Migrant Crisis

Britain’s summer angst over migration heaps pressure on Keir Starmer’s Labour government

Even a majority of Labour members believe the UK prime minister is handling the issue badly, poll suggests

‘Pack your bags, son’: inside the live-streamed right-wing protests against asylum hotels in Britain

More than 200 hotels in Britain house more than 30,000 asylum seekers

We cannot police the streets if online material is not regulated

Racism in this State goes back a bit, but vile discourse online is new and most of it comes from abroad – principally the US and UK

At least 26 die in migrant shipwreck off Italian coast

Sixty survivors brought ashore as search operations continue

We in Ireland forget how recently we were the ‘crap-job’ migrants

If we were serious about stopping people coming here to work in low-paid jobs, we would have to be willing to do three things

Spain starts sending hundreds of asylum-seeking children from Canary Islands to mainland

Children, mainly from Mali, are at the centre of legal wrangle over who is responsible for them

British MP admits mistaking charity rowing crew for ‘illegal migrants’

Rowers were raising money for research on motor neurone disease

Social media algorithms are boosting videos of attacks on asylum seekers, Irish campaign group says

Videos being posted online of homeless asylum seekers culminate in attacks on them and their tents

Suspected sex offender used 27 aliases in UK and France before arriving in Ireland

Gardaí have yet to establish exactly how long the man, who has no passport, has been in the State

EU countries increasingly keen on sending migrants outside bloc for processing

German minister says ‘vast majority of member states have made it clear that this is a path the EU must take’

Keir Starmer promises ‘no more gimmicks’ as migrant-returns deal with France kicks in

Small boat arrivals across the English Channel are at record levels

Rights watchdog failed to prove breach of homeless asylum seekers’ fundamental rights, appeal court finds

Senior judges overturn High Court ruling that government breached duty to provide basic needs

Deportation flights signal Germany’s pivot to hardline stance on migration

Radical policy shift a response to series of fatal attacks and to rise of far-right AfD

We need to confront the reality that the housing shortage can’t be solved

Recent data indicates the population is growing much faster than assumed

Legal Aid Board warns of delays to divorce and child custody cases due to funding shortage

Rise in workload driven partly by ‘exponential increase’ in cases involving asylum seekers

Why has immigration fizzled out as an issue?

Dramatic decline in numbers seeking asylum will be seen by some as evidence that Ireland has become less welcoming. But that’s what the Government wanted

Number of asylum seekers who can access labour market to ‘reduce significantly’, analysis finds

Update to Irish law required to bring it into line with EU legislation, which would bring first-instance decision on international protection within five months

‘Where do we even go?’: Iran deports more than one million Afghans

Mass expulsions leave many facing uncertain future in Afghanistan amid poverty and harsh restrictions on women and girls

Tramore community rallies around Albanian family facing deportation

Mother facing deportation: ‘Sometimes I just want to give up but I have to go on for my children’

Violent clashes break out between far-right groups and migrants in Spanish town

Incidents follow assault of an elderly man by unknown assailants earlier in the week

Ireland needs immigrants. But our economy can’t accommodate an infinite number

Ireland has a management problem as well as a demographic dilemma

Spanish far right draws backlash with proposal to deport ‘millions’

Vox party’s plan echoes Donald Trump’s administration’s handling of migrants

Third of asylum seekers entering State this year subject to a fast-track decision-making

Total numbers applying for leave to remain in Ireland down by 44% year on year in period to mid-June

Poland to start controls on borders with Germany, Lithuania over migration

Move follows other EU countries in reimposing frontier checks to stem illegal migration

Migrant shipwreck off Italy’s Lampedusa leaves one dead, two feared missing

Eight-seven were rescued off the Italian island after a boat from Tunisia disintegrated during navigation

Legislation on housing for foreign nationals to be brought forward under plan

Possible move characterised as an attempt to solve a problem ‘that does not exist’

Two jailed for life after 53 migrants die in locked truck in Texas

Truck carrying migrants from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador had broken air conditioner and no water

People with right to remain in Ireland stuck in direct provision centres due to lack of housing, Hiqa finds

Inspections covered IPAS centres in Cork, Kerry, Louth, Galway and Waterford

Afghans among 197 children served with deportation orders from Ireland

Children seeking asylum in Europe face systematic abuse and detention, new report warns

Women in Ireland increasingly subjected to online hate and misogyny, groups warn

National Women’s Council, launching strategic plan, highlight spread of far-right discourse and anti-migrant sentiment

Sally Hayden on We Came By Sea: Stories of a Greater Britain - ‘It feels comforting and right to have a writer of Clare’s skill turn attention to this topic’

While Britons have been shown to be open to resettling refugees, years of demonisation has led to a mostly negative view of those crossing the Channel

Ukrainians in Ireland succeeding in asylum applications at twice rate of other nationalities

A total of 969 Ukrainian nationals have applied for international protection here since Russia’s invasion

EU cannot ignore what’s happening in Poland and The Netherlands

Fundamental change is not merely possible or probable; it is becoming an existential necessity

Communications, transport and health of older people at increased risk from global warming, says EPA

Storms Éowyn and Darragh highlighted vulnerabilities, with widespread disruptions to power and water

German immigration clampdown ruled illegal by federal court

Ruling undermines pledge by Friedrich Merz and his government to tackle immigration

On Greece’s Lesbos, new migrant camp sparks wildfire fears

EU-funded camp being built in forest on Lesbos, but lawsuits filed to halt construction

Geert Wilders threatens to pull party out of Dutch government over immigration reforms

Freedom Party minister wants to enact plan to cut €3.5 billion from the immigration and asylum budget

Germany increases border checks: Alexander Dobrindt oversees radical policy shift

Federal interior minister is sheriff in mainstream political Germany’s last-chance saloon

Far right ‘breaks political culture’ of tolerance in Portugal

Government fends off campaign-trail accusation of ‘Trumpification’

Military axis of Russia, China and North Korea will test what the West stands for

Issue of migration – especially economic migration disguised as asylum-seeking – is a growing issue for the political viability of the EU

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