Migrants desperate to work occupy Brussels church

The World

Almost 200 undocumented migrants have occupied a 17th-century church in the center of Brussels for over a month. They’re calling on the Belgian government to grant them the legal right to remain. Some have been living in the country for up to two decades. But Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration Sammy Mahdi, who’s the son of an Iraqi refugee, appears to be taking a hard-line stance on the issue. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

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