The Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025 that is expected to be introduced in the current session of the Parliament, is likely to introduce for the first time, threats to national security and sovereignty as ground to refuse entry or stay to a foreign national in the country. It may also have provisions to bar the … Read more
Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has raised concerns about the rising number of illegal immigrants in the national capital. He also pointed out their role in widespread encroachments on public spaces like roads, parks, and footpaths. Unauthorised immigrants have reportedly obtained official identity documents, such as Aadhaar and voter ID cards, through fraudulent means. This … Read more
Germany has introduced temporary land border controls along all nine of its neighbouring countries. Germany already had temporary border controls with Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Switzerland. However, starting on September 16, the border controls extended to France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Denmark. The German Interior Federal Ministry called these measures necessary to … Read more
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen isn’t on the ballot at the weekend’s European Parliament election but she’s likely to emerge as one of its biggest winners. Polls expect her National Rally party to be the top vote-getter in France, trouncing President Emmanuel Macron‘s moderate pro-business party. And across Europe, the anti-immigration, nationalist ideas Le … Read more
Geet Wilders’ victory marks a sharp lurch to the right that will be viewed with trepidation in Brussels. | Photo Credit: Reuters The far-right, anti-Islam party of firebrand politician Geert Wilders has won the Dutch election, exit polls suggested on Wednesday, a political earthquake that will be felt far beyond the country’s borders. The PVV … Read more
The story so far: On October 31, the Torkham Crossing — five kilometres west of Khyber Pass, on the border connecting Pakistan’s Peshawar with Afghanistan’s Jalalabad — saw a sudden influx of at least 24,000 Afghan refugees packed in trucks and convoys, with whatever luggage they could take from demolished homes. Some crossed over, while … Read more
CNN — As a boat carrying 400 migrants drifted, out of fuel, along a perilous migration route in the central Mediterranean last week, Italian authorities led a major rescue operation following the reported refusal of Maltese authorities to retrieve those on board. Passengers’ desperate pleas for aid went unheeded for nearly a week before they … Read more
Editor’s Note: “The Trek: A Migrant Trail to America” premieres on April 16 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CNN’s new Sunday primetime series, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper. Darién Gap, Colombia and Panama (CNN) — There is always a crowd, but it can feel very lonely. To get closer to freedom, they have risked … Read more
CNN — Mexican authorities are investigating the head of the country’s immigration agency, in the wake of last month’s deadly fire in a migrant detention center that killed at least 38 people and left dozens injured. Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed on Wednesday that the Attorney General’s Office is probing Francisco Garduño, commissioner … Read more
At least 19 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died when their boat sank off the coast of Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a human rights group said on Sunday. In the past four days, five migrant boats have sunk off the southern city of Sfax, leaving 67 missing and nine dead, … Read more