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Saturday 3 June 2023 Dublin: 10°C

# Migrants

Last week
21st May 2023 - 3rd June 2023
# Sudan
Fighting in Sudan has displaced more than 1.3 million people, says UN
Violence erupted in April after months of escalating tensions between rival generals Abdel-Fattah Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
Last month
May 2023
# Magowna House
'Horror' after Clare protesters board bus to conduct 'headcount of asylum seekers'
Protests have taken place at Magowna House hotel in Inch, Co Clare, after over 30 assylum seekers were moved into holiday homes there this week.
# Inch
Taoiseach says 'no need' for protests at refugee housing, after blockade by Clare locals
The dispute centres around Magowna House in Inch, where around 34 asylum seekers arrived yesterday evening.
# accommodation crisis
Taoiseach 'horrified' by burning of refugee tents as ministers to meet gardaí over protests
Migrant groups have expressed grave concern for the safety of asylum seekers sleeping rough.
A makeshift camp for migrants on Dublin's Sandwith Street was torched on Friday night amid demonstrations.
Integration Minister Roderic O'Gorman said people have the right to protest but not to 'intimidate'.
The Green Party TD said 180 beds will become available to be offered to migrants in the coming days.
# Title 42
US pandemic-era border laws lapse as Democrats hit out at Republicans over 'political football'
Tens of thousands of people are expected to try to cross into the US in the coming days.
This year
2023
# France
Thousands protest against French government's migration plans
The bill would make a minimum level of French a requirement for a multi-year residence permit and allows for mandatory fingerprinting.
THE MORNING LEAD
Mullingar: Anti-migrant protests see allegations of 'intimidation' against refugees and locals
A report by
Eoghan Dalton
Protests over the use of a barracks in Mullingar have intensified over the past week even as protester numbers have fallen.
Protests against emergency refugee accommodation have led to locals, workers at the site and asylum seekers being followed and recorded.
There were also suggestions that an individual garda should be targeted following his policing of a protest.
Local and national groups supporting migrants have called the actions 'shameful' and 'disgusting'.
# Drowning
29 people dead after boats capsize during migrant crossings off Tunisia
The coastguard said it had recovered the bodies of 29 migrants after three boats capsized.
# United States
Two dead among 15 migrants found "suffocating" in a train in Texas
The US Border Patrol stopped the train after receiving an anonymous tip off.
# St Patrick
President Higgins links struggles of migrants to our patron saint in St Patrick's Day message
The president stated that ‘a poisonous xenophobia, new and recalled, has taken hold in so many places’.
# Migrants
UK unveils controversial plans to stop migrants crossing Channel illegally on small boats
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the plan would “take back control” of the borders “once and for all”.
# Study
Brexit has caused challenges with cross-border travel on island of Ireland for migrants
That’s according to new researched published by the ESRI today.
Voices
FactCheck newsletter: Despite Covid's lessons about fake news, history is now repeating itself
The anti-migrant playbook is almost identical to how things unfolded in early 2020.
# channel crossings
Irishman among four charged with smuggling migrants to the UK from Belgium
The migrants were smuggled across the channel via boats.
# Misinformation
Social media companies aren't doing enough to remove misinformation about migrants, Harris says
There have been numerous allegations about migrants and refugees circulating on social media in recent weeks.
# debunked
Debunked: No, a Dublin community centre has not been closed because it is housing 150 Somalians
The centre has been the subject of local protests.
# garda attacks
Taoiseach: 'National conversation needed on what's driving anger and violence in society'
Varadkar says we need to asked ourselves what has changed in our society in the last couple of years.
# Healthcare crisis
'Non-EU nurses are paying to come here': Ireland's place in global scramble for healthcare staff
The co-founder of Migrant Nurses Ireland said the organisation is aware of instances of non-EU nurses paying to come to Ireland for work.
# refugee crisis
Seven people detained after 18 found dead in abandoned truck in Bulgaria
Some survivors are being treated for carbon monoxide poisoning after having inhaled exhaust pipe gases.
# factcheck
Debunked: Deceptive leaflet distributed in Dublin telling ‘girls to stay indoors’ is a hoax
The hoax leaflet was supposedly sent by the government, though misspelled the Irish translation.
# Mediterranean
Woman and three children drown in migrant shipwreck off Greece
Eye witnesses reported seeing an inflatable boat carrying around 40 migrants, including children and people with reduced mobility aboard.
# factcheck
Debunked: No, ‘100,000 unvetted foreign nationals’ did not receive free accommodation in a year
Figures for people applying for asylum in Ireland are publicly available… and not nearly that high.
# sean binder
'It seems dramatic; most of the time I did f**k all': Kerryman on migrant smuggling trial in Greece
Sean Binder faces trial in Greece this week.
Last year
2022
# UK
19-year-old charged in connection with migrant boat deaths in the English Channel
Four people were pronounced dead and 39 people were rescued following the incident on Wednesday.
# RIP
Two-month-old baby dies in migrant shipwreck off Lesbos
The baby boy was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
# Coast Guard
Rescue under way as hundreds of migrants stranded on boat drifting off Crete
The coast guard said passengers on the boat had made a distress call to an emergency number during the night.
# Migrants
Migrants at Manston centre in Kent to be vaccinated against diphtheria following spike in cases
The UK Health Security Agency said it is moving with the Home Office to vaccinate migrants at the Kent site against the disease.
# Mediterranean
Charity asks France, Spain, Greece for help with rescued migrants
There are many unaccompanied minors and children on board, the youngest of whom is three
# Shipwreck
At least 73 people dead as boat sinks off Syria's coast after leaving Lebanon
This is the deadliest such shipwreck from Lebanon in recent years.
# martha's vineyard
Florida governor flies migrants to wealthy Martha's Vineyard
President Joe Biden slammed the move, saying Republicans are ‘playing politics with human beings’.
# Italy
More than a thousand migrants arrive in Italy within hours, hundreds more rescued off the coast
Between 1 January and 22 July, 34,000 people arrived in Italy by sea.
# English Channel
British and French police arrest 15 people in connection to English Channel migrant deaths
Twenty-seven people died when the boat they were in sank off the coast of Calais in November.
# SAN ANTONIO
Migrants recount their journeys to US following Texas truck deaths
53 migrants died this week after the trailer they were in was abandoned in Texas.
# Undocumented
Undocumented migrants need government schemes to gain access to services, says ESRI
‘In cases where a migrant’s residence becomes undocumented, care should be taken to ensure they are not afraid to access basic services.’
# Migrants
Sicily judge to weigh trial of migrant rescue NGOs
Twenty-one suspects, including crew members of Doctors Without Borders, are accused of “aiding and abetting unauthorised entry into Italy”.
# Refugees
Charities say Rwanda plan not deterring ‘desperate’ migrants crossing Channel to UK
Small boat journeys from France to the UK began again on Sunday after a break of more than a week.
# Shipwreck
Bodies of 17 migrants found off Tunisia coast
Tunisia is a key departure point for migrants seeking to reach European shores.
# tunisia
Four migrants die of 'cold and hunger' in Tunisia
Nearly 2,000 migrants went missing or drowned last year in the Mediterranean.
All time
# Migration
Bodies of 28 migrants found on Libyan coast
Libya has become a key departure point for people from Africa and Asia attempting to migrate to Europe.
# Greece
At least 30 dead in migrant boat sinkings along the coast of Greece
The incidents have happened near the island of Paros.