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.

President Donald Trump's administration announced sweeping new restrictions on access to federal benefits for undocumented immigrants. Under the directives, multiple federal agencies will tighten eligibility requirements for a range of publicly funded programs.

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.

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.

I have worked in South Sudan as a diplomat. It is on the brink of civil war, and its government has a horrific human rights record.

Five countries whose leaders held talks with Trump at the White House were sent a U.S. proposal to accept deportees, document shows.

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.

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".

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,