Migrants

Handout photo dated 17/02/21 issued by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) showing Napier Barracks in Kent where the Home Office has been housing asylum seekers. Inspectors said: “The environment at both sites, especially Napier, was impoverished, run-down and unsuitable for long-term accommodation”. Issue date: Monday March 8, 2021.

Failures over use of ‘filthy’ barracks for asylum seekers – inspectors

March 8, 2021

The Dover Strait is the world’s busiest shipping lane and features dangerous waters (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Fears migrant may be missing at sea after failed Channel crossing

March 5, 2021

Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent, has been used to accommodate hundreds of asylum seekers (PA)

Leukaemia sufferer housed at Napier Barracks during Covid outbreak – inspectors

March 4, 2021

Shoppers walk through the centre of York (Zac Goodwin/PA)

Population could shrink after the pandemic, watchdog warns

March 3, 2021

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Life sentences for people smugglers considered as 100 migrants reach UK

March 1, 2021

Police in Essex investigate the lorry in which 39 Vietnamese migrants died in 2019. People smugglers will be given life in prison under new proposals under consideration (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

People smugglers could get life sentences under plans from Priti Patel

March 1, 2021

Border Force officers wearing PPE escort a group of people thought to be migrants (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Children among 87 people to cross Channel into UK on Saturday

February 27, 2021

(Gareth Fuller/PA)

Photographer criticises police after ‘unlawful’ Covid-19 fine rescinded

February 18, 2021

The Home Office has defended its use of the Ministry of Defence-owned barracks (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Housing asylum seekers in barracks against health advice branded ‘moral failure’

February 18, 2021

Language barriers in some communities were identified (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Ethnic minorities’ concerns over vaccine highlighted

February 11, 2021

Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent, is being used by the Government to house people seeking asylum in the UK (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Police defend using force to move asylum seeker back inside barracks

February 5, 2021