7 h. ago Asylum seekers being forcibly expelled at EU borders, says top rights lawyer

Council of Europe’s Michael O’Flaherty urged leaders not to give in to populist rhetoric over migrationEurope’s most senior human rights official has said there is evidence of asylum seekers being forcibly expelled at EU borders, as he urged mainstream politicians not to concede to populists on migration.The commissioner for human rights at the Council of Europe, Michael O’Flaherty, told the Guardian he was concerned about the treatment of asylum seekers at the EU’s external borders in Poland and Greece, as he warned against a “securitisation response” that goes too far. Continue reading...

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33 h. ago ‘They worship death’: Trump ‘border czar’ reveals extremist views in interview

The ‘great replacement’ theory, human sacrifice and torture videos: Tom Homan’s talk with Tucker Carlson offered a grab bag of far-right talking pointsDon’t let a billionaire’s algorithm control what you read. Download our free app to get trusted reporting.Donald Trump’s “border czar”, Tom Homan, and far-right media personality Tucker Carlson talked about a bizarre range of extremist and racist conspiracy theories in an interview just weeks before Homan took office and was trusted with implementing a wide-ranging crackdown on migrants.The conversation included Carlson’s claim that Mexican cartels come “from cultures that have practiced human sacrifice for thousands of years”, connected the racist “great replacement” theory to Biden’s immigration policy, and advocated the arrest of elected US leaders who opposed Donald Trump’s policies on migrants. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Huge fall in UK work visas as asylum seeker applications rocket to record level, Home Office data shows

A total of 108,138 people applied for asylum in Britain in 2024, the highest number for any 12-month period since current records began

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3 d. ago Keir Starmer to carry out largest cut to UK overseas aid in history

NGOs accuse prime minister of following US by accepting ‘false choice’ of cutting aid to fund defenceSir Keir Starmer is to take UK overseas aid to its lowest level as a percentage of national income since records began, even if he manages to halve the current £4.5bn cost of housing asylum seekers.The extraordinary finding, a complete reversal of Labour manifesto pledges and its historical commitment to helping the world’s poorest, is made by Ian Mitchell, the co-director of the respected London-based thinktank the Centre for Global Development. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Sharp fall in work visas as asylum seeker applications rocket to record level, Home Office data shows

A total of 108,138 people applied for asylum in Britain in 2024, the highest number for any 12-month period since current records began

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4 d. ago Asylum applications reach highest yearly figure since records began, data shows

The total of 108,138 for last year is up 18% from 91,811 in 2023, according to data from the Home Office.

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4 d. ago Sharp fall in work visas issued by Home Office as asylum seeker applications rocket

A total of 108,138 people applied for asylum in Britain in 2024, the highest number for any 12-month period since current records began

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4 d. ago Number of people claiming asylum in UK hit record high last year

Migrants who crossed English Channel in small boats accounted for 32 per cent of total number of people claiming asylum

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5 d. ago Reform UK accused of 'misinformation' over housing for asylum seekers in Glasgow

EXCLUSIVE: Labour MSP Paul Sweeney and MP Maureen Burke have rubbished Reform's claim of a plan to turn a former care home into housing for refugees.

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8 d. ago Migrant powder keg: Turmoil in Ireland amid 300% rise in asylum seekers with violence as machete attacks and drug

Shocking new videos show Dublin descending into chaos - with fighting thugs throwing themselves into busses, knife fights on their streets and mass brawls sparking in residential roads.

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9 d. ago Fathers who attempted to set fire to asylum seeker hotel in Rotherham are warned they face long spells behind bars

Plumbing engineer Mason Lowe, 28, and trainee barber Morgan Heeley, 26, - both fathers to two children - joined in mob violence during an attack on a Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham on August 4.

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1 week ago Homeless Algerian asylum seeker, 32, starved to death while dangling from a skylight for six days after trying to break into empty home, inquest hears

Khaled Aribi, an Algerian asylum seeker, was eventually discovered by an estate agent when she arrived for a viewing of the empty property in Walthamstow.

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1 week ago Asylum seeker declared a child by UK judges... despite a previous finding that he was 23 with a receding hairline and thick facial hair

An asylum seeker who is at least 23 years old and has a receding hairline as well as thick facial hair was declared a child by judges.

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1 week ago Former home of the Dambusters is left looking like bomb site after plans to house asylum seekers collapse into chaos

Shocking aerial photos have revealed the extent of dereliction of the World War Two airfield, where Guy Gibson and the other heroes of the Bouncing Bomb raid on German dams were based.

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1 week ago Asylum seeker declared a child by UK judges... despite Home Office finding he was 23 with a receding hairline and thick facial hair

An asylum seeker who is at least 23 years old and has a receding hairline as well as thick facial hair was declared a child by judges.

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1 week ago In these dark times of racially charged election campaigns, the German left offers a flicker of hope | Fatma Aydemir

Heidi Reichinnek’s speech went viral on TikTok – and sparked a surge of support from voters who reject the mainstream’s xenophobiaI was shopping for groceries the other day in Berlin’s neglected northern outskirts, when I remembered a joke. A banker, a social welfare recipient and an asylum seeker are sitting at a table. There are 12 cookies in front of them. The banker takes 11 cookies and says to the social welfare recipient: “Watch out, the refugee wants your cookie.”It came back to me as I witnessed a young white mother completely losing it at the checkout. At first I thought it was the prices that had caused her fury, though there was no indication of that; I was probably just projecting my own anxieties about money on to the woman’s tantrum. It took me a moment to realise that she was accusing another woman, also a mother but not white, of standing in her way on purpose. She shouted that this was her country and we should all step out of her way and that soon we would see. Two...

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1 week ago Asylum seeker declared a child by UK judges... despite being 23 with a receding hairline and thick facial hair

An asylum seeker who is at least 23-years-old and has a receding hairline as well as thick facial hair was declared a child by judges. 

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1 week ago Jailing an asylum seeker, 39, who sexually assaulted a teenager after driving around looking for vulnerable drunk women could breach his human rights, court hears

Hassan Abou Hayleh attacked the 19-year-old girl when he found her sitting alone on a kerb as she waited for her father to give her a lift home.

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1 week ago ‘Britain has been my home for 14 years. Now I’m being kicked out – and I have to leave my sick mother behind’

Asma Khan has been told she will be deported to Pakistan and be separated from her ill mother, who is allowed to stay

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1 week ago The village where 'asylum seekers outnumber locals': Residents living next to RAF airfield housing migrants claim they do not feel safe and are 'trapped' in their own homes

Villagers in Wethersfield, Essex say they do not feel safe walking the streets at night due to the threat of anti-social behaviour by groups of men from the UK's biggest asylum seeker facility.

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