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The government has been intensifying raids to tackle illegal working across England since the summer.
New data shows illegal working arrests have increased by 25% since the election.
A 3-day crackdown against people-smuggling gangs saw 31 arrests.
The Home Secretary convenes ministers and law enforcement partners to destroy the gangs that undermine border security and risk lives on small boats.
Plans to house asylum seekers at RAF Scampton axed as latest assessment finds site is not value for money for the taxpayer.
Hundreds of rogue employers across the UK have been targeted by the Home Office during a nationwide weeklong intensive operation into illegal working.
Forty six foreign criminals and immigration offenders have been returned to Vietnam and Timor-Leste on a groundbreaking charter flight.
The Minister for Border Security and Asylum has made the decision not to renew the contract for use of the Bibby Stockholm barge.
Failed asylum seekers are now in scope for enforced removal to Rwanda, after a deal to extend the cohort was agreed between the UK and Rwanda.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
The first illegal migrants set to be removed to Rwanda have now been detained, following a series of nationwide operations this week.
Home Office criminal and financial investigators arrested 4 suspected people smugglers.
Several members of a suspected people smuggling ring have been arrested in a series of raids after allegedly attempting to traffic migrants through UK airports.
11 agency workers were arrested by Immigration Enforcement at the London Marriott Hotel Regents Park yesterday morning (18 October).
Watch the moment an immigration offender tries to escape cannabis farm before arrest.
Members of a gang who worked for cleaning contractors used by a string of Sainsbury's supermarkets have been sentenced.
Fines are to be more than tripled for employers and landlords who allow illegal migrants to work for them or rent their properties.
A man who smuggled migrants in a 'coffin-like' hide inside the roof of a van has been sentenced to 3 years in prison.
Two people arrested by the Home Office in intelligence-led night-time raid.
Arrests made by the Home Office during an intelligence-led, pre-dawn immigration operation.
The Home Office has ramped up immigration enforcement activity in the month since the Prime Minister’s pledge to boost raids on illegal working.
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