Home Secretary Yvette Cooper unveiled the government’s strategy to combat illegal immigration, which focuses on strengthening border controls, reopening two detention centers, and expanding detention capacity by 290 beds. Cooper also committed to increasing deportations of failed asylum seekers to 2018 levels, aiming to deport 14,000 individuals by the end of 2024. The government’s plan…
German police arrested a Somali immigrant after he stabbed a 40-year-old man in the neck. The arrest, which involved 30 officers, occurred outside a large store in the small town of Waltershausen. Prior to the stabbing, the 27-year-old immigrant had caused panic by threatening store patrons with a knife and making death threats. He attacked…
According to a police report published by the German News Agency, there were 519 recorded attacks on refugees and asylum seekers in the first half of 2024. These incidents ranged from coercion and incitement to hatred to physical violence. Refugees in Germany face frequent verbal and physical assaults, with Saxony and Thuringia being the regions…
The Stuttgart Anti-Fascist Action Alliance organized a demonstration under the slogan “Together Against Racism” to protest far-right extremism and show solidarity with refugees. The rally was organized in response to a right-wing extremist attack on a refugee shelter in South Stuttgart two weeks prior. A week ago, the police arrested a person who attempted to…
A recent BBC report has revealed that the number of refugees arriving in the UK via the English Channel in 2024 has increased. According to the report, a total of 18,467 refugees have crossed the English Channel since the beginning of the year until August 12. This number is higher than the figures recorded for…
Kansel Kiziltepe, a member of the Senate for the Integration District in Berlin and a member of the Social Democratic Party, has called for reducing the size of refugee accommodation at Tegel Airport, which has become a refugee accommodation center, because refugees are increasingly accommodated in large accommodation facilities in light of the lack of…
The Green Party issued a paper published by the newspaper (Süddeutsche Zeitung). The paper included a demand to eliminate the problems facing refugee employment and work. The party presented fifteen proposals for measures to facilitate access to the refugees to work, in particular lifting the ban on refugees working, According to the German News Agency,…
Thirty years ago, the first two young men from West Africa arrived on the shores of Fuerteventura – one of the Canary Islands – on a wooden boat and then requested political asylum. An anniversary that the Spanish islands celebrate at the end of August each year. The Canary Islands route is one of the…
The state-owned healthcare company Berlinovo, has launched an eight-story residential building for skilled foreign workers. The building, located in the Prenzlauer Berg district, cost $8.5 million. The construction took 19 months and the building contains 76 furnished apartments ranging from one to three rooms at a price of 15 euros per square meter. The aim…
Irish Deputy Prime Minister Michael Martin has announced that Ireland will receive 50 refugees from Afghanistan under the Irish Refugee Protection Program 2024/2025. The Irish politician emphasized the severity of the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, which he described as one of the worst in the world. His comments were made on the third anniversary of…
Members of the Green Party in the European, federal, and state parliaments have written a letter to the European Commission. In the letter, they are urging for an end to fixed border controls on Germany’s internal borders. They claim that not only Germany but seven other European countries are in violation of Schengen rules. The…
The Social Court in Hamburg has ruled that setting fixed cash payments on a payment card for refugees is illegal. The court determined that these fixed amounts fail to account for individual circumstances. The ruling came after a refugee family challenged the legality of the fixed payments, leading the court to urgently declare them unlawful….
