UK Home Secretary Visits France

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Can the tide turn on the English Channel migrant boat crossings?

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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper visited the French coast to see for herself how 540 m of British taxpayers' money is being used to tackle people smuggling gangs.

Successful crossings in the first seven weeks of this year have been down by 41% on the same period of 2024 .

The French have 1,200 security personnel deployable daily on coastal smuggler operations.

Germany has agreed to make it a crime to facilitate illegal immigration to the UK .

Bulgaria customs officials have shown that existing laws can be used to seize consignment of dinghies as they enter the EU from Turkey .

The UK 's legal plans to criminalise actions that prepare the way for a crossing - such as funding, advertising and other logistical arrangements - will go through Parliament .

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