650 Illegal Immigrants Make It to Spain in Single Week
Illegal crossings of the Mediterranean intensify, with human traffickers mainly departing from Morocco and Algeria.
Illegal crossings of the Mediterranean intensify, with human traffickers mainly departing from Morocco and Algeria.
Frontex refused to state which NGOs specifically had their details passed onto Europol, but did not rule out the possibility of the information being used in future prosecutions.
The migrants had left from the eastern coast of Libya, near Benghazi, on April 1st. They spent four days at sea, the last two without food or water.
Le Monde reports that since the summer of 2022, an obscure group called the Nationalists Party has been running an anti-immigrant campaign on social media.
We “need to have a credible option of forced returns,” Mari Juritsch, the bloc’s new Return Coordinator said.
The Commission’s new repatriation plan comes as support for national-conservative parties increases—a trend that, for the moment, shows no sign of abating.
Migration Watch Chairman Alp Mehmet said the government would not admit why the number will rise again—because “very few illegal arrivals are ever returned or removed.”
The criminal network forged IDs, proof of residence, and work permits for illegal immigrants.
So far, 44,000 Channel asylum seekers have arrived in Britain this year. Unless the situation is addressed, with a generous welfare state and a low chance of being deported, more tragedies can be expected.
Thus far this year, the EU’s border force said they detected almost 130,000 irregular border crossings on all Western Balkan routes.