France and Britain are deploying more police and hi-tech surveillance equipment on the French northern coast to make small boat Channel crossings more difficult. Rights groups in Calais say that similar measures last year failed to stem the number of crossings, while migrants insist that they are prepared to take desperate measures to reach the UK. InfoMigrants reports.
The right-wing League party in Italy is proposing the creation of a detention and repatriation center in Ventimiglia, on the border with France, to solve "the problem of migratory flows on the Italian-French border."
France's interior minister has asked the EU border agency to support French authorities in stemming the increasing flow of irregular migrants trying to reach the UK. Meanwhile, 80 migrants were rescued in the British Channel over the weekend and returned to France.
After a record 430 migrants crossed the Channel to the UK irregularly in a single day, France and the UK announced they would bolster their border protection and clamp down on irregular migration and smugglers. If passed, the UK's contentious Nationality and Borders Bill will impose stricter jail terms for migrants entering the UK unlawfully.
Three Nigerian migrants have died over the weekend in a fire in the southern French city of Marseille. Panicking, they jumped out of windows of the public housing building where they were squatting, officials said. A young child was taken to a hospital in serious condition.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has urged Germany to show continued leadership on refugee policy after Angela Merkel steps down, as a new report shows that Germany is the top country for asylum claims in Europe.
The town of Oulx, situated near the Italian-French border in Italy's Alta Valle di Susa, has continued to represent an "important crossroads of two migration flows directed to France," the organization Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU) said in a report on the situation at the northwestern border of the Alps released on July 9.
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More and more people are arriving in the UK on boats or are intercepted in the English Channel. At the same time, overall migration to the UK remains at a steady level. Politicians, however, are still using images of dinghies washing up on British shores as political capital. And with a key Brexit deadline looming, things might get even more complicated in Brexit-Britain.
The UK government is set to introduce new laws which will enable it to send asylum seekers abroad to have their claims dealt with offshore. Critics have called the proposal "cruel" and "inhumane".
From June 14 to 20, Utopia 56 collected testimonies from migrants saying they have been victims of serious police violence in Calais. The association is concerned about a sharp increase in police violence since the clashes at the beginning of the month between the Eritrean community and the police there.
An international network of cities is advocating for the just distribution of refugees and migrants in the European Union. During a founding conference in Italy, they articulated their vision of a welcoming Europe.