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Police chiefs call for ‘serious investment’ amid early prison release plans

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has agreed to allow some criminals, including violent and sexual offenders, to be released early for good behaviour.

Evening Standard

London council considers legal action against Home Office over £5m asylum seeker bill

Hillingdon council said it is supporting an increasing number of migrants who have been evicted from hotels

Evening Standard

Another Windrush generation man has UK deportation order revoked

Gersham Williams, 74, was deported to Jamaica in 2016 but should have been exempt from order, Home Office decides

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UK Border Force is in effect under military command, report says

Institute of Race Relations says MoD’s Channel role reflects global rise of ‘hyper-militarisation’ in law enforcement

The Guardian - UK

Convicted drug dealer’s deportation case to be reheard after Home Office error

Government doing ‘everything in their power’ to contest case after Nigerian man’s deportation halted.

Evening Standard

More than 30 arrests in Northern Ireland people-smuggling crackdown

It is the sixth operation of its kind to tackle criminals exploiting the common travel area.

Evening Standard

US applications for British citizenship skyrocket after Trump election win

Nearly 2,000 Americans applied for British citizenship in the first three months of 2025

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Migration in numbers: Who is coming to the UK and why?

IN FOCUS: Net migration is down to just 431,000, the lowest level in over three years, while illegal immigration via small boats and asylum-related migration remains high. Data correspondent Alicja Hagopian reports.

The Independent UK

Nearly 2,000 Afghan children living in hotels, military bases and other temporary accommodation in UK

Afghan families are being temporarily housed in army bases and hotels around the UK

The Independent UK

One person dead after small boat sinks in Channel, French authorities say

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

The Guardian - UK

How the British Red Cross tried to blow the whistle about conditions inside crisis-hit migrant detention centres

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…

The Independent UK

Up to 700,000 migrants do not have UK eVisas, days before deadline

Problem-hit Home Office online system is replacing physical proof of right to work and live in Britain

The Guardian - UK

UK agrees to fly home wrongly deported Windrush generation man from Jamaica

Exclusive: Winston Knight’s deportation order revoked by Home Office after a decade living on streets in Kingston

The Guardian - UK

Home Office reverses decision to deny father-to-be entry to UK after Guardian story

Dmitri Piliposyan feared missing the birth of his child after news of Labour’s changes to English proficiency tests

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Home Office decision that will delight fans this summer

The Home Office have confirmed a move which will benefit supporters

Evening Standard

The Orwell Prize: London Standard's David Cohen shortlisted for shining spotlight on homelessness

Judges for The Orwell Prize said they were “highly impressed by David’s dedicated commitment and the well-researched focus on timely challenges”

Evening Standard

Migrants arrive in UK as 12,000 cross Channel so far this year

Pictures show a woman smiling on board a bus leaving from Dover, Kent after Channel crossings on Tuesday.

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Urgent Call for Major Law Change to Expose the Truth Behind Channel and Asylum Deaths

MP Nadia Whittome has called for a new law that would force the Home Office to reveal the number of deaths in the asylum system, including those who perish

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Evening Standard

OPINION - My immigration fix is simple: we must stop offering most immigrants a route to citizenship

A million here, a million there…soon you’re talking real numbers. And a million people in a single year is pretty well what we got in 2023, when the net migration figure was 903,000 – so the overall figure (not taking account of people leaving) was getting on for a million.…

Evening Standard

Visas for foreign care workers: What the latest figures show

Indian nationals accounted for about one in five of care worker visas granted in 2023-24.

Evening Standard

Women and children among migrants to have crossed the Channel

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

Evening Standard

Home Office failure to record when migrants on visas leave UK 'means border system will continue to fail'

Former Labour minister Clive Betts urged the Home Office to properly record when migrants leave the UK after their visa expires

Evening Standard

Revealed: The illegal truth behind some of London's top restaurants

Half-a-million-pound fines. Repeated raids. And a secret illegal workers underground world propping up the capital’s most-hyped dining spots. Rachael Burford investigates

The Independent UK

Migrants ‘must speak fluent English’ to work in UK under Labour’s latest immigration crackdown

Plans setting out Labour’s immigration reforms are expected next week

Evening Standard

Migrants will have to learn English 'to A-Level standard' to get work visa under new UK immigration reforms

The immigration white paper, due to be published next week, will lay out Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to get tougher on migration rules in the wake of Reform UK’s wins at the local elections

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