Media Reports Archive : May 2022


'Guantanamo-on-Ouse' migrant camp delayed after legal action by Tory council

A proposed migrant camp in north Yorkshire - dubbed Guantanamo-on-Ouse - has been delayed after a Tory council began legal action to block it

31 May 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Boris Johnson is opening the door to a populist insurgency

The problem for Johnson is that the dream of a free-trading global Britain is not why most people voted for Brexit

31 May 2022 - Media Report: UnHerd
Home Office using 30,000 hotel rooms across UK to house refugees, GB News can reveal

The Home Office could use other MOD sites for refugees if it makes a success of the Linton-on-Ouse facility

31 May 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Trial for Oxford 5 accused of immigration crimes going back to 2000s

A group has appeared in court in connection with immigration offences dating back to the early-2000s

30 May 2022 - Media Report: Oxford Mail
How much immigration can Britain sustain?

This chasm between public opinion and policy is terrible for trust in politics

30 May 2022 - Media Report: The Times
Ministers plan biggest deportation exercise ever attempted on one day by sending 300 illegal migrants home - with charter flights bound for Iraqi Kurdistan, Albania and Bangladesh

Ministers are planning a mass deportation next week of foreign criminals and migrants who are in the UK illegally

30 May 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
More than one million foreign nationals allowed to live in UK in a year

More than a million foreign nationals were let in to live in the UK last year for the first time in recorded history

27 May 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Million foreigners offered UK visas despite delays

More than a million foreigners were offered visas to live in the UK over the last year, the highest figure on record

27 May 2022 - Media Report: The Times
Number of migrants to cross the Channel by boat was THREE TIMES higher in the first three months of the year compared to the same period in 2021 as 4,540 arrived in the UK

The number of migrants to cross the Channel by boat was three times higher in the first three months of 2022 than during the same time last year

27 May 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Immigration work helps Serco overcome end of UK Covid contracts

Serco shares rose 8 per cent in early trading

26 May 2022 - Media Report: Financial Times
International student numbers could rise 50% over five years

The number of foreign students is set to increase by almost 50 per cent in five years, the university admissions service predicts

26 May 2022 - Media Report: The Times
More than 2,600 Channel migrants have arrived in UK in May: Border Force has intercepted 87 boats so far this month - as total making crossing since start of year hits 9,439

More than 2,600 migrants have landed in the UK by small boat this month so far, with 252 men, women and children making the perilous journey

25 May 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Dunkirk migrants shot in people smuggling dispute

Two migrants in the French port of Dunkirk have been shot and critically injured in an apparent dispute among people smugglers

25 May 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Tory MP berates Home Office over plan to house asylum seekers in Yorkshire

A Conservative MP has accused the Home Office of using his North Yorkshire constituency as a “sacrificial lamb for national policy”

25 May 2022 - Media Report: Guardian
‘Red Wall’ Conservative MPs Warn Govt ‘Drastic Increase’ in Immigration Breaks Promises to Voters

More than two dozen Tory MPs, Red Wallers prominent among them, have addressed these concerns to Priti Patel

24 May 2022 - Media Report: Breitbart
Nigel Farage slams Boris Johnson for 'biggest Brexit betrayal' as immigration numbers rise

Nigel Farage has hit out at Boris Johnson as immigration numbers continue to rise in the UK

24 May 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Iraqis shot in smuggler dispute at Dunkirk migrant camp

Two Iraqi migrants are critically ill in hospital after a shoot-out between rival people-smuggling gangs at a camp in Dunkirk

24 May 2022 - Media Report: The Times
Channel migrants are 'asking to be returned home and not to African centres' as they fear being sent to Rwanda... proving Priti Patel's asylum plan IS working

Asylum seekers are abandoning their attempts to stay in the UK because they are afraid they might be sent to Rwanda

23 May 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Rising immigration 'undeniably undermines' Brexit promises, warn Red Wall MPs

Priti Patel has been warned over the “drastic increase” in net immigration, as Red Wall MPs say it “undeniably undermines” Brexit promises

23 May 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Number of displaced people passes 100 million for first time, says UN

Russia's war in Ukraine has pushed the number of forcibly displaced people around the world above 100 million for the first time ever

23 May 2022 - Media Report: France 24
Another group of migrants including young children arrive in UK after four boats were intercepted in Channel amid claims Rwanda plan IS working as asylum seekers 'ask to be returned home and not to African centres'

ANOTHER group of migrants, including young children, have arrived in the UK after four boats were intercepted in the Channel

23 May 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
First Rwanda flight delayed after legal challenge by migrant charity

The first deportation flights to Rwanda have been delayed amid a legal challenge by migrant charities and a civil service union

20 May 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Yorkshire village women told 1,500 refugees will be moving in 'worried for their safety'

Residents of Linton-on-Ouse will soon be outnumbered by refugees if the Home Office plans go through

20 May 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Putin may target Europe by triggering a new migrant crisis

In the long campaign to defeat Russia, therefore, the West cannot afford just to concentrate its efforts on defeating Moscow in Ukraine

20 May 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
'Out of control!' Boris slammed as visas issued to non-EU migrants reach record high

THE GOVERNMENT has been slammed after new data showed that visas issued to immigrants from outside the European Union reached a record high in 2021

20 May 2022 - Media Report: Express
Number of foreign nurses hired by NHS hit record high last year: 23,000 - nearly HALF of new recruits - trained abroad, with majority from India and the Philippines

