28 h. ago Illegal migrants hiding in lorries could be behind surge in food poisoning outbreaks that has seen up to 3,000 trucks contaminated, claims report

Lorries were the most common route used by people smugglers to hide migrants before tighter security around ports and the Channel Tunnel led to rise in small boat crossings.

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29 h. ago Outrage as transport regulator finds illegal migrants hiding in lorries could be behind explosion in food poisoning outbreaks: '3,000 trucks contaminated'

Lorries were the most common route used by people smugglers to hide migrants before tighter security around ports and the Channel Tunnel led to rise in small boat crossings.

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47 h. ago Machete is pulled on shadow home sec Chris Philp and bottles thrown on visit to migrants in Dunkirk 'Jungle' camp

The Conservative MP began a trip to investigate illegal migration last night, travelling to northern France to visit a migrant camp near Dunkirk.

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3 d. ago First migrant is convicted of illegally working for Deliveroo

Abdullah Merez, 23, admitted that he had been illicitly delivering food for the company after being caught in Woking, Surrey, on May 2 this year. He was fined just two hours of pay.

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3 d. ago Illegal migrant who raped and killed Rachel Morin will rot behind bars for rest of his life

The El Salvador native was found guilty in April of first degree murder, first degree rape and kidnapping for the horrific August 2023 attack on the 37-year-old mother.

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5 d. ago DAN HODGES: Starmer needs to admit the truth: migrants DO commit more crime than native Brits. This is a national crisis

Several weeks ago, Arnold Schwarzenegger - the former actor and governor of California - was invited on to leading US chat show The View. A few days earlier, Los Angeles had been gripped by serious disorder following attempts by Immigration And Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to arrest suspected illegal migrants.

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6 d. ago Moment small boat arrives at Gravelines beach to pick up migrants to take them illegally across to the UK

The rubber vessel (pictured) was seen off the French coast, just east of Calais, this morning, before heading off into the English Channel.

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7 d. ago MP Rupert Lowe apologises after mistaking charity rowing crew for illegal migrants

The Independent MP, who won the Great Yarmouth seat for Reform UK before being ousted from the party, claimed yesterday that 'dinghies' were heading towards the Norfolk coast.

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7 d. ago MP 'alerts authorities' after mistaking rowers for 'illegal migrants' off UK coast

The Coastguard contacted the rowers and asked if they could see a dinghy nearby

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7 d. ago Border Force search charity row boat mistaken for ‘illegal migrants’ by Rupert Lowe

A group of charity rowers were stopped and searched by a Border Force patrol boat after MP Rupert Lowe mistakenly identified them as “illegal immigrants” on social media.

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7 d. ago High temperatures threaten to reignite blaze after France's largest wildfire in decades

Firefighters in France have contained the country's largest wildfire in decades, but authorities remain on high alert

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7 d. ago Former Reform MP Rupert Lowe pledges donation to charity rowers he 'mistook for illegal migrants’

The Coastguard contacted the rowing crew to confirm their identity.

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7 d. ago Rupert Lowe reports charity rowers to coastguard as possible ‘illegal migrants’

MP agrees to donate £1,000 to crew’s fundraising effort after alerting authorities to rowing boat off Great YarmouthThe independent MP Rupert Lowe has agreed to donate £1,000 to a charity after mistaking its rowing crew, including a former Royal Marine, for “illegal migrants”.Lowe, who was elected as a Reform MP but now sits as an independent for Great Yarmouth, said he had shopped the crew to the authorities and vowed to do everything he could to have them deported if they turned out to be what he suspected. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago MP Rupert Lowe admits mistaking charity rowing crew for ‘illegal migrants’

The fundraising boat crew was contacted by the Coastguard near Great Yarmouth.

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7 d. ago MP's embarrassing blunder after mistaking charity rowing team for 'illegal migrants'

After satisfying the coastguard that their boat was not carrying migrants, they continued, but several hours later were contacted again by the coastguard

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8 d. ago Trump wants a new census that will exclude migrants in US ‘illegally’

Move is latest step by president to reshape country’s most important economic institutions

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8 d. ago First people detained under ‘one in, one out’ deal before being sent back to France – UK politics live

Home secretary says the move ‘sends a message to every migrant currently thinking of paying organised crime gangs to go to the UK’Keir Starmer has also issued a statement about the detention of small boat arrivals (see 9.58am) on his social media feed. He says:We have detained the first illegal migrants under our new deal before returning them to France. No gimmicks, just results.If you break the law to enter this country, you will face being sent back.The transfers to immigration removal centres are under way as we speak, so we won’t provide operational details at this point that criminal gangs can simply use and exploit.But no-one should be in any doubt: anyone who arrives from now on is eligible for immediate detention and return.The pilot has now begun, so the first migrants who have arrived on the small boats are now in detention. We will then swiftly make the referrals to France and that process will now start to be able to return people to France.It’s the beginning of the pil...

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8 d. ago Moment former Tory justice minister Chris Philp finds huge boat of illegal migrants crossing the Channel

Former Tory justice minister Chris Philp poked holes at Labour's new migrant returns deal after witnessing two 'massively packed' small boats entering UK waters on Wednesday.

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9 d. ago French police watch on hopelessly while huge groups of migrants

Yesterday Keir Starmer 's much-trumpeted one-in, one-out 'deterrent' policy came into force.

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9 d. ago Boris Johnson hails US plan to deport hundreds of illegal migrants to Rwanda

Washington has already sent an initial list of ten people to be vetted as part of President Donald Trump 's bid to tackle illegal immigration.

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