Kamala Harris’s team is trying to distance the vice president from the border crisis after ‘panicking’ when she was given the assignment by President Biden, according to a new report. Harris is due to travel to Guatemala and Mexico next week as part of her role in leading diplomatic efforts to reduce immigration from Central … Read more
UK took 900 asylum seekers from EU countries last year… but only 100 went the other way Britain took in 882 asylum seekers from the EU’s member states last year 105 were transferred out of Britain to EU countries under rules from Brussels More than 7,000 failed asylum seekers made fresh claims in the UK … Read more
Hundreds of asylum seekers are being housed at a large hotel near Heathrow as the Government struggles to find accommodation for passengers forced to quarantine after arriving from virus hotspots. Ministers have so far failed to secure a single room for the scheme – intended to prevent deadly new strains of Covid-19 spreading in Britain. … Read more
Asylum seekers at a coronavirus-hit army barracks are being forced to share rooms with those who test positive, it has been claimed. Napier Barracks in Kent has been used to house about 400 asylum seekers since September last year, despite concerns over conditions. Over the weekend, it emerged that a coronavirus outbreak had been recorded … Read more
Pandemic won’t stop the party: Thousands of maskless sun seekers pack Miami beaches and pool parties – despite a surge in the city’s cases and Florida reporting 31,000 new cases in two days Hundreds of revelers crowded Miami beaches and attended a hotel pool party on Saturday Photos show almost all of the sun seekers … Read more
Two migrants are escaping the UK’s first migrant camp at an army barracks in Kent every week, it has been revealed. Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent was turned into an ‘assessment and dispersal facility’ for migrants, with 400 arriving in September at the height of the migrant crisis, which has seen thousands cross the Channel … Read more
Asylum-seekers and other vulnerable migrants in the EU should have equal access to promising Covid-19 vaccines, the head of the UN’s migration agency told the European Parliament on Thursday. ‘It is for the sake of their safety and well-being of the entire host communities’ in the countries taking them in, said Antonio Vitorino, director general … Read more
‘Lefty lawyers’ who were blasted by Priti Patel search for asylum seekers to sue the Home Office in legal claim that could cost taxpayers millions Human rights lawyers are searching for asylum seekers to sue the Home Office The looming legal action is a blow to Priti Patel who lambasted ‘Lefty lawyers’ Law firm Leigh Day … Read more
Revealed: Asylum seekers’ taxi rides to hotels and detention centres are costing the taxpayer millions Asylum seekers are being driven in taxis from airports to hotels or interviews Clearsprings Ready Homes is awarded £1.1billion Home Office contract over 10 years The private company houses migrants in south of England and Wales It has paid one … Read more
Priti Patel ‘looked at sending asylum seekers thousands of miles from the UK to tiny volcanic islands in the South Atlantic while their cases were considered’ Ms Patel abandoned the plan after instructing officials to drill down into logistics St Helena island was also touted as a potential site for the processing facility Labour said … Read more