Media Reports Archive : April 2023


Thousands of migrants 'face being sent to Rwanda even if home nation is safe'

Thousands of migrants who arrive illegally in the UK then claim asylum will be sent to Rwanda

28 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
More than 1,850 migrants crossed the Channel in April making it the busiest month for small boat arrivals so far this year - with dozens more seen making the perilous journey today

Government figures reveal that a total of 5,652 asylum seekers have crossed the Channel in 136 boats to date in 2023

28 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Channel migrants at odds with British values, Suella Braverman claims

Migrants crossing the Channel in small boats have values “at odds” with British norms

26 Apr 2023 - Media Report: The Times
‘Values and lifestyles’ of small boat refugees threaten social cohesion, says Jenrick

That’s why the Government’s Stop the Boats Bill is so vital, and why Labour’s attempts to undermine it are so dangerous

26 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Express
Growing numbers of Indian migrants are making the perilous Channel crossing in small boats 'to evade work visa restrictions'

Indians now form the second-largest nationality crossing the Channel by small boat

25 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Indian nationals overtake Albanians to become second largest Channel migrants group

Indians have overtaken Albanians to become the second biggest contingent crossing the Channel in small boats so far this year

25 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Robert Jenrick to attack SNP for being 'humanitarian NIMBYs' on migrants

Opponents of the Government’s crackdown on small boat Channel crossings are “humanitarian NIMBYs” unwilling to see more migrants in their own areas

25 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Crackdown on Deliveroo, JustEat and UberEats moped drivers sees 60 arrests for illegal working - and follow-up searches find two imitation guns, a machete and telescopic baton

Fast food delivery firms are being urged to carry out more stringent checks on their moped drivers

25 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Tory immigration rebels received services from pro-migration lawyers

Three Conservative MPs who have criticised aspects of the Government’s asylum policy have received services from a pro-migration policy group

24 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Rishi Sunak gives way to rebels over child migrants

Rishi Sunak has backed down over the detention of unaccompanied child migrants in an attempt to see off a rebellion over his small boats Bill

24 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Migrants will get the right to claim legal aid to fund their battle against being deported under new measures from Suella Braverman to pacify rebel Tories - as 497 reach Dover on a single day in a new high for the year

Channel migrants will have the right to claim legal aid to fund human rights challenges against deportation under measures introduced by Suella

24 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Can Meloni and Sunak unite to tackle Europe’s migrant crisis?

The issue isn’t how to disperse migrants once they’re in Europe; it’s how to prevent them entering in the first place

24 Apr 2023 - Media Report: The Spectator
Migrants sent to barges and former barracks will be free to leave for seven days at a time

Asylum seekers transferred to former military bases and barges will be free to leave for up to seven days

21 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
European judges fight back over UK plans to ignore injunctions

European judges are preparing to fight back over UK plans to ignore their injunctions on deportation flights,

21 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
AI and the end of immigration

What AI offers is a precious escape from this problem, avoiding the friction and stress which accompanies mass immigration

21 Apr 2023 - Media Report: The Spectator
Suella Braverman set to be given powers to ignore European judges

Suella Braverman is to be granted new powers to ignore attempts by European human rights judges to block migrant deportation flights

20 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Judge criticises Home Office amid immigration crisis

The Nationality and Borders Act “makes it harder for people to make last-minute legal challenges as a delay tactic to frustrate removals”

20 Apr 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Small boats crisis: Just 13% of migrant asylum claims dealt with in five years

The Home Office has decided only 13 per cent of asylum claims lodged by migrants who arrived in small boats since the beginning of 2018

20 Apr 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Migration bill: Home secretary set to win powers to ignore European court

The home secretary is expected to be given the ability to ignore attempts by European judges to halt migrant deportations from the UK

20 Apr 2023 - Media Report: BBC
New legal routes for refugees proposed by ministers

Ministers are preparing to propose new safe and legal routes for up to 20,000 refugees to come to the UK next year in a major concession to rebels

19 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Suella Braverman to claim small boats crisis is ‘national emergency’

The council’s lawyers will challenge the Government’s claim that it is a national emergency

19 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Tory council begins fight with Government over planned migrant camp

An Essex council has begun a legal fight with the Home Office over plans to house thousands of asylum seekers at a former RAF base

