Distraught villagers staged protests this week against the Boris Johnson government’s plan to dump some 1,500 migrants in a camp in their community of only around 600 adults.
Calm seas and warm weather conditions have seen nearly 1,000 illegal boat migrants cross the English Channel since the weekend.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to transfer boat migrants to Rwanda may only see 300 deported to the African nation per year, according to a leaked government analysis.
Over six thousand illegal migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats since the start of the year, as 181 landed on Good Friday.
Boris Johnson’s government has reportedly agreed to send £120 million to Rwanda for a trial scheme to house male illegal boat migrants.
Two years after leaving the EU, record waves of migrants continue to land despite Boris’ promise to “take back control” of the borders,
Fifteen French police officers were injured Thursday morning after they attempted to clear a makeshift migrant camp in Calais.
Police have expelled a group of 400 migrants from a makeshift camp near the northern French city of Dunkirk, just two weeks after police cleared another site in the area.
The British government is sending some 150 military personnel to guard against not the illegal migrant influx to Britain, but to the European Union member-state of Poland.
Police in Grande-Synthe near Dunkirk, France, have removed nearly 1,500 migrants from a makeshift camp and have promised further evictions in the coming days.
Britain’s Border Force is refusing to turn migrant boats back to France in direct opposition to the policy laid out by the government.
Over one thousand illegal boat migrants landed in Britain between Friday and Saturday, as the migrant crisis in the English Channel rages on.
There is growing pressure within Boris Johnson’s own party to adopting Nigel Farage’s proposal of sending boat migrants back to France.
The cost of supporting asylum seekers has ballooned to £1.4 billion, amid record waves of migrants pouring across the English Channel.
A legal loophole has seen the British taxpayer shell out about half a million pounds over the past year in storage costs for migrant boats.
Amid the recent spate of warm weather in the English Channel, thousands of prospective illegal boat migrants have amassed in Northern France.
Priti Patel’s plan to imprison illegal migrants would cost the British taxpayer £412 million per year, the Refugee Council has estimated.
On Saturday, a Greek court sentenced four Afghan asylum seekers to ten years in prison for their role in burning down Europe’s largest migrant camp on the island of Lesbos that left at least 13,000 homeless.
An overwhelming majority of Britons have backed the idea that illegal migrants should be barred from applying for asylum status.
The UK Home Office has failed to deport over 1,500 illegal migrants who travelled through safe countries prior to reaching Britain.
Kent County Council (KCC) has threatened to sue the Home Office to force other councils in England to take in child migrants amid claims that Kent’s services are at the “breaking point”. The Conservative Party controlled council, which is the
A migrant camp in Calais housing some 800 migrants was broken up by French police on Friday following reports of violence against officers.
Illegal boat migrants have threatened “mob unrest” if the British government does not speed up their settlement into tax-payer funded accommodation, the union for the UK’s Border Force has revealed.
Over 3,000 illegal migrants have landed on British soil after crossing the English Channel so far this year, doubling last year’s record-setting levels, as criminal gangs continue to outwit the Home Office. A report from the National Crime Agency (NCA)
Criminal people-smugglers in Calais have gloated that the British government’s efforts to clamp down on illegal boat immigration have only served to further line their pockets with cash from desperate migrants.
Failed asylum seekers in Britain will finally be evicted from taxpayer-funded housing after removal process during the coronavirus crisis.
People smuggling gangs in France are reportedly using poorer migrants as decoys to distract border patrol operations from catching migrants who pay “premium” prices to reach the United Kingdom. A clandestine operation being carried out by Britain’s equivalent to the
Britain is on pace for 20,000 illegal boat migrants to land in 2021, more than doubling last year’s already record-setting numbers, as another 140 illegal aliens were brought ashore on Tuesday.
Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis has announced that migrants and asylum seekers living on camps on the country’s Aegean islands will be vaccinated against the Wuhan virus, starting in May.
Around 480 migrants aided by pro-migrant activists occupied Paris’s Place de la République for several hours, setting up tents as part of a “night of solidarity”.
Priti Patel’s Home Office has reportedly failed to launch a single deportation flight for illegal migrants since the United Kingdom left the European Union’s institutions at the beginning of the year.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage reported on Saturday that an entire boat of illegal migrants tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus after being escorted into British territorial waters by the French Navy. Mr Farage claimed that he received a tip-off from
Asylum seekers who were previously housed at taxpayer expense in a former British military accommodation in Folkestone, Kent have complained that they were “treated like criminals”.
A 32-year-old pro-migrant activist has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after being found guilty of attacking police at a Paris protest.
A group of asylum seekers said that they will leave the United Kingdom to go back to the EU, complaining about the supposed racism of being provided with free taxpayer-funded accommodation at former British Army barracks.
Five men have been arrested after a group of migrants set fire to the former military barracks in Kent, which had been converted into a camp for asylum seekers in the wake of massive illegal boat migration.
The migrant camp in Kent has been placed under lockdown after an outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus in the former army barracks amidst widespread flouting of the rules by the supposed asylum seekers.
Bosnians have called for help from the European Union as tensions escalate between migrants and locals after a camp burned down near the border with EU member-state Croatia.
The British government has lost track of over 37,000 migrants after they skipped bail or absconded from detention centres, a freedom of information request has revealed.
A three-year-old girl was found passed out in the mud of the Kara Tepe migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, with doctors claiming the young child had been raped.