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Border staff are to be given power to use ‘reasonable force’ to fingerprint migrants in France in bid deal with crisis of Channel crossings Home Secretary Priti Patel announced that the law will be changed in the spring Will allow officials to fingerprint clandestine migrants at French ports Channel crisis saw 8,500 migrants arrive in … Read more
Hundreds of mostly Honduran migrants were removed from a road in Guatemala where they camped out after security forces blocked their path to the United States Video footage on social media and local television showed lines of military and National Police officers wielding plastic shields as they moved down the road towards the asylum seekers near … Read more
Another 36 migrants including women and children braved ice and snow warnings to make the latest crossing from France to the UK. Border Force detained the group during the early hours on Saturday who battled the dangerous conditions in a small boat over the Channel. They were brought into Dover Marina in Kent and escorted … Read more
Nine Eritrean migrants including three women are found hidden inside shipping container when it arrived in Yorkshire Tees Harbour Police and Border Force intercepted container in Teesport, Yorks Six men and three woman claiming to be Eritrean nationals were found inside The migrants had come in onboard a ship from Zeebrugge in Belgium They are being processed … Read more
Border Force detain 36 migrants trying to cross the Channel bringing the total this year to more than 200 after 8,417 arrived in 2020 Home Office spokesman said migrants were stopped on Saturday A further 27 migrants were stopped by French authorities before reaching UK Nigel Farage posted a video appearing to show migrants on … Read more
More than 15,000 migrants tried to cross the Channel and sneak into Britain last year, new figures show Report says Channel crossings grew as clandestine smuggling in lorries declined Figures show 8,500 reached the UK in 2020 and more than 15,000 tried to cross The number of unsuccessful crossings had not previously been disclosed By … Read more
Migrants will have to be able to speak Swedish to become citizens under country’s new proposals – after years of liberal migration policies Sweden opened its doors to refugees during the migrant crisis of 2015 There has since been a rise in far-right and gang violence in the liberal country The government is now setting … Read more
Border Force has sent out a boat in a bid to stop more migrants coming across the English Channel after another 160 arrived over the weekend. Calm winds at the coast saw several small boats make it into UK waters across the two days despite the cold weather. A number of children are believed to … Read more
Border Force has stopped a boat ferrying up to 35 migrants towards the Sussex coast, the second Channel dash made since the UK officially left the EU on New Year’s Day. Lifeboats were launched Saturday afternoon to rescue the migrants from a boat, which is believed to have been carrying children and five injured people. … Read more
Human trafficker Maurice ‘Mo’ Robinson, 26, (pictured) who drove a lorry on which 39 Vietnamese migrants suffered agonising deaths used some of £100,000 he made trafficking people on refurbishing his girlfriend’s hair salon, a court heard today A human trafficker who drove a lorry on which 39 Vietnamese migrants suffered agonising deaths used some of £100,000 he … Read more