19 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Evening Standard
Tory rebels hold out for tougher Illegal Migration Bill

A group of about 60 Conservative rebels are refusing to cave in over demands to toughen up Rishi Sunak’s Illegal Migration Bill

19 Apr 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Migrant crisis: More than 5,000 people cross channel in small boats this year

More than 5000 people have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far this year, GB News can reveal

18 Apr 2023 - Media Report: GB News
MIGRANT CASH Asylum-seekers in Wales will get a £1,600 monthly hand-out and taxpayer cash to fight deportation under Labour plans

YOUNG asylum-seekers in Wales will get a £1,600 monthly hand-out and taxpayer cash to fight deportation under Labour plans

18 Apr 2023 - Media Report: The Sun
More than £1.3 million of taxpayers' money is spent defending 121 legal challenges to the government's Rwanda asylum plan

More than £1.3million of taxpayers' money has been spent defending 121 different legal challenges against the Rwanda asylum deal

18 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Hotel accommodation for migrants to continue despite £6m-a-day cost

Hotels are being turned into "longer-term" accommodation for asylum seekers despite pledges by Rishi Sunak to end their use

18 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Call asylum-seekers ‘customers’ not ‘cases’, Home Office staff told

Asylum-seekers must be called “customers” instead of “cases” or “subjects”, the Home Office has told staff as part of its training sessions

17 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Rishi Sunak’s immigration delusion

The UK population has grown by more than nine million in the past quarter of a century

17 Apr 2023 - Media Report: The Spectator
'It was like a comedy sketch!': British couple slam farcical French police who insisted there was 'ne personne' on their caravan... despite two migrants hiding under the bed and duvet covers

A British couple have accused French police of an 'astonishing' dereliction of duty after two migrants attempted to stowaway to the UK

17 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Tory MP issues damning verdict on UK universities after woke society cancels him for views on immigration

James Sunderland, the MP for Bracknell, had been due to address students at the University of Reading - but he was cancelled

17 Apr 2023 - Media Report: GB News
‘Deadliest quarter’ for migrants in the Central Med since 2017

More than 400 migrants and refugees have drowned in the Central Mediterranean during the first three months of the year

14 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Al Jazeera
Conservative-led council says Home Office plan to move asylum seekers to RAF base puts £300m regeneration project at risk

A government document announcing its plan said the site would accommodate "single adult male" asylum seekers

14 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Sky News
Family of asylum seekers who disappeared from migrant hotel in Stockport told others they 'did not like it here' and the children 'were frightened'

A family of asylum seekers who went missing from a Stockport hotel left because the children were frightened of being there

14 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Rishi Sunak backtracks on promise to 'stop the boats' by the next general election as PM admits 'there may well be' a block from European judges on his new Channel migrant laws

Rishi Sunak today failed to commit to fulfilling a promise to 'stop the boats' by the time of the next General Election

14 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Port chief calls for strict checks on asylum seekers on Portland barge

Preparations are underway for the arrival of the huge vessel that will house hundreds of refugees at the port

13 Apr 2023 - Media Report: ITV
Macron migrant deal ‘limit’ exposed as French warship sends illegal immigrants to British coast

The Spirit of Britain ferry was forced to move aside so the French vessel could hand over a group of migrants to a Royal Navy boat

13 Apr 2023 - Media Report: GB News
Man charged over English Channel boat deaths

A man has been charged with manslaughter following the deaths of four people as they attempted to cross the English Channel in a small boat

13 Apr 2023 - Media Report: BBC
'Sharp increase' in UK diphtheria cases linked to small boat crossings, research shows

It comes as more than 1,100 migrants have crossed the Channel in the past week, a record for the year so far

13 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Sky News
Europe migrant crisis: Italian state of emergency to tackle migrant boats

Four hundred people on a fishing boat off the coast are yet to be helped

12 Apr 2023 - Media Report: BBC
French warship 'ordered ferry to move aside' so it could take 90 Channel migrants to the UK in 'dangerous' incident

A French warship ordered a passenger ferry to move to one side so it could take 90 migrants across the Channel to the UK

12 Apr 2023 - Media Report: LBC
Chilling moment Albanian rapper who lives in UK smashes a TV screen showing Suella Braverman speaking about illegal immigration and boasts about wads of cash in music video named after character from the crime thriller film Taken

