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The conflict in Gaza has fuelled a near-tenfold increase in Palestinians making illegal Channel crossings to the UK, which could now be reversed by Donald Trump’s peace deal. Without any safe legal routes from Gaza to Britain, even to join family, Palestinians fleeing the Israel-Hamas conflict have opted for the perilous small boat journey. While 38 crossed in the year to June 2024, in the subsequent 12 months there were 324. Over the same period, the number of Palestinians claiming asylum in the UK more than doubled, from 327 in the year ending June 2024, to 841 in the year...

Vatican Creates Muslim Prayer RoomHow many Christian prayer rooms are there in Mecca?Pope Leo has been vocally championing the Muslim mass invasion of Europe, so at least he’s being consistent.Muslim scholars visiting the Vatican Apostolic Library are being accommodated with prayer spaces, its Vice Prefect has confirmed.Fr Giacomo Cardinali, Vice Prefect, said in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that Muslim academics had requested a small area in which to pray, and the library had agreed. “Some Muslim scholars have asked us for a room with a carpet for praying and we have given it to them,” he...

The New York Times poll asked 1,313 registered respondents if they approve of Trump’s policy of “Deporting immigrants living in the United States illegally back to their home countries.”Fifty-four percent approved, including 38 percent who strongly approve.But just 24 percent — or one-in-four — strongly disapprove of the opportunity program. That bloc includes 25 percent of independents, one percent of Trump voters, and 43 percent of voters who backed Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024The New York Times poll was conducted September 22-27. Fifty-six percent of 2,413 registered voters support Trump’s policy of “Deporting all immigrants who are here illegally,”...

Brick by brick, President Donald Trump is building a wall around the world’s largest economy. As America’s tariff barriers on everyone else have gone up, so has the drawbridge, making it harder for migrants to enter the country. The president wants to turn America into a fortress that keeps out foreign incursions. In fact, he is cutting America off from the very goods and talent that helped make its economy the envy of the world. Already the damage is starting to show; once wreaked, it will not easily be reversed. That is not how investors see it. In the six...

Trump is not only scapegoating our city; he is plotting to make the neighborhoods of working families, immigrants and communities of color the staging grounds for authoritarian force.While many families prepared their children for school Monday morning, Sept. 29, I woke up to calls from parents in Chicago too afraid to leave their homes. Rumors of immigration enforcement were spreading, and the simple act of walking a child to school felt like too much of a risk. I am a mother and an Illinois state representative, and these calls hit me in two places at once: as a parent who...

The Supreme Court on Friday gave the Trump administration the go-ahead to scrap temporary deportation protections for more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants. In their latest emergency order, the justices on the high court paused Obama-appointed District Judge Edward Chen’s September ruling that the Trump administration wrongly terminated an 18-month extension of temporary protected status (TPS) for migrants from Venezuela. Liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson opposed the majority in the unsigned order.

"If I don't have sex, as a man, I feel unwell." Shocking footage of a migrant in Germany harassing a woman walking through Eschenheimer Anlage in Frankfurt. He refuses to take 'No' for an answer when he demands sex, and a passerby steps in and calls the police.

Cardinal Müller warns Germany could become a Muslim countryCdl. Müller told journalist Diane Montagna leftists ‘are instrumentalizing Islam to undermine Christian identity and Western tradition and culture.’Cardinal Gerhard Müller has said that there was an “infiltration” of Germany by foreigners and warns that Germany could become a Muslim-majority country where Christians are “second-class citizens.”In a recent interview with Catholic journalist Diane Montagna, the former prefect of the Congregation (now Dicastery) for the Doctrine of the Faith said that leftist politicians and activists “are instrumentalizing Islam to undermine Christian identity and Western tradition and culture.”“In England, for example, wokeism in its...

[Catholic Caucus] The Death of Europe | Will Leo XIV visit Lampedusa? A Grave Mistake -- and the Lampedusans themselves would not be happyery few things made European Catholics more unhappy with Francis than his tone-deaf approach to the criminal enterprise bringing millions of illegal migrants to Europe, and deeply changing the demographics, religion, and criminality of vast areas of the Continent.And the main early symbol of that attitude was Francis' visit to one of the most popular destinations used by the people-smuggling gangs: the small island of Lampedusa, in Sicily. Lampedusa was, for instance, the first spot in Europe...

Great speech by Eva at the London demonstration today. Called on the British patriots there to think of English patron Saint the legendary Saint George and fight to rescue their land from foreign invaders.