Nearly half of Britain's newly-hired nurses and midwives were recruited from abroad, figures revealed today

19 May 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
There is an urgent moral imperative to send migrants to Rwanda, says Priti Patel

Priti Patel has said there is an “urgent moral imperative” to send migrants to Rwanda as she prepares to confront the UN over her plans

19 May 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Visas for arrivals from outside EU at new high

The number of visas issued to non-EU migrants reached a record in 2021 as the first year of Britain’s post-Brexit rules led to a more immigration

19 May 2022 - Media Report: The Times
‘Working-class communities!' Daubney rages for 'dumped upon' Linton-On-Ouse over migrants

RECLAIM PARTY'S Martin Daubney says the 750 residents in Linton-On-Ouse are being 'dumped on'

18 May 2022 - Media Report: Daily Express
Migrant workers ‘exploited and beaten’ on UK fishing boats

A third of migrant workers on UK fishing vessels who responded to a research survey work 20-hour shifts

18 May 2022 - Media Report: Guardian
More than 300 migrants arrive in UK as crossings continue for FOURTH day in a row: Asylum-seekers land on Kent beach as total numbers making crossing the year rises above 8,500 despite risk of Rwanda deportation

Around 300 migrants are thought to have reached the UK by small boat today - as Channel crossings continued for a fourth day in a row

18 May 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Sending migrants to Rwanda will cost same as housing them in UK

The Home Office says the policy will save money in the long term because it will reduce the number of people crossing the Channel in small boats

12 May 2022 - Media Report: The Times
Queen's Speech: Priti Patel accuses Labour MPs of defending 'murderers, paedophiles, rapists, thugs' in debate on law and order

Priti Patel has accused Labour MPs of being 'eager to defend the murderers, paedophiles, rapists, thugs and those with no right to be here'

12 May 2022 - Media Report: Sky News
Positive words, but where’s the action, asks Migration Watch UK

Migration Watch UK highlighted that the words were good, but asked what about action?

12 May 2022 - Media Report: Bournbrook
Toddlers nailed into ‘coffin-like’ wardrobes by people smugglers

Children as young as two were locked into 'coffin-like' wardrobes that were screwed shut before being smuggled into Britain

11 May 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Asylum seekers ‘in hiding to avoid Rwanda ruling’

Asylum seekers in Britain have already gone into hiding because they fear being removed to Rwanda

11 May 2022 - Media Report: The Times
First Channel migrants have been told by Priti Patel that they are being sent to Rwanda

The first migrants have been told they face being sent 4,000 miles to Rwanda to claim asylum, Priti Patel revealed last night

11 May 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
‘Pro-migrant’ lobby in Brussels accused of driving out EU border force boss

The former boss of the European Union’s border agency reportedly left because his attempts to fortify the bloc were torpedoed

10 May 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
At least 40 migrants including a small child and a man 'in handcuffs' arrive in Dover after crossing the Channel - as Priti Patel's plan to ship migrants to Rwanda gets underway this week

At least 40 migrants have crossed the English Channel and arrived in Dover by small boat

10 May 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Nigel Farage guest highlights how 'we don't know' how many migrants are in UK as it's revealed 7 million have registered with GP on NHS

The Chairman of Migration Watch UK has claimed 'we don't know' how many migrants are in the UK

10 May 2022 - Media Report: GB News
First Channel migrants bound for Rwanda on one-way tickets set to learn their fate

The first illegal migrants to be sent to Rwanda under Priti Patel’s new offshoring scheme will be informed of the decision this week

9 May 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Asylum seekers told this week they will be sent to Rwanda

The Home Office will start telling asylum seekers this week that they may be sent to Rwanda

9 May 2022 - Media Report: The Times
Priti Patel’s Rwanda plan for UK asylum seekers faces its first legal challenge

The legal challenge states that the home secretary’s proposals run contrary to international law and the UN refugee convention

9 May 2022 - Media Report: Guardian
Hundreds of Ukrainian refugees removed from UK’s ‘unsuitable’ housing sponsors

The government is scrambling to rehouse hundreds of Ukrainians granted visas under the Homes for Ukraine scheme

9 May 2022 - Media Report: Guardian
Don't worry about Rwanda... nobody will send you there: Smugglers boast on social media of '100 per cent safe' Channel crossings as they offer migrants a seat on dinghy for £5,000

Shameless people smugglers are mocking the threat of migrants being sent to Rwanda

9 May 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
'It's the wrong plan, in the wrong place': Furious residents say they fear for their safety amid outrage over Priti Patel's 'Guantanamo-on-Ouse' plan to house 1,500 asylum seekers in sleepy Yorkshire village

Villagers who face being outnumbered two to one by asylum seekers say they are still in the dark about Priti Patel's plans for a new processing centre

9 May 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Priti Patel migration plan 'set for remarkable results' - new study lays bare huge impact

BRITAIN'S new controversial asylum deal with Rwanda could reduce the number of people making dangerous Channel crossings to zero

6 May 2022 - Media Report: Express
Boris Johnson's plan to send migrants to Rwanda is ALREADY delayed

The Government had wanted flights to Kigali to start by the end of May.

5 May 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Record number of Channel migrants reaching the UK

Illegal arrivals come amid claims that delays in plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has fuelled the crossings.

5 May 2022 - Media Report: Daily Telegraph

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