International Organization for Migration said that the organization had recorded the highest yearly migrant deaths worldwide since the statistics started, with 7,189 migrants and refugees dying or missing on their migratory routes. The number of migrants feared to have died this year has soared to nearly 7,200, a more than 20-percent increase over 2015, with …
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A majority of Germans fear the government will have to tighten its belt to take care of new refugees, a survey suggests. Despite falling numbers of newcomers, many believe migration is fueling an increase in crime. Refugees and integration top the list as Germany’s biggest problem, according to survey results released on Friday. The figures …
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In a sign of how Germany’s “Willkommenskultur,” or welcoming culture, has faded since a record number of refugees arrived last year, the hardening of the regulations that make up the German asylum law was criticized by the German Institute for Human Rights in an annual report on the development of the human rights situation in …
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The Obama administration went before the Supreme Court Wednesday to again defend its immigration policy, this time seeking to overturn a lower-court decision that found detention practices for some immigrants were too harsh. Last year, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco voided the government’s practice of indefinite mandatory detention for several …
A Hungarian court on Wednesday sentenced a Syrian-Cypriot man to 10 years in jail his part in a riot at the border with Serbia last year, when he hurled rocks at police in an attempt to force the border open, deemed an “act of terror” under Hungarian law. Ahmed Hamed, 40, broke into tears as …
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Police stormed a post office in western Germany on Tuesday after two asylum seekers tried to send a package containing a thank-you gift for German Chancellor Angela Merkel. An employee at a postal centre at a petrol station in Naunheim in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate called police after the two asylum seekers, who are father …
Some 100 refugees are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea in two shipwrecks on Thursday which brought the Mediterranean death toll a record 5,000 in 2016, the U.N. said on Friday. “Around 100 people are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea yesterday. The Italian coastguard carried out four rescue operations in …
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A U.S. citizen was asked her immigration status while taking a walk in her neighborhood in Maryland. The Bel Air Police Department is owning up to its misstep and says it will learn from the incident, CBS Baltimore station WJZ-TV reports. “I didn’t expect this to happen in Bel Air. Walking while brown? He said, …
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An investigation has been opened after an African refugee drowned in Venice’s Grand Canal as onlookers watched from nearby boats and filmed him with their phones. Footage shows the man, named as 22-year-old Gambian Pateh Sabally, flailing in the middle of the canal. At least three life rings were thrown into the water near him, …
President Trump on Wednesday will order the construction of a Mexican border wall — the first in a series of actions this week to crack down on immigrants and bolster national security, including slashing the number of refugees who can resettle in the United States and blocking Syrians and others from “terror prone” nations from …
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