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Home Secretary announces £75 million to crack down on people smugglers
17 September 24
The home secretary announces funding of £75 million to deliver ‘state-of-the-art technologies and enhanced intelligence’ to improve the capabilities of the Border Security Command.
Source: Standard
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Germany reintroduces border checks to far-right praise as EU tensions mount
16 September 24
Far-right leaders in Hungary, Netherlands, Italy and France react with jubilation as Germany reintroduces temporary checks at all nine of its land borders, with the interior minister saying the checks are necessary to combat irregular migration and ‘protect against…Islamist terrorism and serious crime’.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: EU
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Copying Italy’s migration policies won’t stop Channel deaths, says charity
16 September 24
President of the International Rescue Committee and former Labour foreign secretary David Miliband says that the government should offer safe routes to refugees, as Starmer shows great interest in the far-right Italian government’s offshoring deal with Albania.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: Italy
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Ex-police chief named head of UK’s border security command
15 September 24
The former chair of the National Police Chief’s Council, Martin Hewitt, is appointed to head the new Border Security Command.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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‘Inhumane’ treatment of migrants rounded up in UK’s failed Rwanda plan revealed
14 September 24
FOI-requested documents on Operation Vector (the rounding up of migrants for the Rwanda scheme) obtained by the Observer and Liberty Investigates, record 60 instances of force used by enforcement officers against detainees, including migrants being locked up after the postponement of the policy.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Bibby Stockholm: What next for Portland asylum barge?
12 September 24
From November, asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm will be moved off the barge and dispersed across the country to receive their asylum decision, but will not be moved to Portland, Weymouth, or the wider Dorset Council area.
Source: BBC News
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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More than 1,500 child trafficking victims in UK feared back with exploiters
12 September 24
The children’s commissioner, Rachel De Souza, warns that from January 2023 to July 2024, 1,541 child trafficking victims as well as 1,714 adult victims were re-referred to the national referral mechanism, with children in local authority care at greater risk of further exploitation.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Local Government Association recommends extending move-on period for new refugees to 56 days
11 September 24
A report from the Local Government Association highlights that an increase in homelessness is linked to the abrupt removal of support and accommodation from newly granted refugees and calls on the government to increase the move-on period to 56 days.
Source: EIN
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK, Scotland
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Berlin plans new mass accommodation for refugees
9 September 24
In Germany, Berlin’s State Office for Refugee Affairs plans to convert an office complex in affluent Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf into accommodation for 1,500 asylum seekers to cope with the dire shortage of asylum accommodation.
Source: Deutsche Welle
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: Germany
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Asylum seeker still waiting for Home Office decision after 16 years
9 September 24
Big Issue reveals that an asylum seeker has waited 16 years for a decision on his claim, while 19 others have waited ten years or more.
Source: Big Issue
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Afghan Paralympian seeking UK asylum appeals for new prosthetic legs
9 September 24
Qaher Hazrat, a top Paralympian athlete from Afghanistan now seeking asylum in the UK, is refused help from the NHS to replace his broken prosthetic legs because he is an asylum seeker.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Afghan family refused UK visas to join son, 13, evacuated from Kabul
9 September 24
A 10-year-old boy who was evacuated with an aunt and uncle to the UK in Operation Pitting during the fall of Kabul in 2021 remains separated from his family, who are in hiding in Afghanistan, as the Home Office rejects a family reunion application on the grounds that the child is not a valid sponsor.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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How drive to smash boat gangs made English Channel migrant crossings more deadly
7 September 24
Axel Gaudinat, a co-ordinator with Utopia 56 in Calais, France, explains that government policy to ‘stop the gangs’ by clamping down on the supply of boats is resulting in more people being packed onto overcrowded flimsy vessels. The average number of people per boat has risen from 40 last year to 60-70 this year, increasing the risk of death by crushing or drowning.
Source: National
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: France
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Rights group alleges Lebanon and Cyprus violated refugees’ human rights and EU funds paid for it
6 September 24
Search-and-rescue NGO SeaWatch accuses the Italian authorities of fatal delay in assisting a migrant boat that sank on 4 September off Lampedusa, drowning 21 of the 28 passengers.
Source: InfoMigrants
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Wrongly denied Windrush payments causing ‘further harm and injustice’
6 September 24
According to the parliamentary and health service ombudsman, the Windrush compensation scheme, set up in 2019 to compensate those affected by the Windrush scandal, is causing ‘further harm and injustice’ by wrongly denying compensation.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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