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UK: Regional council wants elderly couple to sell their new home so ‘asylum seekers’ can be given housing, public anger grows over illegal immigration

OpIndia Staff - 20 February, 2024

Regional Council's letter threatening an elderly british couple to compulsory sell their house so that they can accomodate illegal immigrants sparks criticism against UK's migrant policy

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UK: Tunisian asylum-seeker Maher Marroufe, who killed and nearly beheaded Indian-origin Student Sabita Thanwani, gets Psychiatric confinement from court

OpIndia Staff - 16 January, 2024

According to the prosecution, during his psychotic episodes, Maaroufe, who sometimes smoked 10 pounds of cannabis a day, “thought she was the male devil".

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Use ‘Khalistani shield’ for asylum in US – investigation into Nicaragua-bound plane reveals how anti-India rhetoric is used to illegally enter Western countries

OpIndia Staff - 14 January, 2024

Agents who sent illegal immigrants to Nicaragua for entering the US asked the Punjabi passengers to use Khalistani shield to seek asylum in the US

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Fake rent agreement, house of a dead woman and police oversight: Cops bust racket in Maharashtra which helped over 70 Bangladeshis secure Indian passports

OpIndia Staff - 29 December, 2023

The racket was part of a larger plan to send Bangladeshis to the Gulf for employment using Indian identities.

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J&K: Illegally obtained Indian documents seized from Rohingyas & Bangladeshis, facilitators also booked in FIR filed against illegal settlement

OpIndia Staff - 19 December, 2023

In a press release issued on Tuesday, police said several First Information Reports have been lodged at different police stations against the people found to be accused of providing shelter to the Rohingya.

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14 Bangladeshi nationals arrested in Tripura for illegally entering India, 3 local middlemen nabbed

OpIndia Staff - 13 November, 2023

As per the police, the 62-km border in the Sabroom division could not be fully fenced due to geographical problems and is being used by human traffickers.

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UK govt adds India to the list of ‘safe states’, no more asylum for illegally entering Indians

OpIndia Staff - 10 November, 2023

With this addition, all asylum claims from Indian nationals who arrive on small boats or illegally on other routes will be deemed inadmissible. There will be no appeals and they will be sent back.

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Maharashtra: Bangladeshi national illegally living in Nagpur arrested by ATS, had first posed as a Buddhist monk and then as a gym trainer

OpIndia Staff - 2 September, 2023

The Bangladeshi national had crossed the Indian border before 2010 as a Buddhist monk. He later assumed the identity of agym trainer to evade authorities.

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Rising crimes amid an influx of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and Rohingyas: Lenin Colony in West Bengal’s Siliguri is now called ‘Chhota Pakistan’

OpIndia Staff - 29 August, 2023

The gruesome case of sexual assault and murder by accused Mohammad Abbas threw the spotlight on the increasing crime rate in Lenin Colony better known as ‘Chhota Pakistan’ in Siliguri, West Bengal

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