Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to deport people who enter the UK by small boat.
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle
Since coming into office in July 2024, the Government has ensured the removal of 24,000 failed asylum seekers, foreign criminals and other migration offenders with no right to be in the UK, the highest nine-month total since 2017.
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