UK Government Deploys New Counter-Terror Style Powers — Illegal Migrants’ Phones to Be Seized Without Arrest in Bold Border Crackdown

In a controversial escalation of its border enforcement strategy, the United Kingdom has begun seizing mobile phones and SIM cards from illegal migrants without making arrests, under new powers designed to target organised smuggling rings operating across the English Channel. The sweeping measure — part of the recently enacted Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act […]