Migrants
LONDON - Nearly two-thirds of 'child' refugees who were
questioned about their real age after coming to Britain
were found to be adults, an official report has found.
The figures were published in a report by
David Bolt, the independent Chief Inspector of Borders
and Immigration, into the Home Office's treatment of lone
child migrants.
(Daily Mail)
REPORTS:
Chief inspector of borders and immigration
SABRATHA
- Arrivals in Italy from North Africa, the main route for
migration to Europe this year, dropped by more than 50% in
July from a year earlier, and August arrivals so far are
down even further. Sources in Sabratha said the sudden
drop had been caused by a new force in the seaside city,
which is preventing migrants from leaving.
(Reuters)
SAN
ANTONIO - The death toll climbed to 10 in the case of
a broiling tractor-trailer found packed with immigrants,
federal authorities said Monday as a suspect in the
smuggling case awaited a court appearance.
Federal prosecutors said they planned to bring
charges against James Mathew Bradley Jr, 60, of
Clearwater, Florida.
(AP) MORE:
Up to 200 people in trailer
The UN Population Division reported that 232M people, or 3.2% of the world's population, were living outside their homeland in 2013 - a significant increase from the 175M in 2000 and 154M in 1990. (AP) REPORT: International migrants living abroad
Algeria
has abandoned more than 13,000 people in the Sahara Desert
over the past 14 months, including pregnant women and
children, expelling them without food or water and forcing
them to walk, sometimes at gunpoint, under a blistering
sun. Some never make it out alive.
(AP)
LUXEMBOURG - The EU's top court (ECJ)
said that member states don't have to admit people on
humanitarian grounds, even if they are at risk of torture
or inhumane treatment.
(Euro News)
BERLIN - Germany does not know the whereabouts
of 130,000 asylum seekers who were registered last year.
Those missing represent about 13% of about 1.1M asylum seekers
registered in Germany in 2015.
(BBC)
STORSKOG - About 5,500 people, most of them Syrians, cycled through the Arctic Circle Storskog crossing in 2015 to take advantage of a loophole in border rules: while Russia does not allow people to cross on foot and Norway does not let in drivers carrying people without documents, bicycles are permitted at both ends. (Guardian UK)
ASSAM
- While Europe faces a massive human refugee flow India's
NE region, particularly the state of Assam, is facing
flood of asylum seekers from Pakistan and Bangladesh that
dwarfs Europe's problems.
The poverty-stricken Assam state, has absorbed 10M
refugees on its own over several decades.
(Asia Sentinel)
The UNHCR said the continued crises raised the overall figure of forced displacements from war, violence and persecution in 2017 to 68.5M. It is estimated that just over half of the total refugee population are children. Of the total, 16.2M were newly displaced last year - an average of more than 44,000 people per day. (CBC)
Global refugee numbers still rising
Refugee figures 'highest since WW2'
Tackling the global refugee crisis
Uprooted .pdf
LUXEMBOURG - Non-EU migrants illegally entering an EU
state in the
Schengen zone should not face detention on those
grounds, says the
European Court of Justice.
Migrants staying illegally should instead be
returned to the country from which they came under the
so-called
Return Directive.
The ruling (.pdf) applies to migrants crossing borders
within the passport-free area and on leaving the zone.
(BBC)
EU agrees they don't agree on anything
Fall in number of people seeking asylum in EU
Danger every step of the way .pdf
Traffickers exploiting refugees in France
Germany seeking 'safe zones' in Syria
Migrants seek new routes into Balkans
Macedonia police tear gas migrants
People smugglers on trial for toddler's death
Migrant crisis and the Mafia trap
Refugee crisis meets the Mafia
EU gives Greece deadline on borders
Trafficked workers in Irish fishing industry
Sweden says rejected would be deported
Denmark clears way to seize valuables
Denmark's plan to deter migrants
Terrorist caught on migrant boat
Slovenia erecting razor wire on border
Along a Saharan smuggling route
Italy reactivates border controls
Hungary blocks trains for 2nd day
Protests as migrants keep arriving
EU's
Juncker refugee quota plan
Pushing limits, and more on the way
300,000 have crossed the Mediterranean
International Organization for Migration
Asylum Trends 2014 .pdf
COLOGNE - Gangs attacked groups of foreigners in 4 separate incidents on Sunday in Cologne, the city where dozens of New Year's Eve assaults on women took place, German police have said, as the government warned against letting the incident lead to suspicion of all migrants. (Guardian UK)
Police chief sent into retirement
Germany to deport migrants who break law
13-year-old made up migrant rape claim
Soccer hooligans attack migrants
PARIS - After the Calais migrant camp was evacuated, many migrants who weren't resettled across France descended on Paris. Hundreds headed to a temporary camp near the Stalingrad Metro station where police estimate between 2,000 and 2,500 have called home in recent days. (The Local)
Police clear migrants living rough on streets
Channel transport returning to normal
Illegals caught at UK border doubled
Migrants enter UK via Heathrow on a visa
Not the land of milk and honey
RAKHINE STATE - Thousands more Rohingya Muslims are fleeing large-scale violence and persecution in Myanmar and crossing into Bangladesh, where more than half a million others are already living in squalid and overcrowded camps, according to witnesses and a drone video shot by the UN office for refugees. (AP)
Crackdown targets corrupt police
OTTAWA - The RCMP intercepted a total of 20,593 asylum seekers crossing irregularly into Canada last year and another 9,481 between Jan. 1 and May 31 of this year. Since April 1, 2017, only 643 have been detained, according to government data. (CP)
Canada's coming surge of asylum seekers
Questionnaire unacceptable minister says
Migrant integration policy index 2015
Migrants may not fare better in Canada
Stadium to house migrants Olympic Stadium
Numbers only tell part of the story
Taxi companies fined
Migrants pepper sprayed at 'welcome night'
Immigration applications in limbo with influx
Canadian winters can be a shock
Migrants at ON border crossings
Safe Third Country Agreement with the US
Father declines Canadian offer
Photographs of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi
Realities of sponsoring refugees
What matters is what we do next
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump abruptly reversed himself and signed an executive order (Affording Congress an opportunity to address family separation) halting his administration's policy of separating children from their parents when they are detained illegally crossing the US border. (AP)
Governors refuse to deploy US National Guard
Canada also detains migrant children
NAURU - The Nauru files set out as never before the assaults, sexual abuse, self-harm attempts, child abuse and living conditions endured by asylum seekers held by the Australian government, painting a picture of routine dysfunction and cruelty. (Guardian UK)
Government to close 17 detention centres
Refugee who himself on fire dies
Australian detention centre on Papua New Guinea ruled illegal
PUGLIA - An Icelandic Coast Guard ship was towing a cargo vessel to Italy with about 450 migrants who were abandoned by smugglers, leaving the vessel without a crew. (AP)
Traffickers 'made $3M' on ship
Conference of the parties to the UN
Cost of a catch .pdf
Romanian human smuggling ring busted
Human traffickers going unpunished
Contributing to human smuggling
Bordering on failure .pdf
Global report on trafficking in persons 2014
Human smuggling
NIA cracks human trafficking group
Human smuggling ring dealt blow
Ring smuggling illegals from South Asia
22 stowaways nabbed at Port of Seattle
Alleged 'snakehead' boss on trial