“For the umpteenth time, SYRIZA proposes its ideologies and not the national interest. Because it knows very well that past complaints about alleged deportations are thoroughly examined by the National Transparency Authority, as our country has independent mechanisms for investigating complaints,” he said. Minister of Immigration and Asylum, Notis Mitarakis, responding to an announcement by […]
Tag: Immigrants
Mexico: More than 1,260 immigrants have been arrested in the last 24 hours
A total of 1,266 immigrants of 33 nationalities were arrested during various operations within 24 hours in Mexico, the National Immigration Institute (INM) announced on Thursday. The migrants were “illegally” on the move in “22 states” of the country, the authorities clarified. They were 741 men, 322 women and 203 minors, mostly from Colombia, Honduras, […]
Italy: A boat carrying 21 migrants was shot down by a Libyan fisherman
According to the Italian public television Rai, a boat with 21 migrants, which was heading to Sicily, was shot by a Libyan fishing boat. As a result of the collision, five people fell into the icy waters of the Mediterranean. Two managed, with great difficulty, to get back on the boat, which continued its course. […]
Human Rights Watch: US, Cameroon violate asylum seekers’ rights
Cameroonian authorities have committed “serious human rights abuses” against dozens of deportees from the United States, who also “violated” refugee rights by repatriating them, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Thursday. ). Almost all of the victims belong to the English-speaking minority in western Cameroon, where a bloody conflict has been raging for five years […]
Some 380 migrants’ camp has been dismantled by authorities in Tijuana, near the Mexican-US border
A camp of about 380 immigrants, mostly Mexicans and Central American citizens, was dismantled yesterday Sunday by authorities in Tijuana, very close to the Mexican-US border. “There are people who have started to climb voluntarily, without the need for violence (by the police), in the trucks that will take them to various shelters,” the mayor […]
Poland: Also builds a new fence on the border with Belarus
Poland today began construction of a new fence on its border with Belarus to prevent the entry of illegal immigrants, an issue that sparked a crisis between Warsaw and Minsk last year. At 186 km long, ie about half the length of the border (418 km), the five-and-a-half-meter-high metal fence will cost about 353m euros […]
Hundreds of migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean by NGO ships in recent days
Boats operating on behalf of non-governmental organizations have rescued hundreds of people at risk in the Mediterranean in recent days. The crew of the German ship Louise Michel boarded 62 people, including children and infants, who were in a rubber boat, the organization that has developed the boat – funded by the artist Banksy – […]
Morocco: 43 migrants drowned while trying to reach Canary Islands
Forty-three migrants, including three babies and 14 women, were killed Sunday when their boat sank off Tarfaya in southern Morocco, according to the Spanish non-governmental organization Caminando Fronteras. . Most of the migrants came from sub-Saharan Africa. Only ten were rescued. “The ten survivors, including six women, called for help at 4 in the morning […]
Lithuania repatriated 100 Iraqi illegal immigrants
Nearly 100 Iraqis were airlifted to their homeland over the weekend from Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, the Lithuanian Interior Ministry announced on Monday. The flight, bound for Baghdad and Arbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, carried 98 people who had entered the country illegally from neighboring Belarus, the ministry said, adding that it was the first charter […]
The number of immigrants passing through Bulgaria tripled in 2021
Between January and November 2021, the number of migrants detained while entering and leaving the Bulgarian border illegally and those who crossed without being detected by the police increased, according to data from the Bulgarian Interior Ministry, Dnevnik reports. bg, broadcasts the Bulgarian news agency BTA. According to a telegram, since the beginning of 2021, […]
