Video of Macron puzzled by ‘illegal’ migrants who say they lived in France for 8 years (VIDEO)
French Twitter users have ripped Macron apart after a video featuring his conversation with ‘illegal’ migrants, who have lived in France without documents for 8 years, went viral. Many thought the whole conversation was a farce.
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‘You condemn us because we are not a nation of migrants,’ Orban tells EU before sanctions vote
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivered a fiery speech to European lawmakers in Strasbourg, before they began deliberations on suspending the country’s key EU rights due to his government’s policies.
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International Law Experts Warn Europe’s ‘Pull Back’ of Migrants is Illegal – Part 2
ROME, Sep 10 (IPS) – This is the second part of our series about migration to Italy.”The Italian and other European authorities are engaging – on the migration issue – in a policy which has the foreseeable results of numerous deaths.” It is a grim warning from expert on international law, refugees and migration issues, and member of the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), Itamar Mann.
A Tunisian gravedigger gives migrants what they were deprived of in life: Dignity
He finds their bodies washed ashore and gives them a proper burial, with toys and flowers.
Germany migrants: Protesters gather over young man's death in Köthen
Far-right and rival crowds converge in Köthen, where a 22-year-old died after a fight with Afghan men.
Sweden election: PM slams far-right leader's remarks on migrants
The vote on Sunday will be Sweden’s first since 163,000 migrants were allowed into the country in 2015.
Migrants as Messengers
Sep 07 (IPS) – Migrants as Messengers is a peer-to-peer messaging campaign where returning migrants share with their communities and families the dangers, trauma and abuse that many experienced while attempting irregular migration. The stories are candid and emotional testimonials about the difficulties they faced. Here are the discussion around irregular migration with hip-hop singer Matar Khoudia Ndiaye–aka Big Makhou Djolof and Ramatoulaye Diene, a legal migration activist and radio personality.
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Trump administration to circumvent court limits on detention of child migrants
Its plan to withdraw from Flores Settlement Agreement, which shapes detention standards for underage migrants, is likely to lead to new legal challenges.
German spy chief at odds with Merkel over hounding of migrants in Chemnitz
Germany’s domestic spy chief expressed scepticism on Friday that migrants had been hounded in Chemnitz after the fatal stabbing of a German man, undermining Chancellor Angela Merkel who has said images from the eastern city “very clearly” showed hate.