The left-wing Labour Party government in Britain has reportedly launched an initiative to offer private landlords five-year deals to house illegal migrants as increased crossings of the English Channel have put further pressure on the asylum system.
The left-wing Labour Party government in Britain has entered into negotiations with France for a potential migrant exchange scheme in which illegals who cross the English Channel would be sent back in return for the UK taking in an equal number of alleged asylum seekers living in France.
Illegal crossings of the English Channel soared to their highest daily total for the year on Saturday as people smugglers operating on the French coastline launched multiple boatloads of migrants towards the UK.
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said that illegal immigration should be confronted similarly to the war on terror, as he hosted an international summit on the issue in London.
Illegal migrant crossings of the English Channel are occurring at a record pace since the start of the year, despite the left-wing Labour government’s pledge to end the crisis.
The Italian Coast Guard recovered six bodies and was searching for up to 40 migrants missing after a rubber dinghy that departed from Tunisia sank in the central Mediterranean, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday.
Police fined a British couple £1,500 after having discovered an illegal migrant had hidden on their vehicle to enter the UK from France clandestinely.
Former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has admitted that his government was not in a position to actually fulfil his promise to the public of ending the illegal migrant crisis in the English Channel while expressing regret over the “stop the boats” slogan.
Authorities in Tunisia say 64 migrants were rescued from a boat that capsized off the country´s eastern Mediterranean coast after running out of fuel.
Authorities in Greece said Tuesday they detained 107 migrants in two separate operations near the island of Crete, as an official attributed an increase in people trying to cross the eastern Mediterranean to conflicts in the Middle East.
The leftist Labour Party government in Britain has put forward a resident of Finland as its candidate for border watchdog, who suggested he may work from home in the Nordic nation.
A group of Labour Party MPs have reportedly joined to pressure Prime Minister Keir Starmer to get tough on migration to prevent the rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party.
The Labour Party government is reportedly preparing to revoke the ban on illegal boat migrants from obtaining citizenship in Britain.
Italian navy vessel Cassiopea has embarked 49 migrants during its patrols in the Mediterranean and is transferring them to new processing centers in Albania, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
The number of illegal migrants who crossed the English Channel in 2024 increased by 25 per cent over the previous year, according to initial government figures.
At least three illegal migrants died while trying to cross the English Channel in a small people-smuggler operated boat on Sunday morning, making this year the deadliest on record since the crisis began.
Over 150,000 illegal boat migrants have landed on British shores since the crisis began in earnest in 2018 as hundreds more crossed the English Channel on Christmas and Boxing Day.
People smuggling operations continued in the English Channel on Christmas as hundreds of illegals reached British shores after setting sail from the beaches of France.
The leader of the Italian government coalition League party and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has been acquitted after facing six years in prison for blocking an illegal migrant boat from disembarking in 2019.
Tunisian authorities recovered the bodies of 20 people who appeared to have drowned after a shipwreck off the country’s Mediterranean coastline, near a popular point of departure for migrants attempting to reach Europe by boat.
Greece says migrant arrivals have increased by up to 35 per cent since fall 2023 amid rising numbers setting sail from the Libyan coast.
The number of illegal boat migrants that have crossed the English Channel since the Labour Party came into power has surpassed 20,000, despite promises from the fledgling government to crack down on the people smuggling trade.
The fate of Italian Prime Minsiter Giorgia Meloni’s central immigration policy of sending illegal boat migrants to Albanian detention centres is likely on course to be put in the hands of European Union judges in Luxembourg after Italian magistrates cited EU rulings to justify sending another round of illegals back from Albania to Italy this week.
More than 1,800 illegal boat migrants crossed the English Channel over the past week despite government promises to stop the boats.
After overseeing months of thousands more illegal boat migrants landing on British beaches, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced that his government would throw more money at the problem, committing an additional £75 million to various initiatives, none of which include sending the boats back to France.
An analysis from a left-wing think tank has found that the average cost of housing and supporting supposed asylum seekers in Britain has more than doubled over the past four years.
French maritime authorities pulled the bodies of two migrants from the English Channel on Wednesday, pushing the count of dead and missing in French waters so far this year above 50.
The British government has allowed in more illegal migrants than any other country in Europe, an international study has found.
Illegal crossings of the English Channel hit a new record for the year as nearly a thousand migrants were brought ashore by British authorities after setting sail from the French coastline.
The people smuggler-facilitated migrant crisis in the English Channel claimed the lives of another four people Saturday, including a small child who is said to have been “trampled” to death.
The government scheme to put up migrants in hotels across Britain will reportedly continue for another three years despite Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s vow to end the practice.
The number of adult migrants claiming to be child asylum seekers has climbed to a record high in Britain this year, with more than 1,300 fraudulent cases discovered by authorities.
Nine people have died and another 48 are missing after a boat carrying migrants capsized during a rescue operation near the Canary Islands, Spanish authorities said Saturday.
Greece’s coast guard says three people died and another five were rescued after a boat carrying migrants ran into trouble off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Samos.
Since the left-wing Labour Party government of Sir Kier Starmer came into power in July, more than 10,000 illegal migrants have reached British shores after crossing the English Channel from France.
During his first trip to Italy since taking office British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that the UK will seek to replicate Giorgia Meloni’s success in stemming the tide of illegal boat migrants, sparking a wave of criticism from leftist Labour Party lawmakers back in London.
Several people died early Sunday during a failed attempt to cross the English Channel from northern France, French authorities said.
Italian prosecutors have been accused of conducting a political witch hunt as they seek to jail Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini for six years over blocking an NGO migrant taxi ship in 2019.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage warned the Labour government that it will suffer a similar defeat to the Tories if they fail to protect Britain’s border.
Dividends have begun to pay off for Giorgia Meloni’s migration strategy as figures show a 64 per cent reduction in illegal arrivals.
