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The migration crisis in Germany is intensifying. The number of asylum seekers in Germany rose by 78 per cent in the first seven months of this year compared to the same period in 2022, the 'Welt' daily website reports today.more

UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman today announced the establishment of a taskforce to tackle rogue lawyers who help illegal immigrants prepare evidence to successfully claim asylum.more

Only 15 illegal immigrants managed to accommodate on the Bibby Stockholm barge, moored in the port of Portland in south-west England, the British Home Office confirmed. Another about 20 people refused to transfer to the unit.more

Sitting behind 15ft metal fencing and two sets of guarded gates, the 222 tiny cabins on the Bibby Stockholm - the Home Office’s first asylum seeker barge - await the arrival of their first occupants. more

Although the number of asylum applications in Austria has dropped, Interior Ministry chief Gerhard Karner yesterday announced the introduction of new technologies at the border with Hungary to reduce migrant smuggling, these include heartbeat detectors and additional drones, APA reported.more

The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brandenburg, Michael Stuebgen, renewed his call for the introduction of permanent controls at the border with Poland in connection with the growing number of migrants who cross it illegally, the portal of the daily "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" informs today.more

Four Nigerians attempted to reach Europe as stowaways - instead, to their surprise, they made it to Brazil, the BBC news portal reported on Wednesday. They traveled at the helm of a merchant ship and in a cramped space above it.more

Portland has its reasons for fame, but all of them are now being overshadowed by the "Bibby Stockholm", a nearly 100-metre-long barge docked in its port where the British government will send illegal immigrants. The first group of 50 people is to be accommodated there today.more

With the number of illegal entries into Germany on the rise, there are further calls for border controls. "Illegal migration is threatening to get out of control, especially on the border with Poland and the Czech Republic," the vice chairman of the CDU/CSU Union faction Andrea Lindholz urged on Friday.more

Tents could be used to house up to 2,000 migrants on disused military sites next month, under plans drawn up by the home secretary, Suella Braverman, in an effort to avoid accommodating asylum seekers in hotels.more

Joachim Walter, head of the CDU in Baden-Württemberg, wants asylum seekers in Germany to be required to take up jobs. "It would be important for us at the county level that refugees take up jobs quickly, including in nonprofit organizations," Walter explained.more

Between January and June this year, 162,271 migrants applied for asylum in Germany. This corresponds to the population of a city the size of Heidelberg or Darmstadt. If migratory flows continue at this rate, Germany will have 324,542 asylum seekers by the end of the year.more

Even 10,000 Pounds are taken by dishonest lawyers from illegally residing migrants in the UK for the preparation of evidence for them to successfully apply for asylum, according to a journalistic investigation described today by the "Daily Mail".more

Britain is imposing visa requirements for all visitors from Dominica, Honduras, Namibia, Timor-Leste and Vanuatu, as Suella Braverman cited abuse of the migration system.more

Later in July, the first illegal immigrants will be transferred to the adapted barge "Bibby Stockholm," the British government announced. The barge docked yesterday at the port of Portland in the county of Dorset in southwest England.more

The Illegal Immigration Bill, which aims to stop the uncontrolled flow of illegal immigrants into the UK, was finally approved by the British Parliament last night.more

Surcharge to increase by £400 to meet cost of salary increases, but extra savings still needed from government budgets more

The number of illegal entries into Germany from Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland continues to rise, the portal of the daily Welt reported. Germany needs border protection with these countries more urgently than ever, CDU politician Alexander Throm assessed.more

Britons should open their homes to asylum-seekers to help reduce the £2.2 billion annual cost of housing them in hotels, a report backed by a former Cabinet minister says.more

A Romanian citizen, Marius Mihai Draghici, who was one of the members of the gang responsible for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese illegal immigrants whose bodies were found in a truck trailer near London in 2019, was sentenced yesterday to 12 years and seven months in prison.more

MIGRANT STAFF coming to the UK to take up jobs in social care are being forced to pay back thousands of pounds in fees, housed in sub-standard accommodation and even forced to share beds with colleagues, says UNISON, the public service trade union.more

The UK's hospitality sector is still short-staffed and businesses fear they will struggle to cope over the busy summer holiday season.more

53.1 percent of Poles questioned in an IBRiS poll for Radio ZET said they feared threats from immigrants coming to Poland.more

686 illegal immigrants on 53 boats crossed the English Channel to Britain on Friday, the highest daily total since the beginning of this year, the British Home Office said over the weekend.more

We can estimate the number of rioters as high as 200,000. Nothing like this has happened in French cities since the French Revolution of 1789, their cause is mass migration, judges the former head of military intelligence (DGSE) Pierre Brochand in an interview with the daily "Le Figaro".more