Allowing migrants to claim asylum for the UK from France would stop the surge in perilous Channel crossings, according to a charity. Care4Calais thinks UK officials setting up a kiosk
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Campaigners have called on the Government to make public data on victims of human trafficking and slavery being held in immigration detention centres to stop people who need support “slipping
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A Home Office-chartered deportation flight is lacking “common decency” towards detainees who were restrained for up to 14 hours and refused privacy while using a toilet, an inspection has warned.
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The Home Office has failed in a bid to challenge a High Court ruling over the terms of an investigation into alleged abuse at a scandal-hit immigration detention centre. Two
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The Government has rejected calls for a time limit on immigration detention as an MP said Home Office detention is “arbitrary” and “unfair”. Harriet Harman, chairwoman of the Human Rights
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Forced evictions of unsuccessful asylum seekers have been condemned as “regrettable and harsh” by the Archbishop of Glasgow. Philip Tartaglia (pictured) accused the UK Government of “bringing indignity and suffering
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An immigration centre where there was alleged “awful abuse by staff against detainees” has made £14.3 million in profit for the company that runs it. Labour MP Yvette Cooper, chairwoman
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A people smuggler has been jailed for bringing migrants across the Channel in tiny inflatable boats. Sarbast Mohammed Hama (pictured), 31, of no fixed UK address, admitted assisting unlawful immigration
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Unaccompanied child asylum seekers are in danger of not getting the care they need due to a breakdown in Government plans to support them, it has been claimed. The situation
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An SNP MP has vowed to join “thousands of volunteers” in blocking lock-change evictions against asylum seekers by security giant Serco. During a Commons debate on the matter, Chris Stephens
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