The Home Office is launching an advertising campaign to discourage Albanians from crossing the channels illegally
Sunday May 28, 2023 The Home Office is set to launch an advertising campaign to discourage Albanians from illegally crossing the English Channel to reach the UK with the message that people "face detention and deportation" if they make the journey. The campaign, which starts in Albania next week, "will shed light on the dangers that illegal immigrants can face on small boats. Ads in Albanian on Facebook and Instagram were launched last August to try to dissuade Albanian citizens from the trip. This was the most common nationality seeking asylum in the UK in the year to March 2023, with 13,714 applications from Albanian nationals, of which 9,487 were from boat arrivals crossing the English Channel. However, the UK government sees Albania as a "safe and prosperous country" and illegal immigrants "travel through several countries to make their way to the UK" to make "false asylum claims. At the Source" Crackdown Immigration Minister Robert Je...