Tricked, abducted and killed: the last day of two child migrants in Mexico

Posted on February 16, 2019 by Admin

The deaths show the vulnerability of migrants forced to ‘remain in Mexico’ under new US policy for asylum seekers

On a Saturday afternoon in December, three Honduran boys walked out through the gates of the blue stucco YMCA shelter for unaccompanied child migrants in Tijuana, and turned past the gas station next door on to Cuauhtémoc Boulevard for a walk.

Their destination was a sports centre-turned-migrant camp to visit people they’d met travelling north with a caravan of other Central Americans.

Scott Morrison says people smugglers will ‘have a crack’ if Labor is elected

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Admin

Bill Shorten dismisses PM’s comments, saying it’s possible to have strong borders and treat people humanely

The prime minister, Scott Morrison, has sent out a fresh message on border security, saying “people smugglers know they won’t get through me and Peter Dutton” but would “have a crack” if Bill Shorten became prime minister.

Morrison said the government had “increased the strength, resource and capability again of Operation Sovereign Borders” after the asylum seeker medevac legislation passed parliament this week, in spite of the Coalition’s best efforts to block it.

Pakistan intervenes in case of man facing deportation from Australia

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Admin

High commission urges early redress for Nauroze Anees, citing his ‘uncomfortably prolonged detention’

Pakistan’s high commission has called for early redress for one of its citizens held in “overstretched and uncomfortably prolonged detention” in Australia’s onshore immigration facilities.

The man, a 32-year-old who arrived in 2007 on a student visa, has been refused ministerial intervention in his case, despite acting as the primary carer for his partner. He is among the growing cohort of people inside detention on section 501 “character test” deportation orders.

High court rejects attempt to challenge Australia’s indefinite detention regime

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Admin

Plaintiff’s lawyers wanted to suspend case after argument about his identity came unstuck in Canberra high court

The high court has rejected an attempt to reopen a controversial ruling which effectively enabled indefinite immigration detention in Australia.

The full bench in Canberra took the highly unusual step of delivering an immediate judgement, after a tumultuous day which saw the plaintiff’s lawyers seek to stop them hearing the case and have it sent back to a single judge for reassessment.

Italy split by Inspector Montalbano’s pro-migrant message on TV

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Admin

Sicilian detective recovers body of drowned migrant in episode of drama series

Italy’s most famous fictional detective has delivered a pro-migrant message on TV, angering supporters of the far-right deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini.

In a scene from a new episode of the TV series Inspector Montalbano that aired in Italy on Monday night, the Sicilian investigator, played by the Roman actor Luca Zingaretti, jumps into the sea to recover the body of a migrant who drowned attempting to reach the shore.

Viktor Orbán: no tax for Hungarian women with four or more children

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Admin

Growing families better than letting Muslim immigrants in, says prime minister

Hungary’s populist prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has promised that women who have four or more children will never pay income tax again, in a move aimed at boosting the country’s population.

Orbán, who has emerged as Europe’s loudest right wing, anti-immigration voice in recent years, said getting Hungarian families to have more children was preferable to allowing immigrants from Muslim countries to enter.

‘You’re lucky to get paid at all’: how African migrants are exploited in Italy | Hsiao-Hung Pai

Posted on February 9, 2019 by Admin

Under the baking sun, workers toil for €2 an hour. And the country’s hard-right authorities keep turning the screw

The dawn was about to break as I arrived, with a team of workers in the farmer’s van, at the vast fields that stretch out for miles around Campobello, the “handsome fields”, in western Sicily. Everyone got out, and immediately started to work on their line of olive trees. It would take the team several weeks to harvest them.

Hakeem-al Arabi: Thai cave diving heroes Harris and Challen call for footballer’s release

Posted on February 8, 2019 by Admin

The divers, who were named 2019 Australians of the Year, have written to the Thai prime minister to free the refugee

The Thailand cave rescue diving heroes and Australians of the Year, Dr Richard Harris and Dr Craig Challen, have joined the campaign to save the refugee footballer Hakeem-al Arabi, a Bahraini refugee and resident of Australia who is being detained in Bangkok.

Harris, an anaesthetist and diver from Adelaide, and Challen, a champion diver from Wangara, Western Australia, were part of the global team that freed the trapped Wild Boars football team in July 2018. They have been friends and cave diving partners for years.

