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UK announces new sanctions, targets illegal immigrant smuggling gangs
2025-07-22 19:47:37 / BOTA
Britain on Monday imposed new sanctions targeting gangs that help smuggle illegal immigrants. The UK will be able to freeze assets, impose travel bans and block access to the country's financial system for individuals and entities involved in facilitating irregular migration, without relying on criminal or anti-terrorism laws.
The regime was previously set out by Foreign Secretary David Lammy in January. The British government said it would incorporate the new powers into the Border, Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, which has yet to be passed.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour government is under pressure to fulfill a promise to stop the influx of tens of thousands of people entering Britain from across the Channel in small boats.
The government said the measures would target those supplying small boats, forged documents and financial services used by smuggling networks. Chris Philp, the security and immigration minister in parliament for the main opposition Conservatives, said in a statement that more would be needed to stop border crossings.
"The truth is that you don't stop the Canal crossings by freezing a few bank accounts in Baghdad or imposing a travel ban on a boat trader in Damascus," he said.
Starmer has recently reached agreements with France and Germany to help stop the arrival of small boats, while trying to stop the rise of the right-wing populist party Reform UK, led by Brexit activist Nigel Farage.
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