Tag: migrants

The numbers for January 2026 are down 15% on last year.

Mahmood will now review the Modern Slavery Act, which risks "undermining" the UK’s obligations to protect refugees

Some 4,000 asylum seekers were deported to Rwanda and Uganda. Many were smuggled back towards Europe, just 9 stayed in the country.

"We’re sending people who try to seek a safe life here in the UK to Rwanda? Is that what we’re doing? Lower than low we are at the top!," Gary Neville said.

"Sending people fleeing from persecution to a dictatorship that repeatedly violates human rights might just be a new low," Sam Freedman said.

The alleged shortcomings by the French and British coastguards were a "regular" occurrence, Utopia 56 said.

"Pushbacks are known to endanger lives at sea. This is even more so when dealing with people on small, unseaworthy vessels, in a busy shipping lane, often with rough waters, without appropriate life-saving equipment."

"What a tw*t", the man recording the footage said.

A group blocked the boat while shouting "don't bring any more of those home, we're full up" and other "horrible stuff".