The Mirror: News, Sport, Celebrity & Entertainment [Unofficial]Airport sandwich rule could mean you are breaking the law
UK Border force official and ex-Hong Kong police officer guilty of spying for China
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-border-force-official-ex-37126510
Vaping crackdown with new fines for people selling 'to kids barely in their teens'
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Australia seized AU$1 billion in illegal tobacco in 3 months. Why is contraband still flooding cities and fueling crime?
#IllicitTobacco, #AustraliaCrime, #BorderForce, #TobaccoSmuggling, #OrganisedCrime
https://newsletter.tf/australia-1-billion-illicit-tobacco-seizure-fails/
Australian Border Force seized AU$1 billion of illegal tobacco and vapes in just three months. This is a huge amount, but more is still entering the country.
#IllicitTobacco, #AustraliaCrime, #BorderForce, #TobaccoSmuggling, #OrganisedCrime
https://newsletter.tf/australia-1-billion-illicit-tobacco-seizure-fails/
Cocaine worth £75m found stashed in banana pallets and seized at UK dock
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/cocaine-worth-75m-found-stashed-36904068
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Yes, I was struck by the same: the casualness of the guy who shot & killed Renee Good, reholstering his gun & walking away. No attempt to render aid, for instance. ☹️
Maybe it’s down to their drug use… I’ve seen reports that they’re coking & mething up in their cars before getting out to wreak havoc. 🤔
Maybe they’ve become so desensitised after so much repetition with no consequences… 🤔
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈You can bet most Reform UK voters think Renee Nicole Good 'Deserved it'
They say the same thing about the Hunger Strikers here, they are of the same mind as MAGA.
#ReneeNicoleGood #ReformUK #Whiteness #HomeOffice #BorderForce #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Filton24 #HebaMuraisi #SaveOurJuries #PalestineAction #Fascism
Amnesty in Salisbury & South WiltshireAsylum Seekers: UK Policy Changes and Impact in 2026
Some positive news on refugees and asylum seekers
January 2026
With the events in Venezuela, threats to occupy Greenland and continuing conflict in Ukraine, news about small boat arrivals and immigrants generally has dropped out of the news recently. Problems remain however.
Firstly, the final figure for irregular arrivals in the UK by small boats in 2025 was 41,000, the second-highest annual total ever. The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act is now in force, with new measures allowing Border Force to seize phones and SIM cards from irregular arrivals, ostensibly to help in tracking down smugglers. Seizures of cash and assets of convicted smugglers are up 33% in year to September, compared to the previous year.
More positively, 5 local councils in England and Wales have declared an interest in a pilot scheme to use new build and refurbished council homes for asylum seekers as a way of removing them from hotels. The homes would be built with government money, leased to the Home Office, and then added to LA stock. The views of other prospective council home tenants have not yet been noted.
In the EU, heads of state met on 8 January to discuss its Common European System for Returns, instituted last March. The Commission claims that only 20% of those designated for deportation actually are removed. The effectiveness of the new system is not yet clear. The UK government claims to have removed 50,000 claimants since it came into office in July 2024.
On the global level, Sherif A Wahab has calculated that the numbers of Displaced Persons is now double what it was in 2012; one-third of them are refugees (i.e. outside their country). Likewise the number of refugees who have been in exile for more than 5 years has doubled over the last decade; reasons for this include conflicts lasting longer; lack of strategy at local and national levels; refusals of permanent residency and other repressive policies. Of the world’s 32 million refugees only 204,000 returned home or settled permanently in 2022 (latest figures).
‘failure of imagination and ambition’
The head of the UNHCR, Filippo Grandi – on retiring last month – expressed his views on what he saw as a failure of imagination and ambition; “the international community should invest in asylum systems to make them faster, more efficient and better able to return people who do not need the help” In his view, governmental responsibility does not impinge on sovereignty, but is an extension of it.
The link below to an article from The Guardian looks at the working of community sponsorship schemes; it implies that the government is still committed to legal routes to resettlement. The Home Secretary said last November that she hoped to develop this model further.
“With control [over Britain’s borders] restored, we will open up new, capped routes for refugees for whom this country will be the first, safe haven they encounter. We will make community sponsorship the norm, so we know that the pace and scale of change does not exceed what a local area is willing to accept,” she said.
On the campaigning front, Safe Passage International have produced for the new year a Resolutions Generator, which, when pressed, will offer a small way in which one can help or understand better.
And here’s a petition against deportations from WeMoveEurope:
Say No to Mass Deportations in Europe | WeMove Europe
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Talk by Peter Oborne in Salisbury on 21st about his new book ‘Complicit’
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