In the week of March 04, 2024, after an official visit to Tripoli, the British Minister in charge of combating “illegal immigration” Michael Tomlinson announced that the United Kingdom will fund the Libyan authorities to the tune of £1 million to cover the costs of the “voluntary returns” of migrants in Libya.
In the week of March 03, 2024, according to figures from the English authorities, more than 1,000 people were registered in about twenty different boats while trying to cross the English Channel irregularly. In this regard, Rishi Sunak ‘s government has opted for a security and xenophobic policy in the United Kingdom.
On March 03, 2024, a 7-year-old girl drowned in the English Channel. His boat was carrying 16 migrants who were hospitalized in Dunkirk, northern France. This is the third person to die in 2024 while trying to cross the canal.
On March 01, 2024, the National Audit Office of the British Parliament revealed that Rwanda will receive at least $470 million from the United Kingdom as part of the agreement for the mass deportation of asylum seekers to this East African country.
On February 26, 2024, an agreement was sealed between the UK government and the European Commission for the deployment of Frontex on the Channel Canal. The European agency, which has been repeatedly criticised for its brutal management in the Mediterranean Sea, will now work with the British coastguard, which is carrying out the dangerous “fortress under siege” paradigm.
On February 23, 2024, through a “working agreement”, a rapprochement was officially announced between Frontex and the UK Border Agency. This post-Brexit collaboration will take place in particular in terms of joint exercises and research and development of new technologies.
On February 19, 2024, the UK Home Secretary announced that care workers will not be eligible for family reunification. This xenophobic measure is part of an overall goal of what is already being touted as “the biggest migration cut”.
On February 19, 2024, Ibrahima Bah, a teenager of Senegalese origin, was sentenced to 9 years and 6 months in prison for “facilitating illegal entry into the United Kingdom” and for “manslaughter”. Arrested in December 2022 for driving a small boat that capsized in the English Channel, he tried to prevent the death by drowning of four migrants and the disappearance of 5 others. The NGO Captain Support denounces a trial marked by an “anti-black racist” bias.
In February 2024, the University of Oxford published a report on the criminalisation of people arriving in the UK in “small boats”. Between June 2022 and October 2023, 253 migrants and asylum seekers were sentenced by the English courts to sentences of up to life imprisonment.
In February 2024, the “Consultative Group on Exploitation at Work” published a report on the “continuum of exploitation” from modern slavery to varying degrees of widespread breaches of the Labour Code in the UK. The structural conditions of the UK economy and the legal framework mean that migrant populations are more vulnerable to abuse by employers.
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