Overview

• Home Office ads on YouTube and Facebook are being served to users in northern France based on location and demographics in English, French, Arabic, Farsi and Pashto.
• The messages warn that those arriving by small boat risk return to France under the July one‑in, one‑out pilot, which pairs each return with an approved legal admission from France.
• Detentions of recent small‑boat arrivals began in early August, yet no returns have been completed, with Downing Street saying removals are expected later this month and ministers citing legal hurdles.
• More than 29,000 people have crossed the Channel so far this year, with some reports putting crossings since Labour took office at over 50,000.
• The CPS says it has intelligence that children are sometimes sedated before crossings, as the government also proposes a new offence targeting online adverts that promote illegal migration services.