Hundreds of arrested in illegal workers Blitz in January, government says

Since the beginning of this year, hundreds of migrants have been arrested as part of the UK-Wide Crackdown at illegal work, the government has said.

As part of a blitz to kick 2025, the enforcement teams raided 828 complexes including nail bar, car wash, and restaurants and made 609 arrests – an increase of 73% from January 2024 and on any January on any January The highest figure for.

Officials say that many migrants are attracted by false promises about their ability to live and work in the UK, which leads them to “crossing the channel and put their lives at risk”.

This comes when the immigration bill of the government has been designed to debate again by MPs on Monday. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Filp called it “weak bills that will not stop boats”.

The house office said that a significant ratio of the previous month’s raid was in restaurants, tech -ud and cafe.

It gave the example of arrest of VAPE shops in Cheshire and a grocery warehouse in South London.

Those arrested traveled to Britain through a mixture of routes, including crossing the channel and abolishing the valid visa.

Home Secretary Yatete Cooper said that the government is promoting enforcement for “record level” and that immigration rules “should be respected”.

He said, “For a very long time, employers are capable of taking and exploiting illegal migrants and many people are able to arrive illegally and work in which no enforcement action has been taken,” he said.

“Not only does it create a dangerous draw for people to risk their lives by crossing the channel in a small boat, but it results in the misuse of weak people, immigration system and our economy.”

From the start of the Labor Government to 31 January in July, 3,930 arrests were made by the immigration enforcement officers in more than 5,424 trips.

A total of 1,090 civilian fine notices were also issued, the employers were facing a fine of up to 60,000 per worker if they were found to be responsible.

During the same period, four of “the biggest return flights in the history of Britain” were also done, the house office said, returning more than 800 people.

But the reform UK leader Nigel Faraj described the new figures released by the government as weak, which is compared to the numbers entering the country.

During the 31 days of January, there were 1,098 people who illegally reached Britain on small boats.

The government said it launched a social media campaign in Vietnam in December and in January Albania discouraged people from traveling to Britain.

The house office stated that the advertisements highlighted the stories of the migrants who illegally asked “to face debt, exploitation and to face a life away from the life they promised.

It comes in the form of border security of the government, the shelter and immigration bill has been designed to argue in its second reading in the House of Commons.

The purpose of the bill is to present a fleet of new offenses And to compete with the powers of terrorism-style, people to climb smugglers bringing migrants to the channel.

But labor ministers have not provided a specific goal when the small boat crossing may be expected to fall.

The conservatives said that they had Put an amendment ahead For the immigration bill in a bid to include their own immigration proposals: how much time it takes for migrants to get indefinite leave to live and after that, they are a before applying for citizenship Instead of five years, one needs to wait.

Filp said that to prevent small boat crossings “an effective removal requires a preventive”, he said that Labor had left anything, which references the former government’s plan to send illegal migrants to Rwanda.