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The number of illegal boat migrants that have crossed the English Channel so far this year has reached 4,500 after over 500 arrived this week.

The inability to deport illegal migrants will cost the British taxpayer some £9 billion over the next three years, a report claimed.

Britain’s Home Secretary has said boat migrants who may be removed from Britain and resettled in Rwanda should think of the arrangements as a “blessing”, infuriating anti-borders activists and politicians.

A row over the impartiality of Britain’s state broadcaster’s highest-paid personality has ended in the corporation backing down.

The British government has agreed to pay Emmanuel Macron’s France nearly half a billion pounds over the next three years to tackle the boat migrant crisis, despite the fact all previous payments have failed to reduce numbers and no deal being struck on turning the boats back.

A senior official within the European Union has lashed out at the UK government over its planned illegal migrant crackdown.

A boat migrant living in a hotel at taxpayers’ expense stabbed an 18-year-old student in the back at random, supposedly so he could be deported.

Nigel Farage warned the illegal migrant legislation will ultimately be rendered meaningless by European judges in Strasbourg and in Britain.

The British government’s latest scheme aimed at ending the Channel migrant crisis will just end up fueling it, a union official representing Border Force members has claimed.

Britain’s Border Force has reportedly been ordered to “deprioritise” searches for guns and drugs entering the UK in order to keep immigration lines flowing.

Nigel Farage warned that the reported plan to effectively grant amnesty to thousands of illegal migrants will endanger British communities.

The Conservative Party-led British government’s long track record of failure on immigration is continuing, according to recent statistics, with removals of foreign nationals down 51 per cent compared to 2019.

The UK taxpayer is set to pay over $2.5 billion pounds on looking after 150,000 migrants currently waiting for their asylum claims to be processed.

Brexit-backing areas historicly tied to the Labour Party, known as the Red Wall, are housing a disproportionate number of asylum seekers.

The UK government now aims to become the legal parent of unaccompanied child migrants who land in Britain, a report on Wednesday has claimed.

Nigel Farage has warned that the UK faces the prospect of suffering the same fate as Sweden if it continues down the path of mass migration.

Four Afghans, supposedly minors, who arrived in Britain by boat have been arrested after a girl was raped at the school they were placed in.

Fifteen people were arrested after a protest by a Mersyside hotel over video allegedly showing a migrant making advances on an underage girl.

Britain’s Tory government has watered down its pledge to “stop the boats”, now only committing to a “dramatic reduction” in Channel migrants.

The number of migrants being hosted in British hotels at the taxpayers’ expense rose from 2,577 in March 2020 to 37,142 by September 2022.

Nigel Farage has called for a Brexit-style national referendum on leaving the deportation-blocking European Court of Human Rights.

Gangs smuggling boat migrants across the English Channel may be linked to a Taliban military formation and pose a serious national security risk, according to Nigel Farage. 

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will maybe, possibly consider finally taking the UK out of the European Court of Human Rights

The UK government reportedly handed out nearly £160 million directly to alleged asylum seekers through a debit card payment system.

Private landlords in Britain are reportedly set to be offered long-term leases from the government to house the overflow of migrants.

Nearly 400 illegal boat migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats from the beaches of France on Wednesday.

A record number of around 65,000 boat migrants are expected to cross the English Channel and enter the UK in 2023, officials reporetdly said.

The UK government is considering forcing tech companies to remove videos that show illegal boat migrant crossings in a “positive light”.

Over half of boat migrants referred to the programme for victims of modern slavery — a potential “loophole” to avoid deportation — hail from Albania, a report from Migration Watch UK has claimed.

The unilateral decision by the Home Office to open up a migrant centre in a hotel in a sleepy English village has been met with disbelief and outrage among the residents, who expressed fear over the prospect of hosting hundreds of asylum seekers.

Even if Britain were to stop illegal Albanian migrants from entering the UK, there would be an “infinite” number of migrants looking to take their place, government officials have reportedly lamented.

Plans aimed at protecting Britain’s borders could put human rights at risk, former Prime Minister Theresa May has warned.

A Border Force officer arrested by anti-corruption cops may have been outed as being an illegal himself, according to a papers claims.

Boat migrants deported from the UK can look forward to having a “dignified life” in Africa, a spokeswoman for the Rwandan government has said.

A new record of illegal boat migrant arrivals was set on Christmas day in Britain, as 90 migrants were brought ashore on Sunday.

(AFP) – If the UK government has its way, the tens of thousands of migrants arriving on England’s southeastern shores each year, after crossing the Channel in small boats, will face swift deportation to Rwanda.