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Both countries have ignored EU proposals to relocate 160,000 migrants and the rest of the bloc is set to take action to ensure they share the burden.

Poland has ignored criticism from the European Commission over its handling of the migrant crisis and last week Beata Szydlo, the countrys prime minister, criticised EU plans for a two-speed Europe which would allow more powerful members to develop faster than their poorer neighbours.

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Meanwhile, Hungary has pushed back against the centralisation of powers in Brussels and eurosceptic leader Viktor Orban called for the countrys borders to be closed during the height of the 2015 migrant crisis.

The two countries will now have to decide if they are willing to maintain their anti-migrant rhetoric if it puts their EU membership under threat, a diplomatic source told the Times.

The source said: They will have to make a choice: are they in the European system or not? You cannot blackmail the EU, unity has a price.

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A migrant taunts Hungarian riot police as they fire tear gas and water cannon on the Serbian side of the border, near Roszke

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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is expected to look into the legality of the migrant quotas with a judgment, widely expected to be in favour of them, due before the end of the year.

The source added: We are confident that the ECJ will confirm validation, then they [Poland and Hungary] must abide by the decision.

If they dont then they will face consequences, both financial and political.

No more opt-outs, there is no more one foot in and one foot out.

We are going to be very tough on this.

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The EUs migrant quotas have been widely criticised for being ineffective, with some eastern European members including Slovakia and the Czech Republic waiting for disputes between the EU, Hungary and Poland to be resolved before accepting their share of migrants.

Germany, France and Italy have called for a permanent system of quotas to replace the emergency measures currently in place, which would include fines and penalties for failing to comply.

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Analytics firm SAS wants to use crowdsourcing and data to solve global humanitarian challenges. Its new app GatherIQ, announced at the SAS Global Forum 2017 in Orlando, FL, puts analytics in the hands of the public to address world problems, starting with the migrant crisis.

Thousands of migrants go missing or die on their journey each year, with an estimated 63,000 victims between 2000 and 2016, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Here's how the app can help: First, users read about the issue. Then, the app asks questions about the migrant crisis that the IOM needs assistance analyzing. Using data visualizations and information from the IOM's Missing Migrants Project (including demographics, migrant routes, and locations), users can see patterns and trends take shape. Then, users can post any insights they gain to the GatherIQ community, to share observations and work as a team to validate one another's results, according to the app's website.

Users can also easily share their insights on social media platforms to both bring attention to the crisis and draw others to the GatherIQ effort. "IOM will harness the power of the crowd to better understand what is really happening to these migrants and how the organization can help them," a press release stated.

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"The migrant crisis continues unabated. By better understanding the risks facing these people, we can do more to protect them," said IOM spokesperson Leonard Doyle in a press release. "The more people we have analyzing the data and contributing to solutions, the more likely we are to save lives."

SAS plans to use GatherIQ to collaborate with more nonprofit organizations to help them gain new insights from their data, and to encourage citizens to use analytics to help solve global problems, according to the press release.

"We want the public to help us in our mission to improve the world with analytics and data," said I-Sah Hsieh, SAS global manager for international development, in the press release. "You don't have to be a data scientist. Just have a curious mind and a desire to help humanity."

GatherIQ also allows users to integrate data visualization and analysis into research projects and educational coursework, to better help individuals gain needed tech skills for future jobs, the release stated.

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"We encourage teachers, professors and students to integrate this project into their learning and research," said Hsieh in the release. "Today's students want to make a difference in the world. With GatherIQ, they also gain data analysis experience that will help fill the looming data skills gap."

This effort is not the first collaboration between SAS and IOM, the release noted: After Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines in 2013, SAS analyzed data from IOM shelters to target relief efforts and identify the most critical health problems facing the area. The company also worked with IOM after the 2015 Nepal earthquake, analyzing global trade data to identify sources for tin roofing to protect citizens during the impending monsoon season.

GatherIQ is available for download in Apple's App Store, and will soon be available on Android and as a web app.

1. At SAS Global Forum 2017, SAS unveiled a new app called GatherIQ that combines data and crowdsourcing to help solve global humanitarian problems, starting with the migrant crisis.

2. GatherIQ allows users to analyze data from the International Organization for Migration to identify patterns and trends, and post insights on a community page to help the IOM learn new information.

