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The eyewatering cost of returning each dinghy migrant to France | UK | News

The eyewatering cost of returning each dinghy migrant to France | UK | News

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s deal allows the UK to return migrants who arrive illegally across the English Channel to France in exchange for admitting an equivalent number of refugees directly from France who have not attempted the crossing. The average cost of returning a migrant is £48,800, meaning one recent flight could have cost taxpayers up to £1.52 million, according to reports. A recent plane departure from Stansted to Paris, as part of the nation’s one-in-one-out deal with France, carried 32 male migrants, 73 guards and two paramedics. According to analysis by the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, the cost of enforced removals has increased from around £15,000 per person in the last decade, reports The Sun. It includes case work, the cost of chartering planes and financial support for migrants once out of the UK. The UK must also cover the cost of transporting migrants to and from France under the one-in-one-out deal. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “The one-in-one-out scheme is a failure. “No wonder more illegal immigrants have crossed …

Men behind huge migrant-smuggling network launched ‘TripAdvisor for smugglers’ | UK | News

Men behind huge migrant-smuggling network launched ‘TripAdvisor for smugglers’ | UK | News

Dilshad Shamo, 43, and Ali Khdir, 42 were arrested for smuggling migrants into Western Europe (Image: NCA) Two men who smuggled migrants through a car wash in Caerphilly have been sentenced to 19 years in prison. Iraqi-born Dilshad Shamo, 41 and Ali Khdir, 40, appeared at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday after entering guilty pleas during their trial. The illegal activity was labelled as a “Tripadvisor for people smugglers” by the National Crime Agency. It was reported that the pair got around 100 migrants into Europe every week across a two-year period, while operating a vehicle cleaning business. READ MORE: Huge international gang smuggling migrants to UK caught – made £2.6m READ MORE: Massive petition to restrict benefits for migrants is most popular open in UK Both the men from Iraqi Kurdistan had been residing and working lawfully in the UK, while moving people from Iraq, Iran, and Syria through Belarus, Moldova and Bosnia into countries including Italy, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Germany and France. According to the NCA, the duo worked with “a larger …