All news on the topic: Migration

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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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Nearly 150 illegal migrants cross Channel despite UK paying for 200 extra French officers to patrol beaches
Criminal gangs launched two migrant boats from French beaches today, despite poor weather conditions and increased beach patrols.
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Reform UK launches £118,000 security trial in Essex town centres
A Reform UK council has deployed private security guards to town centres where concerns have reportedly been raised over ‘gatherings of male migrants’ from a nearby accommodation centre.
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Inside Patriot Platform, Britain’s new masked anti-migrant movement
Shortly after 7am last Saturday in the English coastal town of Dover, livestreamed footage distributed by Britain’s newest anti-migrant movement showed dozens of men in paramilitary outfits jumping out from the backs of vehicles, their faces covered beneath balaclavas, their hands in black gloves.
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Thousands clash at Portsmouth anti-migrant protests as police form ring of steel
Thousands of anti-migrant protesters and counter demonstrators have descended on Portsmouth.
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Far-right activists given platform at House of Lords event on UK birth rates
Prominent Neo-Nazis attended the event in Parliament, hosted by an anti-abortion group, in which they called for politicians to “stop importing an invasive foreign serf class”
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Police set to arrest anybody wearing face coverings at Portsmouth migration protest
Protesters wearing face coverings at protests planned in Portsmouth this weekend could be arrested under new policing powers, Hampshire Police has said.
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Amnesty accuses Russia of trafficking foreigners into Ukraine war
Russia tricks and coerces foreign nationals into fighting on Moscow’s side in the war against Ukraine, exploiting their dire economic situations and precarious migration status.
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Hundreds of asylum seekers disappear after UK-France returns
Hundreds of asylum seekers including at least 41 age-disputed children who were removed to France under the “one in, one out” deal have disappeared, human rights organisations have said.
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France demands Britain takes in illegal migrants from all 27 EU countries
France is pushing for Britain to accept asylum seekers from across the EU as part of a new deal to replace the current "one in, one out" agreement.
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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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Nigel Farage warns Britain is "on the edge of serious civil disturbance" after migrant protests
Nigel Farage has warned Britain stands "on the edge of serious civil disturbance" after a series of anti-migrant protests on the south coast.
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Portsmouth protests erupt after rare migrant landing as police chief warns south coast is unprepared
A police chief has warned England’s south coast is not prepared for the arrival of migrants after a night of protests in Portsmouth.
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Asylum whistleblower claims "only 1 per cent" of UK applicants are genuine
Only “one in 100 asylum claims are genuine," a Home Office whistleblower has claimed.
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Masked protesters shut down Dover roads as passengers warned they could miss ferries
The Port of Dover is facing major disruption after masked protesters have blocked access to the port, with passengers being warned they may miss their ferries.
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Illegal migrants in Ceuta triumphantly hold baby dolphin aloft after ‘whacking it over the head’ in horror attack
A group of migrants in Ceuta were filmed holding a a baby dolphin aloft around a beach on the Spanish exclave.
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Thousands protest across Spain demanding Pedro Sánchez resign over Ceuta migrant crisis
Thousands of protesters have spilled onto the streets of cities across Spain amid fury at Pedro Sanchez’s handling of the Ceuta migrant catastrophe.
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More than 80 dead after migrant canoe drifts to Canary Islands with just 45 survivors
More than 80 people have died, including one baby, after a canoe was found adrift at sea near the Canary Islands.
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Pedro Sánchez takes swipe at King Felipe VI over failure to visit migrant-hit Ceuta
The prime minister pointedly contrasted his government’s hands-on handling of the surge of migrants in the North African city with the monarch’s absence.
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Ceuta residents torch migrant camp as fury erupts after mass border crossing
Furious residents in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta have torched a makeshift migrant camp as tensions continue to erupt after more than 70,000 people stormed the border from Morocco.
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Immigration crackdown puts £4bn of UK budget headroom at risk
Chancellor John Healey could be forced to contend with a £4billion fiscal headroom hit following the publication of shocking new immigration figures.
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Asylum seekers dispersed across Britain surge past 73,000 as Labour expands migrant housing
The number of asylum seekers who have been dispersed across Britain has surged, new immigration data released by the Home Office has revealed.
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Burnham’s council housebuilding plans face Brexit-driven construction worker shortage
Andy Burnham’s ambitions to build tens of thousands of new council houses is under threat because of a labour shortage caused by Brexit, industry leaders have warned.