UK Government Introduces New Border Security Bill to Curb Channel Crossings
The bill aims to modernize the asylum system, leveraging funds from the terminated Rwanda plan to establish a new border command unit.
- The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill includes counter-terror powers to combat organized immigration crime.
- The bill promises to clear the asylum backlog and end the use of hotel accommodations for migrants.
- Tougher penalties for immigration crimes and new offenses targeting people-smuggling gangs are proposed.
- The government will save over £100 million by scrapping the Rwanda migration deal.
- More than 1,000 migrants have crossed the Channel since the new administration took office, with numbers up 12% from last year.
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