At least 34 people have died after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Senegal, the Senegalese Press Agency (APS) reports, citing an official source. The Interior ministry said one person had been rescued, but the number of people still missing was yet to be established. The small wooden boat capsized between the
The socialist-led government of Pedro Sánchez has appealed for calm and accused Vivas’s People’s Party (PP) and the far-right Vox of stoking the tensions. José María Figaredo, a member of Congress for Vox, is being investigated for a possible hate crime after saying, soon after the migrants’ arrival, that they should be “hunted down, one
McALLEN, Texas — A small Texas law firm with ties to the Trump administration declined a $150 million federal contract it was offered to represent migrant children traveling alone to the U.S., authorities said Wednesday, raising long-term questions about who would represent them. The administration last week announced plans to award the contract to the
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has blamed rising rents and low wages on Labor’s migration policies in a sweeping attack on Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, as she accuses the government of planning to bring in an additional million migrants over the next four years. “Tony Burke isn’t cutting migration … Labor is lying again.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has called for “united action” on border security after the chaotic influx of tens of thousands of migrants from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta last week. Spain estimates that about 69,500 migrants have now returned to Morocco, exceeding initial estimates of 50,000. The official death toll
The European Union will hold emergency talks on Tuesday to discuss the migration crisis in Ceuta after tense exchanges between Spain and other member states. Twenty-two member states issued a joint letter calling for co-ordinated action and the strengthening of the EU’s external borders, after some 60,000 migrants entered the Spanish enclave from Morocco. Spain
