Britain plans new sanctions laws to target people-smuggling gangs


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  • Thursday, 09 Jan 2025

FILE PHOTO: People, believed to be migrants, disembark from a British Border Force vessel as they arrive at the Port of Dover, in Dover, Britain, December 29, 2024. REUTERS/Chris J. Ratcliffe/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will create a new sanctions regime to target the ringleaders of illegal migration networks who facilitate and profit from smuggling tens of thousands of people into the country each year, the government said on Wednesday.

The British government, under huge political pressure to cut the number of people arriving in small boats from France, said the laws would work alongside other reforms to help them target the gangs behind the trafficking.

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