The action aims to persuade Mexico to grant the protesters passage towards the US Undocumented migrants from Central and South America have sewn their mouths shut in a bid to persuade Mexico’s authorities to grant them passage to the US border. Shocking video and photos captured Tuesday in the city of Tapachula in the southern […]
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Greece sent migrants to their deaths, Turkish minister claims
Minister says 12 of 22 migrants ‘pushed back’ by Greece were stripped of their shoes and froze to death Turkey’s Interior Minister, Suleyman Soylu, accused Greek authorities of allowing a dozen migrants to perish in the cold without their shoes, after turning them back from the Greek border. Soylu shared photos supposedly showing the migrants’ […]
Texas man pleads guilty to smuggling migrants in coffin
Two Mexican migrants effectively ‘rose from the dead’ after an attempt to transport them in a flag-draped coffin was busted by US border agents Zachary Taylor Blood, a Texas native, has pleaded guilty to one count of alien smuggling after his plan to transport two Mexican migrants to the city of San Antonio was thwarted […]
Seven killed as car packed with migrants crashes while fleeing police
Seven people were killed and four others wounded after a car carrying illegal migrants slammed into a building and overturned in a failed attempt to flee the police in southern Hungary. The deadly incident occurred late on Monday in the spa town of Morahalom not far from Hungary’s border with Serbia, police said in a […]
Dozens killed after cargo truck carrying migrants crashes & rolls over
At least 53 people were killed and dozens more injured after a vehicle reportedly carrying over 100 migrants from Central America rolled over and hit a bridge in Mexico. According to reports, at least 107 migrants had been packed by human traffickers into a trailer attached to the vehicle before it crashed in Chiapas on […]
Decathlon limits selling canoes because of migrants
Sports goods retailer Decathlon has said it won’t be selling canoes in its stores in northern France anymore because the light vessels are increasingly being used by migrants trying to cross into England. “Given the current context… the purchase of canoes will no longer be possible” in Decathlon stores in Calais and Grande-Synthe, outside Dunkirk, […]
Dozens of Middle Eastern migrants enter Poland ‘by force’
Polish officials said they have caught 50 asylum seekers who illegally entered the country from Belarus as the EU accuses Minsk of engineering a refugee crisis. Regional police spokesperson Tomasz Krupa said 50 people crossed the border “by force” near the village of Starzyn shortly after 8pm local time on Saturday. Police detained 22 would-be […]
Turkey invites Poland to come and see it’s not sending migrants to border with Belarus
Turkey has invited Poland to send “technical teams” to conduct inspections at Istanbul Airport, after Warsaw accused Ankara of fueling the migrant crisis at its border with Belarus. In a phone call on Wednesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu discussed the situation with his Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau and rejected the “baseless allegations” against Turkey […]
Biting cold, dying migrants and war of words between EU and Minsk: Poland-Belarus conflict is getting worse
The migrant crisis continues at the Poland-Belarus border, with hundreds of people camping in harsh conditions as they seek to get into the EU. But while the weather is getting colder, the rhetoric from both sides is heating up. The standoff entered into its second day on Tuesday, with asylum seekers camping on the Belarusian […]
Belarus blocks humanitarian aid for migrants camping on border – Poland
Poland was eager to provide humanitarian aid to migrants who set up a camp at its border with Belarus, but the offer was rejected by Minsk, Polish President Andrzej Duda has said. The Belarusian authorities didn’t let a single aid convoy in, Duda complained after an urgent National Security Bureau meeting on Tuesday. Also on […]
Polish guards don’t let migrants on Belarus border sleep – RT reporter on the ground
Polish border guards and police have prevented the migrants who set up a camp on the border with Belarus from sleeping overnight, directing spotlights at them and playing discouraging audio messages, RT reported from the scene. Some 3,000 migrants from the Middle East and North Africa, who are seeking asylum in the EU, tried to […]
Violent clashes erupt as Mexico’s National Guard confronts US-bound migrants (VIDEOS)
Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas saw intense violence as local National Guard officers faced off with a migrant caravan moving north to Mexico City. Scuffles reportedly resulted in injuries on both sides. The Mexican National Guard was deployed to Chiapas in recent days to halt a migrant caravan that set off on foot last month […]
French police clear square outside Paris’ City Hall occupied by camp of homeless migrants demanding accommodation (VIDEOS)
Hundreds of tents were set up on a square near the iconic Hotel de Ville in Paris on Thursday, as homeless migrants, supported by an NGO, demanded better housing. The protest was later dispersed by police. Videos published on social media showed officers in riot gear removing dozens of tents from a square at the […]
German police break up radical vigilante patrols targeting illegal migrants at Polish border
German police have prevented a group of some 50 right-wing activists from “patrolling” the country’s border with Poland in search of illegal migrants. Some weaponry, including batons and a machete, were seized from the vigilantes. Law enforcement conducted the raid overnight, focusing on the area around the border town of Guben. The police apprehended some […]
‘Kidnaping’ trial of ex-Italian interior minister Salvini, who barred cross-sea migrants from entering country, begins in Palermo
Former Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini is facing up to 15 years in prison in a controversial trial over his 2019 order to prevent migrants picked up by NGOs while crossing the Mediterranean Sea from entering Italy. The trial, which started on Saturday in Palermo, is about one particular incident among dozens that happened during […]












