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What are Labour’s new asylum policies? And what are the political risks?

Yvette Cooper has announced several tough policies after a summer dominated by Farage and Reform UK

The Guardian - UK

Alan Kurdi’s father’s harrowing plea for refugee compassion resurfaces on 10-year anniversary of son’s death

The father of Alan Kurdi, the Syrian boy who drowned as his family tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, made a desperate plea for compassion for refugees in a resurfaced video.

The Independent UK

What happened to Alan Kurdi and what did the two-year-old’s death mean for the refugee crisis?

The image of the boy’s lifeless body lying on a Turkish beach shocked the world when it was published in September 2015

The Independent UK

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Voices: Trust me, splitting up refugee families is not the answer to the migrant crisis

COMMENT: As the Home Office pauses reunion applications, Alex Fraser of the British Red Cross explains how the government needs to better support refugees – starting with a focus on family

The Independent UK

Labour’s asylum crackdown may fuel small boat crossings, British Red Cross warns

The charity warned families will face ‘harsh choices’ after the home secretary announced a pause on new applications from refugees wanting to bring their loved ones to the UK

The Independent UK

ICE is showing up to interview parents hoping to reunite with their children who entered US alone

President Donald Trump's administration has started requiring parents seeking to reunite with their children who crossed into the U.S. alone to attend interviews with immigration officers

The Independent UK

Voices: Alan Kurdi symbolised an army of dead children. We ignore them at our peril

In a piece published a year after the death of the two-year-old boy, the late Robert Fisk asked whether the world had learned any lessons from the tragedy

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Ukrainian Girl 'Pushed Under Train' in Germany as Authorities Face Backlash for Calling It Suicide

A 16-year-old Ukrainian refugee was killed in Friedland, Germany, after allegedly being pushed in front of a freight train on 11 August. Authorities first labelled it suicide, sparking outrage from her family.

International Business Times UK

Yvette Cooper Freezes Family Reunions for Asylum Seekers – Tories Say It Won't Stop Record Crossings

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper halts refugee family reunions amid surging 2025 Channel crossings (27,997 so far), but Tories slam the policy as too weak to stop migration trends

International Business Times UK

What to know about Guatemalan migrant children and efforts to send them home

The Trump administration has tried to deport Guatemalan children living in U.S. shelters or foster care

The Independent UK

UK drops refugee family reunion applications amid anti-immigration protests

Move part of broader immigration crackdown as ruling Labour Party comes under pressure from hard-right Reform UK party.

Al Jazeera

Yvette Cooper accused of pushing children towards people smugglers by halting refugee scheme

Home secretary under fire over suspension of family reunion system that she said was at risk of being exploited

The Guardian - UK

Yvette Cooper halts scheme allowing refugees to bring families to UK

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The Independent UK

Yvette Cooper pauses new refugee family reunions in fresh asylum crackdown

Charities warn the changes will ‘push more desperate people into the arms of smugglers in an effort to reunite with loved ones’

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Evening Standard

First migrant returns under UK-France deal ‘to begin this month’

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper also told MPs new applications to the existing refugee family reunion route will be suspended this week.

The National (Scotland)

Yvette Cooper slated for 'pandering to Reform' with asylum overhaul

YVETTE Cooper has been blasted for “shameful” new rules which will make it harder for refugees to bring their families to the UK.

The Independent UK

850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home since Assad's fall, UN says

An official with the U.N. reguee agency UNHCR says that since the fall of Bashar Assad’s government in December, some 850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from neighboring countries

The National (Scotland)

Yvette Cooper set to make it harder for refugees to bring family to UK

LABOUR are looking to make it harder for refugees to bring their family members to the UK.

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The Guardian - UK

Home secretary suspends refugee family reunion applications until new, tighter rules are put in place – as it happened

Yvette Cooper says rules were designed years ago to help families separated by war but are being used in a different way now

The Conversation

Politicians have scapegoated immigration for decades. It’s time to flip the script

For decades now, public discourse about refugees and immigrants has become increasingly fractured, ugly and untrue.

The Guardian - UK

The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war

With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever

The Guardian - UK

UK to make it harder for refugees to bring family members to country

Home secretary to announce overhaul of family reunion policy in attempt to quell fractious immigration debate

The Guardian - UK

‘I was never worried’: 10 years on since Syrian siblings’ 2,700-mile escape to Germany

Ten years after Angela Merkel declared ‘We can do this’ at the height of the 2015 migration into Europe, Syrian refugee Somar Kreker looks back at his 44-day odyssey

The Guardian - UK

A desperate, opportunist press and vicious politicians: no wonder the debate on refugees is so awful

Migration is one of the most important issues of our time and needs serious consideration. History will damn much of the UK media for failing to do that, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson

The Guardian - UK

Ordinary people outside hotels raging at ordinary people inside them: that’s the tragedy of this refugee controversy

Anyone who has met refugees sees the ordinariness of their hopes and dreams. If we reject their humanity, how can we be proud of ourselves, asks former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams

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