All news on the topic: Migrant crisis

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

As summer migrant numbers are at their usual high number, NYC leaders have made a deal which prompts hotels to offer shelter space to those who need respite, but a line of people sleeping on cardboard boxes outside of one such famed Manhattan hotel is making it clear to authorities that enough isn't being done

Keir Mudie says Tory politicians are 'out of ideas, out of talent, massively behind in the polls' and the latest migrant plans are just a sign of things to come

A council cleaner last week discovered a tiny headless corpse washed up on a beach in Spain and authorities have now confirmed the baby girl had died in an attempted migrant crossing

The Bibby Stockholm docked on the Isle of Portland this morning and is expected to begin receiving asylum seekers within weeks

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

Many questions remain unanswered over the tragic discovery of a baby girl's body on a beach in Spain, with the child now understood to be even younger than first thought

Forensic experts say the child was less than six months old when she died - much younger than previously thought - after her body was found in the Costa Dorada resort of Roda de Bera

The Prime Minister used a press conference about the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan to lash out at the judges' ruling and pledge to challenge the decision at the UK's highest court

Inequality between the rescue responses of a shipwreck in Greece where 500 people died and the submarine in the Atlantic where five people died has prompted anger

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

The response to the stricken Titanic submersible is in stark contrast to the recent trawler tragedy off Greece, says Paul Routledge

More than 30 people may have died after a boat carrying migrants sank off the Canary Islands, with one human rights charity leader claiming women and a baby were among the casualties

Survivor Ayad, 24, said small hands grasped at him as he swam for his life - and claimed he could see lights from a stationary coastguard ship – but no help came for three hours

Reports had claimed the migrant boat capsized on Wednesday after a rope was attached to it from a coastguard vessel, 50 miles off the southern coast of Greece

The boat was estimated to be carrying up to 750 people when it capsized and sank at around 2am on Wednesday morning, according to the UN migration agency

Home Secretary Suella Braverman was grilled about plans to accommodate new arrivals crossing the Strait of Dover as plans for more barges flop

Twenty-five survivors were hospitalised with symptoms of hypothermia after they were rescued some 46 miles southwest of Greece’s southern Peloponnese region

Research by the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee suggests 'promoting more actively in Albania and elsewhere the provision of short-term work visas in sectors in which the UK needs workers

Romanian people smuggler Adrian Constantin, 36 - who acted as a "minder" to assist gang members - was jailed for over three years after being extradited back to the UK to face justice

The Office for National Statistics today revealed UK net migration for 2022 hit 606,000 - a new record - prompting calls for a shake-up of the system. Here, we try to explain what's going on

Grim and concerning surveillance footage from the US-Mexico border wall shows the moment a four-year-old boy was dropped from a 30ft wall before gunshots rang out

Migrants have been seen in Chicago police stations in startling footage after the city declared a state of emergency earlier this month. Chicago is currently struggling to deal with an influx of people arriving from Texas

Eight-year-old Anadith Tanay Reyes Alvarez, from Panama, died on Wednesday, May 17, after suffering a 'medical emergency' while in Border Patrol custody in Harlingen, Texas

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