UK asylum seekers costing country £726,000 a day according to figures
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13:04 20/03/2015
Official figures obtained via a Freedom of Information request submitted by the Daily Express show that the UK is currently spending over £700,000 a day on feeding and sheltering asylum seekers. With...
Dozens of migrants released from US immigration centre
11:59 30/10/2014
'Dozens' of migrants have been released from an immigration facility in Artesia, New Mexico, according to the local Mayor. In an interview with Associated Press, Artesia Mayor Phillip Burch said that...
Pope calls for compassion for refugees and economic migrants
11:33 09/07/2013
Pope Francis has travelled to the island of Lampedusa to make a speech calling for an end to the 'globalisation of indifference'. He said that the west has a 'brotherly responsibility' to look after...
Greece to place more guards at Turkey border to deter refugees
15:16 02/08/2012
Greece has announced they are quadrupling the number of guards at their border with Turkey and increasing other security defenses because of a potential influx of Syrian refugees. Thousands of...
EU Blue Card for skilled immigrants to be introduced soon
10:26 26/01/2011
The EU Commission is pushing forward with a directive to implement a skilled immigration "blue card" which would allow migrants from non-EU countries to live and work in the European Union on a...
EU population approaching half a billion due to migration
10:32 16/12/2008
A net inflow of migrants helped push the population of the European Union close to half a billion people in 2008 according to figures released this week in Brussels. The data released by the 27-...