Man trying to enter France from Italy dies of hypothermia

Posted on February 8, 2019 by Admin

Derman Tamimou from Togo found lying unconscious on side of road between Piedmont and Hautes-Alpes

French magistrates have opened an inquiry into “involuntary manslaughter” after a man died of hypothermia after trying to cross into France from Italy.

A truck driver found Derman Tamimou from Togo on Thursday morning, lying unconscious on the side of a highway that links the northern Italian region of Piedmont with France’s Hautes-Alpes. He was taken to hospital in the French town of Briançon, but it is unclear whether he died there or was already dead at the scene. He was found between Briançon and Montgenèvre, an Alpine village about 6 miles from the Italian border.

Fear and anger stalk thousands of Britons living on Costa del Sol

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Admin

For 300,000 UK citizens in Spain, which does not allow dual citizenship, pension and healthcare worries are hard to resolve

A couple of years ago, Michael Soffe seemed to have a charmed life. A gourmet tour guide and wedding planner, he’d made a home and built a business in sun-soaked Málaga, the increasingly hip city at the heart of Spain’s southern coast.

Now he fears that everything he’s worked for is hanging in the balance as heedless politicians push Brexit negotiations to the brink. His biggest worry is that his partner, a two-time cancer survivor still in treatment, could lose his right to public healthcare.

What happened to the deal – and the refugees – surviving Australian and US politics? | Anne Richard

Posted on January 28, 2019 by Admin

I signed the agreement to resettle some of Australia’s refugees from Nauru and Manus Island in the US. I wanted to see how they are faring now

Two years ago, Australia’s then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull called to congratulate Donald Trump on his inauguration, and to elicit the new president’s support for continuing an agreement between Australia and the US. Australia had stopped thousands of asylum seekers from reaching its shores and had arranged to detain them on islands in the South Pacific; the US had agreed to resettle some in America. The transcript of the phone conversation makes clear that the deal was a top priority for Turnbull and an unwelcome surprise for Trump, who called it “a rotten deal”.

Can selling its homes for the price of an espresso save this Sicilian town?

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Admin

Buyers flocked to Sambuca last week when it put empty houses on sale at €1 each in a bid to reverse decline. We joined the queue…

Darkness falls on the small town of Sambuca di Sicilia, where the council offices on Corso Umberto have been closed for more than three hours. And yet the phones keep ringing, hour after hour.

“They’re calling from Sydney, London, New York,” says the exhausted deputy mayor, Giuseppe Cacioppo. A week after the town announced it was putting up abandoned homes for sale at a euro each, he has fielded requests for information from all over the globe. By Wednesday last week the council had received more than 300 calls and 94,000 emails. Many prospective buyers, not wanting to miss out, grabbed the first available flight to Palermo.

Court in Italy rules Matteo Salvini should be tried for kidnapping

Posted on January 24, 2019 by Admin

Leader of far-right party under investigation after preventing 177 migrants from disembarking in Italy

Italy’s deputy prime minister and interior minister, Matteo Salvini, is one step away from facing trial after a surprise court ruling determined that he be tried for kidnapping.

In August, prosecutors in Agrigento, Sicily, placed Salvini, who is leader of the far-right party the League, under investigation for the alleged kidnapping and detention of 177 migrants whom he prevented from disembarking the Italian coastguard ship Ubaldo Diciotti.

France summons Italian envoy over ‘hostile’ Africa remarks

Posted on January 22, 2019 by Admin

Italian deputy PM blames migrant crisis on France’s ‘colonisation’ of Africa

France’s foreign ministry has summoned the Italian ambassador in an escalating row over migrant arrivals in Europe that pits the centrist government of Emmanuel Macron against Italy’s far-right-populist coalition.

Teresa Castaldo was summoned over “hostile” remarks made by the Italian deputy prime minister, Luigi Di Maio.

Ecuador targets Venezuelan migrants after woman’s death

Posted on January 21, 2019 by Admin

Crackdown announced amid outrage over killing as Venezuelan man is held

Ecuador has launched a crackdown on Venezuelan migrants after a pregnant Ecuadorian woman was killed on Saturday evening.

The police and Ecuador’s president, Lenín Moreno, have said that that Diana Carolina Ramírez’s killer was her boyfriend, a Venezuelan immigrant. His name was given as Yordy Rafael LG, who was said to be in custody.

