The National Crime Agency (NCA) has arrested a 30-year-old Albanian in London who is suspected of trafficking people across the English Channel from France in small, inflatable boats.
The man, who has not been identified, was arrested in the suburb of Surbiton in southwest London during a dawn raid on Friday morning.
It comes days after the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, told the Conservative Party conference she would do “whatever it takes” to stop the flow of illegal immigrants across the Channel.
Braverman said people who “deliberately enter the United Kingdom illegally from a safe country” would be sent back to their home country or relocated to Rwanda, and she said there would be a blanket ban on political asylum claims for people who came across the Channel….