The British newspaper “The Sun” reported that a new law will be unveiled on Tuesday to limit migrants arriving in Britain on small boats from Europe across the English Channel, and this will include not accepting their asylum applications.
The British government has promised to intensify measures to tackle this problem, after the number of those making this perilous journey rose to more than 45,000 last year.
The newspaper reported that the proposed new law would mean that asylum applications from those arriving in small boats would not be accepted, and they would be transferred to a "safe third country" as soon as possible.
Home Secretary Soella Braverman told the newspaper: "Enough is enough. The British people want this to be resolved. They are tired of hard-line rhetoric and inappropriate action. These boats must be stopped."
The number of migrants arriving on the English coast has more than doubled in the past two years, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has made stopping small boats one of his five main priorities after he came under pressure from MPs from his own party to find a solution to the flow of migrants from Europe to Britain by sea across the English Channel. .
Sunak said - in an interview published today, Monday, in the newspaper "The Mail on Sunday" - that any individual who enters his country illegally will be prevented from staying in it, and added, "Be sure, if you come here illegally, you cannot stay."
Last year, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson approved a deal to send tens of thousands of migrants to Rwanda, more than 6,400 km away.
Many of the migrants came from Afghanistan, Syria or other war-torn countries.
That policy faced a legal battle, and the first air deportation was stopped at the last minute under an injunction from the European Court of Human Rights.
London's High Court ruled the deportation legal last December, but opponents are seeking to appeal that ruling.