Overview

• Home Secretary Yvette Cooper plans to grant immigration officers powers to enter homes and make arrests to enforce immigration rules.
• Biometric fingerprint kits will allow officers to immediately determine individuals’ immigration and work status during field operations.
• The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill will require firms such as Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat to carry out rigorous right-to-work checks on every rider.
• The measures are designed to plug systemic gaps exposed by media investigations and parliamentary scrutiny over exit-data tracking and asylum hotel abuses.
• The government is strengthening coordination with French authorities to disrupt small-boat migrant crossings as part of the broader enforcement push.