No Entry: Labour Intensifies Deportations and Trafficking Crackdown

August 15, 2024
No Entry: Labour Intensifies Deportations and Trafficking Crackdown

More than forty migrants and criminals are returned to Timor-Leste and Vietnam. A criminal gang from the UK has been sentenced, which is a success.Change was enacted right away after Keir Starmer's team won the election and assumed control of the government on July 4, 2024, with the Labour Party winning. One of the first issues the party addressed was cracking down on unauthorised foreign people entering the country, which has turned into a problem.The last Conservative administration squandered taxpayer funds, according to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, by allocating over £700,000 to the Rwanda Scheme, which “didn't work.”

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said the former Conservative government wasted taxpayers’ money by spending more than £700,000 on the Rwanda Scheme that “didn’t work.”In a speech, the Prime Minister said he wanted to allocate £75,000 per month to tackle the illegal immigrant crises. 

The UK’s foreign-born population increased rapidly between 2004 and 2021. According to data from the latest Census – which combines 2021 data from England, Wales, and Northern Ireland with 2022 data for Scotland – it stood at 10.7 million. That means that 16% of people in the UK, which had a total estimated population of 66.9 million, had been born abroad. 

India, Poland, Pakistan, Romania, and Ireland were the most common countries of birth among UK migrants in 2021-22.