The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.
In the second part of an undercover investigation, the BBC exposes elaborate deceptions being used to bolster fake asylum claims.
The government says the fall is partly due to housing people in alternative sites such as military barracks.
A BBC reporter goes undercover and speaks to an adviser encouraging migrants to cheat the asylum system.
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Mercenaries recruited since at least 2020 for illegal migrant ‘pushbacks’ in Greece, BBC told
A Reform UK council says a lack of dates "fuels speculation and misinformation" about migrants.
Telford MP Shaun Davies has written to the hotel's owners about bringing it back into community use.
Ibrahim Alshafe, who allegedly raped a woman with two others, is called a "nasty little predator".