Media Reports Archive : February 2023


Asylum seeker plans legal challenge to Home Office questionnaire

A Sudanese asylum seeker is planning a legal challenge to a new Home Office questionnaire

28 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Guardian
Asylum seekers: Home Office to review use of Rotherham hotel

The Home Office is set to review the use of a hotel which has seen protests after housing 130 asylum seekers

28 Feb 2023 - Media Report: BBC
Where is the outrage now? 'Virtue-signalling' celebrities who opposed plans to deport Jamaican criminal - who went on to murder man in brutal knife fight - remain silent as outraged MPs tell luvvies to 'think again'

A slew of celebrities who protested against the deportation of a Jamaican criminal have kept silent

28 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Number of Channel migrants could hit 85,000 this year

A total of 2,950 people have reached the UK in small boats so far this year

28 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
UK Labour Leader Says Migration Is Not ‘The Answer to All Our Problems’

Britain should focus on fixing its “skills problem” rather than continuing to rely on migrant workers

28 Feb 2023 - Media Report: The Epoch Times
Italy migrant boat shipwreck: Nearly 60 killed off Calabria coast

t least 59 migrants, including 12 children, have died and dozens more are feared missing

27 Feb 2023 - Media Report: BBC
Albanian crack dealer deported as part of a zero-tolerance policy against migrants who threaten national security sneaks back into UK and lives next to a children's nursery

A deported Albanian crack dealer has been found living two doors from a children's nursery after sneaking back into Britain

27 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
KARREN BRADY Is a questionnaire the right answer to an asylum crisis? The answer is – No!

I am sorry to say that I cannot get behind Rishi’s new fast-track scheme

27 Feb 2023 - Media Report: The Sun
Government calls time on asylum 'gravy train' with crackdown on £40m migrant lawyers

One legal professional admitted huge profits were made from asylum cases, saying: “It’s the gift that keeps on giving.'

27 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Express
More than 12,000 migrants will have applications processed without interviews

Thousands of asylum seekers will be granted right to stay in the UK without checks on their claims

24 Feb 2023 - Media Report: GB News
Albanians become largest nationality claiming UK asylum for first time

Albanians have become the largest nationality claiming asylum in the UK for the first time after a surge in numbers crossing the Channel in small boat

24 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Immigration curbs after huge rise in foreign student families

Foreign students will be barred from bringing their spouses and children to the UK unless they study “high-value” degrees under government plans

24 Feb 2023 - Media Report: The Times
UK asylum backlog hits record 160,000

More than 160,000 asylum seekers in the UK are awaiting decisions on their claims

24 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Financial Times
Shamima Begum to find out today if she is allowed back in the UK

Her British citizenship was revoked in 2019 by then home secretary Sajid Javid

22 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Sky News
Asylum-seeker backlog passes 150,000 mark as upkeep bill hits £2.1bn a year

The asylum backlog has hit the highest level since records began, the Government is braced to announce this week

22 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Home Office accused of lies over use of asylum seeker hotel despite terror threat warning

The Home Office has been accused of “lying” about arrangements to house asylum seekers in a hotel in Kent

22 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Independent
Dozens more migrants arrive in Dover as group including toddler and three young children are first to cross Channel by boat in nearly a week despite cold and foggy sea conditions

Around 50 migrants have been intercepted while attempting to cross the English Channel despite cold and foggy conditions at sea

22 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Married couple joined people smuggling ring to pay off debts

A husband and wife who joined a people smuggling ring to pay off debts have been sentenced

21 Feb 2023 - Media Report: BBC
EXCLUSIVE: Health chiefs advertise £12MILLION contract to give detained immigrants access to GP and dental treatment - as crisis-hit NHS creaks under pressure

MailOnline can reveal that NHS bosses need new providers to take over the 24-hour services at Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre

21 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Lee Anderson warns Tories must stop Channel migrant crossings to win next election

Mr Anderson said: 'Well we're going to have some problems at the next election I think we know that.'

