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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 21st. The British government issued a number of measures on the 21st to deal with smuggling, including punishing employers who hire illegal immigrants, and will deport more than 14,500 illegal immigrants in the next 6 months, which is the highest level of deportation in the same period since 2018.

The UK Home Office announced that its National Crime Agency is investigating 70 human trafficking cases and will recruit 100 "new professional intelligence and investigation officers" to further crack down on smuggling gangs. The Home Office will also take other measures to combat smuggling, including: punishing employers who employ illegal immigrants by fines, suspension of business, prosecution, etc.; increasing the deportation of illegal immigrants; and increasing the capacity of deportation agencies to accommodate illegal immigrants.

On November 24, 2021, immigrants arrived at the coast of Dungeness, UK by boat. Photo by Steve Finn, Xinhua News Agency

According to data from the British Home Office, since the British Labour Party came to power on July 5, more than 5,700 illegal immigrants have crossed the English Channel from France to the UK by boat, of which more than 200 landed on the 19th of this month alone. So far this year, more than 19,000 illegal immigrants have arrived in the UK in this way, an increase of about 10% over the same period in 2023.