22.01.2022, Daily Mail
'EVERY male migrant' arriving in the UK by boat 'will be detained in immigration removal centres in a bid to deter Channel crossings' under Boris Johnson and Priti Patel's border clampdown
The Prime Minister has reportedly given Home Secretary Priti Patel the go-ahead to develop new powers that would allow male asylum seekers crossing the Narrow Sea to be held in immigration removal centres. Currently only migrants who land on the UK coast are breaking the law and can be detained, rather than those intercepted in the Channel. But the proposed Nationality and Borders Bill would make it a criminal offence to be found in a vessel in the Channel without pre-authorisation to enter the UK. Offenders will face a maximum prison sentence of four years under the new law. read more
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