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UK government to allocate £1.4bn to escort and transport illegal migrants

The UK government is set to invest up to £1.4bn in escorting and transporting deportees from the country over the next decade

Evening Standard

UK expands Hong Kong visa scheme in wake of Jimmy Lai’s prison sentence

Exclusive: Home Office ruling means thousands more Hongkongers will be eligible to come to the UK over next five years

The Guardian - UK

Home Office warned legal migration rules overhaul risks leaving 300,000 children ‘in limbo’

The Home Office set out their new proposals on legal migration rules in November

The Independent UK

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‘Pulling up the drawbridge’: Alf Dubs criticises Shabana Mahmood’s plans for child refugees

Exclusive: Labour peer, who came to UK as a refugee, says some ministers try to show they won’t ‘just do things because of their background’

The Guardian - UK

‘Hurry for justice’: Windrush victims dying without redress, commissioner says

Clive Foster says action needed now to deliver justice to UK residents who had been wrongly classified as illegal immigrants

The Guardian - UK

UK and France asylum deal could violate human rights laws, warns UN

Experts identify potentially serious breaches over treatment of people and call for ‘one in, one out’ scheme to end

The Guardian - UK

Home Office denies migrants sent to Crowborough secure camp in Sussex are leaving to move to London

Home Office minister Mike Tapp was asked about local reports that migrants were ‘checking out’ of Crowborough and coming back to London

Evening Standard

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Three African countries agree to take back UK migrants after visa penalty threat

Home secretary threatened visa sanctions on Namibia, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo if they did not take back migrants in the UK

The Independent UK

Another country agrees to migrant returns deal after UK visa threat

Shabana Mahmood’s threats to impose visa penalties form part of her drive to speed up removals of people with no right to be in the UK

Evening Standard

Illegal migrants boarded onto return flights as Home Office announce largest deportation figures in a decade

The Home Office has released new footage of deportees being flown out of the UK, as it revealed nearly 60,000 illegal migrants and foreign criminals have been deported since July 2024 - the largest figure in a decade.

The Independent UK

Nearly 60,000 migrants and criminals deported since Labour came to power, Home Office says

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said she would “scale up” the number of deportations even further

The Independent UK

Home Office says nearly 60,000 people deported from UK or left voluntarily since 2024 election

Shabana Mahmood insists deportations will rise, as Labour government is accused of promoting ‘harmful stereotypes’ of migrants

The Guardian - UK

Home Office releases migrant deportation flight footage as ministers face increasing pressure over illegal immigration

Almost 60,000 foreign criminals and illegal migrants have been removed or deported from Britain since June 2024

Evening Standard

'World-first' deepfake detection plan to be developed by UK

The Home Office said the framework would explore how technology can recognise and assess deepfakes

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Father of toddler abused by nursery worker ‘frustrated’ by deportation

Polish national Roksana Lecka, sentenced to eight years in prison for child cruelty, will be deported on Thursday

Evening Standard

Crackdown on social media migrant adverts to begin, Home Office says

The Home Office will activate part of the latest border security Act, as part of its crackdown on adverts for Channel crossings.

The Independent UK

Handcuffs, hallucinations and riot squads: Inside the UK’s most notorious immigration detention centre

SPECIAL REPORT: Brook House near Gatwick airport was the subject of an independent inquiry after G4S guards were filmed abusing detainees in 2017. Now, The Independent has obtained stark written accounts from officers at the site that reveal chaotic conditions in which restraint and force are being used against vulnerable…

The Independent UK

Home Office opens probe into migrants ‘buying fake jobs to remain in UK illegally’

The skilled worker visa sponsorship scheme at the heart of the investigation was set up in 2020 when Boris Johnson was prime minister

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Evening Standard

Facial recognition to be rolled out nationwide in major police reforms

The home secretary has unveiled sweeping reforms billed as the biggest policing overhaul in 200 years

The Guardian - UK

What is Shabana Mahmood proposing in ‘biggest ever’ policing reforms?

Among major changes planned by home secretary are abolishing most forces in England and Wales and creating a national crime agency

Evening Standard

Police will have to respond to emergencies in London within 15 minutes under major shake-up

The Home Office is also expected to develop an FBI-style unit to tackle national crime as part of the policing overhaul

International Business Times UK

'Keir Starmer Is a Traitor!' Fury Erupts in East Sussex Town Over Plan to House 500 Migrants in Former Barracks

Thousands protest in Crowborough as PM Keir Starmer faces backlash over plans to house 500 asylum seekers at a former military camp.

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m part of this country’: Windrush man left homeless by Home Office inaction

George Campbell, 69, slept in bus station as officials questioned his right to live in the UK after hospital stay

The Guardian - UK

Police in England and Wales to get new strict emergency response time limits

Home Office will set out changes to policing on Monday that it claims are biggest overhaul in two centuries

The Guardian - UK

Thousands march in Crowborough over asylum plan for former military camp

Protesters walk to Sussex market town from base where Home Office plans to house up to 500 asylum seekers

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