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Mitarachi said this week that the flow of new arrivals had been reduced by 90 percent compared to However, humanitarian organisations say the drop is due to systematic and illegal pushbacks of migrants to Turkey by Greek authorities which Greece's conservative government has repeatedly denied.

The content you requested does not exist or is not available anymore. ON TV. On social media. Who are we? Fight the Fake. The site was loaned to the Home Office a year ago for emergency use amid rising numbers of people crossing the Channel. The Home Office said the ex-barracks in Folkestone, Kent, is suitable for use. Despite continued outcry from charities and refugee organisations, the government announced last month that the barracks could be used for accommodation until as late as Tuesday marks a year on from the first asylum seekers moving on to the site.

It comes as high numbers of people continue to cross the Dover Strait from France. In the latest crossings, 41 people on a single boat reached the UK on Sunday, and a further arrived on three boats on Monday. Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK's Refugee and Migrant Rights director, said: "Over the past year, the squalid detention-like conditions at Napier Barracks have spread Covid, renewed or exacerbated psychological traumas and generally punished people for doing no more than exercise their right to seek asylum in the UK.

Tim Naor Hilton, chief executive of Refugee Action, said: "It beggars belief that after a year and two Covid outbreaks, refugees are still being cramped into decrepit buildings behind high fences and barbed wire.

A Home Office spokesperson said the "unprecedented and unacceptable rise" in small boat crossings and the Covid pandemic "continue to put pressure on our asylum system".

They added: "As we work to reform the broken asylum system, we must ensure we have sufficient capacity to meet our statutory duty to provide support to genuine and destitute asylum seekers. Sos tumba , they said. But in gang-controlled El Salvador, relocating to a new town was not enough: Arnovis had to leave his country entirely. Along the way, Washington adds political, historical and literary context to the idea of asylum, beginning with Ancient Greece, and the questions it raises.

He was happy in his seaside village, working at a sea turtle hatchery and climbing coconut trees for extra money. He made his mother laugh by performing Juan Gabriel songs. Fear derailed everything. But, as Arnovis discovered, it was not enough to qualify him for asylum in the U.

Applicants must establish that they fear persecution from their home government, and that the persecution stems from their membership in a particular social group — their race, religion, nationality or political opinions. In , more than , people applied for asylum at the U. The U. This is a missed opportunity.

Neither Arnovis nor his brother imagined the trauma that he and his daughter would face inside the United States. The agents took them to a migrant detention center in Texas and held them inside large cages. Department of Health and Human Services. Distraught, Arnovis could only wonder: What happened to my daughter? Who had her?