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Priti Patel announces harsher sentences for migrants in bid to deter Channel crossings

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Priti Patel announces harsher sentences for migrants in bid to deter Channel crossings

Priti Patel announces harsher sentences for migrants in bid to deter Channel crossings

Migrants seeking to make their way to the UK on small boats, and their people-smuggling enablers, will face heavier prison sentences in a bid to prevent “asylum shopping”, the Home Office has announced.


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