Germany's prisons already struggle with overcrowding and violence. Under a new proposal, they are also set to house asylum-seekers obliged to leave the country. Is the penitentiary system becoming a political plaything?
Just this weekend, a migrant in a detention center (CRA) in the Paris region attempted to take his own life. Another attempted to set a cell on fire. One non-governmental organization working with refugees and migrants, La Cimade, has sounded the alarm yet again over the deplorable living conditions in the CRAs.
The German Federal Ministry of the Interior intends to withdraw the tolerated stay permits of some failed asylum seekers who make falsified claims about their background.
A Swedish activist is facing legal action for stopping a plane from flying with an Afghan deportee on board. While she may have had good intentions, the outcome took an unexpected turn. Did she make the right decision?
Germany’s federal police shackled asylum seekers in more than 300 cases of deportations on charter flights last year, the German government said.
A small Dutch church's hard work has paid off — the government will review hundreds of children's rejected asylum applications. Dutch law prohibits authorities from entering a church building while a service is underway.
In Austria, a refugee from Pakistan is to be sent back to his homeland despite church asylum, Spiegel Online reports. He fears that Islamists seek to kill him at home because he sought sanctuary in a Christian monastery.
As public hostility grows towards Syrian refugees in Turkey, the authorities there have been accused of forcing Syrians back across the border. If the accusations are true, Turkey is breaching international law and jeopardizing its relationship with the European Union.
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer wants to introduce tougher deportation laws in Germany and make it easier to send criminal foreigners back to their home countries. Who exactly gets deported from Germany?
Spain is planning to expel 9,000 irregular migrants in 2019, nearly double the number of those it expelled last year.
Most of the asylum-seekers that were deported were sent to Italy. The deportations follow the EU's Dublin III rule, which states that applications must be processed in the first country of arrival.
In 2018, more than 5,000 Tunisians left their home country for Italy alone. A new study found that Tunisia experienced a new peak of irregular emigration starting in the second half of 2017.