Record Asylum Requests Approved for Migrants Claiming to Be Gay
The number of asylum seekers who claim to be gay and have been granted permission to stay in the UK under European human rights law has hit a record high. Last year, a record 2,133 migrants were granted asylum in the UK under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) provisions regarding sexual orientation. This […]
Reality Star-Turned-Fugitive Makes Desperate Plea For Asylum Status
Prominent anti-whaling activist Paul Watson has applied for asylum in France to avoid extradition to Japan on an arrest warrant filed 10 years ago. The environmentalist Captain Paul Watson Foundation on Wednesday appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron for political asylum. According to to Reuters. Watson was arrested in Greenland in July and could face […]
Poland to Suspend Asylum as Warsaw Squares Off Against EU
Poland will enact a temporary ban on asylum applications to “take back control and ensure security” in the country, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Saturday. “States must regain 100 percent control over who visits and enters Poland,” Prime Minister Tusk said at a convention in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. He said he plans […]
Children being traumatised at Gatwick deportation centre, finds watchdog | Immigration and asylum
Young children are being traumatized while being held at Gatwick Airport's deportation center, which should be closed, a watchdog group has found. The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) also said the children's parents were being subjected to “callous treatment and unnecessary suffering” due to the Home Office's lengthy decision-making process on deportations. The investigation follows an […]
Biden-Harris’ toothless asylum rules too strict, UN agency says
This was announced by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, a United Nations agency. statement The agency on Monday criticized the Biden-Harris administration's decision to extend so-called asylum restrictions, saying the administration “drastically limits access to protection for people fleeing conflict, persecution and violence, leaving many refugee and asylum seekers without […]
Biden Tightens Executive Order On Asylum Claims Further As Border Numbers Trickle Down
President Joe Biden announced Monday that he will further strengthen an earlier executive order that capped the number of asylum applications to curb illegal border crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border. Mr. Biden launched an initiative in June aimed at curbing the number of daily illegal border crossings as the number of illegal border encounters peaked […]
Biden Reportedly Planning To Make Tightened Border Asylum Restrictions More Permanent
The Biden administration is reportedly preparing to make an executive order cracking down on asylum claims at the U.S.-Mexico border more permanent. The White House will soon issue changes to an existing executive order that will make lifting asylum restrictions more difficult. According to said two sources who spoke to CBS News. Illegal border crossings […]
Feds Subpoena NYC’s Director of Asylum Seeker Operations
Federal Authorities Subpoena Director of Refugee Services for New York City Friday as part of an investigation into one of Mayor Eric Adams' (D) top aides. New York Post Reported. Federal agents have summoned New York City Office of Asylum Seekers Director Molly Schafer at her Brooklyn home, a law enforcement source told the outlet. […]
2 Massachusetts corrections officers stabbed by inmates as union says they are ‘literally running the asylum’
Following an attack at a Massachusetts prison in which two corrections officers were stabbed and three others injured by an inmate, a labor union has declared that “the inmates are literally running the prison.” The Massachusetts Department of Corrections said Thursday that the attack at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, a town north of […]
John Major criticises Rwanda asylum plan as ‘un-Conservative and un-British’ | John Major
Sir John Major criticised the previous Conservative government's Rwanda plan as inappropriate for the 21st century and “un-Conservative and un-British”. The former Conservative prime minister expressed frustration that “society has come to see immigration as evil” and said he did not believe the policy worked as a deterrent. As one of his first acts as […]