The UK is hoping to introduce a new migration bill. It is currently making its way through parliament. If passed, it would result in most migrants who cross the Channel being detained and unable to claim asylum.
A new bill intended to crack down on migrants entering the UK is making its way through parliament. If it becomes law, the Refugee Council warns it could cost over €10 billion for accommodation alone.
The death toll following the migrant boat shipwreck off the Italian coast on February 26 has risen to 86. Authorities found five more bodies, including those of two children.
Arnaud Yao experienced slavery in Libya before crossing the Mediterranean to reach Italy. The 28-year-old Ivorian uses his experience to help other migrants on the Franco-Italian border.
Around 50 migrants crossed the Channel from France to the UK on February 21, the first group to have crossed since last week. Meanwhile the UK government is reportedly planning to announce more new immigration legislation "within weeks."
Nearly 6,500 people deported from Germany sneaked back to the country over the past three years, police told Bild newspaper.
Mohamed and Israa, both from Sudan, met in an unlikely place for a romance: the house of their smuggler in Turkey. They got married and crossed the Aegean Sea to the island of Lesbos. While waiting for legal status, they dream of a honeymoon in the Cyclades.
Asylum applications in January more than doubled compared to the same time period in the previous year, government figures show. A growing accommodation shortage is dividing regional parliaments and the local communes.
Spanish rescue services say they found at least one deceased person on a rubber dinghy with 42 other migrants on board. They were brought to Lanzarote in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
At least 60% of those who crossed the Channel in small boats in 2022 will be recognized as refugees, Britain’s Refugee Council says. Its analysis, published Tuesday, is based on Home Office data.
In a prison on the island of Chios, a dozen migrants, mostly Syrians, are serving sentences after Greek justice prosecuted them as smugglers. InfoMigrants met with them. Charlotte Oberti reports.
According to a spokesperson from Germany’s interior ministry, 12,945 migrants were returned from Germany during the course of 2022, a slight increase on the previous year.