4 h. ago UN refugee agency backs return hubs in boost to potential Labour plan

There have been reports that the UK Government could seek to send failed asylum seekers to overseas hubs in the Balkans.

Events

14 h. ago Denied, detained, deported: the people at the heart of Trump’s immigration crackdown

The White House is targeting people seen as opponents of its agenda – here are some of the most high-profile casesDonald Trump retook the White House vowing to stage “the largest deportation operation in American history”. The administration has set about further militarizing the US-Mexico border and targeting asylum seekers and refugees while conducting raids in undocumented communities and spreading fear.Critics are outraged, if not surprised. But few expected the new legal chapter that unfolded next: a multi-pronged crackdown on certain people seen as opponents of the US president’s ideological agenda. This assault has come in the context of wider attacks on higher education, the courts and the constitution. Continue reading...

Politics

14 h. ago Denied, detained, deported: the people ensnared in Trump’s immigration crackdown

The White House is targeting people seen as opponents of its agenda – here are some of the most high-profile casesDonald Trump retook the White House vowing to stage “the largest deportation operation in American history”. The administration has set about further militarizing the US-Mexico border and targeting asylum seekers and refugees while conducting raids in undocumented communities and spreading fear.Critics are outraged, if not surprised. But few expected the new legal chapter that unfolded next: a multi-pronged crackdown on certain people seen as opponents of the US president’s ideological agenda. This assault has come in the context of wider attacks on higher education, the courts and the constitution. Continue reading...

Politics

46 h. ago Family says ICE agents smashed car window to take man seeking asylum

The family and their legal representation are now demanding answers

Events

47 h. ago Mum records moment immigration agents smash car window before dragging husband away

Marilu Mendez says ICE agents surrounded her car on Monday, smashed the window and dragged her and husband Juan Mendez out of the vehicle

Politics

55 h. ago Family says ICE agents smashed car window in seizing Guatemalan man who's seeking asylum

A Massachusetts family is demanding answers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, complaining its agents smashed a car window and detained a man who was in the process of applying for aslyum

Events

2 d. ago ‘We feel like we’re back in Senegal’: the Sufis helping migrants in the Canaries

Part-school, part-social network, a Mouride circle on the Spanish island is helping teenage asylum seekers prepare for adulthood and navigate a challenging welfare system• Photographs by Diana TakacsovaIn a three-storey building in a residential neighbourhood in Gran Canaria, about an hour’s drive from the airport, more than a dozen teenage Senegalese boys in colourful, flowing robes sit in a circle, soulfully chanting supplications. Behind them, girls sit with their heads covered, praying. On the top-floor terrace a feast of steaming rice, meat and vegetable gravy is being prepared.It is a bright Sunday afternoon in February. The young people are mostly asylum seekers from Senegal, who live in detention centres where conditions can be brutal, according to Spanish human rights groups. Continue reading...

Events

3 d. ago Labour awards contract for asylum barges and hotels despite pledge to end their use

Exclusive: Critics urge the government to confirm that they would not restore the ‘inhumane use of barges to house people seeking asylum’

Events

4 d. ago Asylum seekers could save the government £4.4billion if they were allowed to work earlier

Asylum seekers could save the government billions of pounds if they were given the right to work after settling into the UK after six months, instead of the 12-month ban that is currently in place

Economics

4 d. ago Germany's public services and towns are 'overwhelmed' by immigrants and the country must take fewer asylum seekers, incoming chancellor says

Friedrich Merz said immigration figures 'need to significantly' come down below six figures amid pressure on public services and towns.

Events

5 d. ago Britain's asylum seeker 'sanctuaries': The towns and cities bucking the trend by welcoming migrants and refugees to their communities with open arms

EXCLUSIVE: The City of Sanctuary movement aims to make asylum seekers and refugees feel more welcome by persuading local voluntary groups to sign up as members.

Events

5 d. ago ‘Savage’ UK cuts will deprive 55m people of aid around the world

Exclusive: The cuts will result in a reduction of key programmes for education, family planning, water and food aid. Alicja Hagopian and Kate Devlin report

Politics

6 d. ago Lib Dems' biggest election donor unmasked as boss of axed asylum seeker hotel firm

Stay Belvedere Hotels enjoyed tens of millions in profits before being dropped by the government last month — now our investigation reveals its co-owner gave Ed Davey’s party nearly £500,000 in the weeks ahead of polling day

Politics

8 d. ago French authorities are 'giving small boat migrants lifejackets to cross the English Channel' and crisis is getting WORSE under Labour, fisherman claims

Fisherman Matt Coker, owner of Coker Seafishing in Dover, Kent,, claims groups of asylum seekers are being escorted by the French authorities instead of being intercepted and stopped.

Events

8 d. ago Germany announces it will turn away asylum seekers at its borders as part of 'repatriation offensive'

Asylum seekers will be refused entry along all of Germany 's borders and 'turbo-naturalisation' - a scheme allowing migrants to gain citizenship after just three years of stay - will be abolished

Events

9 d. ago They fled Putin’s Russia for the US. After Ice detention, they’re choosing to leave again

Sergei and Marina were building a new life in California after protesting the Ukraine war. But Sergei was arrested during a routine check-in – and everything has changedSergei and Marina escaped Russia three years ago under threat of arrest after protesting against the Ukraine war, seeking asylum in the US. Now their best chance of remaining together, as a family, is to flee again.In a whirlwind three weeks, the couple’s plans to rebuild their lives in the US were abruptly upended. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago Horrific way Channel people smugglers deal with refugees who can't pay for crossing

Asylum seekers with no money have told The Mirror they are told by people smugglers that the only way they can cross the Channel to Britain is to steer the flimsy dinghies

Economics

1 week ago Horrific way Channel people smugglers treat refugees who can't pay for crossing

Asylum seekers with no money have told The Mirror they are told by people smugglers that the only way they can cross the Channel to Britain is to steer the flimsy dinghies

Events

1 week ago 'Refugees who can't pay smugglers being forced at gunpoint to steer death

Asylum seekers with no money have told The Mirror they are told by people smugglers that the only way they can cross the Channel to Britain is to steer the flimsy dinghies

Events

1 week ago A Nicaraguan asylum seeker checked in with Ice every week. He was arrested anyway

Alberto Lovo Rojas fled violence in his home country. Now, he fears Trump-backed deportationIt finally happened while he was waiting to get his hair cut.Alberto Lovo Rojas, an asylum seeker from Nicaragua, had been feeling uneasy for weeks, worried that immigration officials would arrest him any moment. But he had pushed the worry aside as irrational – after all, he had a permit to legally work in the US, and he had been using an app to check in monthly with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). Continue reading...

Events