3 h. ago Second migrant set to be deported to France on Friday under one in, one out scheme

First deportation under UK-France deal finally goes ahead – but ministers face fresh legal woes

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4 h. ago Asylum seeker fails in legal challenge to halt deportation under one

First deportation under UK-France deal finally goes ahead – but ministers face fresh legal woes

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7 h. ago Second asylum seeker launches legal challenge to halt deportation under one

The first deportation under the UK-France deal went ahead on Thursday despite legal challenges from some asylum seekers

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11 h. ago First person removed to France under ‘one in, one out’ asylum deal, says UK government

Agreement reached with France allows for removal of asylum seekers who arrive on small boatsThe UK has returned the first asylum seeker to France under a “one in, one out” agreement to remove people who arrive on small boats, the Home Office has confirmed.Keir Starmer and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, agreed the pilot scheme, under which Britain will deport to France undocumented people who arrived in small boats in return for accepting an equal number of legitimate asylum seekers with British family connections. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Asylum seeker is seen wandering around Epping school... before police arrest him for being wanted by another force for alleged offences

Police were called to Davenant School, in Loughton, after the man was seen entering the school grounds after he was 'acting unusually' in a nearby park.

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29 h. ago Starmer's UK's 'one in, one out' small boats migrant deal with France is struggling, but is far from sunk

Keir Starmer’s government fell at the first hurdle with its France ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal. A rocky legal battle awaits

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37 h. ago Pictured: Asylum seeker staying at Hilton hotel who raped woman in Hyde Park

Abdelrahmen Adnan Abouelela, 42, lured the woman to a secluded spot while she was walking home from a night out before raping her

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38 h. ago UK judge temporarily blocks government plan to send a migrant back to France

A British judge has temporarily blocked the deportation of an asylum-seeker back to France

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51 h. ago UK court temporarily blocks removal of asylum seeker under UK

UK court temporarily blocks removal of asylum seeker under UK-France returns deal  Reuters

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54 h. ago Two men charged with hate crime after asylum seeker protest at Aberdeen student flats

Two men, aged 26 and 40, have now been arrested and charged in connection with a hate crime.

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55 h. ago Asylum seeker who raped woman in Hyde Park after entering the UK illegally is jailed

Abdelrahmen Adnan Abouelela, 42, lured the woman to a secluded spot while she was walking home from a night out before raping her

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60 h. ago Second UK deportation flight leaves London without an asylum seeker on board in new blow to PM

A small group of migrants were removed from an Air France flight due to travel from Heathrow to Paris on Monday after a legal challenge

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3 d. ago ‘We can’t eat. We can’t sleep. It’s a disaster’: the small boat detainees waiting to be sent back to France

This week the first migrants could be flown out of Britain under the ‘one in, one out’ deportation scheme. They talk about their fears and incomprehension“We can’t eat. We can’t sleep. We have been locked up in this place for more than a month. Some people expect to be forced on to a plane to France today. Nobody wants to go. For us, this is a disaster.”The man speaking, Fessahaye, is an asylum seeker from Eritrea who fled indefinite military conscription in his home country, and walked through the Sahara before being tortured and enslaved in Libya. He eventually crossed the Mediterranean and reached Europe. From France he travelled to the UK in a small boat. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Asylum seeker dispersal must be rolled out properly across Scotland

Daily Record Political Editor says the Home Offce must do more to ensure asylum seeker dispersal becomes a national reality.

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4 d. ago Britain's asylum seeker 'golden triangle': The three northern towns which house the most illegal migrants in private accommodation

Once the capital of the cotton weaving world during the Industrial Revolution, the former mill town - along with its neighbours - has become a golden triangle for asylum seekers.

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5 d. ago Labour plan to house asylum seekers in military barracks 'will cost more than controversial migrant hotels'

Sir Keir Starmer made another dramatic U-turn this week as his government pivoted towards using these facilities in a bid to close down controversial asylum seeker hotels.

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6 d. ago Daughter who 'tried to storm Canary Wharf migrant hotel with a meat cleaver after she found asylum seeker in her blind mother's flat' pleads guilty to affray

Channay Augustus, 22, was part of a group of around 20 people who are said to have tried to barge into the Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf, east London, on the evening of August 13.

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7 d. ago Turkish asylum seeker who threatened to kill woman and her family in 'murder

Samet Arik, 23, moved into the same block of flats as his victim, told her he was in love with her and had been spying on her for three years.

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9 d. ago Crackdown on asylum seeker hotels could force thousands of refugees to Scotland

Thousands of migrants are expected to come to Scotland as they have a legal right to be housed here that does not exist in England.

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1 week ago Drunk Somali migrant hotel asylum seeker who spat at police officer avoids punishment

Shafi Momad, 30, was living at the Roundhouse hotel in Bournemouth, Dorset when police were called to a disturbance which had seen the migrant in a 'very angry' state.

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