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Starting in 2015, Europe struggled on a large scale to cope with its biggest influx of refugees since the second world war. Hundreds of thousands fled and have been fleeing from the war-torn Middle East and beyond. Many have resorted to risky boat voyages to reach Europe, and thousands have perished in the process.
The British PM is trying to circumvent a court finding that sending asylum seekers to Rwanda would have them face a real risk of persecution.
In a stunning move, Natalie Elphicke, who has been critical of the opposition in the past, crossed the floor of the House of Commons to join the ranks of Keir Starmer’s Labour Party.
Asylum Aid launched a legal challenge against the UK government’s policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, which PM Rishi Sunak aims to launch within weeks.
Images released by British authorities showed a man being put in a van and another being led out of his house in handcuffs.
The UK government has said it would pay asylum seekers up to £3,000 (about US$3,745) each to move to Rwanda to help clear the backlog of refugees who have arrived in the country in recent years.
Three men, two Sudanese nationals aged 22 and 19, and a South Sudan national aged 22, were detained on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration and entering the UK illegally.
The tragedy came only hours after UK PM Rishi Sunak’s latest effort to send some migrants on a one-way ticket to Rwanda finally won approval from Parliament.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s latest effort to send some migrants to Rwanda finally won approval from parliament early Tuesday, hours after he pledged deportation flights would begin in July.
The abandoned office building, which was France’s biggest squat, had been home to up to 450 migrants, most of them documented but awaiting social housing.
Under the policy, asylum seekers who arrive illegally in Britain will be sent to the East African nation, in a bid to deter cross-channel crossings.
The pact will harden tighten border procedures and force all the nations in the bloc to share responsibility for migrants.
The United Nations migration agency says 38 migrants are dead, and 22 others have been rescued from a shipwreck off Djibouti on a popular route to Yemen.
Under Rwanda plan, asylum seekers who arrive on England’s coast would be sent to Rwanda. Legislation will return to parliament’s upper chamber for votes on Wednesday.
Local officials said that the boat, filled with migrants, begun sinking overnight and on Friday many ambulances were standing by at the port of Kabatepe near Gokceada.
Under a five-year agreement announced in November, Albania will shelter up to 36,000 migrants a year as Rome fast-tracks their asylum requests.
Lawmaker Simon Clarke warns of a ‘massacre’ in the coming election if there is no leadership change, as the Tories trail Labour in opinion polls.
The prime minister quelled party rebels to avoid a serious blow to his authority, but the bill faces further hurdles in parliament before it becomes law.
Two of his party’s deputy chairmen are quitting their posts amid calls for the prime minister to toughen the scheme to send migrants on a one-way trip to the African nation.
The group were trying to reach a vessel off a French town when their small boat encountered difficulties.
The reform includes speedier vetting of irregular arrivals, creating border detention centres, accelerated deportation for rejected applicants and a mechanism to take pressure off countries experiencing big inflows.
High waves swamped the vessel, which had over 80 people aboard, as it made its risky sea voyage towards Europe.
The British prime minister has pinned his reputation on a scheme to send asylum seekers to the African nation.
Robert Jenrick’s bombshell resignation over legislation regarding sending migrants to the African nation puts further pressure on British PM Rishi Sunak.
The new treaty will include an agreement that Rwanda would not expel asylum seekers to a country where their life or freedom would be threatened – a major concern by the UK Supreme Court, which last month ruled the agreement illegal.
The UK has sought an alternative after courts ruled Rwanda could not be a safe third country and migrants going there are at risk of being sent back to home nations.
The Nordic country is facing an influx of asylum seekers from third countries, in what it says is a hybrid attack orchestrated by Moscow.
Despite the British leader’s vow to reduce arrivals, official figures showed net migration last year hit new levels.
Geert Wilders and his far-right Freedom Party have pulled off an extraordinary political bombshell, a shock result that will resound across Europe.