Sertan Sanderson

1 week ago | infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson

During an hour-long interview on the Caren Miosga show on Germany's public broadcaster ARD on Sunday evening (April 13), Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz highlighted further details of the incoming government's plans regarding immigration and asylum. "There has been a lot of change in Europe. Many attempts [at change] failed in Germany however in recent years.

1 week ago | infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson

Europol stated that around 300 gendarmerie officials in France and an unspecified number of federal police in Italy carried out a coordinated operation on April 01, which resulted in a total of 24 arrests of suspected migrant smugglers in both countries, France and Italy. Authorities searched 24 properties for evidence and seized three vehicles linked to the case as well as a number of communication devices.

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson

The island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean is regarded as part of the European Union, as it is a French overseas territory. However, it is also a highly impoverished area. It is estimated that there are now more immigrants than actual native inhabitants of the island. Many foreigners reached the island territory by using irregular means over the years in hopes of eventually be granted residence and later citizenship status in an EU country.

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson

Last month, an agreement was reached resulting in a draft law to move 4,000 minors from the Canary Islands to the mainland to ease the burden on the island group. That law is yet to be passed following parliamentary processes, and could at the earliest be signed into law next week -- if no amendments and changes are required, reported the Spanish news agency EFE.

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson

Thuringia plans to house rejected asylum seekers from certain safe countries of origin in initial reception facilities in the municipalities of Suhl and Eisenberg until they can successfully be deported. The federal state's Ministry of Migration in Erfurt said that asylum seekers from the following countries will be affected immediately by the decision: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Ghana, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Senegal and Serbia.