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El Hierro is struggling to cope with nearly 1,600 migrant arrivals in just over a week, putting pressure on healthcare and reception facilities. The Canary Islands government relocated 471 migrants from El Hierro to other accommodation facilities on Gran Canaria on Sunday, October 25.

The European Commission wants to turn Frontex into the EU’s central returns agency, with a larger border force, faster crisis deployment and new powers to support removals beyond the bloc’s borders. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/7442...

Latvia alleges migrants are being forced into border sabotage if they cannot pay. Rights groups say protection from refoulement, violence, and arbitrary detention must remain central to any response. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/7442...

In the Netherlands, the Public Prosecution Service has announced that it's seeking a four-year prison sentence for a man from Doetinchem, near the German border. The suspect stands accused of planning an explosives' attack against a local asylum reception center last year. tinyurl.com/5n6btbpc

Local authorities and regional officials in the Canary Islands have raised concerns over severe resource constraints as large numbers of irregular migrants continue to reach the archipelago — especially the small southwestern island of El Hierro. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/7441...

Ten years ago, the camp known as the 'Calais Jungle,'was dismantled. As its peak, this unofficial settlement, home to around 10,000 people, left a lasting mark on the residents of Calais and the humanitarian workers who walked its streets. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/7433...

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Munich Airport on Saturday, October 24, to protest against plans to establish a deportation terminal that would make the airport a central hub for removals from Germany. In 2025, 19,897 people were deported from Germany by air.

We spoke to disinformation experts to understand how disinformation fueled hostility towards migrants following mass crossings to Ceuta in late July. Claims about an “invasion" of Ceuta have garnered millions of views online.

More than 30 people have been rescued overnight from a migrant boat just south of Gavdos, Greece’s southernmost island. Greece's southernmost islands continue to see an increase in migrant arrivals since August. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/7439...

Greek police have arrested seven suspected members of migrant smuggling rings in the country's north in recent days. In one case, officers found 12 people crammed into a vehicle. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/7440...

Ten years ago, the "Great Jungle" of Calais was dismantled. In its wake, to prevent further large scale migrant arrivals, the French government implemented the so-called "zero fixed points" policy to prevent the re-establishment of giant shantytowns. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/7429...

Spanish police say they have found 74 migrants, including 10 unaccompanied minors, living in overcrowded and hazardous conditions in a building in Ceuta. A local man is suspected of leading a trafficking network involved in labor exploitation. He was arrested.

A group of 35 deported migrants arrived in Dhaka, Bangladesh, today aboard a charter flight. The group included 19 people returned from Italy, 10 from Greece and six from Cyprus.

Police in Guinea-Bissau freed 71 people of various nationalities during a crackdown on a smuggling and trafficking network this week. Four suspects were arrested, while the alleged leader of the network remains at large.

Fewer migrants are trying to reach the European Union using irregular routes, but more people are dying in border crossing attempts, especially in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean, recent data by the European Union’s border agency Frontex and UN migration agency IOM reveals.

Misleading social media posts were among the key factors that motivated a mass crossing into Ceuta in July. A fact-checking investigation revealed how a misinterpreted court ruling and sensational headlines helped create the false impression that migration to Spain had become easier.

Around 874,000 people in Somalia could be forced to flee their homes within the next three months and migrate due to flood waters, the IOM has warned. Some people are risking dangerous journeys across borders and at sea in search of security.

A false claim on Facebook gave 26-year-old Moroccan footballer Faten Omar Ben El Azizi hope of reaching Spain. She died trying to cross to Ceuta, leaving her mother to grapple with a devastating loss and the role social media played in it.

Are safeguards to protect the human rights of migrants under the EU's Pact on Migration and Asylum working? A new report raises concerns over the treatment of youths in Ceuta, rescue ship restrictions, and alleged rights abuses at Europe’s borders.

A young family say that they were held at Berlin airport facilities for 15 days in 'prison-like' conditions as their asylum application was being processed. The Amazigh family reportedly fled ethnic discrimination and criminal threats in Algeria.

A former employee of Cologne’s immigration office, her husband and two others have been charged over their alleged involvement in a cross-border smuggling scheme. Non-EU citizens are alleged to have entered the EU through sham marriages with Eastern European women arranged in Cyprus.

Migrants may have paid more than €450 million to smugglers while trying to reach Europe via sea routes in 2025, according to a new UN report. People reportedly paid far less to smugglers on the Atlantic Route than the Central Mediterranean route. More 👇 www.infomigrants.net/en/post/7432...

Fadia came to Greece after having fled Afghanistan. Now, she is 20 and lives in Germany. But she wants to return to the place she once called home. The refugee camp she lived at: Ritsona. We accompany her on her journey.

People smugglers are reportedly charging up to €800 to help Turkish nationals pursue allegedly fraudulent asylum claims in Germany, according to newspaper Die Zeit. The scheme allegedly involves corrupt officials taking a cut to fast-track these false claims through the courts.

