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Channel crossings rocket in 2022 as UK Government fails to grant asylum applications

A TOTAL of 45,756 people have crossed the Channel to the UK in 2022, Government figures show.

The National (Scotland)

Small boat crossings of the English Channel: Key numbers

Albanians accounted for 35% of arrivals in the first nine months of 2022.

The Independent UK

Number of migrants who crossed Channel last year was more than 45,000

Over the last 12 months, politicians have made a series of attempts to get a grip on the migrant crisis

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More than 45,000 migrants crossed the Channel to the UK in 2022

The number of people making the perilous journey has risen by more than 60% since 2021

Evening Standard

Record number of migrants crossed Channel to UK in 2022

Rishi Sunak has promised new legislation to make it ‘unambiguously clear that if you enter the UK illegally, you should not be able to remain here’.

The Independent UK

Dutch van driver caught smuggling 200kg of cocaine and heroin with street value of £12 million is jailed

Abraham Schrier, 61, stashed the class A drugs by hiding them in the side of a vehicle heading through the Channel tunnel

The Independent UK

Ninety asylum-seekers crossed Channel on Christmas Day, government says

Scores of people traversed busy body of water in just two small boats

The Independent UK

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Four who drowned after boat capsized in the Channel remain unidentified

Boat was “wholly unsuitable to make the crossing”, inquest is told.

The Independent UK

Four migrants who died in Channel were in dinghy ‘wholly unsuitable to make the crossing’

Nearly 40 others were rescued after a boat start sinking in the Channel in December

The Independent UK

Inquests to open into deaths of four migrants after boat capsizes in Channel

The four people were pronounced death following a major rescue operation off the Kent coast in the early hours of December 14.

The Independent UK

Migrant mum explains why she risked death to cross Channel in dinghy with baby girl

Mum Najma Ahmadi is begging the Government to offer refugees the chance of a better life – without having to put themselves in the hands of callous people smugglers

Daily Mirror

Housing migrants on cruise ships 'on the table' as system to cost £3.5billion a year

Home Secretary Suella Braverman admitted the plan was still being considered as talks are held over how to slash the £2.3bn annual hotel bill for accommodating asylum seekers

Daily Mirror

Hundreds of migrants ‘detained illegally at immigration removal centres’

Overflow of migrants held at Manston site was described as ‘no longer legal’, Home Office emails reveal

The Independent UK

Home Secretary: ‘We will send migrants to Rwanda as soon as possible’

Suella Braverman says the Government’s policy is ‘compassionate’ and ‘rational’ but politicians and charities say it will not stop Channel crossings.

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Rwanda plan will ‘do nothing to stop dangerous Channel crossings’

Opposition politicians, charities and other organisations have condemned the plan.

Al Jazeera

UK’s bid to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is ‘lawful’: High Court

Judges say the UK government’s controversial plan to send asylum seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda is legal.

Evening Standard

Watch: Plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda are lawful, High Court rules

A legal challenge to the government’s controversial plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda has failed after High Court judges concluded the policy is lawful.A bitter battle over the flights to the East African nation has been waged since then-Home Secretary Priti Patel announced the policy in April, when she…

France 24

UK plan to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda is legal, court rules

The UK government’s plan to send asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda is legal, two High Court judges ruled Monday, in a victory for backers of the controversial policy.

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The Independent UK

Court to rule on UK plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda

Britain’s High Court is set to rule on whether the U.K. government’s controversial plan to send asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda is legal

Al Jazeera

Teenager charged after refugee boat capsizes in English Channel

The 19-year-old was charged with abetting illegal immigration after four people died while trying to cross the Channel.

Reuters

Man, aged 19, charged in UK after Channel migrant boat tragedy

A 19-year-old man has been charged with abetting illegal immigration after four migrants died trying to cross the Channel into Britain when the inflatable boat they were using started to sink.

The Independent UK

Teenager charged over migrant boat deaths after four people died in English Channel

Ibrahima Bah, 19, is due to appear in court on Monday

The National (Scotland)

Teenager charged in connection with migrant boat deaths in Channel

A TEENAGER has been charged with facilitating attempted illegal entry to the UK after four people died when a migrant boat capsized in the Channel…

Evening Standard

19-year-old charged after four die while crossing the Channel

Four people died and 39 were rescued after a migrant boat capsized in the Channel in the early hours of Wednesday

The Independent UK

19-year-old charged in connection with migrant boat deaths in the Channel - OLD

The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised a charge against Ibrahima Bah.

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