Media Reports Archive : July 2021
Channel people smugglers are using smaller boats as decoys to pave the way for vessels carrying more than 80 migrants
Some 90 per cent of population growth in recent years has been driven by immigrants and their UK-born offspring
More Albanian criminals will be expelled from England and Wales and transferred to prisons in their home country
Almost 400 migrants arrived on British shores on Sunday - taking the total number of people to arrive so far this year soaring past 9,000
Britain has made a dramatic offer to pick up and return migrant boats in the Channel that resist French intervention
Conventional politics are making a comeback
The idea of taking back control – central to Brexit – applies strongly to immigration
Priti Patel was criticised by Cabinet colleagues last week over concerns that immigration rules are contributing to a shortage of food
A member of a people-smuggling gang linked to the deaths of 39 Vietnamese men, women and children has been ordered to pay the bereaved families £3,000
The home secretary pledged her 'unwavering determination' to stop migrants crossing the English channel
Three of the kingpins in operations to smuggle thousands of asylum seekers across the Channel in small boats are living and working freely in the UK
Albanian criminals charging up to £20,000 to smuggle migrants to the UK brazenly tout their services on TikTok
The French cannot deploy its squadron of drones to track migrants because of privacy laws
Channel migrants make up nearly half of asylum claims, up from six per cent in just a year, official figures have revealed
The Minister for Hot Air: Priti Patel has promised to stop the flow of illegal migrants ever since being made Home Secretary exactly two years ago...
Border Force is braced for 22,000 migrants to cross the Channel in small boats this year
A tiny inflatable dinghy packed with migrants was seen arriving in British waters today - as a legal cross-channel ferry waited in the background
Smuggling gangs are negotiating 'money back' guarantees to migrants on social media
MPs have backed a new immigration bill which will make arriving in the UK without permission a criminal offence
The £130 migrant misery trade
At least five children including a crying toddler were among nearly 100 migrants brought ashore in Dover by Border Force
SIR – As a former director of the UK Immigration Service (Ports), I was interested to see that the Home Secretary has made a further payment of £54
The Home Secretary agreed with her French counterpart, Gerald Darmanin, to hand over the extra cash
AN EX-IMMIGRATION chief has called for the British Navy to be drafted in to handle the Channel migrant crisis
THERE is little that cross-Channel people smugglers like better than the beautiful, sunny weather we’ve experienced in the past few days
The number of boat migrants illegally crossing the English Channel from France has surpassed the yearly record
The MP for Calais today rubbished Priti Patel's latest £54million payment to France, claiming that the deal is pointless
Seven people have been arrested in an operation that police hope will have 'significantly disrupted' a people smuggling network
A 12-year-old Kuwaiti girl whose family paid people-smugglers £8,000 to make the treacherous journey from Calais to England is among an ongoing surge
The government's Nationality and Borders Bill will only bring more 'chaos and delay' to the UK's 'dysfunctional' immigration system
The number of illegal migrants crossing the Channel into Britain passed the annual record yesterday as Priti Patel came under fire
Home Office says at least 430 people made the dangerous crossing on Monday
At least 430 people crossed the English Channel on Monday
France accused of escorting dinghy crammed with 13 migrants and leaving them with Good Morning Britain crew reporting in the English Channel
A FRENCH warship escorted 13 migrants crammed on a tiny dinghy into British waters before leaving them with baffled GMB reporters
Up to 100 migrants were brought ashore by Border Force officers today after they took advantage of the calmer waters
Police have rescued 72 children and 27 adults in the UK as part of a Europe-wide crackdown on human trafficking
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) now believes inflows from the EU were “potentially understated by around 90,000 people per year'
Immigration rules will need to be temporarily relaxed if widespread labour shortages persist, according to the Government’s official migration adviser
European lorry drivers could be granted work visas more easily in a bid to solve a growing haulier crisis
Albanian sources told the Mail as many as six investigators from the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) now work in Tirana
Across the land, in industries from agriculture to food production, personnel to social care, company bosses are tearing their hair out
Boris Johnson has been warned that the failure to tackle the migrant boats crisis is hitting Tory support in Red Wall seats
An Albanian murderer who raked in more than £40,000 a year from a car wash business has finally been deported
These are disturbing findings. Yes, the clear majority still believe that Britain is a good place. But many millions of Britons do not
Limited public interest in charging those arriving in Britain in small boats or by lorries as they have 'no choice in how they travel'
Criminals as well as those who fail to be granted asylum from Albania will face a more rapid return to their home country under a post-Brexit deal
Trafficking gangs behind rising migrant crossings in the English Channel are attempting to overwhelm coastguards
Police have released dramatic footage showing how they tracked a people smuggler whose boat ran aground off Teignmouth
Given the numbers, we don’t have to do it like this
However well-intentioned Ms Patel's proposals are, my biggest reservation is that we have heard it all before
Priti Patel is to get new powers to withhold or reject visas from countries that refuse to take back failed asylum seekers or illegal migrants
Home Secretary Priti Patel must bring back to the UK an asylum seeker who arrived via a small boat and was later deported to France within 14 days
POWERING through the choppy Channel waves, this 26ft migrant boat is proof the smuggling gangs have upped their ruthless game
BORDER officials will be able to storm migrant dinghies under sweeping new powers unveiled by Priti Patel today
Eighteen migrants have been found on a ferry in Dover after smuggling themselves aboard at Calais for the 27-mile journey
Last week, the deadline passed for EU citizens living in the UK to apply for the right to stay
The Border Force will be given new powers to seize people smugglers at sea and send migrants back to France under laws to be published today
Border Force officers are to get new powers to forcibly detain migrants at sea, board their vessels and return them
Priti Patel will today unveil powers for UK Border Force to turn away migrant boats in a new bid to tackle the Channel crisis
This cannot go on and as Home Secretary I will not allow this to continue
Migrants who cross the English Channel in small boats could be arrested on arrival under new laws brought forward by Priti Patel
Nearly twice as many EU citizens have been living in the UK as previously thought
Angela Merkel's immigration policies are 'fatal' and Germany is 'declining politically and economically'
Britain's busiest motorway was temporarily closed on Thursday after police received a panicked call from a group of migrants
The settled status deadline for EU citizens saw a five-fold increase in applications on the final day as 50,000 people applied
Rules more could be permissive than before Brexit
Police, immigration officers and the Red Cross took part in a major raid at a 'dangerous' scrapyard in Wolverhampton
BORIS JOHNSON should not relax immigration rules in order to combat staff shortages in the UK, a new poll has suggested
Record numbers of people continue to make the perilous journey across the English Channel in small boats
The UK is not a “closed shop” to migrants, said Priti Patel, as she launched a new route for foreign graduates to remain in Britain
Boris Johnson has urged EU citizens eligible for settled status in the UK to 'get on with' applying
Staggeringly, even official figures estimate that closing on 40 per cent of the inhabitants of the nation’s capital were born in another country