Tory minister Robert Jenrick has faced fierce criticism from his own party’s backbenchers over immigration enforcement. As opposition MPs lined up to denounce the Illegal Migration Bill on Tuesday, Conservative politicians also grilled the immigration minister on when government agencies were going to “get a grip” on rising illegal immigrant cases. Jenrick was in the…

The immigration minister has dodged questions on the number of unaccompanied minor immigrants currently missing in the UK. Robert Jenrick was asked by several MPs on the current figures following reports that 400 children who arrived in Britain unaccompanied had disappeared. In January Jenrick told MPs that of the 4,600 unaccompanied minors who arrived in…

The immigration minister has claimed the UK’s asylum system is “riddled with abuse” while defending government requests that illegal immigrants share hotel rooms. Robert Jenrick made the comments days after a group of illegal immigrants protested outside a London hotel over cramped hotel conditions. Speaking on BBC’s “Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg” programme, Jenrick revealed there…

The Home Office is set to launch an ad campaign aimed at deterring Albanians from crossing the English Channel illegally to reach the UK with the message that people “face being detained and removed” if they make the journey. The campaign, which starts in Albania next week, will “make clear the perils” illegal immigrants may…

Home Office is examining a plan to house 1,500 refugees in a ship docked in one of the UK’s most deprived areas, a proposal that Labour has been described as “inhumane.” Labour MP Mick Whitley criticised government proposals to accommodate the large number of asylum seekers at Liverpool’s Birkenhead port, accusing the Immigration Minister of…

The UK government has unveiled plans to house thousands of asylum seekers in disused military bases, a move ministers say will save billions of pounds in hotel bills and discourage illegal immigration. Housing illegal immigrants in hotels is costing British taxpayers £2.3 billion ($2.8 billion) a year, immigration minister Robert Jenrick told the House of…

Albanians should be barred from claiming asylum in the UK as they are coming from a “demonstrably safe” country, the UK’s immigration minister has said. The government is under intense pressure from Conservative MPs to get to grips with the issue of human traffickers using small boats to ferry illegal immigrants across the English Channel…

An illegal immigrant died in hospital after falling ill at the Manston processing centre in Kent, the UK Home Office has said. The Home Office said the man died in hospital on Nov. 19 after “becoming unwell” in the temporary holding facility for illegal immigrants. According to British media reports, the man arrived in the…

The UK should house illegal immigrants in “simple, functional” spaces as opposed to luxury hotels in a bid to disincentivise “asylum shopping,” Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick has said. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Jenrick said the UK “has an obligation to provide sanctuary to some of the many who flee war and persecution,” but the…

MANSTON, Kent—The chairman of the local parish council in the English village of Manston—where a former RAF base has been turned into a processing centre for illegal immigrants—has suggested young Albanian immigrants be sent to Scotland where they could be “utilised” by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. The government announced this week that, as of 8…