Two migrants were found dead and at least 10 were hospitalised Friday after police in South Texas received a call that they were “suffocating” in a freight train traveling near the US-Mexico border. The Uvalde Police Department said Border Patrol was informed
Rishi Sunak could order disused ferries to be repurposed to provide housing for migrants as part of an attempt to remove asylum seekers from hotels. Next week, the Prime Minister is anticipated to declare that the “end of the road” for asylum hotels is
Suella Braverman today slammed Labour’s “paltry excuse for a plan” to tackle small boats. The Home Secretary took aim at the five-point plan to reform the asylum system set out by Sir Keir Starmer’s party earlier this month during a combative Commons
Officials in Madagascar have recovered 34 bodies from the Indian Ocean after the sinking of a boat that was carrying migrants hoping to get to Mayotte. The boat carrying 58 passengers sailed clandestinely without going through official immigration or customs controls and
Two boats carrying dozens of migrants sank off Turkey’s Aegean coast on Tuesday, drowning at least four people, Turkish media reports said. The Turkish coast guard rescued 38 people and recovered the four bodies, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. It was not
An activist network that supports rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea is accusing Italy of failing to offer timely assistance to a smugglers’ boat in distress, resulting in a deadly shipwreck that left at least 30 migrants missing and presumed dead in
Intelligence reports indicate nearly 700,000 migrants are in Libya awaiting an opportunity to set out by sea toward Italy, a lawmaker from Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right party said Sunday, but a U.N. migration official called the number not credible. Tommaso Foti, the
Khiyal had been staying in a dismal-looking migrant camp on the French coast but on Friday decided to travel to the French capital after his British lawyer told him “now is not a good time”. The builder, 41, told The Sun: “I
The Italian coast guard responded Friday to three boats carrying more than 1,300 migrants that were “in danger” in the Mediterranean Sea off Italy’s southern coast, officials said. Coast guard vessels were dispatched to rescue about 500 people on a smuggler’s boat
Rishi Sunak is set to pass legislation that will permit the mass detention of thousands of asylum seekers who travel to the UK in small boats. The Prime Minister and home secretary Suella Braverman will announce next week plans to make all