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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has today set out the first steps to establishing a new UK Border Security Command (BSC).
The Foreign Secretary travels to Albania to underline the success of our partnership to tackle people smugglers and illegal migration.
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A sophisticated network of UK-funded cameras worth £1.6 million has been installed on the Albania-Kosovo border to tackle illegal migration and criminal gangs.
Fifty more asylum hotels are due to be closed, building on the closure of the first 100 at the end of March.
New fines of up to £10,000 for international general aviation flights that do not submit advance passenger information online up to two hours before departure.
Home Secretary delivers on plan to reduce use of asylum hotels with 100 asylum hotels returned to communities by next week, up from 60 at the end of January.
The UK and other northern European countries discussed new commitments to disrupt the supply chain of small boats yesterday evening (Monday 4 March) .
Several members of a suspected people smuggling ring have been arrested in a series of raids after allegedly attempting to traffic migrants through UK airports.
Home Secretary to call on the global community to take collective action on migration in speech in New York.
The UK and France will go even further and faster in tackling illegal migration and build even closer law enforcement and security cooperation ties in 2024.
Rollout of new transformative legal migration measures begins, with new restrictions set to relieve the burden on British taxpayers and public services
A people smuggler has been jailed for conspiring to bring 16 Albanian migrants to the UK with fake EU passports and fraudulent airline bookings.
Border Force have made the highest number of illegal drug seizures since records began, as action at the border helps stop illegal drugs reaching the country.
Border Force seized almost one million items of counterfeit goods worth nearly £200 million in 2023, with fake electricals targeted in the run-up to Christmas.
Thousands of products containing endangered plant and animal species have been seized by Border Force.
Letter from the Permanent Secretary Matthew Rycroft to Dame Diana Johnson, Chair of the HASC and Dame Meg Hillier, Chair of the Public Accounts Committee.
The Home Secretary, James Cleverly, addresses Parliament on the Rwanda Treaty and the new Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill.
Next steps set out for delivery of new laws to stop the boats.
Minister for Immigration, Robert Jenrick, made a statement to the House of Commons on illegal migration.
Fines are to be more than tripled for employers and landlords who allow illegal migrants to work for them or rent their properties.
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