People smuggling gang including mother and daughter jailed
A gang of seven people smugglers including a mother and daughter has been jailed for bringing more than a dozen people into the UK using false documents. The four women
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Tag: Refugees / Asylum
UK aid charities raise more than £400m for humanitarian crisis in Ukraine
More than £400 million has been donated to UK charities to help people in Ukraine. As a result, the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has become the biggest charity donor to
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Charities demand action over ‘child protection scandal’ after asylum-seekers go missing
Leading charities have called for an independent inquiry into how more than 200 asylum-seeking children have gone “missing” from Home Office hotels, describing the situation as “a child protection scandal”.
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Labour suggests pattern of young people being trafficked ‘into cannabis farms or prostitution’
Young people are being trafficked across the Channel to the UK and then “into cannabis farms or into prostitution”, Labour has suggested. Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper (pictured) said there
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Home Office investigating claims asylum-seeking children ‘kidnapped’ from hotel
The Home Office is investigating reports that dozens of asylum-seeking children have been kidnapped by gangs from a hotel run by the department, a minister has said. Conservative frontbencher Lord
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Charity refuses to delete clip of Holocaust survivor confronting Home Secretary
A charity which supports torture victims has defied Home Office demands to delete a video of Suella Braverman being confronted by a Holocaust survivor over her language on immigration. Freedom
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Home Office accused of failing vulnerable groups in detention centres – watchdog
A watchdog says a belief among some Home Office staff that migrants are trying to abuse the system is causing “shortcomings” in the care of vulnerable groups in immigration removal
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Experts warn Government over plans to age-check child asylum seekers with X-rays
A Government plan to X-ray child asylum seekers to check their age could put them at risk of harm from radiation and cause distress, advisers have warned. The scientific advisory
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Council threatens legal action over asylum seekers being housed in seaside hotels
Another local authority has threatened legal action over the housing of asylum seekers in hotels and accused the Home Office of persistently breaking planning rules. East Lindsey District Council has
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Government proposals to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda are lawful, High Court rules
Government plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda are lawful, the High Court has ruled. Several challenges were brought against the proposals announced by then-home secretary Priti Patel in April,
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