Giorgia Meloni: Starmer showed great interest in our Albania migration deal | Immigration and asylum
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Prime Minister Keir Starmer has shown “great interest” in an Italy-Albania migration deal, and the UK has pledged to contribute £4 million to support Starmer's controversial crackdown on illegal immigration. Speaking at a press conference in Rome, the Prime Minister agreed with Mr Meloni and stressed the importance of […]
CBP One App Migrants Released into U.S. — No Asylum Questions Asked
EAGLE PASS, Texas — The Biden-Harris Administration has released Venezuelan migrants and families who entered the United States through the CBP One mobile phone app onto the streets of Eagle Pass, where the migrants say they were never asked about asylum or credible fears before being released into the United States. Rodrigo, a Venezuelan national […]
Wilders-Led Dutch Gov’t to Enact Emergency Limits on Asylum Seeking
The populist-led Dutch government has announced it will use emergency powers to declare a refugee crisis and formally request “withdrawal” from European Union migration policy. Dutch Refugee Protection Minister Marjolein Faber, a member of Geert Wilders' populist Party for Freedom (PVV), said this week that the government would institute a “legal refugee crisis” to stem […]
Asylum Seekers to Be Turned Away
Germany on Wednesday unveiled a series of proposals to step up its tough stance on immigration, reduce the number of asylum seekers attempting to enter the country and thwart terrorist threats along with cross-border crime. Berlin says it needs to tackle illegal immigration, which has overburdened public services, and protect its citizens from threats such […]
Afghan family refused UK visas to join son, 13, evacuated from Kabul | Immigration and asylum
The Home Office has rejected the visa application of a family trapped in Afghanistan whose son fled to the UK when Kabul fell. Ahmad (not his real name) was brought to the UK aged 10 with his aunt and uncle during Operation Pitting in 2021, when around 15,000 British nationals and eligible Afghans were evacuated […]
Biden-Harris Admin Negotiates Bus Passage Through Mexico for Migrants Using CBP-One ‘Asylum’ App
The latest development on immigration between the Biden/Harris Administration and the Mexican government is that buses will be provided for migrants from two southern Mexican cities to the U.S. border. Under the plan, U.S.-bound migrants will be provided with food and safety during the journey from the two cities to their U.S. destination, where the […]
Harris Dodges on Why Biden-Harris Admin. Waited to Implement Asylum Restrictions, Says Her Efforts Had Results
Vice President Kamala Harris, a 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, responded to a question in an interview with CNN on Thursday about why the Biden-Harris administration waited three and a half years to implement recent asylum restrictions by touting her own research into the root causes of migration and pointing to the Senate border bill that […]
Biden admin may revive asylum program shut down after ‘mass fraud’: report
The Biden administration may reopen an asylum program that fell victim to “massive fraud,” but thousands of possible fraudulent uses of the program are still under investigation. A program that allows migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to apply for entry and temporary work permits could be reinstated as soon as this week by […]
Vance Calls for End to Catch-and-Release, Asylum, Mass Parole
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that a second Trump administration would halt the capture and release of migrants and the granting of asylum. “There’s been a lot of discussion about Donald Trump’s mass deportations,” host Kristen Welker said. “More than 11 million Americans live in families with mixed immigration […]
U.K. Grants Record High Number Of ‘Asylum Seekers Under Refugee Status’
Migrants rescued in the English Channel come ashore in Dover, England, November 16, 2023. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) OAN Staff Avril ElfiFriday, August 23, 2024 3:44 PM The number of asylum seekers receiving refugee status in the UK is the highest in the world for almost 40 years. advertisement A total of 67,978 asylum […]