21 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Express
Bulgaria: Six charged with human trafficking after 18 bodies found in abandoned lorry

Six people have been charged with human trafficking after 18 Afghan migrants were found dead inside a truck

20 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Sky News
Government spent nearly £25million deploying the Royal Navy to the English Channel last year as migrant crossings reached record highs, figures show

The Government spent nearly £25million deploying the Royal Navy in attempt to stop migrants from crossing the English Channel illegally

20 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Delays to new Border Force boats ‘will let migrants cross Channel’

Rishi Sunak faces a new challenge in meeting his pledge to stop migrants crossing the Channel in small boats

20 Feb 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Lee Anderson says refugee charities are 'just as bad as people smugglers'

Refugee charities operating in Calais are “fuelling” Channel crossings, the deputy chairman of the Tory Party said

20 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Express
Home Office accepts court defeat on EU citizens scheme

The Home Office has confirmed it will not appeal against the ruling, despite previously indicating it would do so

17 Feb 2023 - Media Report: BBC
No 10 Denies Cabinet Minister's Claim Rwanda Scheme Will Be Of 'Marginal Benefit'

The Prime Minister's spokesperson said: 'Certainly we think it will be an important part of what will be the solution to this'

17 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Politics Home
The legislation Britain needs to tackle the small boats crisis

Legislation to this effect has yet to be introduced to the House of Commons, but it seems likely that a Bill will be introduced in the near future

17 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Conservative Home
Suspected Channel people smuggler shot in his sleep in French migrant camp

A suspected Channel smuggler who was shot in their sleep in a French migrant camp is critically ill in hospital after surviving the incident

16 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Express
Revealed: Number of migrants arriving in the UK via small boat crossings over the Channel has risen 86% compared to last year's figures

The number of migrants arriving in the UK after travelling across the Channel by small boats so far this year is running 86 per cent above last year’s

16 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Curfew imposed in safety move for hotel migrants in Knowsley

Asylum seekers living in a hotel targeted by far-right protesters have been placed on a daytime curfew and given training on how to keep safe

16 Feb 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Rise in migrants from Horn of Africa to Gulf states worrying: UN

The number of women and children migrating from the Horn of Africa to Gulf countries through Yemen has significantly increased

16 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Al Jazeera
I’m sick of people with an ounce of common sense being labelled ‘far-Right’

I am so sick of the demonising of ordinary, decent people by their supposed betters, aren’t you?

15 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Red Wall areas housing seven times as many asylum seekers as the South East

Red Wall areas are housing seven times as many asylum seekers per person as south-east England

15 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
EU Leaders Claim They Will Tighten Borders Amid Migration Surge

European Union leaders claim they will increase security on the bloc’s common external border after illegal arrivals topped 330,000 last year

14 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Breitbart
Four Afghan boys, aged 13 to 16, arrested over alleged rape of girl, 15, at Dover school arrived in UK on small boats a year ago - amid claims 'one carried out attack as others pinned her down'

Four teenagers who arrived in the UK on small boats as asylum seekers have been arrested

14 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Failure to take action on the migrant hotel crisis isn’t compassionate. It’s pathological altruism

Asserting that the protesters are either being duped by malevolent politicians or sinister fascist groups plays into a broader trend

14 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Conservative Home
Asylum seekers beg to be moved from hotel and are 'scared to go outside' after riot during anti-refugee protests - as police charge 19-year-old man with violent disorder and assault while 14 others, including boy, 13, are released on bail

Asylum seekers are begging to be moved to a new hotel and are 'scared to go outside' following an anti-refugee riot near their accommodation

13 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Leicester women smuggled illegal migrants into the UK as part of criminal gang

Two Leicester women who were part of an organised crime group which smuggled Middle Eastern nationals into the UK

13 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Leicester Live
Afghan boys arrested over ‘rape of girl at Kent school’

Four Afghan boys who arrived in small boats last year have been arrested in connection with an alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl

13 Feb 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Asylum protests: Teen charged over Knowsley disorder

Merseyside Police said he was arrested after disorder in Knowsley

13 Feb 2023 - Media Report: BBC
UK recruiter of debt-hit Indonesians loses seasonal workers licence

British recruitment agency that brought Indonesian farmworkers to the UK who had debts of thousands of pounds to foreign brokers has lost its licence

10 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Guardian
Group charging migrants more than £1300 to cross the Channel in their boats sentenced

Six members of a criminal people smuggling network in France have been sentenced to 16 years in prison collectively

10 Feb 2023 - Media Report: ITV
Suella Braverman rows back on boat pledge

The home secretary refused to give a timeframe for achieving the target, one of the government’s five priorities

10 Feb 2023 - Media Report: The Times
The EU is too woke to defend its borders

Every proposed reform to toughen up migration policy faces an inevitable, emotionally-charged backlash

10 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Migrant crisis: Six from small boat smuggling network jailed after police raid

Six men who set up a storage base for a small boat people smuggling network in northern France have been jailed

9 Feb 2023 - Media Report: GB News
People smugglers: How police exposed the dark world of small boat Channel crossings

The tentacles of cross-Channel migration spread further than Calais, Dunkirk or even Douai

9 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Sky News
We need a referendum on the European Court of Human Rights

A look across the North Sea to Sweden shows the appalling dangers of allowing vast numbers of young, single men from different cultures in

7 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Tory civil war rages over immigration as Rishi Sunak is accused of 'willy-waving' over threat to pull UK out of European human rights rules to make it easier to remove Channel migrants

Rishi Sunak has been accused of 'willy-waving' over a threat to pull the UK out of European human rights rules

7 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Another 200 migrants make journey across Channel over the weekend in first arrivals since Home Office resumed responsibility for tackling crisis after eight months of Royal Navy control

More than 200 migrants arrived in the UK over the weekend for the first time since the Home Office resumed responsibility for tackling the crisis

7 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Rishi Sunak plans to ban Channel migrants from appealing deportation

The prime minister is looking to ban people arriving in the UK via small boats from appealing against deportation

7 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Sky News
Indians now third-biggest cohort of Channel migrants

Indians account for the third-largest contingent of migrants who have crossed the Channel in small boats so far this year

7 Feb 2023 - Media Report: The Times
We need to ditch European Court of Human Rights to tackle Channel migrants crisis, Brexit-backing MPs say

The UK must pull out of the European Court of Human Rights to end the Channel small boats crisis

2 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
RISHI'S PLEDGE Rishi Sunak promises his law to stop migrants crossing Channel will be unveiled in weeks

RISHI Sunak today promises his law to stop small boat crossings will be unveiled in weeks — as he hits 100 days in office

2 Feb 2023 - Media Report: The Sun
The liberal hypocrisy over Britain’s missing children

There are few working-class communities in the UK that aren’t affected by the disappearance of children in their midst

2 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Spiked
Left and right attack Macron’s plan to tackle rising asylum claims

President Macron’s government has been told it faces an electoral insurrection over its failure to control French borders

2 Feb 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Germany easing citizenship laws

Sponsors of the bill say the idea of having ‘only one homeland is completely outdated’

2 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Financial Times
Asylum seekers receive staggering £160MILLION in payments on UK debit card - EXCLUSIVE

Asylum seekers received payments totalling almost £160million through a government debit card system last year, GB News can reveal

1 Feb 2023 - Media Report: GB News
UK Adopts New Rules to Tackle Abuse of Modern Slavery Laws by Illegal Immigrants

The UK Home Office has adopted new rules aimed at cracking down on the abuse of modern slavery laws by illegal immigrants and foreign criminals

1 Feb 2023 - Media Report: The Epoch Times
Foreign killers and rapists hiding in UK 'for years', investigation reveals

Dozens of convicted foreign killers and rapists have been able to sneak into Britain and live undetected

1 Feb 2023 - Media Report: Express

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