Chicago aldermen are once again warning downtown residents and workers to be prepared for potential chaos ahead of this weekend’s Mexican Independence Day, a holiday that has increasingly turned into an unsanctioned takeover of the Loop and surrounding areas by car caravans. The warnings come as city officials brace for another year of traffic jams, fireworks, and noisy celebrations that have tested police and exasperated locals. CPD arrested 69 people during last year’s four-day weekend, including at least 19 for illegal gun possession. Aldermen Brian Hopkins (2nd) and Brendan Reilly (42nd), who represent much of the downtown area, have issued...

Britain’s first female Muslim Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood had a rough start on Saturday, with over 1,000 illegal migrants arriving after crossing the English Channel from France on her first day in office. Mahmood, a former pro-Palestinian activist whose Pakistani parents migrated to England from Mirpur in the disputed Kashmir region, was tasked by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Friday to run the Home Office, the cabinet department tasked with controlling immigration and protecting Britain’s borders. It came amid the forced Downing Street reshuffle sparked by the scandal-induced resignation of former Deputy PM Angela Rayner over the socialist politician’s...

The Labour Government is set to close down migrant hotels and house residents in former military barracks in a fresh bid to take control of the small boats crisis. The new policy, which will see the closure of dozens of asylum hotels, will be announced within days by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, The Telegraph reports. Keir Starmer has faced criticism in recent weeks over his immigration policies after new official figures showed asylum seeker claims hitting a record high, with more migrants being housed in hotels compared with a year ago. The plan to move migrants into military accommodation comes...

Oh hello! Or as they say in Michigan, as-salamu alaykum! According to Fox 2 News, the police department in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn Heights celebrated the new patch as a symbol of … diversity or something. Police confirmed to FOX 2 on Wednesday that the department has a new optional patch that officers can wear as part of their uniform. The patch includes the Michigan seal in the center with the words ‘Dearborn Heights Police' written in both English and Arabic. According to police, the patch was created by Officer Ermily Murdoc, who designed it to reflect and honor...

DEARBORN HTS, Mich. (FOX 2) - The Dearborn Heights Police Department is unveiling a new officer-designed police patch that will be the first one in the country to feature Arabic. Police confirmed to FOX 2 on Wednesday that the department has a new optional patch that officers can wear as part of their uniform. The patch includes the Michigan seal in the center with the words ‘Dearborn Heights Police’ written in both English and Arabic. According to police, the patch was created by Officer Ermily Murdoc, who designed it to reflect and honor the diversity of our community. Dearborn Heights'...

A new report reveals that more than 14,000 migrants who had hoped to cross into the United States have turned back and reversed course due to the Trump administration's hardline border enforcement policies. The new phenomenon, referred to as "reverse flow" migration, has mainly impacted migrants fleeing the economic and political turmoil in Venezuela and who had been moving north through Central America toward the U.S. Since 2017, around 8 million people have fled the political crisis in Venezuela. The report, published by the governments of Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica with the support of the U.N. High Commissioner for...

In the eighty years since the project for European integration began in earnest, those latent contradictions have transformed Europe into a tinderbox with even greater potential energy for self-destruction than existed before WWI and II. While the bureaucratic ruling class has actively repressed the historic identities of native Europeans, it has flooded the continent with foreigners who are encouraged to retain their own cultural identities. In this way, a Hungarian or Pole or Dane who celebrates his country’s unique heritage is denounced as a “far-right nationalist,” while a Frenchman who insists that African and Middle Eastern immigrants assimilate to the...

Migrants who cross the Channel in small boats could be moved to warehouses as Labour scrambles to close asylum hotels, the Home Secretary suggested today. Yvette Cooper said the Government was looking at 'military and industrial sites' as 'more appropriate' places to house asylum seekers. She added that warehouses were 'one of the things that's been looked at' in her attempts to cut the bill to taxpayers from housing small boat arrivals in hotels. It came ahead of Sir Keir Starmer holding an emergency meeting this afternoon on Government action to go 'further and faster' in tackling Channel migrant crossings....

The ugly video clip from a Dundee housing estate in which a schoolgirl brandished a knife and an axe soon went viral, with rabble rousers such as Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson pitching in to claim the man filming the exchange was a 'migrant'. Others lauded the girl as a 'Braveheart' figure, defending her homeland from a predatory alien, with comparisons quickly cited about the Asian grooming gang scandals of Rotherham and Rochdale. Now we can reveal the man being threatened is a family man who has been living in the UK for four years – and who was accompanied...

40 Rohingya refugees allegedly deported by the Indian government to Myanmar... Three months after they were removed from India's capital, the BBC managed to contact the refugees.... Most are staying with the Ba Htoo Army (BHA), a resistance group fighting the military in the south-west of the country. On 6 May the 40 Rohingya refugees...were taken to their local police stations under the guise of collecting biometric data. This is a yearly process mandated by the Indian government where Rohingya refugees are photographed and fingerprinted. After several hours they were taken to the Inderlok Detention Centre in the city, they...