BRUSSELS—European Union leaders greenlighted plans on Friday to give Turkey another €3 billion ($3.6 billion) over the next few years to provide fresh assistance to Syrian refugees on its territory and to help the country boost border controls. “It’s about additional funds of 3 billion euros [$3.6 billion], then afterwards also funds for Lebanon and…
Border Officials Have Found More Than 200 Dead Migrants Since October and Rescued Thousands
Border officials recorded over 200 migrant deaths and about 7,000 rescues for migrants who attempted to illegally enter the U.S. since October 2020, a Customs and Border Protection spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation Thursday. Migrants continue to try and enter the U.S illegally despite high temperatures and other dangers, the Customs and Border…
Feeling Abandoned by Europe, Greece Hardens Migration Policy
RITSONA, Greece—With walled camps and tougher border controls, Greece is hardening its approach ahead of summer when migrant arrivals pick up, defying criticism from aid groups and saying it has little choice given a lack of support from the rest of Europe. The squalid conditions facing many asylum-seekers were laid bare last year when a…
Dozens of Migrants Rescued After Boat Runs Aground on Spain’s Lanzarote
LANZAROTE, Spain—More than 40 African migrants were rescued after their boat ran aground on the rocky coast of Lanzarote in Spain’s Canary Islands late on Thursday, emergency services said, while over 100 people on two more boats made it safely to other islands. At least three people died and at least two more were missing,…
Dozens of Migrants Rescued, Four Dead After Boat Runs Aground on Spain’s Lanzarote
LANZAROTE, Spain—More than 40 African migrants were rescued after their boat ran aground on the rocky coast of Lanzarote in Spain’s Canary Islands late on Thursday, emergency services said, while over 100 people on two more boats made it safely to other islands. Rescue workers pulled the body of a young boy out of the…
Hundreds of Migrants Rescued by MSF Charity Land in Sicily
AUGUSTA, Italy—Around 400 migrants disembarked on Friday from the ship Geo Barents at the Italian port of Augusta, in Sicily, more than a week after the first rescue operation was carried out in the Mediterranean Sea. Of the people on board, mainly from Africa, some 100 were minors, the MSF charity operating the boat said….
Florida Sheriff to Migrants From Blue States: Don’t Vote the Way You Did Before ‘Or You’ll Have Here What You Had There’
On June 9, The Epoch Times reported how Florida was the number one state in the nation for people to move to, while New York and California took first and second place respectively for states that have the most people leaving. To those moving to Florida from blue states, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says:…
Deep Dive (June 8): ‘Do Not Come’: VP Harris Has Message to Migrants While in Guatemala
Thousands of websites went offline Tuesday morning after an apparent widespread outage at cloud computing service company Fastly. People trying to reach The New York Times, CNN, Twitch, and the United Kingdom government’s home page met with error messages instead. Vice President Kamala Harris is off on her first trip abroad. While in Guatemala, Harris had…
10 Percent of Migrants Who Enter Darien Gap Don’t Survive: War Correspondent
June 8, 2021
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Roughly 10 percent of migrants who journey on the seven- to 10-day walk through the inhospitable Darien jungle, which extends into Panama from Colombia, don’t survive, according to war correspondent Michael Yon.
Nearly 400 Migrants Intercepted Crossing English Channel in 48 Hours
Nearly 400 migrants have been intercepted attempting to cross the English Channel in the past two days. The Home Office has confirmed that the Border Force dealt with eight incidents on Thursday involving 201 people. And the French authorities intercepted nine crossings on Wednesday and Thursday preventing 171 people from reaching the UK. A Home…
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