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Deliveroo, Uber Eats, and Just Eat commit to further strengthening security checks on delivery riders to prevent illegal working in the gig economy.
Over 6,000 arrests and 9,000 visits carried out across the UK since the election in crackdown on illegal working.
33 illegal entrants and suspected people smugglers arrested as part of Home Office operation tackling abuse of the Common Travel Area.
Foreign nationals who commit sex offences will be excluded from asylum protections in the UK as part of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill.
People illegally posing as immigration lawyers and advisers will face fines of up to £15,000 through new measures in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill.
43 people returned to Nigeria and Ghana in an operation, part of a surge in returns activity to secure our border through the Plan for Change
The UK has mobilised over 40 countries and organisations to launch an unprecedented global fight against ruthless people smuggling gangs.
In the latest move to restore order to the asylum and immigration system, the government will introduce tough new laws to clamp down on illegal working.
Digital advertising launches today in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to warn prospective migrants about people smugglers' lies.
The Foreign Secretary will press partners to replicate Britain’s world-first plans for a sanctions aimed at organised immigration crime gangs.
Nearly 19,000 foreign criminals and people with no right to be in the UK have now been removed since the government took office.
Most successful January in over half a decade for Home Office Immigration Enforcement teams tackling illegal working.
Powerful new legislation will give law enforcement tougher tools to pursue people smugglers and disrupt their ability to carry out small boat crossings.
The UK will develop a new sanctions regime to cripple people smuggling crime rings and starve them of illicit finance fuelling their operations.
Suspected people smugglers will face travel bans, social media blackouts and restrictions on phone usage under tough new laws to dismantle crime networks.
Dame Angela Eagle has thanked Border Force and Immigration Enforcement staff working to protect the public and the border over Christmas.
The government is on track to deliver highest number of returns for 5 years as nearly 13,500 removed from the UK since election.
Sebastian Valencia Jefferson was sentenced on Friday 6 December 2024 at Manchester Crown Court.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer makes a speech on migration at 10 Downing Street.
The Home Secretary has today (4 October 2024) agreed a major international plan to smash criminal gangs responsible for smuggling illegal migrants into G7 countries.
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