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Four men are being held by French authorities on suspicion of involvement in the fatal smuggler boat crossing to England that killed six.

Competition for the lucrative human trafficking trade between ethnically-based gangs operating in northern France is driving rising violence.

The EU has reported baulked at calls from Britain to accept the return of illegal migrants who cross the English Channel from France.

The migrant crisis in the English Channel is likely to last at least another five years, according to a leaked government memo.

Govt latest bid to give impression of being tough border control lasted less than a week, as migrants leave an accommodation barge.

A Conservative deputy party chair has admitted his government has “failed” on borders, which are now “out of control”.

Lee Anderson, the bullish Conservative lawmaker has underlined the whole point of accommodating migrants on a converted barge.

Non-starter for the UK ‘Conservative’ govt as a bid to divert attention from its Rwanda policy too meets resistance from within the state. 

Trying to disincentivise Channel boat crossings, UK looks to the final rocky outcrops of the former empire for unappealing but safe housing. 

German police have lost track of a suspected trafficking “kingpin” after he exploited an EU human rights loophole to be freed from prison.

Around 21,000 illegal migrants entered the UK without being detected on the backs of lorries, ferries, or through airports last year.

An illegal migrant from Eritrea has been given a 13-year extended sentence for a series of “sinister” sexual assaults on women in Brighton.

The average number of migrants per English Channel smuggler boat hit an all-time high last month, analysis of government statistics reveals. 

Multiple law offices have reportedly instructed illegal migrants to make up stories of hardship and persecution to game the UK asylum system.

A former Tory minister called on the public to take illegal aliens into their homes to help reduce the cost of putting them up in hotels.

The troubles for Rishi Sunak appear to be mounting as his approval rating fell into the negatives among Tory Party members for the first time.

UK Military families were given just a week’s notice to leave their homes at a former airbase in Essex to make way for alleged asylum seekers.

An illegal migrant has been charged with raping a woman just over a month after arriving on British shores in a small boat from France.

The alleged ringleaders of an Albanian people smuggling gang bringing illegal migrants to the UK in small boats have been arrested.

The number of illegal migrants that have crossed the English Channel from France has reportedly topped 10,000 since the start of the year

Over half of Albanian illegal migrants were granted asylum last year despite the fact that they are coming from a safe European nation.

Nigel Farage mocked Rishi Sunak as over 1,200 boat migrants landed in Britain just a week after the PM claimed success in stopping the boats.

A committee said Sunday that the UK would breach human rights commitments if it deports illegal boat migrants who cross the English Channel.

Nigel Farage has warned that due to the failures to control migration, Britain is at risk of an attack similar to the one seen in France.

Nigel Farage branded Rishi Sunak as the “biggest spinner” since Tony Blair after the PM tried to claim success in stopping boat migrants.

Bureaucrats in Britain’s deep state threatened to go on strike over the government’s plan to deport illegal boat migrants to Rwanda.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has sworn that he “wants” to reduce the record number of legal migrants coming to Britain.

The UK government is planning on buying up to ten disused ships in the hopes of housing English Channel boat migrants.

A migrant attempting to cross the English Channel illegally stabbed a French gendarme who was trying to block their group from setting sail.

Despite thousands of boats bringing illegal migrants to Britain, the government only managed to charge 82 people smugglers last year.

The Migration Watch UK think tank has said that warnings about the upcoming Illegal Migration Bill are “disingenuous”.

Illegal migrants arriving in the UK are boosting prostitution and the drug trade in the country, the Home Secretary has claimed.

“Very strong words here… but will the actions measure up?”, questioned Brexit leader Nigel Farage.

The number of Indian migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats is now larger than the figure for Albanians, government data has shown.

The British government will reportedly introduce mandatory age checks for illegal migrants who claim to be children.

The French Navy forced a ferry to perform a dangerous manoeuvre in order to escort migrant boats into UK waters on Easter, a report claimed.