At least 2.4 million migrant workers in European farms are being exploited, facing long working hours, underpayment and sometimes even violence, according to a report published on Wednesday by anti-poverty charity Oxfam. “When workers have been employed for so long that they should legally start receiving more seniority pay, some agencies, especially unregistered ones, dismiss them and the employer hires …
ROME — A flotilla of flimsy boats, crowded with migrants and launched from Tunisia, overwhelmed a tiny southern Italian island on Wednesday, taxing the coast guard’s capability to intercept the smugglers’ vessels and testing Premier Giorgia Meloni’s pledge to thwart irregular migration. With Lampedusa-based Italian coast guard and border patrol vessels unable to intercept all of the smugglers’ boats offshore, …
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