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A costly calculus: Ireland pays migrants to forgo asylum claims

October 02, 2025 -

Facing record levels of asylum applications and mounting public pressure, the Irish government has initiated a controversial new policy: paying migrant families to leave. In late September 2025, Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan signed an order significantly increasing financial grants for asylum seekers who voluntarily withdraw their claims and depart Ireland. The move, which offers up to €10,000 per family, is officially intended ...

Germany’s new migration policy: Dumping asylum seekers on Poland sparks controversy

February 20, 2025 -

In a move that has sparked both domestic and international controversy, Germany has signed an agreement to offload migrants to Poland, marking a significant shift in the country's approach to illegal immigration. The deal, signed by German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser and Brandenburg Interior Minister Katrin Lange, aims to expedite the return of asylum seekers under the Dublin Regulation. The new policy has raised concerns about its implications ...

Texas SUES Biden administration’s DHS over interim rule on asylum seekers

April 29, 2022 -

Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit on April 28 that seeks a permanent ruling against an interim rule allowing Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) officers to decide if asylum seekers could continue staying in the country. Defendants in the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas include President Joe Biden, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the Department of Justice (DOJ), its head, U.S. AG Merrick Garland ...

Supreme Court orders appeals courts to defer to immigration judges in asylum cases

13 days ago -

The Supreme Court of the United States issued a unanimous ruling on Wednesday, March 4, requiring federal appeals courts to defer to immigration judges when reviewing asylum decisions.

The case before the court, Urias-Orellana v. Bondi, involved Salvadoran national Douglas Humberto Urias-Orellana and his family, who entered the U.S. in 2021 and sought asylum. Urias-Orellana claimed a "sicario" or hitman had targeted him since 2016 ...

Trump administration seeks to reroute asylum seekers to a “safe” third country

January 02, 2026 -

In a bold legal and diplomatic maneuver, the Trump administration is aggressively pushing a new strategy to dismantle what it calls a broken asylum system. The plan, spearheaded by the Department of Homeland Security, seeks to have U.S. immigration courts dismiss asylum claims without hearings and instead direct applicants to seek refuge in third countries with which the U.S. has struck agreements. This policy represents a fundamental ...

U.K. government announces sweeping overhaul of asylum system, citing record-high claims

November 19, 2025 -

The United Kingdom is set to enforce its strictest asylum rules in decades, a move that the government says is essential to mend a "broken" system and regain control of the nation's borders.

In a major policy announcement, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood outlined a comprehensive overhaul aimed at significantly reducing protections for refugees and deterring illegal migration.

The central pillar of the new plan involves a fundamental ...

EU ministers back tougher asylum rules, including deportations to Afghanistan and Syria

July 21, 2025 -

Germany and five other EU nations have agreed to a set of stringent asylum policy goals, including controversial plans to resume deportations to Afghanistan and Syria.

During a high-level summit held at Germany’s highest mountain, the Zugspitze, on Friday, July 18, German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, along with interior ministers from France, Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark and EU Home Affairs Commissioner Magnus Brunner, ...

Pakistan exploits UK visa system as asylum claims quintuple in legal route loophole

November 24, 2025 -

A quiet invasion of Britain is underway, not just on small boats across the Channel but through the nation’s own front door. Newly revealed government data exposes a systematic exploitation of the United Kingdom’s visa system, with nearly 10,000 Pakistanis entering the country on temporary visas last year before switching to claim asylum in a bid for permanent residency. This strategic loophole has propelled Pakistan to the top of the list for ...

Investigation uncovers hundreds of criminal charges linked to asylum seekers housed in U.K. hotels

July 21, 2025 -

A Mail on Sunday investigation has uncovered a startling surge in serious crimes linked to migrants housed in taxpayer-funded hotels across Britain.

Over the past three years, at least 312 asylum seekers have faced 708 criminal charges – including rape, sexual assault, attacks on emergency workers and theft – raising urgent questions about public safety and the U.K.'s asylum accommodation policies. Amid escalating small-boat crossings ...

Senior citizens evicted to house asylum seekers in Germany as controversial policy sparks outcry

June 18, 2025 -

In a decision igniting fierce public debate, the German city of Bargteheide abruptly halted demolition efforts at a senior living complex last week and instead began housing asylum seekers in the very apartments it had previously deemed “unfit for habitation.” The 104-unit facility on Nelkenweg, originally slated to be torn down amid concerns about mold and structural issues, now faces criticism as local officials pivot to shelter thousands of migrants....

British Home Office fails to locate over 3,500 asylum seekers slated for deportation to Rwanda

May 02, 2024 - asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing, asylum and resettlement. (Related: U.K. and Italy agree to finance the repatriation of migrants attempting to reach Europe.)

