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Asylum Seeker Wins Bid to Delay Deportation Under U.K.-France Treaty

The case was the first challenge relating to the treaty, which aims to reduce small-boat crossings of the English Channel by migrants, to reach London’s High Court.

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Migrants trying to cross to Britain from northern France on a small boat last month. More than 30,000 people have made such crossings so far this year.
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He Fled Putin’s War. The U.S. Deported Him to a Russian Jail.

Antiwar Russians are being sent back as part of President Trump’s immigration crackdown, despite facing imprisonment and other dangers.
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U.S. Deportation Sent Asylum Seeker Back Into China’s Grip

A Chinese man crossed dangerous jungles to enter the United States, in a failed bid for asylum. After being deported home in 2023, he faced a choice: stay or try to leave again?

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Tao was part of a record-breaking wave of undocumented Chinese migrants who had made harrowing journeys through the jungles of Central America to the United States.
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Keir Starmer’s Miserable Moment in the U.K. Has Nigel Farage Gloating

The resignation on Friday of Angela Rayner, Britain’s deputy prime minister, was the latest setback for Prime Minister Keir Starmer as he battles the rise of the right-wing populist Nigel Farage.

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Angela Rayner in March at 10 Downing Street in London. Her resignation as Britain’s deputy prime minister came after two weeks of questions about her tax problems.
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Abrego Garcia Now Facing Shifting Threats of Deportation

A court had ruled that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia could not be sent back to his homeland, but now the administration sees a loophole. On Friday, Mr. Abrego Garcia’s lawyers were told that he would be sent to the small African nation of Eswatini.

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Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore last month.
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A Right-Wing Wave in Britain Produces a Teenage Civic Leader

As Reform U.K. meets for its annual conference, the experience of its youngest municipal leader, George Finch, shows a party trying to combine caution and provocation.

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George Finch, left, leader of Warwickshire County Council, appearing at a news conference alongside Reform U.K.’s leader, Nigel Farage, last month.
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A Right-Wing Wave in Britain Produces a Teenage Civic Leader

As Reform U.K. meets for its annual conference, the experience of its youngest municipal leader, George Finch, shows a party trying to combine caution and provocation.

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George Finch, left, leader of Warwickshire County Council, appearing at a news conference alongside Reform U.K.’s leader, Nigel Farage, last month.
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Under New Law, Greece Can Imprison Rejected Asylum Seekers

A surge in migrants landing on Crete this summer has diminished, but Greece is hoping to deter future undocumented immigration.

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Newly arrived migrants boarding a ferry on the island of Crete that was bound for Piraeus, Greece, in July.
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U.K. Court Overturns Ruling on Hotel at Center of Asylum Seeker Debate

The decision was a temporary reprieve for the government but will intensify a political battle over how Britain should house tens of thousands of asylum seekers.

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Outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, southeastern England, this month. The hotel became the center of protests after an asylum seeker who was being housed there was charged with sexual assault.
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Nigel Farage Promises Mass Deportations if Elected UK Prime Minister

The plans announced by the leader of Reform U.K., which is leading opinion polls in Britain, illustrated how he is driving a hardening of the debate around immigration.

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Nigel Farage, the leader of the British party Reform U.K., in front of a mock departures board during a news conference at Oxford Airport in Kidlington, England, on Tuesday.
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