The head of Frontex, the EU's border and coastguard agency, has said he doesn't think it is really possible or desirable to keep migrants out of Europe. Unfortunately, that's his job.
A growing number of illegal migrants are finding life in Britain so miserable, they’re desperate to leave. But we won’t let them. Michael Deacon wonders why the British state doesn't have the basic decency to let them go.
Stunned children returned from a school trip to France at the weekend to find two migrants in the luggage compartment of their coach. Police attended the incident but arrested no one. No wonder our borders are wide open.
Democrat Governor J. B. Pritzker of Illinois, who has made much of his being a 'sanctuary state', has now found himself overwhelmed by illegal immigrants and resorted to pleading with Texas to stop sending them.
Biden promised during his presidential campaign that "not another foot" of border wall would be built, but his administration is now pushing through the construction of 20 additional miles.
France is planning to extend its vaccine passport scheme obliging travellers to present proof of vaccination, proof of recovery or negative test results to enter France until at least the end of March 2023.
While some tourists willing to brave the testing gauntlet are starting to trickle into the country, Kiwis are fleeing the country en masse, escaping "controlling and fearful" Jacinda Ardern.
Jacinda Arden has finally given up on her bonkers Zero Covid policy. From today, New Zealanders will be able to return to their country. Some have been stranded overseas for more than a year.
After two years of borders shut tight in support of a doomed Zero Covid goal, Australia is to welcome vaccinated tourists again by March, with the Government set to announce a reopening date as early as Monday.
Shutting the borders in January would have bought us time, but it might have simply postponed the epidemic until the winter. Cummings is therefore wrong to suggest that it was "obviously" the right thing to do.
