First sanctions against people-smuggling gangs to be announced

Gang leaders and companies selling small boat equipment will be called the first targets of the new government’s sanctions against people this week.

The financial action, which the government says it is the first, aims to combat illegal migration to Britain and is at the center of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s organizing gangs “by breaking the gangs” British channel transitions.

The strategy of sanctions was first announced in January, but the government is now ready to announce dozens of people who will freeze their assets on Wednesday and will be banned from entering England and interacting with the financial system.

Foreign Minister David Lammy said: “For a long time, guilty gangs have been lining their corrupt pockets and hunting the hopes of vulnerable people who are unpunished while directing irregular migration to England.”

“Intermediaries” from Hawala Networks, a non -official system to organize money transfers used by those who are targeted by sanctions and finance small boats and finance small boats and often smugglers.

Sir Keir is under increasing pressure to eliminate the flow of immigrants who have reached England after the promise of “crushing the gangs using people since the general election campaign a year ago.

At the beginning of this month, “One, one” agreement with France To return to security checks, to return immigrants to France for a equivalent number of legal asylum seekers.

According to home office data, more than 20,000 people in small boats in the first six months of this year increased by about 50% to the previous year.

On Monday, Shadow Interior Minister Chris Philp said that the number of people entering England illegally caused a “public security crisis” for women and girls.

“The truth is that you do not stop the channel transitions by freezing a few bank accounts in Baghdad or slapping a travel ban on a boat seller in Damascus.” He said.

Also on Monday, reform British leader Nigel Farage, people who protested outside a hotel Home asylum seekers in Essex “Really worried families.”

During the show condemned by Downing Street, bottles and cartridges were thrown into the police.

“I do not think that no one in London understands how close we are to civil disobedience in this country,” Farage said in his speech on Monday. He said.

The government said that new sanctions will target migrant crime gangs that “traditional law enforcement officers and criminal justice approaches cannot be reached”.

Interior Minister Yette Cooper said the new sanction regime was “a decisive step in our struggle against criminal gangs that make profit from human misery”.

“This will allow us to target their presence and operations wherever they operate, cutting their funds and removing their nets piece by piece.” He said.