All news on the topic: Calais migrant crisis

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’Merchants of death’ trial steps up fight against Channel smugglers
Peering over her glasses, the French judge glanced sternly across the cavernous underground courtroom towards a notorious figure seated in a glass cage.
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Kids returning from school trip find migrants hiding among suitcases in coach
One mum waiting to collect her child said the incident at Hounsdown School in Totton, Hampshire, was 'horrendous' after two men were found in the luggage compartment of a coach
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Modern-day Schindler has helped rescue 2,000 kids from Calais people smugglers
A man who overcame struggles in the infamous Calais 'jungle' and went on to help rescue 2,000 child refugees from people smugglers has been dubbed a modern-day Oscar Schindler
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Details of £40k secret immigration 'deal' between Suella Braverman and Sunak
Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman claimed she and Rishi Sunak reached an agreement on policies to limit net migration in the run-up to him becoming Prime Minister last autumn, including on a £40,000 minimum salary
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English Channel tragedy as man and woman drown after small migrant boat capsizes
A man and woman are confirmed to have died after several people fell into the English Channel off the coast of Calais, with a Dungeness RNLI lifeboat sent out
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Exact date Rwanda deportation flight of Channel migrants is due for take off
February 24 has been earmarked as the date when a plane carrying asylum seekers who have reached the UK will depart for the Rwandan capital Kigali, it has emerged
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Asylum lawyers threatened with acid attacks and pet killings by far-right thugs
Lawyer James Elliott read out a chilling letter received by his office which threatened to "deal with" those who assist asylum seekers - saying someone will be killed if politicians don't dial down hate speech
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Sunak hails deals with three European countries to tackle Channel migrant crisis
The Prime Minister spoke out after attending a meeting of the European Political Community in Granada, Spain, where leaders discussed tackling people smuggling gangs
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Being gay or a woman not enough to qualify for asylum, warns Suella Braverman
Home Secretary Suella Braverman has flown to the US to give a speech on rewriting international human rights rules as thousands of desperate people make dangerous Channel crossings
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Tories have 'lost control of UK borders' as migrants flock over the Channel
Keir Starmer called for MI5 and European spy agencies to work closer together, with inflatable boats "effectively made to order" and said the Tories have only offered "gimmicks"
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English Channel smugglers refused to give life jackets to 6 migrants who drowned
Rather than providing them life-saving jackets, the people-smuggling gang loaded six Afghan into several inflatable dinghies and sent them across the Channel from northern France in the early hours of Saturday morning
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Small boats, weather, hotels and Rwanda - the Channel migrant 'crisis' explained
The Downing Street media grid has designated this "small boats week", with a series of crackdowns announced and re-announced as the first migrants board the Bibby Stockholm barge
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Migrant barge like Alcatraz say asylum seekers told to 'f*** off back to France'
An asylum seeker has compared the 1970s-built, 10,659-ton Bibby Stockholm, moored on the Isle of Portland, to the notorious American jail on an island offshore from San Francisco
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RAF 'would refuse to fly Channel migrants to Ascension Island'
The idea to send asylum seekers to the South Atlantic has been revived by desperate Tories as thousands of migrants continue to cross the Channel to Britain
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First migrants board asylum seeker barge as Tory plan descends into chaos
Migrants have boarded the Bibby Stockholm moored on the Isle of Portland, with more due later today, as Downing Street was forced to correct a Home Office Minister over the numbers expected this week
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Desperate Tories revive plan to send migrants 4,000 miles to Ascension Island
Tory ministers once again are looking at proposals to move asylum seekers to the volcanic isle in the South Atlantic, which does not have a hospital or facilities for large numbers
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First migrants could board barge off Dorset today despite over-crowding fears
Ministers have refused to confirm exactly when asylum seekers will step onto the vessel moored on the Isle of Portland - but reports suggest it could happen within hours
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Labour would use barges to house migrants while asylum applications processed
Shadow Immigration Minister Stephen Kinnock confirmed the party would continue to house migrants on vessels like the Bibby Stockholm, despite a huge public outcry
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Sunak stand-in blasted for 'childish' attack on firefighters over migrant barge
Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden lashed out at the Fire Brigades Union after it raised safety fears about the Bibby Stockholm, currently moored on the Isle of Portland
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Mega barge that will host 500 asylum seekers arrives as migrant plan becomes law
The Bibby Stockholm docked on the Isle of Portland this morning and is expected to begin receiving asylum seekers within weeks
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Giant barge that will house hundreds of asylum seekers finally on way to port
The Bibby Stockholm has left Falmouth where it was re-fitted and is being towed to Portland, Dorset where it is expected to host 500 migrants. It had been due to arrive a month ago
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Children to protest against Illegal Migration Bill which could detain kids
Youngsters are expected to write goodwill messages on giant teddies as campaigners step up their crusade to axe a key measure from the flagshp legislation
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Up to 90 more hotels could be needed to house Channel migrants, MPs told
Home Secretary Suella Braverman was grilled about plans to accommodate new arrivals crossing the Strait of Dover as plans for more barges flop
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Rishi Sunak pleads for EU help in stopping migrant boats crossing the Channel
The Prime Minister and European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen agreed to bolster cooperation in tackling illegal migration across the Strait of Dover - the world's busiest shipping lane
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Migrant barge arrives in UK waters as it prepares to host 500 asylum seekers
The engineless Bibby Stockholm has docked in Falmouth for vital inspections and refurbishment before being towed to Portland in Dorset where she will accommodate 500 asylum seekers
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