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Sunak has made cutting illegal immigration one of the main pillars of his leadership. More than 29,000 people arrived in the U.K. in small boats in 2023, having made the often treacherous journey ...
Migration Watch UK, is a think-tank opposed to a large scale of immigration. [14] Migration Watch UK has criticised the Home Office figures for not including the UK-born dependent children of illegal migrants. They suggested in 2007 that the Home Office had underestimated the numbers of illegal migrants by between 15,000 and 85,000. [15]
[9] [7] [10] Prices charged by smugglers for illegal rides across the Channel in lorries, trains and ferries have risen sharply. [10] Rumours that entering and claiming asylum in the UK would become more difficult once Brexit went into effect circulated in migrant encampments in France, possibly fomented by people smugglers hoping to drum up ...
British opposition leader Keir Starmer said on Thursday a Labour government would set up a new police unit to tackle illegal migration and suggested he was open to a returns agreement with the ...
Britain said it had struck a deal with Turkey in a bid to slow the flow of illegal immigrants passing through the Mediterranean country on their way to Europe, including joint police operations ...
The Illegal Migration Act 2023 (c. 37) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, introduced by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Suella Braverman, in March 2023. [1] The main focus of the bill is to reduce or end "small boat crossings", across the English Channel , by ways described as "pushing against international law".
The Illegal Migration Bill had been stuck in a battle between parliament's House of Commons and the House of Lords, Britain's unelected upper chamber, which had repeatedly made changes to the ...
Immigration detention in the United Kingdom is the practice of detaining foreign nationals for the purpose of immigration control. [1] Unlike some other countries, UK provisions to detain are not outlined in a codified constitution .