But the first deportation flight, originally scheduled for June 2022, was blocked by a last-minute injunction from the European Court of Human Rights. Subsequently, the U.K. government was compelled to renegotiate the migration agreement after the U.K. Supreme Court raised concerns regarding the ...

Republican congresswoman to introduce legislation to grant asylum to Canadian freedom protesters persecuted by Trudeau

February 21, 2022 - asylum for political prisoners, we should do the same for truckers who have been subjected to violence, had their property confiscated, and their bank accounts frozen by a government that is quickly becoming the embarrassment of the free world. 2/3

— Rep. Yvette Herrell (@RepHerrell) February 19, 2022

"Just as we provide asylum for political prisoners, we should do the same for truckers who have been subjected to violence, had their property confiscated, and ...

Japan accepted a record high of 303 asylum seekers in 2023 but REJECTED 98% of applicants

June 21, 2024 -

The Japanese Ministry of Justice (MoJ) revealed this number in March, surpassing the 202 individuals granted asylum in 2022. Despite this increase, the approval rate for asylum seekers remained low at just 2.2 percent.

All in all, the total number of asylum seekers who lodged their applications in the Land of the Rising Sun reached 13,823 in 2023. According to Kyodo News, this is the second-highest number after the 19,629 people who sought asylum ...

Bodycam video captures takedown of Syrian asylum seeker about to commit shooting spree at a street fair

August 24, 2023 -

On July 14, Mohamad Barakat, a Syrian asylum seeker, parked his car in Fargo, North Dakota, near two vehicles that crashed on a busy road. When the cops arrived to respond to the crash, he seized his moment, opening fire.

The police said that Barakat was armed with 1800 rounds of ammunition, multiple firearms, tactical gear, a grenade, three canisters of gasoline and two propane tanks filled with Tannerite, which is a highly explosive material. He had enough ...

European NGO teaches migrants how to “lie” and “pretend to be Christians” so they can gain asylum

November 12, 2018 - asylum process was “simply theater,” as TGP’s Cassandra Fairbanks reports.

“This is all like a big theatre production, everyone has a part to play and a refugee has to act the part of the refugee in trauma for the interviewers, but it is extremely difficult to do this because unless they are taught how to be this character, this actor, then they go about it usually the opposite way,” Ricker says.

Her NGO provides migrant and refugees legal and humanitarian ...

Over 1,300 asylum seekers in the U.K. are pretending to be unaccompanied minors to exploit British migration law

October 04, 2024 -

According to the official figures, for the first half of 2024 alone, 1,317 migrants who arrived at the U.K. border disguised themselves as children. This eclipses the combined totals for similar cases from 2017, 2018 and 2019. (Related: Hungary pushes through with plan to bus illegal immigrants to Brussels.)

Among the asylum seekers found falsely claiming their age, 283 came from Afghanistan, 282 from Sudan, 236 from Vietnam and 140 from Eritrea. As unaccompanied ...

Chilean-American blogger Gonzalo Lira arrested a SECOND time in Ukraine after trying to enter Hungary for asylum

August 06, 2023 - asylum – you know, the same type of asylum that Hispanics from south of the border are trying to do as they enter the U.S. and receive free everything from the very same Biden regime that is doing nothing to help Lira.

According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Lira is guilty of "producing and disseminating materials that justified the armed aggression" of Russia. Because of this, he is not to be allowed to be a free man, in the eyes of the rogue ...

U.N. funding psychological brainwashing for rejected migrants to improve their chances of receiving asylum on their second try

January 28, 2022 -

Many of these migrants were rejected for asylum based on the truths they told during their first attempt, and the U.N. wants to help them conjure up "repressed memories," meaning fake memories, that will help them to qualify in their second attempt.

Made-up stories about government persecution or other hardships improve a migrant's changes of being granted entry into the U.S., it turns out. And many of them do not know about this when first applying, which is ...

WATCH: Biden regime actively assisting illegal immigrants in crossing border so they can claim asylum and stay forever

April 18, 2021 - asylum at the U.S. border in Texas and why are they in Homeland Security bags? #BidenBorderCrisis,” Gohmert tweeted along with a video of himself at the border.

Gohmert pointed out a sign that had been placed on a tree near a spot where he said illegal aliens were crossing the river. The sign, he explained, provided directors to a nearby Border Patrol processing center.

“It’s amazing how many women and children are coming right now, just because the president ...

U.K. asylum costs will triple to £15.3B over the next decade amid surge in small boat migrants, NAO reports

May 09, 2025 -

A damning National Audit Office (NAO) report reveals that the U.K. government’s costs for housing asylum seekers will triple to a projected £15.3 billion ($20.3 billion) over the next decade, driven by an influx of small boat migrants and inflated costs tied to luxury accommodations. The startling estimate, a 240% increase from the Home Office’s original £4.5 billion ($6 billion) projection in 2019, has sparked outrage as critics accuse ministers ...