This is the heartbreaking moment a migrant girl was bundled into a boat by her father to cross the English Channel at Calais and told him: ‘I don’t want to go, Daddy.’ The shocking scene was captured secretly at night by an ITV crew investigating migrant crossings at Bleriot beach for a new documentary being … Read more
A Romanian people smuggler accused of killing 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated to death in a lorry trailer was waiting for his own UK passport, a court heard today. Gheorghe Nica, 43, and Irish truck driver Eamonn Harrison, 24, allegedly caused the deaths of the non-EU citizens who suffocated in the back of a refrigerated … Read more
The Home Office considered putting wave machines in the Channel to stop migrant crossings, it was revealed today – as it emerged asylum seekers could be housed on old ferries or flown to Papua New Guinea. The option was among ‘blue sky’ ideas looked at by officials to discourage migrants from trying to cross in … Read more
Asylum processing centres could be built on the Isle of Wight, the Shetlands or the Isle of Man, it emerged yesterday. The new ‘offshoring’ proposal – which might also see asylum hostels built on other remote Scottish islands – is part of Priti Patel‘s over-arching programme to crackdown on the Channel migrant crisis. Under a … Read more
‘This place is no good’: Migrant whose journey from Sudan has ended at a converted Army barracks says the conditions are like a prison… and wishes he had STAYED in France to claim asylum there Four Sudanese asylum seekers moved to former Army barracks in Folkestone The men, who said they are in their 20s and … Read more
Over a crackling maritime radio comes the voice of the captain of the small French warship Aramis as it cruises the English Channel. In heavily accented but precise English, he instructs P&O’s Pride of Kent ferry to move out of his way so he can shepherd a boat full of migrants floundering off the French … Read more
Afghan interpreter who worked with British troops on the battlefield is stuck in a ‘hellhole’ migrant camp after missing out on policy change that would allow him sanctuary in UK Former interpreter Nesar, 29, is trapped in the ‘hellhole’ Moria camp in Lesbos He missed out on a major policy change allowing Afghans sanctuary in … Read more
Bumpy road to Britain: Moment police catch ‘illegal migrant’ stowed inside roof box on family’s car at M20 service station after their return from France Footage shows police officer opening compartment to find man curled up inside Man unloads backpack and is handed a bottle of water at service station in Kent Video was captured … Read more
Day after day, they arrive on Britain’s south coast. This year, almost 6,500 migrants have made the dangerous journey in small boats across the English Channel. On Monday, an overloaded dinghy carrying ten such migrants landed in Kent. The occupants, none of whom was wearing a life jacket, leaped out, ran towards a thicket of … Read more
A disused army barracks in Kent is set to be turned into the UK’s first migrant holding camp as more people make the journey across the Channel, including a father who was today pictured carrying his baby beneath the White Cliffs of Dover. Around 400 people including families, believed to have crossed the Channel in … Read more