A deal between London and Paris under which Britain can return some migrants who cross the Channel in small boats back to France will come into force on Tuesday, the UK Home Office announced.<\/p>\n
The agreement, which was struck between Prime Minister Keir Starmer<\/a> and President Emmanuel Macron<\/a> during the latter\u2019s state visit to the UK last month, involves a \u201cone in, one out\u201d scheme to curb record levels of irregular Channel crossings.<\/p>\n The two governments signed the final text last week, with the EU Commission giving its \u201cgreen light on this innovative approach\u201d, the UK Home Office said in a press release on Monday.<\/p>\n UK authorities are \u201coperationally ready\u201d and migrant detentions are expected to begin \u201cwithin days\u201d, it added.<\/p>\n Under the scheme, migrants arriving to UK shores on small boats may be detained and returned to France<\/a> if they are deemed ineligible for asylum.In exchange, Britain<\/a> will accept an equal number of migrants from France who can apply for asylum via an online platform, giving priority to nationalities most vulnerable to smugglers and to people with ties in Britain.<\/p>\n The number of migrants making the dangerous journey in flimsy dinghies this year crossed 25,000 at the end of July \u2013 the highest ever tally at this point in the year as Starmer struggles to stem the tide, or the growing domestic discontent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deal between London and Paris under which Britain can return some migrants who cross the Channel in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[115660,748,68039,2000,7335,299,36,807,257,5805,384,1411,12840,386,115661],"class_list":{"0":"post-318336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-anti-immigration-protesters","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-channel","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-eu-commission","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-keir-starmer","16":"tag-london","17":"tag-migrants","18":"tag-nigel-farage","19":"tag-paris","20":"tag-president-emmanuel-macron","21":"tag-reform-uk","22":"tag-uk-home-office"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114973047669020026","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}