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In April 2024, the UK signed an agreement with Vietnam to increase cooperation on dealing with irregular migration. How does the UK’s illegal immigration numbers compare to countries in Europe?
Migration Watch UK, is a think-tank opposed to a large scale of immigration. [15] 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. [16]
Nearly 30,000 undocumented migrants crossed the Channel in small boats to the UK in 2023. [144] On 20 March 2024, 514 people crossed the UK Channel, the busiest day for Channel crossings since the start of 2024. Following this, on 21 March 2024, the UK government announced that it was dealing with a "migration emergency." [145]
According to analysis by PA Media, the number of migrants reaching the UK shore has gone beyond 4,100 people in 2020. The Home Office confirmed that 151 migrants came ashore on 8 August. French authorities claimed that in the first six months of 2020, the number of migrants crossing the English Channel increased by five times, as compared to ...
For the first nine months of 2024, the number of people removed from the NRM process for posing as a victim, known as a bad faith disqualification, was eight, compared to the thousands of ...
Immigration and border security were two issues that dominated 2024 and help decide the November election as the border crisis loomed large over voters.
However, the definitive annual number of deaths in detention remain unknown, as quarterly Home Office statistics do not differentiate between deaths and detainees leaving detention for "other" reasons. [6] In total, there have been at least 40 deaths in immigration custody since 1989, including:
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 ...