Immigration Removal Centres to Reopen as Border Security Command Gears Up

The government will press ahead with the previous administration’s plans to reopen two immigration removal centres, with the home secretary announcing the Border Security Command is “gearing up” to tackle illegal immigration. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced on Wednesday that new staff for the command are being urgently recruited, with additional personnel already stationed across Europe. The Home Office is in the process of recruiting a Border Security Commander to head up the unit. Border Security Command is designed to work with multiple agencies as well as partners in the EU.  Cooper said it would “work with European enforcement agencies to find every route into smashing the criminal smuggling gangs organising dangerous boat crossings which undermine our border security and put lives at risk.”...