Another 100 migrants are set to arrive on UK shores today dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
16 March 2021
80% of last minute claims submitted by immigration offenders are eventually denied, new research published by the Home Office today has revealed.
The high proportion of migrants with no right to remain in the UK making late claims – including human rights, judicial reviews or modern slavery related submissions – has raised concerns that this is becoming a tactic to delay and eventually “time out” removal from the UK.
Commenting on the analysis, Minister for Immigration Compliance and Justice, Chris Philp, said:
We know that our asylum system is open to abuse by those who have no right to remain the UK and these stark figures just demonstrate the difficulties we face when seeking to remove people.
Former skipper who piloted boat packed with migrants becomes tenth person to be jailed this year dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Jail for man who steered boat of asylum seekers across the Channel
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Updated: 10:42, 06 March 2021
An Iranian who risked his own life and those of 12 others â including a seven-year-old boy - by steering an over-crowded boat of asylum seekers across the Channel to Kent has been jailed for four years and a half years.
He is the 10th person to be jailed this year for such an offence, but received the longest sentence to date.
Jailed for four and a half years: boat steersman Fariboz Rakei
Fariboz Rakei, 49, denied a charge of assisting unlawful immigration into the UK when he appeared at Canterbury Crown Court on Thursday.
Lewisham wants to be a sanctuary for Aegean refugees eastlondonlines.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eastlondonlines.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.