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Labour ’planning Italy-style migrant deals’ to tackle small boat Channel crossings
Labour are preparing a series of deals with countries like Kurdistan and Vietnam to deter migrants from crossing into Britain illegally, reports claim.
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Iranian man, called ’the best smuggler,’ convicted for aiding migrants in crossing the Channel
A video captures National Crime Agency officers raiding Amanj Hasan Zada’s terrace house in Preston and arresting him.
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UK unlikely to get refund for millions wasted on the scrapped Tory Rwanda plan
Yvette Cooper has said an audit will be carried out into the costs of the Rwanda project - but insiders believe there is no way of clawing back millions handed over to Rwanda
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Illegal migrants will be allowed to claim asylum in Britain, Labour says amid fresh border row
With a current grant rate of 65 per cent, letting small boat migrants claim asylum could see tens of thousands given leave to remain in the UK
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Italy coastguard searches for dozens of migrants missing after ship capsizes
More than 60 people, including more than 20 children, remain missing after a boat caught fire, capsized and partially sank earlier this week in the Mediterranean sea
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Eleven people killed and dozens missing after two shipwrecks off Italian coast
A rescue ship run by RESQSHIP, a German aid group, managed to pick up 51 people from a sinking wooden vessel as two boats ran into trouble as they tried to cross the Mediterranean Sea
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Greek coastguard 'threw migrants overboard to their deaths'
The Greek government has previously faced allegations of forced returns, driving refugees back towards Turkey where they set off, which is considered illegal under international law
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Natalie Elphicke aims dig at Rishi Sunak as Labour warns borders like a 'sieve'
In a speech in Dover, the constituency of Tory defector Natalie Elphicke, Labour leader Keir Starmer criticised governments across nations for having 'brutally let down' asylum seekers
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Smuggling gangs hold migrants in WW2 Nazi bunkers before deadly boat crossings
The concrete forts were part of Hitler's 'Atlantic Wall' built in 1944 to stop the Allies invading France between Calais and Dunkirk
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Girl, 7, killed crossing Channel as coast guard reports 'lifeless bodies' in sea
A police operation is under way after reports at least five people have died including a seven-year-old girl during an attempt to cross the Channel with coast guards reporting 'lifeless bodies'
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Tory Minister admits he can't back up Suella Braverman's wild asylum claims
Tory Immigration Minister Tom Pursglove said there is 'no specific evidence' to support Suella Braverman's claim that churches are helping bogus asylum claims
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Border Patrol union mocks Biden's border trip with fake itinerary full of naps
The National Border Patrol Council posted a fake itinerary for the the 81-year-old president’s trek down to Brownsville, Texas in a tweet on Saturday following his visit
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Girl, 7, dies after attempt to cross the Channel as parents taken to hospital
The girl, who died has not been named, and was thought to be travelling with her parents, who have been taken to hospital following the ordeal in the English Channel
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Boy, 5, died after getting Covid, strep throat and two other viruses
Five-year-old Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero had a myriad of viruses and medical conditions before his untimely death about two months ago, according to the local medical examiner's report
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One charged over six rushed to hospital after being found in lorry
One person has been charged with assisting unlawful entry into the UK after migrants were found in the back of a lorry at Newhaven ferry port in East Sussex
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UK coastguards under investigation after migrants die in English Channel
The boat's teen pilot is on trial over the December 2022 incident but a refugee charity has filed for complaints, including ‘involuntary manslaughter’, against British authorities
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Tories have failed to deliver on pledge to 'stop the boats' - poll results
Almost 30,000 asylum seekers made the perilous voyage across the English Channel in 2023, despite Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledging to 'stop the boats' more than a year ago. As such, almost 2,000 Mirror readers say the PM has failed to deliver on his promise
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Libya migrant rescuers spot a 'deflated rubber boat' in 2.5m waves with 61 dead
At least 61 people died when the boat carrying migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea capsized off the coast of Libya, as rescuers reported seeing a 'deflated rubber boat' in high waves
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Migrant clampdown forces British teacher and family to move 4,000 miles away
A British teacher is among an estimated 60,000 families hit by visa law changes passed earlier this month which raised the minimum income requirement for spouses and dependents in the UK
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Details of £40k secret immigration 'deal' between Suella Braverman and Sunak
Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman claimed she and Rishi Sunak reached an agreement on policies to limit net migration in the run-up to him becoming Prime Minister last autumn, including on a £40,000 minimum salary
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English Channel tragedy as man and woman drown after small migrant boat capsizes
A man and woman are confirmed to have died after several people fell into the English Channel off the coast of Calais, with a Dungeness RNLI lifeboat sent out
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Exact date Rwanda deportation flight of Channel migrants is due for take off
February 24 has been earmarked as the date when a plane carrying asylum seekers who have reached the UK will depart for the Rwandan capital Kigali, it has emerged
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Asylum lawyers threatened with acid attacks and pet killings by far-right thugs
Lawyer James Elliott read out a chilling letter received by his office which threatened to "deal with" those who assist asylum seekers - saying someone will be killed if politicians don't dial down hate speech
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Heroes rescue tourists trapped in killer bus crash after it plunged down gorge
Boubakar Toure, 27, from Gambia, and Godstime Erheneden, 30, heard the bus smash through a safety rail and plunge down a gorge in Venice and immediately raced to the scene to try rescue those trapped inside the burning vehicle
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Being gay or a woman not enough to qualify for asylum, warns Suella Braverman
Home Secretary Suella Braverman has flown to the US to give a speech on rewriting international human rights rules as thousands of desperate people make dangerous Channel crossings