Social media ads promoting small boat crossings to UK to be banned | UK news
Ministers will prohibit social media advertisements that encourage the journeys on small boats on the channel to asylum seekers.
The government will create a UK -wide criminal offense that can lead the perpetrators to imprisonment of up to five years and to be sentenced to a heavy fine.
Although it is already a crime to facilitate illegal migration, the change will make a material creating material for online publication, which promotes or provides services that will lead to violating the UK Migration Law.
This includes advertising of small boat transitions, fake passports, visas and other travel documents, and encouraging illegal working opportunities in the UK.
Ministers will make a change through a change in the border security bill through the last stages of the House of Lords.
According to home office data, eighty percent of immigrants coming to the UK on small boats said that they used social media during their journey, including government officials, including human smugglers.
The department, accusing the illegal work that is desperate online, said he wanted to destroy the smugglers who sell a false narrative about life in England.
Interior Minister Yette Cooper said: “A safe journey to England and a life in this country – whether selling an offline or offline life is not just immoral to make money.
“These criminals do not have a problem with leading immigrants to life -threatening situations by using brazen tactics on social media. We are determined to do everything we can to stop them.”
The amendment will also blame the publishing online content that encourages someone to break the British immigration law for money.
Cooper will also offer a new fast road scheme in autumn to address the asylum accumulation.
The aim is to take the decisions within years instead of years, and while waiting for asylum decisions, it comes after protests in EPPING, London, Manchester and Newcastle.
In addition, the interpretation of “exceptional conditions ve in immigration cases and the use of Article 8 of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights will tighten the use of Article 8, which protects the right to family and private life.
Rob Jones, General Manager of Operations of the National Crime Agency, said: uz We know that most of the networks that use people are at risk that carry people to England.
“The majority of immigrants coming to England will be engaged in smugglers in this way.”
After kidnapping thousands of people in Europe, he took action against organized crime groups using social media to encourage transitions, including a gang -based gang, convicted in November 2024.
The gang used social media videos sent by people who made successful transitions to promote the service.
Another network operated by Later, the Preston -based smuggler Amanj Hasan Zada, who was imprisoned for 17 years, also published the videos of people who thanked Zada for helping.
There are cases of Sumumers of the Albanian people who use social media to encourage £ 12,000 to reach the UK to reach the UK, including accommodation and employment, which will be covered by the new law.
