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Illegal Channel crossings rise as Cooper refuses to set migration deadline

Labour previously pledged to have the highest rate of returns since 2018 in their first six months in office.

Evening Standard

Cooper meets Italian counterpart as Channel crossings continue

Yvette Cooper met her Italian counterpart, Matteo Piandetosi, along with the UN refugee agency’s representative to the country, Chiara Cardoletti.

Evening Standard

Cooper to meet Italian counterpart as Channel crossings continue

Yvette Cooper is also expected to address the right-wing Atreju gathering organised by the Italian prime minister’s party.

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Migrant Channel crossings top 34,000 for year so far

Crossings resumed on Thursday after an eight-day hiatus, with more than 600 arriving in a single day.

The Independent UK

Home Office records busiest December day for migrant Channel crossings on record

More than 34,500 people have made the crossing from France so far this year

Evening Standard

Migrant Channel crossings resume amid calmer weather after storms

Provisional Home Office figures show 33,973 people have arrived in the UK after making the crossing so far this year.

Evening Standard

'Riskier tactics' by crime gangs lead to more than 70 migrants dying in deadliest year of 'small boats' crisis

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper issued the warning after a meeting in London of the Calais Group, which includes the UK, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, on how to boost action to smash the gangs

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UK And Germany Join Forces Against Channel Migrant Smuggling

UK and Germany collaborate to combat people-smuggling across the English Channel, focusing on intelligence sharing and law enforcement cooperation.

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UK and Germany sign deal against people smugglers as Europe struggles to halt Channel crossings

The U.K. and Germany have pledged to share intelligence and expertise against the people-smuggling gangs that send migrants across the English Channel in small boats

The Independent UK

British players who played in France

These Brits all played club football on the other side of the Channel

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Smuggling networks thrive as Channel crossings expose migrant perils

People smuggling has become a pressing concern for France and its neighbouring countries, with recent rescue operations revealing the extent to which organised crime networks exploit those seeking a better life in Europe.

Radio France Internationale

Suspects arrested in international operation targeting people-smuggling gang

The operation targeted an Iraqi organised crime group suspected of smuggling people across the Channel to the UK, the National Crime Agency said.

Evening Standard

Hundreds detained in Northern Ireland in crackdown on people smugglers

Gangs charging €8,000 for illegal travel packages that avoid crossing Channel on small boats

The Guardian - UK

Police raid migrant smuggling ring accused over small boat Channel crossings

More than 500 officers participated in the operation, which was co-ordinated with British, French and European agencies

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Young children brought ashore as migrants cross English Channel

Pictures show the small youngsters being carried as they reached Dover, while men and women were also in warm clothes amid colder weather conditions.

The Guardian - UK

Rwanda asylum scheme spent £50m on flights that never took off, data reveals

Home secretary says £700m scheme did not result in a single deportation or stop any boats crossing the Channel

Evening Standard

Home Secretary pledges to ‘restore order’ to migration system, as over 20,000 cross channel since Starmer took office

More than 33,000 people have arrived in the UK after making the journey so far this year.

The Independent UK

Home Secretary pledges to ‘restore order’ to migration system

More than 33,000 people have arrived in the UK after making the journey so far this year.

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Evening Standard

Channel crossings by migrants in small boats: Key numbers

Afghan migrants accounted for the single largest group of arrivals in the first nine months of the year.

Evening Standard

Migrant Channel crossings top 20,000 since Starmer became Prime Minister

Home Office figures show 122 people made the journey on Sunday.

The Guardian - UK

Weather blamed for small boat arrivals rising to 20,000 under Labour

Home secretary to highlight data showing record number of calm autumnal days that made Channel crossings likely

Evening Standard

Channel migrant crossings top 20,000 since Starmer became Prime Minister

Some 50,637 arrivals were recorded during Rishi Sunak’s premiership, which began on October 25 2022.

The Independent UK

France can no longer bear ‘entire burden’ of defending UK border, warns minister on migrant crisis

Bruno Retailleau, the new French interior minister, has threatened to denounce the Le Touquet agreement that allows Britain to carry out border checks on French soil

The Guardian - UK

‘We can live or die, but we are going to the UK’: the Calais refugees clinging desperately to a dream

Seventy-five people have died or gone missing trying to cross the Channel in small boats this year. What keeps them coming, despite the ever harsher attempts to deter them?

The Independent UK

Number of Vietnamese migrants crossing Channel on small boats soars 177% in a year

Vietnamese migrants are believed to be flying to Hungary and then travelling onwards to northern France

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