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The number of migrants to have crossed the Channel in small boats this year has now hit 39,897 - here The Mirror answers all your questions on the ongoing crisis

Some staff referred to asylum seekers by numbers instead of by their names

Prison inspector says conditions have ‘significantly deteriorated’ in last three months

Chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor said the government department needs to speed up the processing of migrants.

Home secretary admits asylum system ‘is broken’ as row over her own security breaches continues

The home secretary insisted nothing wrong had been done, but if it had, it was all someone else’s fault

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has admitted she repeatedly used her own Gmail account for official business, prompting the Opposition to submit a blitz of requests for further investigation

Some families at the Kent holding facility have been held for weeks on end, despite it being set up to accommodate arrivals for a maximum of just 48 hours

Editorial: The degraded conditions at Manston in Kent and Suella Braverman’s rule-breaking should shame the government

A Just Stop Oil protester was left covered in orange paint after a furious passer-by intervened to stop them vandalising an MI5 building. Environment activists used fire extinguishers to spray paint at the Secret Intelligence Service’s headquarters in London on Monday, as well as at the Home Office, the Bank…

One 16-year-old said he was forced to sleep on leftover food boxes, while another says he was shouted at for asking for food