British Home Secretary Pretty Patel has reiterated her opposition to a “scandalous” ruling by the Council of Europe’s European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that crashed a plane carrying refugees and migrants to Rwanda. Telegraph today. “The opaque way this court has acted is scandalous,” said Patel, just 24 hours after the cancellation of a […]
Tag: Immigrants
Turkey will impose quotas on immigrant residence permits
Turkey will start imposing quotas on the number of residence permits for foreigners next month, as an anti-immigration climate increases pressure on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of next year’s elections, according to Bloomberg. Turkey will reduce foreigners’ residence permits to 20% of the population of some neighborhoods across the country from July 1st, Interior […]
Thailand: Police rescue 59 Rohingya refugees stranded on island
Thai authorities have rescued 59 Rohingya refugees, including children abandoned by traffickers on an island near the Malaysian border, police said today. The refugees – 31 men, 23 women and five children – were found on Dong Island in Satun province, which borders Malaysia, National Police Deputy Chief Surasate Huckparn said in a statement. “The […]
Spain: 13 migrants rescued by coastguard, fate of dozens more ignored
Two Coast Guard helicopters rescued 13 migrants off the Canary Islands today, Spanish authorities said. However, the survivors told Red Cross officials that the fate of more than 20 people was being ignored and that they feared they had drowned. Helicopters, a boat and two floating ships were involved in a search-and-rescue operation in the […]
UN: More than 3,000 migrants lost their lives at sea in 2021 on the way to Europe
More than 3,000 migrants lost their lives at sea last year trying to reach Europe, the United Nations has said. “Of the total, 1,924 have died or been reported missing across the central and western Mediterranean, while 1,153 have died or been reported missing crossing from southwest Africa to the Canary Islands,” she said. of […]
Libya: Authorities arrest 542 people preparing to board inflatables to go to Europe
A total of 542 would-be migrants were located and arrested today in Libya as they prepared to embark on a dangerous voyage across the Mediterranean, security sources said. The large group was located by the Libyan authorities near a beach in Mizurata, about 200 kilometers from Tripoli. According to an official from the Ministry of […]
Lebanon: The army located eight more bodies off Tripoli
Lebanese Navy ships have located eight more bodies at sea off the port of Tripoli, the state-run NNA news agency reported today, bringing to nine the death toll from a shipwreck carrying migrants. On Saturday, the Lebanese Red Cross announced via Twitter that about 60 people – whose nationality has not been clarified – were […]
Rwanda signs agreement with London to welcome illegal immigrants arriving in Britain
Rwanda today signed a multimillion-euro agreement with London to accept immigrants and asylum seekers of various nationalities arriving illegally in Britain, Kigali said today during a visit to the country by British Home Secretary Priti Patel. “Rwanda welcomes this co-operation with Britain in welcoming asylum seekers and migrants and providing them with legal avenues for […]
Guatemala: Dozens of Cuban Immigrants Arrested on Boat to US Arrested
The Guatemalan Immigration Service announced on Tuesday that two vessels carrying 50 migrants from Cuba and two migrants from Honduras were spotted trying to reach US territory by sea. The vessels were spotted last Monday night by the Navy in the Rio Dulce area, where a system of lakes and rivers is located off the […]
Tunisia: The death toll from a shipwreck has risen to 20 dead
The death toll from the latest naval accident involving a boat carrying refugees and migrants off Tunisia on Friday has risen to 20, several of them Syrians trying to reach Italy, a senior official said. yesterday Saturday. He explained that the Tunisian Coast Guard had retrieved eight bodies washed ashore after locating 12 days. The […]
