the house arrest earlier this month of the town’s mayor, Domenico Lucano, effectively shuts down a project that also provided work …
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The Austrian government said on October 31 that it won’t sign a global compact to promote safe and orderly migration, citing concerns about national sovereignty as it joined neighboring Hungary in shunning the agreement. Conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz took office last December in a coalition with the nationalist, anti-migration Freedom Party. Austria currently holds the …
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Australia plans to restrict some new migrants from living in its largest cities – Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane – for “at least a few years” in an effort to ease urban congestion, a government minister said on October 9. With immigration expected to be an issue in the next election, the plan aims to help …
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Hungary’s supreme court has acquitted a camerawoman who was filmed tripping and kicking migrants at the border in 2015. Petra Laszlo had been sentenced to three years’ probation for her actions by a lower court. But the country’s top court ruled on Tuesday that she should have been charged with a misdemeanour not a criminal offence, …
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Matteo Salvini, Italy’s far-Right interior minister, has threatened to close the country’s airports to block the rumoured repatriation of migrants on charter flights from Germany. In a move likely to anger Berlin, Mr Salvini, the head of the anti-immigrant League Party and deputy prime minister, on Sunday said he would shut the airports in the same …
Donald Trump is to deploy more than 5,200 troops to the border with Mexicoin what a rights organisation described as an abuse of the military to “further his anti-immigrant agenda of fear and division”. On October 29 he warned that the military would be waiting. “Many Gang Members and some very bad people are mixed into the …
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The mayor of an Italian town known around the world as a model of integration has been put under house arrest for aiding illegal migration. Domenico Lucano, who has been the mayor of the southern Italian town of Riace since 2004, is also accused of unlawful conduct in assigning contracts for rubbish collection services. Lucano’s …
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