{"id":632932,"date":"2026-06-11T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632932\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:09:09","slug":"northern-ireland-uk-to-intensify-crackdown-on-illegal-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632932\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland: UK to ‘intensify’ crackdown on illegal migration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The government is set to “intensify” its crackdown on illegal migrants living in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

According to a government source, the Home Office is ramping up immigration enforcement efforts to “track down, detain, arrest and remove” illegal migrants.<\/p>\n

This will see a “surge in intelligence-led operations” carried out by Immigration Enforcement officers and Border Force personnel along Common Travel Area routes.<\/p>\n

The Home Office claims that nearly 1,000 illegal migrants have been removed over the past year.<\/p>\n

This comes amid mounting pressure on the government from unionist parties to tackle the number of migrants entering Northern Ireland illegally from the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n

According to government figures, since Labour came to power there have been 2,682 “raids to detain and remove” illegal migrants, which the government claims is a 16% increase compared with the final 21 months of the Conservative government.<\/p>\n

As a result of those operations, the number of people detained or arrested for immigration offences has risen to 2,233.<\/p>\n

According to the government, around 70% of immigration enforcement activity is carried out through Operation Gull, an intelligence-led Common Travel Area (CTA) <\/a>operation at Northern Ireland’s domestic air and sea ports.<\/p>\n

As a result of this operation, more than 900 immigration offenders were detected last year, allegedly “abusing and circumventing the Common Travel Area rules”.<\/p>\n

“The three most frequently encountered nationalities were Romanian (83), Albanian (44) and Afghan (30),” the government source said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the number of asylum seekers in supported accommodation in Northern Ireland now stands at 2,379, down from previous levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government is set to “intensify” its crackdown on illegal migrants living in Northern Ireland. According to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-632932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}