Record number of migrants cross English Channel in first four months of year
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US immigration judge rules Palestinian Columbia student Khalil can be deported
USA-TRUMP/COLUMBIA (UPDATE 3, PIX):UPDATE 3-US immigration judge rules Palestinian Columbia student Khalil can be deported
Asylum system overhaul: What is changing beyond all the talk of reform?
Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan has signalled a new Bill will be the most significant reform of the asylum system in the State’s history
Deportation orders triple as Ireland enforces a ‘firmer approach to migration’
Substantial fall in number of people seeking international protection this year
Ireland can’t use housing shortfalls as excuse for failing to accommodate single male asylum seekers, ECJ says
Significant legal opinion says key legal argument advanced by Government cannot be used
Germany vows to ‘terminate’ residency of anyone engaging in ‘incitement and anti-Semitism’
Federal coalition government agreement promises full border controls, a tighter asylum approach and expedited deportation of criminal foreign nationals
Seven deaths arising from critical incidents recorded at asylum seeker centres last year
Total of 55 critical incidents occurred with 25 of those linked to mental health or self-harm and 23 to violence towards staff or other residents
Trump’s science policies pose long-term risk to innovation, economists warn
Economists argue that investments in scientific research are among the most efficient uses of taxpayer dollars, returning about $5 for every dollar invested
Birmingham’s rubbish piles high against walls covered in pro-Palestine graffiti
Birmingham Letter: The city’s bin strike crisis is being portrayed as a symbol of ‘Broken Britain’
Fears new UK digital immigration system could disrupt Irish tourism
Electronic Travel Authorisation scheme comes into force for European travellers on Wednesday
Has the court ended Marine Le Pen’s political career and what happens to her RN party now?
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has limited legal options as ruling fires starting gun on race to succeed Emmanuel Macron
African, Brazilian communities ‘lack trust’ in gardaí, believe force takes ‘lenient’ attitude to racist attacks, report says
Policing Authority-funded report calls for law prohibiting ‘racial profiling’ as Garda defends its record on community policing
Marine Le Pen’s presidential ambition may be in ruins but court verdict does not end her influence
Court decision to effectively bar Le Pen from 2027 race will only fuel far right narrative
Homeless in Dublin, sober in Poland: How 60-year-old Jerzy ‘chose life’
‘I have pity for those men who are still sitting there, dying there,’ says Jerzy Podlesney
Britain to host international summit to combat people-smuggling gangs
Ministers and enforcement staff from 40 countries to meet over two days
Migrants to Ireland hit ‘disproportionately’ by poverty after housing costs despite being better educated
One in five migrants in Ireland is ‘income poor’, and 14.5% are at risk of poverty, compared with 11% of Irish-born residents, ESRI finds
Asylum applicants could face movement restrictions and detention in accommodation centres
New plan for handling international protection applications envisages just one appeal attempt per person
Cost of accommodating asylum seekers could be cut by 60% under new rules, suggests Government
Indicative future cost could fall from €123,000 per applicant to under €50,000, contingent on cutting processing times from 29 months to nine
Garron Noone returns to social media to say he was ‘not specific enough’ on immigration
Performer says denying people’s concerns on topic creates ‘vacuum’ for people like Conor McGregor to occupy
Why is Irish social media star Garron Noone at the heart of a controversy on immigration?
Tiktok personality is known for more light-hearted online content
Teen boy among 36 arrested in UK home office raid for illegal workers in Belfast
Dawn operation by immigration enforcement officers at construction site led to arrests
Government has sent a clear message to the far right: arson and violence work
It may be that the decision to stop locating accommodation centres in parts of the country takes the heat out of anti-migrant protests. But given the victory they have just been handed, I wouldn’t bet on it
Trump pulls security clearance for Clinton, Harris, Blinken and others
US department also revokes temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans
Conor McGregor says Ireland’s rural towns are being ‘overrun’ by immigrants. Here are the facts
His claim about immigration is incorrect, according to figures from the Central Statistics Office
Colm Brophy: ‘Not only does Conor McGregor not speak for us, he doesn’t speak the truth’
Interview with Colm Brophy, Minister of State for Migration, on the Government's approach to immigration
Protesters ordered to stop blocking work on water supply to 18th-century property housing women asylum seekers
One demonstrator said works would not begin ‘unless contractor was prepared to hit him with his digger’s bucket’, High Court told
Of course Conor McGregor was the best Irish person the White House could think of inviting for St Patrick’s Day
There was much about the spectacle of McGregor in the White House that was depressing
Immigration ‘makes the United States what it is’, Boston-Irish audience told
Ireland can be guiding light for US during ‘turbulent, divided and disputatious time’
Conor McGregor comments on immigration in White House criticised as ‘wrong’ and ‘outrageous’
Dublin Rape Crisis Centre says reports of fighter’s meeting with US president ‘shocking’ given recent civil judgment in Nikita Hand case
‘A feeling of confidence that I might one day be president’ – An Irish Diary on George Francis Train
Businessman was an inveterate traveller and thought to be the inspiration for Phileas Fogg
Venezuelans deported to El Salvador by Trump administration ‘denied due process’
People deported under claim they belong to gang not known to have committed crimes in US or El Salvador, says politician
Flight of the Trumpugees: The wealthy Americans fleeing the US for Europe
Rosie O'Donnell is not the only American fleeing the Trump administration
In Philadelphia Simon Harris celebrates Irish-American story and a ‘very particular case’
Minister for Foreign Affairs says ‘we haven’t given up' on the cause of undocumented Irish in the US
Micheál Martin chuckling about the lack of housing was a stark reminder of Ireland’s identity crisis
We sometimes seem to be clutching Irish identity in a pinched fist. We struggle to reconcile our long history of migration with a generation locked out of Ireland over housing and growing unease about immigration
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