Concern over kids along Swiss-Italian border

Authorities are turning back a growing number of unaccompanied children who are trying to cross over the border from Italy into Switzerland, a leading human rights advocacy group said on Thursday. Switzerland’s border with Italy has become a flashpoint in Europe’s migrant crisis, with a build-up of people along Italy’s frontier since Swiss border guards started clamping down on migrant crossings in mid-July. Swiss cabinet minister Ueli Maurer has been defending the work of Swiss border guards saying asylum seekers trying to transit Switzerland were being returned to Italy in accordance with the law. Swiss authorities have blamed the build-up along the Italian border on an influx of African migrants seeking passage to north European countries such as Germany. Most of the thousands of migrants who have tried to reach Switzerland through Ticino were turned back since early July. But non-governmental and human rights groups like Amnesty International have been ...