A new immigration bill is making its way through the UK parliament. It is intended to deter migrants from crossing the English Channel and would end the reliance on hotel accommodation for asylum seekers. Instead, the bill suggests detaining them on surplus military sites.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani have issued statements after their visits to countries of departure of migrants. Interior Ministry Undersecretary Nicola Molteni meanwhile announced a 'migrant flow decree' to respond to labor market demand.
A group of 22 migrants who fled a plane in 2021 after it made an unscheduled landing on the island of Mallorca have been provisionally released after spending 14 months in pre-trial detention.
The European Union and Morocco have agreed to renew a partnership on immigration aimed at fighting human trafficking following the rise of "new" and "very violent" strategies adopted by criminal networks with the tragedy of Melilla on June 24. The decision was announced by the European Commission on July 8.
After four years, Eritrean priest Mussie Zerai has been cleared of all charges related to aiding illegal immigration in the southern Italian city of Trapani. An activist involved for years in providing humanitarian aid to refugees, Zerai was a Nobel Peace Prize nominee in 2015.
Solidarity is not a crime, according to a sentence of the supreme Cassation court which has cleared four Eritrean citizens of aiding and abetting illegal immigration. A court of first instance and an appeals court had previously convicted them of "favoring illegal immigration" as part of a criminal organization for helping other Eritrean migrants who had arrived in Italy, their lawyers said.
Spain and Morocco are seeking to cooperate in reducing irregular border crossings after resolving a year-long diplomatic crisis over a dispute relating to the territory of Western Sahara.
The president of Rome-based migrant aid association "Baobab Experience", Andrea Costa, told reporters that he risks a sentence of 18 years in jail on charges of favoring illegal immigration. A court of first instance in Rome is scheduled to rule on the case on May 3.
The British government has announced a new deal to export its asylum claims procedure to Rwanda, which will host the refugees indefinitely. However, offshoring responsibility towards refugees to the autocratic East African country raises a number of serious legal, economic and ethical questions.
Undocumented Afghan migrants struggle to access healthcare in Turkey, including coronavirus vaccines. With famine looming over Afghanistan, many are forced to take drastic measures to survive.
Two aid workers who were involved in migrant rescues will go on trial in Greece this week on charges of spying and disclosing state secrets. Human rights groups have described the case as "farcical."
Mallorca police arrested 12 passengers and were seeking 12 more Saturday who fled a plane during an emergency landing in an "unprecedented" incident possibly linked to illegal immigration, officials said.