Immigration
Channel crossings exceed 8,000 for the year (LINK ONLY)
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Boris Johnson
Government & Politics
Linton-on-Ouse asylum centre an ‘open prison in middle of nowhere’
(BBC) Villagers have branded a planned asylum centre on an ex-RAF station site an “open prison in the middle of nowhere.” The Home Office wants to place up to 1,500 male asylum seekers at Linton-on-Ouse near York. Residents have flooded the prime […]
Government & Politics
Rwanda plan ‘sends clear signal but will take time,’ says Patel (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Only 300 migrants face being sent to Rwanda each year (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Plan to send failed asylum seekers to Rwanda will get under way next week (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Babies wrapped in blankets brought to safety after Channel crossings (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Channel migrants: At least 350 intercepted in two days
(BBC) At least 350 migrants have been brought ashore from the English Channel in the past two days, according to witnesses and official figures. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said it found seven boats carrying 254 migrants on Sunday — witnesses said […]
Children & Teens
Ex-Tory MP guilty of molesting boy was on panel advising on grooming gangs (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Johnson puts Navy in charge of Channel as he defends Rwanda migration plan (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Tens of thousands of asylum seekers could be sent to Rwanda, says Johnson (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Hundreds cross English Channel as PM announces Rwanda migration plan (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
UK to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
5,000-plus migrants thought to have reached UK this year after crossing Channel (LINK ONLY)
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Clothing
Niqab-wearing Muslim Tory candidate wants to ‘challenge perceptions’ (LINK ONLY)
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‘Outsourcing’ of migrants to Rwanda edges closer (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Boris Johnson could sack Home Secretary Priti Patel after losing grip of Channel migrant crisis (LINK ONLY)
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UK campaigners call for support scheme for victims of terrorism (LINK ONLY)
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PM hails ‘incomparable spirit’ of London in Westminster attack victims tribute (LINK ONLY)
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Experts raise doubts over plan for Royal Navy to control Channel crossings (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Lords reject clause in bill criminalising refugees who arrive by irregular route (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
EU states and Macron throw up obstacles to easing Channel migrant crisis (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Military planning 10-ship taskforce to intercept illegal migrants in Channel (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Shamima Begum presents Boris Johnson with unbelievable proposal to help UK defeat terrorists in exclusive GB News interview Shamima Begum fled her east London home for Syria more than six years ago
(GB News) In a shocking world exclusive GB News interview on Dan Wootton Tonight, ISIS runaway bride Shamima Begum speaks from a prison camp in northern Syria, saying she wants to present Prime Minister Boris Johnson with an unbelievable plan to help […]
Government & Politics
All male migrants face detention if intercepted at sea (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Emmanuel Macron calls on Britain to change policies to tackle migrant crossings (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Man guilty of promoting ‘jihad by sword’ in mosque speech (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Desperate No10 policy chiefs explored using sonic weapons to [stop] small dinghies crossing Channel (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
France to push for EU-wide UK migration treaty over Channel crossings (LINK ONLY)
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Lockdown may have sent would-be terrorists on ‘dark journey’ to radicalisation, warns Damian Hinds (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Channel migrant crossings to UK more than triple in 2021
(AFP) Arash took his first steps on English soil on a cloudy, drizzly day in May, after attempting a perilous crossing of the Channel from northern France. UK border police intercepted the inflatable dinghy on which he and others spent five hours […]
Crime
BBC ‘broke law’ in reporting on Oxford Street bus antisemitism, claim victims’ lawyers (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Smugglers who made a hefty profit from transporting migrants jailed
(Radio France) Three people smugglers were handed between one- and four-year jail terms by a court in Boulogne-sur-Mer in the north of France on Monday. According to the France [Bleu] Nord news site, the three smugglers were handed jail terms for their […]
Government & Politics
Channel crossings: UK offer to patrol French beaches ‘still on table’
(BBC) An official appointed to prevent migrants crossing the English Channel says an offer to put UK officers on French beaches “remains on the table.” French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Thursday it “cannot accept” the presence of UK police or […]
Government & Politics
France rejects joint Channel border patrols with UK
(AFP) French Prime Minister Jean Castex told his British counterpart Boris Johnson that the UK held “a large part of the solution” to the Channel migrant crisis and rejected the idea of joint border patrols, according to [a] letter seen by AFP […]
Immigration
French police evict migrants from camp on Channel coast
(Reuters) Police on Tuesday tore down a makeshift camp near the northern French port of Dunkirk where scores of migrants who say they are fleeing war, poverty and persecution in the Middle East were hunkered down with hopes of reaching Britain. Armed […]
Employment
France accuses UK employers of ‘quasi-modern slavery’ amid Channel migrant crisis Cross-Channel migration is ‘first and foremost an English issue,’ said Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin.
