UK by boat as it emerged people-smugglers were exploiting vulnerable migrants to facilitate Channel crossings. As the home secretary vowed to deliver the biggest overhaul of the asylum system in decades, the National Crime Agency said it had received
Priti Patel has been warned against the criminalisation of asylum seekers arriving in the
intelligence of migrants being forced to work for traffickers in France. Asylum seekers have told The Independent that people-smugglers had taken their money for the crossing, only to then demand they work for free in order to make the journey to the UK.