Channel Migrants - Page 9

The cost of the UK’s asylum system has reportedly eclipsed £2 billion per year amid record numbers of boat migrants crossing the Channel.

Violent Albanian criminals are illegally returning to the UK after being deported as boat migrants from the country surge.

A new record was set for daily crossings of the English Channel on Monday, with nearly 1,300 illegal migrants being brought ashore.

The British government has registered over 50 illegal migrants over the age of 30 as children according to a freedom of information request.

The number of illegal boat migrants who have crossed into Britain via the English Channel is now twice the figure for the same time last year.

The United Kingdom has seen the highest spike in the number of people allegedly victimised by modern slavery since statistics began, official data has revealed.

Dozens of migrants are missing and feared to be dead after a boat smuggling them into Europe capsized off the coast of Greece.

To deal will the migrant crisis in the English Channel, the UK needs to embark on nothing less than a Brexit 2.0 project, Nigel Farage said.

Conservative elder stateswoman Ann Widdecombe has suggested a radical common sense approach to deterring illegal immigration to Britain — namely detaining asylum seekers while their claims are verified rather than letting them wander where they will. 

Albanian people smuggling gangs have reportedly been using TikTok to advertise illegal boat crossings of the English Channel.

Home Secretary Priti Patel says the British government will hand the French millions of pounds yet again to try and persuade them to stop boat migrants as a record 600 land in a single day. 

July was the busiest month for illegal migrants this year so far, with over 1,000 landing on Britain’s southern shores just last week: just the latest arrivals in a years-long migrant crisis the government has so far proven wholly unequal to.

Nigel Farage has warned that the Conservative Party leadership hopefuls are ignoring the issue of immigration to their own peril.

As the Conservative Party delays their own plan to send illegal migrants to Rwanda over the ongoing race for PM, Labour has declared that they will see the scheme into the ground once they gain power.

Tory leadership hopefuls Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, one of whom will succeed Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, have finally addressed the issue of mass migration, largely ignored throughout their contest until now. 

Rwanda has revealed that it only has the capacity to house 200 migrants from the United Kingdom after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government signed a £120 million deal to transfer tens of thousands of illegals there while their asylum claims are processed.

The British government has lost hundreds of migrants staying at supposedly “secure” hotels, many of whom have not been properly identified or even had their photographs and fingerprints taken. 

The “inexcusably awful” collection of data on illegal migrants puts the UK’s national security at risk, a government watchdog has found.

The number of alleged asylum seekers being put up in hotels across the UK has climbed to over 26,000 last year.

An official report on Britain’s Border Force found it has been “ineffective” in tackling the Channel boat migrants crisis, and may even have made things worse. 

A malfunction resulted in a £420,000 Home Office drone crashing into the English Channel rather than patrolling for illegal boat migrants.

The UK has seen over 15,000 illegal boat migrants land on its shores so far this year after another 100 aliens arrived on Tuesday.

The UK taxpayer is reported to have spent over £38,000 on takeaway pizzas for illegal boat migrants who crossed the English Channel.

Deported criminals are among those returning to the United Kingdom by crossing the English Channel in small boats, an official report has revealed.

Around 50 illegal migrants are set to be removed from Britain on the next scheduled removal flight to Rwanda.

Police in five European countries took part in an operation on Tuesday aimed at dismantling a large migrant smuggling network that organised crossings of at least 10,000 migrants across the English Channel, arresting dozens of people.

Countries that fail to take back their criminal migrants and failed asylum seekers could end up being sanctioned by the UK government according to new plans.

Crossings of the English Channel by illegal migrants hit the highest monthly total for the year, with over 3,000 landing in June.

Deportations of rapists, murderers and burglars have fallen to an all-time low thanks to legal challenges based on human rights law.

Illegal migrants in charge of piloting small boats across the English Channel now face life in prison under revised immigration rules.

Over ninety per cent of failed asylum seekers in 2020 were not deported by the British Home Office, analysis has found.

The UK government will finally be able to overrule European judges on the deportation of migrants under reforms to human rights rules.

Some migrants who have been caught illegally entering Britain will be electronically tagged to prevent them from absconding.

A ruling by a Russian judge may conceivably be the reason the UK was forced to ground a plane scheduled to take illegal migrants to Rwanda.

A European court intervened in the late hours of Tuesday evening to prevent a deportation flight to Rwanda from the UK.

The first flight scheduled to bring illegal boat migrants from Britain to Rwanda looks set to go ahead with a mostly empty plane.