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On 16 and 17 January, the Tories could lose Commons votes on their Bill trying to save their “send them to Rwanda” asylum policy. Even if they win, they have a battle to work the bIll, which tries to instruct courts Rwanda must be reckoned safe even if it is not.

Civil servants could be given new guidance forcing them to ignore rulings from the European Court of Human Rights blocking flights to Rwanda.

Securing our borders is a fundamental responsibility of any government. On a purely practical basis, properly enforced borders keep us all safe. On a theoretical level, a state cannot be a sovereign if it loses the power to determine who enters and leaves its territory.

Lee Anderson is preparing to back the Tory rebel amendments to the Rwanda Bill as the number of backbench MPs urging Rishi Sunak to toughen the legislation approaches 60.

In recent years, the Home Office has presided over record numbers of people entering Britain legally and illegally. The department that governs our borders has manifestly struggled to do so; to understand why, The Telegraph has spoken to a series of insiders who described an organisation rife with chaos, dysfunction and wokery.

A defiant Matteo Salvini, Italy's deputy prime minister, defended his hard line against illegal migration in court on Friday, saying he had done a "useful service" in blocking migrants from disembarking at an Italian port in 2019. In court Friday, Salvini read from a series of official emails and documents, seeking to demonstrate how the entire Italian government at the time, including Conte, was behind the migration policy -- and the decision to block the rescue vessel opera...

This year marks two decades since the EU opened up free movement to ten additional countries, including former Eastern Bloc members Hungary and Poland. It was a change that fundamentally altered the very fabric of the British economy.

Nearly two out of three likely voters in the United States believe that the country is facing an invasion by migrants at the southern border, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll published Monday.

Learn about the UK's latest student visa policy changes in 2024 and their effects on international students and migration.

Home Office officials have warned of a “high risk” that European judges will block deportations to Rwanda, despite Rishi Sunak’s legislation designed to get flights off the ground, The Telegraph can disclose.