When the mayor of New York, of all places, warned that a recent influx of asylum seekers would destroy his city, something didn’t add up.
“I said it last year when we had 15,000, and I’m telling you now at 110,000. The city we knew, we’re about to lose,” Eric Adams urged in September. By the end of the year, more than 150,000 migrants had arrived. Still, the mayor’s apocalyptic prediction didn’t square with New York’s past experience. How could
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Malcolm Turnbull’s stint as Prime Minister was not without controversy – having caused fractures within the Liberal party when he ousted Tony Abbott, only to find himself on the recieving end of that same betrayal just three years later.
The Turnbull-era government of 2015-2018 was scrutinised tonight in the second installment of ABC’s three-part
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BRUSSELS — Western leaders are grappling with how to handle two era-defining wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine. But there’s another issue, one far closer to home, that’s derailing governments in Europe and America: migration.
In recent days, U.S. President Joe Biden, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak all hit trouble amid intense domestic pressure to tackle immigration; all three emerged weakened
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LONDON — Walking up a narrow gangplank, a small group of asylum seekers boarded the floating barge moored off England’s south coast. It would be their home for the foreseeable future.
Their arrival Monday was being closely monitored — and amplified — at the highest levels of the U.K. government.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, on holiday in California, posted a video claiming he was “ending the farce of illegal
Britain began moving some migrants on to a large residential barge on its southern coast on Monday (7 August), as part of plans to save money and remove what the government called the “pull” of hotels for those arriving in small boats.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has made cracking down on illegal migration a major priority ahead of a national election expected next year, pitching his Conservatives as being tougher on the issue than the opposition Labour Party, which enjoys
LONDON — The British government has moved a first cohort of asylum seekers onto a barge docked off the Dorset coast as part of a concerted push to deter people from traveling to the U.K. by small boats.
The first asylum seekers arrived on the 222-room Bibby Stockholm barge, which is set to house up to 500 people, on Monday, a U.K. government official, not authorized to speak on the record, confirmed.
The U.K. government has pushed ahead with the
Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick warned that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is in cahoots with the lefty lawyers who are abusing the asylum system.
The comments came as Mr Jenrick said that the punishment for lefty lawyers “gaming the asylum system” needs to be much tougher and see their operations shut down.
Currently the punishment is fines of up to 5 percent of earnings for legal firms abusing the system.
But Mr Jenrick told Camilla Tominey on GB News this
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It’s hard to punch above your weight if you’re handcuffed.
In Brussels, the Netherlands is known for its assertive positioning in EU legislation in a wide range of policy files. Despite its relatively small size, the Netherlands has a tendency to get involved, even on files that are not at the core of the Dutch domestic debate.
Its prime minister, Mark Rutte, is the second-longest serving European Union leader
This week, outside the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan, hundreds of asylum seekers from all over the world languished in a slow-moving line, forced to stand in the sun and sleep on the sidewalk. A nineteen-story building with about a thousand rooms, the Roosevelt opened in 1924 and closed during the pandemic. It is currently being used by the city as an intake center for migrants, from Venezuela, Senegal, Burundi, and elsewhere, who have nowhere else to go. By law,
