6 h. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Why are we arranging weddings for migrants we should be deporting?

It's a full-time position based at an immigration removals centre near Oxford housing up 560 foreign criminals and failed asylum seekers, all of them due to be kicked out of the country.

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7 h. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Why are we arranging weddings for illegal migrants we should be deporting? Is this where all our money is going?

It's a full-time position based at an immigration removals centre near Oxford housing up 560 foreign criminals and failed asylum seekers, all of them due to be kicked out of the country.

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23 h. ago First Channel migrants will be deported TODAY as part of Starmer's 'one

They will be flown back on Air France commercial flights, with removal notices having already been served on asylum seekers who arrived last month.

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25 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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32 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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33 h. ago Labour's small boat migrants deal to be 'overwhelmed with last

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp - who served as an immigration minister in Boris Johnson's government - said Labour's plan would be overwhelmed by legal challenges.

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51 h. 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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57 h. 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.

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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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3 d. ago Trump’s border czar admits ICE is running out of beds to house migrants arrested in president’s deportation sweeps

‘We’re almost at capacity,’ Tom Homan told reporters at the White House earlier this week, but added that ‘we got beds coming online every day’

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3 d. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The Prince of Darkness? Don't make me laugh. Why was anyone taken in by this chancer?

As the old line, trotted out again in the movie The Usual Suspects, starring Mandelson's chum Kevin Spacey, has it: The best trick the Devil pulled off was to convince people he didn't exist.

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5 d. ago Revealed: Keir Starmer edited manual on interpreting human rights laws that prevent Britain from deporting small boat migrants

The Prime Minister edited a guide on the Human Rights Act 1998 and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in 1999 when he was a human rights lawyer.

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5 d. ago Harry says King is ‘great, thank you’ as they reunite after 19 months apart

The brief encounter lasted 54 minutes before the duke left for a pre-arranged Invictus engagement on Wednesday evening.

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5 d. ago Harry reunites with King to enjoy private tea after 19 months apart

The brief encounter lasted 54 minutes before the duke left for a pre-arranged Invictus engagement on Wednesday evening.

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5 d. ago Labour will consider 'robust' changes to how Britain interprets European Convention on Human Rights, Attorney General Lord Hermer tells peers

Reform has said it will leave the Convention to make it easier to deport illegal migrants and the Conservatives are set to follow suit.

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7 d. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: How long until the Tube strikers crippling London are demanding to work from home?

Tube workers marked the third anniversary of the King's accession to the throne by bringing London to a standstill. Meanwhile, London's two-bob chancer of a mayor, Genghis Khan, was missing in action...

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7 d. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: These selfish Tube strikes have crippled London and will bankrupt businesses... but this who I'm pointing the finger at for the chaos

Tube workers marked the third anniversary of the King's accession to the throne by bringing London to a standstill. Meanwhile, London's two-bob chancer of a mayor, Genghis Khan, was missing in action...

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7 d. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The Tube strikes have crippled London and caused chaos for businesses... but these selfish workers are heading for their own extinction

Tube workers marked the third anniversary of the King's accession to the throne by bringing London to a standstill. Meanwhile, London's two-bob chancer of a mayor, Genghis Khan, was missing in action...

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7 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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8 d. ago ‘They grabbed us like dogs’: deportation quotas tear Haitian migrants’ lives apart

In the Dominican Republic, batey slums housing sugarcane workers from Haiti fear immigration raids and extortionOn the yellow bus rumbling through the Dominican Republic’s sugarcane fields back to the settlement, Sainristil sat among the jolting bodies of other Haitian workers in ripped orange shirts. These journeys are routine – always the same grumbling stomachs in anticipation of dinner, the same chatter among men who share a job, a home and a homeland.But that evening, as the workers’ bus pulled into the cul-de-sac of communal housing, it came to a halt before two white buses marked with the words “Migration control”. Continue reading...

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