Tough new immigration plans - Life sentences for people-smugglers under crackdown

PRITI Patel revealed ministers will introduce life sentences for people-smugglers who exploit desperate migrants to get them to the UK on Tuesday.

The Home Secretary has revealed her tough new immigration plans to MPs this afternoon- with an asylum shake-up to stop people risking their lives crossing the Channel to get into the country.

She vowed to tackle illegal migration "head on" with a fresh approach to crackdown on the routes that people try to use, and punish those who help them insisting: "while people are dying, we have a responsibility to act".

She said her reforms were the biggest shake-up in decades, and they would stop people "dying at sea, in lorries, and in shipping containers, having put their lives in the hands of criminal gangs."

Ms Patel said she would bring forward "new maximum life sentences for people smugglers and facilitators" and "new rules to stop unscrupulous people posing as children" too.

And she took aim at the current system which is being clogged up with last minute "meritless claims" to try and get people to stay in the country.

Under her reforms would mean only people with genuine rights to be here would be able to stay - and wouldn't be able to access benefits or be reunited with their families.

Many put in last minute claims are launched by lawyers - but eight in ten are then thrown out.

Last year, roughly 8,500 people arrived in Britain having made the perilous crossing of the Channel in small boats, but several died while attempting the journey.

"Enough is enough," she vowed.

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