Pledge to resettle hundreds of child refugees in Britain
Home Office ministers are working on plans to provide sanctuary to children from UNHCR run Syrian refugee camps.
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What do we know about EU migrants living in the UK?
Amongst those who hope that window of opportunity will stay open are the Yazidis, who,having fled Islamic State militants, are waiting in Iraqi refugee camps in the hope of being allowed asylum in the United States.
Channel 4 News can reveal tonight the numbers of children who go missing every year from the care system after seeking asylum or being trafficked. For 19 year old Monique (not her real name), who was trafficked into the UK at 11, it was years before she got the help she needed.
Should we test the teeth of asylum seekers who claim to be children? How many “child” refugees are lying about their age?
Michael Gove promised again today to introduce an Australian-style points system to control immigration numbers if he becomes Prime Minister. But is Australia really the best place on which to model an immigration policy? Immigration has become a key issue in this weekend’s general election. And its treatment of asylum seekers arriving by boat has…
Greek riot police are evacuating thousands of migrants from a camp on the Macedonia border where they have been stranded for months.
Two disabled migrants are being prosecuted in Hungary after being accused of breaching the country’s border fence with Serbia and taking part in a “mass riot”.
New figures show the scale of the migration surge facing the European Union, with asylum seeker numbers reaching a record high.
EU leaders meeting in Brussels are discussing the closure of the Balkan route migrants and refugees have been using to reach Germany and other European countries.
Does Britain’s membership of the EU makes us less safe? That’s what Leave campaigners Iain Duncan Smith and Boris Johnson have suggested, among others. Mr Duncan Smith said last month that a Paris-style attack is more likely to happen here if the UK votes to Remain in the EU. And Boris Johnson wrote in a…
French riot police are preparing for further protests as demolition work at the ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais continues.
The claim “If we can get this deal in Europe, if we can this renegotiation fixed and we can stay in a reformed Europe, you know what you get… you know that the borders stay in Calais.” David Cameron, 8 February 2016 The background Could the kind of squalid migrant camps we see on the…
Britain has pledged to take in 4,000 Syrian refugees a year until 2020. Will they, like asylum claimants, end up living in the country’s poorest areas?
Women and children now outnumber men among people trying to get into Europe, according to a charity. Fact or fiction?
Home Office ministers are working on plans to provide sanctuary to children from UNHCR run Syrian refugee camps.