Tag: African migrants

• Saturday, April 16th 2022 - 08:51 UTC

  Royal Navy will be responsible for patrolling intercepting boats with migrants

  

  The Royal Navy is taking over operational command from Border Force in the English Channel. The service will be responsible for intercepting boats carrying migrants. The decision follows the understanding with Rwanda to have migrants arriving in boats to UK, sent to the African country.

• Tuesday, June 19th 2018 - 07:15 UTC

  Spain receives hundreds of rescued migrants but warns they will be dealt “according to our laws”

  

  Hundreds of migrants were rescued by Spanish authorities in the Strait of Gibraltar in recent days, with authorities in Tarifa having to equip a municipal gym to accommodate them once on land. With reception centres increasingly under strain, Tarifa’s municipal authorities, working alongside the Guardia Civil, the police, the Red Cross and the Spanish maritime rescue service, have again stepped up to give the migrants shelter and ensure their basic needs are met.

• Monday, June 11th 2018 - 08:34 UTC

  Italy refuses docking to 629 migrants; Minister Salvani has promised to deport half a million illegals

  

  A group of more than 600 migrants appear to have become the first subjects of the new Italian government's tough immigration stance without having even set foot on Italian soil. A charity rescue vessel carrying 629 people is currently stranded in the Mediterranean after Matteo Salvini, the new Italian interior minister, reportedly refused to allow it to dock at Italian ports.