Unlawful migrants arriving into UK throughout the English Channel might be pressured to put on digital tags beneath new ‘cease the boats’ proposals

Migrants who arrive over the English Channel in small boats might be pressured to put on digital tags beneath Home Office proposals.

The concept, first mooted more than a year ago, has resurfaced as Rishi Sunak makes an attempt to get a deal with on immigration and cease individuals illegally gaining entry to the UK.

The migrants could be GPS tracked in actual time and required to report through textual content message or in particular person to immigration officers a number of occasions a day, the Telegraph reported.

Any try and take away the tag and abscond would lead to any proper to bail or to stay within the UK being robotically withdrawn.

It comes amid issues the UK may run out of capability in immigration detention centres, with officers requested to search out alternative routes of guaranteeing that 1000’s of migrants who arrive illegally however can’t be detained don’t abscond.

The brand new guidelines will stipulate that these on digital tag should adjust to any instructions from the House Workplace

Migrants hand their lifejackets to Border Pressure workers as they put together for processing after being dropped at land by the company earlier this week 

A dinghy carrying round 50 migrants drifts into the English Channel after being escorted out of French territory on Thursday. Consultants say they resist any assist from French vessels with the intention to attain the UK

One supply informed the newspaper: ‘Tagging is being mentioned as an possibility.’

One other supply mentioned tagging may additionally free-up immigration detention centres for use for prisoners to alleviate power overcrowding in jails that are near their capability.

They have been quoted as saying: ‘They’re all of those choices. Given the state of jail capability, that might attain breaking level and the Authorities is aware of that.’

The method has been dubbed ‘punitive’ and ‘draconian’ by left-wing campaigners, who argue that these fleeing to Britain for security are being handled like ‘criminals’.

New House Workplace figures launched final week revealed Britain’s asylum backlog topped 175,000 for the primary time after 78,768 claims have been made within the 12 months to June.

A complete of 175,457 individuals have been ready for an preliminary resolution on an asylum utility within the UK on the finish of June 2023, up 44% from 122,213 on the finish of June 2022. This was the very best determine since present data started in 2010.

The large improve has been pushed by cross-Channel migrants lodging purposes upon arrival within the UK. It’s costing the Authorities practically £6 million to accommodate migrants in lodges.

Figures additionally present the variety of asylum seekers ready greater than six months for an preliminary resolution stood at 139,961 on the finish of June, up 57% 12 months on 12 months from 89,231 and one other file.

In the meantime, the Authorities’s plan to accommodate asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm barge may face a authorized problem as firefighters accused ministers of a ‘callous disregard’ for the protection of these onboard.

The Bibby Stockholm is one in all a number of websites, which additionally embrace former army bases, ministers wish to use to accommodate migrants as they await asylum choices in an effort to chop the price of placing them up in lodges and deter entries into the UK through unauthorised means.