EU support for Libya contributes to ‘extreme abuse’ of refugees, says study

Posted on January 21, 2019 by Admin

Human Rights Watch accuses EU institutions of sustaining network of ‘inhuman and degrading’ migrant detention centres

The EU’s support for Libya’s anti-migrant policies is contributing to a cycle of “extreme abuse”, including arbitrary detention, torture, sexual violence, extortion and forced labour.

According to a report by Human Rights Watch, who interviewed 66 migrants and asylum seekers in Libya last year, EU institutions and member states are continuing to sustain a network of detention centres characterised by “inhuman and degrading” conditions where the risk of abuse is rife.

More than 100 migrants missing after dinghy sinks in Med

Posted on January 19, 2019 by Admin

The vessel left Libya two days ago and started sinking after 10 to 11 hours at sea

About 117 migrants who left Libya in a rubber dinghy two days ago are unaccounted for, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said, after three people were rescued from the sinking vessel in the Mediterranean.

“The three survivors told us they were 120 when they left Garabulli, in Libya, on Thursday night. After 10 to 11 hours at sea (the boat) started sinking and people started drowning,” IOM spokesman Flavio Di Giacomo said.

Thousands march beside coffin of murdered Gdańsk mayor – video

Posted on January 19, 2019 by Admin

Carrying flags and candles through the streets, thousands of people walked in procession on Friday along with the coffin of Gdańsk's murdered mayor, Paweł Adamowicz. He was stabbed on Sunday evening by a man who rushed the stage during a charity event. Adamowicz died the following day

Thousands march beside coffin of killed Gdansk mayor

Paweł Adamowicz: thousands attend Gdańsk mayor’s funeral

Posted on January 18, 2019 by Admin

Poles mourn critic of ruling party’s anti-immigration policies who was stabbed at charity event

Polish and European officials joined thousands of people from across Poland on Saturday for the funeral of Paweł Adamowicz, the mayor of the northern city of Gdańsk, who died on Monday after being stabbed the night before at a charity event.

The European council president, Donald Tusk, a friend of Adamowicz, was among those attending the burial at the vast Gothic St Mary’s Basilica. Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, and the prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, also attended along with former leaders including Lech Wałęsa.

‘Hatred is becoming more visible’: shocked Gdańsk mourns slain mayor

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Admin

Residents take part in vigils after stabbing of Paweł Adamowicz on stage at charity concert

The music has been switched off at the Red Light pub in the heart of the picturesque old town of Gdańsk. A single candle adorned with a black ribbon rests on the bar. The city is in mourning.

The people of Gdańsk are coming to terms with the death of their mayor, Paweł Adamowicz, who was stabbed on stage at a charity concert in front of thousands of people on Sunday. A public appeal led to crowds of people queueing for hours to donate blood to save their mayor, but he was pronounced dead on Monday afternoon.

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Category Archives: Migration

Tricked, abducted and killed: the last day of two child migrants in Mexico

Scott Morrison says people smugglers will ‘have a crack’ if Labor is elected

Pakistan intervenes in case of man facing deportation from Australia

High court rejects attempt to challenge Australia’s indefinite detention regime

Italy split by Inspector Montalbano’s pro-migrant message on TV

Viktor Orbán: no tax for Hungarian women with four or more children

‘You’re lucky to get paid at all’: how African migrants are exploited in Italy | Hsiao-Hung Pai

Hakeem-al Arabi: Thai cave diving heroes Harris and Challen call for footballer’s release

Man trying to enter France from Italy dies of hypothermia

Fear and anger stalk thousands of Britons living on Costa del Sol

What happened to the deal – and the refugees – surviving Australian and US politics? | Anne Richard

Can selling its homes for the price of an espresso save this Sicilian town?

Court in Italy rules Matteo Salvini should be tried for kidnapping

France summons Italian envoy over ‘hostile’ Africa remarks

Ecuador targets Venezuelan migrants after woman’s death

EU support for Libya contributes to ‘extreme abuse’ of refugees, says study

More than 100 migrants missing after dinghy sinks in Med

Thousands march beside coffin of murdered Gdańsk mayor – video

Paweł Adamowicz: thousands attend Gdańsk mayor’s funeral

‘Hatred is becoming more visible’: shocked Gdańsk mourns slain mayor