Matt Dathan

Ministers will intensify immigration checks in Northern Ireland after the suspect in the Belfast knife attack claimed asylum via Dublin

Migrants have been moved out of the Bell Hotel in Epping and a growing backlog of appeals has delayed government plans to close temporary accommodation

Officials fear the border scheme to effectively trade small boat arrivals for asylum seekers brings in ‘young men more likely to engage in criminal activity’

Home Office figures show the city is close to breaching an informal target on refugee accommodation

A higher proprtion of illegal crossings were stopped last month, which ministers said showed the value of April’s £660m deal to pay for more beach patrols

The Home Office reveals highest daily total yet for the year as Chris Philp says Tories would wrest control over asylum appeals from judges

Victims of sexual assault ‘retraumatised’ by changes that could lead to prison terms for some dangerous criminals being halved, critics warn

Alex Norris, the border security minister, defends military camps for migrants as a Labour MP demands tearing up private contracts to hand asylum housing to UK councils

The new MP for Makerfield has backed down from his previous criticism of reforms to the immigration system as he prepares to run for Labour leader

The amendments to the immigration treaty target migrants who return to Britain illegally after already being deported, regardless of how they arrive