Tag: Migrants

Wagner fighters may pose as migrants to enter EU, Polish PM claims – POLITICO

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A group of Wagner mercenaries in Belarus has moved closer to the Polish border and may stage a “hybrid attack” inside the EU country by posing as illegal migrants, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki warned.

Speaking at a press conference in southern Poland on Saturday, Morawiecki said that more than 100 mercenaries had moved close to the city of Grodno, near the Suwałki Gap — a narrow strategic stretch of Polish and Lithuanian territory that separates Belarus from the Russian

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‘TB detected’ at RAF site as plan to house migrants in tents reported | Politics | News

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A “small number” of positive results for tuberculosis (TB) have reportedly been detected at a former RAF site that is being used to house asylum seekers. The Press Association reports it is understood that tests are now underway to see if the cases at RAF Wethersfield in Braintree, Essex are ‘active’.

TB is a bacterial infection that usually affects the lungs. It is spread through close contact with people who have ‘active’ TB, meaning they have symptoms.

The NHS says

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NYC to shelter 1,000 migrants in mental hospital parking lot

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  • New York City plans to shelter up to 1,000 migrants in the parking lot of Creedmoor Psychiatric Hospital in Queens.
  • The temporary facility will exclusively house adult men.
  • “New York City continues to receive thousands of asylum seekers each week, and we have stepped up and led the nation, but this national crisis should not fall on cities alone to navigate,” Democratic Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement. “We need a national solution here.”

New York City will set

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Smugglers Caught Using Fake Border Patrol Truck To Sneak In Migrants

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Smugglers were caught using a fake U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) truck to try to sneak migrants over the U.S. border in California on Saturday.

The truck, which was tricked out in Border Patrol decal stickers and fake Department of Homeland Security license plates to resemble a real CBP truck, was initially spotted by Mexican immigration officials.

Mexican authorities said they found the truck on July 22 in Mexico close to the California border with 17 migrants huddled inside.

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Texas’s Immigration Policy Is Getting More Aggressive

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A pregnant teenager writhing in pain as she suffered a miscarriage while trapped in the barbed wire that Texas has strung along miles of the state’s southern border.

A 4-year-old girl collapsing from heat exhaustion after Texas National Guard members pushed her away from the wire as she tried to cross it with her family.

Texas state troopers receiving orders from their superiors to deny water to migrants in triple-digit heat. Officers on another occasion ordering troopers to drive back

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Terrified migrants made last-ditch dash over the border

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Migrants have taken over the streets of El Paso – where food banks are just days from running dry – after making last-ditch border dashes ahead of Title 42 being lifted. 

Desperate migrants huddled at bus stops and propped up makeshift tents in freezing temperatures after already making their long and treacherous journeys to Texas. 

After fighting off looting cartels, walking through hazardous jungles, and cramming on overcrowded fishing boats, many of the exhausted asylum seekers told DailyMail.com they were

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Watchdog Groups Sue Biden Administration for Communications with Catholic Organizations on Migrants

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Migranten aus Mittelamerika werden aus privatem Land eskortiert, als sie von Agenten der US-Grenzpatrouille festgenommen werden, nachdem sie am 27. April 2021 in La Joya, Texas, den Fluss Rio Grande von Mexiko aus überquert haben. (Nakamura/Reuters)

Zwei Überwachungsgruppen verklagen das Department of Homeland Security und das Department of Health and Human Services wegen Aufzeichnungen über die Kommunikation mit katholischen Organisationen, die an der Unterstützung von Migranten an der Grenze zwischen den USA und Mexiko beteiligt sind.

CatholicVote Civic Action und

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How Germany is waving migrants to a new life in UK: No border checks, free to leave camps…

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Standing in the freezing cold at the gateway to Western Europe, teenage migrant Abdalrzaq May says he does nothing but dream of a new life in Britain.

After cutting through razor wire, wading through swamps, dodging gunfire, avoiding howling wolves and evading the brutal police on the Belarus-Polish border, he has finally reached Germany.

Now comes the easy part. All Abdalrzaq has to do from here is take a taxi to France’s northern coast, where he will join the thousands

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More migrants cross the Channel today after 27 drowned

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This is the first picture of the doomed dinghy that deflated just off Calais yesterday killing 27 people on board as French police again failed to stop 50 migrants crossing the Channel to Britain today.

The ‘flimsy’ grey inflatable boat was photographed by a lifeboat captain who arrived to find bodies floating in the water off Calais yesterday afternoon in the worst migrant tragedy in Anglo-French history.

Two survivors – an Iraqi and a Somalian – have told police their

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Migrants on U.S. Border Share Journey in Self-Portraits

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Carlos Soyos, 34, and his son, Enderson, 8, at the Good Samaritan migrant shelter in Ciudad Juárez.Photograph by Carlos Soyos and Adam Ferguson

The Times photographer Adam Ferguson worked with migrants in Mexico who planned to cross the border into the United States to create a series of self-portraits.

By Adam Ferguson and Anatoly Kurmanaev

The life of a migrant at the border waiting for the right moment to cross into the United States is often in flux. The

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