UK immigration

Posted at 18:04 26 Nov
Why do migrants leave France for the UK?
Rising numbers of migrants are trying to cross the English Channel in small boats.
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Posted at 19:17 25 Nov
Former asylum-seeker on 'hellish' journey to UK
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Video caption: Channel deaths: Former asylum-seeker on 'hellish' journey to UK
Gulwali Passarlay's boat nearly capsized in the Aegean Sea as he fled war in Afghanistan aged 13.
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Posted at 15:28 25 Nov
Why can't migrant Channel crossings be stopped?
By Dominic Casciani
Home and legal correspondent
The latest deaths are part of a major problem for two governments with few good options available.
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Posted at 13:19 25 Nov
Channel deaths: Is a 'safe and legal' way of coming to the UK needed?
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Video caption: At least 27 people drowned while heading to the UK when their inflatable boat sank
At least 27 people drowned while heading to the UK when their inflatable boat sank. French officials say 17 were men, seven were women, and three were children.
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Posted at 13:02 25 Nov
Starmer: Home secretary's plans 'go nowhere'
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Video caption: Starmer: Home secretary's plans 'go nowhere'
The Labour leader says Priti Patel should be doing more, and arrests should've been made before the Channel tragedy.
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Posted at 11:31 24 Nov
Who are the Windrush generation?
Despite living and working in the UK for decades, many Windrush children were told to leave.
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Posted at 18:31 23 Nov
Whistleblower detention inquiry hears abuse shock
By Tom Symonds
Home Affairs correspondent
Brook House was the subject of an undercover investigation for the BBC's Panorama programme in 2017.
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Posted at 17:27 23 Nov
Immigration detention centre for women to open
The unit at the former Medomsley detention centre will start operating by the end of the year.
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Posted at 15:21 23 Nov
Coroner calls for action after asylum seeker death
Sudanese asylum seeker Mustafa Dawood suffered fatal head injuries after fleeing immigration officers.
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Posted at 12:40 23 Nov
Councils to be forced to take child asylum seekers
By Mark Easton and Callum May
BBC News
More than a hundred children are living in hotels because of a shortage of places in care homes.
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Posted at 16:42 22 Nov
Migrant crossings to UK by boat triple 2020 total
More than 25,000 people have reached the UK by boat this year, including nearly 900 on Saturday.
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Posted at 18:22 17 Nov
Men convicted over 69 migrants found on boat
Dozens of people from Albania were found when a boat was intercepted off the east coast of England.
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Posted at 16:52 15 Nov
The Colony
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Video caption: Documentary about West Indian immigrants now living in Birmingham. (1964)
Philip Donnellan's film looks at a railwayman from St. Kitts, a bus conductor from Jamaica, singers from Trinidad and a nurse from Barbados, all now living in Birmingham. (1964)
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Posted at 12:24 10 Nov
The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files
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Video caption: David Olusoga opens secret government files to explore the Windrush scandal.
How black immigrants who made Britain their home came face to face with the government's 'hostile environment'. David Olusoga exposes the secret files behind the Windrush scandal.
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Posted at 19:05 5 Nov
Officers may have had role in asylum seeker death
A Sudanese asylum seeker suffered fatal head injuries after fleeing immigration officers.
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Posted at 12:21 5 Nov
Migrant dies trying to cross English Channel
A person is found dead on a beach in France after an attempt to reach the UK, French authorities say.
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Posted at 7:25 4 Nov
One migrant dies and another missing in Channel
French authorities say they have rescued about 400 people from small boats near Calais.
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Posted at 13:44 21 Oct
The Battle for the Channel
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Video caption: Lucy Williamson meets the police tasked with controlling migration across the Channel.
Lucy Williamson goes on patrol with the police tasked with controlling migration across the English Channel, and meets the migrants who are determined to outwit them.
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Posted at 15:00 15 Oct
Am I British?
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Video caption: Why the dreams of many young people are being destroyed due to their immigration status.
Reporter Greg McKenzie meets young people born or brought up in the UK who say Home Office immigration policy treats them as second-class citizens.
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Posted at 16:36 14 Oct
Border boat staff don't need immunity, says union
By Sinead Wilson
BBC News
Home Secretary Priti Patel is reportedly planning to exempt staff from prosecution if migrants die.
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