3. SAS said it plans to use GatherIQ to collaborate with more nonprofits to help them gain new insights from their data, and to encourage citizens to to use analytics to help solve global problems, according to the press release.

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Illegal immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border has continued to fall under President Trump, dropping 67 percent through the end of March, the former border commissioner told Congress on Tuesday.

Thats even bigger than the drop reported for February, when the number of illegal immigrants caught a yardstick for the overall flow dropped by 40 percent.

Its actually up to 67 percent drop compared to last year, David V. Aguilar, a former chief of the Border Patrol and former acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

Customs and Border Protection did not immediately respond to a request for confirmation of the numbers Mr. Aguilar cited.

The agency has been releasing its monthly figures each month, though the March figures have not been released.

But a drop anywhere close to the 67 percent figure Mr. Aguilar cited would be stunning, and suggests the early steps the president has taken to free up agents to enforce immigration laws at the interior and the border, and his plans to build a border wall, have deterred tens of thousands of would-be crossers.

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Mr. Aguilar said these kinds of drops have occurred before, during the Reagan administration, after Congress passed a broad amnesty granting legal status to millions of illegal immigrants, and promised to get tough on enforcement.

The legalization followed, but the tough enforcement didnt come and illegal immigration soared in the ensuing 20 years.

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BOSTON The state of Massachusetts on Tuesday asked its top court to find that state authorities lack the authority to detain illegal immigrants who come in contact with the legal system to buy time for federal authorities to take them into custody.

The hearing amounted to a challenge to requests by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency for courts and law enforcement agencies to keep illegal immigrants facing civil deportation orders in custody for up to 48 hours after their cases are resolved, a practice expected to step up under the administration of President Donald Trump.

The state argued that keeping someone in custody after his or her case is resolved amounted to a fresh arrest of the person without sufficient legal justification.

"Probable cause for civil removability is simply not a basis for arrest under Massachusetts law," Jessica Barnett, an assistant state attorney general told the court. She noted that state law does not specifically give law enforcement agencies the power to arrest people facing civil deportation proceedings.

The U.S. Justice Department argued the detainer requests reflect basic practices of cooperation between various law enforcement agencies.

"From our perspective, all states have an inherent authority to police their sovereignty," said Joshua Press, the lawyer representing the Justice Department.

The case was sparked by the arrest last year of Sreynuon Lunn, a man who Press said entered the United States as a refugee in 1985 and was ordered deported to Cambodia in 2008 after a series of criminal convictions.

Cambodia had declined to accept him and he was released. He was arrested in Boston on an unarmed robbery charge and ordered released in February after prosecutors failed to present a case. While he was waiting to be let out from his court holding cell, federal ICE officials took him into custody.

As a practical matter, his arrest by ICE makes the case moot but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court agreed to take the case on premise that cooperation between law enforcement in the state and ICE would come up again.

Trump has made immigration enforcement a centerpiece of his presidency, vowing to wall off the Mexican border, deport an estimated 11 million undocumented people living in the country and cut off Justice Department grants to cities that fail to help U.S. immigration authorities.

Attorneys for Lunn and the state largely agreed on the matter, with both sides contending that state agencies lacked authority to comply with the ICE detainer requests. But Lunn's attorneys went further, arguing that the detainer process violates the U.S. Constitution's guarantees of due process because judges are not involved in issuing them.

"There is no fixing the constitutional problems here," said Emma Winger, a public defense attorney representing Lunn.

Lunn's attorneys have declined to answer questions about the status of the deportation case. The court did not immediately rule on the matter.

(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Bernadette Baum and Marguerita Choy)

CLEVELAND One of two men suspected of opening fire in a crowded Cincinnati nightclub, killing one person and injuring 16 others, died on Tuesday as a result of gunshot wounds suffered in the shootout, police said.

EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. A Pennsylvania survivalist accused of killing a state trooper in a 2014 sniper attack goes on trial on Tuesday, in a case that had put the state's Pocono Mountain region on edge when the suspect evaded capture for weeks by hiding deep in the woods.

A New Jersey teen has pleaded guilty to participating in a plot to try to kill Pope Francis in 2015 during a public Mass in Philadelphia, according to a statement by federal prosecutors.

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