(Politico) French Europe Minister Clément Beaune on Monday accused the U.K. of “an economic model of, sometimes, quasi-modern slavery” amid the ongoing migrant crisis in the English Channel. Also on Monday morning, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin called on the U.K. to […]
Government & Politics
France to offer Johnson EU deal on migrants
(AFP) France’s Prime Minister Jean Castex is preparing to write to British counterpart Boris Johnson with proposals for a new post-Brexit deal on migration with the EU after the disaster in the Channel last week that left 27 migrants dead, a minister […]
Crime
France urges Britain to do more on Channel migrant trafficking
(AFP) France on Sunday urged Britain to help more with cracking down on people-smuggling gangs following a row between the two countries last week over an unprecedented boat accident in the Channel that cost 27 lives. “We have to work with our […]
Government & Politics
Migrant crisis: Lack of co-operation will lead to worse scenes in Channel, warns Priti Patel
(BBC) Home Secretary Priti Patel has warned that failure by European politicians to co-operate on the continent’s migrant crisis will lead to “even worse scenes” in the English Channel this winter. France is hosting German, Belgian and Dutch ministers and European Commission […]
Government & Politics
Macron slams ‘not serious’ Johnson after migrant tragedy
(AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron hit out at British Prime [Minister] Boris Johnson on Friday over a tweeted letter, accusing him of being “not serious” after 27 migrants died crossing the Channel. Johnson sparked fury in France after writing a private letter […]
Government & Politics
Johnson writes to Macron with five-point plan to tackle migrant crisis (LINK ONLY)
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Franco-British feuding complicates Channel migrant response
(AFP) The bodies were barely out of the water after the most deadly day ever for migrants crossing the English Channel before accusations began to fly over who was to blame for the tragedy. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is desperate […]
Government & Politics
Migrant tragedy is biggest loss of life in Channel
(BBC) At least 27 people headed for the UK have drowned in the English Channel near Calais after their boat sank. The International Organization for Migration said it was the biggest single loss of life in the Channel since it began collecting […]
Crime
France holds 15 after breaking Channel people-smuggling network: police
(AFP) French police have detained 15 suspected members of an international migrant smuggling syndicate that helped people illegally cross the Channel to Britain. The announcement comes as tensions grow between London and Paris over the record numbers of migrants crossing the Channel, […]
Government & Politics
Migrant crossings: Number reaching UK this year three times 2020’s total
(BBC) The number of migrants to have reached the UK by boat this year is now more than three times the 2020 total. The Home Office said 886 people arrived on Saturday, bringing the 2021 total to more than 25,700. The figure […]
Government & Politics
Priti Patel failing over small boat Channel crossings, Labour says
(BBC) Priti Patel’s “incompetence” in dealing with small boats crossing the Channel is “dangerous,” Labour has said. More than 24,700 people have made the crossing from France to the UK by boat so far this year to seek asylum or to immigrate […]
Government & Politics
Hundreds more make dangerous Channel crossing to UK (LINK ONLY)
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Migrants to be held in Albania (LINK ONLY)
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PM calls for improvement at ‘joining dots’ to identify potential terrorists (LINK ONLY)
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UK and France reach agreement to ‘prevent 100% of Channel crossings’ (LINK ONLY)
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