Tag: immigration

Record number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean

Crossings soared almost 300% in the first four months of 2023, the EU’s border agency has said. The number of illegal immigrants taking the central Mediterranean route into the EU rose to a record 42,165 in the first four months of this year, according to the bloc’s border security agency, Frontex. The agency blamed the rise on competition among human traffickers driving down the price of a crossing.

Right-Wing Alternative for Germany Party grows in popularity in East Germany

Despite a news blackout, up to 28% of the citizens of eastern Germany are ready to vote for the anti-migrant right-wing Alternative for Germany party in the elections, writes Der Freitag, referring to the results of pre-election polls. The publication recalls that the leaders of the AfD have already spoken about the need to become a people’s party in the east of the country.

75% of unaccompanied minors arrested in Paris are from North Africa

In 2019, there were nearly 17,000 unaccompanied minors: During 2019 and 2020, 75 per cent of all migrant minors arrested in Paris, France, were from just three North African countries. After seven months of hearings, deputies Jean-François Eliaou and Antoine Savignat presented on Wednesday, March 10, the report of the parliamentary information mission on security issues related to the presence of unaccompanied minors in the territory created by the National Assembly’s Law Commission.