All news on the topic: Illegal immigrants

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Four people drown trying to cross Channel near Boulogne-sur-Mer
Deaths are first to happen since election of Keir Starmer, who has pledged to ‘stop the criminal gangs’
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The Home Office department responsible for handling deportations to Rwanda has been instructed to reduce its workforce
Illegal Migration Operations Command freezes recruitment and draws up redundancy plans, leaked documents show
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UK immigration policy thrown into chaos by court ruling blamed on Brexit
Ministers were hauled before MPs to answer an urgent question after the high court ruled that the flagship Illegal Immigration Act does not apply in Northern Ireland
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Three men have been arrested following the tragic deaths of five individuals, including a child, who were attempting to cross the Channel
The suspects have been accused of facilitating illegal immigration and entering the UK illegally. A further 55 people believed to have also been on board have been identified.
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Biden's blunder as he gets murdered nursing student's name wrong twice in speech
President Biden mistakenly called 'murdered' student nurse Laken Riley 'Lincoln' in his State of the Union address despite claiming to 'know how to say her name'
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Speech could do 'further harm' to 'unpopular' Biden as age concerns linger
Biden's State of the Union address will be watched more carefully than most because of his age. At 81 years old, he’s the oldest commander-in-chief in history, and he would be 86 at the end of a potential second term
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Uni murder victim's cause of death as GOP demands migrant suspect face death row
Police have verified that 22-year-old Laken Riley died from "blunt force trauma." On Friday, Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, was taken into custody for her murder. Republicans who have advocated for Ibarra's execution include Mike Collins and Marjorie Taylor Greene
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Sick Rochdale grooming gang members who subjected young girls to serial abuse
Nine men of Pakistani and Afghan backgrounds were jailed as part of the Rochdale grooming scandal in 2012 - but further investigations resulted in the convictions of 42
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Changes to UK visa rules explained as Tories vow to slash record net migration
Home Secretary James Cleverly has set out a five-point plan aimed at bringing down net migration, which hit a record high in 2022. Here's what was announced and what it really means
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Tory James Cleverly's own flight to Rwanda delayed after deportations hold up
Home Secretary James Cleverly's Government flight to Rwanda was delayed last night, which came after months of Tory moans about deportation flights to Rwanda being delayed by judges
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Tories unveil migration crackdown that critics say will hammer social care
Home Secretary James Cleverly today unveiled a shake-up of migration rules, with a crackdown on social care workers bringing family and curbs on students' dependants
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11 people jailed for role in people-smuggling operation that killed 39 migrants
Eleven people have been jailed for their role in a people-smuggling operation that killed 39 migrants who suffocated inside an airtight lorry trailer in Essex in October 2019
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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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Rishi Sunak announces emergency laws to send migrants to Rwanda
The Prime Minister used a Downing Street press conference to announce plans for emergency legislation in response to the Supreme Court's ruling that the Rwanda plan is unlawful
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'Goodbye Braverman - our most dangerous minister and poster girl for racists'
After a day of political chaos with a major reshuffle of Sunak's cabinet - which included Suella Braverman's sacking - Darren Lewis celebrates the loss of Britain's 'most dangerous cabinet minister'
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I watched Mayweather toy with McGregor - Fury will do the same to Ngannou
Tyson Fury takes on Francis Ngannou tonight in a mismatch which will surely be over when and how the Brit decides
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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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Cops probe two suspected people smugglers 'linked' to jailed migrant kingpin
We can reveal the National Crime Agency – which arrested Hewa Rahimpur before he was extradited to Belgium – is probing two Albanian men in connection to the ringleader’s network
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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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'The Tory team are talking their way to relegation and won't win next election'
Columnist Brian Reade says the Conservative Party conference was the bluntest of admissions that for 13 years the Tories have done nothing but make this country worse
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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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Children are among 50 migrants saved by RNLI after hellish Channel crossing
Some of them huddled under blankets while others clung to their rescuers after being brought ashore, where they were embraced by a man thought to have travelled with them
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'British Airways stranded me and my 3-year-old in UK with no passport or visa'
Benadetha Rwehumbiza, 29, and her daughter Charlotte, three, were flying to Tanzania from Spain via Gatwick but were told to make their own way to Heathrow despite not having legal paperwork
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Asylum seeker with TB told to move onto migrant barge, as crossings hit 100,000
A doctor treating the tuberculosis patient warned of a 'public health catastrophe' as the Home Office came under pressure to explain why it's not managed to stop Channel crossings