The UK will begin imposing sanctions on individuals and criminal networks involved in illegal migration via small boat crossings across the English Channel. This unprecedented regime includes freezing assets, including banks and properties, and enforcing travel bans on the offenders. The initiative, described as the world's first focused on people smuggling, aims to disrupt, deter, and return illegal migrants. Both Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper stressed the urgency of combating human trafficking and dismantling smuggling operations to prevent further exploitation and irregular migration.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy stated, 'For too long, criminal gangs have been lining their corrupt pockets and preying on the hopes of vulnerable people with impunity as they drive irregular migration to the UK. We will not accept this status quo.'
Lammy emphasized, 'That's why the UK has created the world's first sanctions regime targeted at gangs involved in people smuggling and driving irregular migration, as well as their enablers. From tomorrow, those involved will face...being shut off from the UK financial system and banned from travelling to the UK.'
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper remarked, 'The new sanctions regime marks a decisive step in our fight against the criminal gangs who profit from human misery. It will allow us to target the assets and operations of people-smugglers wherever they operate, cutting off their funding and dismantling their networks piece by piece.'
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