illegal migration

According to Home Office figures, 3,208 migrants crossed the English Channel in 2024 to date, the highest total for the same period over the last six years.

Over 2,000 migrants arrived by small boat this year, down 32 percent on the same time last year, but 49 percent higher than the total at this stage in 2022.

The deal will see increased cooperation between Border Force and Frontex, including collaborations on training, operations, and the exchange of intelligence.

Some 4,500 ‘complex cases’ remain outstanding among over 92,000 legacy claims the prime minister vowed to process, with 94,062 new claims added to the pile.

The former minister said watering down the Rwanda policy would ‘consigning us to many more years of small boat crossings’ with ’bleak' European outlook.

Rishi Sunak was ‘absolutely right’ to warn that illegal migration could ‘overwhelm’ European states, the Deputy Prime Minister has said.

The prime minister will also make an appearance at a right-wing political gathering organised by Giorgia Meloni’s party.

Cities claim they’re reaching the breaking point, and new evidence emerges that the government appears to have other plans behind mass illegal immigration.

Ahead of her visit to Washington, the Home Secretary said illegal and mass migration has put unsustainable pressures on Europe and the United States.

The party said its will set up ’safe and legal routes’ to asylum in the UK and increase pay for early education during the first day of its autumn conference.

In a reprise of the humanitarian crisis of summer 2014, rising numbers of Central American children and families are crossing the Rio Grande Valley into Texas, causing a reckoning over whether the U.S. is facing a “new normal” of illegal migration from countries facing violence and poverty.