Libya’s eastern-based parliament has unanimously approved a contested 2019 maritime boundary agreement with Turkey. The memorandum also has implications for migration management, including migrant interceptions at sea and rescue missions.

Ceuta is clearing waste and cleaning public spaces as it grapples with the aftermath of this summer’s mass migrant arrivals. Torrential rain and flash floods have worsened conditions for those living in makeshift camps on beaches and streets, often without adequate sanitation.

A protest against attacks targeting Ukrainian migrants and refugees took place in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday (October 17). Poland has recently experienced a surge in xenophobic crimes and discrimination against migrants in the country.

Hundreds of migrants arrived on Spain’s Canary Islands on Sunday after being rescued at sea. Two women died aboard one boat carrying 133 people, while seven were injured. Local media reported 3 deaths among 309 arrivals on El Hierro. A second boat carried around 150 migrants.

Rwanda might become the first host country for the EU's so-called "return hubs." The facilities are intended to house failed asylum-seekers who have lost their case to remain in the EU but who equally cannot be deported to their home countries. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/7429...

The Federal Ministry of the Interior has announced that it will be introducing tighter rules for the German Test for Migrants (DTZ). It added that amid an increase in cheating attempts during exams, the changes would increase the reliability of the tests. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/7428...

Advocacy groups in Germany are demanding extra safeguards to be introduced as the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party looks poised to take control over a federal state for the first time. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/7427...

The Greek coast guard rescued nearly 120 irregular migrants during two operations near Crete earlier on October 20, as arrival numbers are once again increasing. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/7428...

A group of Afghan refugees have filed a complaint at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on the basis of the reported abuse they suffered at the hands of Croatian border officials in 2020.

An unspecified number of migrants remain missing off the Gambian coast, after a migrant boat was shipwrecked off the Gambian coast on October 15. Thus far, 12 bodies have been recovered from the site of the incident.

A total of 12 people, including one baby, died in the early hours of October 19 in the Aegean Sea, according to the Greek coast guard. Here the damaged boat that capsized after a collision near Lesbos and a search and rescue vessel that took part in the operation off Samos.

📷'We pay our taxes and work.' A group of c.43 migrants say the Italian authorities in Bologna have left them waiting for more than a year to renew their stay permits (permessi di soggiorno). This is hampering their work, family life and travel, they say, and is discriminatory.

📷Turkish authorities conducted 2 days of searches for missing Iraqi Kurdish children who died after the boat on which they and their family were traveling, on the Evros river between Turkey and Greece, capsized last week. Two children were found but died and the third is still missing.

A total of 12 people, including one baby, died in the early hours of October 19 in the Aegean Sea, according to the Greek coast guard. One incident occurred near Lesbos and the other near Samos. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/7426...

Fadia came to Greece after having fled Afghanistan. Now, she is 20 and lives in Germany. But she wants to return to the place she once called home. The refugee camp she lived at: Ritsona. We accompany her on her journey.

Spanish police have arrested 45 people in Ceuta over the alleged use of third-party identity documents to attempt to board ferries to mainland Spain. The enclave continues to grapple with the aftermath of July's mass migrant crossings.

Three children from a family from Sulaymaniyah in Iraq's Kurdistan Region have reportedly died. The deaths came after a migrant dinghy capsized in the Maritsa/Evros River on the Turkey-Greece border, leaving two of them missing and prompting an ongoing search.

As Syria enters a fragile post-Assad recovery, large-scale returns from neighboring countries contrast with comparatively low numbers from Europe. Nevertheless, the German government hopes to accelerate the returns.

📷 Migrant are disembarking a Spanish coast guard vessel at the port of Arguineguin after being rescued early on Thursday. The group included one woman and three minors, according to news agency Reuters. Arguineguin is located on Spain's Canary Island of Gran Canaria.

Spanish police have cleared the last major makeshift migrant camp in Spain's Ceuta enclave ahead of a visit by King Felipe, which comes on the heels of reports of abuse, unsafe living conditions, and mistreatment of migrants.

The 'Houses of Hope' turn inclusive housing into a reality by encouraging integration. Here, people from both migrant and non-migrant backgrounds live together under one roof.

38 organizations have warned against a possible temporary suspension of the right to asylum in the EU. They are calling on the German government to advocate for the protection of refugees amid some European parties calling for a suspension of asylum.

Over 4,000 children have died on migration routes worldwide between 2014 and 2025. Experts warn that the true toll for 2014-2025 is likely much higher. That's according to a new report by the Missing Migrants Project, supported by the International Data Alliance for Children on the Move (IDAC).

Bangladesh's ambassador to Greece says visa barriers, limited public awareness and recruitment difficulties are preventing a 2022 labor agreement from reaching its target of 4,000 workers a year.

📷Anti-migrant protests are popping up across the UK. Here in pictures taken in Manchester in the north of England, the result of actions from a so-called 'anti-migrant' action day on October 12.

The United Kingdom has threatened to block all visas for Eritrean nationals. That's unless Eritrean authorities rapidly agree to accept more returns of people with no right to remain in the UK.