Immigration

Pegida leader Lutz Bachmann has stepped down after a photo of him posing as Adolf Hitler on his personal Facebook profile went viral after being posted online by the Dresden Morgenpost.

Gulwali Passarlay, an Afghan refugee who came to Britain partly with the help of smugglers, tells Channel 4 News he tried 100 times to escape to the UK from Calais.

The people smugglers in Turkey are Syrians and they tell us they’re doing their compatriots a favour. Here, in Mersin Otogar, we meet a smuggler and a Syrian family desperate to reach Europe.

Facebook pages apparently set up by smugglers are specifically targeting Syrians as part of a new method of recruiting refugees to pay for places on board ships bound for Europe.

Male staff at the Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre watch female detainees while they are naked, or on the toilet, and make sexual advances towards them – a report by a refugee charity says.

Far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders tells Channel 4 News the Paris attack was an “act of war”, calling for the EU to ‘avoid’ the “Islamisation of our free society” through free movement.

The burnt-out hulk of the Norman Atlantic, which caught fire off the coast of Greece on Sunday, is towed into the southern Italian port of Brindisi.

It began the year as a relatively quiet issue. Then along came the Ukip surge, a shock European election and two Conservative defections. Here we look back at the last 12 months of immigration.

Figures released under the freedom of information act have revealed that border forces detected almost 12,000 attempts in the four months from the beginning of April to the end of July.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage blames high levels of immigration and congestion on the M4 for missing a reception to meet supporters in Port Talbot ahead of the party’s first Welsh conference.

Remarks by a UN expert condemning the UK’s attitude to immigration as “b*******” are dismissed by Ukip as “coarse and petulant.”

Around 360 migrants died in the Lampedusa boat tragedy. A haunting film by photographer Francesco Zizola and Teresa Smith explores the wrecked vessel and the political questions those deaths pose.

One in every 50 migrants who try to reach Europe across the Mediterranean Sea will die on the journey. What is so terrible in their home countries to force people into such a desperate voyage?

Immigrants bound for Europe on perilous routes “are taking the risk because they feel like they have no choice”, says Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party.