Media Reports Archive : March 2021

Young Britons face jobs squeeze if foreign graduates are allowed to remain for two years

Border Force vessels have been seen bringing groups of mostly male migrants into the Port of Dover since this morning

Migration Watch UK criticised the move, which will allow foreign graduates to take roles including low-skilled jobs

Channel migrant crossings have more than doubled as UK crackdown looms

The number of foreigners living in Germany increased by 1.8% last year, the lowest rate in a decade, according to official figures

The European Union´s home affairs commissioner on Monday stressed the need for solidarity among the bloc´s member states in tackling migration

Priti Patel is at the centre of a ‘fake news’ smear campaign over false claims that she wasted tens of thousands of taxpayers’ money

Boris Johnson has looked after the old, through lockdown but now he needs to offer something to the young

For as long as I can remember Governments of all parties have been saying they are going to ensure we have strong and robust borders

Immigration judges have dished out lifelong anonymity orders in more than 90 per cent of cases involving extremists and terrorists

The Home Office has quietly relaunched a controversial programme that obtains personal data for potential deportations

Last week Priti Patel published her New Plan for Immigration — and confirmed that this is the issue on which left and right are most divided

Nigel Farage responds to Priti Patel's asylum reforms

Priti Patel’s “New Plan for Immigration” provides a strong basis for the Government to finally take back control of our borders

Since January last year, nearly 9,000 migrants have been trafficked by sea to the Kent coast – more than 850 this year alone

Priti Patel will today unveil a major overhaul of the UK's asylum system which will include 'boomerang' deportations of illegal migrants

Asylum rights will be slashed for migrants who arrive in Britain illegally under major reforms announced today

More than 150 migrants today arrived on UK shores on what could be one of the busiest days of 2021 so far for Channel crossings

A system that is genuinely both fair and firm could lead to many more arriving legally than currently get here by boat

Illegal migrants will be denied the right to settle in the UK even if they are granted asylum under plans by Priti Patel to crush people-smuggling

Modern slavery laws are to be overhauled to prevent them being exploited by illegal migrants and foreign criminals

A Turkish lorry driver has been arrested for people smuggling offences after 16 migrants were found in the back of his vehicle

French maritime authorities said they had rescued 72 migrants in the English Channel on Sunday whose vessels ran into difficulties

EVERY year, thousands of men, women and children from the most dangerous places in the world are given sanctuary in the UK

'It was the worst experience of my life... when we arrived there it was awful, it was really, really scary.'

Tim Stanley on Priti Patel's new changes

Deported foreign criminals who sneak back into Britain will be jailed for up to five years under a crackdown to be announced this week by Priti Patel

There is only one way to stop the boats, end the trade in people-smuggling, and save lives

Boris Johnson said that sending asylum seekers abroad for processing was a humane policy that would save lives

BORIS Johnson said dumping illegal immigrants abroad was “the humane” way to stem the growing numbers crossing the English Channel

Foreign criminals and failed asylum seekers will only get one chance to appeal against decisions to deport them under a major Home Office shake-up

Every foreign traveller will face a criminal check before they get on a plane to Britain under Priti Patel's border clampdown, the Mail can reveal

Asylum seekers who cross the Channel illegally to reach Britain face being sent to another country

Asylum seekers could be sent abroad for processing under government plans to discourage people from making dangerous journeys to Britain

Immigration officers were called to the Manston lorry holding facility after the discovery of three men in the back of a lorry

Eight in 10 flights to deport hundreds of illegal migrants and foreign criminals from the UK have been disrupted or blocked by human rights challenges

Asylum seekers will be moved out of military barracks in Wales that were branded 'impoverished and run-down', the Welsh Secretary has said

Priti Patel has ordered sweeping changes to asylum rules to stop adult migrants claiming to be children

Asylum seekers housed in hotels have been threatened with homelessness and police action if they do not comply with an “unlawful” 23-hour curfew

A man found dead in a Manchester hotel room was an asylum seeker housed there while his application was considered by the Home Office

The high court has rejected a legal bid for an extension to the EU settlement scheme (EUSS)

CAMPAIGNERS have welcomed a high court ruling in favour of an asylum seeker who was made homeless during Covid-19

A Border Force cutter that patrols the Channel is being taken out of service for two months

A campaigner says the UK vaccination plan is 'in jeopardy' if undocumented migrants don't come forward for the jab

Foreign crime gangs have switched to smuggling people across the Channel because it is so profitable

Two arrests have been made after people thought to be asylum seekers were seen climbing from a lorry near a main road

An Afghan criminal gang has deflated and buried dinghies on French beaches before charging migrants £2,000 each to get to the UK

Inspectors have delivered a damning verdict on Covid protection, fire safety and living conditions at Home Office accommodation for asylum seekers

Immigration ministers have caved to demands to include deckhands on the UK’s skilled worker list, representing “a victory for fishermen”

Plans to deploy a Channel 'armada' comprising a 400-capacity ship to support Border Force boats, dinghies and jetskis were blocked by Priti Patel

A Vietnamese people smuggler who brought migrants into the UK to put them to work in his cannabis farms has been jailed.

Priti Patel tweaked immigration rules yesterday to make it easier for the NHS and social care providers to recruit staff from abroad

Britain agreed to take in more than eight times as many asylum seekers than it removed under the European Union’s resettlement scheme last year

Hundreds of thousands of British nursing hopefuls have been rejected while the NHS has recruited from abroad

Around 15 migrants including many without shoes have been intercepted crossing the Channel in inflatable boats today

A failed asylum seeker who chopped up a woman he met and had sex with, told police he was gay as he tried to put them off the scent

Rishi Sunak, is expected announce new immigration routes to the United Kingdom in the coming budget, as many Britons are out of work

Britain's population could shrink by two per cent after the coronavirus pandemic if 'missing' migrant workers do not return to the UK

PM confirms life sentences for ‘gangsters’ involved in migrant crossings

A further 66 migrants including women and young children with no shoes reached English shores on Tuesday

The number of Channel migrants reaching the UK has doubled this year without the Home Office mounting a single flight to deport any of them recently

Denmark has become the first European nation to tell Syrian migrants they must return to their home country, saying it is now safe for them there

Melanie Phillips’s article encapsulates the legal spider’s web that is both preventing the effective return of false asylum claimants and encouraging

The home secretary, Priti Patel, has announced that gangs smuggling illegal migrants across the Channel will face a maximum life sentence

Ministers are braced for 500 migrants a month to cross the Channel from France this year, despite their latest crackdowns

Channel migrants seeking asylum in the UK are smuggling themselves back to France because of Priti Patel’s crackdown, says a UK charity

Priti Patel will introduce life sentences for people smugglers in a new bid to tackle the Channel migrant crisis

A convicted Nigerian fraudster has been allowed to stay in the UK after claiming less than 24 hours before deportation that he was bisexual

Rishi Sunak is set to unveil a new fast-track technology visa scheme for British start-ups

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born critic of Islam and Islamism