France, Britain and migrants
Digest more
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".
The Trump administration this week pressed five African presidents to take in migrants from other countries when they are deported by the U.S., two officials familiar with the discussions told Reuters on Thursday.
Five countries whose leaders held talks with Trump at the White House were sent a U.S. proposal to accept deportees, document shows.
The BBC 's Tom Symonds witnessed a UK Border Force ship bring migrants to Dover, after picking them up in the English Channel. The coastguard told the BBC that it co-ordinated the response to multiple incidents involving small boats in the Channel.
DAVID SCOTT FITZGERALD is Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego.
Explore more
But based on the details reported, the claim that “Channel migrants” are 24 times more likely to go to jail is not reliable. The University of Oxford’s Migration Observatory says there is no reliable publicly available data on the proportion of small boat arrivals who go to prison.
As the UK and France agree to find "new solutions" to the small boat crossings, BBC Verify looks at why asylum seekers want to come to the UK.
A federal court sentenced Alexi Saenz leader of an MS-13 branch in Long Island to 68 years in prison just before the July 4 weekend. His
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,
Greek authorities have transported more than 500 migrants to a port on the mainland in an effort to relieve strain on the island of Crete after a surge in arrivals from Libya