5 h. ago Egyptian illegal migrant living in a Hilton hotel is jailed for raping a woman in Hyde Park and will now be deported

Abdelrahmen Adnan Abouelela, 42, was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison after raping a woman in November last year.

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7 h. ago No 10 denies ‘one in one out’ migrant deal with France is ‘shambles’

Plans to forcibly remove people who arrived in small boats abandoned for second dayDowning Street has denied that the government’s returns deal with France is in chaos after plans to forcibly remove from the UK people arriving in small boats were abandoned for a second day.Asked by reporters if the latest delay meant the so-called “one in one out” agreement was “a shambles”, the prime minister’s spokesperson said “No”. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Migrant deportations yet to begin as Downing Street denies ‘shambles’

A second Air France flight departed from Heathrow on Tuesday without any migrants on board, according to reports.

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11 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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38 h. ago Shipbroking is thriving in London's shipping 'high street', Denis Petropoulos says

Shipbroking is thriving in London's shipping 'high street', Denis Petropoulos says  Tradewinds News

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46 h. ago Migrant deportation flights could be grounded by 'last minute' legal challenges: Lawyers will try to block one

The initial deportation of small-boat migrants is due to take place as early as today. Ministers are gearing up for the first removal flights as part of the 'one in, one out' deal with France.

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53 h. ago Thought it was STOP the boats! Protesters sit in inflatable vessel near migrant hotel holding banner to 'deport all foreign criminals' as over a hundred demonstrate outside

The Tickled Trout Hotel, near Samlesbury, in Lancashire, is currently housing people who supported British troops during operations in Afghanistan .

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3 d. ago Judge extends temporary measures protecting Guatemalan children from deportation

A federal judge is temporarily keeping measures in place to prevent the Trump administration from deporting Guatemalan migrant children in government custody

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3 d. ago 'One in, one out' migrant deportation flights 'will start next week' after new Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said they'd begin 'imminently'

The scheme, signed off in July, saw the first Channel arrivals detained on August 6, with the inaugural flight understood to be pencilled in for as early as Monday.

Society

3 d. ago Migrant who 'beheaded' boss escaped deportation despite gruesome criminal record

The suspect in a horrific beheading of a motel manager in Texas had been detained by federal immigration officials -- only to be released despite his rampant history of crimes across three states.

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8 d. ago ‘They just want a better life’: the UK households who host asylum seekers

The charity Refugees at Home helps volunteers with a spare room to lend take in people who have sought refugeUK politics live – latest updates“It’s heartbreaking for me, I don’t understand people putting up the flag,” said Mohammad, who crossed the Channel almost four years ago, desperate to escape persecution. Back then it was rare to see St George’s cross flags as frequently as he does driving around now. The flags are seen as divisive and dangerous in a climate of anti-migrant protests where political discourse is fixated on deportations, small boats and threats to withdraw the UK from human rights frameworks. It has left individuals who have sought refuge in the UK feeling anxious, upset and fearing repercussions.“Immigrants, they just want to have a better life. If our country was safe, was all right, we would never leave,” said Mohammad, who asked to use only his first name fearing reprisals. After facing persecution as a practising Christian in Shia-majority Iran, Mohammad le...

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1 week ago Jailed tweeter Lucy Connolly gets hug from Nigel Farage as she tells Reform party conference: 'Unchecked immigration is a danger to my child and everyone else's child'

Lucy Connolly was released from prison last month after being jailed for stirring up racial hatred in a tweet where she called for 'mass deportation now' and told people to 'set fire' to migrant hotels.

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2 w. ago Farage rows back on plan to deport women and children as part of migration crackdown

On Tuesday, Nigel Farage indicated the party would detain and deport women and children as part of their plans - but the following day insisted media reports which said he would do so were ‘wrong, wrong, wrong’

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2 w. ago Farage rows back on plan to deport children as part of migration crackdown

On Tuesday, Nigel Farage indicated the party would detain and deport women and children as part of their plans - but the following day insisted media reports which said he would do so were ‘wrong, wrong, wrong’

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2 w. ago Farage rows back on plan to deport children in Reform asylum crackdown

Nigel Farage said Reform would detain and deport women and children to tackle the small boats crisis – but a day later insisted media reports were ‘wrong, wrong, wrong’

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2 w. ago Now ANOTHER former Labour home secretary says Britain should 'decouple' from the ECHR to help tackle Channel migrant crisis as pressure piles on Keir Starmer

Jack Straw, who was Labour home secretary between 1997 and 2001, warned the ECHR was being 'misused' in some legal cases to prevent migrant deportations.

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3 w. ago Why Nigel Farage’s ‘fag packet’ migrant deportation plans don’t add up

Nigel Farage claims he would deport 600,000 asylum seekers in the first term of a Reform government and ramp up detentions of those who come here illegally. But the numbers don’t quite add up, as Alicja Hagopian and Millie Cooke report

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3 w. ago Why Nigel Farage’s migrant deportation plans don’t quite add up

Nigel Farage claims he would deport 600,000 asylum seekers in the first term of a Reform government and ramp up detentions of those who come here illegally. But the numbers don’t quite add up, as Alicja Hagopian and Millie Cooke report

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3 w. ago Voices: Finally! Nigel Farage concedes that there’s no easy solution to the migrant question

According to its thin and unconvincing immigration plan, Reform UK expects the British government to pay the Taliban and the Iranian regime to take back its asylum seekers – and yet the party still has no answers for many crucial questions, says John Rentoul

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3 w. ago Children to be deported under Reform’s plan to tackle migration, Nigel Farage says

Some 600,000 asylum seekers could be deported in the first parliament of a Reform UK government, Reform leader indicates

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