A Border News Today

Immigration Minister Andrew Giles said this week that drones were being used to keep tabs on people recently released from indefinite immigration detention.

It is believed the move will limit the chances of migrants being able to find out information about charities or law firms that could help them appeal against their detention.

The National Crime Agency said the defendant from Sudan appeared at Reading Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.

The joint UK-French investigation alleges the group shared posts charged migrants thousands of pounds to make the crossing.

Travellers have been stuck in huge queues for at least 45 minutes after a Border Force outage hit UK airports including Edinburgh, with the Home Office confirming problems with e-Gates

Electronic gates used to scan and authorise passports across UK airports have been plagued with a glitch - causing mega queues for thousands of travellers.

Experts fear a huge number of migrants could arrive into the country based on figures for the first three months of 2024.

The numbers crossing the Channel this year are on course to surpass 2022's record-high of about 46,000

A total of 4,993 had arrived by March 30, with those numbers swelled by 349 people who were detected crossing on seven boats on Easter Saturday.

The figure is larger than even in 2022 - a year which saw the highest number of Channel migrant arrivals on record - when 4,162 landed in Britain.