Illegal migrants face lifetime ban on returning to UK in crackdown to end small boats crisis

ILLEGAL migrants face a lifetime ban on returning to the UK in a crackdown to end the small boats crisis.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman will unveil new laws tomorrow ruling out citizenship, settlement or re-entry claims for those removed.

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Migrants entering the UK illegally face a lifetime ban on returning[/caption]

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Suella Braverman will unveil new laws tomorrow ruling out citizenship claims for those who’ve entered the UK illegally[/caption]

The long-awaited legislation will also make asylum claims inadmissible for anyone travelling on small boats.

Instead, they will be sent to Rwanda or another safe country as soon as possible.

Ministers will be able to apply a “rights brake”, which could prevent lawyers using rulings from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to stop deportations.

The intervention comes ahead of PM Rishi Sunak’s visit to Paris on Friday to meet his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, with the issue high on the agenda.

A Government source last night said: “This new Bill, if passed by Parliament, will mean that if you come here illegally, not only will you be swiftly removed from the UK but you will never be able to come back.

“It is bad enough that illegal migrants currently abuse our asylum system to frustrate their removal. But it is far worse that they can currently settle here permanently and apply to become a citizen.

“The ability to settle in this country and become a British citizen is not a human right, it is a privilege.”

It also emerged yesterday that the Government is considering opening up more approved routes into the UK.

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said: “I’m quite sure that there will be more safe and legal routes. They have been proven to work.”