Immigrants' group calls for extra care at Christmas

The International Organisation for Migration is asking businesses and the wider community to look after immigrants, who will be spending Christmas far from their own homes and families, this Christmas.

This time last year, a 27-year-old Ukrainian woman in the North had both her legs amputated after suffering from frost-bite.

She had been laid off by the turkey factory where she worked in Coleraine, Co Derry, and ended up living rough in sub-zero temperatures.

Today is International Migrants' Day.

Superintendent John O'Driscoll, from the Garda National Immigration Bureau, said that we all have a role to play in helping immigrants feel welcome.