Suella Braverman appeared to be toning down some measures designed to deter migrants arriving in Britain in small boats. Changes to the immigration Bill mean that Channel migrants could get access to legal aid to fund their human rights challenges against deportation.
Suella Braverman has insisted that she is willing to ignore European judges and begin deportation flights to Rwanda. The Home Secretary said proposed new powers for ministers to disregard temporary injunctions by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) were “crucial” to
In a letter to the Prime Minister, the former minister urged him to look at cutting ties with the ECHR to prevent Strasbourg judges from meddling in Britain’s illegal immigration crackdown. It comes after an 11th-hour intervention by the European court grounded
At least 25 African migrants died and 15 are missing after a boat carrying them toward Europe sank in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Tunisia this week, Tunisian authorities said. The Tunisian coast guard on Thursday recovered the bodies of
Italy has broken with EU law to manage the migrant crisis after declaring a state of emergency. This came after 6,000 people crossed the border in 3 days. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said the state of emergency would allow for a “more
The first three months of 2023 were the deadliest first quarter in six years for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean Sea in smugglers’ boats, the U.N. migration agency reported Wednesday, citing nations’ delays in initiating rescues as a contributing factor. The International
Mexico’s top immigration official will face criminal charges in a fire that killed 40 migrants in Ciudad Juarez last month, with federal prosecutors saying he was remiss in not preventing the disaster despite earlier indications of problems at his agency’s detention centers.
Two guards who fled a fire that killed 40 migrants in a locked Mexican detention center did not have keys to the cell door, Mexico’s president said Tuesday. The comments by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador came on the same day that
Only 215 out of the 45,755 migrants who crossed the Channel last year have been deported, shocking new figures reveal, as the Government comes under pressure to deter dangerous crossings. This equates to 0.47 per cent of the total — less than
Suella Braverman’s plans for migrants are in disarray, as the Government’s plans to house migrants on a former military airbase in Essex have been put on hold. The local council is taking legal action to prevent RAF Wethersfield base from being used