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seekers from war-torn countries The UK will pay for 200 French officers to detain and deport people seeking asylum from some of the world’s most oppressive and war-ravaged regimes under
UK will fund a riot squad specifically to tackle irregular migration. The new deal includes a baseline package of about £500m to boost enforcement action on beaches in northern France. The deal will cover: Five
deported more than 100 criminals back to Afghanistan since 2024. Dr Madeleine Sumption, the director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, said that if a person has been refused asylum, the government
deal was signed, thousands of asylum seekers have continued to cross the Channel in small boats and the smugglers have adapted their business model, launching more vessels from Belgium and offering more expensive journeys
asylum seekers arriving on UK shores after “dangerous or illegal journeys” in small boats or lorries. But the scheme hit legal and political obstacles from the start, with the UK supreme court eventually ruling
deal](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/10/starmer-one-in-one-out-deal-allow-uk-return-small-boat-migrants-france) in July 2025 to stop small boats crowded with asylum seekers from crossing the Channel – by forcibly returning one small-boat asylum seeker to France in exchange for bringing