7 h. ago Gay Pakistani asylum seeker pleads with Keir Starmer to let him stay in the UK because he'll be forced to marry a woman if he goes back to his home country

Ali Raza Nasir insists he came to the UK to study but when he visited Soho in central London and met other gay people he knew that Britain was where he needed to settle.

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19 h. ago American arrested in Michael Gaine murder probe claims 'I've been framed by gangsters'

Michael Kelley, a self-described asylum seeker from the US, has denied any involvement in the alleged murder of Irish farmer Michael Gaine after he says he was arrested by Gardaí - claiming he was framed by gangsters

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39 h. ago The migrant tent cities springing up in the suburb where one in every 112 residents is an asylum seeker

Hillingdon had supported 89 asylum seekers out of every 10,000 residents at the end of last year - and residents say taxpayers' money which the council is having to pay to house them was 'disgraceful'.

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48 h. ago Asylum seeker allowed to stay over fears he'd be punished by wicked stepmum back home

An unnamed asylum seeker from Guinea has been allowed to stay in the UK as he may be punished by his evil stepmother if he returned to the country after he successfully escaped

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49 h. ago Supreme Court tie vote dooms taxpayer funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma

The Supreme Court has effectively ended a publicly funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma, dividing 4-4

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51 h. ago Asylum seeker allowed to stay in Britain because his 'abusive stepmother would punish him for running away'

A judge ruled the man did not have to leave the UK as he would likely be severely punished by his relative for 'escaping' his home country of Guinea.

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4 d. ago Judge lets Iraqi asylum seeker stay in Britain despite him admitting 'I don't have a real reason to be here, give me some time I'll make one up'

The 32-year-old man, who was granted anonymity by immigration judges, arrived in the UK illegally in 2016.

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4 d. ago People say city 'is dead' as huge cost of keeping shopping centre open revealed

Readers have been reacting to the news that Newport's Friars Walk shopping centre has been kept afloat by taxpayer funds for the last eight years, to the tune of £3.5m

Economics

4 d. ago Asylum seeker fisherman who ran £12m migrant smuggling ring from taxpayer funded flat is jailed for 25 years

Egyptian-born Ahmed Ebid, 42, masterminded the movement of nearly 3,800 migrants - including women and children - as part of the £12m illegal boat operation.

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5 d. ago Asylum seeker who tried to win the right to stay in Britain because he was gay has his case thrown out

Esmir Demaj petitioned for the right to stay in Britain because he was a 'gay' man but was later found to have deliberately 'misled' the Home Office.

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5 d. ago Civil servants working from home watch TV and gamble instead of working, data shows

New data has emerged that shows taxpayer funded laptops are being used to search for X-rated sites, as well as stream TV and movies while civil servants are on the clock

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6 d. ago How asylum seeker fisherman became virtual captain of £12million migrant smuggling ring from taxpayer funded flat

Ahmed Ebid, 42, masterminded a £12 million operation, in which around 3,800 migrants, including women and children, were transported to Europe from Libya on overcrowded fishing boats.

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7 d. ago Guinean asylum seeker with convictions for drug dealing and carrying weapons can't be deported as he is 'socially and culturally integrated' in Britain, immigration tribunal told

The man amassed a 'significant number of criminal convictions' including those related to drug dealing and carrying a knife since arriving in the UK as a child in 2007.

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8 d. ago Starmer reveals plans to send refused asylum seekers to overseas ‘return hubs’

PM proposes use of third countries during visit to Albania, which rules out role in any UK schemePlans to send refused asylum seekers to “return hubs” in third countries have been announced by Keir Starmer on a trip to Albania during which the Balkan country ruled out participating in the scheme.The prime minister flew to Tirana to confirm the UK was seeking to send people whose asylum claims had been turned down to foreign detention centres once they had exhausted all avenues of appeal. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Starmer trip labelled an ‘embarrassment’ as Albania rules out asylum seeker deal

Tories question point of PM’s visit to Albania as his counterpart rejects establishment of ‘return hubs’UK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has been accused of overseeing a diplomatic “embarrassment” after arriving in Albania to promote a policy of establishing “return hubs” for refused asylum seekers only for his counterpart to rule it out.The prime minister confirmed that refused asylum seekers could be sent to facilities abroad, which would function as detention centres, once they had exhausted all avenues of appeal against rejection of their application to stay in the UK. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Kenyan migrant allowed to stay in Britain thanks to 'typo riddled' document

The married asylum seeker, who was granted anonymity, fled the African country in 2018 after her family discovered she was having an affair with a woman.

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1 week ago Man dubbed 'king' of asylum seeker hotels becomes billionaire

Graham King is named as a new billionaire on the Sunday Times' latest Rich List

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1 week ago UK's asylum seeker hotspots: Interactive map reveals towns where rate being housed has exploded 600

Home Office data shows that 110,000 asylum seekers - the equivalent of a town the size of Cheltenham, Worthing or Oldham - were being housed across the UK by the end of 2024.

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1 week ago Revealed: Iranian arrested over London terror plot was asylum seeker living in taxpayer funded home

An Iranian man arrested by counter terrorism raids was living in asylum seeker accommodation with his rent paid for by tax-payers

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1 week ago Revealed: Iranian man arrested over 'foiled terror plot on Israeli embassy' is asylum seeker who was living in taxpayer

Footage on social media showed Special Forces and armed police dragging the semi-naked 40-year-old from the house in Rochdale on May 3.

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