The Latest Breaking News from Border Force

Sixty-two people pulled from water overnight after boat broke up, including child and his mother suffering from hypothermia

In autumn 2022, overcrowding at migrant processing centres prompted national outrage. As the truth of the conditions inside began to emerge, British Red Cross staff were on site trying to support residents. Emails, performance reports and letters released to Holly Bancroft show how the charity was battling to get officials…

Both smugglers leapt overboard and unsuccessfully attempted to swim to shore to escape Border Force

Nitazenes have caused a spike in drug-related deaths in recent years.

The arrivals are the first to have made the crossing to the UK in more than a week.

A fresh row has broken out over the Channel migrant crisis after a UK Border Force vessel sailed into French waters to pick up asylum seekers.

Denice Lorraine Blendell and her co-conspirator Andrew David Stainton hid five Vietnamese nationals behind heavy motorcycle parts and an old mattress

Border Force officers searching the pair’s unregistered van discovered the five migrants underneath an old mattress, clothing and motorbike parts.

Pictures show people wearing life jackets being brought ashore in Dover on the warmest day of the year so far.

UK border security industry worth billions and expanding, academics suggest

Some 9,885 people had been logged as making the journey from France as of Sunday, according to provisional Home Office figures for 2025