Tag: migrant
Britain, France agree joint unit to fight migrant traffickers
The interior ministers of France and Britain on Sunday signed an agreement creating a new joint police intelligence unit to combat migrant traffickers and reduce…
Italy prohibits German migrant rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 from leaving harbor
Italian authorities have banned the German migrant rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 from setting sail, citing “several irregularities.” Just days ago, the ship started its first…
How COVID-19 is complicating Europe’s migrant problem
COVID-19 forced Europe to shut its borders but, since the start of the year, more than 13,000 migrants have attempted to cross the central Mediterranean,…
US must free migrant children from detention, court says
A court in Los Angeles has ordered the release of more than 100 children held in United States family immigration detention because of the risk…
Migrant rescue ships return to the Mediterranean after lockdown
Migrant rescue ships have returned to the Mediterranean for the first time in two months as coronavirus movement restrictions begin to ease. Last Saturday 67…
Fears mount over migrants dying ‘out of sight’ in Mediterranean
More and more migrants are crossing, Europe is closing its ports and no humanitarian ships are carrying out rescues. As the coronavirus pandemic dominates headlines,…
Malta to keep migrants at sea until EU acts
Malta says it will keep 57 migrants on a ship anchored at sea until the EU can rehouse them. The island nation has been accused…
‘Packed like sardines’: Coronavirus exposes cramped migrant housing
A surge of coronavirus cases in foreign-worker dormitories across Singapore and in the slums of India has drawn attention to the squalid housing conditions of…
Spain asks illegal migrants and jobless to pick fruit as coronavirus bites
Spain will temporarily allow thousands of illegal migrants to pick fruit to address labour shortages caused by the new coronavirus outbreak, in a move closely…
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