Tag: immigration
authorities criticized for their treatment of Haitian migrants
More than 350 Haitian migrants, who arrived Sunday March 6 in Key Largo, Florida on a makeshift boat, were detained. In Miami, organizations defending Haitian migrants demand their immediate release…
Ukrainians fleeing war are welcomed with open arms – however, there is an old dispute over EU immigration policy
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing distress have been warmly received in EU countries. However, it is unnecessary to wait for a full turn to immigration policy, writes ‘s EU…
EU grants ‘temporary protection’ to refugees
The Twenty-Seven unanimously agreed on Thursday to grant “temporary protection” in the European Union to exiles fleeing the fighting in Ukraine and who are flocking to the borders of the…
The Dominican Republic launches the construction of a wall on the border with Haiti
The President of the Dominican Republic Luis Abinader launched this Sunday with great fanfare the construction of a wall of 160 kilometers along the border of his country with Haiti.…
migrants thrown into the sea by coastguards
A Cameroonian asylum seeker accuses the Greek coast guard of having thrown him into the sea with two other men who died of drowning. These drownings took place in the…
Europeans torn between locking borders and need for labor
The record arrival in 2015 of more than 1 million asylum seekers bound for Europe has greatly destabilized the continent. Divided, the countries of Europe have since struggled to cooperate…
Should Schengen be reformed?
Continuation of our monthly debates on the occasion of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union. This evening, we are talking about the Schengen area made up…
undocumented employees of Chronopost d’Alfortville are still asking for their regularization
In the Paris region, several dozen undocumented workers are asking to be regularized and to obtain French nationality. They are Malians, Guineans, Senegalese and they have worked for Chronopost or…
Manipulation of crime and immigration figures in France
Immigration and delinquency are two controversial subjects which are not among the priorities of the French, who are more concerned about their purchasing power. But the electoral context led the…
“Life before us”, the little-known story of 80,000 Moroccan miners in France
A few years ago, the director Frédéric Laffont himself was unaware of this chapter of French history. In the 1960s and 1970s, France recruited 80,000 Moroccans, young and illiterate, to…