Sentences with phrase «mediterranean migrant boat»
Theresa May has hardened Britain's refusal to accept the mandatory European Union refugee quota system being put forward in Brussels this week in response to the Mediterranean migrant boat crisis.
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Even before the most recent Mediterranean migrant boat tragedies, the immigration debate has been on voters» minds, ranking third (after the NHS and the UK economy) in a list of the most important election issues according to a recent BBC poll.
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Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and economic migrants have reached Italy in the last few years, after rescue at sea when smugglers» boats founder in the Mediterranean.
Pressure has grown on governments to act after an overcrowded migrant boat sank in the Mediterranean last month, leaving more than 750 dead in a case that sparked international outrage.
The UKIP leader Nigel Farage says Islamist extremists could cross the Mediterranean and gain access to the UK as a result of EU policies to address the migrant boat crisis.
In the last two years, more than a million migrants crossed the Mediterranean by boat, many thousands drowning before reaching shore.