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France and UK find common ground on tackling illegal Channel crossings

French and British interior ministers have committed to strengthening the fight against illegal migration, including France lifting a ban on police stopping migrant boats at sea.

Radio France Internationale

Record number of children died crossing Channel last year, says UN

Data from UN agency’s Missing Migrants Project should serve as ‘wake-up call’, say officials

The Guardian - UK

St Pancras and Channel tunnel plan rail routes to Germany and Switzerland

Partnership comes as London station looks at ways to almost triple passenger numbers

The Guardian - UK

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25,000 migrants cross Channel since Starmer became PM, provisional figures show

Home Office figures show 240 people made the journey in four boats on Saturday.

The Independent UK

One dies in attempted Channel crossing after small boat sinks off Calais coast

A further 69 people were rescued in what French authorities called a very busy night for crossings

The Guardian - UK

French rescuers saved more than 6,000 migrants in Channel last year

French authorities reported they had rescued 6,310 migrants trying to cross the Channel to reach the UK in 2024, a 30 percent rise on the previous year.

Radio France Internationale

French police arrest six people after migrants' bodies found on northern beach

Authorities have arrested six people after the bodies of two migrants were found on a northern France beach following a failed bid to cross the Channel and reach Britain, French prosecutors said Monday.

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Flagship immigration and asylum reforms clear first Commons test

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the measures would ‘strengthen UK border security’ although concerns were raised by some Labour MPs and the Tories.

Evening Standard

Inside Home Office deportations as 19,000 illegal migrants and foreign criminals removed from UK

Social media campaigns warning about the dangers of illegal working in Britain have gone live in Vietnam and Albania, but migrants continue to cross the Channel

Evening Standard

Six Arrested After Migrants' Bodies Found On French Beach

International Business Times

Overcrowded Migrant Boat Sinks in Channel as Women and Toddler Are Miraculously Rescued

A small boat carrying 57 migrants, including four women and a toddler, sank off the coast of Calais on Sunday, leaving one individual hospitalized.

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Minister defends publishing raids footage in illegal worker arrests crackdown

Dame Angela Eagle said it is important to show what the Government is doing as it announced thousands of illegal workers were arrested since July.

Evening Standard

London nail bars and car washes targeted as 4,000 illegal workers arrested in immigration raids

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said criminal gangs are encouraging record numbers to cross the Channel in small boats

Evening Standard

Thousands of illegal workers arrested in Government border security crackdown

The drive comes as the Government’s Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill is set to be debated in the House of Commons.

Evening Standard

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International Business Times

'Shocking' UK Reality TV Show Retraces Refugee Journeys

Britain's newest reality TV show has been slammed as "insensitive", "voyeuristic" and even "nauseating" for recreating with six Britons the often fatal journeys made by thousands of refugees to the UK. Bluntly titled "Go Back to Where You Came From", the part-documentary, part-reality TV show by Channel 4 follows the…

Evening Standard

Go Back to Where You Came From review: should this be called 'I'm a Bigot, Get Me Out of Here!'?

3.5/5 Channel 4’s new documentary sends a group of people with anti-immigration views over to exactly where refugees come from, to see if this changes their views, with mixed results

The Guardian - UK

Planned UK people-smuggling laws risk ‘criminalising’ asylum seekers, charities say

Bill could mean asylum seekers crossing the Channel who refuse rescue may face five years in prison

International Business Times

UK Unveils 'Counter-terror Style' Police Powers To Stop Migrants

The UK government introduced legislation Thursday designed to give law enforcement officials "counter-terror style powers" to break up gangs bringing irregular migrants across the Channel in flimsy boats.

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Evening Standard

Up to one in 12 people living in London is an illegal migrant, according to report

Sixty percent of undocumented migrants in UK said to be residing in London

The Guardian - UK

Three men who drowned trying to cross Channel were ‘unlawfully killed’

Coroner’s conclusion follows Ibrahima Bah’s conviction for gross negligence manslaughter over dinghy sinking in 2022

The Independent UK

Migrant Channel crossings top 1,000 for year so far

The latest arrivals mark a new record since the crisis began in 2018.

The Guardian - UK

Nazi-obsessed terrorist given life sentence for Worcestershire attack on asylum seeker

Callum Parslow said he was ‘angry and frustrated’ about Channel crossings when he stabbed young man at a hotel

Evening Standard

Trio jailed over conspiracy to smuggle migrants across the English Channel

Canterbury Crown Court heard the vessels were ‘beset with boat failures’ during the attempts in August 2018.

Evening Standard

Nearly 100 migrants rescued as more than 600 people cross Channel this year

Some 215 people in four boats arrived in the UK on Wednesday, taking the total for the year so far to 603 people, according to Home Office data.

Evening Standard

Over 250 migrants arrive in small boats on third day of Channel crossings

Home Office figures show nearly 400 migrants have made the perilous crossing from France so far in 2025

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