Britain says it will impose sanctions on members of people-smuggling gangs who send migrants crossing the English Channel to the U.K. in flimsy boats. It's the latest effort to stop the dangerous journeys across one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
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Starmer’s Labour Party government, elected in July, has pledged to stop criminal gangs sending thousands of migrants each year on perilous journeys across one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. Starmer has said the crime gangs are a threat to global security and should be treated like terror networks.
It’s unclear how effective the measures will be, since British authorities can only freeze assets that are in the U.K., and most of the smugglers are based elsewhere. Officials acknowledge that stopping the trade, often run by loosely organized criminal gangs, is difficult, and a goal that has eluded previous governments. They say the sanctions are another tool in an arsenal of measures that includes beefed-up U.K. border surveillance and increased law-enforcement cooperation with France and other countries.European court rules against Greece over migrant’s illegal deportation, calls practice ‘systematic’Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the U.K.
Despite efforts by the U.K. and France to stop it, the Channel remains a major smuggling corridor for people fleeing conflict or poverty. Many migrants want to move to the U.K. for reasons of language, family ties or perceived easier access to asylum and work.Starmer is due to discuss migration and other issues with French President Emmanuel Macron at a meeting near London on Thursday.
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