Border Security Report - July/August 2020

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AGENCY NEWS

Agency News and Updates I

llegal M i g r a m t s right-wing terrorist groups Apprehended by Hungarian to COVID-19 Police

Police arrested five illegal migrants in the Szajk area The captured men declared themselves to be Afghan, Syrian, Bangladeshi, and Ivorian citizens. Later the same day, police arrested seven more illegal migrants in the Nagyharsány area. The captured men declared themselves Syrian citizens. Migrants could not credibly prove their identity or the legality of their stay in Hungary.

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TED publishes updated Trends Alert on response of extreme

The Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) has published a Trends Alert entitled, “Member States concerned by the growing and increasingly transnational threat of extreme right-wing terrorism.” Based on information collected during CTED’s engagement with Member States and insights from CTED’s Global Research Network, the Trends Alert provided an overview of key trends relating to extreme right-wing terrorism, Member States’ responses, and guidance that might support those responses. The Update to the April 2020 Trends Alert examines how extreme rightwing terrorists are responding to the

Border Security Report | July/August 2020

COVID-19 pandemic. It provides an analysis of data from Member States, researchers and civil society organizations which indicates that extreme right-wing terrorists are using COVID-19-related conspiracy theories and disinformation to radicalize, recruit and fundraise, and seeking to inspire plots and attacks. It also analyses the potential related challenges, and how Member States, international and regional organizations, and the private sector are responding.

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ugitive Chinese national sentenced for role in large-scale birth tourism and immigration fraud ring

ICE HSI led massive probe into multimillion-dollar criminal enterprise leading to changes in the official rules for issuing visas for travel to the US for


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