Migrant small boat crossings expected to SURGE because up to a fifth of French police are going on HOLIDAY By David Barrett Home Affairs Editor Published: 00:22 BST, 1 August 2023 | Updated: 00:31 BST, 1 August 2023 Small boat crossings by migrants are expected to surge this month as up to a fifth of … Read more
Indian migrants are third largest group to risk dangerous Channel dinghy crossings, officials say Indians are the third largest ethnic group making Channel crossings this year Around 250 Indian migrants arrived in the UK using this method in January It exceeds the 233 who came in small boats in the first nine months of last … Read more
Britain grants 72% of asylum claims by migrants to the UK… almost three times the proportion France green-lights, analysis shows Asylum claims granted by Britain is nearly three times that granted by French Analysis showed how the percentage of claims granted by the UK has soared Home Office allowed 72 per cent of claims at … Read more
EXCLUSIVE Pregnant horse-riding instructor’s Australian boyfriend who faced missing birth of his child amid deportation row is set to remain in UK after Home Office U-turn Sophie Seymour’s Australian boyfriend was in a Home Office deportation row James Sheppard broke rules when he left the country for a work trip in Germany But a U-turn … Read more
Ministers AXE plans to turn migrant boats around in the Channel: Tough tactics ‘don’t work’ and are ‘currently withdrawn’ with ‘no plans’ to bring them back – despite record numbers making the journey Analysis found ‘limited circumstances’ where dinghies could be turned around Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said ‘no current plans’ to reinstate plans Minister’s … Read more
Tory MP tells Immigration Minster Robert Jenrick to RESIGN over system in ‘chaos’ as he reveals more than 40 asylum seekers were put up in a ‘mouldy’ hotel in his constituency days after the Home Office agreed NOT to use it Philip Hollobone said Jenrick should ‘consider his position’ over ‘chaotic’ system Kettering MP accused … Read more
Not ONE migrant has been sent back to France under post-Brexit rules, new figures show, despite 70,000 crossing the Channel since last January No asylum seekers forcibly returned to France under post-Brexit border rules Since January last year only 21 ‘enforced removals’ carried out, none to France Only 83 asylum seekers were told another country … Read more
Four Albanian nationals are arrested after ‘two migrants landed illegally in Kent beach and were driven away by two men’ Two men were arrested and charged with conspiracy to facilitate illegal entry Both are suspected of being members of an organised crime group in the UK Two men were also arrested on suspicion of arrival … Read more
Jeremy Hunt warned the UK must ‘pay our way’ today as he prepares to unveil ‘eye-watering’ austerity measures next week. The Chancellor said he will present a ‘plan which protects the most vulnerable’ in his Autumn Statement. But amid signs that public spending will increase by just 1 per cent from 2025 rather than 3.7 … Read more
First migrants will be notified in days they face flight to Rwanda… but Home Office predicts lawyers for some of those affected will try to block removal Arrivals who crossed the Channel will be among facing a one-way trip to Rwanda First flights expected to take place in the coming months, the Home Office says … Read more
Mutiny on Rwanda deal: Home Office staff plot to sabotage migrants plan as some threaten to go on STRIKE over ‘totally unethical’ proposal to ship asylum-seekers overseas Angry Home Office staff are considering strike action over the Rwanda deal Internal message boards in the department show the level of disgruntlement One Home Office official compared … Read more
Taxpayer funds are being spent on anti-deportation lawyers as the Home Office signs off on £17,647 in grants to radical campaign group Home Office handing £17,467 to campaigners fighting Priti Patel’s Rwanda plan Chief exec of recipient Migrants Organise said plan is ‘kidnapping’ of refugees Taxpayer-funded grants also given to firms trying to stop Channel … Read more