Promoting illegal channel crossings will FINALLY be made a crime

ONLINE clips glorifying ­channel crossings is to finally be made a crime, The Sun can reveal.

Labour’s latest bid to stop small boats creates an offence specifically banning the promotion of illegal migration.

Migrants in a dinghy at sea.
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Photo of Yvette Cooper, Home Secretary, carrying a red Home Office briefcase.
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The new law comes after we revealed videos of asylum seekers brazenly boasting of their taxpayer-funded hotels on TikTok.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is under growing pressure to slash boat numbers amid a record first half of the year.

She is expected to make a last-minute amendment to her Borders Bill to crack down on the practice.

The UK-wide offence would criminalise the creating, publishing or posting of online material that promotes or facilitates a breach of immigration law — such as Channel crossings.

Smuggling gangs routinely advertise their warped services on social media.

While facilitating illegal migration is already a crime, the threshold for prosecution for online advertising under existing laws is so high not one has ever been brought.

It comes ahead of a high-stakes summit between Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron in London.

The PM and French President are expected to agree a “one in, one out” deal to return illegal migrants.

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