Tag: Seekers
Asylum Seekers Didn’t Create the ‘Migrant Crisis’
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
Taylor Swifts Asylum Seekers
Ein Filmkonzert fördert die Gedankenkontrolle nach Madonna und Obama.
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UK moves some asylum seekers to a barge on southern coast – EURACTIV.com
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
First asylum seekers moved to barge off UK south coast – POLITICO
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
UK minister denies barge housing asylum seekers is a ‘potential death trap’ – POLITICO
LONDON — Cabinet minister Grant Shapps rejected claims Wednesday that the Bibby Stockholm, a barge the U.K. government is planning to use to house asylum seekers, represents a fire safety “death trap.”
The stark warning over the 222-bedroom ship — currently moored at Portland Port in Dorset — came from the Fire Brigades’ Union, which has written to the U.K. Home Office outlining its safety concerns over the vessel.
The ship is part of U.K. government plans to reduce its
