UK PM Sunak announces crackdown on Albanian migrants
Sunak said that over the coming months thousands of Albanians would be returned home.Successive British governments have promised to stop the arrival of small boats and yet the crossings have continued. Concerns over the level of immigration were a driving force the vote for Brexit in a 2016 referendum, with supporters calling for Britain to "take back control" of its borders.
"It is not cruel or unkind to want to break the stranglehold of criminal gangs who trade in human misery," he said. "Enough is enough."alongside other efforts, hoping it would act as a deterrent to those arriving in small boats. Sunak said the government would be restarting flights to Rwanda and announced parliament would be asked to set quotas for how many can be admitted for humanitarian reasons.
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