All news on the topic: Illegal Immigration

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Nearly 9,000 Brazilians paid up to £3,000 to leave Britain
Almost 9,000 Brazilian migrants have received golden goodbye payments of up to £3,000 to leave Britain - though most small-boat arrivals ignore the offer.
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Shabana Mahmood orders tougher police action at anti-migration protests
Shabana Mahmood has ordered police chiefs to make greater use of mask bans and surveillance technology as forces prepare to clamp down on anti-migration protests this weekend.
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France threatens to scrap UK migrant return deal
France is said to have threatened to scrap the one in, one out deal, as Andy Burnham as desperately pleaded with Emmanuel Macron in an attempt to renew the agreement.
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Spanish intelligence warned of 72,000-migrant Ceuta border invasion
Spanish intelligence warned of the looming Ceuta migrant invasion, despite Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s claim the flood of over 70,000 migrants was a surprise.
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Foreign criminals living free in Britain jump by 2,000 as Labour’s sentencing reforms spark fury
The number of foreign criminals on Britain’s streets who are subject to deportation orders has jumped by more than 2,000 in a year in the wake of Labour’s soft justice measures.
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Deported rapist sneaked back into Britain and was found living in Essex years later
A rapist migrant who was deported after a sex attack on a night out has been found living in Essex after sneaking back into Britain.
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Romanian convicted killer jailed for life after stabbing UK flatmate over £5
An illegal immigrant has been jailed for life for murdering his flatmate just three years after a "strikingly similar" killing in his home country.
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Two charged after six migrants found hidden in lorry in East Yorkshire
An Italian national and Romanian national have appeared in court this morning after six migrants were found in the back of a lorry in Goole, East Yorkshire.
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Home Office faces fury over £4.5m electric car charger plan as Channel migrant crisis deepens
Ministers and civil servants on the frontline of tackling the small boats crisis came under fire today over plans to splash millions of pounds on electric car chargers.
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Record 230 migrants cross English Channel on single “mega dinghy”
A mega dinghy carrying 230 people crossed the English Channel overnight on a single dinghy, breaking the previous record.
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Hundreds storm Spanish border as migrant crisis deepens in Ceuta
Thousands of migrants have stormed across the border into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta after jumping over fences separating the city from Morocco.
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Nigel Farage says "nowhere is safe" after migrants land in his Clacton constituency
The Reform UK leader took to X after illegal migrants arrived in his constituency on a boat.
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Jaskirat Singh jailed over £185,000 migrant-smuggling operation to France
An Indian man who admitted smuggling migrants from the UK to France in the back of trucks has been jailed for more than five years by a court in south-east England.
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The Cook Report journalist Roger Cook dies aged 83 after fearless TV career
Investigative journalist Roger Cook, best known for the current affairs programme The Cook Report, has died at the age of 83 after a short illness.
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Tories vow to abolish immigration tribunals and strip judges of asylum powers
Shadow home secretary Chris Philp has vowed to abolish immigration tribunals as part of plans to be announced by the Conservatives.
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More than 30 nations face US travel ban as Donald Trump broadens anti-immigration measures
Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to expand a travel ban on entering the United States to people from more than 30 countries.
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Tree surgeon loses council contract after erecting 300 Union flags on Cambridgeshire road
A council tree surgeon has been removed from his job after placing several hundred union flags on an A-Road in Cambridgeshire.
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Britain rolls out new campaign in India to combat fake visas and illegal migration
The UK to initiate visa fraud prevention campaign in a second Indian state following the successful completion of the first phase.
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Trump expands federal crackdown, sends troops to Portland over immigration detention protests
Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of troops to Portland, Oregon, authorizing the use of "full force" if needed, to suppress protests targeting immigration detention centres.