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    Rishi Sunak hails success of ‘stop the boats’ campaign

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    Rishi Sunak is set to claim that the Government’s crackdown on illegal migration is starting to work, with figures understood to show Albanians now make up as few as one per cent of those crossing the Channel.

    On Monday, in an update on progress on his pledge to stop the boats, the Prime Minister will cite a sharp decline in the number of Albanians arriving as evidence that a tough stance on deportations will deter illegal migrants.

    The numbers are down from around 30 per cent of Channel arrivals last year to one or two per cent in the first four months of this year.

    It is understood that thousands of Albanians are being tracked down and targeted by Home Office immigration enforcement officers for deportation, although immigration minister Robert Jenrick admitted on Sunday that the Government had so far only returned hundreds of Albanians who arrived in small boats.

    A 400-strong team of case workers have also been set up to fast-track a backlog of 16,683 asylum applications by Albanians, and immigration enforcement officials are pursuing thousands more, many of whom have absconded.

    Albanians working illegally in the UK have also been caught as part of a 50 per cent increase in raids by immigration enforcement officers targeting the black market and particularly those employed in the gig economy such as delivery drivers.

    The number of migrants crossing the Channel this year to the end of May is down by nearly 2,000 on last year’s total at the same point, from 9,575 in the first five months of last year compared with 7,610 this year. Afghans and Indians have replaced some of the fall in Albanians.




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    Monday’s announcement by Mr Sunak, in Dover, comes five months after he unveiled “stopping the boats” as one of his five key pledges aimed at winning votes ahead of next year’s general election.

    But it comes amid a row within his own government over the need to bring down legal migration, which recently topped 600,000.

    On Sunday, it emerged the Home Office has estimated that the cost of detaining and deporting people arriving in the UK in small boats could hit £6 billion over the next two years.

    However, ministers believe that its new “assertive” approach and new deportation agreements with Albania have reached potential migrants from the Balkan state.
    “The reason that we are returning Albanians is to deter people from coming in the first place, and that is succeeding,” Mr Jenrick told Sky News on Sunday.

    He said the Illegal Migration Bill which returns to the House of Lords on Monday would extend the same principle to migrants of other nationalities by detaining and deporting anyone who arrived in the UK illegally to a third safe country, such as Rwanda, or their home nation.

    “If we can do that, we will break the people smuggling gangs, we will deter people from crossing in the first place,” he said.

    “And with respect to Albania, you only have to compare their proportion of those people crossing the Channel in the first quarter of last year to the first quarter of this year to see that this has been hugely effective in creating the deterrent that we have set out to.”

    He admitted that although thousands of people are being returned to Albania under deals to boost deportations of both illegal migrants and foreign offenders, only hundreds of those who had arrived on small boats had been returned

    “There are hundreds of Albanians who’ve arrived on small boats who have been placed on those flights as a result of the processes we’ve put in place and the agreement that we’ve reached with Albania,” he said.

    There is evidence from checks on migrants leaving the UK that as many as half the Albanians that enter Britain leave after several months. Tracking them down has been made difficult by up to 70 to 80 per cent of Albanians absconding from immigration bail.

    As part of the deterrent tactics, Mr Sunak is also expected to highlight Operation Maximise which aims to roll out nationally the requirement for asylum seekers to share hotel rooms in an effort to save more than £250million alone this year.

    Under the plan, groups of two, three or four single adult male migrants will be required to share a single room rather than have individual rooms.

    Ministers believe that it will not only save the taxpayer millions of pounds but will also act as a deterrent as people smugglers promote hotels and UK tourist sights to persuade migrants to make the dangerous journey across the Channel in small boats.

    A Government source said: “The aim is to reduce the need for hotels - by maximising the ones we have - saving the taxpayer money and reducing the pull factor to the UK of accommodating economic migrants in hotels which are more luxurious than our European counterparts.”

    Mr Jenrick told the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme that anyone who is “genuinely destitute” would agree to share rooms to “save money for the taxpayer” after migrants at a Pimlico hotel complained it was nothing like the “nice” accommodation they saw on Google Maps.

    The group – from Iraq, Iran, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Bangladesh – stuck protest posters at the hotel entrance and on traffic lights that declared: “Help us,” “This is a prison, not a hotel,” “Inhuman conditions, dirty rooms” and “Homeless by the Home Office”.

    Speaking about the incident, Mr Jenrick said: “I think we asked them to share rooms to save money for the taxpayer, because anyone who is genuinely destitute would, I think, accept that offer. And I believe almost all of the migrants in question did.”

    He also said net migration is “far too high”, but targets to bring it down to specific levels are not “particularly helpful”, despite previous Tory promises.

    The move comes on top of plans to house 10,000 migrants in two disused RAF airfields at Scampton in Lincolnshire and Wethersfield in Essex, a former prison in Bexhill, East Sussex, Catterick barracks in North Yorkshire, a barge moored in Portland, Dorset, and other locations.

    The barge - Bibby Stockholm - is due to be towed within days from a refit at Falmouth to Portland where it will house 500 single male migrants.

    Scampton and Wethersfield are subject of high court legal challenges by their local councils but ministers hope to open them by August to house Channel migrants transferred from the processing centre at Manston, near Dover.

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    We should not be forced to house and feed these criminal trespassers with our tax dollars.

    Load them on barges, fill them up, and tow them all back to stop them coming to our borders.
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    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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