A UK-based Albanian rapper has mocked the Government's clampdown on Channel crossings in a music video by kicking a TV screen showing Suella Braverman

12 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
The UK's offering shelter to terrorists. It's time to put Britons' interests first, says Darren Grimes

I don't know about you, but I couldn't give a flying fig about respecting the human rights of any foreign national linked with the medieval death cult

12 Apr 2023 - Media Report: GB News
More than 1,000 migrants cross Channel in seven days

More than 1,000 migrants have crossed the Channel in the past week

11 Apr 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Labour attacks ‘incompetence’ as 1,000 migrants reach UK in small boats in a week

The official data showed 1,057 people were detected crossing the Channel in small boats from France last week

11 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Financial Times
Tory migrant row deepens as MPs slam 'lefty virtue signalling' in 'national emergency'

The use of hotels to house migrants is currently costing the taxpayers £6million per day

11 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Express
Nineteen suspected terrorists who arrived in small boats last year 'lodged asylum claims' to avoid deportation

The British Government is said to be powerless when it comes to removing the group of suspects for fear of human rights infringements

11 Apr 2023 - Media Report: LBC
Home Office 'demonising' illegal immigrants by shutting down bank accounts in new crackdown

Illegal immigrants will have their bank accounts shut down in a new crackdown by the Home Office

7 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Sky News
All migrants moved out of Newquay hotel

All of the migrants who were staying at a hotel in Newquay are being moved out, Cornwall Council has said

7 Apr 2023 - Media Report: BBC
Migrants could be housed on Mersey as Government holds talks over new site

Migrants could be housed on the Mersey, with the Government in talks with one of Britain’s biggest ports groups

7 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
NHS hires more foreign doctors than total medical school intake

Ministers have been urged to boost medical school places

7 Apr 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Barge to house 500 male migrants off Dorset coast, says government

The vessel, which is currently in Italy, will be "significantly cheaper than hotels", says the Home Office

6 Apr 2023 - Media Report: BBC
Under French coastguard's eye, migrants cross into English waters

For many in Britain, the scene unfolding in the soft dawn light is a source of frustration and anger

6 Apr 2023 - Media Report: France 24
Mother and son from Merseyside tried to smuggle migrants in car boot

A mother and son were caught smuggling two Vietnamese citizens in the boot of their car as part of a “carefully organised” operation

6 Apr 2023 - Media Report: The Times
The media still won't speak the truth about grooming gangs

There’s plenty of evidence from prosecutions that the abusers chose their victims for racial reasons

6 Apr 2023 - Media Report: UnHerd
Asylum seeker barge plan could face legal challenge

The Home Office is reportedly looking to use the Bibby Stockholm for the migrants to reduce reliance on hotels

5 Apr 2023 - Media Report: BBC
Councils to be paid £3,500 per migrant to house them on barges

Councils are to be offered £3,500 per migrant for housing them on barges

5 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Dozens of migrants cross Channel on dinghies as RNLI lifeboat crews are scrambled to save group off the coast of Kent after people smugglers took advantage of calm weather conditions

Emergency services scrambled to rescue migrants crossing the Channel as people-smugglers took advantage of calm weather conditions

5 Apr 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
What would a “liberal” immigration system even look like?

Immigration to the UK is at the highest level in recorded history

5 Apr 2023 - Media Report: New Statesman
Suella Braverman says Rwanda is safe for migrants despite evidence of 2018 killings

The government plans to send some migrants to Rwanda if they arrive in the UK through illegal routes

3 Apr 2023 - Media Report: BBC
The Times view on Sunak’s Channel dilemma: Migrant Gamble

Ms Braverman’s answers, to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, do not provide grounds for optimism

3 Apr 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Voters losing confidence that Rishi Sunak can stop small boats

Britons have less confidence in Rishi Sunak stopping small boats than they did a month ago, despite a blizzard of government announcements

3 Apr 2023 - Media Report: The Times
'UNSUSTAINABLE' Brits are right to fear net migration of more than half a million, claims Suella Braverman

PEOPLE are right to fear net migration of more than half a million, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said yesterday

3 Apr 2023 - Media Report: The Sun

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