The home secretary has announced that migrants seeking to cross the English Channel on small boats, and the people-smugglers enabling them, are to face more severe prison sentence in a bid to deter illegal crossings. The move is part of the Nationality and Borders Bill, and is intended to fix the UK’s “ broken asylum system ” Priti Patel said. The proposed legislation, which will receive its first reading in the House of Commons on Tuesday, will make it a criminal offence to knowingly arrive in
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2021-07-04 00:00:00.0