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We're working to unpack the UK government's pilot scheme agreed with France that will see Britain return migrants who arrive in small boats back across the English Channel. Our fact-check team has been listening to the home secretary on BBC Radio 4 this morning talking about the plan and will report here about what she's said.
Yvette Cooper has said she cannot give a figure on how many Channel migrants will be returned to France under the new one-in, one-out deal agreed with Emmanuel Macron. The Home Secretary said the two governments had not “fixed the ultimate number” to be sent back each week for the pilot of the scheme,
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are focusing on stopping migrant crossings in the English Channel.
The report undercuts months of assertions by senior Trump officials, who have repeatedly claimed they have no power to compel the return of these individuals.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Tuesday during a news conference that there will be “no amnesty” for migrants and mass deportations will continue to achieve a “100% American workforce.” Rollins cited the number of adults in the Medicaid program,
Although this strategy shocked many Americans, the offshoring of detention is not new. In fact, it has a recent precedent in American history: it was used during the so-called war on terror, when Washington detained suspected terrorists in one country and took them to another,
Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt sent a scathing letter to California's Gavin Newsom, calling on the governor to audit Medi-Cal provided to illegal immigrants.
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The government of El Salvador has acknowledged to United Nations investigators that the Trump administration maintains control of the Venezuelan men who were deported from the U.S. to a notorious Salvadoran prison,
Migrants in Calais have told the BBC that they will stop at nothing to reach the UK. "We're going to try again and again to cross to the UK," said one migrant, undeterred by the efforts of border police, "that's why it's a game, and we're going to win".