A migrant deported back to Albania after arriving in Britain on a small boat has urged his fellow countrymen not to make the same journey, warning that he had faced “an unimaginable terror” which left him in thousands of pounds of debt.
The man, given the name Artan to protect his identity, said Albanians trying to travel to the UK were better off trying to get a visa to come here legally.
He crossed the Channel on a small boat earlier this year and was deported within days of arrival because he did not apply for asylum or claim that he was a victim of modern slavery. Instead he told the Home Office authorities that he was an “economic migrant,” allowing them to put him
