#asylum-seekers

#asylum-seekers

We feel pressured to agree to go back to our country, regardless of the risks, a 29-year-old Colombian woman, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of reprisals, told Reuters.

Asylum seekers and their advisers are using fabricated evidence to bolster their claims, including fake news websites and staged political protests. Techniques involve paying for articles in atheist magazines and hiring individuals to pose as same-sex partners.

The Home Office has confirmed that it is no longer housing asylum seekers in the Banbury House hotel in Oxfordshire, which had been the focus of protests. The Marine Court hotel in Bangor, County Down, was closed to asylum seekers after four years of hosting them, according to the local authority.

After 15 years, volunteers at a Bed Stuy farm found themselves locked out of the green space that has fed thousands over the years, and lately became a temporary home for asylum seekers.

The proposed reform would pave the way for the establishment of migrant centers beyond the bloc's borders to house migrants whose asylum applications are rejected. Those who refuse to be relocated to the return hubs would face harsh penalties including detention and entry bans.

The Australian government says that the Iran war has increased the risk that some temporary visa holders may be unable or unlikely to depart Australia when their visas expire.

Critics argue the outcome might have been different had the women been provided with independent legal advice earlier and the process not been so rushed.

It follows a young Syrian boy, Ahmet, who arrives in the UK without his parents. He joins a school and befriends a group of kids who hear that the government is going to close the gates. They don't fully understand what it means other than that Ahmet's parents, who must be looking for him, won't be able to get into the country. So they decide, in a beautifully innocent way, to go to the most powerful person they can think of—the queen!—and ask for help to find Ahmet's parents and keep the gates open.

Campaigners have urged airlines deporting asylum seekers to France as part of the UK's controversial one in, one out scheme to stop facilitating the cruel and forced deportations. Letters have been sent by 28 refugee and human rights NGOs on both sides of the Channel to four airlines believed to be involved with deportation flights Air France, Titan airways, AlbaStar airlines and Corendon airlines urging them to halt what signatories call shameful involvement with the flights.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to spend another $1.2 billion in this year's budget proposal on migrants arriving in the Big Apple. Mamdani's budget plan notes that the number of asylum seekers under the city's care has nearly halved from 68,660 at its peak in January 2024 to 30,813 last month. Follow live updates on Mayor Zohran Mamdani's socialist agenda and the latest in NYC politics

Under the new rules, EU states will be able to send asylum seekers to third countries they merely transited through, provided those countries are deemed to respect international standards for migrant treatment. They could also deport asylum seekers to safe third countries with which they have no prior ties, if an agreement is reached with the host state, the UK's Guardian newspaper reported.

Afghan national Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, whose victim said he laughed while attacking her last summer, was found guilty of rape and two counts of sexual assault. He admitted a further rape charge before his trial. Jurors at Warwick Crown Court also convicted him of child abduction and taking an indecent video of the girl during her ordeal near a residential cul-de-sac.

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Thousands of people have marched through an East Sussex market town to protest against UK government plans to house asylum seekers on a former military site. Crowds of men, women and children walked to Crowborough from the base, where the Home Office plans to house up to 500 male asylum seekers as part of plans to end the use of hotels for the same purpose.

Crowborough training camp received 27 men in the early hours of Thursday morning, a statement said, which will be scaled up to 500 over several months. It is one of two military camps identified by ministers to house 900 people the other being in Inverness. Using language that reflects the home secretary's hardline stance on housing asylum seekers, Shabana Mahmood said the move was part of a plan to move claimants out of hotels and into large scale accommodation.