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Added on the 26/06/2018 09:55:37 - Copyright : Huffington Post
The Lifeline, a rescue boat stranded in the Mediterranean Sea with over 200 migrants docks in Senglea, Malta. A deal was struck between a group of EU states to take them in after the ship was waiting for 6 days at sea without receiving stopover permission from any nearby countries. IMAGES
Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat says the NGO rescue ship Lifeline, which has been stranded for days in the Mediterranean carrying over 200 hundred migrants, will dock in Malta on Wednesday evening. SOUNDBITE
Protesters in London try to block the removal of migrants from their temporary accommodation, as the UK government began detaining people before controversial deportation flights to Rwanda start. The protesters occupy the road in front of a bus believed to be waiting to take asylum seekers from a hotel in the Peckham area of the British capital to an accommodation barge moored off the south coast of England. A London Metropolitan Police statement said a number of people had been arrested. IMAGES
Migrants attempt to pull down a section of a barbed wire fence installed by Texas authorities on the Mexico-US border. The tensions on the border come amid an ongoing legal back-and-forth over a Texas law that would allow state police to arrest and deport migrants who cross illegally into the United States from Mexico. IMAGES
During his State of the Union Speech, US President Joe Biden hits out at his predecessor and 2024 White House opponent Donald Trump's rhetoric on immigration. "I will not demonize immigrants saying they're 'poisoning the blood of our country,'" Biden says, referring to Trump's words, and urging Congress to pass immigration reforms. SOUNDBITE
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