Imigracja

British Home Office Secretary Priti Patel has warned that she will block the release of the £ 54m promised to France to strengthen patrols on the English Channel if the country fails to more effectively detain illegal immigrants, The Times reported yesterday.more

At least a thousand illegal immigrants made their way to the UK via the English Channel yesterday, Sky News reported, citing eyewitness accounts. It would be an absolute daily record.more

The regulation of the President of the Republic of Poland published yesterday on the introduction of a state of emergency in part of the province Podlaskie and Lubelskie includes a list of 183 localities where the provisions of the state of emergency apply.more

At the border, the situation is complicated; if we accept 30 refugees, 100 or 150 of them will appear in a moment, because there is a terrorist on the other side, the President of Białystok Tadeusz Truskolaski told "Rzeczpospolita". In this matter, the rulers are in a trap because there is no good solution - he added.more

Afghans who have worked with the British military evacuated to the UK will receive an indefinite residence permit, not a five-year temporary residence permit, as has been the case so far, the Interior Ministry announced today.more

The Polish government asked the president on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency in two regions on its border with Belarus after the Polish Border Guard said hundreds of irregular crossings had taken place this month.more

A shortage of fruit pickers in the UK is set to spread to warehouse workers in the run-up to Christmas, the boss of toy chain The Entertainer has warned.more

We need integrated border management solutions to ensure that illegal border crossings do not go undetected. The fence may be a good idea in the current situation on the external border of the EU with Belarus - said the spokesman of the European Commission Christian Wigand.more

With increasing migratory pressure, even Morocco is trying to build border fences in the North African enclaves - Ceuta and Melilla, and the Spanish opposition is demanding concrete walls to be erected.more

Nearly 55 percent Poles believe that Poland should not accept refugees and migrants - according to the IBRIS survey for Polsat Events. Over 38 percent respondents were in favor of their admission.more

Immigrants are much more likely than native Swedes to be suspected of having committed crimes, according to a report by the Swedish Crime Prevention Council (BRA).more

We cannot accept any attempts to incite or allow illegal migration to the European Union by third countries, said European Commission spokesman Christian Wigand, when asked about the assessment of the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border.more

An Afghan banned from flying to the UK due to a potential security threat was brought there during the ongoing evacuation from Kabul airport, the British government confirmed yesterday evening.more

More than 800 migrants crossed the English Channel to the UK on Saturday - setting a new record for crossings in a single day. The Home Office said nearly 200 people making the trip were also stopped by the French authorities.more

Later this week, the construction of a fence on the Polish-Belarusian border will begin; it will be built of barbed wire and will be 2.5 meters high - informed Mariusz Błaszczak, the head of the Polish Ministry of National Defense, who yesterday visited the Polish-Belarusian border near the village of Kopczany (Podlasie).more

The current crisis on the borders with Belarus was planned and systematically organized by the regime of Alyaksandr Lukashenka, emphasized the prime ministers of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in the statement issued. They also called on the Belarusian authorities to stop actions leading to escalating tensions.more

"Polish borders must be tight and well-protected; protection is not based on anti-humanitarian propaganda, but on efficient action," PO leader Donald Tusk wrote on Twitter yesterday, referring to the deteriorating situation of a group of refugees on the Belarusian-Polish border. He added that "under PiS, the Polish border was crossed by a record number of illegal migrants."more

A referendum on migration could be linked to parliamentary elections, believe some politicians on the French right, including Republican (LR) politicians. If the right wing came to power in 2022, it would immediately put immigration at the center of its priorities, reports the daily Le Figaro.more

A five-year-old Afghan refugee who fell to his death from a Sheffield hotel window has been identified by police. It is reported Mohammed Munib Majeedi fell from a ninth-floor room where he was staying with his mother.more

Despite the pandemic, Poland is attractive to Ukrainians. At the end of April this year a record number of foreigners were registered with social insurance - 780 thousand; the largest increase in comparison to March was in the case of Ukrainians, informed the Polish Economic Institute.more

The Prime Minister of Sweden, Stefan Loefven, in an interview with the daily "Dagens Nyheter" announced that his country would not accept as many immigrants as in 2015, which was record-breaking in this respect.more

We should prevent Afghans from diverting towards the EU on unsafe routes taken by smugglers, said Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson.more

Almost two-thirds of Germans express concern about the possible new wave of refugees and a repeat of the situation from 2015, the Tagesspiegel daily reports today.more

A total of 144,100 more applications filed by EU nationals for the United Kingdom’s EU Settlement Scheme have been concluded in July, data revealed by the UK Home Office show.more

Nearly 600 people have crossed the English Channel on a single day this week, setting a new daily record. At least 592 people made the dangerous crossing on Thursday, with at least 155 intercepted by French authorities and returned to the continent, Home Office figures show.more