2 h. ago Home Secretary vows to make illegal migrants wait 20 years before applying to stay in the UK permanently

The Home Secretary will unveil the proposals as part of wider plans, based on hardline Danish laws, to curb immigration and reduce the 'pull-factor' bringing migrants to the UK.

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3 h. ago French sportswear giant raking in fortune selling life jackets to illegal migrants trying to cross Channel

FRENCH sport store giant Decathlon is raking in a fortune selling life jackets to illegal migrants preparing to cross the Channel. The chain's superstore at Dunkirk-sur-Mer has been swamped with refugees from across the globe preparing to board small boats to the UK. But bosses are refusing to halt booming sales of fluorescent orange £11...

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4 h. ago UK to curtail asylum seekers’ automatic right to accommodation

Home secretary says Britain’s ‘generosity’ is ‘drawing illegal migrants’

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5 d. ago Grim milestone for Shabana Mahmood as 10,000 migrants cross Channel in just 66 DAYS since she became Home Secretary faster than any predecessor since 2022

The grim milestone has been reached under Shabana Mahmood more quickly than under any of her predecessors since 2022.

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6 d. ago Drama for Starmer as 503 migrants cross the English Channel on Saturday, ridculing his deterrent efforts and French deal

The new arrivals came over in seven small boats, bringing the total number over the past three days to 1,772 and the grand total for this year so far up to 38,726.

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6 d. ago Another 503 migrants cross Channel in small boats in single day

The latest arrivals come as the Government considers a major shake-up of immigration policy.

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8 d. ago Government claws back just £74m from excessive profits made by firms running asylum accommodation

The Home Office has recovered £74m from the companies that have contracted to house roughly 32,000 illegal migrants in more than 200 hotels.

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9 d. ago Identity fraud illegal migrant escapes deportation back to China

Suzhi Zhao, 61, who has been living in the UK unlawfully for 25 years, won her asylum appeal after an immigration tribunal found she would 'struggle to obtain work given her age'

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1 week ago There is a thriving shadow economy in Britain – but migrants are not to blame | Emily Kenway

While Labour is desperately trying to mimic Reform’s line on the cash economy, the blame lies solidly with ordinary people feeling the pinchAccording to politicians across all parties, something called the “hidden economy” – the shadowy nethers of the labour market, in which work goes unregulated and undeclared to the authorities – is a “menace”, full of migrants whose illegal working “undercuts British workers”, and even a threat to our national security. MPs have been so worried about asylum seekers delivering their Friday night pizza that they’ve spent parliamentary time discussing Deliveroo et al’s business models. In response, the government has repeatedly reassured us, in the somewhat Mills & Boon-style phrasing of Yvette Cooper, when she was home secretary, that it’s “surging enforcement” to tackle the problem.Solutions suggested include Keir Starmer’s digital ID cards, requirements for increased “right to work” checks, and new data-sharing agreements in which the Home Of...

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1 week ago Three illegal migrants face deportation from UK after cannabis cultivation conviction

Jury rejected the trio's claim that they were coerced into being gardeners by the so-called 'Vietnamese Mafia'.

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2 w. ago Illegal migrants get £3,000 'bribes' to return home... then boast how easy it is to sneak back in

Migrants are cynically gaming the Home Office's 'Assisted Voluntary Return Scheme' where they are each given a one-off payment and a plane ticket home, The Mail on Sunday has found.

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2 w. ago 'I scored mega profit reselling car boot sale finds after big seller blunder'

Car boot sale enthusiast Kev often finds gems at markets around the UK, and he has shared some of the most common mistakes that sellers make that could cost them a fortune

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2 w. ago The woman who spoke for a nation: Tearful mother too scared to go out at night after a week of revelations about disturbing crimes committed by illegal migrants

The caller, who gave her name as Sarah, spoke on a phone-in discussing the murder of dog walker Wayne Broadhurst, 49, was knifed to death in an attack in Uxbridge.

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2 w. ago The worrying details of four serious crimes carried out by illegal migrants in Britain that have emerged over just six days

The jailing of a failed asylum seeker for randomly murdering a restaurant owner in Derby is only the latest serious crime by an illegal migrant to come to public attention.

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2 w. ago Wrongly released Epping sex attack migrant claims he tried to hand himself in to police

The illegal migrant was freed from HMP Chelmsford in error on Friday just four weeks after being sentenced for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Essex

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2 w. ago UK strikes deal to more swiftly deport illegal migrants back to Vietnam

The deal is the strongest Vietnam’s government has agreed with another country on migration, Downing Street said.

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2 w. ago Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood plans crackdown on migrants working illegally for food delivery apps by forcing firms to carry out stricter immigration status checks

Under existing laws, right-to-work checks to verify someone is eligible to work in the UK are needed only for companies with traditional employer to employee contracts.

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2 w. ago Hundreds of migrants kicked out of UK after biggest illegal work crackdown on record

The Home Office said illegal working arrests have shot up by 63% year-on-year with over 1,050 migrants removed as Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood vowed to get tough

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2 w. ago Reform UK leader Nigel Farage vows to 'take back control of our borders' by calling for Britain to quit the ECHR

The Reform UK leader told the Daily Mail that Britain's membership of the treaty had 'totally neutered' the Government's ability to deport illegal migrants.

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2 w. ago Drop in the ocean: Just over 1,000 illegal migrant workers deported in a year despite 8,000 arrests

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the record-breaking crackdown on illegal workers resulted in more than 1,000 migrants being deported. But it works out at only a fraction of those arrested.

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