A migrant mother has been filmed crying out for her six-month-old son after being hauled onto a rescue ship after a dinghy capsized in the Mediterranean. ‘Did you see my baby? I lose my baby! Why me? Where is my baby?’ The woman from Guinea shrieks in the harrowing footage. Her baby, Joseph, was eventually … Read more
Police today arrested the suspected captain of a migrant boat which capsized in the Channel killing a family of five – but he insisted he was simply another passenger trying to reach the UK for a better life. The unidentified 37-year-old Iranian appeared in court this morning and was placed under investigation for aiding illegal … Read more
Ruthless people smugglers ‘forced’ migrants to board a makeshift boat where a Kurdish-Iranian family of five drowned after being trapped in the cabin when it capsized among five-foot waves in the Channel, it was claimed today – as France was urged to bring the criminals to justice. Construction worker Rasoul Iran-Nejad, 35, his wife Shiva … Read more
A family of desperate Kurdish-Iranian migrants who paid people smugglers £21,600 for a new life in Britain agonised over the decision in a French tent city for days – before making the tragic fatal crossing with the hope of a ‘quicker’ asylum process and a decent education for the children in the UK. Construction worker Rasoul … Read more
Infant is feared dead and man drowns as migrant boat capsizes off French coast in stormy weather trying to cross Channel to UK At least 18 people rescued but ‘one drowned and two others had cardiac arrest’ Major search and rescue operation was launched off Loon-Plage near Dunkirk Children between ages of five and eight … Read more
A Romanian people smuggler accused of killing 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated to death in a lorry trailer was waiting for his own UK passport, a court heard today. Gheorghe Nica, 43, and Irish truck driver Eamonn Harrison, 24, allegedly caused the deaths of the non-EU citizens who suffocated in the back of a refrigerated … Read more
The Home Office considered putting wave machines in the Channel to stop migrant crossings, it was revealed today – as it emerged asylum seekers could be housed on old ferries or flown to Papua New Guinea. The option was among ‘blue sky’ ideas looked at by officials to discourage migrants from trying to cross in … Read more
Asylum processing centres could be built on the Isle of Wight, the Shetlands or the Isle of Man, it emerged yesterday. The new ‘offshoring’ proposal – which might also see asylum hostels built on other remote Scottish islands – is part of Priti Patel’s over-arching programme to crackdown on the Channel migrant crisis. Under a … Read more
Asylum processing centres could be built on the Isle of Wight, the Shetlands or the Isle of Man, it emerged yesterday. The new ‘offshoring’ proposal – which might also see asylum hostels built on other remote Scottish islands – is part of Priti Patel’s over-arching programme to crackdown on the Channel migrant crisis. Under a … Read more
‘We wish we’d stayed in France’: Four Sudanese asylum seekers who crossed the Channel in a dinghy and are now being held in converted Army barracks in Kent complain they are ‘being kept like animals in pens’ Four Sudanese asylum seekers moved to former Army barracks in Folkestone The men, who said they are in their … Read more